hny “here you can touch the sky” long playing record

• valley of the rogue
  
• hot like the sun
  
• do you get the picture?
  
  
• instrumental
  
• lost to the sky
  
• hunt me down

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as-010 - hny - "here you can touch the sky" lp very excited to be able to present the vinyl issue of hny's "here you can touch the sky". over the past few years, hny has released some stellar cassettes through ranky tanky, not not fun, and goaty tapes when finding some free time from shredding with social junk. here you can touch the sky is a half hour full of haunting guitar + vocal work that was released in 2008 through ranky tanky and is now ready to shine on vinyl. this record collects all the songs from the original cassette release and includes one previously released instrumental. limited to 500 copies on clear with orange splatter with a printed 11x11 insert with lyrics.

providien “followed by a wraith” long playing record

• red man’s vietnam
  
• seeker of the sun
  
• followed by a wraith
  
• no us
  
• no other
  
• next one
  
  
• group birth
  
• sewer animals
  
• salmonella bunker blues
  
• keep searching

amethyst sunset press release...

providien "followed by a wraith" amethyst sunset 008 the midwest is a real shangri-la for bohemia basement bleakness so it’s not real surprising that loner tape grime duo providien hail from the snow-blasted state of ohio, and have a grim grassroots aura that just feels right. led by sword heaven electrician mark van fleet and partner-in-crime/childhood friend nathan reynolds (also of weirdo goths american jobs), providien’s debut, “followed by a wraith”, sprawls from disembodied horror atmospherics to no-fi sludge death marches to pure weirdo home-taper acoustic guitar meltdowns, each new zone more unsettling and brainwashed than the last. has elements of mammal (especially the recent drone-suicide ballads), the shadow ring (just replace all the british stuff with raw american sloth), and various other esoteric cassette miserablists, but that’s just a roundabout way of saying this shit rules.  - britt brown the lp is limited to 200 copies on black vinyl with color center labels and a paste on cover insert with album info and tracklist is printed on cardstock.

keith fullerton whitman / mike shiflet “070325 b/w 080409” long playing record

• keith fullerton whitman - 070325 (14:32)
  
  
• mike shiflet - 080409 (19:50)

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keith fullerton whitman / mike shiflet - "070325 b/w 080409" lp (amethyst sunset) one live track a piece from keith and mike. keith presents a modular synth recording from the spring of 2007. mike's side is an excellent guitar/drone piece recorded during the summer heat of 2009. pressed on 180 gram vinyl.

sean mccann “sincere world” long playing record

• i've seen your face before (9:25)
  
• academy hall (7:31)
  
  
• transplanted heart (6:02)
  
• over the stars (there is rest) (4:37)
  
• deep sea divers (4:12)
  
• removed (3:13)

sean mccann “sincere world” compact disc

• i've seen your face before (9:25)
  
• academy hall (7:31)
  
• transplanted heart (6:02)
  
• over the stars (there is rest) (4:37)
  
• deep sea divers (4:12)
  
• removed (3:13)
  
• glade (1:16)
  
• devotion (14:00)

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as-003 - sean mccann - "sincere world" lp listening to new work from sean mccann is always an exciting prospect. go far back into this young pioneer's catalog and you'll without a doubt uncover a collection of music as diverse as it is long. what you may also notice is the consistency with which sean portrays himself. his music is always fearless, frank and personal. sincere world is another turn toward sean's signature earnestness. open resolve and the capital, both cleverly laced with swirling filter manipulation and confounding superimposition of manic and sloth-like compositions, exposed us to a more playful side of mccann's persona. these works are on the surface a bit zany, but deeper down they still maintain a charming character — something that draws the listener in magically. sincere world is the somber younger brother to these two. sincere world is adrift on badalamenti-like lethargy, skeptical of the world around and unsure of what to do about it. but despite his bashfulness, he is every bit as charming and perhaps even more so, for there are no rough edges on him. in six movements, sean takes us from under the bed to behind the bleachers and finally, to the bottom of the sea. recorded mostly in 2009, sincere world has after two years in hiding, finally mustered the audacity to come out into the open. this is the world sean mccann lives in, and i want to do everything i can to live there too. - michael jantz