a r c a d e ~ bilberries and mushrooms

 a r c a d e ~ bilberries and mushrooms (bering strait archives, 2017)

Hypnotic whirl of grooves and hums, layered over the ground of weird echoes. Dance of electric impulses of mycorrhiza. Drops of water on the spider web. Moonlight reflections in the crystals hidden between leaves... I can go on like this forever while listening to this tape. It came a while ago, but every time I listened to it, the more hypnotizing it was. I know that term "psychedelic" can be attached to anything these days, so let's just say it's magical. And it truly is! Once you fall into these grooves and catch the vibe of those slightly unbalanced loops, it will spin in your deck for ages. Tuluum Shimmering  tropical canoe trip with Julia Bloop and Rod Hamilton, smiling to each other under the moonlight. High Wolf-y relaxing tunes to lazy Sunday mornings, Black Joker's game of never-ending loops which erase the difference between sounds which are actually there and imagined ones. And believe me, you'll be getting many of them even when tape stops. Maybe it's just a result of long-time addiction to weird cassette loop music, but a r c a d e definitely brings some tricks along with its seemingly simple compositions. The name behind is Nathan Stephenson and I strongly suggest to keep an eye on his output - "bilberries and mushrooms" is only a debut work!

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a warmer place

 va ~ a warmer place (calm in trees, junio 2013)

01 arrivées ~ günter schlienz | the norman tapes (metaphysical circuits, 2013)
02 asian carp ~ bitchin' bajas | unreleased track (2013)
03 before us is our ocean ~ tuluum shimmering | before us... (rotifer, 2013)
04 homes ~ innercity | not from here (ginjoha tapes, 2012)
05 kulti ~ high wolf | kairos: chronos (not not fun, 2013)
06 paean to the architect ~ floating gardens | generalife (constellation tatsu, 2013)
07 I-V ~ mount elephant | III (dying for bad music, 2013)
08 omaya beach ~ sunhiilow | garden & cosmos, split with uton (om hasva ha..., 2013)
09 certainty ~ ignatz | can i go home now? (fonal, 2013)
10 hengellinen rapsutus ~ kuupuu | sisar (em, 2013)
11 hey de chirico ~ ian kubra (mpala garoo) | unknown yet spring (self-released, 2013)
12 untitled I ~ eddies n the water | untitled (relax with nature, 2010)
13 untitled ~ color dream | cloud factory (digitalis ltd., 2008)
14 silvering future ~ strange mountain | slow midnight (lillerne tapes, 2013)
15 spa world ~ dolphin tears | spa world (lillerne tapes, 2013)
16 telepylos ~ the fractal skulls | split with adam willetts (bunkland, 2013)
17 the beach day ~ fred becker | synthetism (self-released, 2012)
18 camp nou ~ günter schlienz | the catalanian tapes (seconds, 2013)
19 superbrain ~ buchikamashi | superbrain (sicsic tapes, 2013)
20 thunderous slit-gongs... ~ tuluum shimmering | s/t (different lands, 2009)
21 duh reef ~ potions | cosmic fidelity (lillerne tapes, 2013)
22 hope is my guardian spirit ~ sunhiilow | a new beginning (self-released, 2013)
23 sun room ~ brett naucke | the visitor (nihilist, 2013)
24 splash clash tempo ~ jccg | unreleased track (soundcloud, 2012)
25 in search of the miraculous ~ mark mcguire | along the way (inpartmaint, 2013)

