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Loretta’s Museum
Sound Portraits From The Gelmer Tastle Odyssey
Catalog Numbers: FH-068
Release Date: June 21, 2020
Genre: Instrumental / Free Folk / Soundtrack / New Weird America
Radio Friendly: Yes
Type: Album
Purchase: Bandcamp
Links: Spotify
pressing information
Digital: Worldwide
Vinyl: Frillimcaster Records Unlimited
1st Press (2020): <100
Solid white 12” vinyl with full-color jacket and full-color A/B labels.
Cassette Tape: Frillimcaster Records Unlimited & Furious Hooves
1st Press (2022): 100
”Red Chair” solid cassette with white imprint A/B sides, full-color 4-Panel J-Card (two-sided), in mint back plastic Norelco case. Hand-numbered.
Tracklisting
1. We Meet Our First Friend of Frogs – 02:51
2. Our Guide Sam Smith - The Artist – 03:15
3. On Our Way Through Snow Stone Central – 03:31
4. Crossing Caz Meadow’s Long Tazzle Drag – 02:35
5. The Buzz Beam 2020 Party On Orlando Island – 04:31
6. Swallowed Whole By The Red Calvary – 03:44
7. Supper With Wade & Daisy – 03:46
8. Getting Soaked In Little Joseph’s Narrow Rowed Steam Stream – 03:49
9. Thawing Garden South Of Desdemoina – 03:54
Total Run Time: 31:56
Side Split: A 1-5, B 6-9
Lyrics: None (Field Recordings)
Credits
Written, recorded, produced and played solely by Loretta Blue.
Created at Susan's house in Mulino, Oregon just as spring opened in 2020.
Mastered by Harris Newman.
Album Cover Photograph & Design: Wade Kruse.
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"The pulse hollowed under a cloud of cracking cattails
stepping in accenting sequence
our ebbing return became a mirroring dance that followed an almost zero pace through its entirety
and when the only glow’s buzzing fully surfaced
my eyes blinked seven times in signal
we all stood looking
and spoke of nothing
Just bells ringing"
– Loretta Blue
Release Biography
In 2020, the year we all wish to forget, Loretta Blue trudged on and founded Frillimcaster Records Unlimited. They self-released an extremely limited edition vinyl of a brand new album entitled ‘Sound Portraits from the Gelmer Tastle Odyssey.’ It was created in Mulino, Oregon. Furious Hooves teamed up with Frillimcaster to release it digitally worldwide on June 21st 2020. The two labels re-released the album on tape for the first time on April 15th 2022.
Press & Accolades
“The Buzz Beam 2020 Party On Orlando Island” featured in an Apple ad for the iPhone 13 on Instagram.
“Bizarre dreamy instrumental indie/folk soundtrack music. The acoustic guitar playing is slightly reminiscent of Robbie Basho, and the keyboards and synths remind me of The Books...but the sound as a whole is very unique and difficult to pigeonhole. It's playful and depressing at the same time...kind of like a Wes Anderson movie.”
– Fog Songs, review from Bandcamp Friday recommendations. (4/2022)
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