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Magic People on MySpace, Facebook, and Last.fm.

IT IS THE DAWN OF TIME

A wildly variable combination of players, MAGIC PEOPLE have flitted hither and fro in the past half decade, releasing and performing music of an odd bent in a loud way. In the autumn of 2007, a month long dramatic tour of Europe coalesced into the recordings you here today, taped by the inestimable KEVIN MICKA in Allston, Massachusetts. The line up at that time was JOHN MANSON on vocals and bass guitar, AL DEADERICK on keyboards, JOSH OWSLEY on drums and JESSE TRAVERS HUBBLE on noise and guitar feedback. YOU ARE THE MAGIC PEOPLE. Six songs of lyrical divide and musical untoward, a kind of rough joke with strong emotional disfunction. This one is for you.

“The latest batch of Magic People tunes cling closer to the rock margins, which is why some of the vocal turns and keyboard hooks in ‘The Pigeon and the Eggs’ have been stuck in my head for a month and why ‘Your Dude’ owes as much to Jonathan Richman’s post-adolescent word play as it does say, Roger Miller’s guitar snarls.” – Jeremy Krinsley

“Magic People keep it unsettling and repetitive while remaining weird enough to stay excellent and avoid the terrifying trap of genre exercise-type tedium. If you still live with your parents, blasting You Are the Magic People would be a great way to convince them that there’s a lot they don’t know about you.” – Joe Bernardi

This album can be purchased as a limited edition LP by Oklo Audio

We also have two earlier album in unlimited editions by Mister Records:
Keen Whips I’d Wear As Rubies (2006)
Oh Decay! (2007)

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Tulsa on MySpace.

Tulsa have a digital only “Hunting With Cats” EP currently available, and their newest EP “I Was Submerged” is coming on October 9th 2007; you can purchase both online from Park the Van Records. For those in the Boston area, Tulsa is playing a CD release show on Tuesday September 25th, 2007, at the Middle East Upstairs in Cambridge, MA, with Helms and Hats and Glasses.

These songs from Tulsa don’t sound like Tulsa. Yet Tulsa wrote them. Go figure. “I wish I had a Gun” was first heard on a john waters cd compilation. It was sung by Mink Stole. Two thirds of the band is from baltimore so it triggered warm feelings of the homeland.

The band bashed these songs out live without much sleep in their bones. “Fill their holes with angel eyes” comes in between the ep the band completed recently and the record they will begin to record in the fall.

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Shrinking Islands website, and Shrinking Islands on Myspace. You can also purchase the their debut album “In The Black Carpet” in various formats from Sort of Records.These songs were recorded at Pine St. Laundry by Shrinking Islands, May-July 2007. Mixed from 4-track cassette to digital files at Pipeline! Studio, July 2007. The cycle, sometimes referred to as The Mellancamp Trilogy, was written as it was recorded onto the 4-track and tested out at shows.Following the In The Black Carpet album, these songs satisfied an impulse, possibly initiated at a GBV tribute night, to play succinct rockers with some more Feelies motorik action – or heartland chug if you will. The cloak and dagger lyrics heard on In the Black Carpet are now dappled with Kiwi sunshine and generous fuzz and tremolo supplements, as they ride The Bats’ daddy’s highway straight onto the J. Cougar Farm-Aid stage, replete with above-the-head claps. Please listen to this with the windows open, or down, but preferably with the aid of boombox placed in a windowsill overlooking a sizzlin’ grill.

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What is music? What is friendship? What is innocence? When the members of DAS KITCHEN stopped playing TECMO BOWL and plugged in the 4-track, little did they know that they would open the GOLDEN VAULTS of knowledge that store the answers to such questions. From their humble beginnings in a dirty ALLSTON kitchen, to their humble middle period performing in public only twice for college students and then GEESE, to the humble and somber moment when members parted ways, it was a period of rigorous experimentation. Since they shunned the stage and only joked about releasing this music, this archive is the world’s first chance to examine these inept yet singular sound baubles.

They were their own biggest fans- still are- and biggest critics to boot. Fueled by MOLSON keg cans and saag paneer, the sessions often got quite heated and malodorous. A neighbor once informed them that it was difficult to sleep while DAS KITCHEN music was performed. Other times, they marveled at the petal-unfolding beauty they discovered within and felt good when a young student in CHINA wrote them a fan letter. Years later, the dust has settled on the tapes from which these introductory tracks were culled. This isn’t even the raging, really out, die-hard stuff, more a survey of the most accessible landscapes traversed by the group. It’s not hard to make ridiculous comparisons to established artists: Casios get kosmiche in the manner of CLUSTER, sample collages touch on the ethnographic concerns of THIS HEAT, the outlandish clattering of THE SHADOW RING is audible in retrospect. Not that the group was aware of any of those groups at the time! BLUEPRINTS? More like brewprints. Anyways, what’s important is that someone got around to making us get around to make this stuff available, and here it is!

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1. Sunset in Dixie
2. Past One O’Clock
3. The Wrong Flower
4. 4a.m. Wonder Room
5. Utter Alien Thought
6. It Isn’t Me
7. (Crix)

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Most Bitter website, and Most Bitter on Myspace.

After working in the improvising musical ensembles Meathawk and the Meathawks, Norwegian Wound, and the Concord Ballet Orchestra Players, no one was quite sure what to expect of a solo project from Jeff Breeze. Instead of exploring the freedom of being alone, Most Bitter fuses poetry and loops to create engaging song forms that exist in their own world. Whether adapting the last lyrics of Vladimir Mayakovsky, new lines from Holly Anderson, or his own words, the results are an engaging and sincere reevaluation of classic song forms.

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1. Sassy Glasses
2. Yr Honor
3. Radio
4. Sewn To Your Mind
5. Outside
6. Move & Glow (pt 1)
7. Move & Glow (pt 2)
8. Showers
9. Exit Plan
10. Quarters
11. Mosquito Nets

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Reports website, and Reports on Myspace.

Mosquito Nets was mostly recorded in one day in May of 2006. It was then taken apart and slowly reassembled by Farhad and Martin over the course of the next 6 months. The tape echo came out, the reverb tank poked its head in, all sorts of toys joined in the piece by piece reworking of the initial live demos. What began as a quick day to lay out some ideas turned into leisurely tinkering until everything was just so.

Both Dream Syndicates come to mind as possible founts of inspiration for this record, but in the end, picking out soundalikes seems futile. This is a pop record, first and foremost, and one that draws from its influences rather than just quoting them.

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