Goldrush Music Festival 'Zine + Tape (Freebie!)

Heads up, let's do another give away. This time, an incredible combo featuring the latest output from the Planted Tapes/Tome To The Weather Machine crew, in the form of the Goldrush Music Festival companion cassette and companion 'zine. It's a killer package, the tape an overflowing c84 with 18 tracks, (particular standout being from Derek Rogers) the 'zine a sewn spine beauty featuring Field Hymns graphic design arm, Tiny Little Hammers. I just continue to be stunned by the quality output the tape scene can produce, all with nothing more than vision and passion. Just wish I could have been there!

If you have interest, email me at guidemelittletape at gmail dot com and this combo is yours, no catch. First come first serve. Gone to Robert from DE as of 10/10. Enjoy! Or, grab this stuff for yourself over at Planted Tapes.

Former Selves / The Original Flowering Earth - Split

Bittersweet blissful split release from Former Selves and The Original Flower Earth compliments of Planted Tapes. Serene dreamscapes all around on this one. Glassy ambient shimmer from Paul Skomsvold's Former Selves project on the front half. Three tracks that freely blend melodic layers and timbres with effortless grace. It's an experience, as all Skomsvold's tracks are, that I always find difficult to describe, but once heard, immediately feel, and understand. And always somehow I feel a bit of sorrow and I'm never sure why. On the flip, The Original Flowering Earth twist and drag us through soft, melodic, and sometimes noisy swirls of nostalgic samples, hazy guitar, and lush ambience. An almost soundtrack like quality. Distant, mysterious, soothing, like a favorite childhood storybook. Sounds like sepia tones, dusty cobweb strewn attics, old picture books and memories. Wonderfully cohesive split. Killer.

Double sided jcard, edition of 70 on emerald green with hand transfered vinyl labels. Grab direct from Planted Tapes.

Lake Mary - S/T

In the span of just two releases, Planted Tapes seems to be carving quite an exceptional niche, intended or not, in the realm experimental guitar composition. I can't quite pin it down to a single style, so i'll just say, it feels... organic. The latest, a self titled c-40 from solo act Lake Mary, is a relaxed, free breathing thing of beauty. The front side is an easy haze of vocal and rusted drone that arrives patiently, perhaps in soft waves. Like walking under rays of sunshine broken by forest canopy, alternating cool and warm. The flip highlights crisp traditional folk guitar recorded in a live setting. Strong, confident playing. Notes played with such finesse, they narrate the album as well as any vocal could. If the intent was the replicate the beauty of the moniker, it has been well achieved.

Home dubbed in the Planted Tapes lab (I like to assume they have a lab) in an edition of just seventy. The PT debut sold out, don't expect this to do anything different. Grab here.

These Wonderful Evils / Last Eyes - Split

Solo guitar juxtapositions on this split between These Wonderful Evils and Last Eyes from new Denver, Co based Planted Tapes.

These Wonderful Evils takes us on a stripped down journey through psyched out vibes, and folked up back porch strumming. Clean, honest, open tones, immerse, and hypnotize over the duration of three tracks. Recorded (perhaps purposely) a bit thin, things sound live recorded and under processed. Like stumbling on an unlabeled demo tape that you’ll be trying to indentify for the rest of your life. Last Eyes takes things in a more sinister, claustrophobic direction. Heavy, ripped apart buzzing guitar tones. Bits of dirt, noise, vocals on heavy delay and reverb. Lonely decayed love songs ground into an ugly, howling, and yet somehow magnificent tribute to their former beauty. I can’t get enough of tortured sounds like these where sweet and nasty meet somewhere on the border between the two.

Edition of just 50. I'm thinking these will go fast. Support via purchase directly from Planted Tapes.