sean smith - eternal - gnome life records – lp&cd - 15$
Sean Smith is a modern composer of ageless guitar folketry [instrumental poetry]. With several masterful solo-guitar albums behind him, Smith has been drawn out of his hermetic recording life by the power and potential of collaboration, presented here on this record! Sean Smith becomes more fully fructified in the company of his friends, one voice becomes many (instruments)… 6-string steel, Weissenborn [slide], & nylon-string guitars, with dulcimer, banjo, violin, organ, drums, & electric wall of sound… his guitar breathes deeply in this new depth of field and altered sonic state, giving bright light and love to his powerfully emotive instrumental songs. Limited to 300, with letter pressed sleeves!
{This is a pure analog recording, recorded and mixed to 2 inch reel-to-reel tape, mastered directly from tape to vinyl by John Golden!}
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sean smith - sacred crag dancer, corpse whisperer - gnome life records – lp - 12$
In the corner of a small room a shadow is stretching out from the window by the fire-escape, relaxing in a worn out armchair, picked up from the street corner. That shadow sings with a guitar’s voice, and hums tunes boldly, little secrets, esoteric, and humble. Shadow and guitar belong to Sean Smith, who controls them both with his mind from the other side of the room. The night in black, but the light is held in little bubbles of brightness, exploding off of all things that live and breathe (look at the cover). These tunes are living, and breathing their first breaths right now! Ten completely spontaneous recordings, improvised music for the solo-guitar…played for the first time ever as they were being recorded. Fresh paint painted with metal strings, a wood body, and fingernails. Totally.
The extremely mind expanding cover is ready for your feasting eyes… Hallucinogenic photos by Sean Smith’s mother (Julie Brown Smith), high definition silk-screened in two colors by a local independent press, then wrapped around and pasted on jackets (Just like they did before 1965). Hand-made, limited to 500.
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birds by snow - Antlers and the Sun and all the Things that Grow old and Pass Away - gnome life records – lp –-10$sold out
42 minutes of deciduous songs by bird by snow, featuring special guest members of Whysp, Spencer Doran (Cloaks) and Residual Echoes... just to name a few. Limited to only 300, on transparent-red vinyl, 2 color silk-screened cover... hand printed by bird by snow himself.
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birds by snow - industrial collapse - gnome life records – 7" –6$ sold out
Two sides of total existential rebirth! Placental for you and bird by snow, a 7 inch baby of the cosmos, belching new sounds, and visions. Replete with new-metal guitar tones, falsetto cave paintings, and gasoline-riot guitar solos (think Blue Cheer in Thunderdome). Begging the question what is paradise? A waterfall? Or a burning sky-scraper? Each cover is hand printed from a linoleum block by bird by snow, at no extra cost to you. Limited to 300.
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birds by snow - sky - gnome life records – cd and lp –- 12$ sold out
To you, children of the Zeitgeist, we give “Sky,” offered in the same generous spirit as this bountiful world itself. Ten songs of reggae-infused, psychedelic, folk music. Existentialism you can dance to! Open-hearted sound-fields, vast and colored with tiny blue-grass orchestras, authentic Dub banjo, black cloud back-beats, and (if you can believe it) California Soukous guitar! Open eyes wide, and take in “Sky,” bird by snow’s outrageously lush follow-up LP. Cloudy or clear, day or night, let us be absorbed in the one-always-giving moment, and know the sky not as vacuous hole, but as container (whole). Limited to 300, on beautiful tranparent-blue vinyl. Hand silk-screened gold covers, with a lovely hand-made booklet too.
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