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Artist: BOZULICH, CARLA Title: I'm Gonna Stop Killing
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 STEP03
Price: $9.50 Label: Dicristina Stair Builders
Release
Date:		 3/29/04
***Carla Bozulich (leader of the defunct Geraldine Fibbers) extends the thread of her Red Headed Stranger project as a thank-you to old fans and a welcome to new ones. This EP-priced full-length album contains two songs from Red Headed Stranger (one a duet with Willie Nelson), new explorations of music from that album, and seven unreleased live tunes, including original stuff from The Geraldine Fibbers and Scarnella, a Neil Young cover, a Marianne Faithful cover, and some world class improvisations.

A distinct common bond, pathological honesty, and subversive musicality drive the music deeply home. These songs were all recorded during tours that surrounded the conception and aftermath of recording Bozulich's version of Red Headed Stranger-- a classic '70s concept album by Willie Nelson-- that Nelson himself ordained "hot stuff" and on three songs of which he played.

The musicians on I'm Gonna Stop Killing are fascinating and well established in their own rights, and together create remarkable, collaborative music. Nels Cline, Devin Hoff, Carla Kihlstedt, Marka Hughes, Jenny Scheinman, Scott Amendola, Todd Sickafoose, Shahzad Ismaily, Ches Smith, and Dina Maccabee challenge Bozulich to go even further at every turn. Nelson's sparse, guitar-based renditions are stretched into eerie electronic soundscapes and haunting extrapolations of themes, bound by Bozulich's powerful voice. The desperate isolation of Nelson's original is always present and serves as a metaphor for the outsider status of Bozulich and others whose country music is truly alternative.

Artist: BOZULICH, CARLA Title: Red Headed Stranger
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 STEP01
Price: $12.00 Label: Dicristina Stair Builders
Release
Date:		 9/8/03
***Carla Bozulich has wanted to perform and record this classic Willie Nelson concept album for a long time. She never dreamed that Willie Nelson himself would be interested in playing on the album. Sure enough, a few weeks after he'd heard a tape on his tour bus, Carla was in his Austin studio recording duets with him.

When frequent collaborator Nels Cline (who Jazz Times called "the world's most dangerous guitarist") formed the all-instrumental Nels Cline Singers with Scott Amendola on drums and Devin Hoff on upright bass, it turned out that they were all closet country fanatics. There was a convergence of sorts around The Red Headed Stranger, and Carla's heartfelt compulsion finally found its way to the material plane. Her idea of combining seemingly odd elements (jazz, improvisation, raga, caberet) with a traditionally country feel was brought to life by these highly inventive players. During a 24-date tour in April, 2002, Tzadik recording artist Jenny Scheinman joined the quartet on violin for a few shows and added soul and character to the recordings.

Carla Bozulich is best known as the powerful singer The Geraldine Fibbers, initially a strictly country outfit, later on concerned with the universe's heaviest dark passions, and for her often instrumental, by turns organized and anarchistic work with Nels Cline as Scarnella. Before that she was the gamine howler in the groove/sex/assault outfit Ethyl Meatplow. After several years of experimenting with instrumental and/or improvised music, Carla is veering back into song-oriented territory. She has one of the most unique voices in any genre. Lately she's scored a film (By Hook Or By Crook - Sundance Official Selection 2002) and a play (Jean Genet's The Maids), and has done many comps, tributes and special appearance recordings. Her work is always brutally raw and weirdly visionary, yet still manages to lull.

Artist: BUNYAN, VASHTI Title: Just Another Diamond Day
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 STEP04
Price: $12.00 Label: Dicristina Stair Builders
Release
Date:		 10/11/04
***Long overdue reissue and first-time available on CD as a domestic pressing, Vashti Bunyan's lone 1970 solo release features contributions from British folk royalty, including members of Fairport Convention and preeminent producer Joe Boyd. Vashti was also recently heard singing alongside Devendra Banhart on the title track of his Rejoicing In The Hands album.

"Ejected from art school in 1964 for failing to choose between writing songs and painting, Vashti was found by Andrew Loog Oldham singing her songs in London. She was given a Jagger-Richards song to record as a single for Decca and a year later she released a single on Columbia. She went on to record further tracks for the Immediate Label, which remain unreleased. Vashti intended to leave the music business and the city behind for good when she started off for the outer limits of northern Britain in 1968 with a horse and a wagon, heading for the promised land.

