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secretly canadian (usa) #sc 163 lp

bobb trimble “harvest of dreams” long playing record

  • premonitions--the fantasy
  • if words were all i had
  • the world i left behind
  • armour of the shroud
  • premonitions boy--the reality
  • take me home vienna
  • selling me short while stringing me long
  • oh baby
  • paralyzed
  • another lonely angel
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "premonitions--the fantasy"
secretly canadian press release...
bobb trimble
harvest of dreams cd / lp
(sc163, released: 11/06/07)

"incredible, multi-layered late night listening of the highest order. a cross between extreme gentility and musical savagery that will have you growing horns out of your own forehead, if not used carefully. without a few contemporary style-nods, you would never guess the album was originally released in 1982. one of the decade's best albums, filled with a mysterious charm that grows with each listen" - byron coley, 2007the catalog number says it all, in pristine glory: bobb 81. one can only picture how uniquely bobb trimble seems to confront reality. it's the early 80s, and as a new decade rolls by, he seems to be going backwards -- as if his inner tape was rewinding to the sound of the world he left behind. like a latter-day roscoe holcomb, trimble reaches that high lonesome sound of modern new england through harvest of dreams, his second, rarest, last and best lp. one can only guess at the ugliness of the reaganesque suburban nightmare he's trying to escape -- tacky clothes, silly haircuts, nonsensical blockbusters, arcade video games, and plastic crap everywhere, all betraying the era's lack of genuine emotions.

apart from maybe jandek and daniel johnston, two other souls he could find comfort with, bobb trimble displays some of the 1980s' most honest, melancholic and moving american music. it's as if melvin, toxic avenger's hero, had decided to go bedroom recording.

born august 4, 1958 in marlborough, ma, bobb grew up in the worcester suburb of northborough feasting on the beatles and later bowie, pink floyd, and queen. the music he went on to create wasn't an attempt to replicate the genius of those artists, but to stand alongside them with his own masterpiece of mythical, hysterical songwriting genius.

bobb and secretly canadian are proud to present you with iron curtain innocence and harvest of dreams, two releases that will now reach a genuine audience with full reissue treatment. this is great news for rare music lovers, since bobb's original lps are highly sought-after collectors items fetching hundreds of dollars apiece! each cd release contains never before seen photos of bobb trimble, the wormtown scene, and restored and fully realized artwork.

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secretly canadian (usa) #sc 163 cd

bobb trimble “harvest of dreams” compact disc

  • premonitions--the fantasy
  • if words were all i had
  • the world i left behind
  • armour of the shroud
  • premonitions boy--the reality
  • take me home vienna
  • selling me short while stringing me long
  • oh baby
  • paralyzed
  • another lonely angel

  • waves of confusion in puzzled times (demo version)
  • galilean boy (demo version)
  • life is like a circle (demo version)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "premonitions--the fantasy"
secretly canadian press release...
bobb trimble
harvest of dreams cd / lp
(sc163, released: 11/06/07)

"incredible, multi-layered late night listening of the highest order. a cross between extreme gentility and musical savagery that will have you growing horns out of your own forehead, if not used carefully. without a few contemporary style-nods, you would never guess the album was originally released in 1982. one of the decade's best albums, filled with a mysterious charm that grows with each listen" - byron coley, 2007the catalog number says it all, in pristine glory: bobb 81. one can only picture how uniquely bobb trimble seems to confront reality. it's the early 80s, and as a new decade rolls by, he seems to be going backwards -- as if his inner tape was rewinding to the sound of the world he left behind. like a latter-day roscoe holcomb, trimble reaches that high lonesome sound of modern new england through harvest of dreams, his second, rarest, last and best lp. one can only guess at the ugliness of the reaganesque suburban nightmare he's trying to escape -- tacky clothes, silly haircuts, nonsensical blockbusters, arcade video games, and plastic crap everywhere, all betraying the era's lack of genuine emotions.

apart from maybe jandek and daniel johnston, two other souls he could find comfort with, bobb trimble displays some of the 1980s' most honest, melancholic and moving american music. it's as if melvin, toxic avenger's hero, had decided to go bedroom recording.

born august 4, 1958 in marlborough, ma, bobb grew up in the worcester suburb of northborough feasting on the beatles and later bowie, pink floyd, and queen. the music he went on to create wasn't an attempt to replicate the genius of those artists, but to stand alongside them with his own masterpiece of mythical, hysterical songwriting genius.

bobb and secretly canadian are proud to present you with iron curtain innocence and harvest of dreams, two releases that will now reach a genuine audience with full reissue treatment. this is great news for rare music lovers, since bobb's original lps are highly sought-after collectors items fetching hundreds of dollars apiece! each cd release contains never before seen photos of bobb trimble, the wormtown scene, and restored and fully realized artwork.

