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autumn (usa) #leaf 010 cd

shedding “hello st. louis!!! - may 28th, 2004” compact disc recordable

  • lapping stairs (11:44)
  • cobblestone wash (8:17)
  • concrete wash (16:43)
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played in st. louis while on tour recently. the night of the show had intense storms, and flooding ensued as we headed from the radio station to the club. the next morning, after a breakfast fruit cup, we headed to the mighty st. louis arch, as sara p. had never been. instead of ascending the manmade wonder that i had visited so recently, i decided to enjoy the beautiful weather in the park, by the mississippi river, with bobby m. and joe s.; paul d. was napping in the van. i had my minidisc and mic with the intent to capture some sounds, but i was largely aimless, which often leads to the most fun times capturing moments. bobby m. suggested i record the river. how obvious and cliche i thought. as they headed back for the van, i walked down to the flooded waterway. soon, as a young boy and his grandmother departed nearby, i was lost in the hypnotic sounds of the river. i quickly realized i should record these moments of relaxation and quiet on an otherwise chaotic tour. if nothing more than as an audio memory of the refreshing morning of solitude and meditation. there are three separate tracks. first, the water lapping against a flooded stairwell, the slapping sound seeming so alien to my ears. the second track, the water washing over a flooded bank of cobblestones, the sounds falling somewhere in between the lapping stairs and the final track: the wash of water over a flooded slope of smooth concrete. (connor bell)

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autumn (usa) #leaf 009 cd

ben owen “florida everglades - february 2004” compact disc recordable

  • (1:00)
  • (8:44)
  • (26:08)
  • (1:51)
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these recordings were made in february 2004 on an overnight canoe trip into the back-country of the florida everglades. in 30+ knot winds my partner summer and i entered west lake in the north-western part of everglades national park which connects to several lakes, groves, and creeks, before reaching the 7.7 mile destination at garfield bight on the gulf coast. the first two recordings are from a contact mic submerged in water from the moving canoe. soundings happen as the contact mic brushes through sea vegetation and the changing water depth. the second two recordings were edited from a longer recording entering and exiting the grove between the lungs and alligator creek. the low quality radio shak binaural microphones were placed inside the canoe. the vast expanse of groves that grow in the everglades are an amazing organic structure. the overhanging groves connect two land-masses stretching over to create a tunnelesque passageway that one would have to duck from low passing limbs, branches, vines, and spider-webs. the grove paths are kept just wide enough for one canoe to pass through. along the banks alligators rested in the sun, some in small groups, some with mouths propped open on a fallen tree, or with eyes gently floating above water watching us pass. the sound reflected here within the groves is the reflection from the hull of the canoe and the overhanging grove. (ben owen)

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autumn (usa) #leaf 005 cd

frank schultge blumm “italian short story - 2002” compact disc recordable

  • rain on the tent (0:54)
  • rain in the sacristy (phase 1 and 2) (0:08)
  • going to the VW bus to drive to the mayor's place to buy tomatoes 'canto' (0:28)
  • driving back home after having bought tomatoes at the mayor's place (1:32)
  • squashing the tomatoes (0:14)
  • washing bottles for the tomato sauce (0:21)
  • chopping firewood (0:26)
  • breaking up firewood (0:35)
  • lighting the oven to cook the sauce (0:47)
  • chilling on the porch 'kitchen in the back' (1:14)
  • cricket in the night 'very close' (1:19)
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in 2002, i moved with my family for half a year to italy, close to the sea to a place in the countryside near genoa. we tried to form a community together with a bunch of italians. we were living in tents and some ancient ruins (there even was a little church on the area, actually the most proper building, which we mainly used for storing wood) we tried to build a strawbale house but it was raining so much in this year that we really almost swam away. our main hobby was getting the truck out of the mud (we invented a lot of amazing techinques like knotting the rope to the back-wheel and then to a tree to use the car as a wind, towing itself) unfortunately, the project failed and in the end we broke up, still it was a very, very nice experience. i never heard so much silence in my life. i never ate so many flowers. on these recordings you hear first of all, the rain, then, after the sun came out, we made tomato sauce (eating was the second main hobby, i mean, we drank wine out of 15 gallon containers and bought tomatoes bucketwise, you know) so on this day, we drove to the mayor's private house to buy his tomatoes. we squashed the tomatoes. we washed bottles to store the tomato sauce. we lit the outside oven and cooked the sauce on it. in the end we had a nice spaghetti tomato sauce for ,well, a few days. we had a chill out hippy session on the porch (you can hear my 2 year old son wenzel asking stefano a mixture of 'come stai?' (how are you?) and 'cosa fai?' (what are you doing?)) the last track are crickets in the night. i think that this recording is especially amazing because it sounds like an electronic noise but it really is (as all the other recordings) a pure field recording with no editing done at all (just recorded from a very close distance) enjoy. (f.s. blumm)

