I’d like to direct your attention to the A Lily website (http://www.alily.co.uk/). This is James Vella’s (Yndi Halda) side project and he has been hard at work on a follow-up release to his 2006 debut album wake:sleep and his 2008 3″ cdep I Dress My Ankles With God’s Sweetest Words (released around the same time as the Yndi Halda US tour). There are also some more Yndi Halda demos in progress for the next record… :::scott:::
btv will be releasing the vinyl version of Starflyer 59’s forthcoming album, The Changing of the Guard. It will be in a thick old-school tip-on style gatefold jacket with a bonus 7″. The mastering is wrapping up shortly and once everything has been shipped off to the plant, pre-orders will begin. The official release date for the cd is 10 August and the vinyl will be shipping to arrive in time. The artwork for steven r. smith’s one-sided LP, floor of the sky, is complete and on its way to the printer. Our good friend Tim is lined up for the etching, so everything is moving along. Pre-orders will commence shortly. Our friend Erik has released the most recent steven r. smith album, cities, on his label Immune Recordings. You can get the LP with download coupon directly from Immune or the btv store. For everyone awaiting Erik Enocksson’s Farval Falkenberg, the jacket design has been completed and is just awaiting final approvals before being sent to the printer. Now we not only have ID card printers, that’s reality. Pre-orders for this LP will begin once the jackets are being printed. :::scott:::
An all-star cast was assembled by Scott McMicken of Dr. Dog to record his song “Spirit, Oh Spirit” at Miner Street Recordings. The recording was realized by Aaron and Mike Weiss (mewithoutYou), Brian Christinzio (BC Camplight), Charlie Hall (The Silver Ages), and Nick Kinsey (Elvis Perkins in Dreamland) with McMicken who all performed as The Man Suits. To download the resulting, mp3, head to Shaking Through. Shaking Through: The Man Suits from Weathervane Music on Vimeo. Recorded by Jonathan Low and Amy Morrissey at Miner Street Recordings. [link courtesy of Philebrity] :::scott:::