digital version of red records #1. a lucky few got to hear this little gem as the tiny self released cdr edition, but here’s the real deal. an absolutely lovely album and surely joshua’s finest dose yet. oozing with a perfectly warm lo-fi bedroom glow, and full of joshua’s most direct & achingly melancholy song forms. totally hitting a whole new level of intimate vibrations, full of fragile hushed vocals, gentle acoustic guitar plucking, somber dirges, and electronic bagpipe mantras. beautifully formed lyrics step u pto the forefront as a rare treat, and the effect is just as stunning as it is simple. we just can’t get enough of this one. the kind of record you’ll want to spin again & again to soothe a busy mind… truly psychedelic folk music for late night soul searching. same music & art as the vinyl version, but packed in a mini lp style heavy gatefold cover with full color art, japanese woven inner sleeve, etc. edition of 1000 copies.
red records #1… a lucky few got to hear this little gem as the tiny self released cdr edition, but here’s the real deal. an absolutely lovely album and surely joshua’s finest dose yet. oozing with a perfectly warm lo-fi bedroom glow, and full of joshua’s most direct & achingly melancholy song forms. totally hitting a whole new level of intimate vibrations, full of fragile hushed vocals, gentle acoustic guitar plucking, somber dirges, and electronic bagpipe mantras. beautifully formed lyrics step up the forefront as a rare treat, and the effect is just as stunning as it is simple. we just can’t get enough of this one. the kind of record you’ll want to spin again & again to soothe a busy mind… truly psychedelic folk music for late night soul searching… lusciously hand packaged in a custom creamy art paper heavy 60s style gatefold cover with full size, full color paste-on front artwork, screen printed back cover & interior, printed labels, hand stamped spine, and pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl. hand numbered limited edition of 300 copies.
red records release #8. deluxe vinyl version of the long gone time-lag cdr from about 4 years back… this group lasted just long enough to leak out a small but highly rewarding series of under-the-radar cassettes & cdrs over a year or two, with this album standing as a clear peak both in terms of scope & execution. as great as the recent offerings from various members have been (aswara, rafi bookstaber, muntjac, moonpie, etc.), there’s a certain youthful charm here that’s hard to miss… a slow & spacious album full of alternating melancholy/ecstatic vibes with raga-esque acoustic guitars, chiming electric guitars, slippery liquid flute, harmonium, sparse percussion, blissed female/male vocal bits, low level bass drone, kosmic synth tickles and damaged tape warble, plus one beauty of a ‘song’… flickering neon smoke rings of sound dissolving into the atmosphere… totally stoned-out, bedroom cult, eyes to the ceiling, half naive, home-fi psychedelia… pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl & packaged in a deluxe heavy 60s style black art paper gatefold cover with white ink screen printed interior and full color paste-on art front and back, plus stamped & hand numbered spine & printed labels. limited edition of 288 copies… ***DUE TO A PRESSING FLAW THIS RELEASE IS DELAYED UNTIL FURTHER
NOTICE. sorry.***
the counterpart to “wings from a storm”. acid-dripping lo-fi euphoric melancholy west coast folk beauty from michael curtis hilde. this dude is seriously prolific, with a fine string of cdr only release under the moontainhood and almaden names, but this pair is a real apex of his still unfolding musical vision. “thunderpaint the stone horse electric” is a totally intimate & spontaneously vibed little gem. deeply felt, introverted, hallucinatory, and starry-eyed song stories delivered via fuzzy bedroom fourtrack gush. fevered vocals quiver, warble, double, and swoon around gentle or ragged acoustic guitar, foot-stomping tambourine thud & jingle, harmonium, breezy flute, warm tape hiss, and singing crystal cave atmospherics… we know the animals are dancing… pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl, with printed, hand stamped, and hand numbered labels. packaged in a foldout cream art paper cover with full sized high quality paste-on art front & back, screen printed interior, hand stamping, as well as individually hand drawn rainbows, plus a big art sticker insert & a 2nd xerox track list insert. limited edition of 222 copies.
the counterpart to “thunderpaint the stone horse electric” is equally lovely, lo-fi, and lysergic, but here the somewhat euphoric zone has become ultra lovesick moody. dominated by just piano & vocals, with bits of guitar, tapes, chiming tones and dusty wooden night sounds stirring. definitely glassy-eyed voyeurism… pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl, with printed, hand stamped, and hand numbered labels. packaged in a foldout whale grey art paper cover with full sized full color high quality paste-on art front & back, screen printed interior, and hand stamping, plus two big art sticker inserts & a 3rd xerox track list insert. limited edition of 222 copies.
