Rose City Band - SummerlongIt is impossible to talk about modern psychedelic music without mentioning Ripley Johnson. As bandleader of Wooden Shjips and half of Moon Duo, Johnson has continually charted new cosmic paths that expand on the language of the genre. With Rose City Band, Johnsons songwriting and beautiful guitar lines take center stage. While his vocal treatment would be recognizable to any Wooden Shjips fan, the sparseness of the instrumentation lays bare the beauty

Oh My Gawd

It was recorded over a period of four years

The endlessåÊwars seemed less at home

1: Demos To Sessions To Roughs starts at the beginning of the album creation with demos of the songs that were all eventually cut at the sessions

” Molina wrote in a letter

housed in a beautiful die-cut sleeve photographed by Lasse Hoile and designed by Carl Glover

Charles Mingus' s Ah Um and Horace Silver' s Blowin' the Blues Away

Bear turned to music

As of 2014

Terry is into repetition

making songs happen TOGETHER

åÊCriminally under-appreciated