26 l'aquarium géant ~ janko nilovic | jouets musicaux (editions montparnasse, 1973)
27 dream sequence for a jellyfish ~ jürgen müller | science of the sea (digitalis, 2011)
28 pillow hills ~ panabrite | illumination (sicsic, 2011)
29 canyon eye ~ miaux | aeronaut 7'' (ultra eczema, 2013)
30 breezy ~ sky stadium | southsea (existencial cloth recordings, 2010)
31 mind levitation ~ sunhiilow | a new beginning (self-released, 2013)
32 s. royal brougham ~ emuul | split w/ afterlife (no kings, 2012)
33 how will i survive the winter... ~ thaniel ion lee | ambiguity... (watery starve, 2013)
34 a veces vuelo ~ salvador cresta | algunas grabaciones de dormitorio (salvita, 2012)
35 i need a good night's sleep ~ ignatz | can i go home now? (fonal, 2013)
36 opposites in harmony ~ former selves | split w/ aloonaluna (cosmic winnetou, 2013)
37 celestion ~ panabrite | xenon district (vco, 2013)
38 the secret door ~ motion sickness of time travel | oust (sicsic, 2013)
39 trapdoor to onfinity ~ rambutan | split with tidal (aguirre, 2012)
40 melancholy descriptions... ~ oneohtrix point never | fall into time (software, 2013)  
41an empire upon an empire ~ high wolf | kairos: chronos (not not fun, 2013)
42 you are sound ~ the fractal skulls | unreleased track (free download, 2013)
43 some place i keep dreaming about ~ ricky eat acid | love songs (obama, 2013)
44 holding breaths ~ aloonaluna | split w/ former selves (cosmic winnetou, 2013)
45 peru suite (andes & city) ~ monster rally | s&s dreams (stadiums&shrines, 2013)
46 lost raindrops ~ banana pill | banana pill (full of nothing, 2012)
47 tchenhoukoumen ~ senegal, percussion | murmurs of earth (2013)
48 lonesome train dreams ~ henry flynt | graduation (ampersand, 2001)
49 western tears ~ justin walter | lullabies & nightmares (kranky, 2013)
50 please leave me here ~ reedbeds | basement grotto (sicsic, 2012)

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soft sounds

va ~ soft sounds (calm in trees, august 2012)

01. patiente (waiting for the summer) ~ sunny dunes

02. wake up in summer ~ sparkling wide pressure

03. faraway trees ~ loner deluxe

04. song for nana ~ luminous craft

05. dominican black abbey ~ the driftwood manor

06. soft sounds ~ muffin

07. emery blagdon saves your mortal soul ~ brendan codey

08. a grave affection ~ tim kinsella

09. bull doze blues ~ henry thomas

10. you're going to leave the old home, jim ~ lulu jackson

11. summer oscillating ~ j. hanson

12. the store ~ mirror to mirror

13. spetses ~ panabrite

14. khi ~ high wolf

15. deeper into meadows ~ black eagle child

16. palolo ~ charlie wilson

17. in the park ~ deep magic

18. crystals in time ~ nibiru communion 

19. hummingbird city ~ orphan fairytale

20. kid island ~ mpala garoo

21. what comes after, part. 2 ~ long legged woman

22. edna ~ dead drums

23. goon the dooms star ~ ladyshapes & braden j mckenna

24. asyndeton ~ hobbledeions

25. veranda ~ monster rally

26. tape studies ~ günter schlienz 

27. rescue of prisoners from cannibals ~ x.y.r.

28. stained glass sequence demo ~ motion graphics

29. song of the whale ~ jd emmanuel

30. flown the other side ~ good shepherd

31. leaves on the breeze ~ shep and me

32. ceramy ~ kandodo

33. ~ ~ happy tendry

34. moonlight mind ~ imperial topaz

35. guider ~ braden j mckenna

foto via amhpics & kevin hsia

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va ~ free (calm in trees, june 2012)

01. hush arbors ~  bones of a thousand suns
02. ruth garbus ~  falling down to earth
03. wooden wand ~  skels
04. barn owl ~  reappear
05. donovan quinn ~  october lanterns
06. jack rose ~  moon in the gutter
07. poor farm ~ the delirious jangles of the angry inhabitants at 106 north rowland street
08. monopoly star child searchers ~  waterfalls introduction
09. joshua burkett ~  a moon equals zero
10. black eagle child ~  spring
11. beggin' your pardon miss joan ~  march of the boatmen
12. vollmar ~  island in the river
13. plains ~  on the rise
14. alasdair roberts ~  the two sisters
15. high wolf ~  un abrazo
16. spires that in the sunset rise ~  grandma
17. uke of spaces corners county ~ bird on a wire
18. kelly nesbitt ~  uke song
19. daniel higgs ~  return
20. fwy! ~  subdivision
21. 2 muchachos ~  polaroid dreams
22. lex panayi ~ this chimney has since been felled

one year ago...

