Marc Barreca's 1986 album "The Sleeper Wakes". Originally released on cassette by the Seattle electronic ambient label, Intrepid. Vinyl Reissue on Scissor Tail Records May 14th. https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/the-sleeper-wakes

Marc Barreca has been creating and performing electronic music since the mid-1970s. His 1980 album, Twilight, reissued on vinyl in 2016, was one of the earliest releases on Palace Of Lights. Recent releases include Shadow Aesthetics (2018) and three collaborations with K. Leimer. Previous reissues include work on the acclaimed VOD box set American Cassette Culture, the Cherry Red compilation of seminal U.S. electronic music and the 1983 cassette, Music Works For Industry. His work is also included in the collection of The British Library."

The Sleeper Wakes has been out of print for many years and we are very happy to remaster and reissue this great work that was ahead of it's time, employing analog treatments of sampled sounds arranged in a very interesting and intuitive way.
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releases May 15, 2021

Marc Barreca - Akai 610 Sampler, Analog treatments

Marc Barreca - The Blue Gate (1986)

From the album Yes Lawd! http://stonesthrow.com/nxworries

VINYL

Nxworries - Anderson Paak & Knxwledge - Suede

Early Music – LP Excerpt

Earthly's "RGB"

This album will be released on September 18, 2015. 
Order from label: paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-021/
Order from Bandcamp: jameselkingtonandnathansalsburg.bandcamp.com/album/ambsace
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Artist page: paradiseofbachelors.com/james-and-nathan

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The second album of astonishing duets by guitarists James Elkington (who has toured and/or recorded with Jeff Tweedy, Richard Thompson, and Steve Gunn, among others) and Nathan Salsburg (an accomplished soloist deemed by NPR “one of those names we'll all associate with American folk guitar”) is a sublime suite of nimble, filigreed compositions by two singular stylists. Belying its title—ambsace is the lowest throw of dice; snake eyes—the record thrives on a gentle empathy and generosity of spirit, sitting sneakily protean original compositions alongside gorgeous arrangements of songs by Duke Ellington and The Smiths at the same big hand-hewn table.

"Their playing and guitar tones are so complementary, so perfectly wed, that I wouldn’t hesitate to put the duo up there with some of the very best acoustic guitar partnerships: Stefan Grossman and John Renbourn come immediately to mind, as does the work of Richard Crandell and Bill Bartels." - Work & Worry

Ambsace

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James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg - Ambsace: "Up of Stairs" (2015, PoB-21)

MICHAEL CHAPMAN - FISH - Out Sept 25 on Tompkins Square

In recent years, the revered British guitarist and songwriter has seen his classic Harvest records from the 70's reissued by Light In the Attic, and he's toured with Bill Callahan, Kurt Vile, Thurston Moore and Bonnie "Prince" Billy. On the eve of the Fully Qualified Survivor's 75th birthday, 'Fish' finds Chapman vital as ever. Tompkins Square also released Chapman's 2010 double CD 'Trainsong : Guitar Compositions 1967-2010' and a tribute album, 'Oh Michael, Look What You've Done : Friends Play Michael Chapman' featuring Hiss Golden Messenger, William Tyler, Lucinda Williams and Thurston Moore among others.

"The footnotes and legends that line Chapman's 40-year career are the stuff of thick biographies and fireside storytelling sessions." - PITCHFORK

Chapman will appear at Tompkins Square label's 10th Anniversary Show at Rough Trade in Brooklyn, NY on October 9th along with Peter Walker, Bob Brown and Ryley Walker. He will also play select dates on the East Coast with Ryley Walker:

10/08/15 North Bethesda, MD (USA) AMP 
10/09/15 Brooklyn, NY (USA) Rough Trade 
10/10/15 Portland, ME (USA) Waking Windows Music And Arts 
10/11/15 Providence, RI (USA) Columbus Theater 
10/13/15 Albany, NY (USA) The Low Beat 
10/14/15 Northampton, MA (USA) Iron Horse Music Hall

"Jack" by Michael Chapman

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Taken from 'Anagrams' released 1st July 2016 on Melodic.
Pre-order DIGI/CD/LP/Deluxe here: www.melodic.co.uk/anagrams

Written & produced by Stephen Steinbrink. 
Engineered by Nich Wilbur at UNKNOWN, 2014 - 2015

Players:
Stephen Steinbrink - vocals, guitars, bass, drums, piano, synthesizer, vibraphone
Andrew Dorsett - guitars, bass, drums, piano, synthesizer, percussion, vibraphone
Danah Olivetree - strings
Chase Kamp - drums
Paul Benson - drums, bass
Allyson Foster - vocals
Avi Zahner-Isenberg - guitar

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Stephen Steinbrink - Absent Mind

From the album "Solid Layers, Deafening Shapes" released on May 21st, 2016, by Toxo Records: http://www.toxorecords.com/

The Prism Of The Minute

Preview track from the forthcoming solo debut "Blue Rider Songs" by Scott Hirsch.  LP out August 19th 2016

After many years spent as a steadfast and inventive collaborator—not only playing bass and producing four albums with Hiss Golden Messenger, but in large part forging that band’s sonic signature—multi-instrumentalist, recordist, and audio engineer Scott Hirsch has finally made a solo album, and it’s called Blue Rider. The very notion of a “solo” album, and its associated emancipatory baggage, is a specious designation in this case, since music this quietly assured, this effortlessly unfolding, does not bloom in isolation or solipsism. Although Blue Rider articulates Hirsch’s singular aesthetic (more on that soon) more lucidly and forthrightly than any other album on which he has worked, it is also, like most good music, the alloyed fruit of long hours, and long travels, with other writers and players, and with other records, and books, and films. 

And indeed, these recordings feature notable, and notably subtle, contributions from Jade Hendrix (harmony vocals); Thomas Heyman (pedal steel), Hirsch’s old bandmate in the San Francisco group the Court and Spark; and HGM stalwarts Phil Cook (organ and harmonica) and Matt Douglas (saxophones), among others. But as a primarily single-artist vision and statement, it does speak to the way that back roads, detours away from or around one’s other, more high-profile creative pursuits, can lead lead to unexpected destinations arguably more compelling than anything the highways could provide. Sometimes, as William Least Heat-Moon demonstrates in Blue Highways, his classic travelogue of rural America (an admitted influence on this album), you have to leave the main roads to understand their contours and their worth. And as in “Sundown Highway,” that can be a slow, and heavy, journey; you might, like Lowell George, require “weed, whites, and wine.”

Blue Rider emerged from various personal contexts: a year of near-constant touring with Hiss Golden Messenger in 2015; a move with his family from Brooklyn to Ojai, California, and the launch of his new Echo Magic West studio there; and above all, the process of making the self-titled Golden Gunn album with longtime musical partner M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger and their mutual friend Steve Gunn. Hirsch wrote much of the music on that album, and watching Taylor and Gunn set words and vocals to his instrumental productions proved the necessary catalyst to take his writing and recording into fresh territory under his own name. Hirsch even reinterprets Golden Gunn standout track “The Sun Comes up a Purple Diamond” here, repurposing Gunn’s lyrics, but attenuating the song into something even more heat-stricken and dilatory than the hazy original version—no mean feat...

Brendan Greaves
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
May 2016


Blue Rider Songs

Scott Hirsch - Loss Of Forgetfulness (album preview)

unreleased track by Rambutan.  www.tapedrift.com

Rambutan - A Plausible Reality

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Scott Hirsch - Loss Of Forgetfulness (album preview)

Scissor Tail Records

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