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autumn (usa) #leaf 004 cd

jeph jerman “trees & shrubs - 2000” compact disc recordable

  • (29:39)
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when i first moved to cottonwood in 1999, i spent a lot of time walking around with my recorder, sampling the sonic surroundings. i was surprised at the difference in sonority compared to seattle, where i previously lived. the dryness here lent everything a crispness and fragility that i had forgotten. i experimented a lot with contact mics and my stereo cassette recorder, spacing the mics far apart and attaching them to two (or more) things, mostly plants. these recordings are from my yard, and include a catclaw acacia and several other plants which i've forgotten now. the recorder i used would not allow me to monitor the recording as it happened (who designs these things?!?!?!), so i had to wait until it was over to hear it. i am often amazed at the wide array of sounds and timbres registered by these cheap devices. (jeph jerman)

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autumn (usa) #ar 029 cs

mirror to mirror “yesterday” cassette

  • be nice
  • take me
  • i want to be going
  • inside

  • every night
  • keep it out of your head
  • all comes back
  • time for what
november 2011 release ; ... a set of fairly rhythmic, punctual, and melodic electronic music from jugular forest’s alex twomey, hinging on many of the same “microprocessor era” synth-music tropes as heard on richardo donoso’s “progress chance” ...
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ar029
mirror to mirror - yesterday cassette

release date: 11/17/11
100 copies

professionally duplicated cassette with laser printed j-card
artwork by greg davis

mirror to mirror is alex twomey from los angeles. his previous mirror to mirror music has been released on ekhein, jugular forest, arbor, gift tapes and more. while alex usually offers up blissful cloud spaces, here on 'yesterday' he moves in a much more melodic way. joyous sequences, bright shapes & radiant harmonics. reminiscent at times of michaal stearns' 'm'ocean'. alex still retains the blissful, peaceful and lush feelings but now its shaded with more movement, energy and inertia. the shape of things to come?

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autumn (usa) #ar 027 cs

michael shannon “sensa atmospheres” c60 cassette

  • sensa atmospheres (1)
  • sensa atmospheres (2)
september 2011 release ; ... lovely pair of flowing, nature-oriented musique concrète pieces from animist orchestra member mike shannon ...
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ar027
michael shannon - sensa atmospheres cassette

release date: 09/27/11
100 copies

professionally duplicated cassette with laser printed j-card
photos by michael shannon
layout by greg davis

michael shannon has been a quiet force in the seattle music scene and elsewhere for many many years. his anomalous records lp 'laguz' first caught my attention and he also made an excellent album 'raido' for digitalis. mike's music is often a one man band affair. he plays everything from bass to percussion to stones / leaves / sticks to dilruba to tibetan bowls and more'sensa atmospheres' is a long form piece that he composed in 1992. it weaves a beautiful tapestry of sounds. a lovely ethno-electro-acoustic journey full of field recordings, home built percussion, oscillators, erhu and dilruba. mike has always been making cool music way before it was cool.

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autumn (usa) #ar 024 cd

sun circle “tapes” double compact disc set

  • from the split tape with the wind-up bird for the winter 2007 east coast tour.
  • from the split tape with pregnant moon.
  • layering of all 11 live sets from the winter 2007 east coast tour.

