Derek Monypeny
@derekmonypeny.bsky.social
Guitar/bulbul tarang
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Music Director, Yucca Valley Material Lab
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Music Director, Yucca Valley Material Lab
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Beloved @derekmonypeny.bsky.social et Turner Williams Jr. croisent le Shahi Baaja (je découvre) et quelques effets bien sentis pour une réussite psychédélique 👌🏻
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Beloved @derekmonypeny.bsky.social et Turner Williams Jr. croisent le Shahi Baaja (je découvre) et quelques effets bien sentis pour une réussite psychédélique 👌🏻
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Today on WFMU: On Blurred and Obscured with Jonathan Herweg, a live on-studio set from Joshua Treed based guitar explorer Derek Monypeny. Tune in to hear Derek's patented blend of improv guitar excursions, psychedelic drones, and primitive experimental folk (10 p.m. ET).
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November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Today on WFMU: On Blurred and Obscured with Jonathan Herweg, a live on-studio set from Joshua Treed based guitar explorer Derek Monypeny. Tune in to hear Derek's patented blend of improv guitar excursions, psychedelic drones, and primitive experimental folk (10 p.m. ET).
I'm playing 4 solo shows next month with Ak'chamel, my first East Coast shows since 2019:
11/6: Brooklyn @ Union Pool (sold out)
11/7: Philly @ 2223 Fish
11/8: Baltimore @ Wax Atlas
11/9: Washington DC @ Rhizome
11/6: Brooklyn @ Union Pool (sold out)
11/7: Philly @ 2223 Fish
11/8: Baltimore @ Wax Atlas
11/9: Washington DC @ Rhizome
October 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I'm playing 4 solo shows next month with Ak'chamel, my first East Coast shows since 2019:
11/6: Brooklyn @ Union Pool (sold out)
11/7: Philly @ 2223 Fish
11/8: Baltimore @ Wax Atlas
11/9: Washington DC @ Rhizome
11/6: Brooklyn @ Union Pool (sold out)
11/7: Philly @ 2223 Fish
11/8: Baltimore @ Wax Atlas
11/9: Washington DC @ Rhizome
This record, of which my label recently released a very special 3-sided double-LP edition, has officially been submitted to the Recording Academy for Grammy Award consideration!
yuccaaltarecords.bandcamp.com/album/voiceless-mass-vinyl-2lp-edition
yuccaaltarecords.bandcamp.com/album/voiceless-mass-vinyl-2lp-edition
Voiceless Mass - Vinyl 2LP Edition, by Raven Chacon + Present Music
3 track album
yuccaaltarecords.bandcamp.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This record, of which my label recently released a very special 3-sided double-LP edition, has officially been submitted to the Recording Academy for Grammy Award consideration!
yuccaaltarecords.bandcamp.com/album/voiceless-mass-vinyl-2lp-edition
yuccaaltarecords.bandcamp.com/album/voiceless-mass-vinyl-2lp-edition
OUT NOW: The 2nd release on my Yucca Alta label:
Raven Chacon/Present Music: "Voiceless Mass" double-LP
3-sided, with etched artwork in Side 4. Visually and aurally beautiful. Title track "Voiceless Mass" was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2022.
yuccaaltarecords.bandcamp.com/album/voicel...
Raven Chacon/Present Music: "Voiceless Mass" double-LP
3-sided, with etched artwork in Side 4. Visually and aurally beautiful. Title track "Voiceless Mass" was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2022.
yuccaaltarecords.bandcamp.com/album/voicel...
Voiceless Mass - Vinyl 2LP Edition, by Raven Chacon + Present Music
0 track album
yuccaaltarecords.bandcamp.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
OUT NOW: The 2nd release on my Yucca Alta label:
Raven Chacon/Present Music: "Voiceless Mass" double-LP
3-sided, with etched artwork in Side 4. Visually and aurally beautiful. Title track "Voiceless Mass" was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2022.
yuccaaltarecords.bandcamp.com/album/voicel...
Raven Chacon/Present Music: "Voiceless Mass" double-LP
3-sided, with etched artwork in Side 4. Visually and aurally beautiful. Title track "Voiceless Mass" was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2022.
yuccaaltarecords.bandcamp.com/album/voicel...
Great review of my recent shahi-baaja-duo LP with Turner Williams Jr., "Drueling."
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September 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Great review of my recent shahi-baaja-duo LP with Turner Williams Jr., "Drueling."
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PIONEER TOWN WEDS!! desert show ya'll first gig of the run, we're running on a 100% track record of killer first shows on our runs... FAAFO!!! w/ the desert's own sensational @derekmonypeny.bsky.social opening.
8pm Doors/ 8:30 Derek/ 9 OSM
TICKETS: www.eventim.us/event/orcutt...
8pm Doors/ 8:30 Derek/ 9 OSM
TICKETS: www.eventim.us/event/orcutt...
September 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
PIONEER TOWN WEDS!! desert show ya'll first gig of the run, we're running on a 100% track record of killer first shows on our runs... FAAFO!!! w/ the desert's own sensational @derekmonypeny.bsky.social opening.
8pm Doors/ 8:30 Derek/ 9 OSM
TICKETS: www.eventim.us/event/orcutt...
8pm Doors/ 8:30 Derek/ 9 OSM
TICKETS: www.eventim.us/event/orcutt...
