March Onward

Well, spring is almost here and after hunkering down for what turned out to be a pretty mild winter we have a few things on tap to share.

First off, The Songlines, the new tape by Riviere Amur, is available NOW from Hooker Vision. Word on the street is that these things are going fast, so get one while you can! Expect another one from these ladies later this year on No Kings.

Secondly, if you're in the Portland area on Sunday March 25th, come out to Townshend's Teahouse for a very special show featuring Inez Lightfoot and the debut of an as-yet-unnamed collaboration between old friends Sagas and Plankton Wat. Flyer to come soon!

On the release front, look for cassettes by both Inez Lightfoot and Sagas here on BR in the coming months as well as something from Sagas on Avant Archive. Later in the year Digitalis will be releasing a Sagas cassette and an Inez LP! Speaking of Digitalis, I recently mixed and added some additional sounds to Brad Rose and Pete Fosco's Concessionaires LP, entitled Artificial Interface. It's currently available for pre-order from Under the Spire.

That's all we've got for now. Thanks for staying tuned!

-Matt

:: Upcoming Sagas show ::

::: Sun Cycles :::

In honor of the four-year anniversary of our very first date (it was a fine dinner of pizza and beers!), we've decided to put up a free download for friends and fellow music lovers. Sun Cycles is our own new family collaboration, and our very first tape, Home, was a secret Biological Radio release that we sent to a handful of friends in January 2012, a release that is no longer secret nor available in its original cassette format. The album is made up of seven tracks that we wrote together in a new territory where modal forest jams meet electrical currents at sunrise. All songs recorded by Matt & Jackie around the hearth.

Sun Cycles is Matt (lap steel, guitar, bass, piano, percussion) and Jackie (mountain dulcimer, voice, keyboard, tapes, guitar, percussion).

Click here to download Sun Cycles - Home. Cheers!

:: Upcoming I.L. show ::

:: I.L. interview on Foxy D ::

Special thanks to Rachel Evans / Motion Sickness of Time Travel and Brad Rose / Foxy Digitalis for inviting me to do an Inez Lightfoot interview. It was a good time!

:: Read it here. ::

:: Upcoming Sagas show ::

:: This Friday, Jan. 20th at Townshend's Tea on Alberta ::

Looking very forward to this one!

First Sagas show in Portland in awhile. Come on out.

:: First release by Rivière Amur ::

We're excited to share the news about Bois Flotté, the first cassette release from Rivière Amur, a new collaborative project between long-distance friends Félicia Atkinson and Jackie McDowell. The cassette features beautiful photography by Ana Cabaleiro and is available to order now at I Had An Accident Records!