  • from the tour tape for the fall 2009 west coast tour (1).
  • from the tour tape for the fall 2009 west coast tour (2).
  • overtone singing improvisation with joe grimm.
october 2010 release ; handy, all-in-one collection of zach wallace & greg davis’ recent cro2 excursions, including the “live tour” tape, their side from the sun circle / pregnant moon split on nna, and their side from the sun circle / wind up bird “tour tape” ... plus two new pieces exclusive to this set (one, literally, a “layering of all 11 live sets from the winter 2007 east coast tour” can be heard via the sound-sample to your left ... the other features joe grimm & was partly recorded in an anechoic chamber) ...
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ar024
sun circle - tapes 2cd

release date: 10/15/10
300 copies
silk-screened arigato pak with insert

a collection of all of the sun circle cassette releases (2 self released out of print cassettes & the nna split cassette) plus 2 previously unreleased pieces. first time available in a digital format. made for the sun circle / grouper / ben vida japan tour 2010.

1/1 - from the split tape with the wind-up bird for the winter 2007 east coast tour. originally released on lichen records (lichen#007) in february 2007. edition of 50 copies. recorded in burlington, vermont.

1/2 - from the split tape with pregnant moon. originally released on nna tapes (nna001) in june 2008. edition of 100 copies. recorded at zach's mom's house in ann arbor, michigan.

1/3 - layering of all 11 live sets from the winter 2007 east coast tour. voice and farfisa organ. previously unreleased.

2/1 - live at the tranzac in toronto, ontario. december 11 2008. from the tour tape for the fall 2009 west coast tour. originally released on autumn records (ar011) in november 2009. edition of 100 copies. recorded live by ayal senior.

2/2 - live at the on land festival at the swedish american hall in san francisco, california. september 20 2009. from the tour tape for the fall 2009 west coast tour. originally released on autumn records (ar011) in november 2009. edition of 100 copies. recorded live by norman teale.

2/3 - overtone singing improvisation with joe grimm recorded in the acoustical echo chamber at the canadian embassy in washington, d.c. layered with gong trio recordings from the winter 2007 east coast tour. previously unreleased.

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autumn (usa) #ar 022 cs

jeph jerman “arrastre” c42 cassette

  • arrastre 8

  • arrastre 9
december 2010 release ; it’s been a good long while since we’ve had anything new by the now-arizona-based composer jeph jerman, so the arrival of this set of humming, hysteresis-laden metal-resonance studies is a major event ...

two sides of multi-tracked “bowed pot lids” that sound like a frozen gamelan orchestra buried deep underground in the australian outback ...
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ar022
jeph jerman - arrastre cassette (c42)

release date: december 2010
150 copies
professionally duplicated cassette with laser printed j-card

we have a set of surprisingly resonant pot lids in our kitchen, which i've used in various recordings in the past and one night while doing the dishes i had the idea to try playing them in the manner of tibetan singing bowls, by dragging a thick wooden dowel around their rims. i found that with a little practice this worked well, so i made a multi-track recording of four of them. i then, as i am want to do, became obsessed with this idea, buying up piles of pot lids from local second-hand shops and making more recordings, some using as many as ten different lids.

after two months of this activity i was left with over two hours of recordings of resonant metal drones, which i enjoy so much that i thought i'd share them all. comprising nine pieces of music ranging in length from 5 to 20 minutes, these recordings are available on three separate releases, on three different formats: a full-length vinyl record, a 45 minute cd-r and a 40 minute cassette.

arrastre is the spanish word for drag, and also the name of a 19th century mining apparatus, wherein large boulders were drug around an ore-filled pit by means of a large spindle and arm, driven by pack animals.

this cassette release is 1/3 of the arrastre triptych.

