Mike & Josh
Mixed by Bennet Littlejohn in Nashville and Dallas
Mastered by Edsel Holden in Nashville

Climb That Tree

Hunter Jack did the album art

People who played: Michael & Jesse

Check out Jesse's V Chill projects here: https://senorfin.bandcamp.com/ || https://soundcloud.com/jessewmiller

This song is best heard outside of a shitty dive bar in your home town. You can be happy or sad.

Am I Regine

STEPHEN STEINBRINK
Utopia Teased

Stunned with grief in the months following the Ghost Ship fire, Oakland-based Stephen Steinbrink ate LSD daily, bought a synthesizer, and locked himself in his shipping container studio, refusing to sleep for days as he wrote and recorded what would become Utopia Teased, as a means of working through his overwhelming feelings of cynicism and loss.  

Recorded in between stints touring as a member of Dear Nora, and then as a touring member of Girlpool, Utopia Teased is Stephen Steinbrink's followup to his critically acclaimed 2016 album Anagrams.  Unlike the pristine production of Anagrams, on Utopia Teased, Steinbrink embraces the rough edges, as he shifts his focus from the craft of production to the art of processing and capturing his experiences with honesty.   He explains, “I was driving the preamps a little too hard, mixing down to tape, bouncing back to the computer, and repeating the process over and over again. I wanted it to reflect how fried my brain felt at the time, totally pulverized.  The songs just poured out of me, it hardly felt like work to make them up. It was like turing on a spigot. I don’t write often, maybe once or twice a year, but when I do, a lot comes out. To me my craft is less about putting in the hours physically playing music — the real work is getting my soul right so that when the holy wave of pure creative energy moves over your house, it will recognize you as worthy enough. If it does, maybe it’ll give you a song.” 

“Empty Vessel” and “Maximum Sunlight” both sung from perspective of residents of Tonopah, Nevada, were written to accompany a book about the town, by Steinbrink's friend Meagan Day.  The sparse imagery on “Empty Vessel,” ostensibly about a semi-transient lock-picking truck driver, feels at least semi-autobiographical as Steinbrink sings “You're 31, you don't believe in anything…If you don't stop moving you'll never get hurt.”  His evocative lyrics continue to intrigue on “Maximum Sunlight” as he sings “Sleeping through the night in the drained pool / I said I love you to a fool” from the perspective of a 30-year-old alcoholic ATV enthusiast. At the close of the, too-little-too-late acoustic narrative “Mom”, guest vocalist Melina Duterte of Jay Som joins him in conjuring a memory of listening to extraterrestrial radio, drifting asleep in a suburban Phoenix Wal-Mart parking lot.  The album’s heartbreaking closer “I’m Never Changing Who You Are” continues Steinbrink’s recollection of his adolescence, asking an unnamed family member “Will you try to love more than you did?” while soberly accepting his reality. 

In an interview with North of the Internet, Steinbrink recalled a video he came across on his phone, which was taken the day after the fire, “It sent me spiraling and thinking, it’s almost been a year. Nothing really felt actual those weeks, and I could only only react to the future at a remove because the horror of everything was inescapably tying me to the present. The idea of doing laundry or driving across the bridge to San Francisco to work was too abstract, so I just didn’t do it. I hardly did anything. Two days after the fire I woke up, walked to P.’s porch and sat there for hours alone and cried without a jacket on until the sun started going down. Geese were flying across power lines at dusk and I took a video of them on my phone. I imagined one of the birds was my friend.”  In the same interview, he goes on to share some insight provided by a friend he reached out to when trying to finalize the album: “Finishing the thing puts a limit around something that comes from an infinite well; this is uncomfortable.” True.

Trigger (feat. William Austin Clay)

Your Name

Haru's Theme // Dual Wield Love Swords 2999 & 3000 // Nobody Can Hold You Down, Haru!!

Legend Of Haru

Country Club

Everybody Is Talking At Me

I plan to rerecord vocals, as they were done in one take and I was scared my roommates would hear me...

Lightness (Draft)

Because of the current global situation, it's been awhile since Space Ghost and friends have been able to host their monthly dance party Open Soul. While everyone is stuck at home, the Open Soul crew have decided to pick up where their mix series had left off 2 years ago, starting with Vol. 3 by Space Ghost.

This mix holds a few classic selections from the dance night, as well as some more recent finds. Expect an obscure mix of Boogie and Disco mostly from the 80s. These songs are for sweaty nights on a packed dance floor at Starline Social Club. We hope to be back doing what we love one day soon!

Recorded Sep. 2020 - Oakland, CA

@space-ghost-1


Tracklist

Breakwater - Work It Out
Intrigue - One Touch
C.S. Lewis - Are You Leaving
The Cool Notes - Spend The Night
Soa - Love Pillow
Sass - Much To Much
Midnight Express - Turn It Out
Antonio Sorrentino - Luna Lù
Lefturno - Out Of Sight (SG Edit)
Fresh Band - Come Back Lover
Jahari - Fire & Desire
Chateau - Strike A Spark
Aretha Franklin - Jump To It
Winfield Parker - I Wanna Be With You
Momo Joseph - Africain
Jessie Rogers - One Monkey
Janet Kay - Eternally Grateful
Mass Appeal - Waiting For Tonight
Kano - I’m Ready
Parbleu - Danse Cette Zik
The Mauskovic Dance Band - Space Drum Machine (Detroit Swindle’s Flute Mix)
Bernardino - Sciummo (Unreleased Mix)

Open Soul Dance Floor Classics Vol. 3 (Mixed By Space Ghost)

02-14-2021 Snow Day

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