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ROBIN ALLENDER - 'FOXES IN THE FOYER'
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SCTR014 - LP
N/A
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You become immediately enamored with guitarist ROBIN ALEXANDER’s (GRAVENHURST, FELIX, DM STITH, YANN TIERSEN BAND) sincere approach to composition. I personally love when an artist doesn't shy away from just simply writing a beautiful song with no pretentious tricks for validation. Unhurried interlocking patterns comprise these instrumental guitar pieces featuring acoustic and electric guitar, sparse rhythmic accompaniment, banjo, piano. Tracks like 'M. Laurelle' are trance inducing with a beautiful hypnotic-circling guitar line that brings to mind artists like Ali Farka Toure or Jozef Van Wissem. That being said it would be doing a disservice to classify Robin's approach to mood. Foxes in the Foyer seems to be a record about place, and brings to mind the openness of the english landscape where Robin hails. Ambient brilliance drifts in on 'Esplanade' while pedal steel guitar accompanies the albums beautiful closer "An Uneven Lie." Robin proves to be a unique craftsman and no surprise that he is the right hand man to many notable songwriters.
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SCOTT HIRSCH - 'BLUE RIDER SONGS'
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SCTR039 - LP
655003998979
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Received an 8.0 rating from Pitchfork. 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, called Blue Rider Songs. These recordings feature notable, and notably subtle, contributions from JADE HENDRIX (harmony vocals), THOMAS HEYMAN (pedal steel)—Hirsch’s old bandmate from THE COURT AND SPARK; and HGM stalwarts PHIL COOK (organ & harmonica) & MATT DOUGLAS (saxophones), among others. But as a primarily single-artist vision & 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. Limited edition of 500 copies.
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BRUCE LANGHORNE - 'OST: THE HIRED HAND'
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SCTR007 - LP
784682083185
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**BACK IN STOCK** Classic 1971 Peter Fonda film soundtrack from Dylan side-man & folk scene impresario. Beautifully melancholy score performed with guitars, tonal effects, fiddle, banjo, sitar, and more that evokes high plains drifting, lonesome cowpokes. “It’s The West seen as Purgatory, its characters endlessly moving on, but Langhorne conjures beauty from the pain.”—The Wire. New edition of 500 copies.
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NICKED DRAKE - 'WRAITHS (BY GARETH DICKSON)'
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SCTR022CD - CD
4532813235172
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A CD of reverent and very beautiful cover versions album by GARETH DICKSON of his favorite Nick Drake songs. His own songs spill with a discreet lulling beauty and when he “Does Drake”, you’ll realize he’s paying homage to someone painfully dear to him in the vast realm of popular music. Edition of 200 copies.
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NICK STORRING - 'GARDENS'
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SCTR023CD - CD
787421968101
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NICK STORRING’s work is a peculiar hybrid of styles—orchestral, free improv, plainspoken melodies, and the rough hewn sounds of psychedelic folk. Gardens was designed as an informal tribute to composer/producer Charles Stepney. A major feat in solo multi-track recording—employing over 60 instruments all played by Storring himself. Edition of 200 copies.
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SCOTT TUMA - 'HARD AGAIN / THE RIVER'
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SCTR024 - 2xLPs
787421967074
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SCOTT TUMA has earned himself a cult status via his involvement in SOULED AMERICAN—the precursor to Uncle Tupelo, Wilco and Son Volt in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s. Hard Again sees Tuma team with JIM WHITE (DIRTY THREE, CAT POWER) and MICHAEL KRASSNER (BOXHEAD ENSEMBLE), while The River is a solo affair. Fans of Dirty Three, David Pajo or Neil Young’s Dead Man OST will find solace in these ethereal sounds. Limited edition of 500 copies.
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WILLIAMETTE - 'DIMINISHED COMPOSITION'
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SCTR033 - LP
738964885103
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WILLAMETTE is the project of two brothers DAVIN & KEVIN CHONG joined with JOSEPH YONKER. Diminished Composition marks the third effort from the group. Their 1st LP Echo Park can be considered one of the most gorgeous ambient albums ever recorded easily in tow with albums by Harold Budd, Eno, and William Basinski. Willamette has also scored the film by Charles Lim Yi Yong All the Lines Flow Ou”. "Chamber drone caught in perpetually Lynchian state of romantic, dream-fog rapture."—Spin Magazine’s 20 Best Avant Records.