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secretly canadian (usa) #sc 162 lp

bobb trimble “iron curtain innocence” long playing record

  • glass menagerie fantasies
  • night at the asylum
  • when the raven calls
  • your little pawn
  • one mile from heaven (short version)
  • killed by the hands of an unknown rock star
  • through my eyes (hopeless as hell: d.o.a.)
  • one mile from heaven (long version)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "one mile from heaven"
secretly canadian press release...
bobb trimble
iron curtain innocence cd / lp
(sc162, released: 11/06/07)

"a delicate, unsettling dip into a boiling pool of subconscious imagery and otherworldly pixie vocalism. the best tracks cause ripples in the space/time continuum. bobb trimble's first album appeared like a ghost that had slipped through reality's curtain. impossible to place inside any rational context, the music and voices seem to have been created inside your head and, indeed, maybe they were." - byron coley, 2007

before listening to iron curtain innocence, bobb trimble welcomes you with a tommy submachine gun salute -- trigger finger poised, guitar at ease and knees bent while alone at the microphone. it's a gesture only to be topped by his back jacket call-out: dear john, paul, george and ringo, if i'm a good boy and work real hard, may i please be the 5th beatle someday?

born august 4, 1958 in marlborough, ma, bobb grew up in the worcester suburb of northborough feasting on the beatles and later bowie, pink floyd, and queen. the music he went on to create wasn't an attempt to replicate the genius of those artists, but to stand alongside them with his own masterpiece of mythical, hysterical songwriting genius.

bobb and secretly canadian are proud to present you with iron curtain innocence and harvest of dreams, two releases that will now reach a genuine audience with full reissue treatment. this is great news for rare music lovers, since bobb's original lps are highly sought-after collectors items fetching hundreds of dollars apiece! each cd release contains never before seen photos of bobb trimble, the wormtown scene, and restored and fully realized artwork. in addition, each cd will feature bonus tracks from their respective recording periods.

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folk

secretly canadian (usa) #sc 162 cd

bobb trimble “iron curtain innocence” compact disc

  • glass menagerie fantasies
  • night at the asylum
  • when the raven calls
  • your little pawn
  • one mile from heaven (short version)
  • killed by the hands of an unknown rock star
  • through my eyes (hopeless as hell: d.o.a.)
  • one mile from heaven (long version)

  • glass menagerie fantasies (demo version)
  • night at the asylum (demo version)
  • when the raven calls (demo version)
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "one mile from heaven"
secretly canadian press release...
bobb trimble
iron curtain innocence cd / lp
(sc162, released: 11/06/07)

"a delicate, unsettling dip into a boiling pool of subconscious imagery and otherworldly pixie vocalism. the best tracks cause ripples in the space/time continuum. bobb trimble's first album appeared like a ghost that had slipped through reality's curtain. impossible to place inside any rational context, the music and voices seem to have been created inside your head and, indeed, maybe they were." - byron coley, 2007

before listening to iron curtain innocence, bobb trimble welcomes you with a tommy submachine gun salute -- trigger finger poised, guitar at ease and knees bent while alone at the microphone. it's a gesture only to be topped by his back jacket call-out: dear john, paul, george and ringo, if i'm a good boy and work real hard, may i please be the 5th beatle someday?

born august 4, 1958 in marlborough, ma, bobb grew up in the worcester suburb of northborough feasting on the beatles and later bowie, pink floyd, and queen. the music he went on to create wasn't an attempt to replicate the genius of those artists, but to stand alongside them with his own masterpiece of mythical, hysterical songwriting genius.

bobb and secretly canadian are proud to present you with iron curtain innocence and harvest of dreams, two releases that will now reach a genuine audience with full reissue treatment. this is great news for rare music lovers, since bobb's original lps are highly sought-after collectors items fetching hundreds of dollars apiece! each cd release contains never before seen photos of bobb trimble, the wormtown scene, and restored and fully realized artwork. in addition, each cd will feature bonus tracks from their respective recording periods.

