LTD003 FALL 2012
5 days ago - 
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3 Review: WLFM brings electronic artist Tim Hecker to Memorial Chapel
“Lovell’s performance was rooted in the personal, no doubt a quality derived from small shows and isolated recording. Stepping onto the broad stage with only a classical guitar and an array of effects, his songs began starkly, relying on quiet plucking and plaintive vocals. His self-sampling also demanded obvious effort, as he frequently knelt over his pedalboard to make adjustments and even lost his swelling background due to a technical difficulty…
…The audience was privy to the entire process of Lovell’s songs, literally watching the components of the piece assemble themselves onstage. With a more practiced presence, Lovell could gain a strong reputation as a live artist, particularly given his fraught and personal songwriting.”
Some very kind words from Lawrence’s school paper on the show last weekend! Click the link or click here to read the full article for more, including a review of Tim Hecker’s amazing set as well.
1 month ago - 5
5 LTD001: SQUANTO - SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE VOLUMES I & II
LTD002: SQUANTO - SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE VOLUMES III & IV
These tapes comprise the four volumes of Saturday Night Live, a series of recordings named after the nights during and styles in which they were made. Improvised and recorded live late at night over a series of Saturdays in January/February 2011, during a break from working on the second Squanto album, this music comes from a much different region of the uh…Squantosphere. Originally only released digitally and without any proper artwork, I’m proud to finally give these recordings a proper physical release.
Four side-long meditations for guitar, voice, and loop pedal (with some keyboard maybe), split into two parts each. The slow-burning and inwardly focused sound of spending every weekend holed up in a dorm room.
The first two official releases from Lily Tapes and Discs. Released in editions of 85 pro-dubbed chrome tapes each from National Audio Company, the best of the best. Volumes I-II on a white cassette with blue imprinting, and Volumes III-IV on a blue tape with white imprinting. Packaged with full-color inserts, numbered, cut, and folded by hand here at LTD headquarters/my parents’ house.
Click the titles, pictures, or here to stream/download/purchase Volumes I & II.
Click the titles, pictures, or here to stream/download/purchase Volumes III & IV.
LTD000: SQUANTO - LIVE AT THE SEALAB 10/15/2011
A recording of a Squanto show, played in Rochester in my friend’s attic on Saturday, 10/15/2011. Great American Thunder Bison and Ligaments also played, and Sean from Great American Thunder Bison played drums on the last track. We used all sorts of fancy microphones and other gear that we borrowed from the school radio station to record this, so it sounds way better than a recording of a house show has any right to. Four songs in fifty minutes. When I play live I do things kind of differently than I do on my recordings so I think it’s pretty cool to have this available also.
The photo used for the cover was taken at a different show in Geneseo, NY on December 11th, 2010, which was actually the first show I ever played. This recording was the fourth show I played. As of now I’ve done five shows. Hopefully the sixth will be soon?
Released digitally in December 2011. Click the cover, title, or here to stream/download.
LTD-01: SQUANTO - ON BEING LUMPY
The second Squanto album, recorded from October 2010 to June 2011, and released September 2011. Mostly recorded in the dorm room I was living in at school in Rochester, NY, with parts also recorded back at my parents’ house during breaks. Sean Kelly from Great American Thunder Bison played the drums on “The View From There,” and I played the drums myself on “For a While” but they were still Sean’s drums. For both songs the drums were recorded at his house.
Songs about being cooped up in a small room all winter and realizing that you’re getting older, that you have already been getting older, and that you will continue to get older.
Released in an edition of 50 numbered, handmade CD-Rs, housed in 4-panel cases from Stumptown Printers. Covers are handprinted with a linocut that I made of the view from the window of the room where most of the album was recorded. I accidentally stabbed myself in the hand while I was making it and had to get stitches, so my blood is in this one. Tracklist and credits are stamped on the inside, and on the back is “ON BEING LUMPY BY SQUANTO” in letter stamps. Music is served on an all-white CD-R decorated with a stamp of a panda, sitting on its fat ass and hating itself. Each copy is numbered in pen on the inner fold. Pictures of the packaging are on the bandcamp page.
Click the title, picture, or here to listen/download/purchase.
LTD-02: SQUANTO - GO GO GADGET GRASS STAINS
The first Squanto album, recorded from Summer 2008 to Spring 2009, and released May 2009, except for “The Fountain of Truth” which was recorded in late 2007. The bulk of the recording took place in the upstairs hallway of my parents’ house, on weekday afternoons after I got home from school and before they got home from work. The drums on “Gumballs” were recorded in one of the practice rooms in my high school because I didn’t (and still don’t) own a drumset.
Songs and other sloppy accidents about cleaning tables, throwing candy, sitting on benches, holding hands, hiking across deserts, you know, those kinds of things. The sound of a bored teenager trying really hard to remember things.
Released in an edition of 50 numbered, unique, handmade CD-Rs, housed in 4-panel cases from Stumptown Printers. Each case has “SQUANTO” spelled out on the front and “GO GO GADGET GRASS STAINS” spelled out on the back with letter stamps, plus something else on the front. Some of them have cutouts from old coloring books (like above), some have watercolor drippings, some were decorated by friends. Each one is totally unique. Tracklisting is stamped on the inside of the case, and music is served on an all-white CD-R with “SQUANTO” stamped on it. Each copy is numbered in pen on the inner fold. Pictures of the packaging are on the bandcamp page.
Click the title, picture, or here to listen/download/purchase.
