Apr 29, 2020
Cover of issue 6 of ‘Wanderer’ - a perzine about growth, relationships, mental wellness and DIY music, by Alyssa Giannini. Stunning cover. Almost looks embroidered.
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Cover of issue 6 of ‘Wanderer’ - a perzine about growth, relationships, mental wellness and DIY music, by Alyssa Giannini. Stunning cover. Almost looks embroidered.
The tapes for our seven-year anniversary compilation are finally here! Very excited for this one. 19 songs from our first 30 releases of slightly-skewed pop, indie rock, lo-fi folk, oddball electronic, and soundscape wizardry.
9/7/18.
I always notice who post a “note”. I appreciate the clicking abilities of raygarraty, polaroidblog, and others. I usually do click profiles to see what you’re about. Last night, I noticed that antiquatedfurture liked the post about Saturday Night. I clicked through and was introduced to a great label.
I’ve chosen to post about The Washboard Abs (Olympia, Washington) because, (1) it is Antiquated Future’s most recent release, (2) it has a slicker (a bit less “indie”) sound reminiscent of Sandy’s, The Alan Parsons Project, Andy Burns, Mantler, and Once & Future Band. Once I learned to love Steely Dan, I loved bands like this.
The label, Antiquated Future, is a cassette only label out of Portland, Oregon.
Decided to buy a cassette of this classic since I have a tapedeck and I’ve been listening to this album on the go for about half a year.
Definitely check Tucker Theodore if you’re into noisy, lo-fi and eerie folk set to internal struggles.
Dao Strom’s Instrument/Traveler’s Ode is an experiment in multimodal poetics—inhabiting a synergistic blend of poetry, music, and visual art: the artist’s three forms of “voice”. Born in Vietnam and leaving the country at the age of two for Northern California, Strom’s life and work speaks to fragmentation—of/within selves, histories, cultures, groups of people, and places—yet within this configuring lies her art’s fluid mastery. In a Strom poem stasis is impossible, with the accretion of sound and image constantly arriving at a surprising (un)conclusion. Combining color photography, personal biography and gripping, restless poetry, Instrument represents a unique melding of literature and art. The poems are augmented by an album, Traveler’s Ode, an interwoven series of textured, ethereal song-poems. Atmospheric yet weighted, minimalist yet lush, the album combines voice, electronics, piano, guitars, and field recordings from sources such as rivers, sea, jungle, and birds to create a deeply emotive song-cycle that explores themes of displacement, diaspora, and hauntings.
‘i have wanted to be instrument / and not just body to be felt / the cleavage of the world through’…
‘it’s better me than them / to inherit / hunger’…
In these poems instrument is felt as both body and music, vessel of transport yet also of trappings. Strom pushes on the frames especially of language and image, and seeks to articulate voice across frequencies, transposing—transmuting—self through mediums.
Instrument and Traveler’s Ode is a collaborative book publication and album release of Fonograf Editions and Antiquated Future Records.
(Release date: Sept 25/Nov 3, 2020)
Song Of The Day: Guidon Bear, "My Banality"
Guidon Bear is something of a 1990s Olympia indie-pop supergroup. Featuring Mary Water (who released one fantastic album as Little Red Car Wreck in 1997) and veteran drummer/producer/guru Pat Maley (The Lois, K Records),as well as E. Michael Bradley, they recently released their debut cassette, Downwardly Mobile:Steel Accelerator.The album is an interesting little sonic experiment–fully…
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Music Review: Midwife - Prayer Hands
Music Review: Midwife – Prayer Hands
Midwife Prayer Hands
[Antiquated Future; 2018]
Rating: 3.5/5
Midwife’s Madeline Johnston births songs from sound. Born watchful of being born, Prayer Hands — her second release following 2017’s Like Author, Like Daughter— sounds wary of bearing birthed into a life that must consume it, into a world where life is absent except in the prayer of birth’s passage. A birth that is not the…
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Buy everything this label ever releases. You will not regret it, I promise you. Surprise trumpet solos and everything! And side one, track one references AA Milne, so they are therefore the greatest band in history by virtue of that one fact alone. So there.
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