Bumpy

01/05/2024

🎊 You can now pre-order our newest release, “The Mind is the Builder”, a brand new prog singer/songwriter album by Larry Wish! 🧠 This one has been 4 years in the making and features tons of amazing collaborators! 🤩 "The Mind is the Builder" comes out Friday, April 5th! 🥳 Pick up tapes, CDs, and LPs below while supplies last, and stay tuned for more announcements regarding release shows, listening parties, and more treats between now and then!

https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/album/the-mind-is-the-builder

06/15/2023

Huge thank you to Spenser Tomson for the lovely review of “One Eye Closed/One Leg Lifted” by Ivan Cunningham’s Freedom Pie in the most recent issue of The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music! 🤩

You can order an issue here: https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/473

And you can listen to/order the album here: https://ivancunninghamsfreedompie.bandcamp.com/album/one-eye-closed-one-leg-lifted

06/15/2023

Thanks so much to Reviler.org for the stellar review of "One Eye Closed/One Leg Lifted" by Ivan Cunningham's Freedom Pie!! Take a gander and then listen to the album/buy a tape below:

Listen/Order: https://ivancunninghamsfreedompie.bandcamp.com/album/one-eye-closed-one-leg-lifted

8 track album

05/26/2023

🐍 “One Eye Closed/One Leg Lifted” by Ivan Cunningham’s Freedom Pie is out now! 🥳 Take a listen/buy a tape or download on our Bandcamp page {Link below} 🎶 See you at the release show at Icehouse MPLS next Wednesday 5/31! 👋 Enjoy!

Listen/Buy here: https://ivancunninghamsfreedompie.bandcamp.com/album/one-eye-closed-one-leg-lifted

✨ CREDITS ✨

🎙 Recorded & mixed by Emery Snow at Future Condo Recording Studio in Minneapolis, MN
🌟 Mastered by Nat Harvie
🔮 Additional treatments by Moribund Veneer
🖼 Cover painting by Cooper Felien
📸 Photos by Isabel Fajardo
🎼 All compositions by Ivan Cunningham except “No Sleep, No Food, No Water” by Ivan Cunningham & Charlie Lincoln
📫 “Letter From Jiang Qing” lyrics by Soubrette
🔇 “Echo is Missing” lyrics by Larry Wish
💞 “I Respect All of You” lyrics by Ivan Cunningham, Soubrette & Xochi de la Luna
🎅 “The Snow Will Fall in White Like Santa’s Bangs” lyrics by Ivan Cunningham & Larry Wish

04/28/2023

🤴 We’ve an album to announce, My Lord! 👐 Bumpy No. 23 is none other than “One Eye Closed/One Leg Lifted” by Ivan Cunningham’s Freedom Pie! 🥧 Fans of avant-jazz, prog-rock, and no wave rejoice! 👏 The album releases on 5/26 and is now available to pre-order on our Bandcamp page, where you can stream the first single “Little White Death Ring” as well. Long live the king! 👑

Pre-order/Preview here: https://ivancunninghamsfreedompie.bandcamp.com/album/one-eye-closed-one-leg-lifted

Here’s a bit about this fine album:

“On Ivan Cunningham’s newest album One Eye Closed/One Leg Lifted, the Minneapolis-based musician is more of a conductor than he is any one particular kind of instrumentalist. Knowing when to sing gently and when to squeal, Cunningham leads a circus ring of fellow collaborators who embrace fun house mirror sounds, erratic saxophones, and distorted keyboards. Tracks that come in elaborate stages boast local DIY experimental artists like Xochi de la Luna and Larry Wish, as well as multidisciplinary artists and composers such as Moonear Khar and Davu Seru. Cunningham’s darting sounds are also influenced by his continuous collaboration with Zeitgeist New Music Ensemble. As a part of the new generation of New Music artists, Cunningham fuses experimental music and prog rock, living in an avant-indulgence that respects chops and play in equal parts. He reasons that sound is something that moves through you, not something that is controlled by any one instrument. One Eye Closed/One Leg Lifted leans into what is sharp and angular while ultimately holding space for the large personalities of his collaborators and, more importantly, his friends.” ~ Sage Shemroske

“One Eye Closed/One Leg Lifted” was recorded by Emery Snow at Future Condo Recording Studio in Minneapolis 🎙 The album was mastered by Nat Harvie and was blessed with additional treatments by Moribund Veneer ✨ The cover painting is by Cooper Gatzmer, and features the studio photography of Isabel Fajardo 📸