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secretly canadian (usa) #sc 109 cd

swell maps “jane from occupied europe” compact disc

  • robot factory
  • let’s buy a bridge
  • border country
  • cake shop girl
  • the helicopter spies
  • big maz in the desert
  • big empty field
  • mining villages
  • collision with a frogman
  • ... vs. the mangrove delta plan
  • secret island
  • whatever happens next...
  • blenheim shots
  • a raincoat’s room
  • the stairs are like an avalanche
  • new york
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "mining villages"
here’s a bit i wrote a few years back about the previously available version on mute:

recent issue of chronologically the second full swell maps lp from 1980 with bonus tracks from the first "collision time" lp (excluding, of course, the material on "collision time" that's also on "jane from occupied europe", again) and select tracks from compilations, "collision time revisited" and the vaults. swell maps were nikki sudden, epic soundtracks, richard earl, and jowe head during the decade known as 'the 70's' and were prescient enough to lead every living/caring soul w/a 4-track & a bible for years to come into some serious, serious soul-baring (or at least, "big maz" series of tone-band forays introduce certain youth to pleasures of cavernous reverb applied to all brushed elements...). completely & totally seminal.
secretly canadian press release...
in mid-1979, the swell maps released their full-length debut atrip to marineville, a crazy-quilt of punk energy and krautrock-influenced clatter.after the release of the speaker-shredding single "let's build a car," the group recorded one final studio lp, jane from occupied europe, before breaking up. each of the members followed their own career paths, playing solo and forming bands: sudden formed the jacobites, soundtracks joined crime and the city solution, and head played with the television personalities. - jason ankeny

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secretly canadian (usa) #sc 108 cd

swell maps “a trip to marineville” compact disc

  • h.s. art
  • another song
  • vertical slum
  • spitfire parade
  • harmony in your bathroom
  • don’t throw ashtrays at me!
  • midget submarine
  • bridge head (pt. 9)
  • full moon in my pocket
  • blam!!
  • full moon (reprise)
  • gunboats
  • adventures into basketry
  • my lil’ shoppes ‘round the corner
  • loin of the surf
  • doctor at cake
  • steven does
  • bronze baby shoes
click the play button to hear an excerpt of "bridge head (pt. 9)"
fantastically done reissue of the first swell maps lp, which was previously available (for about an hour or two) on mute. one of the great, unsung (well, partially sung, at least recently) art-punk records, featuring not only some of my favorite songs of all time, but some of my favorite song-titles (come on! “vertical slum”? “adventures into basketry”?). short blats full of weird skronk-elements and key non-sequitirs. i’ve, in the past, described the maps mid-to-late 70s output as “what syd barrett would have undoubtedly gone on to sound like in the punk era, you know, if it weren’t for the acid casualty & all...”

these secretly canadian cd issues are chock full of relevant info, huge booklets, bonus tracks, remastered, etc... everything you could ever want really...
secretly canadian press release...
noisy and experimental, britain's swell maps experienced little commercial success during the course of their chaotic career, but in hindsight they stand as one of the pivotal acts of the new wave: not only was the group an acknowledged inspiration to the likes of sonic youth and pavement, but their alumni - most notably brothers nikki sudden and epic soundtracks - continued on as key players in the underground music community. although sudden (vocals/guitar) and soundtracks (piano/drums) formed the first incarnation of the swell maps (named after the charts used by surfers to gauge wave intensities) as far back as 1972, the group did not begin to truly take shape until 1976, when the siblings enlisted bassist jowe head and guitarist richard earl. in the spirit of punk's "do-it-yourself" mentality, they formed their own label, rather records, and issued their debut single - the brief, jarring "read about seymour" - in the early weeks of 1978. local media support soon won the group a distribution pact with rough trade, but they did not resurface until over a year later with the single "dresden style."

each album has been remastered, includes liner notes and unreleased photos as well as bonus tracks not available on previous versions of these albums.

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secretly canadian (usa) #sc 034 cd

suzanne langille / loren mazzacane connors “1987-1989” compact disc

  • wee wee hours (chuck berry)
  • horses blues (trad./arr. s. langille)
  • tb blues (jimmy rodgers)
  • kumbaya (trad./arr. s. langille)
  • motherless child (trad./arr. s. langille)
  • haunted house (lonnie johnson)
  • amazing gace (trad./arr. s. langille)
excellent cd reissuing most of two late 80s lps released on connors’ st. joan label. superb soul-baring bedroom guitar and vocals...
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it was 1987. loren mazzacane connors, not yet recognized by a world audience, had already recorded and released his 8 volume dagget series and his five albums with folk singer kath bloom. he had abandoned his guitar for a 3-year period, and returned to it with renewed vigor. he was not yet recognized as one of the great musical loners of the age (his future black label solo recordings and the eventual unearthing of the dagget series were the titles that would establish loren as such). he was, in fact, performing live and about to record some of the most potent recordings of his career -- recordings which may challenge any present notion of loren being a true loner at all. it was on these recordings that he first played with his future wife suzanne langille. together they performed langille-adapted traditionals and gospel standards, slowing them "down to a crawl." two albums were released on his own st. joan label under the moniker guitar roberts with suzanne langille, entitled bluesmaster 1 and bluesmaster 2, in 1987 and 1988, respectively (both issued in small runs of 200). this album represents the best of their material as a duo from those two records (there were also intermittant solo guitar compositions on both bluesmaster recordings), plus the one song they performed as a duo from loren's 1989 in pittsburgh full-length ("haunted house") and three previously unreleased recordings from the same period.

