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Califone

The Villager's Companion

    Like a passenger riding shotgun on a road trip, The Villagers Companion offers its own unique perspective and story to tell. Featuring tracks recorded alongside last year’s acclaimed villagers, TVC captures the miles between the start and destination—the faded gas station pit stops, the plastic saint statue stuck to the dashboard for safe travels or luck. It embodies the essence of the journey without the burden of driving—the experience of the ride itself. The album takes us through the heart of Califone’s magic: reverb-drenched piano chords, electronic whirs, and layers of experimental noise. Guided by Tim Rutili’s abstract, fragmented lyrics—both strange and familiar—delivered through his warm, well-worn vocals, it creates an experience as evocative as it is haunting. Often passing through what seem to be the spaces between radio frequencies, the stations never meant to be heard. Crackles of static, feedback loops, and fleeting signals bloom into meditative moments, with each sound given space to breathe, unravel, and shimmer in slow decay.

    The result resonates deeply, transforming what might be noise into something profound, hypnotic, and totally immersive. As with villagers, Rutili and company continue to explore what it means to get lost while surrounded by modern technology. Like a ghost in a machine or a whispered prayer stuck in a telephone line, Califone adds soul—be it damned or saved. And they do so with the kind of transformative magic granted perhaps only to artists a quarter of a century into their craft. The kind that turns a photograph into a tableau, or any darkened space with a microphone into a makeshift confessional. A song into a hymn, and a hymn into a soundtrack to a life.

    TRACK LISTING

    Every Amnesia Movie
    Burn The Sheets.bleach The Books
    A Blood Red Corduroy 3 Piece Suit
    Jaco Pastorius
    Gas Station Roller Doggs
    Antenna Mtn Death Blanket
    The Bullet B4 The Sound
    Family Swan
    Crazy As A Loon

    Jose Medeles Feat. M Ward, Marisa Anderson & Chris Funk

    Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems

      Led by drummer Jose Medeles (Breeders, 1939 Ensemble, Revival Drum Shop), Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems is a drummer's tribute to guitarist and DIY iconoclast John Fahey.

      Joined for a series of guitar and drum duets with M. Ward, experimental guitarist Marisa Anderson, and Chris Funk (Decemberists, Stephen Malkmus), it's a genuinely honorifc project, featuring not Fahey compositions, but rather a series of improvised rendezvous inspired and informed by his looseness and rhythmic idiosyncrasies. Recording in the comfortable setting of Bocce Recording in Vancouver, WA, in 2020, these duets are playful and spiritually deep, presented with snapshot clarity Medeles likens to the recordings of Alan Lomax or Chris Strachwitz, 'who boldly captured feld recording of Southern chain gangs and juke joint raconteurs decades ago. The result here is similar: pure and honest recordings.'

      TRACK LISTING

      Please Send To J.F. With Marisa Anderson
      Richness Of Peace With M. Ward
      Golden With Chris Funk
      The Paper Snake With Marisa Anderson
      Something Else With M. Ward
      Before & After With Marisa Anderson
      Juxtaposition With Chris Funk
      Mid The Ice & Snow With Marisa Anderson
      Illumination With Chris Funk
      Takoma With Marisa Anderson
      Voice Of The Turtle With Chris Funk

      M. Ward

      Duet For Guitars

        Originally released on CD in 1999, M. Ward’s debut is a sparse, mostly live affair recorded with pal and engineer Adam Selzer of Norfolk & Western at Type Foundry Studio in Portland, OR.

        Listeners who are already accustomed to Ward’s breathy, conversational vocal delivery and soft-picked, West Coast Americana melodies will find much to love here. Duet for Guitars #2 is peppered with instrumentals in the John Fahey and Bad Timing-era Jim O’Rourke vein, and Ward’s lackadaisical picking sounds just as lazily precise here as it does on future recordings.

        There’s a real warmth to the sessions that transcends the often bare-bones production. For the most part, it sound like most takes were done live with two microphones, with the occasional overdub, and that style suits Ward’s dreamy tales of molasses-slow teenage summers (\Beautiful Car\”) and oddball parables like “”Fishing Boat Song.”” It’s also interesting to hear him shedding the inflections of some of his more obvious heroes like Neil Young (“”Who May Be Lazy””) and Bob Dylan (“”It Won’t Happen Twice””). This limited edition is an indie record store exclusive and pressed on clear vinyl!”

        TRACK LISTING

        Duet For Guitars #2
        Beautiful Car
        Fishing Boat Song
        Scene From #12
        Good News
        The Crooked Spine
        Look Me Over
        Who May Be Lazy
        It Won’t Happen Twice
        He Asked Me To Be A Snake And Live Underground
        Song From Debby’s Strairs 
        It Was A Beautiful Car
        Were You There?
        Not A Gang
        Duet For Guitars #1


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