Gatefold Double LP - Standard Black (ships on or around Feb 24, 2023)
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Gatefold Double LP - Standard Black + Art Print (ships on or around Feb 24, 2023)
"Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites Cover: Revisited," 2023
Designed by Meredyth Sparks
Based on original artwork by Chris Krol (2001)
Hand-tinted woodcut on Mulberry paper
18.5 x 18.5 inches
Edition of 25 unique prints with 10 Artist Proofs
For the Expanded Edition of "Parlor Tricks," Sparks has created a hand-colored limited-edition print using the woodcut inspired by the original artwork from the 2001 release.
Meredyth Sparks is an internationally recognized artist based in Queens, NY. She has collaborated on design work for numerous Amish Records / Required Wreckers projects and has contributed original artwork and package design for Sunwatchers/Eugene Chadbourne "3 Characters" 2xLP and Keith Fullerton Whitman/ Ben Vida split 12," among others.
Includes unlimited streaming of Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites (2023 Expanded Edition)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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D2C exclusive - Double LP - (C)opake Cream/Yellow
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Gatefold Double LP - Opaque Yellow (Limited Edition of 100 copies) (ships on or around Feb 24, 2023)
Includes unlimited streaming of Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites (2023 Expanded Edition)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Gatefold Double LP - Opaque Yellow + Art Print (ships on or around Feb 24, 2023)
"Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites Cover: Revisited," 2023
Designed by Meredyth Sparks
Based on original artwork by Chris Krol (2001)
Hand-tinted woodcut on Mulberry paper
18.5 x 18.5 inches
Edition of 25 unique prints with 10 Artist Proofs
For the Expanded Edition of "Parlor Tricks," Sparks has created a hand-colored limited-edition print using the woodcut inspired by the original artwork from the 2001 release.
Meredyth Sparks is an internationally recognized artist based in Queens, NY. She has collaborated on design work for numerous Amish Records / Required Wreckers projects and has contributed original artwork and package design for Sunwatchers/Eugene Chadbourne "3 Characters" 2xLP and Keith Fullerton Whitman/ Ben Vida split 12," among others.
Includes unlimited streaming of Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites (2023 Expanded Edition)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
...more
Amish Records is pleased to finally announce an expanded and remastered edition of P.G. Six’s 2001 debut album, 'Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites', to be released as a gatefold double LP and digitally on Feb 24, 2023. Fully remastered by Giuseppe Ielasi, artist Meredyth Sparks reimagines the beautiful Chris Krol cover art in an evocative gatefold design.
An eight-song bonus LP entitled 'Live Cuts and Radio Favorites' will be included. Documenting performances from the calendar year just before and after the release of 'Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites', the bonus album gathers radio and live shows. P.G. Six plays both songs off the debut and the music of others: Pearls Before Swine’s “I Saw the World” (1968) becomes minimalist, approaching modern classical in his repetitive and percussive piano work; X’s “Drunk in My Past” (1983) feels refracted beyond the horizons of Los Angeles punk; Gubler even looks back to his more recent past with “Cover Art,” from the debut album of Tower Recordings; looking forward, the bonus LP also includes versions of songs that would later appear on the album The Well of Memory (2004), which Amish will release in an forthcoming expanded edition.
'Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites' (2023 Expanded Edition) 2LP will be available as 140gm standard black and a limited D2C edition of 100 opaque pale yellow. Pre-orders are available now and includes the song “I Saw the World” recorded live at Tonic on 6/11/2000.
For the uninitiated, Pat Gubler/P.G. Six’s 'Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites' (2001) opens windows on to many worlds, both new and old: a range of folk music, most notably Irish and British traditions; harp music; solo guitar; intimations of Indian classical; miniature etudes; Progressive rock. Lyrically the songs sound traditional, familiar, intimate, and timeless. Classic originals like “The Shepard” and When I was a Young Man” exist alongside covers (Anne Briggs “Go Your Way”). Mournful and elegiac, the album’s careful sequencing functions as a through line between genres and generations. A genuine student of music (Gubler studied Music Composition at SUNY Purchase under the direction of Dary John Mizelle), traditions lean on one another throughout this album and P.G. Six’s wider artistic vision.
Tim Barnes produces and adds percussion, atmosphere and depth to these songs. Best known as a drummer and the founder of the Quakebasket imprint, Barnes has played internationally with artists ranging from Tony Conrad to Jeph Jerman, Jim O’Rourke to Royal Trucks, Faust to Silver Jews, Wilco to Sonic Youth. Amish released DE∆D-LOOP in 2019, an album that features Tim’s most recent musical voice: wildly experimental dance music.
Pat Gubler currently resides in Copake, New York. One of the founders of Tower Recordings, he continues to release music under the P.G. Six moniker, mostly with Drag City Records. In recent years, he has been a member of Metal Mountains, Garcia Peoples, Weeping Bong Band, Wet Tuna, among other collaborations.
credits
released February 24, 2023
P.G. Six
acoustic and electric guitars, vocals, nylon and wire strung harps,
piano, farfisa organ, wurlitzer electric piano, prophet 600,
kemance, ukelin, shakuhachi, d’tzu, tin whistle
Tim Barnes
drums and percussion (frame drum, dumbek, tambourine,
bass tub, side drum, foot cymbals, toms, cymbals, djembe,
tablas, maracas, hand claps, sacred dung drum)
Recorded in Upstate NY in 2000-2001 on 4 track; additional tracks added at Quakebasket, NYC with Tim Barnes
Mixes engineered by Tim Barnes
Sequenced and mastered at Quakebasket by Tim Barnes
2022 Remastering by Giuseppe Ielasi
All songs by P.G. Six *except “Go Your Way” by Anne Briggs
“The fallen leaves that jewel the ground” written in memory of Harold C. Gubler (1930-1996) and Paul Gubler (1960-1999)
Live Tracks and Radio Favorites (compiled in 2023)
The Divine Invasion
Acoustic guitar and vocals: P.G. Six
Recorded live at Flywheel (Easthampton, MA) 7/11/2001 by Aaron Rosenblum
Written by P.G. Six
Go Your Way
Acoustic guitar and vocals: P.G. Six
Percussion: Tim Barnes
Recorded live at Dwars Festival (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 11/13/2004 by VPRO 747 AM Radio
Written by Anne Patricia Briggs (Rykomusic Limited ASCAP)
When I was a young man
Acoustic guitar and vocals: P.G. Six
Recorded live on WNYU New Afternoon Show (New York, NY) 6/21/2001 by Daniel Blumin
Written by P.G. Six
Unteleported Man
Bray harp and vocals: P.G. Six
Recorded live on WNYU New Afternoon Show (New York, NY) 6/21/2001 by Daniel Blumin
Written by P.G. Six
I Saw the World
Piano and vocals: P.G. Six
Recorded live on a rainy evening at Tonic (New York, NY) 6/11/2000 by Barry Weisblat
Written by Tom Rapp (United International ASCAP)
Cover Art
Acoustic guitar and vocals: P.G. Six
Recorded live on WNYU New Afternoon Show (New York, NY) 6/21/2001 by Daniel Blumin
Written by Tower Recordings
Drunk in My Past
Electric guitar and vocals: P.G. Six
Recorded live at Red Barn at Hampshire College (Amherst, MA) Date Unknown by Aaron Rosenblum
Written by John Nommensen Duchac and Exene Cervenka (Reservoir Media Management Inc/ Concord Music Publishing LLC)
Curragh of Kildare
Acoustic guitar and vocals: P.G. Six
Recorded live on WNYU New Afternoon Show (New York, NY) 6/21/2001 by Daniel Blumin
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