NEW IN THE STORE:
- ART STORE NOW OPEN
- We got some more copies of the Mount Eerie live in Copenhagen 2003 triple LPs.
- premier new 7” by Ô Paon
- The poster from the Lost Wisdom LP is now offered separately.
- “Dawn” (the book+CD published by Buenaventura Press) is here and available.
- There is a new rare compilation that has an “exclusive” song by Mount Eerie on it, now for sale at Tiny Mix Tapes
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WRITE THE CHECK TO “PHIL ELVRUM” PLEASE.
That’s right. E. L. V. R. U. M.
Here is our address:
P.W. Elverum & Sun
box 1561
Anacortes, Wash.
USA 98221
“HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE?”:
We pack orders every few days.
Domestic orders are shipped via Media Mail which takes a maximum of 8 business days. International orders can be as quick as a week but sometimes the packages get held up in customs. It depends on what country you live in.
(ATTENTION STORES: P.W. Elverum & Sun releases are distributed by Chicago Independent. For wholesale information get in touch with them through their website.)
ELV014: MOUNT EERIE pts. 6 & 7 : book/10”132 huge pages, plus a 3 panel fold-out, of natural light in the natural world, distorted and brought to life by ambient moonlight, expired film, antique cameras, and long night exposures. The photos are the visual counterpart to pretty much the entire catalog of the Microphones and Mount Eerie, spanning almost a decade. Bound within the pristine white silver foil-stamped hardcover is the new Mount Eerie EP, featuring 4 long songs: “Known World”, “Unknown World”, “Blue Light on the Floor” and “Mount Eerie Revealed”. This vinyl only release is intended to be a sequel to “Mount Eerie” by the Microphones (K records, 2003), picking up where that ambiguous myth left off and returning to firm ground to wander into the backyard in the middle of the night.
Here are the environmental statistics: 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). Now for sale!
Do you have a copy and you want to know what the photos are of? There is a supplement page now for book owners. It is here.
ELV019: Lost Wisdom (LP)
by Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron & Fred Squire
10 songs recorded quickly and quietly during a surprise visit by Julie Doiron, keeper of the world’s greatest and saddest voice, and Fred Squire, hidden guitarist of the floating riff, in a small wooden room in Anacortes, Washington before they returned home to eastern Canada. Songs with the expression of the face of a baby in a burning world, in the swirling dust. They hang on a theme of impermanence and destroying forces. The river is revealed to be going right through the house, the river of inevitable chaos, sorrow and love.
Julie Doiron is a legitimate music legend. Not only are her solo albums the greatest but she is also in the band Eric’s Trip. This is a big deal. Fred Squire is called “hidden” here because he plays so dramatic gently and has primarily lived in extremely remote Canadian outposts. His songs are called Calm Down, It’s Monday. Look it up.
The LP version of this comes with a 24×36 inch double sided poster with all the lyrics and a painting and a photo. White/tiedyed vinyl. Elegant and raw.
ELV019: Lost Wisdom (CD) by Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron & Fred Squire
Same music but on CD. It comes in a pretty fancy sleeve. Have you seen those “mini-LP replica” sleeves that come from Japan? It’s one of those. Nice printing and no plastic in the construction. We are releasing this one as a CD because we are so pumped to have a Mt. Eerie/Julie Doiron collaboration that we want to sell 1,000,000 copies. It is good.
Why not?
add a Lost Wisdom poster to your order
This is the same poster that comes with the LP. We are offering it for sale separately here for people who’d like to hang it on their wall or whatever. One side is a giant grainy color photo of a clearcut in fog. The other side is a painting of a flaming house with all the lyrics to the album in 7 pt. Garamond italic at the bottom. It is 3 feet wide, 2 feet tall, and comes pre-folded.
NOTE: This is only available as an “add on” to an order that contains an LP.
