With access to a wide array of instruments not normally used by the ribbonesses, this record will present a darker & stranger side of Agent Ribbons. The artwork is by world-renowned illustrator/musician Dame Darcy, the illustrator of the fairytale-esque comic book Meatcake. The actual records have been pressed on heavy one of a kind 70-gram, avocado green vinyl, housed in a matte-finished deluxe gate-fold jacket.
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"In March and April of 2006, we visited 23 free schools, community centers, after school programs, summer camps, skill shares, charter schools and private schools. We interviewed students, parents and teachers about their experiences with creating and sustaining radical learning spaces ... The documentary outlines a history of both conventional and radical education, explores peoples definitions of learning ... and addresses the role of these spaces in the wider movement for social change." -Amina and Amber
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Kimya Dawson (Juno, The Moldy Peaches) and a bunch of young French kids singing songs about vampires and daring big-wheel stunts.
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"Ben and Bruno" is a group of songs based one character named Ben. After losing his mother at a very young age, Ben is abducted by a religious fanatic who has been living in the apartment above the family. Ben, during his trip while fleeing from the police, falls in love with the woman who has abducted him. The story continues after the capture of his new love and he grows older....marrying, having two daughters, divorcing his wife.
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Chris Clavin runs plan-it-x records out of a bus. His songs are just as much stories as they are songs, and he sings them with passion and honesty.
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In early 2007 Castledoor went in to the studio with friend Aaron Espinoza (Earlimart) to record a new batch of songs. After struggling with how they should go about releasing the new music they were overjoyed when Seven Inch Project offered to put a few of these tracks onto vinyl. The 'Til We Sink EP features 3 unreleased songs including the live favorite "Dumpster Diving" and a special vinyl-only home recorded ending to the song "Nightlight."
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Eric graced Olympia with an intimate living room performance on tour with "The Heather Show" from Sacramento. His voice and his sincerity drew me in along with the rest of the audience. Its funny how the same love stories told over and over again can still feel so fresh. Thats what a good songwriter like Eric can do.
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Jordan 'O Jordan Smith couldn't stop raving about Christina so I asked him to write something about her. He hasn't finished it quite yet as he's leaving today on a Australia/New Zealand tour with Onyx of Olympia. So for now I'll just say that the song "love me for the things i do" has followed me around for the last couple of months, and I have a feeling that this album is just the tip of the iceberg. -Ross
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The first time I met Christina. It was at the 414 House in Seattle. The house was a beautiful old craftsman home right by the highway in Seattle between Wallingford and the University District. You could stand out in the yard and listen to the highway and think about the people who lived there watching the highway get built and the neighborhood going down with it. Christina played some of these songs that night on an old piano in the living room. Folks sat on the floor on on the old chase lounge and listened, we all took turns making music. Listening to Christina sing these old songs remind me how the people you meet at one show end up can end up impacting you for the rest of your life. 
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"fly away, fly away, love is like a swallow, here today, here today, and gone again tomorrow" Christina Antipa wove this dew- filled spider’s web of an album in a basement in Seattle with the help of her talented friends, (Jordan O’ Jordan and Shenandoah Davis both make appearances among many others.) The resulting album evokes the northwest winters and the daydreams of impossible romance.
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I met Corpus Callosum at a show at Myatt Farm in Gilroy California. We sat spellbound as they marched out of the tall wheat field in a slow processional: Singing to the accordion's moan and cast iron engine parts played for percussion. "We always try to use whatever is lying around," Dax later explained to me. Their set culminated in a piece played to the sound of a wine glass piano. "Machine Under Its Own Spell" captures some of the magic of this amazing Folk-Noir ensemble. -Ross
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Crazy for Jane is a brother and sister duo from Berlin, Germany. They sing about geographic dilemmas, some drama, shipwreck, rescue missions, and Jane. Their music is "a desperate serenade underneath your window".
