Alan Sparhawk - With Trampled By Turtles - CASSETTES

No one can help you build something beautiful quite like those who know you best. Alan Sparhawk knows this well. In his years in Low, he built decades of stirring music with his wife and lifelong creative partner Mimi Parker. In recent years, he has performed around Minnesota with his son Cyrus in DERECHO Rhythm Section, a funk band that also frequently features his daughter Hollis on vocals. There's an irreplaceable naturalism that comes with this kind of dynamic. Those who know you understand you. They love you. They want to help you bring your greatest passions to fruition.So it made sense that Sparhawk would turn to fellow Duluth musicians Trampled by Turtles to realize his latest record. As friends and mentees of Low's, taken under Sparhawk and Parker's wing from their earliest days as a bar band, Trampled by Turtles have performed with Sparhawk countless times over the years. The Duluth ties run deep InchThere's a certain vibe that has to do with underdog syndrome, coming from a small town,Inch Sparhawk muses. InchSome of it is the weird grind and slackness that being at the mercy of Mother Nature puts in you. It humbles you.InchThe two artists hold the kind of ironclad bond. Following Parker's passing in 2022, Trampled by Turtles invited Sparhawk to join them on tour to give him a space to be surrounded by friends. Occasionally, he would join them onstage. The outpouring of love was palpable every time they played together, a surge of warmth.When playing together is that powerful, why stop there? In winter, 2024, Sparhawk and Trampled by Turtles created With Trampled by Turtles, a record exactly as it's name implies Collective. Communal. Fraternal. Empathetic. A vessel for comfort, a reminder of the harmony that can exist when surrounded by those closest to you.Where White Roses, My God, Sparhawk's last album, plunged headfirst into electronica and radical vo

Following a 15-year immersion into the vivid, kaleidoscopic world of the legendary Hermeto Pascoal's Group, pianist Jovino Santos Neto made his way from Rio de Janeiro to Seattle in 1993 to set up shop at the Cornish College of the Arts, a thriving incubator of eclectic creativity since the early 1900s. Within weeks he was initiating Seattle musicians into his unique blend of Brazilian, classical and jazz, and quickly formed a group with fellow faculty members to workshop his non-stop output of new compositions. This live recording captures the very first public performance of his now 30-year-old Quarteto, featuring Jovino's compositions unveiled to an enthusiastic crowd at Seattle's historic Kerry Hall on April 28, 1995. With Hans Teuber on saxophones and flute, Mark Ivester on drums and Chuck Deardorf on bass, the evening marks the beginning of a love affair between the city and the abundant force of Pascoal's legacy through his apprentice's exhilarating musical presence. Jovino discovered the tapes from the concert recently and saw the of them as a fitting and loving tribute to Chuck Deardorf, who was a pivotal member of the ensemble until his passing in 2022. InchEverything Santos Neto plays feels like an affirmation of life, creativity and love.Inch Dora Stoutzker Hall, Cardiff, Seen and Heard International. InchA brilliant and intuitive keyboard player and flutist who explores jazz, classical and Brazilian traditional music with equal zealInch - Seattle Times

Vinyl LP pressing. 2024 from multi-platinum indie pop artist Dayglow. Dayglow - InchDayglowInch / Multi-platinum indie pop artist Dayglow's self-titled project embodies exactly who Sloan Struble is as an artist and acts as a proper introduction into the bright and colorful Dayglow world. The 10-track debut was solely written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Struble in his Malibu home studio. He opens up and shares, InchWhen I was 18 years old, I made my mixtape Fuzzybrain. I was a pretty introverted kid from a reasonably small town in Texas, so I didn't expect much to happen 'commercially' for the record - I just made it for my own enjoyment, really. As a fan of the 2010's indie music scene (MGMT, The Strokes, Phoenix, Passion Pit, etc.), I wanted to see what kind of album I could make completely alone in my bedroom. So, out of the quest to make something I loved, Dayglow was born. It was a clear reflection of myself at that time. It was pure, naive, goofy, guitar-driven indie-pop.