"These songs were written over two summers and one winter of travelling. After a chance meeting that winter with Derroll Adams (noted Woody Guthrie era folksinger and banjo player) who told her not to "hide her light under a bushel," Vashti took the songs of her journey to Joe Boyd. A year later he recorded Just Another Diamond Day, inviting Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band and Dave Swarbrick and Simon Nicol (who also played on Nick Drake's records) from Fairport Convention to accompany Vashti on some tracks.

"The album was released late in 1970 to little attention. The music was abandoned by the singer in favor of further horse journeys and complete obscurity. However, over the years all the recordings have succeeded in finding their own way to the notice of music collectors. The master tape of the album lay in a London warehouse for thirty years before being unwisely taken across the city in an underground train and getting wet in a raging thunderstorm, but has survived almost intact. The four additional on this edition are from well traveled old vinyl, acetate demos, and home recorded tape."

--Paul Lambden, CD liner notes

"This record is a kind of document of a pilgrimage lasting a year and a half. Vashti and Robert and Bess (the horse) and Blue (the dog) and an old green wagon fleeing London for the Outer Hebrides. Half way there, they stopped for the winter and a friend brought brought Vashti back to London for a short visit. She rang me, Did I remember her? And of course, I remembered. I had heard her three years before at a poetry reading, singing songs of delicate beauty that melted me on the spot. I had tried without success to persuade her to make a record ... before she set out for the North. Vashti's songs may seem unreal to urbanized listeners but they should listen with open hearts and minds; I have never known anyone whose music is so completely a reflection of their life and spirit."
--Joe Boyd, 1970 album liner notes

Artist: BUNYAN, VASHTI Title: Just Another Diamond Day
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 STEP04LP
Price: $13.00 Label: Dicristina Stair Builders
Release
Date:		 9/12/05
***This vinyl reissue of Vashti Bunyan's lone 1970 solo release features contributions from British folk royalty including members of Fairport Convention and preeminent producer Joe Boyd.

"Ejected from art school in 1964 for failing to choose between writing songs and painting, Vashti was found by Andrew Loog Oldham singing her songs in London. She was given a Jagger-Richards song to record as a single for Decca and a year later she released a single on Columbia. She went on to record further tracks for the Immediate Label, which remain unreleased. Vashti intended to leave the music business and the city behind for good when she started off for the outer limits of northern Britain in 1968 with a horse and a wagon, heading for the promised land.

"These songs were written over two summers and one winter of travelling. After a chance meeting that winter with Derroll Adams (noted Woody Guthrie era folksinger and banjo player) who told her not to "hide her light under a bushel," Vashti took the songs of her journey to Joe Boyd. A year later he recorded Just Another Diamond Day, inviting Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band and Dave Swarbrick and Simon Nicol (who also played on Nick Drake's records) from Fairport Convention to accompany Vashti on some tracks.

"The album was released late in 1970 to little attention. The music was abandoned by the singer in favor of further horse journeys and complete obscurity. However, over the years all the recordings have succeeded in finding their own way to the notice of music collectors. The master tape of the album lay in a London warehouse for thirty years before being unwisely taken across the city in an underground train and getting wet in a raging thunderstorm, but has survived almost intact. The four additional on this edition are from well traveled old vinyl, acetate demos, and home recorded tape."

--Paul Lambden, CD liner notes

"This record is a kind of document of a pilgrimage lasting a year and a half. Vashti and Robert and Bess (the horse) and Blue (the dog) and an old green wagon fleeing London for the Outer Hebrides. Half way there, they stopped for the winter and a friend brought brought Vashti back to London for a short visit. She rang me, Did I remember her? And of course, I remembered. I had heard her three years before at a poetry reading, singing songs of delicate beauty that melted me on the spot. I had tried without success to persuade her to make a record-- before she set out for the North. Vashti's songs may seem unreal to urbanized listeners but they should listen with open hearts and minds; I have never known anyone whose music is so completely a reflection of their life and spirit."
--Joe Boyd, 1970 album liner notes

Artist: BUNYAN, VASHTI Title: Lookaftering
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 STEP06CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Dicristina Stair Builders
Release
Date:		 10/17/05
***It's not often you come across an artist you can genuinely refer to as a "cult legend," but Vashti Bunyan is truly that. A full thirty-five years after her only previous album, the singer returns with a new solo work, her first in all these years, and it is a breathtakingly beautiful album.

