Various Artists (Lily Tapes & Discs) // Window: 10 Years of Lily Tapes & Discs 2xTAPE

※当店限定販売です

アメリカ・NYのアンビエント〜スローコアレーベルLily Tapes & Discsが、2023年12月に125部限定でリリースしたレーベル発足10周年記念2本組コンピレーションカセットです。

素朴であたたかい本レーベルカラーが色濃く出たアンビエント〜フォーク〜スローコア32曲（全曲未発表曲です）を収録。

当店でも人気の作家Adeline HotelやLung Cycles、Jason Calhoun、Hour、naps、The National Park Serviceなどが参加しています。帯とDLコード付属。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Lily Tapes & Discs releases available at Tobira. 

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

Includes DL code. Blue and violet tinted 2 x cassette in norelco case with stamped vellum OBI strip. Edition of 125.

Tracklist:

1. (morning) - (2020) 03:12
2. Adeline Hotel - How Did I Get So Lucky? 04:14
3. naps - bbi 01:00
4. Hour - Danger Zone (demo) 03:28
5. ylayali + jason calhoun - floral 03:15
6. Lung cycles - Asbury 03:58
7. Ocean Charter of Values - Vandal Hearts 02:24
8. Other Nothing - Oh 01:35
9. (morning) - (1991) 00:23
10. (afternoon) - (2016) 01:17
11. ylayali - he needs me (live) 03:33
12. Lung cycles - Field 04:27
13. Cla-ras - C is for Cricket 06:30
14. Distant Reader - "turning himself over and over" 05:37
15. The National Park Service - My Friend Wavey 03:13
16. Other Nothing - Nm 01:55
17. (afternoon) - (2014) 01:48
18. (evening) - (2020) 02:24
19. German Error Message - Door Held Open 03:25
20. Foresteppe - Fineland 05:04
21. Michael Cormier O'Leary - You've Been Saying What I've Been Thinking (demo) 03:07
22. Jason Calhoun - swift 07:12
23. Other Nothing - All Will Come 01:52
24. (evening) - (2008) 02:16
25. (night) - (2012) 01:40
26. G.M. Cowing - Metropolis 04:25
27. Greyon Greene - Rec Trail Reasoning 05:06
28. The Spookfish - Falling Star 04:42
29. ylayali - push 01:49
30. Vierzig Skizzen - Half Cold 04:28
31. Other Nothing - Resting Place (Traditional) 02:24
32. (night) - (2012) 02:04

++

Text excerpt by  Winston Cook-Wilson, via the label:

"[...] Since its inception, Lily has yielded an interconnected network of releases that function as a kind of personal musical lexicon for Lovell. Operating out of his home, Lily specializes in hand-assembled cassettes that frequently feature Lovell’s own art or design, and its discography includes everything from electroacoustic collages, experimental folk and country, to emo-informed indie rock. However, the lovingly curated anniversary compilation Window: 10 Years of Lily Tapes & Discs reveals a curious kind of aesthetic unity to Lily’s disparate crew of alums. The near-two-hour long compendium features new and unreleased material from nearly everyone who has released music on Lily—including Adeline Hotel, Jason Calhoun, The National Park Service, Michael Cormier-O’Leary, and Lovell himself—coalescing into a dream-like, immersive longform listening experience.

Rather accepting a specific release based on its suitability for some kind of label house sound, Lovell has always viewed Lily as a platform for friends to showcase whatever mode they were working in at the time. (This could be anything from a labor-of-love full-length, a smaller split release, or a stray experiment outside of their normal wheelhouse.) With Window, then, Lovell wanted to see where each member of LT&D’s roster has ended up artistically in 2023, instead of providing a scrapbook of their past work on the label. By his own account, Lily has always been a way for Lovell to connect with people he respected and got along with on a deeper level; therefore, it was also an excuse to catch up with collaborators he hadn’t talked to in years.

Many Lily Tapes & Discs releases sound like happening into the middle of a private musical conversation, or observing a ritual that has been going unobserved for some time. Lovell’s recordings on the compilation as Lung Cycles exemplify this feeling—patiently sketching a restless chord progression over rustling natural sounds in “Field” and luxuriating in distortion and percolating synth harmonies on “Asbury.” On his contributions, Philly-based ambient music vet Jason Calhoun thrusts us into a vortex of downsampled noise, with shards of melody sporadically cutting through. Reminiscent of the serrated sounds of Low and William Basinski, Cla-ras’ “C is for Cricket”—the handiwork of Jeremy Ferris, an illustrator and printmaker who has helped define Lily’s visual language—compellingly draws attention to its means of production. Wind shudders into a mic; synths and samples accumulate speed and density, culminating in patches of blown-out static that cause the entire track to short out[...]"

Artist : Various

Label : Lily Tapes & Discs