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autumn (usa) #ar 021 cd

chris weisman “transparency” double compact disc set

  • round (2:29)
  • music in the line (3:01)
  • the winning blues (2:28)
  • bicycle (3:22)
  • symbols and signs (3:03)
  • number 2 man (2:40)
  • almost a mood (1:42)
  • the radial spoke (3:30)
  • money madness (4:31)
  • transparency (1:36)
  • feel the houses (2:28)
  • anybody's time (3:12)
  • fire and flame (2:59)
  • rosenwinkel vertigo (2:02)
  • sound of the summer (3:22)

  • the beatles (3:50)
  • be easy on yourself (3:07)
  • in the walls (2:38)
  • the pilot's skull (2:36)
  • contact high (2:15)
  • no business shoes (3:41)
  • ordinary consciousness (2:08)
  • 1999 (2:38)
  • the sun comes back (2:18)
  • rain doctor (2:37)
  • mystery (1:51)
  • the sweetest flags (4:14)
  • arabesque (3:51)
  • crosst bridge (3:02)
  • angleterre anywhere (3:39)
february 2011 release ; a bountiful harvest of new music from chris weisman, with 30 songs spread out over two discs ...
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ar021
chris weisman - transparency 2cd

release date: 02/01/2011
300 copies
jewel case with full color artwork
artwork by ryan storm

in a hardly circulated and seldom referenced 1967 interview with paul mccartney and john lennon from during the making of what would become sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band, they use the words "jokes" and "folk" in describing their new music. with this crazy perceptual distance between the artist and the public in mind - between what they think they're doing and how we end up boxing it - consider chris weisman's song-based albums not as "pop" but as an almost side effect of jazz, an upper extension (if you will) over a base of changes playing, free improvisation, and guitar teaching.

jazz is more self consciously a field in pursuit of novel pitch relations than the retro rainbow of what calls itself pop now (though his vermont boot grinds deceptively deeply into many of its potholes), and the project of making wrong notes work - at the expense of popularity for over 20 years - is transparently weisman's nerdy ambition (this is the author of a book called "nonmusical patterns and their mystical meanings").

"transparency" - chris' latest (always imagined to be his last) - : joke folk through and through, his "the beatles", 30 songs and all.

- donald christopher 2011

chris weisman's new double album folk/pop masterpiece.
his most personal & accessible album yet.
for fans of elliott smith, the beatles, and weird music.

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autumn (usa) #ar 019 cd

john krausbauer “imager” compact disc

  • upwards/skywards (18:06)
  • in light (15:26)
july 2010 release ; two pieces from tecumseh / aures member john krasbauer, taking in a metallic, almost digital-fm sounding wall of rich, harmonic-series emphasizing pulse-wave modulation(s), rife with whistling upper-mid-range overtones ...
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ar019
john krausbauer - imager cd

release date: 07-13-10
200 copies
artwork by garek druss

this is the debut solo release by john krausbauer. he has been a fixture on the portland oregon improvised and experimental music scene (in groups like tecumseh, aures and more...) john's solo music is the electronic compliment to aures' power acoustic static drone minimalism. here we have 2 different deep weighty shimmering views of one eternal drone vista. subtle oscillations reveal infinite details. play this in a room, on speakers, loud & let your ears explore the sonic space ...

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autumn (usa) #ar 017 cd

martin arnold “tam lin” compact disc

  • tam lin (38:43)
  • cameras (17:06)
  • fergus (20:40)
september 2010 release ; long-awaited autumn records debut (this really has been in the works for a number of years ; five by my count !!!) of torontoan composer martin arnold’s chamber music ...

taking his cues from “british / irish folk musics”, arnold’s work seems as influenced by a post-feldman sense of intervallic space (esp. the title/intro piece) ; the extended techniques & pregnant pauses of the latter two pieces seem to belie an allegiance to lachenmann-ian modes ...
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ar017
martin arnold - tam lin cd

release date: september 2010
300 copies
silk-screened cardboard ecopak
artwork by barbara sutherland

long awaited debut cd of compositions by one of the most underrated composers of our time. 3 lovely meandering pieces incorporating british / irish folk musics, gating, field recordings, extended techniques & improvisation. some of the most original and accessible modern composition around today.

