::: Pre-Release Sale :::
The New Heaven and the New Earth:
"All Saints' Day" Cassette EP
All Saints' Day is the reason Catholic School children can sleep off their candy comas on November 1; the yin to Halloween's yang. It is also The New Heaven and The New Earth's recorded debut. It is the love child of the poison of guilt and the promise of redemption. Masculine yet feminine; insular yet accessible; stalwart yet fragile. It is the product of paradox, that same internal struggle that plagued those holy men to whom The New Heaven and The New Earth pay tribute in deed if not in word.
Roger Alejandro Martinez is that rare songwriter, the avant classicist. The fruits of his craft are both foreign yet oddly familiar. The fingerpicked guitars and autoharp recall a distant America, now just a memory; yet the country All Saints Day calls home is not Appalachia. It is farther away, foggier, a nation born of myth and superstition. Understated strings weave in and out of harmoniums, like a whip-poor-will lost among the pines. Pianos ring out from beneath the haze. Harmonies haunt these songs like the ghosts of so many ashen witches.
This cassette release is encased in spraypainted butterboard, and each case features cut-out "stained glass" windows made with tin-foil, tape, and magic marker.
RIYL sacred hearts, chloroform, arpeggios.
All Saints' Day will be released July 7th on cassette in a limited run of 100, but you can get it now straight from Edible Onion for two dollars off before the release date.
::: Upcoming Release :::
Br'er: Filled With Guilt & Diamonds 12" EP
Edible Onion will be releasing 'Filled with Guilt & Diamonds' on 180 gram vinyl. The release will be packaged in a screen printed, double gatefold sleeve with a bonus track called 'Centralia,' which was recorded around the same time. Only 400 will be available!
The first EP by the intrepid Br'er, "Filled with Guilt & Diamonds" is a concise and varied collection. Less restricted by traditional structure and approach than its predecessor, debut full-length "Of Shemales and Kissaboos," this EP represents an increasingly eclectic aesthetic for this already progressive group.
Stand-out track "Painted Lady" is immediately accessible, proving Schurr and company's aptitude for multi-layered songwriting and intricately crafted arrangement. This sensibility is countered completely in the bleak and claustrophobic "Sugar Bear," essentially a voice and noise piece that betrays the group's increasing interest in, and increasingly odd application of, aspects of modern classical and avant garde composition.
::: New Release - Mon, Feb 2nd :::
Br'er: I'm a Kid Again / I'm Sorry Mom Single
Edible Onion is proud to announce its first vinyl release, a 7" single from Br'er, featuring alternate recordings of "I'm a Kid Again" and "I'm Sorry Mom." The two tracks orginally appeared on Br'er's debut full length "Of Shemales and Kissaboos," and have long been audience favorites in Br'er's live sets.
The version of "I'm a Kid Again" featured on the 7" was orignally recorded by Audio Confusion in Mesa, Arizona, during Br'er's first US tour. "I'm Sorry Mom" was recorded mostly live by Dan Angel in Philadelphia on his digital sixteen track. The songs as they appear here capture the raw, chathartic sound that characterized the group's early live performances, and differ dramatically from their melancholy readings on "Of Shemales and Kissaboos."
As with every Edible Onion release, each "I'm a Kid Again/I'm Sorry Mom" 7" is packaged in handmade art. For this release, each record jacket has a hand painted outer jacket, with vellum windows cut out to reveal a hand painted inner jacket. The painting was done with a mixture of acrylic and watercolor paint on oak tag (outside) and American Masters printmaking paper (inside). As well, all of the text is handwritten.
Available at Repo, A.K.A. Music, Long in the Tooth, The Marvelous & The Philadelphia Record Exchange in Philadelphia; APOP in St. Louis; Reckless Records in Chicago (Milwaukee Ave.); Treehouse Records in Minneapolis; and Eclipse Records in St. Paul.