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mountainhood - the boat-maker's daughter (blackburn, 2010)

'The Boat-Maker's Daughter is a record about transition and transformation. It is an expression of total breakage from all prior forms of thought and action--your parents, your government, your faith--and blazing a new path through doomsday to the other side. The songs range from the quiet, fragile, and distant "Geodesic Dome, Oregon" to the anthemic folk sing-along of "Jaine," one of the most accessible songs in the Mountainhood catalog. With The Boat-Maker’s Daughter, Mountainhood has transformed and shed much of the tape hiss that defined his earlier recordings, and let these very special songs of rapture shine through. This is not only a singular release for Hilde, but for the entire psych-folk genre. Poster designed by Hilde included. Edition of 500 copies'. Blackburn

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mountainhood ~ owlland the vhs album (important 2011)

"Owlland is an album on vhs as it's format. The band liked the sound of vhs and recorded the album on the audio track of the tape. Visual album art plays at the same time on the video track.

Owlland the epic new non-linear odyssey through love, time, and dimensions of California. Follow Mountainhood as he reveals the faces of magic apparent in nature and its human inhabitants as he leads us through planets in space, made of caves, stalactites, and moss, to Big Sur, where he visits the Boat-Maker's Daughter, and Kim Starlight, the famous Topanga Canyon actress, who plays a magician in the film, and later appears as herself in a disarming, candid revelation of sadness, loss, and transcendence. Ghosts, rainbows, oceans and stones dot the topography of Owlland, a mysterious new vhs album from Mountainhood band" important

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mountainhood ~ the river/the road 7'' (important 2009)

"Somewhere in the realm of the Holy Modal Rounders, Tower Recordings, Diane Cluck & Daniel Johnston there is Mountainhood. Each cover is exquisitely handmade. So nice. This follows his sold out and sought after Time Lag & Ecstatic Yod releases. See the release page for a link to photos of each and every cover. Get it now before it hits the online auction realm" important

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mountainhood ~ thunderpaint the stone horse electric (time lag, 2009)

"the counterpart to "wings from a storm". acid-dripping lo-fi euphoric melancholy west coast folk beauty from Michael Curtis Hilde. this dude is seriously prolific, with a fine string of cdr only release under the Moontainhood and Almaden names, but this pair is a real apex of his still unfolding musical vision. "thunderpaint the stone horse electric" is a totally intimate & spontaneously vibed little gem. deeply felt, introverted, hallucinatory, and starry-eyed song stories delivered via fuzzy bedroom fourtrack gush. fevered vocals quiver, warble, double, and swoon around gentle or ragged acoustic guitar, foot-stomping tambourine thud & jingle, harmonium, breezy flute, warm tape hiss, and singing crystal cave atmospherics… we know the animals are dancing…" time-lag

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mountainhood - goldeness being part 1 in the multivisorial dream saga called the light (father yod 2009)

"Full Color comes in Heavy Weight Vinyl Sleeve with paper inner sleeve. Artifactual insert art affixed to sleeve and handcut to geologic proportions by John from Sunburned. Get it from Father Yod/Ecstatic Yod Collective"

Michael Curtis Hilde, a.k.a Mountainhood is an american singer, songwriter, and visual artist. Prior to performing and recording as Mountainhood, Hilde was at various times known as Almaden, Almaden Wood, or Almaden Wood and the Transplendence XIV. Though style and genre shift from album to album, it has been written that "This is introverted music played as the blues should be."

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mountainhood - brother the cloud (reverb worship 2008)

“Limited edition of 50 copies. Brother The Cloud is a 78 minute, nineteen track acidic psychedelic folk album. Following on from his sold out Year Of The Mountain ep. The album is a big leap on from the ep. It features varied instrumentation, guitars, percussion, recorders, hand claps and communal style singing. The eye-catching covers are printed in fluorescent orange and lime green on red, yellow, orange and purple card.” reverb worship

"Mountainhood is the new project from the guy who formerly recorded as Almaden and this is his second release on Reverb Worship; the first sold out pretty fast. The deals in similar territory late night lo-fi melancholy..." apex on line

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