The release show for “One Eye Closed/One Leg Lifted” will be at Icehouse MPLS on 5/31 🎶 Oyster World & DJ Enva join the bill as well! 🐸

Many talented musicians are to be found on this album! ❤️ They are (but are not limited to): Soubrette Toivo Hannigan Alma Engebretson Sophia Cadillac Margarita Charlie Lincoln Tarek Abdelqader Drew Kellum Josh Granowski Patrick Adkins Cole Pulice Xochi de la Luna Noah Ophoven-Baldwin Larry Wish Leo Dreis Samuel Stroup Leiram Ylrebmik Arievilo Moonear Khar George Cartwright Davu Seru

12/17/2022

Thanks for reviewing the new Oyster World tape, Reviler.org! 🥳 Release show tonight at Hell Above in Minneapolis!

https://www.reviler.org/2022/12/17/listen-to-new-oyster-world-cs-banana-whip-release-show-tonight-sat/

Local yokels Oyster World recently dropped a new tape called Banana Whip on Bumpy Records that features their whimsical, twitchy rock and roll. It’s nine songs of circus pop, the kind of musi…

11/25/2022

🥳 Surprise! Bumpy has one final release for 2022: Announcing “Banana Whip” by Oyster World 🌐 The EP is now available to pre-order on our Bandcamp, features gorgeous artwork by Gabriel Timmreck, and is officially out on December 16th! 🎄 Take a listen to the first single “Friends” and order a tape today 😊💙

Check it out!: https://bumpy.bandcamp.com/album/banana-whip

Oyster World is back with a brand new blender of a tape, it’s “Banana Whip” 🌐 A new blender of a tape, Oyster World (whose new blender of a tape is called “Banana Whip”, a new blender of a tape) is back with a new blender of a tape, “Banana Whip” 🌐 Take a drive down to the ocean and you’ll see what all the commotion is about down there. YOU’LL SEE! 🌐 One is sure to get one’s kicks down in the depths of the underwater version of Route 66, a new blender of a route 🌐 The song “Stee Bing” launches the new blender of a tape off its lilypad with a thousand twists and turns at a thousand underwater miles per gallon, guitars ala Stevie Jo + Gravey and drums physically manipulated by Willem freakishly swirling around Stevie's melodic screams and Cleo's funktry bass lines (underwater) 🌐 At multiple impasses, we’re treated to a rare look inside of the Oyster’s synthy underwater sea lab where urchins burble together sound collages and octopi garden their electronic devices (as a hobby) 🌐 Each song of “Banana Whip”, Oyster World’s new blender of a tape, is a sharp and spiky pufferfish of fun avant-rock polyphony, and all who explore the world (underwater) are sure to fall in love with this new blender of a tape (underwater) 🌐

09/14/2022

🎶 Good News For People Who Like Fantastic Lake Street Record Stores! 🐭 You can now find Larry Wish cassettes & other Bumpy titles at the legendary Hymie's Vintage Records record shop! 🤩 Definitely stop in and check out this long-standing Minneapolis music staple, but please don’t be upset if there aren’t any The Residents LPs left! 🎩👁 Somebody must have got ‘em all 😏

09/02/2022

Happy Bandcamp Friday! We have a new release to announce today! 🥳

Bumpy No. 21 is “My Neighbours They Suck”, the brand new psycho-synth-punk album by the London-based mystery group I Know I’m An Alien! 👽

Check it out here: https://iknowimanalien.bandcamp.com/album/my-neighbours-they-suck

The album is the first in a trilogy that includes "Wi-Fi Breath", released last year on Bumpy, and it features the gorgeous artwork of Flávia Felipe 🎨 This album has all the best earmarks of an IKIAA album, writhing guitar solos, insect-like synth lines, bizarre vocal processing, and of course oodles of modern-life satire in every song 🎸 Listeners will be sure to tap their toes along to the mosquitoes buzzing in their brains as a result! 👾

Also, since it’s Bandcamp Friday, we’re offering 20% off all orders today! Just use the code “bumpy” at checkout 🛸 “My Neighbours They Suck” is officially out on September 23rd wherever listening is available 🎶 Cassettes will go fast, so take advantage of the deal and order today! 😊