Now based in Edinburgh, Bunyan's story tells of the thwarted promise of early fame, disenchantment, long-term exile and eventual rediscovery. In the mid-'60s, after quitting art school to concentrate on music, she was discovered by The Rolling Stones' guru, Andrew Loog Oldham, signed to Decca and recorded a single written by Jagger / Richards. Reviews touted her as "the new Marianne Faithfull" or the "female Bob Dylan" (though she claimed to be neither), yet further singles remained unreleased, leading to despair and a rejection of the music industry. After living under canvas in the bushes behind Ravensbourne College of Art, she bought a horse and cart and set off in 1968 with her boyfriend for the dream of a creative colony that singer Donovan was setting up on the Isle of Skye. It took nearly two long years to get there, by which time Donovan had left, but the experience formed the songs for Just Another Diamond Day, the album recorded by Joe Boyd in 1969 that featured members of The Incredible String Band and Fairport Convention.

On the album's muted release, rather than hang around London to promote the record, Bunyan left the city again to live with the ISB in the Scottish Borders, and then (with horses, wagons, dogs and children) on to Ireland and obscurity. The record slipped out in a tiny pressing and was rapidly forgotten, yet gradually over the years accrued a cultish currency as a lost English classic. In the late '90s, typing her own name into an internet search engine, Bunyan became aware of this interest, and after tracking down the masters and rights, JADD was re-released-- almost thirty years after she had "abandoned it and music forever"-- to huge critical acclaim (The Observer Music Monthly placed it at 53 in their Top 100 British albums). A host of young, new admirers emerged citing her influence, and Bunyan has since recorded with Piano Magic, The Cocteau Twins' Simon Raymonde, Devendra Banhart, and Animal Collective. Following the success of the JADD reissue, DiCristina is honored that Bunyan has also agreed to license her new album, Lookaftering.

Far from some kind of appendage tacked onto the end of an amazing story and a past classic, Lookaftering is a fully beautiful album in its own right. Produced by fellow Edinburgh resident Max Richter (who has a wonderful solo album of his own, Blue Notebooks), and co-arranged with Bunyan, it's a rich, beautifully arranged and stirring album. Developing gradually and organically-- with work initially taking place between Richter and Bunyan's homes, and then at various studios in Edinburgh, London and Glasgow-- Lookaftering is anchored around Bunyan's voice and picked acoustic guitar, and Richter's piano playing and arranging. Its instrumentation includes a string quartet, oboe, harp, French horn, recorder, flute, hammer dulcimer, glasses, harmonium, and Rhodes piano, and it features contributions from Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Adem, Adam Pierce (Mice Parade), Robert Kirby (Nick Drake), Otto Hauser and Kevin Barker (Espers, Currituck County).

As well as a neat balance between gentle, sparse songs and heavier, more orchestrated numbers, there is a beautiful play between the lush instrumental arrangements and the incredibly intimate, in-your-ear presence of Bunyan's voice. There's a real honesty to the album-- from the fragile intimacy of the vocal itself to the stories that it weaves. Just as JADD was a very pure document of a journey, Lookaftering is similarly based on stories taken directly from lived experience (the death of a brother; the joys and fears of motherhood; the tension between freedom and commitment; and travel versus domesticity). There's also a great integrity forged from the cohesiveness between lyrical content and musical form (the gentle rolling and pitching of the melodies on "Same But Different;" the vocal roundelay on "Here Before;" the ice-shiver of dulcimer on "Turning Backs"). The album title itself, a personal neologism that describes the role of "taking care of someone-- human or animal-- or even something that needs to be done, that needs lookaftering."

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Lately
Here Before
Wayward
Hidden
Against The Sky
Turning Backs
If I Were
Same But Different
Brother
Feet Of Clay
Wayward Hum

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Artist: THE MEMORY BAND Title: Apron Strings
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 STEP08
Price: $12.00 Label: Dicristina Stair Builders
Release
Date:		 10/2/06
***The Memory Band began life at the turn of the century, the progeny of one-time Gorodisch electronicist Stephen Cracknell, his computer and a lot of imagination. In addition to releasing Gorodisch records on the Leaf label, Cracknell founded the legendary Trunk label (reissuers of The Wicker Man soundtrack) and spent a short stint playing bass with Badly Drawn Boy.