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Crazy for Jane is a brother and sister duo. They sing about geographic dilemmas, some drama, shipwreck, rescue missions, and Jane. Their music is "a desperate serenade underneath your window".
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Dane Terry is a saloon songster from Columbus OH. whose jangly stories conjure a ghostly Tammy Wynette singing songs from an imaginary musical written by Igor Stravisky and Ray Bradbury. His whisky catches the lights that he may drink and be forever a wandering player.
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If you listen, the story of the band Dark Dark Dark is woven into the haunting songs of their debut album, "The Snow Magic". It’s a story of love and heartache, death and loneliness and the persistent sense of hope that keeps you living and moving. These familiar themes are tangled up with tales of ghosts, fermenting bodies and magical dreams. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
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"Inspired equally by early 90s female singer-songwriters and Disney musicals, Dave infuses sexual politics with a sense of fun and tenderness often absent in transgressive music, i.e., ‘queer cupcake loving honesty pop!’" -Nadav Carmel, Phoning It In
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"Tackling subject matters like bullying, homophobia, body image and heartbreak, Dave End could easily fall into the slippery traps of self-pity and earnestness, but he manages to keep his songs aloft with humor, bounce, and jamboree-style glee. Fleshy depressed queer teenagers everywhere should heave a sigh of relief. His debut album, How to Hold Your Own Hand, is a revelation of hope and intelligence." -Dan Fishback
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Live Album from Drew’s no car tour of europe.
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"Throughout Mother., Danburry takes risks by adding unique vocal arrangements or instruments to separate himself from the multitude of singer-songwriters out there. The songs on here, whether the poppy numbers or the folk ones, do not get stale, and are all satisfying tracks that should delight anyone looking for a nice break from the overwhelming number of traditional singer-songwriters out there." - Punk News
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"Borne through a year of home recording sessions and whittled cautiously from the bark and bulk of a fruitful storm, we now present to you the full-length debut from Olympia, WA songwriter Eleanor Murray. For Cedar's opening track, Throughout the record, a backdrop of strings and distant vocals play commentary to the suits of arpeggios falling over the distance between forest and salt water." - Anonymous Monk
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Keep the Lions Asleep, the second album from Firs of Prey (AKA Andrew Miller of Datura Blues) basks in the glow of a West Coast sunray—odd, given the dichotomy of sunshine-y folk-pop harmonies being augmented by a falsetto that Nick Drake might gush over. Represented by small local label BPBS Arts and Media Collective, Firs of Prey's minimalist approach takes on the form of a CD-R disc with no titles provided, but track number four might range as the pinnacle of the collection, snipping Beach Boys arpeggio and flattening it with the drone of a grumpy organ. Track five sounds like it's playing out of a gramophone, a compliment that, as vinyl buffs can attest, means something warm and raw and great. RYAN J. PRADO - Portland Mercury
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Flowers From The Man Who Shot Your Cousin is essentially Morgan Caris. For a good many years now he has been writing and recording songs, some of which have been released on lps and compilations mostly in Spain and Japan, but Hapless is the first solo album of his to see the light of dusk.
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"Froseph takes both an aggressive and soft spoken approach with the songs on "Deep Breath." ... coping with deep-rooted insecurities and confronting a long-avoided past of sexual abuse, denial and their affects on everyday interactions while simultaneously constructing a sense of optimism and buoyancy... Packaged with a plastic-free case that was hand-letterpressed in our garage." -crimethinc.com
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To keep the momentum of the CrimethInc. Hunter/Gatherer project going, the CrimethInc. Gleeful Ludic Throng is excited to offer their most ambitious project yet. The hand-set lead letters were hand-letterpressed onto the durable chipboard casing with the booklet inside summarizing the project's sentiment nicely: These people are just like you. It doesn't matter who they are. They have the same insecurities and potential as you. Always curious. This Audio Zine is haunting and whimsical, redefining musical and spoken word boundaries. Each track is its own folk tale narrating a new oral history, even when it stutters.
