Name: Light In The Attic Podcast Episode 2: Greetings From Suicide Bridge by Light in the Attic in Light in the Attic Records
Duration: 29 min 14 s
Description: This episode tells the story behind our reissue of the 1984 Los Angeles loner folk album Songs From Suicide Bridge by David Kauffman and Eric Caboor. Album producer Patrick McCarthy describes how the reissue came about, author Sam Sweet reads his liner notes, and we play several tracks from the album.

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Since starting in a basement apartment in Seattle back in 2001, Light In The Attic has established itself as one of the best and brightest reissue labels around. With releases ranging from D’Angelo to Serge Gainsbourg, Lewis to Betty Davis, Sly Stone to Karen Dalton, LITA prides itself on the breadth of its output.

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This episode tells the story behind our reissue of the 1984 Los Angeles loner folk album Songs From Suicide Bridge by David Kauffman and Eric Caboor. Album producer Patrick McCarthy describes how the reissue came about, author Sam Sweet reads his liner notes, and we play several tracks from the album.

Light In The Attic Podcast Episode 2: Greetings From Suicide Bridge

Solid Steel (7th October) There are reissue labels out there and then there's Light In the Attic, who have been releasing long forgotten musical gems with the upmost care and attention to detail since 2002. They started with the reissue of albums by The Last Poets and continued with releases from The Free Design, Betty Davis, The Vagrants, Lee Hazlewood, Marcos Valle, Public Image LTD and the recent compilation of music from Vangelis, Ash Ra Tempel, and Popol Vuh. This is what they said about the mix;
"Autumn in Los Angeles leaves something to be desired, so living vicariously through sound will have to suffice. This nostalgic mix, full of mellow yet purposeful tracks, is intended to conjure brisk snappy strolls through fallen leaves, hot toddies in small bars with close friends, listening to records on the floor next to a crackling fire, and other familiar cozy-type feelings that one might be privy to living in a place that has seasons. Various Light In The Attic favourites are scattered amongst conscientious covers and gems from friends across the globe"

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1. California Dreaming / Lee Moses / Time and Place (Light In The Attic)
2. After The Gold Rush / Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris / Trio II (Asylum)
3. I'll Rock You to the Rhythm of the Ocean / John Angaiak / Native North America, Vol. 1: Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966-1985 (Light In The Attic)
4. Do, Lord, Remember Me / Gospel Supremes / Art of Field Recording Vol 1 (Dust-to-Digital)
5. N.Y. Woman / Kasenetz-Katz Super Circus / Quick Joey Small - I'm In Love With You (Buddah)
6. A Charge To Keep I Have / Rev. Johnny L. Jones / The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta (Dust-to-Digital)
7. Marhaban Ahlan (Hello, Welcome) / Mohammed Ben Mohammed Ba Soweid / Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s from Yemen (Dust-to-Digital)
8. Katie Cruel / Karen Dalton / In My Own Time (Light In The Attic)
9. Eternal Day / Georgia Sacred Harp Convention / Art of Field Recording Vol 1 (Dust-to-Digital)
10. Blood / Algiers / Blood 7" Single (Matador)
11. Sare Mabo / L'Orchestre Kanaga De Mopti / L'Orchestre Kanaga De Mopti (Mali Kunkan)
12. Paris 1919 / John Cale / Paris 1919 (Reprise) 
13. I Only Have Eyes For You / Mercury Rev / Goddess On A Hiway (V2)
14. Friday's Child / Nancy Sinatra / Movin' With Nancy (Reprise)
15. You Only Live Twice / Alvarius B. / Baroque Primitiva (Poon Village)
16. Miracles / Johnnie Frierson / Have You Been Good To Yourself (Light In The Attic)
17. C visar vägen / Dungen / Tio Bitar (Subliminal Sounds)
18. The Hundredth Time (with Duffy Driediger & Ryan Peters) / Gigi / Maintenant (Tomlab)
19. The Sun / Shin Joong Hyun / Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974 (Light In The Attic)
20. So Long, Marianne / Leonard Cohen / Songs of Leonard Cohen (Columbia)

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Tracks from the unreleased album, "Dusk Radio."

All music by Michael Garofalo, Jason Labbe, and Patrick McCarthy.

03 Frame Geometry

Released 2007 as a free103point9 Audio Dispatch. 

Music by Michael Garofalo and Patrick McCarthy.

"Solar Filters" was originally conceived as part of a song cycle about the sun and the way it influences Earth's atmosphere.  We abandoned the project when we realized the idea was more interesting than the music we wrote for it.  "Solar Filters" survived, though, and the shortwave radio textures that open the track (essentially, the sounds of the atmosphere) point to its origins.  During the time we were working on these recordings, cheap and toy radios were important to our performances -- often providing the only amplification for our instruments and voices.  Replicating the sound of these radios greatly informed our approach when committing the track to tape.

"Mother Evening" began, like most of our work, as a live improvisation.  When it came time to record and settle on lyrics, we turned to a type of spam email we were getting a lot of at that moment.  The emails were nonsense -- really just a collection random phrases and sentence fragments -- but there was something poetic about them.  So we took the lines that struck us as particularly sonorous and cobbled together a sort of collage poem.  Like the in-between-stations static on "Solar Filters," we incorporated this digital detritus (literally, junk mail) into "Mother Evening."

The etchings on either side of the vinyl records refer, albeit obliquely, to both the lost song cycle and the subject line from one of the spam emails we used.


 

Mother Evening

Solar Filters

In tribute to Zebulon, which closed this week, we're sharing an improvised live set recorded there in 2008. Patrick played electric guitar and sang. Jason played drum kit and percussion. Michael played with feedback and his mbira.

Zebulon 3.20.08

http://lightintheattic.net/releases/812-where-s-my-towel-industry-standard

In November 2012, LITA's Patrick McCarthy travelled to Austin, TX, to make a short documentary on the legendary skate rock band the Big Boys, which is in support of our latest reissue of their 1981 debut LP "Where's My Towel / Industry Standard" (out 4/5/13). After two days of interviews, I sat down with Tim and Chris to play the album and have them talk about it. Awesomeness ensued. 

For more info, audio samples and to order the album, visit the link below:

http://lightintheattic.net/releases/812-where-s-my-towel-industry-standard

What's the short doc "Looking Back It's Just Reflections" at the link below:

http://youtu.be/jHSYDCyBv5Q

In Conversation - Tim Kerr & Chris Gates: Big Boys "Where's My Towel / Industry Standard"

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