a checkerboard without pieces

gopher talk

In April 1949, the poet Pablo Neruda strolled onstage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCnCNcawYhk

Thunder And Lightning

Built To Spill - Jokerman

Walking Meditation

http://thecorner.co.nz/2011/05/25/awesome-feeling-5-sharpie-crows-endless-empty-eye

Sharpie Crows - Endless Empty Eye

For the second annual Cassette Store Day we will release the 12 track compilation 'Jam Kids: 20 Years since Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain'.

Shared interests go a long way in small towns, so when two goofy teenagers bonded over a mutual love of Pavement it laid some pretty solid foundations for 4 years of running a label together. When we realised it had been 20 years since the release of their seminal album ‘Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain’ we thought we had better do something about it.

We’ve got together with some of our favourite friends, finest DIY noise makers and bands we never expected a  yes from and asked each artist to cover a separate track from the album. What’s come out the other end is truly something truly spectacular. 

1. Junk - Silence Kid
2. Shunkan - Elevate Me Later
3. Paws - Stop Breathin'
4. Dog Legs - Cut Your Hair
5. Joey Fourr - Newark Wilder
6. Year of Birds - Unfair
7. Pet Cemetry - Gold Soundz
8. Flamingods - 5-4=Unity
9. Trust Fund - Range Life
10. Beat Easton - Heaven is a Truck
11. The Black Tambourines - Hit the Plane Down
12. Poledo - Fillmore Jive 

As it’s a bit weird making profit from other people’s music, we will be donating all profits from this release to DIY Space for London (http://diyspaceforlondon.org). The release is limited to 200 and comes with a series of badges. If you’d like to ensure that you get your hands on a copy, please contact your local record shop and ask them to stock the release on September 27th. Any leftover copies will be sold via our shop on October 4th – if you’d like to be notified when these are available – please visit here...
http://artishardrecords.limitedrun.com/products/532747-jam-kids-20-years-since-crooked-rain-crooked-rain


03 - Paws - Stop Breathin' (Pavement cover)

Existentially Wasted, title track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VwM9Tt1wZw

Existentially Wasted

Black Eyes

CAT HOCH EP
CAT HOCH - drums / synth / guitar / vox / piano / bass
RILEY GEARE (UMO) - production / drums / synth / guitar / bass
CORY PALO ALLEN (SINLESS) - guitar 
NICK BINDEMEN (Eternal Tapestry) guitar

Look What You Found

From https://foxesinfiction.bandcamp.com/album/vacant-pavilion-hypar-redux-2

Hypar Redux

Off of Hummingbird (out January 29, 2013)

Local Natives - Breakers

Old song/demo. too old to work on anymore and won't see the light of day in any other format. 

Daniel Rossen - Untitled (December 2009)

This one is from January 2011 around the same time as a few of the EP songs. it's not exactly finished, the lyric is rough, but I still enjoy what it is and eventually this song lead to other tunes on the EP and on Shields that I'm happy with. It's a wintery New York song to me, it reminds me of home. And at this particular moment I miss home, and I feel like I should be there after all that's happened recently. So there it is. 

Not Coming Back

Warren Hildebrand (aka Foxes in Fiction) and Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) have been acquaintances for a number of years, brought together by their shared presence on Brooklyn's Moodgadget imprint.  Meluch's first-ever release was the Enge 7" (2005) for that label, and Hildebrand later made a splash with his debut LP Swung from the Branches (2010).  During a solo tour of North America in 2010, Meluch played Hildebrand's hometown of Toronto and invited him along on the following day's journey to Montreal, during which the two became fast friends and the idea of a collaboration began to take shape.  Some months later they finally began exchanging songs and files, eventually building up to the two epic pieces heard on this, their debut 7" for Wool Recordings.
"Since a young age, Thomas Meluch has been fascinated by natural sounds and the textures of decay. He began playing piano before his feet could reach the pedals, and for more than a decade has sought to create a unique sonic environment by combining remnants of pop song structures with the lushness and unpredictability of field recordings. A veteran drummer of a half dozen bands and an avid collector of instruments and analog devices, Meluch relies on guitar and voice as the bases for his work as Benoît Pioulard."


Sharpie Crows - Endless Empty Eye

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