Freebies!

Six tapes from six excellent labels offered up for grabs no strings attached on a first come first serve basis. A way to say thank you to everyone who spent a moment of their time this year reading about what I've listened to. I've broken them into groups of two to help maintain my sanity a bit.

If you have interest drop me an email at guidemelittletape at gmail dot com and tell me which group you want. I'll try to update as quickly as I can which ones are gone. Feel free to list a few in order of preference if that's your jam. And for goodness sake, if you see/hear something awesome, use the links and go support these artists and labels.

Group #1 Gone to Devon from Sydney, Nova Scotia as of 8/17, Enjoy!
German Army Tassili Plateau - Field Hymns
Decimus Kemunculan - Sango Plasmo

Group #2 Gone to Matthew from Madison, WI as of 8/17, Enjoy!
Black Thread Contemplation/Incompleteness - Turmeric Magnitudes
Ø​+​yn & Uton Solid Geometry and the New Mental Order - Eiderdown Records

Group #3 Gone to Matt as of 8/17, Enjoy!
Hakobune / Sima Kim Split - Ginjoha
Cenote Glow Palmetto Rose - Worn Habit

Hakobune - A Distant Loss

The second (see above for the first), in this two part update on Dark Era Tapes, features A Distant Loss, from Hakobune. Massive, sweeping compositions. Absolute caverns of sound, blown out wide into the periphery of the soundscape. Patient, transportive melody, awash in a sea of distorted rumbling fuzz. Tracks that pay homage in my mind, not so much to the stars as much of ambient music does, but in some way to the earth. These feel organic, dug deep within the dirt, rooted in years of history. Soundtracking the beautify of that which exists around us unnoticed. Within these tracks are such sorrow, and such joy. I've heard quite a few from Hokobune, and for me, these are by far the strongest yet. Sounds like the clouds rolling in across endless miles of prairie.

Strem in full and purchase from the Dark Era Bandcamp.