08/27/2022

😱 Hello Children of [the] Korn!! 🌽 It’s been a lovely break, and now we’re back at it! We’ll be announcing a new release available to pre-order on next week on 9/2 for the return of Bandcamp Friday! 🥳 Stay tuned, Weirdos! 💖

02/06/2022

12/28/2021

12/03/2021

Today we’re announcing our final release for 2021, Bumpy No. 20: “The Debatable Land” by Larry Wish! 🥳🦋

“The Debatable Land” is a 4-part emotional synth sonata, heavily influenced by Wish’s love of cryptozoology and the supernatural 💀 Originally released in 2012 as a split with Collin Gorman Weiland on label Never Ender, this remastered 24 min epic will take you on a journey of mysterious possibilities! 🔮

“The Debatable Land” releases on December 31st and can be pre-ordered starting today on our Bandcamp! 🎶 All pre-orders include an instant download of the full piece, so click that link below to listen today and support some great independent music! 🙌

https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/album/the-debatable-land-2

12/02/2021

Check out this interview with VoyageMinnesota all about this little label! 🥳 Thanks for the feature, !

https://voyageminnesota.com/interview/meet-adam-wish-werven-of-nokomis-minneapolis/

11/26/2021

“Sometimes I Kimberly Myself” by Larry Wish is out today! Reanimated and remastered from 2013, SIKM is the most shining example of LW’s wacky home-recorded prog. This album is great for both long-time listeners AND first-time callers! You can listen / buy a tape on the Bumpy Bandcamp as well as stream anywhere music is found :)

Stream and/or purchase here: larrywish.bandcamp.com/album/sometimes-i-kimberly-myself-2

CREDITS

★ Written & recorded by Adam Wish-Werven Oct 2012 - Mar 2013
✽ Drums on "Under the Knife" produced by Steve Earnest
• Originally released May 2013 on Soothing Almonds Collective
➺ Audio & artwork remastered in 2020 by Adam Wish-Werven
⇝ Cassette j-card back painting by Ivy Wish-Werven, titled "Juliette"

11/05/2021

🌝 Greetrons to you, my Lieges! 👑 Today we’re announcing Bumpy No. 19: “Sometimes I Kimberly Myself” by Larry Wish! 🔮

Originally released in 2013, this remastered reissue is LW’s most prized and shining example of wacky wild bedroom prog 🎷 If there ever was a sole, solitary Larry Wish album to have in your collection, “Sometimes I Kimberly Myself” is the one! 🦄 It’s gotten an artwork makeover to boot and features inside J-card artwork by Ivy Wish-Werven 👩‍🎤

Pre-order a cassette or digital download on our Bandcamp today in honor of , and take a listen to the album’s first mind-melting single “Under the Knife”! 🍌

Check it out!: https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/album/sometimes-i-kimberly-myself-2

11/04/2021

Austin Lombardo of shrimp olympics has perfectly crafted this very expensive playlist to coincide with his new album "silk lizard", out on Bumpy now! Check it out here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5iZnSjzITpfZtISnKZOFPo?si=fc29132436ba4924

Listen to / Buy a "silk lizard" tape here: https://shrimpolympics.bandcamp.com/album/silk-lizard 💗

10/29/2021

Happy Release Day to "silk lizard" by shrimp olympics! 🥳 Fans of Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, R. Stevie Moore, and Sweetheart of the Rodeo-era Byrds are sure to love this wild rocker 💗 Head over to our Bandcamp below to listen / grab a tape! 🎸

https://shrimpolympics.bandcamp.com/album/silk-lizard

10/21/2021

Larry Wish's compilation album "A Remimbrence of Time's Beholden Felve" can now be streamed via the Hennepin County Library's 2021 MNspin catalogue 😊 Enjoy! --> https://hclib.musicat.co/albums/larry-wish-a-remimbrence-of-time-s-beholden-felve

If you'd like to purchase a tape, they can be ordered on our Bandcamp here!: https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/album/a-remimbrence-of-times-beholden-felve-2

10/07/2021

The Larry Wish & His Guys short concert film “Fable Table Cloth” has premiered on the fabulous Foxy Digitalis! 💕 Get your popped corn ready and check it out below! 🍿

https://foxydigitalis.zone/2021/10/07/video-premiere-larry-wish-his-guys-fable-table-cloth/

• CREDITS •

~ The Band ~
Bass: Samuel Kenneth Cramer
Drums: Kate Farstad
Guitar: Nathaniel Johnson
Synth/Vocals: Adam Wish-Werven