The group's second album, Apron Strings, is a sublime blend of acoustic folk and homespun electronics. While many tracks were recorded live in the studio, others were created from loops recorded and manipulated by computer. Machines haven't completely paved over the hedgerows, however; alongside Cracknell, Apron Strings features the very non-machine-like talents of singer Nancy Wallace, violinist Jennymay Logan (of the highly respected Elysian Quartet), well-travelled violist Rob Spriggs and drummer / rocket scientist-in-residence Rhys Morgan. Adem, Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) and Simon Lord (Simian, Garden) also turn in sparkling cameos.

The songs mix arrangements and bastardizations of traditional pieces-- a summery take on the trad "Blackwaterside" as beloved of Anne Briggs and Burt Jansch; a genuinely moving take on Irish folk gem "Green Grows The Laurel"-- with original compositions and unlikely cover versions (Carly Simon's "Why" and Ronnie Lane's "The Poacher"), to make an album both modern and timeless, completely unconstrained by most people's ideas of "folk music."

Apron Strings is released via the gentle might of Dicristina in North America and Peacefrog In Europe.

Artist: VETIVER Title: Between
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 STEP05
Price: $6.75 Label: Dicristina Stair Builders
Release
Date:		 6/6/05
***The new Vetiver mini-album was recorded whenever and where ever possible-- including live shows, radio sessions and Andy Cabic's own living room. Featuring Cabic originals including "Been So Long" and "Maureen" as well as a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Save Me a Place," Between gives a subtle hint as to where the second full length is heading. Cabic is about to get to work on recording the next album, with Thom Monihan (Pernice Brothers) once again co-producing. Musicians appearing on the album (tentatively due out in late 2005) include the current Vetiver touring troupe, Alissa Anderson, Devendra Banhart, Kevin Barker (Currituck County) and Otto Hauser (Espers). Vetiver is headlining the Twisted Folk Tour in the UK to promote Between, and will also appear in Barcelona at the Primavera Festival.

Vetiver's Been So Long
Save Me a Place
Busted (Brokedown version)
Maureen (Live in Bolinas)
Belles (Live at WMBR)

If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks:

Vetiver "Between"Amazonp> For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.
Artist: VETIVER Title: S/T
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 STEP02
Price: $12.00 Label: Dicristina Stair Builders
Release
Date:		 5/10/04
***Vetiver grows in a "less is more" chaparral where simplicity offers ample room to wander. Strongly fertilized by traditional acoustic music, and more subtly cross-pollinated by the sparseness of "minimalism," with its bare suggestions of melodies that the listener fills in for himself, Vetiver gracefully navigates folk and pop savannas with ease.

Chief songwriter Andy Cabic grew up in northern Virginia and spent a few years in Greensboro, North Carolina, playing guitar and writing music as a member of the Raymond Brake, whose 1995 full-length, Piles of Dirty Winters (Simple Machines), melded experimental rock sensibilities with bright melodic touches of classic pop. After moving to San Francisco, Cabic enlisted violinist Jim Gaylord and cellist Alissa Anderson, along with Young God recording artist and troubadour du jour Devendra Banhart, who shares co-writing credits on "Los Pajaros del Rio" and "Amour Fou" and contributes guitar and vocals to the album. Anderson made the near-random acquaintance of My Bloody Valentine's Colm O'Ciosoig, and he ended up playing drums on "Luna Sea" and "On a Nerve," which brought along with it vocals on "Angels' Share" courtesy of Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval. "Amerilie" features the harp-playing of Joanna Newsom, Craig Koozer plays bass on "Amour Fou," and Nick Holdzkom piano on "Luna Sea."

The album was recorded whenever and where ever possible-- including various living rooms throughout the Bay Area-- by Thom Monahan, who squeezed in production duties around Pernice Bros. tour obligations, sometimes working on mixes on his laptop and sending them to Cabic from the road.

