mirror/dash CD for three lobed recordings
 

i wanted to put a quick post up here in case some of you weren't aware of a big, exciting new project that we have coming out in a couple of months' time. as you know, mirror/dash is a thurston & kim project. they put out a 7" on ecstatic peace 10+ years ago as well as a limited-to-100 12" about 2 years ago. mirror/dash is contributing to three lobed recordings the band's first "widely" available material to be a part of our upcoming "modern containment" cd series. the entire artist list in the series should be of interest to SY fans -

bardo pond
hush arbors
kinski
mirror/dash
sun city girls
sunburned hand of the man
matt valentine & erika elder with the bummer road
wooden wand and the omen bones band

there's more information on this series up at http://www.threelobed.com/tlr/containment.html - feel free to hop on over if you're interested. this entire series is going to be awesome (all of the contributions we've heard so far have been top notch) and the discs will likely become hard to track down once all of the subscription slots have been filled up. don't sleep on it!

thanks for looking!

Really looking forward to getting the first of these discs. Anymore juicy gossip to dish?

i'm not sure how "juicy" it is, but the first two discs will be shipping in june. they will be the sun city girls and hush arbors.

in other news on that front, all of the masters we have in hand totally rule and they're all rather lengthy (with the wooden wand disc being the only one under thirty minutes). also, there might be more to the subscription than meets the eye. i'm not willing to explain what that means, though.

magik markers fans should check out the smokin' awesome disc we put out a couple of weeks ago for pete nolan's spectre folk. it's great.

and we look forward to catching your terrastock set!

No, that's plenty juicy enough for me. I either didn't know or had forgotten that SSG and Hush Arbors were the first to come. I can't even begin to imagine what "more to the subscription than meets the eye" might entail but it's got me excited.

June can't come soon enough......

agreed. we have all of the parts off in the mail to the plant right now on the hush arbors disc and the artwork on the SCG is about a week-ish away from completion. all of the artwork and whatnot is in place and ready to roll on the second batch of discs already as well (as well as half of the third)...

as a bit of an update, the first 2 discs in this series are currently out and 85% of them have hit the mail to subscribers (with everything in the mail by the end of the day tomorrow). the next mailing will be coming up in about 5ish weeks.

the mirror/dash master is now in hand. it's a "tidy" little 37 minute track titled "i can't be bought."

to anyone still interested in subscribing and hopping in the series, we still have some open slots.

no problem - hope you dig the first discs! i think that everything we've been given is pretty awesome...

if we sign up now, will we receive the 1st two discs in the series?

Oh, good news.

I forgot about this and felt all warm inside just last week when I remembered these were coming soon.

yep - a subscription gets you the entire series regardless of when you actually subscribe. you'll get it all, fear not.

Well please tell us more, Nefeli !

Woof woof! Me too. Giving the Sun City Girls one a quick spin before dinner. It was recorded all the way back in 1994 which I think was probably their best period (judging by the stuff I've heard)

wow..
 

i was a bit bummed on the price for the series..but...
when i got mine in the mail...i gotta say....they're about 10x better than i expected.... great tunes..excellent packaging... if you have a couple of dollars to throw around...i highly recommend this.

track five on the hush arbors disc is amazing!

I think it'll end up being a really good deal for these discs once we have them all. They all seem like they are pushing the definition of EP to it's limits. 30 minutes is pretty much album length and it's quality that counts.

another mirror/dash release?

http://www.wolfeyes.net/aareleases.html

I didn't know mirror/dash was part of that box set thing. It's pretty pricey though as far as I remember....it's all lathe cut stuff I think.

i'm glad that everyone's been digging the discs so far. the SCG is a nice archival blast. the hush arbors blows me away every time. most of the discs in the series are over 30 minutes long so go ahead and get used to that trend. if anyone has any other series questions or anything, feel free to fire away with them. again, i'm glad everyone's enjoying - that's the most important part. the next mailing is coming up around the last week of july. the culprits - mv/ee and the bummer road, sunburned hand of the man as well as wooden wand and the omen bones band.

hope to get these soon. just ordered them today. if you think about it, it's not a bad deal. less than $10 a disc. i'm sure most of us spend more than that on music per month...

Ooooh....so 3 discs for the end of July then?

i know. xmas in july!:D how do you like 'em so far?

correct - sunburned, mv/ee + ww all around the end of July...

i think the one cover on the far right on the top has an image inspired by Dante's Inferno. Its depicting lucifer chewing on the head of either Brutus or Cassius who betrayed Julius Caesar, in the final ring of hell. Just read it for english, i might be wrong though...

you mean this one?



that's saturn eating one of his children...painted by francisco goya.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_%28mythology%29


on topic, i'm eagerly awaiting my threelobed package... no luck in the mail yet.

really? cool thanks

Goya is the man....one of the best.

