This years Clean Air Clean Stars compilation is out NOW.  It features a brand new Old Toy Trains song as well as some other great and rare tracks from this years festival line up. A big THANKS to Neil and Planting Seeds Records for inviting us to participate in the comp!!
Here's the deets..
This 2009 Clear Air Clean Stars compilation is compiled of 16 performing artists at the 2009 festival in Joshua Tree, CA, and the 9 tracks from partner Planting Seeds Records. This collection has been curated and is powered by Apollo Audio. All proceeds from the sale of this digital compilation will be forwarded to the festival's benefactor Global Inheritance - www.globalinheritance.com and will help build awareness to keep our air clean and our stars clear.

Listen and Stream at:
http://www.apolloaudio.com../default2.asp?AIDL=302&sit..e=AA

TRACK LISTING:
1:: DISSOLVER "Love Is The Same"
2:: LOWER HEAVEN "Shadow People"
3:: JAY ASTON "Love Keeps Me Down"
4:: THE MORNING AFTER GIRLS "Still Falling (Live at Committee HQ)
5:: BENJAMIN STARSHINE "Love Gun (This Dream Is Over)"
6:: SKY PARADE - "The World From The Stars"
7:: THE ASTEROID #4 "Wicked Wire"
8:: THE UPSIDEDOWN "Before Remember"
9:: THE QUARTER AFTER "Sempre Avanti (Country Version)
10:: SPINDRIFT "Conversation With A Gun" (Instrumental)
11:: THIS BLIND LIGHT "II"
12:: TSK TSK "Lil Wildflower"
13:: LES BLANKS "Shoot The Horse"
14:: RACHEL DEAN AND WAR CHILDRENS "100 Miles"
15:: BLACK NITE CRASH "Inside Of You"
16:: MAGIC MIRROR "A Free Man"
17:: THE YOUNG SINCLAIRS "Forever After"
18:: THE SEE SEE "Up The Hill"
19:: INTERNATIONAL JETSETTERS "California" (Live WFMU Radio Version)
20:: LINDA DRAPER "I Will" (Early Version)
21:: MARK CROZER "To Get To You" (Shoegaze Version)
22:: OLD TOY TRAINS "In Between"
23:: THE DAYTIME FREQUENCY "Tant Pis" (Acoustic Version)
24:: WELCOME TO PEEPWORLD "Everywhere"
25:: DEATH VALLEY SLEEPERS "Small Town Bells"
26:: THE LOVETONES "Navigator" (Rob Campanella Remix)

Our "Electric Railway" ep has been put on hold due to label illness and other circumstances out of our hands...though it will be going to press soon.

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Hope the summer has been full of starry nights and sleepy days..

R.I.P.  --Sky Sunlight Saxon/Jim"Captain Memphis"Dickinson/Ellie Greenwich

McTwist and Shout---B+++

These are the people involved in this recording

Sky Sunlight Saxon

Adam Watkins

Bo Chung 

David Roberto 

Stanton Warren  

Liana Turner 

Aleksandr Khodchenko 

Magdalena Jitrik 

Dan Hayhurst 

Chris Campion 

Arthur Lager 

Sterling Roswell

video by Rosco

At the beginning of this month, Randall Nieman(Fuxa) flew out to record some covers and originals with Suki and myself.  Our pal Jason Johnson engineered the session for us at our rehearsal studio.  Here's some of the deets....In four days we.......

1. recorded basic tracks for 7 tunes
2. got a new president
3. Randall had Jack in the Box for the first time in 5 years TWICE
4. Suki wrote lyrics to a xmas song in 5 min. (I dare anyone to try that one.)

It's gonna be sent out to some pals for the proper treatments and mixing and be released on Mind Expansion sometime next year.  I put up some pics for anyone who cares to take a gander. 

The Old Toy Trains ep is off for mastering this week.  There will be 500 copies 200 will be ltd ed handprinted sleeves also to be released on Mind Expansion in the new year. 

Hope all are well and for you socal folks, are safe from the flames.

Best, Bo (((Old Toy Trains)))

A MIND EXPANSION COMPILATION 3
ME-2024/2025
LTD TO 1000 COPIES
DISTRIBUTED BY CTD/REVOLVER
AVAILABLE JANUARY 2009

THE THIRD AND FINAL VOLUME IN THE MIND EXPANSION COMPILATION SERIES IS ALMOST HERE AND FEATURES ANOTHER 33 SONGS FROM SOME OF THE FINEST INDIE/SPACE ROCK/SHOEGAZE/ELECTRONIC GROUPS OF ALL TIME.

featuring songs by:

SUICIDE
SKY SUNLIGHT SAXON AND THE SEEDS
FUXA*
OLD TOY TRAINS
SUKI EWERS
SPECTRUM
ALL IN THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON
RICHARD FORMBY
LSD AND THE SEARCH FOR GOD
FREELOVEBABIES
GEESE
SCALA
SLEEPYARD
THE DECEMBER SOUND
EAU CLAIRE
DEAN WAREHAM AND BRITTA PHILLIPS (FUXA REMIX)
DAWN SMITHSON
MARIA
THE DAVEY PARKER RADIO SOUND
THE FREE DESIGN
OUR LOVE IS SPECIAL (featuring britta phillips & sonic boom)
CHARLES ATLAS (PRAM REMIX)
UNKNOWN CELEBRITIES
THE PROJECTS
LUMERIANS
VENTURE LIFT
BASSMAN
THE TELESCOPES
STERLING ROSWELL
TEENAGE FILMSTARS
TIM "LOVE" LEE
MARTIN REV
SHIVA AFFECT

