While we might each ask ourselves on a momentary basis whether to stomp the hairy, scary spider in our kitchen, @sunsp.t maintains that, as a species, the decision’s already made.
Sorry Spider is out everywhere today. 🔗👆🏽. Psychical out 9/30
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Vocoder, Backup Vocoders, Keyboards (Piano, Pad, Strings, Moog Bass), Electronic Drums, Vocoded mouth hi hat - Joe MacPhail
Cover art by @chris_frisina...coming soon to a shirt near you
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#sleepycatrecords #Sunspot #spiderbeats #spider #spiderart #laptopbeats #carrboro #ncmusic
Today, @sunsp.t continues its trajectory of releasing inventive, genre-spanning material that stimulates the mind and nurtures the body.
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🔗👆🏽 to stream and download Beholden, the 2nd single off Psychical, out 9/30.
Vocals, Keyboards (Clavinet, Wah Rhodes, Moog, Moog Bass), Drums - Joe MacPhail
Vocals - @lizzyross
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Cover art design by @strange_bug with photo by @chris_frisina
New @sunsp.t single still hitting 🔗👆🏽
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Cover art by @night.owl.creations & @strange_bug
Say hey to Sleepy Cat’s now **official** and beloved family member, Joe MacPhail aka @sunsp.t. With Sunsp.t, Joe thrives in another multi-brained role as songwriter, all-instrumentalist, producer, mixer, and philosopher.
Heart of the World, the first single from Sunsp.t’s forthcoming LP, tackles the blind and enduring gospel of change and the reality that civilization either keeps up or painfully falls apart. That heaviness is in sharp but welcome relief against the track’s punchy and lifted electronic groove.
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🔗👆🏽 to stream, download and see full release notes
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Original cover art by @night.owl.creations with design and animation by @strange_bug
Take a peek behind the scenes of the Stranger Again music video! Shadow puppet and silhouette footage was stitched together by Gabe to create a colorful cosmic intimacy unique to @blu.cactus.
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Full bts vid @blu.cactus IGTV
Full music video on our website and YT.
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Puppetry by @alansbest
Directed, filmed, edited by @strangebug
Bts vid edited by @marniorez
"There's no finding
Where you're hiding"
@trippers_and_askers latest single, Keeping Watch, premieres today at Austin's @kutx ahead of next Friday's album release show at @shadowbox_studio.
🔗👆🏽 for premiere and vinyl/cd preorder.
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Jay Hammond - Guitars, Mandolin, Vocals, Synth Bass
@joewesterlund - Drums, Percussion
@mosheshken - Percussion
@samankhoujinian - Engineering
@scotthirschmusic - Mixing
Photo by @chris_frisina
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#sleepycatrecords #trippersandaskers #octaviabutler @octaviaebutler #spiritualfolk #folk
Making Forests, by @trippers_and_askers, is a mesmerising album closer with the words drawing on the central verse of Earthseed:
"All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God
Is Change."
-@octaviaebutler | Parable of the Sower
Making Forests premieres today exclusively at @folkradiouk where Alex Gallacher provides a thoughtful review of the forthcoming record, Acorn.
🔗👆🏽
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Jay Hammond - Voice, Guitars
@joewesterlund - Drums
@namesofwar - Electric Bass
@chessa_rich - Organ
Bako Jaf - Saz
Cover photo by @chris_frisina
Cover design by @strange_bug
Engineering by @samankhoujinian and @arborridges
Mixed by @scotthirschmusic at @echomagicsound
Mastered by @no_lands
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#sleepycatrecords #trippersandaskers #earthseed #octaviabutler #spiritualfolk #jazzfolk #indielabel #indierecordlabel #vinylcommunity
Sleepy's first festival set! @chris_frisina @t.gold.music @blu.cactus play Reevestock's 10th anniversary in Elkin, NC 8/8.
Tickets on sale Friday 6/18 1pm.
www.reevestock.com
Pulsing Place, the second single from @trippers_and_askers’ upcoming record, Acorn, took a tumultuous couple of years to make, but the results feel effortless. The song centers around a feeling of reawakening - given life by Jay’s meditative fingerstyle guitar and buoyant horn and percussion layers.
The song is accompanied by a deeply peaceful, naturalistic video made by Phil Moore of @bowerbirdsmusic. The video beautifully captures the feeling of a life becoming aware of the infinite world around it.
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🔗👆🏽 for full video, release notes, and streaming.
Vinyl/cd preorders are live now as well.
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#sleepycatrecords #trippersandaskers #musicvideo #northcarolinamusic
We're giving a warm welcome to @trippers_and_askers, the project of contemplative songwriter, guitarist, and ethno-musicologist Jay Hammond. His music evokes the sensation of gazing into the high-desert horizon, only to wake up and realize you’re actually on an unfamiliar moon, watching the orbit of ocean planets.
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Chance's Wake is the first single off the forthcoming LP, Acorn, out July 16th.
Jay - Voice, Guitars, Mandolin, Digitakt, Bass
@joewesterlund - Drums
@mgrigmusic - Pedal Steel
@namesofwar - Voice
@chessa_rich - Voice
🔗👆🏽 to listen to Chance's Wake
📷 @chris_frisina/ @strange_bug
"Stranger Again taught me to understand that the deepest levels of intimacy are created when we give our relationship intentional space. This is how we let our love evolve and root. Daily life with a partner can be mundane or precious. Halfhearted or wholehearted. It’s a choice." -@stefistew
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@blu.cactus single, Stranger Again, out now! 🔗👆🏽
LP out May7th
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@stefistew - vocals/ acoustic guitar
@marniorez - vocals/ electric guitars
@alexbingham7 - bass
@joemacphail - organ
@strange_bug - drums
Produced by @alexbingham7 & @blu.cactus
Recorded at @bedtown_studios
Engineered by @silkwormsound @samankhoujinian
Mixed by @silkwormsound
Mastered by @neon_audio