digital version of red records #3. well, its been a damn long time since we released their debut album, “shishimumu”, back when they were called THE PONYS, but we sure are happy there’s finally a proper follow-up, even if it took six years to happen. if anything, the long wait says something to the greatness & humility of the band; never bending to commercial concerns, ego, hype, or changing trends & changing times. in fact, “take to the trees” picks up just about right where “shishimumu” left off all those years back, another little nugget of timeless psychedelic pop perfection. of course, there is a new level of maturity and depth to the songwriting here, but there’s still plenty of slightly naive & youthful charm… and to be certain, the world these guys create is just as surreal now as its always been… musically, things come together just right, with thick, swirling, chiming triple electric guitar textures, spot-on drumming, liquid but powerful bass, gurgling moog, acoustic strumming, accordion, and sweet soaring fuzz-tones. vocals hover as high & sweet as ever, harmonizing, doubling, and layering heavenly. the mood of the album floats through drifting fragile melancholy, quirky pop, crunchy psychedelic rockers and anthemic rave-ups, often all within the same track. beautifully recorded, but never over polished… just the way a great pop record should be. so forget all pretense, folks, maybe not freak folk enough for kill rock stars ain’t such a bad thing at all. same music and art as the lp, but packaged in a mini lp style gatefold cover, with folded insert & woven japanese inner sleeve. edition of 1000.
red records #3… well, its been a damn long time since we released their debut album, “shishimumu”, back when they were called THE PONYS, but we sure are happy there’s finally a proper follow-up, even if it took six years to happen. if anything, the long wait says something to the greatness & humility of the band; never bending to commercial concerns, ego, hype, or changing trends & changing times. in fact, “take to the trees” picks up just about right where “shishimumu” left off all those years back, another little nugget of timeless psychedelic pop perfection. of course, there is a new level of maturity and depth to the songwriting here, but there’s still plenty of slightly naive & youthful charm… and to be certain, the world these guys create is just as surreal now as its always been… musically, things come together just right, with thick, swirling, chiming triple electric guitar textures, spot-on drumming, liquid but powerful bass, gurgling moog, acoustic strumming, accordion, and sweet soaring fuzz-tones. vocals hover as high & sweet as ever, harmonizing, doubling, and layering heavenly. the mood of the album floats through drifting fragile melancholy, quirky pop, crunchy psychedelic rockers and anthemic rave-ups, often all within the same track. beautifully recorded, but never over polished… just the way a great pop record should be. so forget all pretense, folks, maybe not freak folk enough for kill rock stars ain’t such a bad thing at all… packaged in a lovely heavy weight 60s style gatefold cover with elaborate full color art by the band, plus an insert. pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl. hand numbered limited edition of 300 copies… first 150 copies come with a special BONUS CDR SINGLE featuring two outtakes deemed by the band “too downer” for the album. packaged in a color offset printed tri-fold cover with hand stamped disc art.
another in our RED RECORDS series. this one is especially close to my heart. a deluxe vinyl version of the band’s mega-limited private press cdr debut from about 5 years back… recorded & self released at the very inception of the band, this was an out-of-nowhere 77 minute mind-blower. elements of their more distilled untitled time-lag lp are present in new-born form, but overall this is a far wider ranging & raw trip… a home recorded mix of roughhewed songs & spontaneous improvisation melding together primitive bedroom acidfolk, fuzzy sci-fi psych-outs, bent occult trance ritual, fake xian folk, loose cosmic jamming, spooked drones, pagan mysteries, and some stuff thats just pretty much beyond words… the whole trip is totally psychedelic, deeply textured, dripping vibes, wide-eyed, and more than anything else wickedly fun. one of those rare documents of a young band unselfconsciously doing their thing, and ‘their thing’ pretty much rules… absolutely zero info as always, but this time you get a few rather amusing band photos for extra charm. pressed on two slabs of 180gm bright red vinyl & packaged in an ultra-minimal heavy art paper gatefold cover with raised plastic ink screen printed cover text, paste-on interior polaroid photo sticker, stamped & hand numbered spine. printed & hand stamped labels. plus each copy is enclosed in a two-tone stitched synthetic felt (made from 100% recycled plastic bottles) envelope pouch in various color combinations, hand assembled one at a time by my mom (thanx mom!) limited & numbered edition of 266 copies.
