Shira E.
Shira Erlichman is a poet, musician and artist. She is of the make philosophy, inspiring her own label, Make Records. Shira’s chapbook “Advertisement for a Human Being” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her music is featured in two forthcoming independent films, Watching TV With the Red Chinese, alongside artists Beirut, and The Heretics, which premiered at the MoMA. She recently completed a visual art project titled “Squares” – 365 1 x 1 inch squares, one completed every night for the span of a year. Her favorite poet is a five year old. Learn more at shiraerlichman.com.
Releases
WFR077: WFRFRvol2 : Are You In Paradise? (LP)
I can no longer prolong the greatest moment of my life. I cannot afford to be afraid of the long silence. Of the after after. The people that populate my bedroom have become too real. My option is every door, every sun and mountain of night. Our options are in people. Honest voices are doors. I have stopped trying to control the narrative. To prescribe the reality of self. Not sleep until ending. Not sleep until climax. I am awake now. I am awake now. I will stop trying to wake up and I will walk out the door and I will see in a way that listens. This moment will be a kingdom of yes simply in the naming. It was always a choice. It was always a way of seeing. I am in Paradise.
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WFR054/WFRV 001: Whitehaus Family record family record
A double vinyl LP compilation of tracks from 26 artists associated with the Whitehaus in Jamaica Plain.
that summer you moved quickly. there was no time after work to go home before the show so you pack those boots in your bag in the morning when you left the new apartment, made a call during a cigarette break and scribbled an address, a part of town you don’t know but go alone anyway, all the streets look the same but you find it, from the outside it looks like no one’s home and at the bottom of the dark stairs you panic. you almost turn and run but you don’t and the door opens for your knock and there’s a smiling face on the other side…
WFR022: BLASTFEST!
The first Whitehaus Family Showcase happened on March 21, 2008 at the Cambridge YMCA Theater. Sound engineered and recorded by Shane Myrbeck.
WFR002: Hoot Comp, Vol. 2
they got big, they grew strong. recordings from the first whitehaus hootenannies in spring of 2007. all the hits from debbie, uncle shoe, the meadowlarks and more. plus a track from california’s trapeze and carrots at the first ever hoot feature! recorded in hi-fi, mixed, and mastered by in-haus audio engineer shane myrbeck!
WFR001: Hoot Comp, Vol. 1
the oldest of the old. talking widemouths popping, clicking, snapping; anything to keep our neighbors sleeping through the blasting, blissfull, beginning. early recordings from the first of hundreds of jamaica plain hootenannies. recorded at the legendary treehaus in 2006 by harry smith.