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We’re so happy to announce
Mixed Greens on audiophile vinyl is currently in production! We’ve been
working with a local pressing plant
to get it right, and it looks like we’ve finally found the right match.
For
one, it’s going to be pressed onto audiophile heavy-weight vinyl
(150-180 grams), and it’s going to be cut using a new Scully lathe the
plant has recently procured (The Orange Peels’ latest, “2020” was
pressed there on its older Neumann lathe, and we thought it sounded
fabulous). We’re excited to see what the Scully can do for the wildly
ecclectic tracks on Mixed Greens! Were
excited too, about the full-color case-bound jackets! When the Bus Stop
Label issued Clapp's debut album, One
Hundred
Percent
Chance
of
Rain, it was pressed
and printed by one of the only plants in America that still did
case-bound jackets. Since the mid 1990s, they’ve been
scarce-to-nonexistent. When
we discovered our San Francisco-based pressing plant recently
started offering this option, we had to go for it. Instead of heavy
card stock with the artwork printed directly onto the jacket like most
modern releases, case-bound jackets feature heavy recycled cardboard
stock over which the front and back artwork are pasted (think The
Beatles: Yesterday and Today). It
means the albums will be better protected during shipping, and that the
jackets themselves won’t crumple at the corners. It also means, they’ll
look tremendous in a few years when they start turning up in the
thriftstore bins, sitting alongside Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
and perennial selections from Mantovani and his Orchestra. You
can help support our effort by pre-ordering your copy today! Your
secure Paypal payment goes directly to the band to help fund this
project. When these are back from pressing in a few weeks, they'll ship
to you with digital download cards and access to our 12-page digital
booklet. solo-project season It has come to our attention here at Orange Peels HQ that both Mr. Clapp and Mr. Moremen are releasing solo albums within the next few weeks! Exciting times. . . they're even celebrating the occasion with a special San Francsico show on Friday, Dec. 2.
In the mid 1990s, Allen Clapp and his Orchestra surprised the world with "One Hundred Percent Chance of Rain," a swift pop confection and bona-fide indie hit album he recorded for a total of $12 in the bedrooms, VW vans and churches of Redwood City, Cailfornia. Transforming expectations yet again, the Allen Clapp of 2011 leads listeners into virgin forests and blazing, new-world sunsets with "Mixed Greens" — an adventure in soundscapes and song-craft sparking with luminous energy.
Clapp somehow navigates 70s Nashville, slick Eurodisco and quirky, Rundgren-esque soft-rock with a Brill-Building songwriting prowess that unifies his vision for the future of pop. It's as if Clapp is saying to the world: "If a guy in his garage can do this, maybe anything is possible." Mixed Greens will be
released
digitally
by Minty Fresh on Dec.
6. It will also be available on CD through Mystery Lawn Music and Minty
Fresh, on Cassette through Modern Country and
early 2012 on vinyl through Minty Fresh and Mystery Lawn. On
"Flotation Device," Moremen is like a jazz great playing in a fictional
rock band made up entirely of himself. Performing all the instrumental
parts on this album, Moremen freely navigates between drums, bass and
guitar while never losing site of the end goal: songs that move, shake
and rattle with palpable energy. Call it 21st century mood music; call
it a West-Coast guitar freakout; call it what you will — John Moremen
is entirely at home in the grooves of this album, and whether you're
from the left coast or right, it places you square in the mindset of
this gifted San Francisco composer. It's available right now on CD (Mystery Lawn Music) and Digitally on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and more!
Aether
tide
coming
may
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