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high wolf

high wolf ~ know thyself (sun ark, 2012)

"ascendent, crystallized tones from High Wolf.  calm, mantric expansions, burning at the center.  France's finest in contemporary psych." sun ark

sun araw meets cetacean nation cassettes...la emoción más grande. no sé si es porque hace tiempo que estoy abducida por lieven moana, pero tengo la sensación de que high wolf no habían hecho nunca un disco tan contemplativo y acuático, tan bonito, tan étnico, tan a baja fidelidad. cuando piensas que los tambores y palos de agua sin fin de 'obsessions history', (“...i love to mix all those drum sounds from various places in the same piece of music”), es lo más bonito del mundo, aparece 'mlk', y después 'khi', y después 'pandu', …y quieres que los minutos pasen despacio, que no se acabe nunca, un vaivén incontrolable e insistente como las olas del mar. vuelvo atrás y me doy cuenta de que 'khi' es la canción que más se acerca a lo que de verdad suena en mi cabeza cuando pienso en la palabra mantra  o que hay un mundo mágico paralelo. pero entonces suena 'oedipus' y... hay que escuchar para creer, max no es de este mundo, si acaso de uno submarino o de uno celestial. 'know thyself' es un cúmulo de sensaciones que me siento incapaz de abarcar, la sonrisa eterna, el sumum de la meditación trascendental y el ambient psicodélico

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voodoo mount sister | annapurna illusion | hellvision

voodoo mount sister ~ soul sister (winged sun, 2012)

"Voodoo Mount Sister  makes it on tape for the first time. Following 2010 debut cdr on Winged Sun and first vinyl appearance on Hands in the dark records “Soul Sista” is their weird attempt to bring soul music in noise / drone improvisations. Recorded in one session in July 2011 that went in many different directions, from dark kraut to noisy dub to psych dance. The girl is on synths and vocals, the guy is on beats & bass."

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annapurna illusion | hellvision ~ split (winged sun, 2012)

A side : Old dusty files from 2009 that sounds like an old babylonian conjuring the spirit deads…Like if the necronomicon book turned into a tape…Heavy organ chords, black mess style.

B side : One night in Belgium. The meting of Annapurna Illusion and Helvette (Glen Steenkiste from Sylvester Anfang II), under the full moon, after a few smokes and a couple of drinks. Two exhausted minds improvising minimal dark drones.

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my home is the sea

va ~ my home is the sea (febrero, 2012) 

01. and instantly take effect (loscil remix) ~ christina vantzou

02. a1 ~ darkside (nicolas jaar & dave harrington)

03. morning criminal ~ ricardo donoso

04. heat ~ piotr kurek

05. the righteous wrath of an honorable man ~ colin stetson

06. untitled ~ taiwan

07. track race ~ mascara snake

08. sky high ~ oracle offering

09. jasmine girl ~ sinn sisamouth

10. morning ~ david lannan

11. sun out my window ~ ducktails

12. esengo ya mokilim ~ franco and le tpok jazz

13. chemirocha ~ ketienya, chemutoi & girls

14. arap chemonget ~ ngasura, kipkemo arap

15. and the dance goes round ~ bern porter & mark melnicove

16. the ballad of fancy gap ~ jim, artie marshall & carson gardner

17. third street woman blues ~ blind willie reynolds

18. the night before last ~ marisa anderson

19. étoile star ~ high wolf

20. moonbow ~ majeure

21. earth same breath ~ kendra smith

22. dead dog drowning ~ chris lyons

23. dust sale  ~ vincent over the sink

24. lonesome mountain ~ miaux

25. spinning tires ~ mittland och leo

26. shower scene ~ umberto

27. never change ~ julianna barwick

28. in the same room ~ julia holter

29. and i say ~ nicolas jaar ft. scout larue will epstein

30. return to paradise ~ henry mancini

31. guilty ~ al bowlly & ray noble orchestra

32. i found my love in portofino ~ billy & friends

33. orinoco flow ~ enya

34. pop is dead ~ anne-james chaton

felicitacións de la vida, abuelete ^.^

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annapurna illusion

annapurna illusion ~ life is an illusion (rocket, 2011)

