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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WFR076: Chris North – Lovedream (LP)
“…these aren’t coyly affectionate songs, these are jubilant hymns to the ecstatic, revelatory state of love [...] For me, it sounds like a high-up window letting in sounds from heaven which inspires reverence now.”
12″ hand numbered black vinyl from a run of 100, in screen printed recycled cardboard sleeve with Lindsay Metivier photograph affixed.
WFR074: Thunderheart – underbilly (CD)
This ocean, bubbles with great tune after great tune from New York’s Wes Buckley aka Dick Heaven aka “Wes” from “Jan Morrison”. Whitehaus Family Record was very pleased to add this record to the cadre, because it is very very good. And attractive to boot! Recycled cardboard sleeve with handcut Thunderheart Playing Card. Created in a “slow run” of about 75 copies. We’ll never know for sure.
WFR072: Erich Haygun – You Don’t Have To Stay Here, But You Can’t Go Home (CD / digital)
You Don’t Have To Stay Here, But You Can’t Go Home by The Debate
WFR068: Treemausers 7: Radio Heaven. Now’s Hour’s with Musical Guest Peace, Loving (radio / digital)
WFR066: Three French Hens Live at Whitehaus
3 French Hens return from a field trip to Hooksett, NH visit to the White Birch Brewery, and host a beer tasting, featuring live improvisations in response to each of three beers: Hooksett Ale, White Birch Dubbell, White Birch Tripel
credits
released 19 May 2011
Matt Samolis, flute
Steve Norton, reeds + percussion
Adam Foam, portable cassette devices and other avenues of manipulation
Special guest: Brian Ellis, poetry/text/ voice/tapes
WFR065: Gracious Calamity: Carefree Since ’83
Carefree Since ’83 is primarily about weather: an almanac of the human body as it absorbs, withstands, and opens to sea breezes, thunderstorms, heat, water, spring. Recorded to 2-inch tape in the coastal town of Weymouth, Massachusetts, the album crackles with glass, mosquitoes, voices of birds, voices of friends, wind-chimes, an old ship-to-shore radio microphone.
WFR064: Peace, Loving: Live on WZBC
recorded live on WZBC 1/17/11 during a three hour peace, loving performance marathon. performing are kate lee, morgan shaker, shane myrbeck, and arkm foam.
WFR061: Gracious Calamity: Live on Winter Solstice
Special solstice set recorded live at Third Life Studios in Somerville, MA. Gracious Calamity were honored to be featured performers at the Metal & Glass Ensemble’s annual Solstice celebration. The night was so cold and the room was so warm.
WFR059: Brian S Ellis: No Hay Banda
1. Descent, Pts. 1 & 2
2. Table of Contents
3. Self Portrait
4. dance dance dance
5. Ball
6. blind as pump-pump
7. Lovers & Condos
8. Time Travellers
9. Mugwort
10. the Janitor Poem
11. City Heat
12. Many Mansions
WFR058: avi jacob: 1000
Full rock band recording of Avi’s songs recorded in the hoot room in January 2010. Features Avi on electric guitar on vocals, Joe Deignan on bass, Kate Lee on organ, and Greg Beson on drums. Rough and ready. Dirty.
WFR057: Shai Erlichman: Season of Increasing Light
This EP was recorded in the hoot room on the first day of 2010. With this music as a guide, begin a journey as warm as the hum of radiators, skin on pillowcases, rapid eyelash movement, and collected twigs for later fires.
WFR056: Peace, Loving: Six Kinds of Mystery at the edge of beach forest; terrible fishgut magic
Recorded in the middle of the night in Horaflora‘s attic. The first track is a binaural (through Horaflora’s head) recording of the set that Peace, Loving played on their 2010 Diggers of the Sea Tour. The second track is a collaboration between Horaflora and atomfoam.
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…
WFR053: Brian S. Ellis: Blabberheart
Recordings of Brian’s poetry! Featuring Turkey Shoot, Falling off my bicycle, Caesarian, Criminal, Untitled #2, Untitled #3, and Untitled #4!
