This is A Whitehaus Family Record
Releases listed in reverse chronological order. All physical copies are $5 when available.
WFR051: Brian S. Ellis: I Will Banish Luck
WFR050: Manners: Look Into Look Unto
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WFR049: Morgan Shaker: L.A. Knightz
Mystical Revelation is an everyday occurrence. So are you. This record is about the joy. Welcome to my word. It is a drone record made mostly with guitar. I think it is really good for the times when you need a straight, electric feeling coursing through your veins.
This album is a FREE online release:
L.A. KNIGHTZ
WFR048: Gracious Calamity: Becky’s on Vacation
A collection of studio, live, and home recordings by Gracious Calamity. Compiled for their summer 2009 tour with Tiny Tornadoes. All the hits! 100(ish) handmade copies exist.
WFR047: Casey Rocheteau: Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro is a dreamscape Casey built out of words, beats, and the Shangri-las. She assembled it in the late night, in the dark, surrounded by bird’s nests and watching all the things in her mind spinning and moving. 10 copies dubbed in June 2009. Super Rare.
WFR046: Truman Peyote: Light-Lightning (CD-R)
“Truman Peyote is an astonishing mix of primitivist clattering and modern electronic twerks. It sounds like a Martian tribe emulating pygmy music, or ghostly reverberations from a dancefloor in the future.” The Weekly Dig
“New Wife, New Life” featured on pitchfork.com
LIGHT-LIGHTNING IS SOLD OUT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
WFR045: Blast of atomfoam
have you ever woken up to the smell of a smoking gun? have you ever laughed in the face some of somebody laughing at you? be not supervised while listening. take the risk into your own hands. be somebody or be somebody’s fool. if you’re not now, you never were. “the past and the future are really not all that different.” – brian s. ellis (kind of like kerouac)
WFR044: Greg Sun/ Chris North (split)
Grab a cup of mead, some energy crystals and huddle up next to your favorite goat for this festival of somber merriment. Two Voices is the finest coalescence of astral rock and renaissance folk by two modern day bards, Greg Sun (Manners) and Chris North (The Points North). This poppy lo-fi carousel weaves acoustic guitars through a meadow of instruments including flute, accordion, violin and cello, wrapping it all up nicely with magnetic tape at varying speeds.
WFR043: Greg Sun/ atomfoam – Crops
The chaotic logic of Greg Sun and Atomfoam gives praise to the medium of the cassette tape. Crops is a recycling bin that splices together bits of music, spoken word, poetry from Brian S. Ellis and songs of Manners and Atomfoam. Sometimes tense and cacophonous, other times sparse and symphonious, this tape was made to be listened to with headphones…so grab your walkman and go.
WFR042: Morgan Shaker – Darkness EP
Do you like rusty ocean and the strings? It smells like a salt marsh in here. Meet me at the point. What are you waiting for? Another Morgan Shaker release?
WFR041: Anna Fox Rochinski – s/t
Anna is a Boston native who enjoys singing to the top of the stratosphere and writing songs on the guitar, ukulele, banjo, piano, and whatever weird or broken instruments she finds in the attic or gutter. Peep the solo Whitehaus release from the frontwoman of QUILT!
WFR040: April Ranger: Like Canvas
April Ranger has the entire Boston poetry scene under her spell with her blend of literate, heartfelt, and oftentimes hilarious writing. In the words of Steve Subrizi: “She really knows when to stomp the distortion petal and when to go acoustic and let the words do the work.”
WFR039: Brian S. Ellis: I Wake Up EP
“I WAKE UP!” you’ve heard it a million times, or maybe never once yet! Get the blast from Whitehaus founding member and spastic slam poet Brian Stephen Ellis!
WFR038: Peace, Loving: LIVE
much like the first thanksgiving. grab a chunk of this, some cornbread, a turkey leg, cranberry sauce. yum! live recordings from the ‘peace, loving’ band. get together with your bud, give it a spin, see where it takes you. see where it has taken others before you. untitled banjos, chimaxes, smell-0-vision, anthems for a simple pilgrim.
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WFR037: The WinterCamp Sampler ReRelease
Before Greg Sun lived at the Whitehaus, he lived at Wintercamp and hosted shows there. Read about it in the Boston Globe! The residents of Wintercamp released this sampler that was re-released on the Whitehaus Family Record in 2009.