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autumn (usa) #ar 016 cs

john clyde-evans “go gracious kiki change” c28 cassette

  • solfarrd time change
  • go gracious kiki change

  • the nest of delinquent gaijin
  • salt burning smoke
april 2010 release ; straight banger from john “tirath singh nirmala” clyde-evans, comprised of four “movements” of his uniquely detail-heavy / pan-directional spray of synthesized & processed elements ...

heavy on the “short-attention-span” tip (there’s a near-constant whiz-bang of layered, asynchronous blare) & quite raucous ; on par with his clarion-calling amen absen lp from a few years back ...
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ar016
john clyde-evans - go gracious kiki change cassette (c28)

release date: 04/13/2010
120 copies
professionally duplicated cassette with laser printed j-card
artwork by ryan storm

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autumn (usa) #ar 014 cd

kurt weisman “orange” compact disc

  • new england snakes
  • self-portrait with skull
  • let my spirit rise
  • rainbow blues
  • orange
  • when i saw him with you
  • new blueberry song
  • tulip tree trail
february 2010 release ; second album from kurt weisman, chock full of his unique blend of subtle, observational lyrics & freewheeling guitar playing (which is especially well documented on the title-cut ; listen to the sound-sample) ...
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ar014
kurt weisman - orange cd

release date: 02/02/2010
300 copies

silk-screened cardboard ecopak
with black & white woodblock
print copy insert by ben stamper

orange
the color?
a town in new jersey?
the flipside of the beatles?
the fruit?
the sun?
the unrhymeable?

orange is kurt weisman's second album
(after 2008's spiritual sci-fi, a few 7"s & e.p.'s, and his work in feathers)
it is a brilliantly chiseled gem. a beautiful garnet, or perhaps an orange chalcedony.

there are traces of traditional norwegian melodies, atonal counterpoint, simple folk songs, new age blues, spacy doo wop, neo-classicism, love songs and a detour of the following....(orange lady, orange was the color of her dress then blue silk, shades of orange, orange juice blues, woodsmoke & oranges, onion orange, apples & oranges, funktion orange, draped in fluorescent orange, orange claw hammer, oranges & lemons)

kurt abandoned the micro-editing & digital processing of his previous music (for now)
there isn't a trace of computer trickery on orange which makes this a straight forward, well balanced, deceptively simple(r), honest album.
there isn't a single note of filler here, every sound sits still in perfect place.

kurt lives in a cabin in the woods near putney, vermont.
it seems that the quiet, peaceful isolation permeated this music.
these songs were ingrained and steeped deeply within kurt's soul (and fingers) over the course of a few years. now he is a mirror reflecting them back to us with love to the universe.

orange is mostly kurt singing and playing guitars but there are tasteful additions of clarinets from robert stillman (horses) and kinetic sparkling keyboards from eliot krimsky (glass ghost) & a touch of other instruments & sounds by kurt. included is a nice insert of a woodblock print of a horse by ben stamper (ben + vesper) who also helped produce the album.

these are songs of ascension.
(thermal clouds. bird flight. spirits rising. love growing. spirals. wide open skies. heavenward.)

in his special way, maybe kurt has found his own center, his deep bliss, his unique way to tap into the universal body / mind.

orange will be everyone's new favorite color.
shining the most radiantly pure light into your ears.

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autumn (usa) #ar 010 cd

ruth garbus “rendezvous with rama” compact disc

  • falling down to earth (4:05)
  • fly away (4:17)
  • video piano (4:46)
  • the finish field (5:20)
  • halloween (2:23)
  • tarp face (3:20)
  • spy zone (4:34)
  • my apple (2:47)
january 2010 release ; lovely set of guitar/voice studies from vermonter ruth garbus, reminding (in mixed degrees) of kath bloom’s sides (both w/ & w/o loren connors) & linda perhacs’ effortlessly breathy “parallelograms” ... but then again i imagine most will compare the omnipresent patina of tape-hiss & chiming guitar figures to liz “grouper” harris ; fans of whom will most certainly want to investigate herein ...
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ar010
ruth garbus - rendezvous with rama cd

release date: 01/04/2010
300 copies
silk-screened cardboard ecopak
artwork by ruth garbus
recorded by ryan power

ruth garbus used to be in a band called feathers. you might remember them if you were absorbed in the neo-psych-folk-whatever-you-call-it scene about half a decade ago or so. (she still plays with kyle t. in a band called happy birthday / she lives with c. weisman in brattleboro / her sister is merrill tune-yards)

ruth has been slowly crafting a bunch of solo songs in private. a couple of years ago, she made a short album called ruthie's requests on a little cassette machine. (if you blinked, you probably missed it)

well now its 2010 and she is here with some new vermont music.
(and there is more to come....)
this is her orbital turn.
a chance for her tones to float out over the airwaves now...
we are very happy to present you with ruth's debut album, rendezvous with rama.