WFR052: Greg Mullen: The Hungry Ocean (LP / CD)
The highly desired and long awaited full length album by Greg Mullen of his songs. Recorded by Max Raphael and mastered by Brian Charles at Zippah Recording in Boston. Released 26 March 2010. Featuring Colin Dinnie on Electric and Upright Bass, John Hansard on Trumpet, Electric Guitar and Singing, Adam Ryan Kohl Mccarthy Foam on Drums, Kate Lee on Piano, Organ and Singing, and Greg Mullen on Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Toy Piano, Singing. Pictures by Briana Horrigan. Buy the 12? LP here: GO GET IT
WFR049: Morgan Shaker: L.A. Knightz
Mystical Revelation is an everyday occurrence. So are you. This record is about the joy. Welcome to my word. It is a drone record made mostly with guitar. I think it is really good for the times when you need a straight, electric feeling coursing through your veins.
This album is a FREE online release:
L.A. KNIGHTZ
WFR048: Gracious Calamity: Becky’s on Vacation
A collection of studio, live, and home recordings by Gracious Calamity. Compiled for their summer 2009 tour with Tiny Tornadoes. All the hits! 100(ish) handmade copies exist.
WFR047: Casey Rocheteau: Chiaroscuro (Tape / CD)
Chiaroscuro is a dreamscape Casey built out of words, beats, and the Shangri-las. She assembled it in the late night, in the dark, surrounded by bird’s nests and watching all the things in her mind spinning and moving. 10 copies dubbed in June 2009. Super Rare.
WFR046: Truman Peyote: Light-Lightning (CD-R)
“Truman Peyote is an astonishing mix of primitivist clattering and modern electronic twerks. It sounds like a Martian tribe emulating pygmy music, or ghostly reverberations from a dancefloor in the future.” The Weekly Dig
“New Wife, New Life” featured on pitchfork.com
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WFR045: Blast of atomfoam (CD)
have you ever woken up to the smell of a smoking gun? have you ever laughed in the face some of somebody laughing at you? be not supervised while listening. take the risk into your own hands. be somebody or be somebody’s fool. if you’re not now, you never were. “the past and the future are really not all that different.” – brian s. ellis (kind of like kerouac)
WFR044: Greg Sun / Chris North – Two Voices at the End of Winter (CD)
Grab a cup of mead, some energy crystals and huddle up next to your favorite goat for this festival of somber merriment. Two Voices is the finest coalescence of astral rock and renaissance folk by two modern day bards, Greg Sun (Manners) and Chris North (The Points North). This poppy lo-fi carousel weaves acoustic guitars through a meadow of instruments including flute, accordion, violin and cello, wrapping it all up nicely with magnetic tape at varying speeds.
WFR043: Greg Sun / atomfoam – Crops (tape)
Crops is a recycling bin that splices together bits of music, spoken word, poetry from Brian S. Ellis and songs of Manners and Atomfoam. Sometimes tense and cacophonous, other times sparse and symphonious, this tape was made to be listened to with headphones – so grab your walkman and go.
WFR042: Morgan Shaker – Darkness EP
Do you like rusty ocean and the strings? It smells like a salt marsh in here. Meet me at the point. What are you waiting for? Another Morgan Shaker release?
WFR041: Anna Fox Rochinski – s/t
Anna is a Boston native who enjoys singing to the top of the stratosphere and writing songs on the guitar, ukulele, banjo, piano, and whatever weird or broken instruments she finds in the attic or gutter. Peep the solo Whitehaus release from the frontwoman of QUILT!
WFR040: April Ranger: Like Canvas
April Ranger has the entire Boston poetry scene under her spell with her blend of literate, heartfelt, and oftentimes hilarious writing. In the words of Steve Subrizi: “She really knows when to stomp the distortion petal and when to go acoustic and let the words do the work.”
WFR039: Brian S. Ellis: I Wake Up EP
“I WAKE UP!” you’ve heard it a million times, or maybe never once yet! Get the blast from Whitehaus founding member and spastic slam poet Brian Stephen Ellis!