"...The music on Life Is An Illusion is gigantic and all-encompassing, conjuring up images of towering mountains, lost gods and swirling cosmos. At the same time, he elegantly suffuses his insistent and open-ended drones with touches of industrial noise and saturation that in less capable hands would seem out of place or clumsy. As such, Life Is An Illusion is one of the most accomplished synth drone albums released this last decade, and a welcome addition to the great kosmische canon." the liminal

"Annapurna Illusion, from France, is the evil twin of Not Not Fun's High Wolf. 'Life Is An Illusion' is scattered with fizzing electric guitars and ambient raga's which unfurl with the might of a psychedelic blizzard, fogging the sponges of the brain and eyeballs with a wash of hallucinations where Ash Ra Temple jam for hours on end with Loop. Tropical repetitive rhythms drone and drift, guided by a swarm of breezy effects and celestial layered synths that engulf the base of the mountain in hypnotic swirls of colourful head spinning rituals before zipping airborne to glide in a state of tranced euphoria." clearspot

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high wolf

high wolf ~ atlas nation (holy mountain 2011)

France’s High Wolf possesses a natural-born ability to zero in on the tones most conducive to inducing transcendental states. High Wolf’s tracks carry the uncanny sense of sounding as if they’ve been sluicing since the beginning of time, and that he had the graciousness to siphon them for teasingly brief absorption before they shimmer off to the vanishing point. This elite droneur is one of the few musicians who could title a release A Guide To Healing without it coming off as an ironic gesture or a laughable boast.

Atlas Nation, recorded in 2010 after a long trip to India and Nepal, deepens High Wolf’s penetration into the mystic. He evokes an uneasy peace with a new breed of tribal psychedelia shorn of all hokey signifiers. “Fuji Descent” starts the album with what could be a languid, paradisiacal soundtrack to a scrapped Alejandro Jodorowsky film. “The Dawn of Man” is a stark, stoned processional burrowing into malarial climes where guitars squawk in ominous tongues and congas cave in chests and clear brush with a vengeance. “Raagni” magnifies and psychedelicizes Rapoon’s mantric, ritualistic hand-drum patter and tropical-forest drones while hinting at Don Cherry’s jazz-raga peregrinations. High Wolf claims that “Haiti” was “recorded in a couple of hours on the day of the big earthquake in Haiti, so it's the darkest, saddest High Wolf track ever.” It’s a fittingly miasmic, climactic threnody.

Think of Atlas Nation as a surreal aural travelogue that takes a giant step beyond Jon Hassell’s Fourth World music, a humid milieu teeming with alien tonalities and oracular currents. It’s as welcome as a new, improved entheogen on the streets." holy mountain

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wyld wyzrdz • stag hare / high wolf • annapurna illusion

wyld wyzrdz & stag hare ~ antelope island 7'' (inner islands 2010)

"Two peace offerings from Wyld and Stag"

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high wolf & annapurna illusion ~ split lp (group tightener 2011)

"High Wolf's 23-minute contribution, "Amazonian Love Call" recalls the sounds we have enjoyed from him to date, a humid combination of tribal beats, expansive guitars, and whispy synths. Annapurna shares in a similar jungle trance, but is harsher in tone..." altered zones

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high wolf

high wolf ~ a guide to healing 7'' (bathetic 2011)

"This record is like a mental postcard from Varanasi (India). It’s probably my favorite place in the whole world, being there is like being on lsd. And if you dive in Ganga water - the purest water on earth according to the hindus, the most polluted and unhealthy according to science-, hold your breath and open your ears, this music is what you’ll hear." high wolf

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~~libera tu campo de energía~~

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hearing is believing

va ~ hearing is believing (abril 2011)

