Black Wooden Ceiling Opening is now for sale! Order one in the store. I will send it to you.
Do you have a copy of “Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7” (the book/record) and you want to know what the photos are of? There is a supplement page now for book owners. It is here.
(ATTENTION STORES: P.W. Elverum & Sun releases are distributed in North America by Southern Records of Chicago. For wholesale information get in touch with them. Click this.)
ART SHOW May 10th through June 8th- Malmö, Sweden- KRETS Gallery There will be a showing of photos from Mt. Eerie pts. 6 & 7 and other art by Phil Elverum. On May 10th in the early evening there will be some kind of opening party. NOT A CONCERT. Just an “art opening”.
MOUNT EERIE CONCERTS (all all ages)
May 8th- Oslo, Norway- SPASIBAR (with NO KIDS)
May 9th- Gothenburg, Sweden- Koloni @ Kulturhuset Underjorden, (with NO KIDS)
May 10th- Copenhagen, Denmark- BLAGARDEN BIBLIOTEK, (with NO KIDS)
May 11- Berlin, Germany- VOLKSBÜHNE (10 Jahre 10 Monate 10 Tage HQ) with NO KIDS
May 12- Leipzig, Germany- UT CONNEWITZ w/ Gregor Samsa (with NO KIDS)
May 13- Leipzig, Germany- THE NEEDLE AND THE DAMAGE RECORD STORE (acoustic)
May 14- Nurnberg, Germany- Hafenklang/K4 (with NO KIDS)
May 15- Dresden, Germany- Scheune, (with NO KIDS)
May 16- Hamburg, Germany- HAFENKLANG, (with NO KIDS)
May 17- Brussels, Belgium- Recyclart, (with NO KIDS)
May 18- Utrecht, Netherlands- Theater Kikker, (with NO KIDS)
May 19- Paris, France- FLÈCHE D’OR, (with NO KIDS)
May 20- Tourcoing, France- Le Grand Mix, (with NO KIDS)
May 21- Manchester, England- Kro Bar, (with NO KIDS)
May 22- Bristol, England- START THE BUS, (with NO KIDS)
May 23- London, England- Cafe Oto, (with NO KIDS)
May 24- Dublin, Ireland- WHELANS, (with NO KIDS)
May 25- Nottingham, England- DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL, (with NO KIDS)
May 29th- Barcelona, Spain- Primavera Festival, (with Eric’s Trip!)
May 30th- Warsaw, Poland- Polish Radio 3
May 31st- Gdansk, Poland- Cafe Delfin (with Ô Paon/Geneviève Castrée/Woelv)
June 1st- Poznan, Poland- Kisielice (with Ô Paon/Geneviève Castrée/Woelv)
June 2nd- Kraków, Poland- Kawiarnia Naukowa (with Ô Paon/Geneviève Castrée/Woelv)
June 3rd- Katowice, Poland- galeria Rondo Sztuki (with Ô Paon/Geneviève Castrée/Woelv)
June 5th- Warsaw, Poland- Saturator (with Ô Paon/Geneviève Castrée/Woelv and Kings of Caramel)
June 7th- Lille, France- La Malterie (with Ô Paon/Geneviève Castrée)
June 8th- Rouen, France- Emporium Galorium, 151, rue Beauvoisine (with Ô Paon/Geneviève Castrée)
June 9th- Paris, France- Mains d’Oeuvres (with Ô Paon/Geneviève Castrée)
Thursday, June 12th- Montréal, Québec, Canada- Casa del Popolo (part of Suoni Per Il Popolo)
Sunday, June 22nd- Anacortes, Wash.- Dept. of Safety (with Typhoon and Kickball)
July 18th, 19th & 20th, 2008- Anacortes, Wash.- What The Heck? (PASSES NOW ON SALE.)
OUR CATALOG chronologically
- “ELV00negative2- Seven New Songs of Mt. Eerie” – (out of print, yet for free here)
This is 7 songs that were originally recorded for a tour of Australia in 2004. It wasn’t a real release. Just some CDRs in a photocopied cover. No big whoop. - “ELV00negative1- “Mt. Eerie Dances With Wolves/Wolf Mountain Howls In The World” (#1)
The Australian version of ELV001, made on the spot. They’re all gone. - “ELV000”- “Welcome Nowhere” by Thanksgiving (out of print)
Our first acual release. It is the 3rd? album by Thanksgiving. It came out in October 2004. We are now reissuing it in a deluxe way. - “ELV001” – “Mount Eerie Dances With Wolves/Wolf Mountain Howls In The World” (#2)
This is out of print too. On that tour of Australia Mt. Eerie became a big pickup band of Australians and recorded these 2 songs direct-to-lacquer in a cool studio/pressing plant compound in Melbourne. - “ELV005” – “No Flashlight” by Mount Eerie LP+CD
This is the first “real” Mt. Eerie album. It came out in the fall of 2005. We are still selling it like hot cakes, and still happy with it. - ELV004- “the Drums from No Flashlight” by Mt. Eerie LP (out of print, but Southern has some left here)
We felt the drums on “No Flashlight” sounded good enough to listen to by themselves. - “ELV002” – “SINGERS” LP+CD (out of print but Southern has some left here.)