WFR038: Peace, Loving: LIVE
much like the first thanksgiving. grab a chunk of this, some cornbread, a turkey leg, cranberry sauce. yum! live recordings from the ‘peace, loving’ band. get together with your bud, give it a spin, see where it takes you. see where it has taken others before you. untitled banjos, chimaxes, smell-0-vision, anthems for a simple pilgrim.
WFR037: The WinterCamp Sampler ReRelease
Before Greg Sun lived at the Whitehaus, he lived at Wintercamp and hosted shows there. Read about it in the Boston Globe! The residents of Wintercamp released this sampler that was re-released on the Whitehaus Family Record in 2009.
WFR036: Prince Rama of Ayodhya: Threshold Dances
The influence of Prince Rama of Ayodhya stretches far and wide, curls around you, and brings you back to the present. In the sonic arms of Taraka, Michael, and Nimai, you are safe in the humanity of your existence, and you can travel with them to other dimensions with the coyotes and jingle-jangles.
WFR035: Morgan Shaker: I Can See For Miles
You are falling down a dark corridor until you land with a puff in a bank of pure crystalline snow. Clutching your ice dagger and navigating with the warmth of your heart you set out on a hazy mystical journey to the cave of the Ice Queen, with destiny on your side and only the owls to protect you
This addition to the WFR recording catalogue should please all who are looking for an experimental fantasy in to the dark and mystical world of snow-fi. Clocking in at twenty seven minutes, this album was constructed with the use of tapes, a keyboard, a sampler, and electricity. Listen to this album free online!
WFR034: Many Mansions: Return to Source!
The latest album from Many Mansions is dance oriented, blending the repetitiveness of trance, the feel-good vibrations of tropicalia and the mind-beinding aspects of psychedelia. You can hear it for free at Asteroid M Project – physical copies sold out for now.
WFR033: Manners – Wintour EP
A limited edition EP compiled for December 2008′s Whitehaus Family Wintour. The opening songs crackle cavernously and drip with loitering melodies, sounding both massive and minimal. They affect one with all the dazzling captivation of fire without the burn or pain. The meditations that follow are earthen patterns sounding out in tireless reiteration, disguised as the lulling caress of silence. These noises fill headphones like the sway of trees or a popping campfire.
WFR032: Morgan Shaker: Voila, Spelt Wheat Plus Zephyr
This classic Morgan Shaker record was pressed as a limited series of < 10 that were lovingly distributed throughout New England during Wintour 2008. If you have one, you were there. To all M-Shakes heads: Dig Deep for this one.
WFR031: Gracious Calamity: Rabbit Rabbit EP
Rabbit Rabbit is a homemade confection blooming with giddiness. This five song EP is composed of various recordings from bedrooms in the Whitehaus and one track live from the Advent Church Library in Beacon Hill. Kate Lee and Kit Wallach’s complementary vocals reverberate with strength and dignity, joining a chorus of benevolent guitar, bobbling ukulele and ringing xylophone. These simple euphonies give one a fuzzy feeling that matches the fuzz of the homespun lo-fi recordings.
WFR030: The Whitehaus Family Sampler, Vol. 2
Hang on to your sled for this sampler compiled for Wintour 2008. You start at the first classic-rock chords of Morgan Shaker’s “SCILA,” slip and swerve through Many Mansions’ “Big White House,” Gracious Calamity’s “Song That Grows Like A Vine,” stop for a drink of water at the Meadowlarks’ “First Person Omniscient,” float away into interdimensional space with Casey Rocheteau on “Beings of Sound,” and land on your feet face to face with Shira E. for “Mouth Jam.” It’s a trip, it’s a treasure. Feel the sound.
WFR029: Peace, Loving: Live ’08
A 30-minute cassette tape with watercolored cover. All tracks recorded live in 2008 at: First Church Jamaica Plain, Mass Art Squash Courts, The Points North Kitchen, and Tranzac Club Toronto.
WFR028: Peace, Loving: The Shape of Jazz to Come
Peace, Loving’s first album, The Shape of Jazz to Come was originally released on 10? vinyl with only 100 copies. This collection of early live recordings is now very rare to come by. Get your copy today!! SOLD OUT.
