L'ANIMAUX DRINKS THE MOON // THREE NEW LIMITED CASSETTES
[tempera, endless caverns, jared fairfield, gorman trio, sacred basil]
[tempera, endless caverns, jared fairfield, gorman trio, sacred basil]
Wheels are turning and machines are purring once again at the L'animaux Tryst HQ, a gentle wave of activity not seen around these parts in a little while. Deep fall hibernation vibes are keeping the tea kettle on, mukluks on at all hours, and hi-fis glowing warmth in every room as we dub, draw, fold, cut, paste, repeat....
For now, some new limited edition tapes to feast yer ears on ... preview many tracks via the 33RD CONGRESSIONAL REPORT #1 podcast, available for download & streaming now @ Foxy Digitalis.
Everything can be ordered in an automated fashion from our new L'ANIMAUX STOREFRONT, or as always you can feel free to simply email your order to lanimaux [at] gmail [dot] com.
NEW FEATURED ITEMS:
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LTFR 023: GORMAN TRIO // SACRED BASIL: UNTITLED SPLIT
FORMAT: CS [C-25] // EDITION: 60 // RELEASED: 11.09.10 // SOLD OUT
DOCUMENTING THE FIRST OF SEVERAL LIVE COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN SONIC AMBASSADORS FROM GORMAN [J. SPENCER], CURSILLISTAS [M.LAJOIE], & WHITE LIGHT [I. PAIGE] DURING THEIR WEEK-LONG US TOUR IN 2009, "EXALTED (MOST HIGH)" WAS COVERTLY PERFORMED IN THE BASEMENT OF THE CLINIC [BLOOMINGTON, IN] WHILE THE PROSPECTIVE AUDIENCE WAS STILL PORCH-BOUND. THICK TONE-DRONES FOR THE THICK MIDWEST SUMMER EVENING AIR; FREE-DRIFT NOTES FOR THE RECREATIONAL HIGHS OF THOSE "HIT THE ROAD" DAYS. THE FLIP-SIDE IS A PREVIOUSLY-UNRELEASED SNIP FROM THE SACRED BASIL SESSION THAT BIRTH'D THE DAY OF SIX BILLION CASSETTE [CABIN FLOOR ESOTERICA #7], AN OPEN-FIELD / FREE-RANGE JAM OF RECIFEIAN ACOUSTIC STRINGS, BELLS, PRE-LANGUAGE VOX, AND CREAKING FLOORBOARDS. UNSELFCONSCIOUS HOOTS CAPTURED LIVE AT NEW WYRD 33. HAND-LABELED SAPPHIRE-FOIL TAPES PACKAGED IN AN ART PAPER J-CARD SLEEVE, WITH 60 COMPLETELY UNIQUE INDIVIDUALLY HAND-DRAWN/WRITTEN AND COLLAGED COVERS, HAND-NUMBERED TO 60.
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LTFR 024: TEMPERA // ENDLESS CAVERNS: ESTRANGED MANE
FORMAT: CS [C-40] // EDITION: 45 // RELEASED: 11.09.10 // SOLD OUT
TWO IMPROVISATIONAL PORTLAND ACTS PAY TRIBUTE TO A FAVORITE SPOT IN THE LOCAL UNDERGROUND SCENE: STRANGE MAINE. THIS USED RECORD/TAPE/BOOK/CURIO SHOP BY DAY TAKES ON THE OCCASIONAL TRANSFORMATION INTO THE MOST FREEWHEELING VENUE IN TOWN, AND IS THE SITE OF SOME OF THE GREATEST LIVE SETS WE AT THE L'ANIMAUX CAMP HAVE EVER WITNESSED. ON THIS TAPE, TEMPERA DROPS THEIR FIRST NEW RELEASE SINCE 2009'S STELLAR SELF-TITLED 12"; THIS 19-MINUTE SESSION WAS RECORDED LIVE IN MAY 2010 AND WAS PERFORMED USING JUST TWO MICROPHONES AND MORE DELAY/ECHO/LOOP PEDALS THAN BAND MEMBERS. THE RESULT IS OF AN ENVIABLE SUBTLETY, THE SOURCE WHISPERS AND WHISTLES BENT TO UNIMAGINABLE ANGLES AND LENGTHS UNTIL ONLY SPECTERS REMAIN. ENDLESS CAVERNS' CONTRIBUTION FINDS WHISPS OF CRACKLY ELECTRIC GUITAR LEADS MINGLING WITH DUB-INSPIRED BASS, VOCALS, AND PERCUSSION, ALL STRETCHED OUT IN A HALLUCINATORY TIME-ZONE WHERE EACH TWEAK IN THE CHAIN ADDS A NEW LAYER OF HAZE TO YOUR ALREADY-CLOUDY VISION. HAND-LABELED OPAQUE BLOOD-RED TAPES IN NORELCO CASE, WITH PRO-PRINTED FULL-COLOR "WINDHAM HILL-THEMED" J-CARDS HAND-NUMBERED TO 45.
