( ) - non serviam - omm - cass 6.50$
How it is that David Vassalotti can make such amazingly cohesive yet ridiculously bipolar tracks I have yet to understand, but here's another lesson I can study. Five tracks, including a Leonard Cohen cover, that range from thrashing like a shark to drunken ballad to repentance. I found feelings I didn't know I had. This tape induces mood swings and I urge you to go with them.
97 copies, pro imprinted and duplicated. Artwork by ( ).
nodolby - omm - cass - 6.50$
Equal parts road trip, science fiction, and alternate reality, nodolby makes any listener wish silent movies were still around to be scored. Rhythm remains among the disparate sounds, keeping a narrative together that’s worlds apart from anywhere else. It suggests boxy cars, unfinished metals, and constant movement toward a force that is as foreboding as it is omnipresent. How can you move toward that which is already present within you? Just ask Max Renn.
Just over 20 minutes, edition of 48.
tricorn and que - perennial language - omm - cass - 6$
Tricorn & Queue have always reminded me of the beginning, of first rays and mitosis. I could hear the notes move, crawl, and multiply, albums made through the process of cell division. This one is different, a lesson from the master in the moments just before creation. There's focus and thought, maybe an attempt at rest, a last bit of respite before the work begins
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excavacations / nick stone & clovis heald - split - omm - cass - 6$
I've never been in a long distance relationship, but this might be close enough. Resonance from either side of this tape might be responsible for blurring Hubble photographs in the future. There is a sort of pursuit in this split, echolocation, steadiness. Buy two copies in case one evaporates.
Art by Jeremy Burg; 63 copies
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super minerals - the vooh - omm - cass - 6$sold out
"110 clear tapes with white imprinting. In 4x6 re-sealable baggies, with oversized full color covers, and inside spread has hand- stamped design in red ink. Art by Nicholas Longworth, the photo is in Big Sur."
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black eagle child - black lodge white lodge - omm - cass - 6$sold out
Although entropy is my favorite physical concept, propulsion is a close second. It's not so much the lack of gravity that attracts me to space--it's the lack of friction. The closest approximation would be in the doldrums, the land underneath where all the air currents meet. There it's completely calm on the ground while above you is the collision of every breeze, gust, and torrent in the world.
Art by Sir Salamander; 48 copies.
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