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Since 2005, Spencer Sult has been recording and performing under the name of a monster from his childhood stories - Generifus. The emotions are all laid bare even though the stories told in the songs are incomplete; we're left to fill in the gaps with our imagination. In "Solstice Songs" his soft spoken lyrics and guitar playing meet with the production alchemy of Karl Blau.
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Ghost Mice is a two-piece folk-punk band that hails from Bloomington, IN. Ghost Mice was created from the ashes of former pop-punk bands The Devil is Electric and Operation: Cliff Clavin. Chris Johnston (aka Chris Clavin) and Hannah Jones who played guitar and bass respectively for OP:CC and TDIE, decided to make their act acoustic so they could tour more easily and play almost anywhere. At the same time, Hannah dropped her bass in favor of a violin.
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"All of the songs are about the trip that Hannah and I took to Europe in the summer of 2000. It was not a tour, it was a traveling trip. We stayed for 90 days. We didn't have enough money. We didn't know anyone in Europe. Needless to say the trip was really hard and we learned a lot about life." -Chris Clavin
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Grand Hallway is an eight piece orchestral pop band from Seattle WA. Their lush, baroque songs evoke myriad influences.Promenade is a fractured narrative of the dissolution of one relationship and the beginning of another. the music is dense and raucous in places, translucent and sparse in others. The songs feel familiar but do not belong in any one era.
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After the spring 2006 US tour, Half-handed Cloud's John Ringhofer set-out to play and record the remaining songs that had been written at the time the ones for the Halos and Lassos LP and Harp That's Hung-up in a Tree EP had been composed. Recorded on 4-track cassette (like Harp), Spool's six songs feature a 100-year-old Steinway grand piano played minimally, vocals, harmonies, two types of Melodians, occasional bass, acoustic guitar, a cheap xylophone kit, sound loops, uncredited pump-organ and slide banjo, a simple drum-kit muted with t-shirts, and a euphonium rented on zero credit.
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"Friends describe us as: "Pan Sexual Acid Pop" and "Dreamy Thrash" Our cover of New Kids on the Block's "Right Stuff" is a favorite with our fans."
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A long time member of the Olympia music scene, Jenny is one of those amazing musicians who for whatever reason never hit the road or released an album. Jenny is doing plenty of both right now with several tours. Her first solo album tackles relationships, sex, and well, lots of sex.
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"Like a flightless bird that tries to fly again / somehow I want love so bad even though I don't want love." As in the cover art, Jenny reaches for the frosted cake of love again and again, undeterred by the obvious dangers of the flaming oven. She confronts the subject of love with bravery, brutal honesty and a cast of talented olympians including Derek Johnson (Le Ton Mite, Unwound), Andrew Dorsett (Lake), Jen Kliese (Superduo), and Vince Brown (Tune Stranglers).
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When I met Joe at an open mic he had dreadlocks and a hit song about pants with only one pocket. Joe told me of his plans to move out of his jeep into this treehouse he was building. He built that treehouse, it still stands. Then he built an even more amazing cottage and lived in that for awhile. Joe knows how to build things that will last. These songs are no exception. -Ross
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Carbon Cycles: In which banjo-troubadour - Jordan ‘O Jordan embarks on a molecular odyessey, following a carbon molecule’s search for love and the meaning of everything.
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Recorded in a yurt next to chickens and a fountain. The song subjects vary from making out in the back of a car on the freeway, to drinking (just a little) too much, to feeling scared and hopeless after waking up to thunder rolling past you in the middle of the night. A broad range of emotions have been covered here, and they have all been written about quite eloquently. The simple stories within are the ones that, for many of us, often end up feeling the most important.