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episode 274 of The Radio Hour That Feels Like Two Hours now playing (link below), this week with new stuff from Lukid, Fadensonnen, Anthony Milton, Turner Williams Jr. & Derek Monypeny and much more
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08/27/25 Show 274 : TO SAVE YOUR EARS, I'LL ZAP MYSELF INTO IRRELEVANCY
The other day, an East Village Radio colleague played a new recording by a band so derivative, so feckless, so utterly craven, so thoroughly lacking any musical or lyrical creativity that I knew I ha...
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August 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
episode 274 of The Radio Hour That Feels Like Two Hours now playing (link below), this week with new stuff from Lukid, Fadensonnen, Anthony Milton, Turner Williams Jr. & Derek Monypeny and much more
www.mixcloud.com/gerardcosloy...
www.mixcloud.com/gerardcosloy...
Announcing the 2nd release on my Yucca Alta label: a deluxe 3-sided double-LP (etched artwork on Side 4) edition of Raven Chacon & Present Music's "Voiceless Mass." Available for pre-order now: www.yuccavalleymaterial.org/shop/yvml-ap...
Raven Chacon & Present Music: Voiceless Mass Double LP — YUCCA VALLEY MATERIAL LAB
Yucca Alta Records is thrilled to present a limited, beautifully packaged three-sided double LP edition of Raven Chacon & Present Music's "Voiceless Mass," originally released on CD by New World R...
www.yuccavalleymaterial.org
August 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Announcing the 2nd release on my Yucca Alta label: a deluxe 3-sided double-LP (etched artwork on Side 4) edition of Raven Chacon & Present Music's "Voiceless Mass." Available for pre-order now: www.yuccavalleymaterial.org/shop/yvml-ap...
OUT NOW on 2182 Recording Co.: Turner Williams Jr. and Derek Monypeny: "Dreuling."
This is possibly the first duo-shahi-baaja record ever made? It sounds like nothing else out there.
2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com/album/drueling
This is possibly the first duo-shahi-baaja record ever made? It sounds like nothing else out there.
2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com/album/drueling
Drueling, by Turner Williams Jr. and Derek Monypeny
6 track album
2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com
August 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
OUT NOW on 2182 Recording Co.: Turner Williams Jr. and Derek Monypeny: "Dreuling."
This is possibly the first duo-shahi-baaja record ever made? It sounds like nothing else out there.
2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com/album/drueling
This is possibly the first duo-shahi-baaja record ever made? It sounds like nothing else out there.
2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com/album/drueling
Abacomancy, by Derek Monypeny and Kevin Corcoran
6 track album
2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Essential New Music: Derek Monypeny / Kevin Corcoran’s “Abacomancy” (2182 Recording Company, @derekmonypeny.bsky.social). “It takes you someplace that doesn’t exist … Sight and sound are just portals into a realm that transcends concrete perception.” Our review: magnetmagazine.com/2025/07/07/e...
July 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Essential New Music: Derek Monypeny / Kevin Corcoran’s “Abacomancy” (2182 Recording Company, @derekmonypeny.bsky.social). “It takes you someplace that doesn’t exist … Sight and sound are just portals into a realm that transcends concrete perception.” Our review: magnetmagazine.com/2025/07/07/e...
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this is excellent! 2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com/album/abacom...
Abacomancy, by Derek Monypeny and Kevin Corcoran
6 track album
2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com
June 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
this is excellent! 2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com/album/abacom...
Abacomancy, by Derek Monypeny and Kevin Corcoran, out now:
2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com
2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com
June 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Abacomancy, by Derek Monypeny and Kevin Corcoran, out now:
2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com
2182recordingcompany.bandcamp.com
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Happy 80th Birthday, Richard Meltzer! The Aesthetics of Rock (and more!) author & music/other-stuff journalist/Blue Öyster Cult lyricist/VOM vocalist at his home in Portland, Oregon. As he is quick to remind one: Meltzer rhymes with seltzer...
📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social
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May 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Happy 80th Birthday, Richard Meltzer! The Aesthetics of Rock (and more!) author & music/other-stuff journalist/Blue Öyster Cult lyricist/VOM vocalist at his home in Portland, Oregon. As he is quick to remind one: Meltzer rhymes with seltzer...
📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social
📷 @gregoryego.bsky.social
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This great article includes a nice review of the Corsano Baiza Watt Trio LP I put out on my label - copies of the 2nd pressing still available!
April 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This great article includes a nice review of the Corsano Baiza Watt Trio LP I put out on my label - copies of the 2nd pressing still available!
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Awesome to see this label profile on Beirut's Ruptured Records - one of the best labels in the world!
Diving Into Beirut’s Revolutionary Ruptured Records
The label shines a light on the region’s best indie, alt-rock, shoegaze, experimental, and more.
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January 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Awesome to see this label profile on Beirut's Ruptured Records - one of the best labels in the world!
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This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
January 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.
Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.
I think about it a lot in moments like this.
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Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.
January 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.
Thanks Emmanuel - I'm not in India rn, but I was there at this time last year and put this audio diary together - enjoy
@derekmonypeny.bsky.social passion for music is a spreading one. In India rn, he shares with us an excellent audio diary. 👌🏻
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INDIA AUDIO DIARY – DEREK MONYPENY (RIAFC126)
This lovely audio diary, made exclusively for Radio is a Foreign Country, features field recordings made by Derek Monypeny in Delhi and Jaipur, India, during the first two weeks of January, 2024 – amb...
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January 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Thanks Emmanuel - I'm not in India rn, but I was there at this time last year and put this audio diary together - enjoy
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December 20, 2024 at 5:12 PM