Playlist

Summer 2016

a checkerboard without pieces

chilllll

From the 12" vinyl compilation "Boring Ecstasy", out on Orchid Tapes March 25th.

Pre-order the record here: http://orchidtapes.bigcartel.com/product/boring-ecstasy-12-compilation-presale

Foxes in Fiction - Rearrange

The 3rd & deluxe edition vinyl repress of Ontario Gothic will be available August 27th, 2021. 

Pre-order a copy here: https://shop.orchidtapes.com/product/foxes-in-fiction-ontario-gothic-third-press

Shadow's Song

Foxes in Fiction - Shadow's Song

Made from samples of Gem Club and Sea Oleena songs while on long car rides through Europe.

Shallow Weeks

all i want is for someone to love me as much as i thought you did

The Red Painting is the first release of piano music from iconic avant guitarist Loren Connors. This piece combines Loren’s deeply moving palette of melody with a masterful control of pace and drama that ends with a guitar coda twinkling in the darkness. It’s wrenching as his glorious ‘airs’ or the distortion mangled screams of his blues.

The Red Painting

Loren Connors - The Red Painting

Taken from the album 'It’s Hard For Me To Say I’m Sorry' released as LP, CD and Download

Christian Fennesz & Jim O’Rourke 'I Just Want You To Stay (excerpt)' (EMEGO 221)

Vocals and Electric Guitar - Chrisy Hurn
Bass and Synth - Nimal Agalawatte
Lead Electric Guitar - Tyler Bersche
Drums - Brandon Munro

Recorded at TAPE with Adam Bentley and Jordan Mitchell
Mastering by Warren Hildebrand (Orchid Tapes)

Johnny

https://spiritgoth.com

Stream on spotify/apple

CASTLEBEAT

Downstairs

The "If You’re on the Water" EP, while self-released, is The Saxophones' first studio recording. It was recorded and mixed on an analog Toft console by Cameron Spies of Radiation City over the course of a spring week in Portland, Oregon. It features Alexi Erenkov on guitar, vocals, and woodwinds; his wife, Alison Alderdice on percussion and vocals; and his longtime friend and collaborator Richard Laws on bass, vibes, and Crumar synthesizer. 

The title track was inspired by a summer week that saw suicide, the transition of a relationship, and Alexi and his Father’s near death experience in a boating accident. The album pays tribute to the currents of beauty, sorrow and regret that run through our lives.

If You're on the Water

Single off his S/T record, stream in full and buy the cassette on our site !

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beagles - my neighbor is a drug dealer

Blue House - I Found My Limit

From Radiating Light: Orchid Tapes & Friends: http://shop.orchidtapes.com/product/radiating-light-compilation-12

Foxes In Fiction - Extinguisher

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

Hypar Redux

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."