these days, not many people can pull off a record this lovely of just electric guitar and vocals but ruth does it. her music flows with ease and beauty and grace. her guitar parts suggest cascading choirs and unheard contrapuntal vistas. and her lyrics invoke scenes from:

imaginary worlds (visual art)
everyday worlds (house painter)
we are lucky to get a glimpse into the creative fantasy/reality lands of this quiet artist.

recorded in burlington, vermont by ryan power in a large warehouse with spacious natural reverb.
an intimate fall / winter vibe captured on a 2-track reel to reel tape machine. this is perfect music for snowfalling(s)

fragile and flowing
dark and joyous
natural and quiet
movement and stillness

(possible reference point: vashti bunyan singing & playing an electric guitar, recording for ecm?)
ruth's songs get deeper and different and beyond any of those easy references.

is she a singer/songwriter? folk musician? chanteuse? torch singer? jazz vocalist? new age artist? tropicalia? early music?
im not sure what we should call it.
maybe all of the above.
well it doesn't really matter anyhow because
we think you'll think ruth's new album is super good.

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autumn (usa) #ar 009 ep

kurt weisman / chris weisman “over the shadow's door” seven inch single record

  • kurt weisman - over the shadow's door

  • chris weisman - over the shadow's door
october 2009 release ; split single from the two weisman brothers kurt (older, higher voice) & chris (younger, lower) housed in art by the weisman sister emma ...

whereas kurt sets the tone with a lovely, straight-ahead finger-picked guitar accompaniment to his overdubbed voices (damn, he get so high !!!) ; chris’ panegyric on home recording and christopher forgues is harder to read, cloaked in looped drum-stick hits and a “tricky” legato leitmotif straight outta the back-tablature pages of guitar world ...

full-color sleeve holds a bubblegum-pink vinyl easter egg ; nice one !!!
autumn press release...
ar009 : kurt weisman & chris weisman - over the shadow's door 7"

over the shadow's door is a unified artistic project by the ever creative weisman siblings. a title was chosen and then kurt, chris and emma set about making music / art to correspond with the title. this is the result...

kurt open things up on side a with lovely spiralling acoustic guitar patterns with kurt's trademark high angelic tenor falsetto vocals (along with the ghost of kurt weisman singing even higher vocal harmonies!)

"no i can not be a man anymore"

on side b, chris slashes and cuts through echoed word raps over spindly guitar licks and drum stick clicks (he'll explain it to you in the song). the chorus reaches a droney low voice counterpoint stasis. a nice little coda at the end with brazilian guitar tones and a chunky bassline.

"who says that i can't find the floor?"emma's artwork is a wonderful children's book style cross hatch illustration. boy crawling on floor trying to open the purple shadow door. boy on the first floor climbing a ladder to peer at the ceiling galaxies / stars. strange paintings on the wall above the orange couch. are there are more questions than answers?

300 hand numbered copies with hand stamped labels on colored vinyl (pink & blue)

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back in stock as of
december 7th, 2011

first in stock on
july 1st, 2009

threads:
modern-psych
folk
guitar-themed

autumn (usa) #ar 007 cd

chris weisman “tape walk” compact disc

  • working on my skateboarding
  • b.o.a.c.
  • be and
  • red book
  • the dancer
  • day sleeper
  • dissonant beauty to be forgotten
  • pigs of glass
  • fa mi may (dream away)
  • morty's rugs
  • natural cymbal
  • the o chord
  • polyglot
  • complex complex
  • welcome to reality smith
  • world of the snowsun
  • you made a drawing
june 2009 release ; first mass-market collection of tunes (previously strewn about via a succession of self-released cd-r’s & tapes) from this vermonster singer-songwriter ... heavy bedroom-psych beach boys vibe throughout, reminds me a little bit of that recent ilyas ahmed record on root strata ...
autumn press release...

