Soham | सोऽहम्
One of the best va's in the last years. Honestly.
So much dynamic and spirit from the different artist.
So many great Tracks and constantly changing emotions between the single tracks.
Waiting for your next Compilation :) ❤️
Favorite track: Michelle Dove and Brian Howe - I Saw God.
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FerroMaster C456TM cassette tape professionally dubbed by National Audio Co. in a limited edition of 300, with cover art designed by Sally Anne Morgan of Ratbee Press, liner notes by Emily Hilliard, and sound editing by Sarah Henson.
The compilation is part of an in-house crowdfunding campaign, which also includes three original t-shirt designs by Durham artist Julienne Alexander (Elizabeth Cotten), D.C. illustrator Elizabeth Graeber (Pauline Oliveros), and Portland artist and musician Ilyas Ahmed (Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou). Proceeds support the future work of SPINSTER. Thank you to the musicians and artists for their donated tracks and designs.
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Original Elizabeth Cotten design made by Durham artist Julienne Alexander. T-shirt professionally screen printed by hand with burgundy ink on 100% cotton mauve unisex Bella + Canvas brand t-shirt. Shirts are super soft! $22 on sale (normally $28)
Julienne Alexander is an illustrator, designer, and amateur animator living in Durham, NC. www.yssrs.com
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Quilt of the Universe Package (Tape + 3 Shirts)
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One Quilt of the Universe cassette tape + one each of three original t-shirts (Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou by Ilyas Ahmed, Elizabeth Cotten by Julienne Alexander, and Pauline Oliveros by Elizabeth Graeber) at a discounted price (normally $94).
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Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou Shirt by Ilyas Ahmed
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Original Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou design made by Portland musician and artist Ilyas Ahmed. T-shirt professionally screen printed by hand with yellow ink on dark gray heather 99% cotton 1% poly unisex Bella + Canvas brand t-shirt. Shirts are super soft!
Ilyas Ahmed is a musician & artist currently residing in Portland, Oregon. ilyasahmed.bandcamp.com
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Pauline Oliveros Shirt by Elizabeth Graeber
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Original Pauline Oliveros design made by D.C. artist Elizabeth Graeber. T-shirt professionally screen printed by hand with navy ink on dusty blue heather 99% cotton 1% poly unisex Bella + Canvas brand t-shirt. Shirts are super soft!
Elizabeth Graeber is an illustrator. Find her on instagram at @elizabeth_draws www.elizabethgraeber.com
I saw no Way—The Heavens were stitched—
I felt the Columns close—
The Earth reversed her Hemispheres—
I touched the Universe—
And back it slid—and I alone—
A Speck upon a Ball—
Went out upon Circumference—
Beyond the Dip of Bell—
In 1977, NASA launched a 12-inch phonographic record in to space, with the words “To the makers of music—all worlds, all times,” inscribed in the plate. The Voyager Golden Record was, according to NASA, “intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials.” A hundred years earlier in rural Iowa, science teacher Ellen Harding Baker stitched her “Solar System Quilt” to illustrate the known galaxy for her astronomy students. The tracks on Quilt of the Universe share these crossed impulses—to blast terrestrial expression into the cosmos, and translate galactic information into an earthly object. These artists piece together direct messages and less apparent textural meanings: the topical content of a song like a discernible patchwork pattern, the timbre of a singer’s voice like the spacing of an embroiderer’s stitches, the arrangement of instruments as appliquéd fabric, the sonic layering as wool batting and cotton bound with silk thread. Each stitch, each note grounds the work within the artists’ specific place and time while launching it into orbit with the stars. Quilt of the Universe is an assemblage of artists sharing earthly experience, or translating planetary knowledge, or both. It is a constellation of perspectives and interpretations of the story of our respective corners of this world and time, for the listeners of music—all worlds, all times.
Baltimore sitarist, vocalist, and ambient musician Ami Dang opens side A with the hypnotic pulsing of “Unstruck Sound (Santu Man Pavnai Sukh Baniaa),” expanding her self-dubbed “bollywave” genre into entrancing depths. On tracks that follow, Emmalee Hunnicutt’s rich cello, Ilyas Ahmed’s spacious guitar work, and Tavishi’s ricocheting layered electronics create atmospheric texture while Whitesburg, Kentucky’s contraceptive rock band Slut Pill and Carrboro, North Carolina’s no-wave punk outfit Fitness Womxn’s drive the tape into its highest highs and loudest peaks. Georgia blues legend Precious Bryant's grooving “Going Down to Fannie Mae’s Place,” a take on the Sonny Boy Williamson classic "Don't Start Me Talkin,'" is the lone archival recording on the compilation, recorded by Fred Fussell at Bryant's home in Talbot County, Georgia (her “hasta la vista” exclamation at the end of the track plants us firmly in its recording year of 1993). Carole Pegg, of the 70s British folk band Mr. Fox, and Tuvan throat singer Radik Tülüsh evoke the uncanny in Child ballad, “Gay Goshawk” and Durham’s Jake Fussell picks his way through a lovely, ambling instrumental of the popular fiddle tune “Handsome Molly.” Other tracks include the orbiting experimental sound art of Michelle Dove and Brian Howe, West of Roan’s haunting and earthly original folk song “Our Own Bodies,” an emotional piano ballad from the Yukon’s Susu Robin, and JJ_FS’ Steve Reichian looped cover of the Mark Morrison 1996 R&B hit “Return of the Mack.” The compilation concludes with California psych folk duo Village of Spaces’ (Amy Moon O.S. and Dan Beckman-Moon) “The Night Is Long,” an earnest prayer for the world written by Amy’s mother in the late 60s, and an astral meditation on “Shenandoah” by Portland guitarist Marisa Anderson.
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released June 21, 2019
Quilt of the Universe is a FerroMaster C456TM cassette tape professionally dubbed by National Audio Co. in a limited edition of 300, with cover art designed by Sally Anne Morgan of Ratbee Press, liner notes by Emily Hilliard, and sound editing by Sarah Henson.
The compilation is part of an in-house crowdfunding campaign, which also includes three original t-shirt designs by Durham artist Julienne Alexander (Elizabeth Cotten), D.C. illustrator Elizabeth Graeber (Pauline Oliveros), and Portland artist and musician Ilyas Ahmed (Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou). Proceeds support the future work of SPINSTER. Thank you to the musicians and artists for their donated tracks and designs.
SPINSTER is a radical feminist record label founded in 2018 and owned and operated by Michelle Dove & Emily
Hilliard.
We support a diverse range of musicians who explore territory across the traditional, radical, and experimental.
SPINSTER's work has been featured by Aquarium Drunkard, The Guardian, The New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, and more....more
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I’m so grateful this crossed my path. This album is so beautiful. All the clear technique and mastery and vision are kinda secondary to the fact that this album brought me calm and joy during one of the most difficult times in my life. Yeah, grateful. David McCullough
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Her voice, the vulnerability within, and a glorious sound, not overproduced but natural. 'Tender Heart' gets me - resonates in a way that is sad and glorious simultaneously. Discordant guitars behind a clean acoustic and voice ballad. Love her voice, her lyrics. Great album. BikeBoy29
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Long-form trance-y rhythmic jams, with a fun shambling edge, sounding like a cross between music from Africa's Sahel region crossed with a Tom Waits instrumental... Jascha Narveson
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dreamy, wintery, autumn, haunting, beautiful, freak folk indeed. love being pulled into dreamland with these guys. thanks for keeping the magic alive. armpicnic