in her spare and "deeply considered" arrangements for these songs, suzanne allows all the room necessary for their collective personality to shine through, making for truly timeless performances. these recordings were suzanne's first to be released publicly. they showed a singer who was unafraid to push herself to lay claim to these folk tunes and make them her own, particularizing them with her own experience and thus imbuing them with a rare vitality. these recordings layed the groundwork for the work they would later do on the albums come night, the enchanted forest, let the darkness fall and with their new group haunted house.

after even a casual listen to the songs on this collection, it's quite difficult to imagine either suzanne or loren playing with another performer, or alone for that matter. the grace and intimacy with which they perform these songs together gives the impression that they'd been playing together since childhood. it's no wonder loren found so much fulfillment in playing music again.

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secretly canadian (usa) #sc 026 cd

suzanne langille “let the darkness fall” compact disc

  • strong and foolish heart
  • dear wind
  • a sadness in me
  • echoes
  • nothing at all
  • pale and paler
  • let the darkness fall
spring 1999 release pairing the langille/connors duo with san agustin’s david daniell and andrew burnes.
secretly canadian press release...
let the darkness fall is the return of singer / lyricist suzanne langille. she is once again joined by longtime collaborator loren mazzacane connors as well as atlanta's andrew burnes and david daniell of the group san agustin. the result is an intensely bleak, yet satisfying, musical excursion.

a much steamier affair than suzanne's and loren's previous concept album the enchanted forest, let the darkness fall showcases suzanne's lyrical intonation and her zesty, more sensual vocal style. her deep and throaty vocals parallel the doleful sounds of the trio on songs like "strong and foolish heart" and "a sadness in me."

the album is full of gently churning and ethereal moments which are steeped heavily in the musical and emotional concentration that only the wisdom afforded to veterans of this group's tenure can allow. loren's lone blue notes quietly escape to the forefront of the dual guitar weaving of andrew and david. six of the seven songs are darkly textured by the bending tones of what is often a three-guitar chorus.

let the darkness fall finds suzanne and loren entering their fourth decade of performance, while andrew and david are beginning their second. but does it offer a clear picture of where these artists are headed? perhaps. or maybe it's simply a month of frolic in the life of four fine musicians.

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secretly canadian (usa) #sc 018 cd

suzanne langille / loren mazzacane connors “enchanted forest” compact disc

  • invocation (voices of the forest)
  • old john (john)
  • the river (old john - voices of the forest)
  • jackie’s dream (jackie - old john)
  • the waterfall (jackie - anne - her father)
  • promise me
  • return to the waterfall (voices - jackie - old john - anne)
  • jackie’s dance
  • the raven’s song
  • anne’s song (with voices of the forest)
  • in the woods (jackie - old john)
  • old john’s song
  • to the mountain (jackie - old john - voices of the forest)
  • the escape (the forrester - jackie - old john - anne - her father)
  • closing (anne - old john)
1998 release pairing connors with vocalist suzanne langille; a musical re-creation of the film the enchanted forest. as with all langille/connors work; beautiful...
secretly canadian press release...
based loosely on a story by john lebar and the 1945 film, the enchanted forest.
lyrics, melodies and vocals by suzanne langille.
chord structure and guitar by loren mazzacane connors.

after over a decade of appearances on loren mazzacane's albums, suzanne langille releases a full length of her own songs. the enchanted forest combines suzanne's celestial voice and lyrical talent with loren's crystalline guitar work. loosely based on john lebar's 1945 film of the same name, suzanne acts out the story of a lost child, a forest's impending end and those that try and save it, through the voices of six characters.

as on previous mazzacane albums, suzanne's soulful and blues-filled moans create burning holes in the hearts and ears of many during each song. loren's guitar stays at a constant whisper pitch throughout the album, his minimal chords and lone notes have never been this fragile. intertwined with suzanne's character expressions, the guitar mixes with the muted sounds of chirping birds and the feeling of the enchanted forest takes hold. reminiscent of the st. joan-era collaborations between suzanne and loren, these two have never sounded so brilliant.

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