The first Guma album was originally recorded to 2” tape in January 2016 at West West Side Music in New Windsor, NY. This 2021 remaster and first-time vinyl and cassette issue were taken from first generation digital mixdowns made to the high fidelity Sony Direct Stream Digital (DSD) format. For the first time since the last roll of the tape up in the Hudson River valley, Guma sounds as vibrant and welcoming as it is.

With this recording in 2016, T.J. Masters kicked off a trilogy of records that now includes a second self-titled LP from 2019 and is completed with 2022’s A List of Sightings. 

The 12" edition is limited to 300 copies on heavyweight black vinyl. Pre-orders are available here:
https://guma.bandcamp.com/album/guma-2016-2021-remaster

Guma (2016) - Remastered

Forever Golden Light

Guma - Forever Golden Light

Interstate Highway 10 is the southernmost cross-country highway in the United States and runs in nearly a straight line for a mind-numbing 2,460.34 miles. Anyone who has traveled on this road can attest to a strange, almost perverse sense of despair and disease that seems to slowly drape itself over one’s vehicle after a couple of hours.

It’s with this in mind that Guma presents “Highway 10 Blues,” a song which needs no further explanation than its own title. Surrounded by the trappings of a life spent on the highway— guns, gears, and more than a little gasoline— writer T.J. Masters makes an offering to the pantheon of great outlaw country road songs, passing through New Orleans, San Antonio, and Phoenix, among others.

Cut in Austin, TX and featuring a scorching lead guitar feature by Cat Clemons III and a harmony vocal by Selena Rosanbalm, the group evokes the best of the psychedelic era of country, when Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris were backed up by none other than Elvis’s own guitar player, James Burton.

A road is a line, winding or straight; curved or true. Spend enough time on IH-10 and it might just start to resemble a hangman’s noose, yet to be tied. Drive safe out there.

Workingman's Guma

Highway 10 Blues

Guma - Highway 10 Blues

Off Mira's forthcoming new album, "Shiny" swings along with a calypso feel incorporating violin, hand drums, kalimba, guitar and bass; lilting vocals sing of the people who gleam and stand out to you because they are the ones you love most.

Order the limited edition 12" here:
https://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/mira-cook-lashes-to-lashes-12

Lashes To Lashes

Shiny

Mira Cook - Shiny

The lead traack from The Love Theme Mixtape, the second companion piece to ATRIA's critically acclaimed album Moonbrain. Along with its sister EP, The Lucky Mixtape, it contains songs and snippets that were in the running for Moonbrain, as well as a remix of a single from the album.

The Love Theme Mixtape

Love is a Tender Thing

ATRIA - Love is a Tender Thing

Lashes to Lashes, the follow-up to 2019's A Level Lower, continues to carve out a unique space that explores imagination, power, and the natural world. The Texas native's early contact with music came from Eastern chanting groups she attended with her parents, studies in classical piano, and living in an ashram in India for her kindergarten years. After studying ballet and classical piano in Austin, she spent 8 years in California dancing professionally and developing her musical style; she continues to perform dance and music frequently in New York, where she currently lives.

Order the limited edition 12":
https://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/mira-cook-lashes-to-lashes-12

Take The Easy Way Out

Mira Cook - Take The Easy Way Out

GUMBO, the first single from Jay Stone’s forthcoming sophomore album, is about the multitude of ways we feed ourselves. It speaks to ingredients that make us who we are. What are you made of? Strength and grace, confidence and humility. Gumbo is made of love and gratitude; even those things that we are reluctant to swallow, like pride - and okra!

https://soundcloud.com/enotsyaj

STONE STU

GUMBO

Jay Stone - GUMBO (feat. Sandu Ndu)

Off Jay Stone's new album (STONE STU), out on 9/15/23.

STONE STU is an audible illustration of what we feed each other’s bodies, minds, and spirits. Inspired by the musical relationship and friendship between Jay Stone and Doug Stuart a.k.a Dougie Stu. The "brother from another" connection and collective excitement to make the album is felt in the music, and was the driving force that actually enabled the album to make itself. It is laced with live instrumentation, and an honest and intimate, internal emotional outpour from Jay Stone’s personal life experience.

LEMONLIME

Jay Stone - LEMONLIME

Off ATRIA's latest album, Juliet, released on October 13 2023.

Juliet was born many years ago in a used bookstore in Gainesville, Florida, when critically acclaimed musician/author Travis Atria found a box of sixteen miniature, leather-bound volumes of Shakespeare. Inside each book was an inscription from Ralph to Evelyn, along with the month the book was bought, and the year 1914. Late one night, taking a volume from the shelf, Atria decided to write a concept album of their love story.

In a career known for wild, gleeful shifts in genre and style, Juliet is Atria's wildest shift yet. Gone is the psychedelic rock 'n' soul of 2021's Moonbrain, which one reviewer called "Zappa meets Mayfield." In its place is an intricate work of orchestral pop, sometimes restrained, sometimes bombastic, with Shakespeare as a unifying theme. Nearly fifty musicians participated in the recording, including a makeshift orchestra and an 18-piece choir. Partly recorded and fully mixed by Ryan Williams at West Viking Studio in Ocala, Florida---home of the late, great Bruce Swedien---Juliet is the final album to come from Swedien's legendary pedigree, which stretches from Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughn, to Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson.

Juliet

One More Time

ATRIA - One More Time

Off of Workingman's Guma, the fourth in a line of Guma's genre-bending LPs and the first to be produced wholly in Austin. Taking up the long tradition of cosmic weirdos that have set up shop in central Texas, the LP flirts with country & western, Americana, folk, and drone music and features expert playing by members of White Denim, Shinyribs, and the Tender Things.

Out on 10/20/23, available digitally everywhere and as a limited edition 12" on ultra clear vinyl and housed in a classic tip-on style jacket.
https://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/guma-workingman-s-guma

The Lettered Veil

Guma - The Lettered Veil

“Poor Wanda the hen / Not the first in line, but far from the end” — The third single from 2023’s Workingman’s Guma (released 10/20/23 on Gold Robot Records) lands among feathers and fur as songwriter T.J. Masters lovingly weaves between the stories of two animal companions, each out for themselves but inseparably linked by his amateur husbandry. With a twinkle-eyed lyricism that suggests an alternate history in which George Harrison went down the Mississippi in 1968 to write with John Hartford instead of up the Hudson to Dylan, “Poor Wanda” brims with pastoral tenderness woven into a dense and deftly-picked acoustic setting. One of four songs cut for the album in a single day with minimal overdubbing, the tune captures the energy of a bespoke band learning, developing, and recording a song all in the span of just a couple hours; an old school, live-in-the-room style of recording that has come to characterize most Guma releases.

Watch a live version here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-ZXgTK2BbU

Poor Wanda

Guma - Poor Wanda

Lead single from the upcoming Roman Ruins LP titled "Isotropes".

Graham Hill has long shown interest in the convergence of music and architecture, and his third album as Roman Ruins feels like a groundbreaking ceremony. On Isotropes, Hill is crafting songs that can be lived in. After nearly a decade since his last solo release - time that included touring and recording as the drummer for Beach House - Hill is building around melodies that embed themselves; creating familiar, inviting spaces amidst arrangements that conjure chaotic beauty of the outside world.

Pre-order the ltd edition 12":
https://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/roman-ruins-isotropes-12

Isotropes

Drum Machine

Roman Ruins - Drum Machine

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