Over the years whenever a large group of people was in the studio doing some singing on a recording I tried to get them to sing one of my songs, maybe play a few instruments. (Hello, I am Phil from Mt. Eerie.) “SINGERS” is the name of this collection of various recordings. Some are from live shows with the audience singing. All of them are “singalong” songs. - “ELV007” – “Thanksgiving (pt. 2 of 3)” by Thanksgiving tripleLP+CD (out of print)
This was jointly released, Dec. 6th 2005, by Marriage and us. A triple album by Thanksgiving. Beautiful triple gatefold. Red, white and blue vinyl. We technically released the white one. Excellent songs home recorded. No filler, almost. - ELV003 “11 Old Songs” by Mt. Eerie LP+CD+2 booklets (out of print)
11 songs made up during the winter of 2002/2003 and recorded later, sung over the top of primitive electronica. A very weird punishment for some pretty good songs. - “Short Songs” by Phil Elverum- word booklet (out of print)
Just a little booklet from late 2005. - “Egil’s Saga plus the Saga of Ref the Sly” read aloud onto 7 C.D.s (out of print)
I made this as an all-purpose present for my family in late 2005 but decided to make a few extra copies and sell them to regular people. I’m thinking of making a single disc MP3 version, but I’ve been told it’s actually pretty hard to listen to. - “ELV008”- “No Mystery” by D+, LP+CD, sample (out of print)
White vinyl, CDR, lyric sheet, letterpressed covers. D+ is a band made up of Bret Lunsford, Karl Blau, and Phil Elverum. We are very relaxed about it. The songs are Bret’s. We all live in Anacortes and in Feb. 2006 we made a new record (our 5th) in the mornings. - “ELV009”- Gris*” by Woelv CD or 10”
Geneviève made these 4 long songs in preparation for a tour of Japan. They turned out to be too good for just a tour thing so we released it. They are an attempt at “prog rock” she says. Drones and mind bends. The CD version comes with some string. The white vinyl 10” comes with translations of the words into English. Sung in French. - “ELV012” “Don’t Smoke/Get Off the Internet” by the Microphones: 7” (out of print)
white or clear vinyl, letterpressed covers. This is a new single by the Microphones, released in January of 2007. 2 punk songs. We are already sold out. - “ELV013” – “Rope or Guillotine” by the Spectacle- LP
letterpressed/silkscreened covers, letterpressed words booklet… The Spectacle is a band from Bodø, Norway that is already broken up. I became friends with them in 2002 when I showed up in their town and decided to stay. I had never heard music that sounded like that, or seen that kind of dark energy so focused. I am happy to be releasing this record (their second of 3) because I could never manage to make music like this myself, although I try. - “ELV010” – “On Earth” by PEACE – CDR in jewel case with folded up xerox
Based out of Kamloops, BC, PEACE is a funk-rock quintet comprised of two guitarists, a bassist, a percussionist, and an additional bassist. The band’s music is multi-culti-folk-hop, a socially-conscious jam-slam avalanche of killer hooks and fantastic grooves. With influences ranging from 311 to Rusted Root, the end result is a jah-monkey trance sound that is minimal, maximal, tasty and tight. Got it? Good. In recent years, PEACE has averaged 85 shows annually—including tour support for Mount Eerie and an appearance at What-the-Heck Fest – both at home in British Columbia and on the road. The band is currently working with Maple Booking (Hamilton, ON) and is sure to see an increase in their shows upon the release of this debut album. They have also played Pendleton, Oregon with YACHT. After starting out as Squad Boys in 2003—their three-song demo cd, featuring the blazing non-album cut “Hamburgers” is desperately out of print—the group changed their name to PEACE and recorded “ON EARTH” with Phil Elverum in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. With uzi-like melodies and an uncanny sense of the rhythms of human sex, “ON EARTH” is a loose cannon, heart-on-the-crotch love letter to the world at large. There’s just one question: is the world ready for aggressive PEACE? - “ELV015” – “ANDO-PR – 36 page book
a portfolio of writing and collage work. Recipient of the World’s Top Hilarious Joke Award. Here are some samples. Also, this. - “ELV011” – “Welcome Nowhere” by Thanksgiving – double LP+CD
