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
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

First Edition SOLD OUT http://www.scissortailrecords.com/
Boomkat- Gorgeous, individually numbered 180g vinyl edition of this hugely sought-after soundtrack full of hauntingly spectral desert soundscapes, as eerie as we've heard and highly recommended to lovers of everything from John Fahey to Boards Of Canada** It's always gratifying when something you've been after for a very long time makes an appearance - and this amazing soundtrack from Bruce Langhorne has been at the top of ourvinyl wants list for a good few years now. "The Hired Hand" was the film that marked Peter Fonda's directorial debut, and it also gave birth to one of the most sought-after and accomplished soundtracks of the 1970's.Bruce’s first solo album and Peter Fonda’s directoral debut. He’s been credited as working with Bob Dylan, Odetta, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, Babatunde Olatunji, Richie Havens, Carolyn Hester, Peter LaFarge, Gordon Lightfoot, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot...

The production of these recordings is incredibly effective, something made all the more remarkable by the fact that Langhorne assembled each piece alongside his girlfriend Natalie Mucyn, who with no prior mixing or editing experience multitracked the recording via some distinctly lo-fi tape dubbing. The fact that the recordings are so well balanced is barely short of a miracle, and perhaps it was this technique that makes certain elements of the soundtrack sound so bizarre and at times, mystical even. The harmonized flutes of 'Windmill' sound uncannily like something from Black Dice's first album, resembling some sort of otherworldly birdsong.

There are moments of sheer lyrical brilliance here too: 'Spring' is but a brief miniature for violin and acoustic guitar yet it provides a resolute, very tangible intimacy and the closing "Ending" is the longest, most complete track here, bringing many of the soundtrack's elements together for a final, harmonious flourish that was so ahead of its time it sounds uncannily like vintage Boards of Canada in interlude mode - in fact I'd be very surprised if this soundtrack didn't influence them in some way. Nothing short of a lost classic - we implore you to check this out immediately

"The Hired Hand" - Score by Bruce Langhorne (Album Preview)

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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")



"The Hired Hand" - Score by Bruce Langhorne (Album Preview)

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