WFR027: Casey Rocheteau: Pump Your Concrete (Oh Word the Album)
An adventure through time, spa c e, and sound. Poetry, tape collage, jams from a saloon in the 1800s, knowledge, facts, mystique. All straight to your mind from the mouth of the newest new American poet. Oh word.
WFR026: The Woodrow Wilsons: According to the Seasonal Tilt of the Earth
A lovely masterpiece of sound and song. Hear your favorite classic ‘Dros jams plus all the ones you never got to hear. Sink into velvety vocals, then spin away on the tails of burning ukelele solos. Everything is perfect. Yes.
WFR025: Truman Peyote: Catalog 1/14-5/12
Sweet beats. Check out this Truman Peyote release from the sweaty height of their New Yoga years, early 2008. The hardest working-out group in show business.
WFR023: Kate Lee and the Opposites Attract: Whatever Whatever
whatever whatever is a visual collage of sound waves. it was born in the center of a mound of dough, kneaded into form by knuckles and elbows. risen by the sun, baked by the sun. the smell is of yeast happily gobbling the sugars around itself. the sound is of gliadin and glutenin dancing their magic dance and assembling themselves orderly into graphs. but don’t take my word for it, listen and download whatever whatever for free at archive.org
WFR022: BLASTFEST!
The first Whitehaus Family Showcase happened on March 21, 2008 at the Cambridge YMCA Theater. Sound engineered and recorded by Shane Myrbeck.
WFR021: Avi Jacob: Frolic-a-holic
Avi Jacob’s idiosyncratic folk/gospel-roots stylings are undeniably charming. This album was recorded in an empty church and you can def’ hear the penance and redemption of souls all around you.
WFR020: Kettle Stitches: Put Out the Lights and Cry
In-haus sound engineer Shane Myrbeck and resident modern classical composing wizard Emily Shisko teamed up to create this country-pop gem. A new new classic!
WFR019: Many Mansions: The Dream is Changing EP
Blissed out dreamscapes for those of us with a head full of clouds. Many Mansions will take you to that safe place you’ve felt but cannot name. yldneirfytnewtrouf.
WFR018: Oh, Oh, Mints!: The Oh, Oh, Mixx Tape
early craighead, craighead. primitive peace,loving. before great whales. watching the cosby’s with a buffalo chix sandwich and a ginger beer. don’t b l8 4 practice @ dloo’s basemint. catch the magic momints, feel the flavor vibe. way before raspberry crossing. when debbie was just joey. screamin sax, creamy clarinet. the rock band of your dreams. originally released in 2000 on cassette and hawked on cape cod. when kids were still kids.
WFR017: Morgan Shaker: Blaste’
Voted the best record to take back to your 2nd apartment. A “best of” conglamorate of many hard-to-find Shaker releases. Includes the most classic of the classic Shaker hits, such as “TomWaitsForNoOne” “Fruit Salad” and “Los Helados.” Very Listenable, Eminently Spinnable! Doubly Splayable.
WFR016: Brian S. Ellis: Toothjuice
Expression from the bloody swamps of roots and veins that make up the life and brain of brian s. ellis. Homemade 4-track outsider-genius.
Toothjuice is currently unavailable in any form… but if you want it bad enough you just might find what you’re looking for
WFR015: Adam Ryan Kohl McCarthy Foam – ARKMF
a 25min poem from foam. a late may weed, grown from dormant fall seed. first expressions of banjo technique on tape, four tracks, threw and. it starts with gurgling, and if something’s boring after two minutes, listen to it… it’s a sound i’ve heard before, i’m not sure if i like it… it’s the sound of something being taken apart.
WFR014: Morgan Shaker: Flat
Take a real head trip. Sip on this tall drink drip. Drop your nikes, look deeply into your psyche. If you’ve ever been down, been kicked around, seen the darker side of towne. You know you’ve pulled all of your ‘FLATs’ from the shelves before!
WFR013: atomfoam: decade (double disc)
the first whitehaus release by atomfoam. a retrospective of his recordings over the past 10 years. two discs chock full o grits an’ grazin’s. stuff like you’ve never heard, fresh bread with raisins and nuts baked in. a video of you opening pretzels on your birthday. embarrassing! The Guitar Quartet. Simphoney in 3 Moments. The Computer Tape. Craighead, Craighead. Five Bits. The Microcassette Tape. + more.