A fancy reissued version of our “ELV000”, this time with a whole extra record of lost songs from the sessions. This is one of 3 records that was recorded in a hexagonal hut on top of a high remote hill above a lake with eagles and military jets, looking out over islands. The beginning of our moving studio called “Nowhere”. (The other was “Whysp” by Whysp). “Welcome Nowhere” is a CLASSIC ALBUM, straight up. This new version is totally remastered and sounds 1,000,000 times better. Glossy full color gatefold jacket, tie-dyed colored vinyl, CD, excellent songs. - ELV014 – “Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7” – 132 pg. hardcover book + 10” picturedisc
This music is the sequel to “Mount Eerie” by the Microphones (2003), but the photos are from all over the world from the last 10 years. They have been hung on the walls of the rooms where all the other Mount Eerie/Microphones music has been born. Also, this is the biggest and best thing we’ve ever made. Printed and bound at the best printer in North America rather than somewhere in Asia where almost all art books are made, it was printed on 10,000 lbs. of FSC certified 50% recycled, 35% post-consumer “Endeavor” paper (“savings”- 20 full grown trees, 60 lbs of water-borne waste, 9000 lbs solid waste, 1000 gallons of water, 1900 lbs of greenhouse gases, 14870 (000) BTU’s of energy). Mount Eerie revealed. - ELV016 – “Black Wooden Ceiling Opening” by Mount Eerie – 10”+CD (in stores May 27th, 2008)
6 songs recorded with the November 2006 Mount Eerie “hard core” line up which was Kjetil Jenssen of the Spectacle, the enigma Jason Anderson and Phil Elverum. “Black Wooden” is supposedly a new kind of music we’re trying to unearth.
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UPCOMING:
- “Dawn” – winter journal, Norway, 2002/2003 by Phil Elverum – book + CD
This will be a book of very intense journal writing from time spent in a cabin in northern Norway. It comes with a CD of all the songs written there, played once and for all on just guitar and singing. Something like 17 songs. 144 pages. Some drawings. Some pictures. This will be published later in 2008 by Buenaventura Press. - ELV017 – “Dawn” by Mount Eerie- LP (fall)
The same songs as the ones on the book/CD from Buenaventura Press, but on vinyl, no book. Just a record. Get the book. - “Fancy People Adventures” (joke cartoon)
will appear regularly in Arthur Magazine, and a website is HERE! - ELV018 – FOG MOVIES LIVE DVD
bootleg of Mt. Eerie at What The Heck Fest 2007 set to boring fog movies - “Black Wooden EP” by Mt. Eerie
a release as part of Southern Records’ Latitudes series - Mt. Eerie split single with NO KIDS
on the Caff/Lick label featuring the M.E. song “Through The Trees (excerpt)” feat. Nick Krgovich, and the N.K. song “Prisoner of Desire” feat. Fudge Elverum - “Water Activated Alpine-Themed Packing Tape #2” by Phil Elverum
- a new return address sticker
- ELV019 – “Lost Wisdom” by Mt. Eerie, LP or CD (Sept. 2008)
with Julie Doiron and Fred Squire! - ELV020 – “Wind’s Poem” – by Mount Eerie (spring 2009)
colossal sounding new album - Ando-Pr vol. 2 “BOTH KINDS!” – CD and pamphlet
- “Song Islands vol. 2” by Mt. Eerie (much later)
Mt. Eerie Singles compilation
LINKS
STORE
BOOK
OUR SHELVES
BIOGRAPHY
FANCY PEOPLE ADVENTURES
DISTRIBUTION
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D of S
MOUNT EERIE IN JAPAN
VENEER
PEACE LEGITIMACY
BREL BEING PUNK
WEBSITE OF BACKPACKS
ANONYMOUS WRITING PROJECT
THE WORK OF JIM DAVIS
OUR BELOVED TAPE DISPENSER
PUBLICITY RESOURCES:
MOUNT EERIE
BIOGRAPHY
PICTURES:
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WOELV/Ô PAON
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THANKSGIVING/ADRIAN ORANGE:
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THE SPECTACLE:
playing music nude (240kb)
coming out of the squat (210kb)
playing a normal show (274kb)
in the corporate lake (332kb)
in concert (237kb)
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PEACE
CATCHING SOME AIR (147kb)
RAN INTO DANNY GRIGGS IN TORONTO RECENTLY (476kb)
WORLD PEACE
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CONTACT
physical, tangible, “real”, traditional mail:
ELVERUM
box 1561
Anacortes, Wash.
U.S.A. 98221
Please don’t send me a million emails, but if you need to you can write to:
pw (at) pwelverumandsun.com
p.s.- Mount Eerie/Phil Elverum/the Microphones/Phil Elvrum/ElverumandSun/etc. does not exist on “my space a place for friends”. Do not correspond with impostors and think it’s me. It’s not. I’m me.