Just a heads up, we have 1 tape left for Alek's superb debut album Here we are in the garden. Snag it quick before it's gone, and once it's gone, be on the look out for on of the remaining shows below to snag it at the merch table.
Follow Alek's instagram for more details on tour.
Over the moon to announce next month's release, Silverware's sophomore album One True Light!
"With sophomore album One True Light, San Francisco-based artist Ainsley Wagoner takes her long-evolving project Silverware into a new space, one with many rooms but no predictable blueprint. Wagoner’s visionist production serves as the connective tissue between experiments with cellophane-wrapped synth pop, subtly jazz-tinged early morning reflections, and Friday night shout-along anthems. The stylistic streams change often and drastically, but Wagoner’s dynamic vocals and multidimensional compositional style stay in complete focus and control on every moment of this document of vibrant, exponential creative growth."
-Fred Thomas
We have both vinyl and cassettes coming out. Records were pressed at Gotta Groove in Cleveland, OH and come in either coke bottle clear (/100) or black (/100). Tapes were professionally dubbed at Duplication CA in Toronto, ON, on normal bias silver glitter cassette. Pre-order today on the website or at Silverware's Bandcamp.
And check out the first single, “No Expectations,” streaming everywhere now! The track features added vocal performances from a cohort of Bay Area artists including Taylor Giffin (Healing Potpourri, Magic Fig), Tom Smith (Smoking Ziggurats, Eternal Drag), Asha Wells (Asha Wells, Pillow Prince), Sarah Simon (Magic Magic Roses, July), and Simi Sohota (Healing Potpourri).
The track premiered at Week in Pop. Check out the awesome article if you haven't yet.
One True Light is out August 30th.
Check out the latest single "Butter" from Alek Barkats's upcoming album Here we are in the garden, streaming now.
You can pre-order the album on cassette now! Out July 19th.
Also, check out the music video for the first single "Jewels" below!
Just a couple days left before we close up shop and pack for our move back to our old office. To help us lighten the load we are giving 20% off all in stock items until July 1st with code untilwemeetagain
July 1st will be our final ship date until we come back July 15th. You can still order items, they will just be delayed on shipping until at least then. Thanks for understanding!
Alexi Belchere of gloomy june just put out her first single from her other project, Nocean Beach.
Stream it here and check out the music video below!
Thrilled to have Alek Barkats debut album as our July release!
Alek Barkats is songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in Philadelphia. He established himself in the Bay Area music scene, both recording and touring his own music, and as a pianist in several projects- including singer-songwriter Lizzy Dutton’s live band, and the instrumental, jazz-rock ensemble, Cheap Charms.
Barkats’ upcoming sophomore album is the warm and thoughtful Here we are in the garden. The album’s 10 deeply personal songs range from sunny acoustic strummers to piano-led ballads, characterized by Barkats’ calm and poetic delivery. Echoing the breezy melodies of Belle & Sebastian and the theatrics of Randy Newman, Barkats paints a world with daydreaming dogs and romantic descriptions of television, where each song feels like an ode to the little lives we cultivate.
Most of HWAITG was recorded at Oakland’s Itinerant Home by Geoff Saba, who also plays on the album. The remainder was recorded in Philadelphia where Alek Barkats relocated, serendipitously moving into the apartment below audio engineer and musician Heather Jones. Jones and Barkats added hammond organ at Philly’s legendary Headroom Studios, and wrapped up vocals at Jones’ own studio, So Big Auditory.
Featuring a cast of Bay Area musicians including Emmett Moskowitz (Magic Fig, Froogies Groovies), David Mandle (Moral High Horses), Ben Hartman (Old Time Relijun), Travis Snyder (Catch Prichard, The Sunshine Bores), Lizzy Dutton, Artur Friedhoff (Cheap Charms), Abe Finkelstein (The Forgetmenauts), Nansamba Ssensalo (California Honeydrops), Geoff Saba (Forest Floor), and Tacie Moskowitz.
Tapes are up for pre-order now. The limited cassette run (/50) comes on normal bias marble blue tape, hand duplicated in real time at Ghost Mountain Records in Seattle, WA. Included is a digital download code, which for US and Canada based shipping, is on wildflower seed paper by Botanical Paperworks.
Album shipping and releasing July 19th. You can grab your copy here, or save on shipping and pick one up at the album release show.
Or during Alek's upcoming east coast summer tour:
If you missed it, check out the write up about the first single, "Jewels" on Various Small Flames and listen here.
Hello!
We are moving this upcoming month back to our old office. Because of this, shipping will be paused July 1st - July 15th while we pack and get set up again. Get all your orders in before then to not have any delays.
To ease the load, we are offering 20% off all in stock merch on the site, with code “untilwemeetagain”. Offer ends July 1st.
Thanks for understanding and all your support! Can’t wait to be back in the old, roomier, space.
Surprise! We are thrilled to celebrate the 15th birthday of Nesey Gallon's eyes & eyes & eyes ago with a special cassette re-release.
Originally released Sept 8th, 2009, Nesey's debut album charmed those who found their way to it. Featuring fan favorite track "aurora borealis"
We have a limited cassette run (/100) that comes on normal bias "pumpkin" orange windowless tape, professional dubbed at duplication.ca in Toronto, ON, and hand numbered on the tape. Featuring alternative "15th Birthday" artwork, fold out J-card with photos, and outer O-card.
