it's like broken art work you might find here and there. it really is quite lovely.

and when the pedal organ comes in? magic.

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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Marc Barreca - Akai 610 Sampler, Analog treatments

Marc Barreca - The Blue Gate (1986)

Scott Tuma's first two solo albums 'Hard Again' and 'The River 1 2 3 4' released on double vinyl for the first time via Scissor Tail Records. 

Pre Order Here: https://scissortail.bandcamp.com/album/hard-again-the-river-1-2-3-4

Pitchfork...
"Souled American got the proverbial shaft. It's a well-known story, but one that bears repeating. Forming in Chicago in the late 80s, the band released four remarkable albums of howling roots-rock deconstruction before losing their stateside distribution when Rough Trade's American division went belly up. Anachronistic and difficult to classify, these four albums-- Fe, Flubber, Around the Horn, and Sonny (now back in print on tUMULt Records)-- were largely ignored at the time of their release, and the situation was not helped by infrequent touring and a lack of press savvy. More recently, the band has toiled in near obscurity, releasing two albums on German labels since the mid-90s. In the end, though, Souled American was probably just too arty for a genre that puts such a high value on "authenticity." Fortunately, the band seems to prefer its cult status.

Of course, it's hard not thinking about what might have been. The more or less contemporaneous Uncle Tupelo (which eventually split into Wilco and Son Volt) was handed the alt-country banner and basked in the spotlight while Souled American quietly pursued their craft in the darkness. "No Depression"-- the movement and the accompanying magazine-- could have just as easily been called "Feel Better" (the final track on Fe), if given a slightly different set of circumstances.

Now, more than a decade after that first Souled American album, the alt-country "movement" has become more of a twitch. Hype, always a fickle mistress, has left the No Depression magazine cold, and it's cheating heart has moved on to other lovers. For a while it was Britpop, then a drunken orgy with countless electronic artists, then a debauched evening with post-rock before moving on again.

Souled American's guitarist Scott Tuma decided to move on as well, parting with the band amicably after the 1996 release of Notes Campfire. Judging from the all-instrumental Hard Again, his first solo album, Tuma just wanted to move away from traditional song structure. Taking a more expressionistic approach-- using multi-generation guitar loops, organ drones, skittish percussion, and banjo so far removed from "fiery bluegrass breakdowns" that it almost sounds like traditional Japanese Koto music-- Hard Again sees Tuma teaming up with Dirty Three percussionist Jim White and Michael Krassner of the Boxhead Ensemble, two groups with which he shares an aural affinity.

Opening with the cold and distant "Beautiful Dreamer," Tuma eases you into the sound of Hard Again as if easing you into icy water-- that is, very, very slowly-- deliberately setting one guitar tone against another in an almost painterly fashion. And like many tracks on Hard Again, the song ends abruptly, suggesting it was born out of longer improvisational sessions.
"March" begins similarly, but builds to a thicker texture reminiscent of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno's collaborations, while the aptly titled "Jim White Drums" swirls droning guitar over what sounds like a sped up tape of Jim White assembling a drum kit rather than playing it. The title cut is the most song-oriented track here, with a definite beginning, middle, and end. But "Sermon," the closing song, best sums up the album's mood: meditative and austere, but majestic, as an otherworldly organ echoes through what sounds like a long-abandoned cathedral.


Anyone familiar with the latter-day, slow-as-molasses Souled American albums will see Hard Again as a natural extension, or at least as an abstract interpretation of where that band was heading. Fans of the above mentioned Dirty Three and Boxhead Ensemble-- as well as David Pajo or even Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack-- will find solace within these ethereal sounds."

Scott Tuma - "First Spring" excerpt from Hard Again/The River (2xLP)

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/
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Other options: lnk.to/PoB21
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

unreleased track by Rambutan.  www.tapedrift.com

Rambutan - A Plausible Reality

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American Independent Imprint started in 2010 as a cassette label. The label houses a private letterpress studio where much of the packaging is created for the releases in house. 
Willamette - Diminished Composition (LP)
Nadia Reid - Listen to Formation (LP)
Scott Tuma - Hard Again / The River (2xLP)
Chuck Johnson - Blood Moon Boulder(LP)
Robin Allender - Foxes in the Foyer (LP)
Bruce Langhorne - The Hired Hand OST (LP)
Dylan Golden Aycock - Rise And Shine (LP)
Padang Food Tigers / Lake Mary - split (7")



Scott Tuma - "First Spring" excerpt from Hard Again/The River (2xLP)

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