We are happy to be part of Attacknine's 13 Weeks of Summer digital download series.  There is a new exclusive instrumental track you can get for 99c at
www.attacknine.com

Label compilations are a tricky proposition, particularly for small, homegrown indies that don't have the benefit of a flagship (i.e., name) artist to attract the general public. While it's a common marketing ploy for such labels to offer exclusive tracks from their stable of artists at a discount price to attract folks to sample their wares, at just $6.99, this 2xCD set is the deal of the year. Chock full of 23 previously unreleased tracks from Attacknine artists and their friends (visit their website above to see who's who), the deal is even better when you realize that if you find an artist you like and want to pick up their full length, you don't already have two or three of the tracks on the sampler! So don't let your unfamiliarity with the artists prevent you from picking up this wonderful little Christmas present with the punny, holiday title. Each disk is given a separate title (disk 1: "Twilight;" disk 2: "Starlight"), so the mood is established for late night/early morning listening right from the get go.

Inside, you won't want to miss OwlBear's simple, frolicking, clapping singalong "See Wings," which sounds like it was recorded in front of a classroom of young grade school kids, and would make a fine addition to a grammar school Glee Club's catalog. A.P. English (Rob Barbato from Darker My Love) sleepwalks through "New England Rose," a druggy, heavy-lidded nodder in the fine tradition of Brian Jonestown Massacre's mellower moments. For those unfamiliar with the label, they are distributed by Darla and the vibe throughout is similar to Darla's rostrum. Indeed, "Presence Under The Tree" has the same laidback, lightweight pop groove of Darla's own "Little Darla Has A Treat For You" series of compilations, although Attacknine artists are a bit softer and melancholic – perfect for cuddling up in front of a fireplace with some incense and other mental accoutrements.

Winter Flowers is one of the best of the new breed of wispy, twee, psych folk bands and they are represented by earlier versions of two tracks from their self-titled debut: "Misty Morning Land," a whispered little hushabye of a song, and the tinkling, xylophone melody of "Ivory Path," which leads off the "Starlight" disk. Fans of Espers, In Gowan Ring and Nick Castro will be very pleased indeed to welcome them into their arms and record collections. Other highlights of the "Twilight" disk include Hi-Fi's dreamy, waltzing "Sunday," with backwards and warped Hawaiian guitar flourishes in the wonderful style of Spacemen 3, Spiritualized and Spectrum, and Old Toy Trains' Lou Reed Goes Country on "Crow's Landing."

The "Starlight" disk picks up where "Twilight" leaves off with the same high quality, beginning with the beautiful, piano-driven melody of Women & Children's "Night Of The Rake (Sans Batterie)" that seems born from the melody of "Stairway To Heaven." I also liked the plucky, Ennio Morricone-ish twangy guitars of Orick's "Ichabod," the intimate, Red House Painter's aroma of Sewing Circle (aka Women & Children's Kevin Lasting)'s "Underneath The Dog." Gorgeous, glassy-eyed guitar work and whispered vocals make Canyon Country's "Honey & Gold" (presented here with the full live band) another welcome treasure, which often reminded me of Scott Appel and his Nick Drake fascination. (CC frontman Nick Huntington is a bit of an Attacknine everyman, represented as he is in three different incarnations: CC, Freescha and The Surf The Sundried, although only the former really excited me). Finally, Hi-Fi's gorgeous instrumental "Evening" bleeds Durutti Column all over its tenderly plucked strings, although dumping all the instros at the end of disk 2 (thereby seemingly relegating them to afterthought status) might not have been the brightest sequencing move. Still, I guess it does give the listener a chance to sit back and contemplate the preceding offerings and with almost every track a winner that I'll want to hear over and over again, "Presence Under The Tree," in the true spirit of the holidays, is a successful introduction and overview of the Attacknine roster which will have me investigating said artists in much more detail in 2007. 9/10 -- Jeff Penczak (27 December, 2006)

We are proud to announce our first release is on the new Attacknine compilation Presence Under the Tree.  It is an exclusive track that won't be on anything else.  Here's the deets...

PRESENCE UNDER THE TREE: Attacknine Family & Friends.

DISC 1: 1. I See Wings .. OWLBEAR, 2. New England Rose - A.P. ENGLISH, 3. Cave-In - THE SURF THE SUNDRIED, 4. Misty Morning Land (Version) - WINTER FLOWERS, 5. Long Gone - WOMEN & CHILDREN, 6. Seashell .. FREE FESTIVAL, 7. Sunday - Hi-Fi, 8. Crow's Landing - OLD TOY TRAINS, 9.
Strangers (Undrunk Undies) - THE SURF THE SUNDRIED, 10. Burn & Glow - WOMEN & CHILDREN, 11. Crystal Voyager - ANORAK

DISC 2: 1. Ivory Path (Version) - WINTER FLOWERS, 2. You & I .. JOHN WEBSTER JOHNS, 3. Night Of The Rake (Sans Batterie) - WOMEN & CHILDREN, 4. Ichabod .. ORICK, 5. Somerlie S'en Va Petite - CRI DU CHAT, 6. Underneath The Dog - SEWING CIRCLE, 7. Honey & Gold (Full Band) - CANYON COUNTRY, 8. Moving II .. FREESCHA, 9. Evening - Hi-Fi, 10. Ryan Run (N.H. Mix) - AM-BOY, 11. No Meaning (Part II) - THE CAIRO GANG, 12. Friends Please Come home - THE WHITE LODGE

Order it at this link now: http://www.tonevendor.com/item/24772
ONLY $6.99!