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This is the fourth June Madrona album. It features Micah Ellison on melodica and Danielle Chiero on flute, and explores themes of family and place. This lineup takes June Madrona's composition to a new level, as Micah and Danielle are both classically trained musicians. The songwriting is as articulate and powerful as ever, and the musical accompaniment lends a gravity and fullness never before heard in June Madrona.
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The first two tracks on this record were inspired by the work of California artist Isabelle Baum, who's work has been on display at The Green House, a DIY venue in Arcata, CA. Backed by two new arrangements of older June Madrona songs for flute and melodica. The record itself has been pressed on heavy 70-gram, forest green vinyl, with deluxe matte-finished gate-fold jacket.
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"He who bends to himself a joy, does the Winged Life destroy..." - BlakeThemed and titled after a work of William Blake's, June Madrona's second album "The Winged Life" explores themes of love and control. The lineup on this record is comprised of four people making use of guitar, cello, harp, glockenspiel, banjo, and of course, their voices.
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Waves With Nowhere to Break is a reworking of the original 2003 release "The Bitter Waves". The album features new and old recordings of Ross' earlier work.
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Apparently "Little Things" is a dance hit in Barcelona. I believe it. Recorded at Bicycle Studios, Kickball's 3rd release is full of rip, energy, and tight arrangements of bass guitar, guitar, drums, and Jacob Wilson’s voice.
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"Kickball are everything that is vibrant and exciting about DIY music. Their fourth release, Everything Is a Miracle Nothing Is a Miracle Everything Is, is an indie gem, equally melodic and danceable, that captures the endearingly awkward energy the Olympia trio bring live to living rooms and small clubs across the country." - The Stranger
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In their second album, Kickball starts to let loose a bit. While still a showcase of Jacob's songwriting, you can hear the moments when the band starts to break out and explore.
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Letters build oragami animals out of rythmic lyrics, looped guitar, cello, and other found insturments. Like electronic music without the electricity; perfect for a wood floored living room or a circle of friends under a bridge.
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Liarbird graced stages up and down the west coast for the past few years. Now the band is no more, leaving two albums gorgous albums of country-tinged folk in their wake.
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In "Burn Down Town" Kanako Wynkoop croons about a series of arsons that happened one summer in Olympia. Later she talks about one of her heros in "Johnny Cash". "Bombs" is another standout track; a funeral waltz that builds with layers of bass, guitar, and violin, building to the chilling realization, "The war of men will never end".
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Northwest nature-core twang from Mikah Sykes, Emily Kokal of LA based band Warpaint, and Willis Ransom.
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Recorded in late November 2007, BRAIN is a compilation of little vignettes and roughly defined ideas. These five vignettes were recorded more or less, into two microphones, live in Luke's Brooklyn apartment. The same apartment he recorded his 2007 release, Snowbeast, released on Mill Pond Records.
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"I don't think the universe rewards a good deed, and I'm not even sure that love is always the answer. That said, the way Mikah Sykes' childlike voice meets his folk-blues finger-picking and promenades around a track is pretty damn adorable, hippie-ish or not. Sykes' tendency toward spacey experimentation is tethered by his deep love of the blues, which brings a familiarity and structure to his work that makes it feel like home. For a guy who recorded his last album in John Frusciante's living room, he has stayed one of Portland's better-kept secrets..but I doubt that'll last long."- Willamette Week, January 3rd-9th, 2007
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"Cute as a button and talented as few, Miwa Gemini is a breath of fresh air to the female "singer-song writer" stable. Her voice is sweet, yet deep, and her folk-music stands out from the crowd thanks to the use of banjo and mandolin. It’s a bit like throwing The Mountain Goats together with Nina Simone and Tom Waits: hazy, organic, and simply stunning." - The Rock Sellout
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The intimacy of her performance on the record is reminiscent of torchlight singers, a long forgotten style which was popular in the night clubs of the Left Bank in Paris, France throughout the early 20th century.- I Heart Music
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"I'm not sure if all of anti-folk's practitioners are as earnest as Morgan Orion, but I guess I hope that they are. Orion's stories are filled with colorfully named characters like Dustin and the Furniture and Kiki and PeePee, and where a gentleman named Moritz goes by the stage name of MoreEats." -smilepolitely.com
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Infectious, like a cold that keeps you home from school. Songs to be hummed on a walk through the park or a bike ride by the lake. The heartbreaks and triumphs are taken in stride. So so catchy. I’ve got Morgan’s voice stuck in my head. Be sure to check out the song Every Raindrop and the video for Let Me Inside When I knock on Your Door; you’ll get it.
