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-Sean Smith - "Eternal"
(LP) Limited edition 300 copies (w/cd for extremely limited time)
$15.00
***First collaborative album!***
Feautures an array of instrumentation by Sean Smith, Spencer Owen, Adam Snider and Angela Hsu.
Purely Analog recording. Letterpressed Sleeve.
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CD coming SOON!!!.
Here's a little bit about it from the Gnome Life Records site:
Sean Smith is a modern composer of ageless guitar folketry [folk + poetry]. With several masterful solo-guitar albums behind him, Smith has been drawn out of his hermetic recording life by the power and potential of collaboration, presented here on this record! Sean Smith becomes more fully fructified in the company of his friends, one voice becomes many (instruments)… 6-string steel, Weissenborn [slide], & nylon-string guitars, with dulcimer, banjo, violin, organ, drums, & electric wall of sound… his guitar breathes deeply in this new depth of field and altered sonic state, giving bright light and love to his powerfully emotive instrumental songs. Limited to 300, with letter pressed sleeves!
{This is a pure analog recording, recorded and mixed to 2 inch reel-to-reel tape, mastered directly from tape to vinyl by John Golden!}
A review from the San Francisco Chronicle Datebook:
Break out the candles and incense. Guitarist Sean Smith, one of the three young soloists on the 2006 release "Berkeley Guitar," has returned with his first collaborative venture, decorating his John Fahey-esque inventions with various percussionists, other guitarists and such. He expertly invokes the gestalt of psychedelic folk guitarists such as Fahey, Leo Kottke or, even more specifically on this outing, Sandy Bull and that evanescent moment when the boundaries between folk music and electric rock blurred. Smith, who celebrates this fine album's release Wednesday at Cafe Du Nord, is a poet of the guitar.
Joel Selvin, SF Chronicle Datebook
A review from Animal Psi (this dude listened to the album!)
From the much-appreciated slow hand of California’s Gnome Life Records comes the third long-player by folk impresario Sean Smith. Aptly titled ‘Eternal’, the album sets only a bottom limit marking its being by 1) its recorded existence, and 2) the vivid clarity of the recording, benefiting from a purely analog creation (through recording, mixing, and mastering) which leaves the flavor no shortcuts through which to hide. Despite the diminutive, intimate feel of the album’s seven wordless tracks, the first five all feature at least on other musician (including various combinations of Spencer Owen, Adam Snider, Angela Hsu, and Gnome Life’s Fletcher Tucker); to Smith’s guitar dominance these well-wishers apply percussion, bass, violin – all with a complimentarity which melts easily into the warm reverberations of Anvil Salute in the tongue-in-cheek melancholy of “Goat Seer” or the raga-down of “Palak Paneer”, offering a rare glimpse of musician bodies in the hand-clapping refrain. The album’s ups and downs are belied by the minor-darkness of opening piece “Topinambour”, a dusty stretch of desolate notes ringing and harmonizing, ala the many movements of Six Organs’ ‘For Octavio Paz’. Closer of side alpha, “The Real” treads some familiar impressionistic terrain of high-period Dirty Three, and not solely for the anguished sawing which enters late over the slappy agreement of guitar, (banjo), and percussion: treading the same tempera-painted waters as the Australian trio, the track captures a fantastic exoticism in its lazy, heavy stagger, circular arrangement, and unusual tuning - a portrait from ‘Invisible Cities’. On side omega, “Holly” is italicized through a deviant font, something of a nod to the tracks distinctly different quality as something exceedingly “post-rock” in the vein of Gastr Del Sol or The Sonora Pine, cascading from a locatable Appalachian guitar arrangement into a crashing attack of electric guitar and full-kit percussion, back to a quiet return with weeping strings. The Grubbsian “Prompter of Conscience” stirs with extended periods of blank and an underlying sustain, savoring each trickle of notes which is erratically peeled off. Bleeding out of this track and consuming the majority of the last side, “Greetings Death Love (Excerpts)” is a solo joint of semi-improvised guitar sketches – not-quite songs – strung together with tense silence and a general theme of wry optimism as only this sort of performance can affect. Black vinyl arrives in a handsome, heavy, screened sleeve with a vellum band, limited to 300 copies. Highly recommended.
**NEW!** SEAN SMITH T-SHIRTS!
SEAN SMITH T-SHIRTS!
Hand dyed and silkscreened.
Art by Julie Brown Smith
Small & Medium--PURPLE or BLUE (various inks)
Large--only in BROWN with white ink
$12.00
PLEASE SPECIFY SIZE AND COLOR IN THE PAYPAL MESSAGE OR IN AN EMAIL WITH YOUR ORDER. THANKS...
(Pre-shrunk and a little on the tight side. More colors and variations to come...)
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((Ye Olde Catalog, Take a look-see:))
- Sean Smith - “s/t” (CD)
$10.00
- Sean Smith - “Sacred Crag Dancer, Corpse Whisperer” (LP)
Limited Edition 500 Copies
$12.00
- Sean Smith - “Sacred Crag Dancer, Corpse Whisperer” (CD)
$10.00
- Sean Smith/Matt Baldwin/Adam Snider- “Berkeley Guitar” (LP)
Deluxe Gatefold Sleeve, Limited Edition 1000 Copies
$15.00
- Sean Smith/Matt Baldwin/Adam Snider- “Berkeley Guitar” (CD)
$12.00
TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK...
"Hay que aprovechar el tiempo"
Lathe cut 8" record etc...
Limited edition of 50 copies.
3 songs recorded in 2004 (2 months before the 1st LP was recorded)
Two guitar solos and a dulcimer/harmonica duet.
8" record, clear polycarbonate with black and white illustrated labels,
lathe cut in New Zealand by Peter King. (it sounds like a 78 -wow!)
6x36" rubbing of a sidewalk carving.
2 4x5" color photographs
1 corduroy swatch.
1 wool swatch.
5.5x8.5" statement hand numbered and signed by Sean Smith
All lovingly attached with solid brass brads to a beautiful 12x12"
piece of cardboard in a standard plastic LP bag.
"Hay que aprovechar el tiempo" Lathe cut 8" record:
$25.00
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