:: New I.L. 2x Cassette Available! ::

 

Here they are, recently arrived from Dublin! A pair of cassettes with 40 minutes of new music from the home studio. Each multi-fold j-card includes many panels of beautiful nature photography by the talented duo at the helm of Northern Twilights, Ben and Anna. You've got to see this release in person to truly wrap your brain around how lovely their photos are. For more detailed information about the tunes on this release, please see my earlier post.

 

Inez Lightfoot Sleep By Day and Fly By Night

double cassette on Northern Twilights =

$12 (includes shipping to North America) to inezlightfoot(at)gmail

International folks: please visit Northern Twilights to order.

:: Sleep By Day / Fly By Night ::

 

Spring is here and so is Sleep By Day / Fly By Night by Inez Lightfoot, a new double release of four songs spread over two cassettes, one song per side. Bringing forty minutes of music specially composed to go hand in hand with a nature-themed experimental phototography collection by Ben North and Anna Kowalczyk, this is a multitracked album with lots of organ, steel-string acoustic guitar, mountain dulcimer, voice, electronics and some surprises tucked in there, too.

 

Recorded in early 2013 over the course of four days and nights by JM at home. Artwork by Ben North and Anna Kowalczyk. Order this special collaborative work now from Northern Twilights. Listen to side one here.



:: I.L. "Three Weaving At The Well" Reissue Available ::

 The resplendent No Kings reissue of Three Weaving has arrived!

To order:
$7 plus $3 domestic shipping to inezlightfoot(at)gmail

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Extra special thanks to Mr. Noble for releasing this one.

 

A night of local music coming up.

Stop in and grab a copy of Familiars!

 

..flyer by JM..

:: The Eremite's Dream ::

We're happy to announce that The Eremite's Dream by Sagas is available now from Digitalis in an edition of 50 cassettes with superb artwork by Brad Rose. Recorded in summer 2011, these six tracks are the last thing I recorded in Pittsburgh before relocating to the west coast... again. Here's what Digitalis had to say about it:

Matt McDowell is a conjurer. Wielding his guitar, he can make cobras dance and spirits rise toward the smoke-filled heavens. On The Eremite’s Dream, his latest manifesto, there’s an overwhelming grittiness that permeates everything. Inside the subtle grooves of “Fractal Dunes,” McDowell is at his peak. Eastern-tinged scales rise and fall in succession like the bones of a once great empire find its way to relevance once again. This is music that’s soaked in red dust.

But the thing that makes Sagas so potent and McDowell so damn good is not just his range, but his ability to put together a sequence that flows cohesively and finds narratives inside those disparate elements. “Parallels” mixes in keyboard elements (by his wife, Jackie) for something pastoral and saccharine. B-Side opener “Mammal Brain” is a fuzzed-out romp through dystopian wastelands, complete with buried, minimal rhythms and dueling solo action. It’s this mix of tones and themes that make The Eremite’s Dream so great. 

Stream it here.