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Mark Anderson AKA "Papa Bear" recorded this album with the help of numerous friends and musicians from the Denver DIY community. The album exudes a sense of grandeur and epic house shows.
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Acoustic shredder/folk song singer/social commentator/all-around-good-guy, Paris McClusky brings it on this, his second full length release.
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A super group comprised of Jordan'O Jordan, Onyx of Olympia, and Miss Spindleheart. Formed during a tour of New Zealand, their onstage chemistry and rich harmonies won over audiences everywhere they went. Now back in the states as Polka Dot Dot Dot, the only question that remains is are there 3 polka dots, or does the polka go on forever? You decide.
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What did you do spring of ‘08? If these songs from Alchemy and Amory are any indication of Polka Dot Dot’s (PDDD minus student of science, Jordan Dot) own doings, they were busy turning broken hearts into 4 tracks of hand crafted fairy magic.
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Three people. One adventure. Cosmic alignment? Polka Dot Dot Dot, based in Olympia, WA, formed when three travelers (Jordan O’Jordan, Onyx of Olympia, and Colleen Johnson or Twig Palace) met on the treefern-speckled shores of New Zealand. Combining their solo sets for a last-minute spot at the Camp A Low Hum Music Festival, the Dots charmed crowds with their refreshing blend of folk, tin pan alley, and a cappella styles. Their first album, Love Letter to New Zealand reflected this impromptu musical spirit. On their 2nd full-length release, Syzygy (a term that refers to planetary alignment), the Dots deliver a record that is unique, beautiful, and more patient than their last. Written after two US tours and a return trip to New Zealand, these songs deal with the fleeting nature of movement, friendship, and infatuation. While still full of their characteristic 3 part harmonies and instrumentation (guitar, banjo, ukulele, musical saw, harp, and hand-clap percussion), Syzygy expands the Dots’ sound with more orchestration and vocal arrangement.Yet, despite the fairly existential themes of this new record, Polka Dot Dot Dot have crafted an album that floats and bobs on a cosmic sea, and is neither too heavy nor too light. Here, gravity has a gentle touch and allows us along on this trip, leaving us star-speckled and beaming at the end.
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Three people. One adventure. Cosmic alignment? Polka Dot Dot Dot, based in Olympia, WA, formed when three travelers (Jordan O’Jordan, Onyx of Olympia, and Colleen Johnson or Twig Palace) met on the treefern-speckled shores of New Zealand. Combining their solo sets for a last-minute spot at the Camp A Low Hum Music Festival, the Dots charmed crowds with their refreshing blend of folk, tin pan alley, and a cappella styles. Their first album, Love Letter to New Zealand reflected this impromptu musical spirit. This Limited Edition of 500 records will be available in TWO COLORS:200 in TRANSLUCENT ROYAL PURPLE and 300 in TURQUOISE
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Purrbot is Portland Artist-Nathan Carter, somber post-apocalyptic queer folkster poet. changing the world by holding hands in plain view.
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Purrbot is Portland Artist-Nathan Carter, somber post-apocalyptic queer folkster poet. changing the world by holding hands in plain view.
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The inspiration for these disco covers came to Danielle as she was promenading through the local West Indian grocery store in Flatbush, Brooklyn. It was late and Danielle was exhausted from work. As her dazed eyes drifted over bruised plantains she suddenly became aware of a song that was playing on the radio. For days the melody filled Danielle's head and obsessed her imagination. She had only caught a few words but managed to dig it up on the Internet..."Let this groove get you to move...It's alright...alright...a-a-al-right."