WFR012: Many Mansions: Holy Mountain Life Adventure Club
The album recorded during the historic Many Mansions Northwest States tour. Shane never returned. Spooky shamanic children, tender lullabyes, third eye cats of drone. Eating ginger lentils w/ your bliss.
WFR010: Lindsay Clark: Thistles
Already a country classic – limited handmade edition. Skinny dipping in some pond you’ve never been to, the bugs sound strange. Someone’s cooking bacon on the fire. What a pretty table cloth! A mass of cedar waxwings attacking highbush cranberries, through big speakers. I am hungry, and then I am not.
WFR009: The Whitehaus Family Sampler, Vol. 1
Assembled by atomfoam and Many Mansions in frantic preparation for the Kettle Stitches’ debut at Albert Hall! The first sampler from the Whitehaus Family Record features The Popsicles, Debbie & the Bullets, The Cups, Jake Estner, Brian S. Ellis, Lindsay Clark, and many more…
WFR008: The Whitehaus Family Wake Up EP
WAKE UP! 4 Tracks recorded by a giant group of friends and family one saturday morning at the whitehaus. Featuring traveling word spinstrels Solomon Sparrow’s Electric Whale Elephant Engine Revival! Appearing on this record are whitehaus classics: ‘don’t jam me up’ and ‘restless in heaven’ by Brian S. Ellis (the only songs he’s every written/recorded!), a look into the only recorded work by longtime treemauser jon Duece on ‘don’t cry mama’, and a full out blues jam with longtime mauser Greg ‘Moon’ Mullen on ‘mountain steep’. Check out the edition of this album with bonus tracks by Charles River Trout Company, and ‘on my 30th birthday’.
WFR007: Shane Don and The Field of Light: The Many and The One
After releasing Many Mansions 1, Many Mansions 2, and Many Mansions 3 pre-w.f.r, Shane makes his first whitehaus release an album showing his guitar-playing/songwriting side. but peel your eyes, cause this burger’s rare.
WFR006: Debbie and the Bullets: Debbie
Foot Stompin? Check. Blasting out of what it was with the healthy sh-t. Trying to forget about jeans and kicks, trains and getting there late. Debbie used to sing cause he was sad. Made him feel like he was singing right into the earth. Right into some rotten ears. Then, it got heard. Now he just sing cause its what he do. Debbie’s songs sound like the ladder being kicked out and then you land in your grandfather’s armchair. Positive messages form a place that’s warmer than outside. Big heart with harmonies galore, some would be wisdom from the depth, some out twanging 7ths and open arms. Chants of friends and family. Daps for two wheels and plane tickets. Debbie and the Bullets want you to be happy. They want you to know it’s been done and yeah, it’s still gonna happen, but you got it. Sing along. Get with it.
WFR005: Morgan Shaker: Salt
Deep exploration in cassette fidelity from The Whitehaus Lion. Who isn’t curious about the first Morgan Shaker whitehaus record? Originally released as a CDr with under 10 copies and no rerelease so far… Try and hunt this one down if you can!
WFR004: The Cups – Sketchbook
Considered by most Mausers as ‘the best record ever”, Sketchbook is a 4-track masterpiece by brothers duo ‘The Cups”. Recorded at their apartment down the street from the whitehaus in the early ’00s, and comes with weird sweet Cups art. Lo-fi, R&B, Classic Rock, OMG.
WFR003: Stay Awhile with… The Popsicles
Sugary doo-wop girl-group pop sweets… hang out with the Popsicles, go for a swim on a warm summer day, stay awhile. Bring a date, your mom, your grandma, your bro, your dog, everyone loves it. The first and only release by the group that was born and died at Whitehaus Hootenannies. Don’t miss out on original original music by Kate Lee, Shira E, Kit Wallach, Def Steph Berry, and Leise Jones! Recorded at the whitehaus by Shane Myrbeck, mixed and mastered in an actual studio! Sounds Good.
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.