or visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j45jk8g3EpI

Our man with the moving pictures, Sminket, has put up some stuff on YouTube,
simply search for "countrymanrecords" and smile, more will follow.
example#1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVNXPGkPhc

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V..sterbotten February 07

Hello everyone!
Greetings from the farm. Rural space cadets The Spacious Mind are launching a new album called Gentle Path Highway.
Release date March 1 2007.

Order your copy from your favourite dealer or direct from us:
info@countrymanrecords.com
questions?
let me know!

all the best
henrik, countryman

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The Spacious Mind - Gentle Path Highway (Countryman010)

There's this thing in the minds of real enlightened folks, which is called the mental backbone of complete vision. As the story goes, the first recorded evidence of this phenomenon occurred aeons ago when an old Mexican man took his walk of life just a bit too far & lost himself on the way to the sacred site he was heading for. Trying to find his way back to both his own self & that piece of holy dirt n' soil hidden in the land of Peyote proved too much, and he was eventually found all dried up, dead as a raven with a heart pierced by an arrow. So obvious was the marks & footprints on the ground where he'd been stumbling along, that people in the area soon gave it a name: the Lazy River Road. This was then & now is now & now the name is the Gentle Path Highway. You can see the reason for the change if you've been far enough down that road yourself, be it in your soul or on foot. If not, well, sorry but I won't tell you.
Another day, another lifetime, and another record by The Spacious Mind. They've been at it for 16 years, and this new CD, by weird circumstances entitled Gentle Path Highway, is their tenth proper release. Who would've thought that back in 1993 when their debut was unleashed in full glory? Snotty-nosed kids then, not quite middle aged now & while that seemingly has nothing to do with wise men in Mexico, think again. Is it not true that the revolution I like to speak of comes from the inside? Is it not true that the music we hear is the music of the spheres & thus from the outside? And is not that outside what we were born out of – of earth and sky? Is that not the same mother of all that has given birth to seas, trees, holy men & bees? Of course it's so & there's the clue – in the light, man!
The music of The Spacious Mind is only a fraction of that of the spheres, they share their part of Land of the notes with everyone else, but when encapsuled like this, on an ugly silver shining disc you might be forgiven for thinking, if only for a moment, that they've actually tapped in on some ancient musical mystery that only they know of. Hah! Only kidding you – this is everyone's music just like all other music & you might wanna reconsider the thought of that music as something you can sell or buy or understand or read about in glossy magazines sold by the devil. Or that that music is up for grabs when men in suits hide inside the hearts of 'independent' artists and labels, because that's not music in the first place. Real music is something else. It's not a scene & it's not a dream – it's life, man & it's talking to you all the time. Let it go & let it shine, let yourself out of the box & do your thing but don't do theirs. DON'T DO THEIRS!
Yeah, losing it a bit, am I? So glad to be out of here in a minute – I've got important stuff to deal with. Life affirming reality's knocking on the door, and that's my kinda music. You may give this disc a spin & see what you hear in there – might be your life & your reality coming to groove with you all through the wintery sunshine. Now I'm done. Bet you ain't.

B.C. Wolff
(B.C. Wolff wears stained pants that smell of woodsmoke & he walks through the morning light for hours. He's a brother of the fox & and a guardian of dreams.)

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tracks:

1. Rider Of The Woodlands

2. Gentle Path Highway

3. Honja

4. Civilization Blues



GPH was recorded at Space Your Face Studios, produced by TSM, engineered by Douglas Knightbridge and The Golden Master. Mixed by Douglas, mastered by Faster Faster. Basic tracks (drums, bass, keys and guitars) were recorded live in the studio June '06, and then overdubs and mixing continued on and off until Faster gave us the final master on New Years Eve.



Lineup is as it has been for a while now:

David Johansson: drums, percussion

Henrik Oja: bass, guitar

Jens Unosson: keyboards

Thomas Br..nnstr..m: guitar

Niklas Viklund: guitar

And Everybody: vocals, percussion and then some



About the tracks:

The material on GPH is basically studio versions of the three songs we´ve played at most of our recent gigs.
Rider Of The Woodlands used to be called E6. Civilization Blues is what you could call a late night studio jam.

Comrades,

In the spirit of the times, even old rural fall-behinds sell their soul to the devil by way of internet downloads. Gotta move with the groove, as they say. Therefore, you can now access much of our stuff here: http://www.northernstarrecords.co.uk

Eventually all our releases, including tracks from the 10" and the limited cd-r series, will find their way to this MP3 format. For those of ancient vintage, I can add that B.C. is currently working on reissues of the complete catalogue on 78 rpm shellac discs in handmade covers - more on that later.
Oh, and while I'm in high spirits anyway, The Spacious Mind are just about to finish a new studio album.

Rumour has it that it's a concept album dealing with the life and times of Cinnamon Charlie & a possible title being 'Gentle Path Highway' after a poem by the great man himself. Expected release date is early 2007.

Gonna go hacklebarneyin' now,
Wilmot

last weekend we had a recording session at space your face studios and maybe it will lead to one or two new albums this fall