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Beautiful folk ballads steeped in all the heartache and yearning of the Northwest winters. Whether in collaboration with fellow Olympia musicians Eli Moore, Adam Oelsner and Dan Swier, or all by herself, "No More Danger" showcases an artist clearly in command of her craft as a songwriter and a guitarist. Robin Cutler will break your heart and stitch it back together again.
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This modest release does little justice to the power and heart of Ithaca New York’s Ryan Clover. A fixture of the Ithaca radical community, his masterful song writing and furious banjo playing are bared to the listener in these sparse arrangements. This is the kind of album you can listen to over and over.
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The great-grandson of Montana and North Dakota pioneers, Sand grew up hearing cowboy poetry and country music. When hip hop culture hit "the Rez" (the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, where Sand lived most of his early years), he learned to rap and rhyme to the pulse of baling machines and irrigation pumps. "Rough Notes From Ottercove" showcases the breadth of Sandman, ranging from old school hip hop, cowboy folk, and childrens songs. The album comes with a sumptuous hand letterpressed lyric booklet.
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This is what it might sound like if you took your piano to bed with you. Heartfelt confessions of Micah Ellison, formally of June Madrona. Adventures in mass transit, love, and childhood rebellion.
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We; Camera: thirteen tracks, recorded in july of 2008 at quiet places studios. available as mp3 download or in a hand-decorated cardboard sleeve from the lovely stumptown printers.
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A Horse-trainer and a mother or two, Chantal Acda has no shortage of life-experiences. In her second album under the name Sleepingdog, she colloborates with Adam Wilzie (Stars of the Lid) to create an album of stark landscapes and weathered hearts.
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Chris Schiel this in his bathroom with a hand-held cassette recorder. Amazing. Hopefully Chris doesn't have to pay the repair bill for that cello.
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A Split featuring The Pasties and The Hail Seizures from Olympia, Washington. Both bands play fast-paced punk music entirely with acoustic instruments. This approach has allowed them to take their performances into public spaces that don't otherwise ever get to see a rock show like the artesian well downtown, Camp Quixote, or even underneath the 4th Ave bridge. A sense of rebellion permeates the songs of both bands as they eschew the conventions of the punk industry to bring their music straight to the people.
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Julia and Benjamin created their first song together ("O") in August 2008 at the Waterwitch Cathedral on Steamboat Island, a tiny island floating in the Puget Sound. Benjamin had just returned from a music tour via bicycle of Western Washington and both were preparing for journeys down the West Coast and beyond. Fate, desire, or just plain love stepped in and six months later, the two were living together in a small studio in downtown Olympia, exploring the great joy of singing together. Before they knew it, they had an album recorded of homemade handcrafted epic lullabies, multifaceted songs about nature, love, losing consciousness and reawakening, death and birth, whiskey, sunlight, and the wind.
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Jen and Jenny came together in the 90s to form the band known as Super Duo. While they made many recordings and played many shows together, their alchemical magic was never released into the wilds until now.
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Susie Asado is a poem by Gertrude Stein. This Susie Asado is Josepha Conrad. She is not a poem although she likes to write them. She also likes Gertrude Stein. So much is apparent. Josepha writes songs and she will sing them for you. Happily. Her songs are about geographic challenges about borders and border patrol about falling in love with border patrol and with countries and that is more than one country.
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Sweet Potatoes is Jenny's chorus of looping voices and the sounds she collects in her travels. Sometimes there are friends too, and even instruments. Perhaps you would like to use the adjectives "hypnotic" "mesmerizing" "awesome" or "brave."
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Michelle, sometimes performs these almost-whispered songs from the inside of a tent. They demonstrate an acute awarness of landscape and emotion.
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