As surprising and satisfying as RVNG Intl.’s entire Frkwys series has been—from Chris & Cosey’s black-lit treatment of Excepter to the improvised synth schemes of cult musical figure David Borden and the dream team that is James Ferraro, Laurel Halo, Daniel Lopatin and Samuel Godin—its pairing of “contemporary artists and their progenitors by way of remix, reinterpretation, and original collaboration” has never been as thorough as the collaborative LP that Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengras (LA Vampires, Pocahaunted, Robedoor) cut at the Congos compound in St. Catherine, Jamaica. The ICON GIVE THANK sessions were so once-in-a-lifetime, in fact, that RVNG asked two filmmakers (Tony Lowe, Sam Fleischner) to document the 10-day experience for an hour-long DVD called ICON EYE.

“All the songs sort of got whipped into a frenzy,” explains Sun Araw mastermind Cameron Stallones, when we reach him via E-mail. “We were feeling the lack of time pretty deeply, so we were just doing take after take after take, just blazing through, which is how I like to work—no thinking.”

In honor of the album’s looming May 1st release and the documentary’s 1 p.m. screening/interview session at the Anthology Film Archives tomorrow (presented as part of the Unsound Festival), we asked Gengras and Stallones to discuss the project in depth, along with some details on their respective plans for the rest of the year. Check it out below, and be sure to stop by (Le) Poisson Rouge tonight for a separate Sun Araw set on the same bill as Pole and Emeralds guitarist Mark McGuire…