Mike Gordon of Phish has launched his new album Flying Games courtesy of ATO Records/Megaplum. The album is Gordon’s sixth solo launch. It was self-produced and recorded by longtime collaborator Jared Slomoff, and combined by Grammy Award-winning engineer Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, The War on Drugs).
Flying Games was heralded with the premiere of the high-velocity single, “Tilting,” alongside an official animated video now streaming on YouTube. “Mull,” a music that Phish has had in its stay set for almost two years, was the second music launched from the album.
Gordon will have fun Fmendacity Games with a wide-ranging stay run that features each headlining exhibits and top-billed pageant performances. Dates get underway June 15 at Portland, ME’s State Theatre after which culminate with a house state tour finale at Burlington, VT’s Higher Ground Ballroom on July 2. Tickets for all newly introduced headline dates go on sale Friday, March 17. Pre-sales can be found now.
“As someone who comes from a world of telepathic improvisation, the idea of one person layering sounds alone in a room might seem a bit against the mythos,” says Gordon concerning the albim. “But with this record I didn’t want to work in that traditional way of going into a studio with a band and recording for two weeks; I wanted to take my time and explore, and really go deep into the fabric of the music to see what we could find.”
Flying Games is an album of fixed and wildly hypnotic motion, every second animated by sudden sounds that morph and broaden and spin off into their very own unusual orbits.
In holding with the eclectic sensibilities that knowledgeable previous work like 2017’s pop-fueled OGOGO and 2020’s Noon (a collaborative album made with acoustic guitar luminary Leo Kottke), the brand new LP imbues components of every little thing from disco and dancehall to psych-folk and funk into Gordon’s unfettered and expansive breed of rock music.