* Produced by:
Chris Cunningham
Brian Heller

* Animations by:
Joseph Carl Berns

* Audio mastered by:
Tony Williamette

*Filmed by:
Amazing students of the cinema program 🌟

*Engineered by:
Dan Mariska
Andy Martinez
Nate Nyden

* Edited/Executive produced by: Adam Wish-Werven

Check out the OST on our Bandcamp page, there are still a few tapes left as well as endless streaming! 🥳

https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/album/fable-table-cloth-2

Huge thank you to the sound arts and cinema departments at Minneapolis College for all they do and to Brad Rose at Foxy Digitalis for premiering this! Enjoy!🖖🌷

10/01/2021

🎃 Happy Bandcamp Friday, You All! 🥳 Today we’re announcing Bumpy No. 18 ~ “silk lizard” by shrimp olympics! 🎶

"silk lizard" is the brand new full length by psych-rocking home recordist Austin Lombardo AKA shrimp olympics 🍤 The album is a psychedelic, progressive country-rock tapestry (among other things), well balanced by its smooth vs wild moments 🌀 Layered synth pads blend with crisp acoustic guitars, jazzy drums, electric leads, and beautifully effected vocals to create an ever-evolving soup of textures, melodies, and rhythms that surprise and delight the mind 🧠 Austin has created a masterfully written bundle of songs that are incredibly catchy and original, and "silk lizard" displays him in his songwriting prime 🔥 There is something new to find and appreciate in each fresh listen and I know you are going to absolutely love this album, especially if you're a fan of Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention, R. Stevie Moore, and Sweetheart of the Rodeo-era Byrds 🤠

“silk lizard” is out on October 29th and tapes/downloads are now available to pre-order on our Bandcamp here: https://shrimpolympics.bandcamp.com/album/silk-lizard 👻 You can stream the first single “athena #3” there as well! 📡 Happy listening! 💕

• CREDITS •

⬗ All songs written & recorded by Austin Lombardo
⬖ Mastered by Angel Marcloid at Angel Hair Audio - www.angelhairaudio.com
⬗ Cover art by Salvador Cresta
⬖ Cassette layout by Adam Wish-Werven

09/27/2021

✨ Greg Hatem put together a marvelous "Bumpy Choices" playlist of faves and inspiration for "Ghost of Spatula"! 👻 Check it out below, it's great for listening to! 🎶

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/25oCrw1ZVMreIkLFjbVvjZ?si=cc19baa1314844ac

09/26/2021

Check out "Headcount", the 2nd single off of Greg Hatem's newest album "Ghost of Spatula". Evoking the hunter/hunted dynamic, this song will take you on a run through the wilderness!

https://soundcloud.com/bumpylabel/greg-hatem-headcount

"Headcount" is the 2nd single off of Greg Hatem's newest album "Ghost of Spatula". Evoking the hunter/hunted dynamic, this song will take you on a run through the wilderness! Stream/Order "Ghost of S

09/24/2021

💐 Happy Release Day to “Ghost of Spatula” by Greg Hatem!! 💜 Available wherever you choose to listen, tapes and digital downloads are for sale on our Bandcamp below. Enjoy this bubbly, synthy journey! 😊

https://greghatem.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-of-spatula

*CREDITS*

• Written & Recorded by Greg Hatem
• Cover Art by Elizabeth Downing
• Mastered by Angel Hair Audio

09/23/2021

09/23/2021

🤩 Here's a little teaser for the upcoming Larry Wish & His Guys short concert film "Fable Table Cloth", premiering Oct 7th on Foxy Digitalis! (https://foxydigitalis.zone/) 🥳

You can check out the full soundtrack here ahead of time too!: https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/album/fable-table-cloth-2

09/21/2021

Enjoy an interview with Greg Hatem about his craft and process for making “Ghost of Spatula”, out this Friday 9/24!

Pre-order/Sneak peek listen here!: https://ghostofspatula.com/album/ghost-of-spatula

09/21/2021

Larry Wish & His Guys have a short concert film premiering on Foxy Digitalis October 7th! 📽 "Fable Table Cloth" was recorded live on May 2nd, 2017 at Minneapolis College and it showcases the group in top performance form! Stay tuned for a teaser and link to the video the day of 🤩

For now, the original soundtrack can be streamed/ordered on Bandcamp: https://larrywish.bandcamp.com/album/fable-table-cloth-2

Enjoy! 🎶