ELV017: Dawn of Mount Eerie (LP)
“Dawn” is an archival core sample from an intensely creative period, the winter of 2002/2003 spent alone in a cabin in arctic Norway, wrestling with ghosts, gathering wood, acting out the myths; a kind of “lost album” finally properly recorded on just guitar and singing. It is being released in 2 pretty different forms. This one, a white vinyl LP, is meant to accompany the other, a book of the same name (below). This record comes with a special booklet of scary self portraits done in the dark window reflection in overflowing ink, vaguely corresponding to the overflowing darkness in the 19 songs. They have become known over the past few years at live shows and in other forms but never have they appeared all together like this, sung in the same way they were written, acoustic alone.
Dawn by Phil Elverum (book+CD)
What is this? “Winter Journal”? CD? Pictures? What?
Here for sale is a potentially boring, potentially illuminating journal from a winter spent alone in a remote Norwegian cabin in 2002/2003, along with a CD of the songs written during that time and some pictures and drawings. The idea is that the journal writing is the “raw source material” that the songs were later distilled from. Reading it in journal-form perhaps recreates the slow pace of life and the swirl of thoughts that allowed the birth of such songs. Also: jokes, observations on cold nature, literature, surrealism, “home”, perception, etc. You might find it interesting.
It is a pretty nice object too: a hardcover book bound in synthetic birch wood. It looks like the piece of wood it is. (Buenaventura Press)
ELV016: Black Wooden Ceiling Opening by Mount Eerie : 10”+CD
(2nd artwork version)
Six songs of Mt. Eerie and The Microphones translated into a heavier form in preparation for a west coast tour of illegal art galleries and punk houses in November 2006. The band was Jason Anderson, Kjetil Jenssen, and Phil Elverum. This is a sturdy tip-on style jacket with a black vinyl 10” and a CD that contains the E.P. as well as the world’s gnarliest bootleg of the band performing the songs (plus others) at the Dept. of Safety in Anacortes, recorded by Karl Blau (holding the cassette recorder up to the PA speaker). Eating wood in the street.
GOES WELL WITH “ROPE OR GUILLOTINE” BY THE SPECTACLE. (below)
THIRTY-FOUR “MOUNT EERIE” SONGS RECORDED LIVE SATURDAY, APRIL FIFTH 2003 AT HUSET’S “THEATER ROOM” RÅDHUSSTRÆDE 13, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK / FIREOGTREDIVE “UHYGGELIGT FJELD” SANGE OPTAGET LIVE, LØRDAG DEN FEMTE APRIL 2003 I HUSETS “TEATERSAL” RÅDHUSSTRÆDE 13, KØBENHAVN DANMARK : triple LP + download
This crazy thing was released a few years ago by Burnt Toast Vinyl and Washington Inc. and sold out. Now they made more and are offering a download code this time. Basically it’s a live recording of the world’s longest Mount Eerie concert, 34 songs, including many rarities, plus a 4 track recording of “the Boom” made while in Copenhagen. This was in April 2003 on dude’s re-emergence from Norway cabin time (see Dawn, the book) and so most of these songs are captured fresh and raw. Plus, shows in Copenhagen are pretty amazing. The audience sings and jokes along audibly. One of the six sides contains a faint etching. The triple gatefold jacket looks pretty good. More mountain paintings in ink and coffee. All words are provided in both English and Danish.
ELV018: FOG MOVIES LIVE by Mount Eerie : DVD
This DVD is for home-simulation of a Mount Eerie concert. The footage is the boring/beautiful “fog movies” that have been projected at recent Mt. Eerie shows; kind of a movie version of the photo book (“Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7”). The music is a live bootleg of Mt. Eerie performing acoustic live at What the Heck Fest 2007 in the City Hall Basement in Anacortes, Wash., recorded by professional bootleggers Jackson Barnes and Billy Scanlon. There are 11 songs and a thunder introduction. If you couldn’t make it to any of the recent Mt. Eerie shows all you have to do is put this DVD on and space out. Ta daa!
