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on "please don't count the clouds," we find this italian duo creeping up the vines and into the droning heavens. this extremely limited collection features one solo disc from each, plus a brand new duo piece, all gorgeously packaged in hand-numbered bronze envelopes. as the sunlight is blocked out, the sounds of the spheres reverberate and send out mystic signals to the center of the universe. these are the remnants of the tones of the earth. simple and beautiful and limited to 50 handnumbered copies.
all hail this new supergroup of finnish mystics. the magick travelling backpack band is no longer showering, but is bathing with rocks and grime all over western europe. they've been booted out of that magic forest that burned down years ago, anyway. so who are these moaning, droning superstars? the backpack band on this go around is keijo, uton, j. koho & tiitus (of vapaa, the free players, kulkija, etc), & christelle gualdi. and it's gualdi who keeps things in check. while the finns do their best to muck everything up, spilling buckets of psychedelic mud skronk and painting the windows and walls as black as coal, gualdi's crystalline voice calms everything down. sizzle. 100 copies
this is the second release from spaniard toni ruiz for the foxglove imprint and continues the theme on his self-titled debut. acoustic guitar mazes that lose their victims in a mass of organic greenery. hell, i'm not even sure what that means, but listening to ruiz's meandering compositions that flirt with the line between out-and-out improvisation and something more structured, more resolute. sure, there are vague hints of fahey, but even more apparent is pastoral americana, something from a time since past. ruiz's music is simple and beautiful. and hey, there's gold in them there hills. damnit. 100 copies
don't listen to me, here's what patrick best of pelt has to say about the new DOPO album:
- home sick, downing some angel tea, barely making sense of the paper Prof. Grunenwald circulated awhile back postulating the probabilities for a fifth wave of Iberian psych or the LFD-Lysergic Fado Drone. Ludicrous a read as is much of "Toward a Fado Lysergic," it seems Grunenwald did foresee at least something of the sheer splurg of the new DOPO recordings... read more
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what do you get when three danes (2 girls and 1 guy) take a trip to sweden with a tape recording, a guitar, and a few other instruments? you get tender buttons. this trio features three members of the exquisite pink luminous invocation, and this one-off project is quite special.tender buttons is named after gertrude stein's impressive book of the same name, and if that wasn't enough, the lyrics are all adapted from her writing. it's a deadly combination and though this release is short, the brevity makes you want to play it over and over again. simple folk melodies complemented with mouth organ, percussion, and other random instruments, and highlighted by (mostly) female vocals. lovely indeed. 100 copies
someone should start a clan of the instrument builders. and if such a thing existed, talugung (aka ontario resident, ryan waldron) would be one of the leaders of the movement. even though no such organization exists (damnit), there's still this debut album of waldron's fractured exploits. "flooded fields" isn't played on all instruments he's built, though. he accents this with all sorts of random, ethnic instruments - circular xylophones from god knows where, for example - creating a wonderful cacaphony of sound. the proceedings here are choppy and melodic, but underpinned with an organic sense. at times, it sounds like something you might find on a sublime frequencies release, and is also reminiscent of the work of henry kuntz. 100 copies
stone baby hail from upstate new york and have seen their broken wares peddled by such fine junk salespeoples as carbon records, house of alchemy, and phantom limb. well this duo has brought their fractured droning blues to foxglove and the results couldn't be better. what's most impressive about stone baby is that even though there's only two people creating all these sounds, these songs are fucken dense. we're talking black holes and white dwarves and shit here. or is red dwarves? pulsars? you'd never know i got an A in astronomy. but stone baby keep throwing new things at you with every listen. it's a wild ride up to rochester, but i hear the food is amazing. 100 copies
and so it ends where it began (well, almost). "mud dragons" is a vast departure from those backporch folk tunes of yore. rivers of sludge and silver clouds of analog electronics are the modus here. it's deconstructionism at work, and still, i am the north sea. the end. 99 copies
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this is the eleventh installment of an ongoing series of cd-r releases, split between four artists, each contributing longform tracks. volume 11 features exclusive charts from aineettomaksi temperamentin, jeff gburek, kheta hotem, & fathmount. 150 copies
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this is the twelfth installment of an ongoing series of cd-r releases, split between four artists, each contributing longform tracks. volume 12 features exclusive bastard sons from tim coster, thousands, anthony guerra & matthew nidek, & seaworthy. 150 copies
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this is the thirteenth installment of an ongoing series of cd-r releases, split between four artists, each contributing longform tracks. volume 13 features exclusive manhole covers from ghost brames, stone baby, przewalski's horses, & elektronavn. 150 copies
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this is the fourteenth installment of an ongoing series of cd-r releases, split between four artists, each contributing longform tracks. volume 14 features exclusive blood from sky city (tom carter, robert horton, & the cameron sisters), phosphene, xochipilli, & natural snow buildings.150 copies
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PLEASE NOTE: foxglove is no longer accepting demos. foxglove will be taking a dirtnap starting in july or august of this year (everything will still be available, we're just ending this current form of the foxglove series) before being recast in some fancy new silverleaf digs in the fall. we'll still be releasing CDRs when we return, we'll just be slowing down and doing things a whole lot different. it's been a good run, but it's time to do something new.
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