Advance Base // Wall of Tears & Other Songs I Didn't Write LP [COLOR]

Advance Base // Wall of Tears & Other Songs I Didn't Write LP [COLOR]

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アメリカ・シカゴのインディーポップ〜インディーフォークレーベルOrindal Records主宰Advance Baseが、2025年8月にリリースした再発レコードです。(オリジナルは2021年リリース)

ベッドルーム・インディーフォーク10曲を収録。DLコード付属。ピンク盤です。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Orindal Records releases available at Tobira. 

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Includes DL code. 
12" pink vinyl.
Pink vinyl edition of 250. 
2025 reissue - originally released in 2021. 

Tracklist:           

1. Wall of Tears 03:27
2. Sweet Old World 04:04
3. Love at the Five & Dime 04:25
4. How Can You Live If You Can't Love How Can You If You Do 02:49
5. Easy's Gettin' Harder Every Day 04:35
6. One Red Rose 02:15
7. Unwed Fathers 03:35
8. Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard 03:49
9. Mr. Chill 03:35
10. Solid Heart 03:44

From the artist:

"Aside from playing Advance Base shows, the form of musical expression I’ve most desperately missed during our current era of social isolation is singing karaoke. I have a great affection for the tiny communities that come together in any dive bar or pizzeria willing to invest in a modest PA & karaoke license, united by a common compulsion to earnestly sing their favorite pop songs in front of friends & strangers, accompanied by the artifice of prerecorded electronic instrumental arrangement. Wall of Tears & Other Songs I Didn’t Write is my ode to karaoke bars & karaoke singers. Consider it an album-length karaoke performance by me, Owen Ashworth.

The ten songs on this album were written by some of my very favorite songwriters, including a few I’m lucky enough to call friends. The original recordings of these songs have been constant companions in recent years, accompanying me on late night walks & aimless drives around Chicago & its suburbs. They have all made me cry at various points as I imagined how good it would feel to sing them at karaoke.

The instrumental arrangements were performed & recorded in my Oak Park, IL basement using electronic keyboards, samplers & drum machines with the single exception of the pedal steel solo on “Love at the Five & Dime,” which was performed & recorded by Xandy Chelmis from the Asheville, NC band Wednesday. Nicholas Krgovich sang & recorded the backing vocals for that same song, & the backing vocals on “Wall of Tears” were provided by Rebecca Clay Cole, two dear friends who share my love for these songs’ original recordings.

The guitar-like tones on “Wall of Tears,” “How Can You Live…,” “Solid Heart” & “Love at the Five & Dime” (other than Xandy’s pedal steel solo) were performed on a little Korg sampling keyboard loaded with single-note recordings I made by plucking the strings of an Oscar Schmidt autoharp, run through a chain of guitar effect pedals. I call this instrument an “Oscartron.” As much as I love guitar music, I have never been a guitar player, but I have come to love the sound of the Oscartron’s eerie approximation."

Artist : Advance Base

Label : Orindal Records

cat no : ORD64

Release date : 1st August 2025

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アメリカ・シカゴのインディーポップ〜インディーフォークレーベルOrindal Records主宰Advance Baseが、2025年8月にリリースした再発レコードです。(オリジナルは2021年リリース)

ベッドルーム・インディーフォーク10曲を収録。DLコード付属。ピンク盤です。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Orindal Records releases available at Tobira. 

----------------------------

Includes DL code. 
12" pink vinyl.
Pink vinyl edition of 250. 
2025 reissue - originally released in 2021. 

Tracklist:           

1. Wall of Tears 03:27
2. Sweet Old World 04:04
3. Love at the Five & Dime 04:25
4. How Can You Live If You Can't Love How Can You If You Do 02:49
5. Easy's Gettin' Harder Every Day 04:35
6. One Red Rose 02:15
7. Unwed Fathers 03:35
8. Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard 03:49
9. Mr. Chill 03:35
10. Solid Heart 03:44

From the artist:

"Aside from playing Advance Base shows, the form of musical expression I’ve most desperately missed during our current era of social isolation is singing karaoke. I have a great affection for the tiny communities that come together in any dive bar or pizzeria willing to invest in a modest PA & karaoke license, united by a common compulsion to earnestly sing their favorite pop songs in front of friends & strangers, accompanied by the artifice of prerecorded electronic instrumental arrangement. Wall of Tears & Other Songs I Didn’t Write is my ode to karaoke bars & karaoke singers. Consider it an album-length karaoke performance by me, Owen Ashworth.

The ten songs on this album were written by some of my very favorite songwriters, including a few I’m lucky enough to call friends. The original recordings of these songs have been constant companions in recent years, accompanying me on late night walks & aimless drives around Chicago & its suburbs. They have all made me cry at various points as I imagined how good it would feel to sing them at karaoke.

The instrumental arrangements were performed & recorded in my Oak Park, IL basement using electronic keyboards, samplers & drum machines with the single exception of the pedal steel solo on “Love at the Five & Dime,” which was performed & recorded by Xandy Chelmis from the Asheville, NC band Wednesday. Nicholas Krgovich sang & recorded the backing vocals for that same song, & the backing vocals on “Wall of Tears” were provided by Rebecca Clay Cole, two dear friends who share my love for these songs’ original recordings.

The guitar-like tones on “Wall of Tears,” “How Can You Live…,” “Solid Heart” & “Love at the Five & Dime” (other than Xandy’s pedal steel solo) were performed on a little Korg sampling keyboard loaded with single-note recordings I made by plucking the strings of an Oscar Schmidt autoharp, run through a chain of guitar effect pedals. I call this instrument an “Oscartron.” As much as I love guitar music, I have never been a guitar player, but I have come to love the sound of the Oscartron’s eerie approximation."

Artist : Advance Base

Label : Orindal Records

cat no : ORD64

Release date : 1st August 2025