digital version of red records #2. newest incarnation of nyc’s wondrous woods, as the trio of jeremy earl, jarvis taveniere, and g lucas crane. for sure the finest yet from these folks… lysergic & infectiously bent acidfolk mashed into faust IV style electronically dosed pop grooving, all awash in odd studio effects, motorik percussion, cracked fuzz, unique vocal gush, twisted lyrics, and burning psych jams… plus enough sweet hooks to get yr next freakout party moving right. hell yes, its a wicked one… same music as vinyl version, but packed in a mini lp style heavy gatefold cover with somwhat different full color art, japanese woven inner sleeve, etc. edition of 1000 copies.
red records #2… newest incarnation of nyc’s wondrous woods, as the trio of jeremy earl, jarvis taveniere, and g lucas crane. for sure the finest yet from these folks… lysergic & infectiously bent acidfolk mashed into faust IV style electronically dosed pop grooving, all awash in odd studio effects, motorik percussion, cracked fuzz, unique vocal gush, twisted lyrics, and burning psych jams… plus enough sweet hooks to get yr next freakout party moving right. hell yes, its a wicked one… lusciously hand packaged in a custom black art paper heavy 60s style gatefold cover with full size, full color paste-on front photo artwork, black on black screen printed back cover & interior, printed labels, hand stamped spine, and pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl. hand numbered limited edition of 300 copies.
deluxe double vinyl reissue of the first two long gone & very limited private press cdrs from john kevin francis joseph under the wovoka guise. part one hits a wonderful hazy sunbaked acoustic back porch acid folk raga zone. primitive, stripped down, smoked out, laid back, but fully intense. part two takes the acoustic guitar / dulcimer / vocal / echo acid raga themes of part one and launches them ever skyward with the addition of fuzzy serpentine electric guitar runs, zoned hand percussion, creaking cello, and subtle electrified bass. devotional heart songs, thick smoke spirals, and sweaty wide eyelids all the way folks… pressed on double 180gm bright red vinyl, with printed & hand stamped labels. packaged in a heavy 60s style custom cream art paper gatefold cover, with full color photo two layer paste-on front, screen printed interior, hand stamped back, and hand stamped & numbered spine. limited edition of 233 copies.
RED RECORDS releases
digital version of red records #1. a lucky few got to hear this little gem as the tiny self released cdr edition, but here’s the real deal. an absolutely lovely album and surely joshua’s finest dose yet. oozing with a perfectly warm lo-fi bedroom glow, and full of joshua’s most direct & achingly melancholy song forms. totally hitting a whole new level of intimate vibrations, full of fragile hushed vocals, gentle acoustic guitar plucking, somber dirges, and electronic bagpipe mantras. beautifully formed lyrics step u pto the forefront as a rare treat, and the effect is just as stunning as it is simple. we just can’t get enough of this one. the kind of record you’ll want to spin again & again to soothe a busy mind… truly psychedelic folk music for late night soul searching. same music & art as the vinyl version, but packed in a mini lp style heavy gatefold cover with full color art, japanese woven inner sleeve, etc. edition of 1000 copies.
red records #1… a lucky few got to hear this little gem as the tiny self released cdr edition, but here’s the real deal. an absolutely lovely album and surely joshua’s finest dose yet. oozing with a perfectly warm lo-fi bedroom glow, and full of joshua’s most direct & achingly melancholy song forms. totally hitting a whole new level of intimate vibrations, full of fragile hushed vocals, gentle acoustic guitar plucking, somber dirges, and electronic bagpipe mantras. beautifully formed lyrics step up the forefront as a rare treat, and the effect is just as stunning as it is simple. we just can’t get enough of this one. the kind of record you’ll want to spin again & again to soothe a busy mind… truly psychedelic folk music for late night soul searching… lusciously hand packaged in a custom creamy art paper heavy 60s style gatefold cover with full size, full color paste-on front artwork, screen printed back cover & interior, printed labels, hand stamped spine, and pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl. hand numbered limited edition of 300 copies.