ELV005: No Flashlight (Australian Import CD) by Mount Eerie
We got a few more copies of the Australian import version of “No Flashlight” by Mount Eerie on CD. The regular domestic LP+CD+poster package is out of print at the moment so this is the only way we have the thing available besides at the download store. This Australian version has the original 15 songs plus 4 bonus tracks: “the Intimacy”, “the Same Ocean”, “Waterfalls” (a Thanksgiving cover), & “Where?”. Also there’s a little lyric booklet thing. THIS IS ABOUT TO SELL OUT!
KLP140: Mount Eerie (LP) by the Microphones
This album was released by K in 2003. It’s the one that’s kind of one big piece of music, not really songs. 5 parts that form a loose narrative: I. the Sun, II. Solar System, III. Universe, IV. Mount Eerie, and V. Universe.
The vinyl has been sold out for years but K just repressed 500 or so. Eventually we’re going to do a redesigned new package but for now here are some of the original LP designs. They are constructed out of sewn paper in triple gatefold sleeves with some drawings of old people and a picture of the mythological Mt. Eerie.
KLP190: the Glow pt. 2 by the Microphones : triple LP
Finally back in stock. This is the “deluxe” re-issue of the popular 2001 album by the Microphones featuring a whole extra record of unreleased songs from the era and “destroyed versions” of songs from the album, plus an extra booklet of pictures and words, plus a whole bunch of photos, plus three records of music. It’s a substantial package. (Released by K.)
KCD190: the Glow pt. 2 by the Microphones : double CD
Same as the triple LP but in a smaller package.
ELV011: WELCOME NOWHERE by THANKSGIVING : double LP+CD
“Welcome Nowhere” by Thanksgiving was our first release, “ELV000”, way back in 2004. It was poorly mastered, pressed on flimsy thin vinyl, made on rough torn up covers, came with a weird CDR with pops and hiss and shit, the silkscreening had chunks of wood and stone in it, etc. Still, it sold out and ended up on ebay for some reason so we figured we might as well re-release it and we might as well include all the other amazing songs from the sessions that didn’t fit onto the first version. So here it is! Two records and a real CD (of the records), in a beautifully printed full color glossy gatefold sleeve. Side 3 is the famous rare “Pregnancy Series” ep released by States Rights Records, now on vinyl for the first time. Side 4 is unheard songs of the era, including “Waterfalls”. Everything was remastered by the excellent John Golden. We are very proud of this one.
ELV013: “Rope or Guillotine” by the Spectacle : LP
Dark young energy focused and rising, from Bodø, Norway. White vinyl, silkscreened/letterpressed covers and letterpressed “words” booklet, churning rocks.
TAUS001: Ô Paon : e.p. : 7”
Two songs about masks, spring deaths, and rebirths.
This is the first release by Ô Paon on the new record label of the same name. We are merely distributing it here.
ELV009 (C.D.): “GRIS” by Woelv : CD
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. Comes with a booklet of drawings and some string. Sung in French.
KLP172: “Tout Seul Dans La Forêt En Plein Jour, Avez-Vous Peur?” by Woelv : 60 page book with LP
(“Alone In The Forest In The Middle Of The Day, Are You Scared?”)
This was released in Dec. 2007 by K. We are selling only the LP version. There is also a CD version but this big 12” square book is so beautiful. The CD is not quite as nice. This book/record has been called “intense”. It’s about conflict. Personally I find it very beautiful. Intense conflict and the beauty and grace that shines through. The music is sung in French, as usual, but the book contains translations into basically every single language, as well as Geneviève’s amazing artwork.
MAR047 (LP): “the Watery Graves of Portland and Geneviève” : LP (released by Marriage)
A collaboration between The Watery Graves of Portland (Marriage dudes) and Geneviève. It is very good. Here is a sample.
MAR047 (CD): “the Watery Graves of Portland and Geneviève” : CD (released by Marriage)
A collaboration between The Watery Graves of Portland (Marriage dudes) and Geneviève. It is very good. Here is a sample.