I went to sleep last year around the holidays after a big drunk, woke up ten months later with dirty feet and dried blood under my fingernails, checked my shorts and lo and behold! there were three shiny new Milvia Son Records releases.The first release is a label sampler 7" with four tracks (about nine minutes music, altogether), each by a different artist, some of whom have appeared on the label already (Bad Drumlin Grass), some of whom have records that will be simultaneously released (Bob Frankford aka Old Yeller & The Pigbites), some of whom have records imminently forthcoming (Jaki Jakizawa) and some of whom have fortunes which are presently less readable than the eye of a chicken (Petomane). A little bit of music, a little bit excessive, and a little bit surreal.
250 copies for the world, $6 ppd in the US, $7 ppd Canada, $12 ppd everywhere else (or $5 with purchase of any LP). Paypal :: records [[[a.t]]] milviasonD0Tcom
And the third full-length Bad Drumlin Grass LP "Live at Timber Cove" is ready to roll out of the hangar:
Maybe more accurate to say "nearly" full-length as the first side has been engineered to play at maximum depth at 45 rpm by the unimpeachable Jon Golden. If you're familiar with the "Birth" track from the "Birth/Afterbirth" CDR, then you'll recognize the headspace plundered here, albeit sans drums and with a decidedly more, shall we say, purposeful intent ... On the cover you can see The Grass playing in the shadow of a "peace missile" carved by Benny Bufano (see, e.g., this write-up for more on the location).300 copies, $10 ppd in the US, $12 Canada, $20 everywhere else.
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The last record in the batch is Bob Frankford's debut LP, entitled "Songs for Nadine,"with Bob recording as "Old Yeller & The Pigbites."
According to Bob (who admitted that his memory of the early days was a bit ... hazy), all parts were recorded by him, laid down one track at a time using a Sony dual cassette deck that belonged to his roommate and is now about as close to the ancient core of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch as Ronnie Reagan's first White House diaper. This was described by Bob as an imagined homage to the Basement Tapes as played by Lou Reed, Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh, along with a few "experiments in feedback" to thicken the soup. When queried about the possibility of a Volume 2, our Magic 8 Ball said that "signs point to yes" ...300 copies, $10 ppd in the US, $12 Canada, $20 everywhere else.
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And now if you'll excuse me I need to revisit what I wrote last year before I fell off the edge of the world. I probably made some ridiculous promises about my next blog entry.