ar007
chris weisman - tape walk cd

release date: 06-2009
300 copies
silk-screened cardboard ecopak
drawings by chris weisman

new hampshire native new school vermonter brattleboro residence chris has been quietly singing his songs for years giving away cdrs & cassettes to friends planting his music here and there

jazz guitarist (studied)
teacher
made up his own book of guitar pattern(s)hapes
little room
small coffees & yogurt
sometimes soup or raw carrot
higher octave music
purple fleece jacket
maybe green pants
inverted guitar

he knows every oblique & obscure corner of the beatles wrapped in blanket or poncho did you know that paul used a capo on his bass? white george harrison hat from the strawberry fields video

joyous open presence
curious infinitely creative mind
look into the third eye
its the ocean
daily mountain climber
late night talk

"all roads descend toward town" (snyder)

chris sheds personal taste filters (buddhism) to get into a very wide range of songs, histories, moods, vibes, feels, memories, instincts, styles, love, peace he takes chances (thank you john cage!) pushes limits & boundaries & envelopes this is pure, intuitive, heart music

lyrical imagery
strange and funny and spiritual
always honest

melodic twist & turns
harmonic curveballs
makes sense
always catchy

sweet tenor voice like that of colin blunstone loves robyn hitchcock & syd barrett & steely dan & keith jarrett & jerry garcia like the best tunes of the elephant 6

chris is a prolific songwriter he's (more than) the daniel johnston of the new age and now its the obama age so its cool to write songs again and its more than okay to like songs again

not many can craft a weird smart pop song like chris does he is the bearer of a torch running towards the ever expanding finish (beginning) line (light) listening is easy so do yourself a favor... let these songs get stuck in your head for awhile

"tape walk" is a new collection of chris weisman songs taken from many of his self-released albums

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first in stock on
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threads:
minimalism-drones
modern-psych
modern-composition

 best of 2009 !!! 
autumn (usa) #ar 004 lp
lichen (usa) #lichen 008 lp

sun circle “sun circle” long playing record

  • sun circle (1) (16:23)

  • sun circle (2) (19:06)
december 2008 release ; “tour merch” item from mssr’s greg davis & zach wallace, essentially a vinyl “reissue” of the self-titled debut cdr by their sun circle project on zach’s lichen imprint ...

re: the music ; here’s what i wrote about the original cd-r edition ::

most recent release on the lichen label; all releases are hand-assembled by zach wallace in his native ann arbor environs and offer of a lovely wave of art-sound, field recordings, improvisation with natural non-instruments, and, in the case of this particular title, a pair of pieces by greg davis and zach himself on farfisa, distorted vocals, and bells.

the first appears to be a zonked “cover” of lamonte young’s “31 vii 69 10:26 - 10:49 pm munich from map of 49's dream the two systems of eleven sets of galactic intervals ornamental light years tracery”; with greg and zach howling in the moonlight over a bed of organ drones ; completely fucking amazing volume-oriented dronework that ends all too soon. re-cast the gongs of the original lps’s b-side for re-iterant, feldman-like bells and you’re close...

some of my favorite of greg’s recent work; and not even a shred of computer / dsp anywhere within. excellent.

this “private” paste-on vinyl edition features the cd-r’s cover blown up to lp spec, with a lichen sticker affixed to the back, double-sided 11” x 11” insert ... mastering and sound are excellent throughout ... glad to have this document of greg & zach’s musical life-blood available again, in an archival format more fitting to the music’s divergent laminar tendencies ... highly recommended !!!
autumn press release...

lichen #008 - sun circle (lp)

singing, farfisa, bells recorded in burlington and ann arbor, winter 2006.

sun circle is greg davis and zach wallace.

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 auscultare 		...and that's everything on autumn in stock.
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