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WWR 5002LP
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"Originally released in 2008, Mariee Sioux's Faces in the Rocks immediately elevated the songwriter to the vanguard of a burgeoning California folk revival alongside Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, and Alela Diane. Although Mariee had already made a name for herself as a touring member of Brightblack Morning Light, it was not until the release of Faces in the Rocks that Mariee's agile fingerpicking and impressionistic songwriting made her one of the movement's leading figures. Whale Watch Records (Assorted Orchids, Bingo Club) presents this first-ever pressing of Mariee's beloved modern folk classic on 'bone'-colored vinyl."
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WWR 5003LP
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"Recorded in the Autumn of 2020 at Wonka Sound Studio in Lowell, Massachusetts, Assorted Orchids' self-titled debut album consists entirely of steel and nylon-stringed acoustic guitar inspired by the ornate and intricate yet rhythmic and pulsating fingerpicking patterns of Mississippi John Hurt, Donovan, and Nick Drake. Additional instrumentation is kept to a bare minimum and vocals are up front in the mix, fragile but forceful, delicate but precise. With a total running time just shy of 30 minutes, the album was designed and sequenced like a short story: a pure distillation of a single mood. As Pete Seeger would say, it's 'sit-down music'. Whale Watch Records (Mariee Sioux, Bingo Club) is proud to present these first ten songs of Assorted Orchids. It is music best paired with driving alone at night or sitting in a circle with friends, drinking, smoking, and talking. Don't forget to dim the lights. "
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WWR 7001EP
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"To say that The Original Bingo Club is a band or a team or a traveling circus is misleading. The constituency is always in motion, evolving to the rhythm of whatever faces, ideas, and environs surround it. The summery, surf-inspired atmospheres that reverberate from this 7"s two tracks are easygoing but tinged with melancholy: equally suited for a midnight peace pipe or a Coney Island carousel. Above all The Original Bingo Club is anchored in honesty, both to its respective selves and to its communal aspirations."
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WWR 5001CD
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2012 release. "Gift for the End is the sophomore offering from California's Mariee Sioux. Recorded in the summer of 2011 at Placerville's Moonsoon Studios and Nevada City's Sun Dial studios, the new song-cycle breathes as easily and resonates as warmly as 2007's Faces in the Rocks but brims with audible shifts in ambiance and perspective. Impressionistic narratives are underscored by patchwork guitar patterns that showcase Mariee's voice, an unadorned, naked instrument that rings clear and high above airy atmospherics and mellow percussion. Gift for the End is dream logic at play: a fluid procession of personal and natural imagery that moves from place to place and symbol to symbol but ultimately never loses its cohesive dimensions or emotional shape. While grounded in the earthy sounds of Mariee's fingerpicking, the album owes as much to Joanna Newsom's ambitious compositional scope as it does to the summery Americana of 1960's Laurel Canyon. Gift for the End is both an evolution from and a companion to Faces in the Rocks: a sunset album that gives the mind room to wander, wonder, and relax."
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WWR 5001LP
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LP version on 180 gram vinyl.
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