Songs snake their way from a lo-fi home recording to something glossier made with longtime friends at Asheville's Drop of Sun studios

10 dark hymns for the apocalypse

an album that emerged from “the gloomy space between hanging on to and letting go of the love of your life… or at least the person you perceived as the love of your life”

BUMMER’s searing music and self-deprecating sense of humor are steeped in their surroundings

TOM PHILIPS / GAVIN BRYARS / FRED ORTON - Irma - An Opera by Tom Phillips LP Hardcore Songs snake their way fromOn composing Tom Phillips' Irma: In February and March of 1977, for Brian Enos Obscure Records, I made a version of Irma. The following notes on the piece arise out of that involvement and try to show how the piece can be made into a performance state. Irma is a curious score it is printed on a single sheet 50cms x 50cms. The notation consists of fragments from Toms continuing treatment of the victorian novel by W. H. Mallock, which he calls A