red records release #8. deluxe vinyl version of the long gone time-lag cdr from about 4 years back… this group lasted just long enough to leak out a small but highly rewarding series of under-the-radar cassettes & cdrs over a year or two, with this album standing as a clear peak both in terms of scope & execution. as great as the recent offerings from various members have been (aswara, rafi bookstaber, muntjac, moonpie, etc.), there’s a certain youthful charm here that’s hard to miss… a slow & spacious album full of alternating melancholy/ecstatic vibes with raga-esque acoustic guitars, chiming electric guitars, slippery liquid flute, harmonium, sparse percussion, blissed female/male vocal bits, low level bass drone, kosmic synth tickles and damaged tape warble, plus one beauty of a ‘song’… flickering neon smoke rings of sound dissolving into the atmosphere… totally stoned-out, bedroom cult, eyes to the ceiling, half naive, home-fi psychedelia… pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl & packaged in a deluxe heavy 60s style black art paper gatefold cover with white ink screen printed interior and full color paste-on art front and back, plus stamped & hand numbered spine & printed labels. limited edition of 288 copies… ***DUE TO A PRESSING FLAW THIS RELEASE IS DELAYED UNTIL FURTHER
NOTICE. sorry.***
the counterpart to “wings from a storm”. acid-dripping lo-fi euphoric melancholy west coast folk beauty from michael curtis hilde. this dude is seriously prolific, with a fine string of cdr only release under the moontainhood and almaden names, but this pair is a real apex of his still unfolding musical vision. “thunderpaint the stone horse electric” is a totally intimate & spontaneously vibed little gem. deeply felt, introverted, hallucinatory, and starry-eyed song stories delivered via fuzzy bedroom fourtrack gush. fevered vocals quiver, warble, double, and swoon around gentle or ragged acoustic guitar, foot-stomping tambourine thud & jingle, harmonium, breezy flute, warm tape hiss, and singing crystal cave atmospherics… we know the animals are dancing… pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl, with printed, hand stamped, and hand numbered labels. packaged in a foldout cream art paper cover with full sized high quality paste-on art front & back, screen printed interior, hand stamping, as well as individually hand drawn rainbows, plus a big art sticker insert & a 2nd xerox track list insert. limited edition of 222 copies.
the counterpart to “thunderpaint the stone horse electric” is equally lovely, lo-fi, and lysergic, but here the somewhat euphoric zone has become ultra lovesick moody. dominated by just piano & vocals, with bits of guitar, tapes, chiming tones and dusty wooden night sounds stirring. definitely glassy-eyed voyeurism… pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl, with printed, hand stamped, and hand numbered labels. packaged in a foldout whale grey art paper cover with full sized full color high quality paste-on art front & back, screen printed interior, and hand stamping, plus two big art sticker inserts & a 3rd xerox track list insert. limited edition of 222 copies.
digital version of red records #3. well, its been a damn long time since we released their debut album, “shishimumu”, back when they were called THE PONYS, but we sure are happy there’s finally a proper follow-up, even if it took six years to happen. if anything, the long wait says something to the greatness & humility of the band; never bending to commercial concerns, ego, hype, or changing trends & changing times. in fact, “take to the trees” picks up just about right where “shishimumu” left off all those years back, another little nugget of timeless psychedelic pop perfection. of course, there is a new level of maturity and depth to the songwriting here, but there’s still plenty of slightly naive & youthful charm… and to be certain, the world these guys create is just as surreal now as its always been… musically, things come together just right, with thick, swirling, chiming triple electric guitar textures, spot-on drumming, liquid but powerful bass, gurgling moog, acoustic strumming, accordion, and sweet soaring fuzz-tones. vocals hover as high & sweet as ever, harmonizing, doubling, and layering heavenly. the mood of the album floats through drifting fragile melancholy, quirky pop, crunchy psychedelic rockers and anthemic rave-ups, often all within the same track. beautifully recorded, but never over polished… just the way a great pop record should be. so forget all pretense, folks, maybe not freak folk enough for kill rock stars ain’t such a bad thing at all. same music and art as the lp, but packaged in a mini lp style gatefold cover, with folded insert & woven japanese inner sleeve. edition of 1000.