The first two eps were waiting for me when I got in from work yesterday. I've only ever read about Sun City Girls before, and their recording is just as weird as I thought it would be. I've not had a chance to listen to the Hush Arbours one properly yet, but I've liked what I've heard so far.

if you're international, you might need to give it another day or so. i mailed the last of the international packages on friday, 6/16 (and i have no idea whose packages i mailed when). it should be there any old time...

the second batch of discs is going to be hitting the mail within about 3 weeks. if your address has changed since the first batch hit the mail, please make sure we have your new address so there won't be any delay in getting your discs to you. thanks!

Blimey, this has come around quickly. I've barely got my head around the first 2. Especially the Sun City Girls one....I gave it a few quick spins but it's the sort of thing I need to be in the mood for and play it through interrupted.

Really looking forward to the mv/ee and sunburned ones. I was beginning to think that mv/ee were becoming a touch samey perhaps but I got that qbico pic disc they did and it is really fantastic. One of the best things they've done I think...

yeah, we're aiming to have all of these mailings out on about 6ish week intervals. the middle of september and early november are our aims to finish it all off. we should be able to stick right to it (or closely thereabouts)


wait until you hear this mv/ee installment, then. it's pretty massive. it's along the lines of the last track from "mother of thousands".

all of the subscriber mailings on this second batch of discs hit the mail either july 24 or july 25. start keeping an eye on your mailbox. if you still haven't subscribed, there is room remaining.

So if I subscribed now, would I still get the past releases?

yes, you would - you will receive all of the series discs regardless of whatever time you subscribe. if you were to subscribe today you would get a package with the discs that have already been released and get the additional ones as they are sent out. let me know if you have any additional questions!

nice work, threelobed. the hush arbors is my early fave for best release of '06.
and this subscription series looks as consistent (and consistently ballsy) from top-to-bottom as anything since siltbreeze and corpus hermeticum were giving us what we oh-so-desperately, still-quite-desperately need. may it always be.

http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/37417

Hush Arbors
Landscape of Bone
[Three Lobed Recording; 2006]
Rating: 7.4
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Hush Arbors is the work of the enigmatic, Virginia-born Keith Wood, a man whose restless travels have led to loose associations with such premier underground outfits as Sunburned Hand of the Man, Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, and Six Organs of Admittance. On recent recordings each of those form-shifting acts can be heard nudging away from more definable acid-folk territories, so it seems only reasonable that artists like Wood should be standing ready to move in and tend the mystic fires in their absence. Following a pair of releases on Digitalis as well as the usual crop of handmade CD-Rs, the five-song Landscape of Bone now appears as part of Three Lobed's intriguing new Modern Containment series, and it again provides instant transport to Hush Arbor's singular lost domain.
The most prominent distinguishing feature of Hush Arbors' music is Wood's gentle, slightly dazed falsetto. His fragile vocal delivery-- which here seems generated somewhere northward from Neil Young or Pearls Before Swine's Tom Rapp-- can lend even his most straightforward material a strange, asymmetric wobble. This vague discombobulation is further heightened by Hush Arbors' gauzy, outstretched fields of phased guitars, hand percussion, and unmoored drones-- all recorded with a lo-fi naturalism that recalls the open-aired environments of Jewelled Antler Collective acts like Skygreen Leopards or Blithe Sons.
True to the album's title, each song on Landscape of Bone works the word "bone" somewhere into its lyrics-- "Broken Bones", "Oar of Bone"-- as Wood dreamily sifts through the tangled knots of memory and regret. Despite this mini-album's brevity, he makes use of his limited space to consider a full spectrum of emotional terrain. His blurred enunciation sometimes makes his words indecipherable, but the opening "Bones of a Thousand Suns" has a distinct elegiac quality, its mournful liturgy framed by deep-earth hums and soft coils of fuzz guitar. Adorned with subtle slide guitar work, "Broken Bones" could almost pass for a particularly fried Townes Van Zandt creation, filled as it is with empty whiskey bottles and lost-love despondence ("I've died and I've died and I've died some more.") Soon, however, the album's mood reverses on the spirited "Bones By the Sea" which matches Wood's ecstatic garble to a melodic, tradition-steeped Appalachian folk cadence.
Wooden Wand himself (aka James Toth) makes a cameo appearance on the dazzling "Nine Bones", a grainy 10-minute recessional that closes this short collection with a heady blast of free-rock drumming and barely-harnessed electricity. Like his friend and sometime collaborator Ben Chasny-- who last year also contributed liner notes to Hush Arbors' self-titled album-- Keith Wood here shows the ability to take the barest ingredients of folk and psych-rock traditions and transmute them into his own unique form of sorcery. Three Lobed have already announced that future installments of their Modern Containment series will feature EPs from the likes of Bardo Pond, MV & EE, Mirror/Dash and Sun City Girls, so hopefully this engaging Landscape of Bone might also serve as a harbinger of further treats to come.
-Matthew Murphy, July 26, 2006

cool - thanks for passing along the review! keep an eye out for those new discs, folks!

Of the three that arrived this week, Wooden Wand is my favourite. SBHOTM I like too, but MV&EE will need time to grow on me.

just got the mv&ee bummer road disc, direct from erika's hands last nite haven't listened to it yet... matt and erika and mo jiggs (aka the man who runs the free jazz label Eremite) are such lovely people...