WFR036: Prince Rama of Ayodhya: Threshold Dances
The influence of Prince Rama of Ayodhya stretches far and wide, curls around you, and brings you back to the present. In the sonic arms of Taraka, Michael, and Nimai, you are safe in the humanity of your existence, and you can travel with them to other dimensions with the coyotes and jingle-jangles.
Available for purchase through Ore-Gan!
WFR035: Morgan Shaker: I Can See For Miles
“You are falling down a dark corridor until you land with a puff in a bank of pure crystalline snow. Clutching your ice dagger and navigating with the warmth of your heart you set out on a hazy mystical journey to the cave of the Ice Queen, with destiny on your side and only the owls to protect youâ€
This new addition to the WFR recording catalogue should please all who are looking for an experimental fantasy in to the dark and mystical world of snow-fi. Clocking in at twenty seven minutes, this album was constructed with the use of tapes, a keyboard, a sampler, and electricity. Listen to this album free online!
WFR034: Many Mansions: Return to Source!
The latest album from Many Mansions is dance oriented, blending the repetitiveness of trance, the feel-good vibrations of tropicalia and the mind-beinding aspects of psychedelia. You can hear it for free at Asteroid M Project, or purchase a physical copy here.
WFR033: Manners – Wintour EP
A limited edition EP compiled for December 2008’s Whitehaus Family Wintour. The opening songs crackle cavernously and drip with loitering melodies, sounding both massive and minimal. They affect one with all the dazzling captivation of fire without the burn or pain. The meditations that follow are earthen patterns sounding out in tireless reiteration, disguised as the lulling caress of silence. These noises fill headphones like the sway of trees or a popping campfire.
WFR032: Morgan Shaker: Voila, Spelt Wheat Plus Zephyr
This classic Morgan Shaker record was pressed as a limited series of < 10 that were lovingly distributed throughout New England during Wintour 2008. If you have one, you were there. To all M-Shakes heads: Dig Deep for this one.
WFR031: Gracious Calamity: Rabbit Rabbit EP
Rabbit Rabbit is a homemade confection blooming with giddiness. This five song EP is composed of various recordings from bedrooms in the Whitehaus and one track live from the Advent Church Library in Beacon Hill. Kate Lee and Kit Wallach’s complementary vocals reverberate with strength and dignity, joining a chorus of benevolent guitar, bobbling ukulele and ringing xylophone. These simple euphonies give one a fuzzy feeling that matches the fuzz of the homespun lo-fi recordings.
WFR030: The Whitehaus Family Sampler, Vol. 2
Hang on to your sled for this sampler compiled for Wintour 2008. You start at the first classic-rock chords of Morgan Shaker’s “SCILA,” slip and swerve through Many Mansions’ “Big White House,” Gracious Calamity’s “Song That Grows Like A Vine,” stop for a drink of water at the Meadowlarks’ “First Person Omniscient,” float away into interdimensional space with Casey Rocheteau on “Beings of Sound,” and land on your feet face to face with Shira E. for “Mouth Jam.” It’s a trip, it’s a treasure. Feel the sound.
WFR029: Peace, Loving: Live ‘08
A 30-minute cassette tape with watercolored cover. All tracks recorded live in 2008 at: First Church Jamaica Plain, Mass Art Squash Courts, The Points North Kitchen, and Tranzac Club Toronto.
WFR028: Peace, Loving: The Shape of Jazz to Come
Peace, Loving’s first album, The Shape of Jazz to Come was originally released on 10″ vinyl with only 100 copies. This collection of early live recordings is now very rare to come by. Get your copy today!! SOLD OUT.
WFR027: Casey Rocheteau: Pump Your Concrete (Oh Word the Album)
An adventure through time, spa c e, and sound. Poetry, tape collage, jams from a saloon in the 1800s, knowledge, facts, mystique. All straight to your mind from the mouth of the newest new American poet. Oh word.
WFR026: The Woodrow Wilsons: According to the Seasonal Tilt of the Earth
A lovely masterpiece of sound and song. Hear your favorite classic ‘Dros jams plus all the ones you never got to hear. Sink into velvety vocals, then spin away on the tails of burning ukelele solos. Everything is perfect. Yes.
