Sean Smith’s 4th album Huge Fluid Freedom now available for preorder! CD comes in a cardstock gatefold sleeve, LP is housed in a gatefold sleeve with download. FIRST 100 MAILORDER COPIES ARE PRESSED ON CLEAR VINYL! All preorders will ship July 26, 1 month prior to it hitting stores. Head to the order page to place your preorder.

Instrumental musician, experimental composer, and widely acclaimed producer of the Berkeley Guitar and Beyond Berkely Guitar compilations Sean Smith conjures fire and sweat, dew and ash through his medium - the guitar. Huge Fluid Freedom is his 4th solo album and a marked departure from strictly solo guitar ventures into stell string-informed rock overtures backed by a full band. The album represents a much wider scope of collaboration than Smith’s previous works, resulting in a moving sonic experience ranging from straight up solo acoustic exploration to breathtaking cinematic rock soundscapes. Epic firewalking.

SUMMER CALIFORNIA TOUR

The Things That We Used to Do is the definitive visual document of the music of the late Jack Rose and Glenn Jones, capturing the two titans of the modern acoustic steel string movement at the top of their game.  Shot live in a loft in Brooklyn, NY expressly for this project, with full sets by each player, two duets, and a half hour + interview/conversation with Byron Coley.  Here’s a clip of Rose and Jones performing the Rose composition “Miss May’s Place”, from Dr. Ragtime & His Pals, as a duet.

Audio: “Brave Walls”, by Yair Yona, from Remember (out 8.24.10 on Strange Attractors).

Israel isn’t exactly known as a hotbed for acoustic steel-string guitar music, but guitarist/instrumentalist and all-around sonic ambassador Yair Yona seems determined to change all of that. From his headquarters in Tel Aviv, Yona is composing some of the most genre-bending music for solo steel-string heard since Sandy Bull opened up all the possibilities around the idiom in the 60’s. Remember, Yona’s astonishing debut solo album, is a celebration of the Takoma Records school coarsely filtered through a multi-hued prism of sound, resulting in an intelligent collection of compositions delivered in a fully-formed and strikingly singular voice. Remember will be released August 24, 2010, issued on CD housed in a lovely post-consumer recycled cardstock wallet gatefold, as a Ltd Edition 300 LP pressing with download card and hand-numbered silkscreend jackets, and MP3. Strange Attractors Resurrection Series, Vol. 7.