red records #3… well, its been a damn long time since we released their debut album, “shishimumu”, back when they were called THE PONYS, but we sure are happy there’s finally a proper follow-up, even if it took six years to happen. if anything, the long wait says something to the greatness & humility of the band; never bending to commercial concerns, ego, hype, or changing trends & changing times. in fact, “take to the trees” picks up just about right where “shishimumu” left off all those years back, another little nugget of timeless psychedelic pop perfection. of course, there is a new level of maturity and depth to the songwriting here, but there’s still plenty of slightly naive & youthful charm… and to be certain, the world these guys create is just as surreal now as its always been… musically, things come together just right, with thick, swirling, chiming triple electric guitar textures, spot-on drumming, liquid but powerful bass, gurgling moog, acoustic strumming, accordion, and sweet soaring fuzz-tones. vocals hover as high & sweet as ever, harmonizing, doubling, and layering heavenly. the mood of the album floats through drifting fragile melancholy, quirky pop, crunchy psychedelic rockers and anthemic rave-ups, often all within the same track. beautifully recorded, but never over polished… just the way a great pop record should be. so forget all pretense, folks, maybe not freak folk enough for kill rock stars ain’t such a bad thing at all… packaged in a lovely heavy weight 60s style gatefold cover with elaborate full color art by the band, plus an insert. pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl. hand numbered limited edition of 300 copies… first 150 copies come with a special BONUS CDR SINGLE featuring two outtakes deemed by the band “too downer” for the album. packaged in a color offset printed tri-fold cover with hand stamped disc art.
another in our RED RECORDS series. this one is especially close to my heart. a deluxe vinyl version of the band’s mega-limited private press cdr debut from about 5 years back… recorded & self released at the very inception of the band, this was an out-of-nowhere 77 minute mind-blower. elements of their more distilled untitled time-lag lp are present in new-born form, but overall this is a far wider ranging & raw trip… a home recorded mix of roughhewed songs & spontaneous improvisation melding together primitive bedroom acidfolk, fuzzy sci-fi psych-outs, bent occult trance ritual, fake xian folk, loose cosmic jamming, spooked drones, pagan mysteries, and some stuff thats just pretty much beyond words… the whole trip is totally psychedelic, deeply textured, dripping vibes, wide-eyed, and more than anything else wickedly fun. one of those rare documents of a young band unselfconsciously doing their thing, and ‘their thing’ pretty much rules… absolutely zero info as always, but this time you get a few rather amusing band photos for extra charm. pressed on two slabs of 180gm bright red vinyl & packaged in an ultra-minimal heavy art paper gatefold cover with raised plastic ink screen printed cover text, paste-on interior polaroid photo sticker, stamped & hand numbered spine. printed & hand stamped labels. plus each copy is enclosed in a two-tone stitched synthetic felt (made from 100% recycled plastic bottles) envelope pouch in various color combinations, hand assembled one at a time by my mom (thanx mom!) limited & numbered edition of 266 copies.
digital version of red records #2. newest incarnation of nyc’s wondrous woods, as the trio of jeremy earl, jarvis taveniere, and g lucas crane. for sure the finest yet from these folks… lysergic & infectiously bent acidfolk mashed into faust IV style electronically dosed pop grooving, all awash in odd studio effects, motorik percussion, cracked fuzz, unique vocal gush, twisted lyrics, and burning psych jams… plus enough sweet hooks to get yr next freakout party moving right. hell yes, its a wicked one… same music as vinyl version, but packed in a mini lp style heavy gatefold cover with somwhat different full color art, japanese woven inner sleeve, etc. edition of 1000 copies.
red records #2… newest incarnation of nyc’s wondrous woods, as the trio of jeremy earl, jarvis taveniere, and g lucas crane. for sure the finest yet from these folks… lysergic & infectiously bent acidfolk mashed into faust IV style electronically dosed pop grooving, all awash in odd studio effects, motorik percussion, cracked fuzz, unique vocal gush, twisted lyrics, and burning psych jams… plus enough sweet hooks to get yr next freakout party moving right. hell yes, its a wicked one… lusciously hand packaged in a custom black art paper heavy 60s style gatefold cover with full size, full color paste-on front photo artwork, black on black screen printed back cover & interior, printed labels, hand stamped spine, and pressed on 180gm bright red vinyl. hand numbered limited edition of 300 copies.
deluxe double vinyl reissue of the first two long gone & very limited private press cdrs from john kevin francis joseph under the wovoka guise. part one hits a wonderful hazy sunbaked acoustic back porch acid folk raga zone. primitive, stripped down, smoked out, laid back, but fully intense. part two takes the acoustic guitar / dulcimer / vocal / echo acid raga themes of part one and launches them ever skyward with the addition of fuzzy serpentine electric guitar runs, zoned hand percussion, creaking cello, and subtle electrified bass. devotional heart songs, thick smoke spirals, and sweaty wide eyelids all the way folks… pressed on double 180gm bright red vinyl, with printed & hand stamped labels. packaged in a heavy 60s style custom cream art paper gatefold cover, with full color photo two layer paste-on front, screen printed interior, hand stamped back, and hand stamped & numbered spine. limited edition of 233 copies.