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WFR025: Truman Peyote: Catalog 1/14-5/12
Sweet beats. Check out this Truman Peyote release from the sweaty height of their New Yoga years, early 2008. The hardest working-out group in show business.
WFR024: atomfoam: best of atomfoam/ARKMF (double disc)
WFR023: Kate Lee and the Opposites Attract: Whatever Whatever
Space jams and tape collage pieced together with folk songs. This maze of many connections bears repeated listening. If Kate Lee is George Harrison, and The Popsicles are The Beatles, then Whatever Whatever is Kate’s Wonderwall Music.
WFR022: BLASTFEST! (double disc)
The first Whitehaus Family Showcase happened on March 21, 2008 at the Cambridge YMCA Theater. Sound engineered and recorded by Shane Myrbeck.
DISC 1
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WFR021: Avi Jacob: Frolic-a-holic
Avi Jacob’s idiosyncratic folk/gospel-roots stylings are undeniably charming. This album was recorded in an empty church and you can def’ hear the penance and redemption of souls all around you.
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WFR020: Kettle Stitches: Put Out the Lights and Cry
In-haus sound engineer Shane Myrbeck and resident modern classical composing wizard Emily Shisko teamed up to create this country-pop gem. A new new classic!
WFR019: Many Mansions: The Dream is Changing EP
Blissed out dreamscapes for those of us with a head full of clouds. Many Mansions will take you to that safe place you’ve felt but cannot name. yldneirfytnewtrouf.
WFR018: Oh, Oh, Mints!: The Oh, Oh, Mixx Tape
early craighead, craighead. primitive peace,loving. before great whales. watching the cosby’s with a buffalo chix sandwich and a ginger beer. don’t b l8 4 practice @ dloo’s basemint. catch the magic momints, feel the flavor vibe. way before raspberry crossing. when debbie was just joey. screamin sax, creamy clarinet. the rock band of your dreams. originally released in 2000 on cassette and hawked on cape cod. when kids were still kids.
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WFR017: Morgan Shaker: Blaste’
Voted the best record to take back to your 2nd apartment. A “best of” conglamorate of many hard-to-find Shaker releases. Includes the most classic of the classic Shaker hits, such as “TomWaitsForNoOne” “Fruit Salad” and “Los Helados.” Very Listenable, Eminently Spinnable! Doubly Splayable.
WFR016: Brian S. Ellis: Toothjuice
Expression from the bloody swamps of roots and veins that make up the life and brain of brian s. ellis. Homemade 4-track outsider-genius.
Toothjuice is currently unavailable in any form… but if you want it bad enough you just might find what you’re looking for
WFR015: atomfoam – ARKMF
a 25min poem from foam. a late may weed, grown from dormant fall seed. first expressions of banjo technique on tape, four tracks, threw and. it starts with gurgling, and if something’s boring after two minutes, listen to it… it’s a sound i’ve heard before, i’m not sure if i like it… it’s the sound of something being taken apart.
WFR014: Morgan Shaker: Flat
Take a real head trip. Sip on this tall drink drip. Drop your nikes, look deeply into your psyche. If you’ve ever been down, been kicked around, seen the darker side of towne. You know you’ve pulled all of your ‘FLATs’ from the shelves before!
WFR013: atomfoam: decade (double disc)
the first whitehaus release by atomfoam. a retrospective of his recordings over the past 10 years. two discs chock full o grits an’ grazin’s. stuff like you’ve never heard, fresh bread with raisins and nuts baked in. a video of you opening pretzels on your birthday. embarrassing! The Guitar Quartet. Simphoney in 3 Moments. The Computer Tape. Craighead, Craighead. Five Bits. The Microcassette Tape. + more.
WFR012: Many Mansions: Holy Mountain Life Adventure Club
The album recorded during the historic Many Mansions Northwest States tour. Shane never returned. Spooky shamanic children, tender lullabyes, third eye cats of drone. Eating ginger lentils w/ your bliss.
WFR011: The Meadowlarks/Gringos Split
The Meadowlark is a rare and beautiful bird.