Like the tall, narrow grass that is its namesake, Vetiver is fragile sounding but strong, densely layered with melody, texture, and rhythm yet uncluttered.... Andy Cabic's wistful tones at times remind one of Nick Drake, hobo folk, and even Cat Stevens as they meander along the dusty road of Americana. -- SF Bay Guardian

Vetiver's MySpace page.

Artist: VETIVER Title: S/T
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 STEP02LP
Price: $12.00 Label: Dicristina Stair Builders
Release
Date:		 5/15/06
***Vetiver grows in a "less is more" chaparral where simplicity offers ample room to wander. Strongly fertilized by traditional acoustic music, and more subtly cross-pollinated by the sparseness of "minimalism," with its bare suggestions of melodies that the listener fills in for himself, Vetiver gracefully navigates folk and pop savannas with ease.

Chief songwriter Andy Cabic grew up in northern Virginia and spent a few years in Greensboro, North Carolina, playing guitar and writing music as a member of the Raymond Brake, whose 1995 full-length, Piles of Dirty Winters (Simple Machines), melded experimental rock sensibilities with bright melodic touches of classic pop. After moving to San Francisco, Cabic enlisted violinist Jim Gaylord and cellist Alissa Anderson, along with Young God recording artist and troubadour du jour Devendra Banhart, who shares co-writing credits on "Los Pajaros del Rio" and "Amour Fou" and contributes guitar and vocals to the album. Anderson made the near-random acquaintance of My Bloody Valentine's Colm O'Ciosoig, and he ended up playing drums on "Luna Sea" and "On a Nerve," which brought along with it vocals on "Angels' Share" courtesy of Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval. "Amerilie" features the harp-playing of Joanna Newsom, Craig Koozer plays bass on "Amour Fou," and Nick Holdzkom piano on "Luna Sea."

The album was recorded whenever and where ever possible-- including various living rooms throughout the Bay Area-- by Thom Monahan, who squeezed in production duties around Pernice Bros. tour obligations, sometimes working on mixes on his laptop and sending them to Cabic from the road.

Like the tall, narrow grass that is its namesake, Vetiver is fragile sounding but strong, densely layered with melody, texture, and rhythm yet uncluttered.... Andy Cabic's wistful tones at times remind one of Nick Drake, hobo folk, and even Cat Stevens as they meander along the dusty road of Americana. -- SF Bay Guardian

Artist: VETIVER Title: To Find Me Gone
Format: 2xLP Catalog
Number:		 STEP07
Price: $12.00 Label: Dicristina Stair Builders
Release
Date:		 7/10/06
***To Find Me Gone is the second album by Andy Cabic's ever-evolving band Vetiver, released two years after the debut self-titled release. Andy has since toured the world, usually as a member of Devendra Banhart's band, and sometimes even with Vetiver. In those two years, Vetiver has expanded into a full-on singer-songwriter band/project, aided and abetted by some of the best players (and usually his best friends) in the extended family of which Cabic finds himself a member. Cabic explains, "This album sure has a lot of folks playing on it, same as on a Bobby Charles or Jerry Jeff Walker record, all good folks and friends."

Once again skillfully crafted, produced and mixed with Thom Monahan (as on the debut), To Find Me Gone is a much different, more free and mature effort, reflective of Cabic's growth as a songwriter over the last two crazy, wonderful years. According to Cabic, "I feel the new album embodies the swirling duality of these last two years, the duality of presence and absence, both in how protracted its birth has been, and in its lyrical themes. There are scenes in the songs where figures come back from far away, to changes and time itself rolling by in their absence. To Find Me Gone has songs of remembrance and recollection, all made in order to conquer absence. It's a different kind of album, in that I think it's the kind of album you can get serious about and carry with you for a long time. In the end it's about the songs, how they all run into one another, and ran over all of us, as we churned up this album."

Musically, there's a dreamy Topanga Canyon vibe on select songs (maybe that's the pedal steel calling on "No One Word"), and there's also plenty of crunchy candy for those who have appreciated Cabic's recent nod toward the magic of '70s-era Fleetwood Mac (check out the screaming guitar outro of "Red Lantern Girls"). Yet everything is simply, amazingly Vetiver, not anything else; To Find Me Gone is Andy Cabic's own original statement, one that many will consider as one of the finest albums of 2006.

