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Beaver - You Can Only Control Instincts When They Come - EHSE 007 (LP)

Known simply around town as beaver, he now makes low-fi bedroom 4-track songs with his guitar and pieces of drum kit lying around his apartment. Occasionally he'll tamper with sounds on his mpc2000 and fruity loops. Live performances are epic, intimate, heart-warming and sincere. Fruitfully involved in numerous side projects and collaborations, beaver has participated in everything from igloo to brain deer to singing in think about life and to going on tour with wolf parade and sunset rubdown. These projects are a means for him to keep himself entertained and involved with the friends that he truly loves and admires. accompanying his music, beaver's illustrations and drawings speak through manic landscapes and hybrid creatures. His images are often elated with eroticism and touches of fantasmal colours, lines, curves, and scribbles that suggest life and being. travelling between minimal, with floating bodies and vacant spaces, and the complex, with furrowed forms amassed into dense stuctures, his images teeters to extremes.

Edition of 500. LP available. Order here.
Art by Beaver
Screened by Jen Kirby

As with all of our releases,
MP3s of full LP available for download

Side A
the spirits of dufort
radio quebec
cannible
heart strapped in backwards

Side B
these thoughts are words with lungs
land of kids
lonely coast/english needs french

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		Leprechaun Catering - Kumquats, Lychees - EHSE 001 (LP) "Kumquats, Lychees" finds Leprechaun Catering, Baltimore's best beloved brunette duo of tobacco smoking Tom Boram and Jason Willett, on their first ever release, making a sound described by some as "techno you can't dance to, or free improvisation you can dance to." this tag is misleading, however. Perhaps the listener could better imagine the LC sound if they conduct this simple exercise. Imagine if H.R. Pufnstuf and Witchiepoo were at a rave and both fully disembodied in a bottomless k-hole, and were then told that they had to arrange a dance version of Jesus Christ Superstar to be performed by an orchestra consisting of Duane Eddy, Ikue Mori, John Entwistle, Tina weymouth, Lux interior, Henry Kissinger, Victor Hugo, Gene Krupa, Eraserhead, Gary Coleman, Stewart Copeland, Clerence Clemmens, Jimmy Nolan, Tony Blair, John Belushi, Jimmy Guiffre, Keith Emerson, and Animal from The Muppet Show. The audience at this rave would consist of very fit senior citizens who would have the H.R./Witchiepoo Orchestra performance tuned to their hearing aids. The refreshment table would serve only prune sorbet and hot house rhubarb tuna salad hoagies. The rave would be in a wind tunnel. There would also be a skateboarding halfpipe demonstration done by zombies. Original artwork for LP front and back covers by Jackie Milad; all individually hand silk screened by Twig Harper LP insert with unvocalized lyrics by Tom Boram Edition of 300. LP available. Order here. As with all of our releases, MP3s of full LP available for download Side 1 Cut 1 Cut 2 Side 2 Cut 3 Cut 4
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