DANIEL AHEARN & THE JONES @ Echo

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Laura Gibson || Listen || Watch|| MP3
On January 24, Barsuk Records will release La Grande, the 3rd album by native Oregonian songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Laura Gibson. La Grande is a town just east of the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon, a place that “people usually pass through on their way to somewhere else, but which contains a certain gravity, a curious energy.”

It’s an album about strength and confidence – about the tension between wildness and domesticity and the courage required to embark upon either path, about asserting one’s will rather than submitting. Joining Gibson on the album are musicians including Joey Burns of Calexico and members of The Dodos and The Decemberists. Gibson’s previous album, Beasts of Seasons, was highly praised.

Breathe Owl Breathe || Listen || Watch
In the days when winter was for sledding, summer was for swimming, bedtime was for stories and sleeping was for dreaming, that’s where you’ll find The Listeners / These Train Tracks. For Breathe Owl Breathe, a release like this is nothing out of the ordinary – and at the same time it’s anything but. The perfect combination of printmaking, song, and storytelling all wrapped up in a beautiful package.

After years of writing one-off children’s stories, Micah Middaugh has created a limited edition canvas-covered book that reads from outside covers inward, ending at the center. And in the middle, slipped between a hand cranked copper block printed sleeve, are two new Breathe Owl Breathe songs pressed onto black 70 gram 7″ vinyl. A project that took close to 3 years to complete, and all within the confines of his home studio (Cavern Lantern Wonder Welding) in the Jordan River Valley of Northern Michigan. Every single cover, page, sleeve, and block was made in Michigan,

The overall goal was to create something that looked timeless, felt satisfying to the touch, and appealed to any and all ages. Micah believes that it matters how a thing is made – if it pleases the hands, eyes, and ears. These sensibilities, alongside letter press printing techniques, inform every detail of The Listeners / These Train Tracks. Hold it, open it, and listen to what’s inside.

Dedicated to friends, wherever they happen.

Daniel Ahearn || Listen || Watch

Sit down for moment…It started the way things fall into one another. Two musicians tumbling around the dark evenings of Los Angeles.MWhat if we just sang together? So the framework of songs written by Daniel Ahearn found the once in a generation voice of the beautiful multi-instrumentalist Mindy Jones and away we go….
All the songs are of course Love songs.
There is, after all, only one thing worth singing about.

The debut EP ‘It’s not you, it’s us’ will be released in early 2012. –

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