  • The album that heralds Andy Cabic as one of the current generation's finest songwriters
  • 11 songs on the CD, 13 on the gatefold double-vinyl
  • Vetiver has successfully toured the USA, UK and Europe and will do so again after the album's release. The current band line up has blown everybody away like never before
  • May '06 date at All Tomorrow's Parties, and then supporting Devendra Banhart in France. July tour dates in USA
  • Numerous talented guests, and yes, Devendra Banhart plays on a couple of songs and co-wrote "Down at El Rio"

    Vetiver's

    Download a Summer 1977 tour poster here.
    [10.6mb .sit/PDF file; b/w and color versions]

    You can stream the entire album for free at Vetiver's website.

    30-second MP3 excerpts:

    Been So Long
    You May Be Blue
    No One Word
    Idle Ties
    I Know No Pardon
    Maureen
    The Porter
    Double
    Red Lantern Girls
    Won't Be Me
    Down At El Rio

    If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks:

    go to iTunes to browse downloads for Vetiver "To Find Me Gone"

    This title is also available for download at AmazonMP3

    If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks here

    [please note that, due to international licensing agreements, not all Midheaven titles may be available for download in all territories].

    For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service and emusic.com, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.
Artist: VETIVER Title: To Find Me Gone
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 STEP07CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Dicristina Stair Builders
Release
Date:		 5/15/06
***To Find Me Gone is the second album by Andy Cabic's ever-evolving band Vetiver, released two years after the debut self-titled release. Andy has since toured the world, usually as a member of Devendra Banhart's band, and sometimes even with Vetiver. In those two years, Vetiver has expanded into a full-on singer-songwriter band/project, aided and abetted by some of the best players (and usually his best friends) in the extended family of which Cabic finds himself a member. Cabic explains, "This album sure has a lot of folks playing on it, same as on a Bobby Charles or Jerry Jeff Walker record, all good folks and friends."

Once again skillfully crafted, produced and mixed with Thom Monahan (as on the debut), To Find Me Gone is a much different, more free and mature effort, reflective of Cabic's growth as a songwriter over the last two crazy, wonderful years. According to Cabic, "I feel the new album embodies the swirling duality of these last two years, the duality of presence and absence, both in how protracted its birth has been, and in its lyrical themes. There are scenes in the songs where figures come back from far away, to changes and time itself rolling by in their absence. To Find Me Gone has songs of remembrance and recollection, all made in order to conquer absence. It's a different kind of album, in that I think it's the kind of album you can get serious about and carry with you for a long time. In the end it's about the songs, how they all run into one another, and ran over all of us, as we churned up this album."

Musically, there's a dreamy Topanga Canyon vibe on select songs (maybe that's the pedal steel calling on "No One Word"), and there's also plenty of crunchy candy for those who have appreciated Cabic's recent nod toward the magic of '70s-era Fleetwood Mac (check out the screaming guitar outro of "Red Lantern Girls"). Yet everything is simply, amazingly Vetiver, not anything else; To Find Me Gone is Andy Cabic's own original statement, one that many will consider as one of the finest albums of 2006.

  • The album that heralds Andy Cabic as one of the current generation's finest songwriters
  • 11 songs on the CD, 13 on the gatefold double-vinyl
  • Vetiver has successfully toured the USA, UK and Europe and will do so again after the album's release. The current band line up has blown everybody away like never before
  • May '06 date at All Tomorrow's Parties, and then supporting Devendra Banhart in France. July tour dates in USA
  • Numerous talented guests, and yes, Devendra Banhart plays on a couple of songs and co-wrote "Down at El Rio"

    Vetiver's

    Download a Summer 1977 tour poster here.
    [10.6mb .sit/PDF file; b/w and color versions]

    You can stream the entire album for free at Vetiver's website.

    30-second MP3 excerpts:

    Been So Long
    You May Be Blue
    No One Word
    Idle Ties
    I Know No Pardon
    Maureen
    The Porter
    Double
    Red Lantern Girls
    Won't Be Me
    Down At El Rio

    If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks:

    go to iTunes to browse downloads for Vetiver "To Find Me Gone"

    This title is also available for download at AmazonMP3

    If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks here

    [please note that, due to international licensing agreements, not all Midheaven titles may be available for download in all territories].

    For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service and emusic.com, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.

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