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LIMITED EDITION HANDMADE 2XLP VINYL EDITION OF DISAPPEARS-STEVE SHELLEY-WHITE/LIGHT AVAILABLE VIA VAMPIRE BLUES-BANDCAMP
Limited to 350 2XLP’s pressed at 45RPM Black vinyl, includes download, pressed at Kindercore in Athens, GA, housed in “bootleg-style” hand-stamped and numbered LP jacket. Get the entire album to stream or download upon purchase. Vinyl ships on or around February 5, 2021. Lacquers cut by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service. Mixed by John Congleton w/ Jeremy Lemos and Steve Shelley.
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In the summer of 2009, Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley and the band’s long time sound engineer, Jeremy Lemos, invited Lemos’ White/Light bandmate Matt Clark and Chicago spacepunx Disappears to come over to Lemos’ Semaphore Recording studio and jam. Their one-afternoon, two-drummers, three-guitarists, no-rules jam evolved into a productive and glorious multi-day freakout, which resulted in the recording of these eight songs. Producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen) later mixed the marathon session with Steve and Jeremy at Echo Canyon West in Hoboken, NJ.
And then… the record disappeared. Sonic Youth went on hiatus, Shelley briefly joined Disappears, Disappears broke up and then evolved into FACS; plans to release the album on Shelley’s Vampire Blues were scuttled and eventually shelved. In the quarantine days of spring of 2020, more than a decade later, Shelley started blowing the dust off old masters he’d had planned for his label over the years, and here we are. An Exclusive to Bandcamp. Rip it up.
Disappears:
Brian Case: Vocals, Electric Guitar
Damon Carruesco: Bass
Graeme Gibson: Drums
Jonathan van Herik: Electric Guitar
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White/Light:
Jeremy Lemos: Electronics, Shruti Box
Matt Clark: Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
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Steve Shelley: Drums
Engineered by Jeremy Lemos at Semaphore Recording and Steam Room Studios in Chicago, IL
Mixed by John Congleton at Echo Canyon West in Hoboken, NJ
Mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service in Chicago, IL