May 5th, 2009 2:22pm
New Mt. Eerie CD, “White Stag”
There’s a new Mt. Eerie disc out today, called White Stag. It’s a limited edition, and Phil Elverum describes it:
“From March 30th to April 4th 2009, at the invitation of Matthew Stadler and his Publication Studio organization, I lived in the so called “White Stag Building” in the middle of Portland, Oregon. The building sat on the old mud where Portland began, pretty much, and currently belonged to the University of Oregon and had a long history of various occupants. I wandered the building at night with recording equipment after students had left and ruminated on the site, specifically what the spot might have been like before the building was even there. The result is this 10 “song” CD of sloppy 4 track recordings with the presence of the building clearly audible. Sorry to say, it’s limited edition. We’ll probably eventually release it “officially” (on vinyl) but that might be a while. For now here is a short CD folded up in a complex way inside a poster with words and imagined historical scenery.”
Order it now, while you still can!
(Big thanks to the always-sharp Tom for the tip-off
5/5/09 5:24 pm
white stag: new mount eerie songs for sale today | Seattle Metblogs says:[...] MBV brings the good news that a new record from Mount Eerie is available now, for a limited time, on the internet, starting today. Unlike a lot of recent releases by Mount Eerie, this one contains new songs recorded by Phil Elverum while living in the White Stag building in Portland at the invitation of Mathew Stadler. During a few days in March and April, he “wandered the building at night with recording equipment after students had left and ruminated on the site, specifically what the spot might have been like before the building was even there” and the resulting album contains “sloppy 4 track recordings with the presence of the building clearly audible.” [...]