Performance: "no one notices the fly" Album Release

"no one notices the fly" Album Release
Presented by Love All Day

November 21, 2025

7:00-9:00pm

Doors at 6:30pm

Tickets:

$10 Student - use code STUDENT at checkout

(Valid Student ID will be requested at the door)

$10 IMSS Members Presale - use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout

(Valid IMSS Membership card will be requested at door)

$15 GA Presale

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$15 Student & IMSS Members (With valid ID & Membership Card) at Door

$20 GA at Door

Zander Raymond presents an improvised live set featuring themes and motifs from his new LP, “no one notices the fly”, out November 21st on Love All Day.

about the album:

'no one notices the fly' is the latest release from Chicago based multi-disciplinary artist, Zander Raymond. Raymond, who has authored or appeared on around a dozen albums (give or take a couple) in the last half-decade, here continues to refine his approach to careful and active listening and music making. On this collection he’s occasionally joined by past collaborators and deep listening comrades Lia Kohl and Matt Sage. Opening with “just keep going”, a brief recording of a reaching and plaintive, out-of-tune violin whose amateurish playing nevertheless delivers a certain depth of feeling. It also possibly acts as a bit of a mission statement; that here we will be shown that we can find meaning from the barest of means. Every song on this record is slightly cracked and seemingly concerned with detritus, each piece a careful and layered accumulation of what in other hands might be solely considered cast-off sounds. The songs could almost be the aural equivalent of the Japanese sculptor Yuji Agematsu’s daily collection of “desirable street debris”, which he constructs in exquisite, miniature arrangements inside the empty cellophane sleeves of old cigarette packages; each piece a new and unique, dazzling landscape, a whole world unto itself. Through Raymond’s improvisational approach, which employs live sampling and imaginative filtering, the most mundane sounds are refracted into a new, if fleeting, reality. The micro becomes macro, the quotidian rendered into the sublime. In these songs we might find certain doors opening, wind breezing through, steam rising, or restless feet becoming grounded. A piece will sound stable, until it’s not. Patterns are set until small insertions and intrusions interrupt, and maybe a new pattern will form. Or maybe not. One of the minor miracles of this album is that it appears, via sound, to render entropy in action. Across its fourteen tracks, we find a thoughtful, modest reminder to take notice of the aleatory nature of our lives, to maybe even “notice the fly”, as it were.

bio:

Zander Raymond is an interdisciplinary artist and musician living and working in Chicago, IL. In his visual work, he improvises with found materials from his day to day to make collages and sculptures that serve as an autobiographical record of experience while pointing toward the unseen. His music is similarly rooted in improvisation, utilizing synthesizers, field recorders, and open-source sound computers to sample, warp, and build sonic images that embrace serendipity and highlight the musicality of the ordinary.