01. giving is receiving ~ gkfoes vjgoaf

02. thin thread ~ love cult

03. traume ~ emtidi

04. free your energy field ~ high wolf

05. like glass ~ charlatan

06. jackdaws ~ joshua abrams

07. at the top of bear hill ~ quinta

08. sun bum ~ monster rally

09. endless spring ~ houses

10. new birds ~ sky stadium

11. throw my ashes from this pier ~ sonny & the sandwitches

12. the festival ~ marmalade mountain & tasche de la rocha

13. seedling ~ sproatly smith

14. if i never touch you ~ cap'n jack

15. i'm sad and i'm lonely ~ derroll adams

16. she's an easy rider ~ tucker zimmerman

17. lips of a different kind ~ theo angell

18. holy man ~ wilcox, sullivan, wilcox

19. is there anything left to say ~ pawned pajamas

20. roll car roll ~ cap'n jack

21. edward gorey ~ mont smokey

22. h'ain ~ ocelote rojo

23. untitled ~ quicksails

24. with you, lord ~ bill quick

25. untitled #1 ~ ocelote rojo

26. sic corp marenc ~ monks of the balhill

27. let it be new ~ shelley burgon

28. yarn and milk ~ mont smokey

29. i couldn't believe it was true ~ willie nelson

30. i'm losing myself ~ robin pecknold & ed droste

31. fire ~ sister irene o'connor

32. de da de dum ~ pip proud

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high wolf

high wolf ~ étoile 3030 (not not fun 2011)

"Lupine looper and general world-lurker High Wolf has traversed a range of musical micro-terrains over the past half-year and with an upcoming Holy Mountain full-length on the horizon the timing of his inaugural stateside tour this Feb/March seems extra apt. To celebrate the trek we offer up Étoile 3030, a subtle six song zoner-cruise through pulsing gaseous clouds, brainwashed echo percussion, free hypno-fuzz riffing, and wobbly alien bass throbs. Tracks like “Dream Is Good” and “Studio 3” find High Wolf in particularly long-form headspaces, flatlining into innerspace, curlicues of wah burning off like solar flares, trancing with the stars. Live, High Wolf crouch-core craft comes costumed in weirdo ritual drama masks and illusionist cloaks so def bear witness if the chance presents itself..." not not fun

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high wolf / masaki nakazawa

high wolf / masaki nakazawa ~ split (winged sun/kaugummi 2010)

"Masaki Nakazawa, from the amazing band Topping Bottoms, is easily one of my favorite guitarists in the world. I just spent one month touring Japan with him, saw him play almost every day, jammed with him numerous times. What I can say is when he plays it's like his japanese tatoos take life and every ghost from ancient Japan, every kami is summoned. Winged Sun is more than proud to release his first solo piece ever. A side long reverb desert blues with haunting percussion, reminding me of Sun Araw's "The Phynx".

High Wolf shares the tape with one long 15 minutes piece showing a lot of range. It's starting with the furthest exploration of his dark side ever put on record (spent too much time with Annapurna Illusion), then turn into a psychedelic jam sounding like we're back at pharao's times and we have those fucking pyramids to build and concludes with a totally stoned improvisation, mainly acoustic, with a good dose of spiritual music and a spirit of tribe communion. maybe the best winged sun release so far, trust me on this one." winged sun

foto: marija strajnic

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l'amazon ram arkestra

l'amazon ram arkestra ~ a.r.a. (winged sun 2010)

"L'Amazon Ram Arkestra want to show a new side of biotope psychedelic music. Influenced by the music of western improvisation king bands such as Vibracathedral Orchestra, Second Family Band or Golden Jooklo Age with a bit of rainforest wet atmosphere." winged sun

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high wolf

high wolf • shangri l.a [moamoo .2010]

"High Wolf makes music like no one else on the planet. He claims to be from the Amazon and all his activities are shrouded in mystery. Sometimes he is just one man, other times High Wolf is a duo. In either case he conjours mystic tropical clouds of repetition and build that, while complex, are never hard to listen to. The music seems to tap into a primal frequency and demands listeners to dance. A contemporary of James Ferraro (of The Skaters), Oneohtrix Point Never and Ducktails.

