Atlanta music news: CunninLynguists come home

Back in March, Atlanta-by-way-of-Lexington, Ky., hip-hop trio CunninLynguists released Oneirology, the group’s fifth studio album, via long-standing New York label QN5 Music. Despite the album’s heady lyricism and smooth beats — not to mention guest appearances by the likes of Freddie Gibbs and Big K.R.I.T. — Oneirology has been a sleeper around these parts. The quiet reception may have something to do with the group’s months-long touring schedule, which has carried it far from the Southeast. But the ‘Lynguists are finally returning to play their first hometown show since the album dropped. The show at the Five Spot on May 28 will mark the end of the tour.

On May 12, Recompas (aka Travis Thatcher of Judy Chicago and the Voice of Saturn) performed two sets in Times Square as part of the Urban Remix Times Square Project commissioned by the Times Square Arts Alliance. Through a series of April workshops with students and artists, about 700 sounds were initially recorded in Times Square. Thatcher manipulated some of these sounds to create his own bustling work of musique concrète. Thatcher’s pieces are up for download via the project’s SoundCloud page. No additional synthesis or sampling was done to either of his compositions, although they were filtered, compressed, delayed and reassembled to create a minimalist sense of rhythm and a maximum sense of place. The results are a sharp contrast to the recordings Thatcher composed in 2010 for the Atlanta Beltline Urban Remix project, which was based on the sounds of nature and urban decay.

A trailer for AKA Blondie, the documentary film that chronicles the life and times of the Clermont Lounge’s most famous stripper, has surfaced on the Internet. The film is still in production, but keep your ears peeled for music by New Animal, Cassavetes and Superpill.

Nappy Roots are currently locked down in Dungeon East Studios working with two-thirds of the Organized Noize production team (Rico Wade and Ray Murray) on a new CD that will be a joint venture with AVJ Records.

NEW RELEASES: Dungeon Up! Vol. 1 video mixtape — a visual companion to the Dungeoneze mixtape that dropped in January — hit the Internet last week, featuring clips of cuts by SideStreet Ked, Mill Gates and J. Pesci. Carnivores have a new 7-inch out, via Las Cruces, N.M.-based label Dirt Cult Records, featuring the songs “German Flower” b/w “Sense of Dread.” The new single arrived just a week before the group left for a tour of the U.K.

Local rapper Glenn Saddler’s song “Expectations,” which was set to a short film by David Godin, is out now. Son Lux, aka modern classical/electro producer and composer Ryan Lott, has a new album out this week via Anticon Records titled We Are Rising. Graham Yoder of Jungol released a six-song digital EP of playful experimental/electronic beatscapes titled Gothic Picnic under the name Dark Room. And piano-driven, folk-pop ensemble Cute Boots will celebrate the arrival of a self-titled, five-song EP with a release party at the Goat Farm on May 28.