Included is a digital download code, which for US and Canada based shipping, is on wildflower seed paper by Botanical Paperworks.
Tapes ship now! Grab one here, on Nesey's Bandcamp, or at Nesey's upcoming shows. First up is this incredible one night only show in Portland, ME!
Or grab them during Nesey's West Coast tour this summer with Carousel Museum, Pure Mothman & Fly! Tanager!
7/2 - Seattle, WA - Black Lodge
7/3 - Portland, OR - Turn Turn Turn with Foot Ox and Moth Kit
7/3 - Portland, OR - Kelly's Olympian
7/4 - Oregon City, OR - House Show
7/5 - Arcata, CA - Manila Community Center
7/6 - San Francisco, CA - Bazzar Cafe
7/8 - Los Angeles, CA - Heavy Manners Library
7/9 - San Diego, CA - House Show
7/11 - Oakland, CA - Edoff Memorial Bandstand
7/12 - Arcata, CA - Richard's Goat
7/14 - Albany, OR - Albany Carousel Museum
7/15 - Portland, OR - Speck's Records with Foot Ox and Moth Kit
Follow Nesey's instagram for more details.
In case you missed it! Check out the 2nd single "Slowly Morphing" off Mt Fog's upcoming album ultraviolet heart machine this September.
More things to come soon, so be sure to follow Mt Fog or sign up for her newsletter.
And catch Mt Fog at the Cryptatropa in Olympia, WA July 19th.
Starting today, you can grab some early copies of Zack Kardon's untitled tour tape, for his upcoming east coast tour this summer!
Zack has played in groups such as Indigo De Souza, Midnight Snack, and the Dead Tongues. Solo, he was FKA Southern Pine and toured the US and Argentina. This first release under his name will be a collection of songs that have been recorded at various points in time in Asheville, NC, Los Angeles, and Buenos Aires, Argentina and released as a special tape for his upcoming tour.
The limited cassette run (/50) comes on normal bias purple tape, hand duplicated in real time at Ghost Mountain Records in Seattle, WA. Included is a digital download code, which for US and Canada based shipping, is on wildflower seed paper by Botanical Paperworks.
Majority of the tapes will be available at shows during the upcoming tour later this summer, but we have a small batch available online today! If you are not on the east coast, or want to give it any early listen, grab it while you can.
Follow Zack to find out more about his soon to be announced upcoming tour with Lizzy Dutton and Weeper this summer. Save on shipping and pick up your copy at one of those shows!
*image is a digital mock, actual cassette may vary
UPDATE: Sold out! Sold for $88 so we donated $88 more for a total of $176 today. Thank you!
Happy Mother's Day and birthday to Anna "Nesey" Gallons!
To celebrate, we are putting our final Wax Mage copy of when i was an ice skater online at 9am PST today. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Mabel Wadsworth Center.
They are the only not-for-profit, private, independent feminist health center in Maine and one of just a handful nationwide. The Center’s philosophy of care is based on empowerment and putting individuals in charge of their own healthcare decisions.
This vinyl is hand poured in a "spring snow" green for the A/B side and "moon jelly" purple for the C/D side. Packaged in the same gatefold jacket with the same bonus items as the standard black copies.
When purchasing, the vinyl is sliding scale from $65 and Ghost Mountain Records will also match for an additional donation, up to $100.
We have one 1 copy left, so once it's up, grab it while you can. And if you missed out you may be able to snag a copy from Nesey herself at one of her upcoming soon to be announce shows on the west coast. Follow her instagram for more details on that.
And to donate to Mabel Wadsworth Center yourself, click here.
Also, keep your EYES peeled next month for another exciting Nesey related announcement.
Delighted to announce our next release, the debut EP from Seattle's Brenna Bruce, Honest Bloom.
"Following a path of curiosity and introspection, her music moves with a quiet power, balancing sharpness and tenderness with an understood patience.
Bruce pulls from the tradition of vulnerable folk through delicate and crystalline vocal prowess akin to Courtney Marie Andrews and Emmylou Harris, with the simplicity and focus of Gillian Welch’s storytelling. On her forthcoming debut EP Honest Bloom, Bruce weaves ambling stories of the heart with peripheral landscapes passing through the deserts, rivers, and mountains of her past in the southwest, and present in the Pacific Northwest.
Honest Bloom inhabits spaces of liminality and cyclical growth, spinning themes of connection, belonging, and becoming, with lilting pedal steel and string arrangements, tethered by pulsing percussion and the intentional delivery of Brenna’s vocal harmonies carrying each sentiment to fruition. Honest Bloom is a capsule of time, reckoning with the ever-unfolding path of being and learning life’s lessons, and Brenna Bruce is an artist burgeoning with timeless truths."
-Hannah Frances
We are excited to release Honest Bloom on tape. The limited cassette run (/50) comes on normal bias split pea green tape, hand duplicated in real time at Ghost Mountain Records in Seattle, WA. Included on the tape is the bonus track "Move - Live at Fremont Abbey," as well as a digital download code, which for US and Canada based shipping, is on wildflower seed paper by Botanical Paperworks.
Pre-orders begin today, with the EP shipping and releasing April 26th. You can grab your copy here, or save on shipping and pick one up at Brenna's EP release show at Sunset Tavern in Seattle, April 28th.
The 2nd single from the album, "The Kite and the Line," releases on streaming today. Give it a listen!