He has records and tapes out on loads of ultra hip labels like Not Not Fun (the people who put out records by Sun Araw, Magic Lantern, Pocahaunted), Krayon, his own Winged Sun. Also he's known as the new superastral duo team IIbiis Rooge with the seminal talents of Mr. Neil Campbell, better known these days as Astral Social Club and (ex-)member of Vibracathedral Orchestra. The new album Shangri L.A features the edited tracks from acclaimed cassette "Gabon" on Winged Sun Records and 3 exclusive new tracks recorded during the spring of 2010. These tracks has been remastered by the Japanese famous engineer Soichiro Nakamura (Guitar Wolf, Boris, Yura Yura Teikoku...).

The album showed High Wolf looking at Africa from his native Amazonia...What's the difference between Amazonian and African jungles? When we live in the wild, with percussions and tribal singing, we're all the same..." moamoo

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high wolf

high wolf ~ ascension (not not fun 2010)

"excellent french loop/keyboard/psychedelic exotica outfit that projects post-Vibracathedral Orchestra/Astral Social Club styled trance into the future on waves of spectral technicolour. Ascension feels more haunted than previous High Wolf releases, with deep strata of subtly obscured melodies wheeling beneath fuzz, shaker percussion and glorious vertical take-offs. Psychoactive electro-minimalism with a heavy devotional atmosphere. Hypnotic/melodic palm tree tronics sculpted into jangly rhythmic pop fogs" volcanic tongue

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meeting of the three seas, solar system is my god, ...siempre favoritos

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there is a place

01. dreaming my life away ~ best coast
02. dreamers ~ edith frost
03. arabian sea ~ high wolf
04. cholita maria ~ vibracathedral orchestra
05. soft story ~ chris forsyth
06. golden dome ~ alexander tucker & decomposed orchestra
07. wind drone song ~ stag hare
08. rainbow ~ valet
09. coast to coast ~ dirty beaches
10. rambling on my mind ~ keijo
11. lift him up, that's all ~ washington phillips
12. radio flyer ~ mark mcguire
13. memo to my son ~ winfred e. eye
14. what a little moonlight can do ~ billie holiday
15. broken stems ~ the oh sees
16. wild ~ john k.
17. of heavy hearts and pocket books ~ lavendirt
18. sugar fix ~ hungry owl
19. those bedroom eyes ~ john k.

foto: luke byrne

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high wolf

 high wolf ~ supermodern temple (krayon 2009)

"Seriously high-level from High Wolf, horizontal Sun-traveller vibes on these sides from the French hero of plantain based smoke-magic. Whale visions of the future-now seen via wound up wind chime ellipses and air bubble hypnosis. Gradual, ecstatic plateaus of inter-special communication around dawning, jungle-island horizon keyboards and euphoric ocean-floor dance-party trance-outs. Loops of shore-dwelling guitar and hand percussion rituals usher in ancient, paradise island phazer goddesses, wordless conversations and electronic transmissions between the beached tribesmen and the spirits of the spheres, bouncing universal mind-rays off shiny, green dolphin fins. Art by Jason Kerley, pro dubbed cassettes." krayon recordings

foto: victor habchy

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true love will find you in the end

01. wave crashed on rocks ~ meg baird
02. i wanted everything ~ kurt vile
03. free galaxy ~ angels in america
04. night swimmer ~ beth jeans houghton
05. bizarre moonlight ~ high wolf
06. stark wood #2 ~ the end springs & lex panayi
07. the tree told me ~ beggin' your pardon miss joan & siddhi
08. we always change ~ castlemusic
09. blackberry song ~ kurt vile
10. open melody ~ lucky dragons
11. nagg clef seatpoint ~ richard youngs & tirath singh nirmala
12. fall aside ~ hope sandoval
13. bowling green ~ alela diane & alina hardin
14. dog song ~ mountain man
15. my hopes and dreams ~ jj
16. fiest ~ beggin' your pardon miss joan
17. eleven days ~ pajaro sunrise
18. rain on ~ acoustic family creeps
19. new wife new life ~ truman peyote
20. memory ~ caboladies
21. rancher ~ julian lynch
22. forever ~ peter drake
23. all i do is dream of you ~ patience & prudence
24. in tall grass ~ tara jane o'neil
25. true love will find you in the end ~ daniel jonhnston

para renco y la abuelita pere

foto: árbore

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