WFR010: Lindsay Clark: Thistles
Already a country classic – limited handmade edition. Skinny dipping in some pond you’ve never been to, the bugs sound strange. Someone’s cooking bacon on the fire. What a pretty table cloth! A mass of cedar waxwings attacking highbush cranberries, through big speakers. I am hungry, and then I am not.
WFR009: The Whitehaus Family Sampler, Vol. 1
Assembled by atomfoam and Many Mansions in frantic preparation for the Kettle Stitches’ debut at Albert Hall! The first sampler from the Whitehaus Family Record features The Popsicles, Debbie & the Bullets, The Cups, Jake Estner, Brian S. Ellis, Lindsay Clark, and many more…
WFR008: The Whitehaus Family Wake Up EP
WAKE UP! 4 Tracks recorded by a giant group of friends and family one saturday morning at the whitehaus. Featuring traveling word spinstrels Solomon Sparrow’s Electric Whale Elephant Engine Revival! Appearing on this record are whitehaus classics: ‘don’t jam me up’ and ‘restless in heaven’ by Brian S. Ellis (the only songs he’s every written/recorded!), a look into the only recorded work by longtime treemauser jon Duece on ‘don’t cry mama’, and a full out blues jam with longtime mauser Greg ‘Moon’ Mullen on ‘mountain steep’. Check out the edition of this album with bonus tracks by Charles River Trout Company, and ‘on my 30th birthday’.
WFR007: Shane Don and The Field of Light: The Many and The One
After releasing Many Mansions 1, Many Mansions 2, and Many Mansions 3 pre-w.f.r, Shane makes his first whitehaus release an album showing his guitar-playing/songwriting side. but peel your eyes, cause this burger’s rare.
WFR006: Debbie and the Bullets: Debbie
Foot Stompin? Check. Blasting out of what it was with the healthy sh-t. Trying to forget about jeans and kicks, trains and getting there late. Debbie used to sing cause he was sad. Made him feel like he was singing right into the earth. Right into some rotten ears. Then, it got heard. Now he just sing cause its what he do. Debbie’s songs sound like the ladder being kicked out and then you land in your grandfather’s armchair. Positive messages form a place that’s warmer than outside. Big heart with harmonies galore, some would be wisdom from the depth, some out twanging 7ths and open arms. Chants of friends and family. Daps for two wheels and plane tickets. Debbie and the Bullets want you to be happy. They want you to know it’s been done and yeah, it’s still gonna happen, but you got it. Sing along. Get with it.
WFR005: Morgan Shaker: Salt
Deep exploration in cassette fidelity from The Whitehaus
Lion. Who isn’t curious about the first Morgan Shaker whitehaus record? Originally released as a CDr with under 10 copies and no rerelease so far… Try and hunt this one down if you can!
WFR004: The Cups: Sketchbook
Considered by most Mausers as ‘the best record ever”, Sketchbook is a 4-track masterpiece by brothers duo ‘The Cups”. Recorded at their apartment down the street from the whitehaus in the early ’00s, and comes with weird sweet Cups art. Lo-fi, R&B, Classic Rock, OMG.
WFR003: Stay Awhile with… The Popsicles
Sugary doo-wop girl-group pop sweets… hang out with the Popsicles, go for a swim on a warm summer day, stay awhile. Bring a date, your mom, your grandma, your bro, your dog, everyone loves it. The first and only release by the group that was born and died at Whitehaus Hootenannies. Don’t miss out on original original music by Kate Lee, Shira E, Kit Wallach, Def Steph Berry, and Leise Jones! Recorded at the whitehaus by Shane Myrbeck, mixed and mastered in an actual studio! Sounds Good.
WFR002: Hoot Comp, Vol. 2
they got big, they grew strong. recordings from the first whitehaus hootenannies in spring of 2007. all the hits from debbie, uncle shoe, the meadowlarks and more. plus a track from california’s trapeze and carrots at the first ever hoot feature! recorded in hi-fi, mixed, and mastered by in-haus audio engineer shane myrbeck!
WFR001: Hoot Comp, Vol. 1
the oldest of the old. talking widemouths popping, clicking, snapping; anything to keep our neighbors sleeping through the blasting, blissfull, beginning. early recordings from the first of hundreds of jamaica plain hootenannies. recorded at the legendary treehaus in 2006 by harry smith.