Ribbon Publications Presents: Book 1, “Eucalyptus Grove”, featuring Joseph Childress

David Wilson is a magic man, amazing artist, and the soul behind Ribbons Publications.

A couple weeks ago David introduced Book 1 of the Ribbons Box set (thanks Southern Exposure), a project revisiting past gatherings. Over the last several years, Ribbons Publications has hosted a number of truly inspiring events in magical settings – an imagined cave, a deserted island, an aged barn, a moving bus, a beautiful memorial in the woods – and with luminous participants – Little Wings, Michael Hurley, White Rainbow, Barn Owl, Mount Eerie, Joseph Childress, Luck Dragons, and many many more…

This is Book 1:
Book 1 commemorates the first of these events – A quiet evening in an East Bay eucalyptus grove with the songs of Joseph Childress and Mariee Sioux among others.

Book 1, “Eucalyptus Grove” – Enfolded

Book 1, “Eucalyptus Grove” – Unfolded

In the book you’ll find:

A recording of a recent morning spent at the eucalyptus grove talking and sharing songs with Mariee Sioux and Joseph Childress, and a bonus song by Nat Russell…photographs by Terri Loewnthal, Kevin Haas, and Ryan Junell….a letter about the show…a second edition of the original invitation…directions how to have your own journey finding the grove…a series of drawings of different moments spent in the grove…

This is a $15 way to support efforts towards future big plans! …and get a limited edition field recording of Joseph.

Support Ribbons by getting your own copy here.

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The Sandwitches debut album out now on Turn Up! records & available at our store!

New San Francisco label Turn Up! records has officially released the debut record by the Sandwitches. It is titled How To Make Ambient Sadcake. We were lucky enough to get a handful copies for our store, and it is also available at Aquarius Records. It is a killer debut… it shreds… but don’t take our word for it… take Kelly Stoltz‘s:

“The Sandwitches came out of nowhere. Well…that’s not quite right of course…but sometimes it happens, when you get three DNA’s together doing their own tunes, you kind of forgot what they were up to before. Or at least that’s what happened when I first wrapped ears around the sounds contained herein. A Holy Communion of Roky Erickson and Stevie Nicks. A lyrical beauty too. Strings bobbing around like loose wires on the headstock, chiming and picking away and baking the ambient sadcake. Tomorrows beat, learned yesterday or some time ago in band from back when. More jazzed up than the Moe Tucker and “Be My Baby”. Boom and crash – loose/tight – on time and free. When the daylight pop appears, upbeat introductions keep you comfortable for a spell, but the hopeful sun has soon gone down and there are now more questions and apologies amid the darkness – and the headline reads “The Carter Family Goes Electric”. But there are no taunts of “Judas!” this time, only “Midas!” = yeah the one with the golden touch. Something cool and beautiful and true is happening here. The Sandwiches are bringing this vision to life. Imagine a 60’s Girl-group is on tour and their van breaks down near a gothic castle high on the hill, Dario Argento invites them in to perform a concert for his tweaked actors in a big dark red room inside and, if the dream is right, it’s the Sandwiches – they’d fit right in with those misfits and speak the same language. I’d like to be there to dance.

Close your eyes and you’ll see what I mean. These are fab, haunting tunes wrapped in tender weird pop. That’s what we got here. A heavy party you want to hang out at.”
–Kelley Stoltz

…and Aquarius Records‘:

“The three ladies in the band have done time in great San Francisco bands like Brilliant Colors, The Fresh & Onlys, Pillars Of Silence and it is kind of cool how if you did put all three of those bands in a blender the sound of the Sandwitches can really be imagined. So many bands of late seem to be so dialed into such a narrow and small palette of sounds so it’s really refreshing to hear a band who are no one trick pony, but instead cover lots of musical ground but do so with a cohesiveness that is often really tricky to pull off like The Sandwitches do on this debut. In lots of ways the record makes us think of what it would sound like for a band on Woodsist to cover Fleetwood Mac’s amazing record Tusk.

There is also something so honest and sincere about their delivery that you get the feeling they would play these songs with as much conviction and emotion in their living room filled with a few friends as much as they would on stage at a packed venue.”
–Aquarius Records

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Joseph Childress / Strangers Die Everyday – Split 7″ is now available from our store

Not so long ago, we received an email from Dan at Ash From Sweat Records. They are a great label out of Denver, Colorado that also put out a split 7″ featuring Joseph Childress. We made a trade, and now we have that 7″ available at our online store. It kills. Joseph and Strangers Die Everyday put forward a beautiful track each, the pairing couldn’t be better. Joseph plays a stunning rendition of “White Castle Creek Mother” the only track to surface from his 2007 recording sessions with Chris Adolf of Bad Weather California. Drawing on chilling imagery of the personal & collective history of the plains in Wymoning on which he worked ranch – as told to him by a young girl – “White Castle Creek Mother” features a beautifully subdued full band arrangement, a rarity for Joseph’s recordings. Strangers Die Everyday contribute a beautiful multi layered post-rock composition. In the vein of Godspeed You Black Emperor and Explosions In The Sky, their untitled track achieves a remarkable level of lush intensity despite sparse instrumentation, and but one electric instrument, a bass guitar, amidst a cello, violin, and drums. 480 copies exist on grey vinyl with full color artwork by Aaron Ray.The packaging is rad too. We have 10 available.

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