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LTFR 025: JARED FAIRFIELD: MYSTERIES
FORMAT: CS [C-29] // EDITION: 75 // RELEASED: 11.09.10 // SOLD OUT
AS HUMBLE-YET-IMPRESSIVE IN VISION AND EXECUTION AS ANY CLASSIC UNDERGROUND ALBUM SHOULD BE, THIS OUT-OF-NOWHERE EP FROM RURAL MAINE'S JARED FAIRFIELD IS SO ON-POINT THAT ONCE IT CROSSED OUR PATH WE KNEW IT HAD TO FIND A HOME ON L'ANIMAUX TRYST. WORKING A FOUR-WAY CROSSROADS OF PAGAN UR-FOLK, AQUARIAN PSYCH-POP, CONTEMPORARY UNDERGROUND, AND FUTURE SOUNDS, FAIRFIELD MOVES HIS REMARKABLE VOICE THRU TIMELESS TUNE AFTER TIMELESS TUNE, FAINT VAPOUR TRAILS OF PAST SKEWED-POP CLASSICS ON THE PERIPHERY. ALONG THE WAY, THAT VOICE IS JOINED BY DEFT GUITAR FINGERPICKING, AUTOHARP STRUMS, DRONE/PURE SOUND, A RICH TAPESTRY OF PERCUSSION, AND EVEN ONE SABBATH-WORTHY FUZZ BASS BREAKDOWN, ALL COMPOSED AND ARRANGED WITH QUIET CONFIDENCE AND WARM FIDELITY. THE TITLE TRACK IS ONE OF THE BEST SINGLES WE'VE HEARD ALL YEAR, AND ONCE YOU'VE MOVED PAST THAT PARTICULAR EARWORM, REPEAT SPINS REVEAL NEW DEEP VISIONS LIKE EACH QUARTER-TURN OF A KALEIDOSCOPE. HAND-LABELED WHITE TAPES IN AN OVERSIZED, PRO-PRINTED FULL-COLOR TEXTURED ART PAPER SLEEVE, TIED CLOSED WITH WOOL YARN, HAND-NUMBERED TO 75.Jared Fairfield- 'Mysteries'
For now, some new limited edition tapes to feast yer ears on ... preview many tracks via the 33RD CONGRESSIONAL REPORT #1 podcast, available for download & streaming now @ Foxy Digitalis.
Everything can be ordered in an automated fashion from our new L'ANIMAUX STOREFRONT, or as always you can feel free to simply email your order to lanimaux [at] gmail [dot] com.
L'ANIMAUX TRYST FALL CATALOG 2010
NEW FEATURED ITEMS:
LTFR 023: GORMAN TRIO // SACRED BASIL: UNTITLED SPLIT
FORMAT: CS [C-25] // EDITION: 60 // RELEASED: 11.09.10 // SOLD OUT
DOCUMENTING THE FIRST OF SEVERAL LIVE COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN SONIC AMBASSADORS FROM GORMAN [J. SPENCER], CURSILLISTAS [M.LAJOIE], & WHITE LIGHT [I. PAIGE] DURING THEIR WEEK-LONG US TOUR IN 2009, "EXALTED (MOST HIGH)" WAS COVERTLY PERFORMED IN THE BASEMENT OF THE CLINIC [BLOOMINGTON, IN] WHILE THE PROSPECTIVE AUDIENCE WAS STILL PORCH-BOUND. THICK TONE-DRONES FOR THE THICK MIDWEST SUMMER EVENING AIR; FREE-DRIFT NOTES FOR THE RECREATIONAL HIGHS OF THOSE "HIT THE ROAD" DAYS. THE FLIP-SIDE IS A PREVIOUSLY-UNRELEASED SNIP FROM THE SACRED BASIL SESSION THAT BIRTH'D THE DAY OF SIX BILLION CASSETTE [CABIN FLOOR ESOTERICA #7], AN OPEN-FIELD / FREE-RANGE JAM OF RECIFEIAN ACOUSTIC STRINGS, BELLS, PRE-LANGUAGE VOX, AND CREAKING FLOORBOARDS. UNSELFCONSCIOUS HOOTS CAPTURED LIVE AT NEW WYRD 33. HAND-LABELED SAPPHIRE-FOIL TAPES PACKAGED IN AN ART PAPER J-CARD SLEEVE, WITH 60 COMPLETELY UNIQUE INDIVIDUALLY HAND-DRAWN/WRITTEN AND COLLAGED COVERS, HAND-NUMBERED TO 60.
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LTFR 024: TEMPERA // ENDLESS CAVERNS: ESTRANGED MANE
FORMAT: CS [C-40] // EDITION: 45 // RELEASED: 11.09.10 // SOLD OUT
TWO IMPROVISATIONAL PORTLAND ACTS PAY TRIBUTE TO A FAVORITE SPOT IN THE LOCAL UNDERGROUND SCENE: STRANGE MAINE. THIS USED RECORD/TAPE/BOOK/CURIO SHOP BY DAY TAKES ON THE OCCASIONAL TRANSFORMATION INTO THE MOST FREEWHEELING VENUE IN TOWN, AND IS THE SITE OF SOME OF THE GREATEST LIVE SETS WE AT THE L'ANIMAUX CAMP HAVE EVER WITNESSED. ON THIS TAPE, TEMPERA DROPS THEIR FIRST NEW RELEASE SINCE 2009'S STELLAR SELF-TITLED 12"; THIS 19-MINUTE SESSION WAS RECORDED LIVE IN MAY 2010 AND WAS PERFORMED USING JUST TWO MICROPHONES AND MORE DELAY/ECHO/LOOP PEDALS THAN BAND MEMBERS. THE RESULT IS OF AN ENVIABLE SUBTLETY, THE SOURCE WHISPERS AND WHISTLES BENT TO UNIMAGINABLE ANGLES AND LENGTHS UNTIL ONLY SPECTERS REMAIN. ENDLESS CAVERNS' CONTRIBUTION FINDS WHISPS OF CRACKLY ELECTRIC GUITAR LEADS MINGLING WITH DUB-INSPIRED BASS, VOCALS, AND PERCUSSION, ALL STRETCHED OUT IN A HALLUCINATORY TIME-ZONE WHERE EACH TWEAK IN THE CHAIN ADDS A NEW LAYER OF HAZE TO YOUR ALREADY-CLOUDY VISION. HAND-LABELED OPAQUE BLOOD-RED TAPES IN NORELCO CASE, WITH PRO-PRINTED FULL-COLOR "WINDHAM HILL-THEMED" J-CARDS HAND-NUMBERED TO 45.
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LTFR 025: JARED FAIRFIELD: MYSTERIES
FORMAT: CS [C-29] // EDITION: 75 // RELEASED: 11.09.10 // SOLD OUT
AS HUMBLE-YET-IMPRESSIVE IN VISION AND EXECUTION AS ANY CLASSIC UNDERGROUND ALBUM SHOULD BE, THIS OUT-OF-NOWHERE EP FROM RURAL MAINE'S JARED FAIRFIELD IS SO ON-POINT THAT ONCE IT CROSSED OUR PATH WE KNEW IT HAD TO FIND A HOME ON L'ANIMAUX TRYST. WORKING A FOUR-WAY CROSSROADS OF PAGAN UR-FOLK, AQUARIAN PSYCH-POP, CONTEMPORARY UNDERGROUND, AND FUTURE SOUNDS, FAIRFIELD MOVES HIS REMARKABLE VOICE THRU TIMELESS TUNE AFTER TIMELESS TUNE, FAINT VAPOUR TRAILS OF PAST SKEWED-POP CLASSICS ON THE PERIPHERY. ALONG THE WAY, THAT VOICE IS JOINED BY DEFT GUITAR FINGERPICKING, AUTOHARP STRUMS, DRONE/PURE SOUND, A RICH TAPESTRY OF PERCUSSION, AND EVEN ONE SABBATH-WORTHY FUZZ BASS BREAKDOWN, ALL COMPOSED AND ARRANGED WITH QUIET CONFIDENCE AND WARM FIDELITY. THE TITLE TRACK IS ONE OF THE BEST SINGLES WE'VE HEARD ALL YEAR, AND ONCE YOU'VE MOVED PAST THAT PARTICULAR EARWORM, REPEAT SPINS REVEAL NEW DEEP VISIONS LIKE EACH QUARTER-TURN OF A KALEIDOSCOPE. HAND-LABELED WHITE TAPES IN AN OVERSIZED, PRO-PRINTED FULL-COLOR TEXTURED ART PAPER SLEEVE, TIED CLOSED WITH WOOL YARN, HAND-NUMBERED TO 75.Jared Fairfield- 'Mysteries'
In addition to these new limited magnetic-tape offerings, the online shop has a few distro items that L'animaux-related bands [HERBCRAFT, CURSILLISTAS, ENDLESS CAVERNS] have released on other fine labels [Digitalis, Cabin Floor Esoterica, Hello Sunshine, Fuck-It Tapes], as well as older items that are still in print.
For a more transparent rambling experience, check in with the new 33RD CONGRESSIONAL REPORT Tumblr, where we're regularly posting new, forthcoming, and unreleased tracks, mixtapes, videos, oddities, upcoming events, etc. in 12pt. Rockwell [where available].
ENJOY THE EARTH'S BOUNTY // HORN OF PLENTY // CORNUCOPIA
M J L J☮
ENJOY THE EARTH'S BOUNTY // HORN OF PLENTY // CORNUCOPIA
M J L J☮
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