4 CDs in individual reverse board card wallets with 36 page booklet, housed in a clamshell outer box
Includes unlimited streaming of A Silver Thread [Home Recordings 1979 - 1990]
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The home recordings trilogy back in print on clear vinyl.
Each LP comes with a printed inner sleeve with sleevenotes from Mike McGonigal, the editor of the publications Maggot Brain, YETI and Chemical Imbalance, and the author of acclaimed books about Galaxie 500 and My Bloody Valentine.
This limited bundle edition comes with a large, heavy duty organic cotton bag screen-printed on both sides by VinoSangre using vegan ink, A2 poster, and A6 postcard. Everything designed by Studio Tape-Echo. If you already own the LPs then you can also buy the 'extra thread' items as a separate merch pack.
> His Name Is Alive - All The Mirrors In The House (LP)
> His Name Is Alive - Return To Never (LP)
> His Name Is Alive - Hope Is A Candle (LP)
> His Name Is Alive - Tote Bag
> His Name Is Alive - A2 Poster
> His Name Is Alive - Postcard
Includes unlimited streaming of A Silver Thread [Home Recordings 1979 - 1990]
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Be the smartest HNIA fan on your block with these items we've created to celebrate the home recordings trilogy being back in print on clear vinyl, with a trilogy of extra thread, all designed by Studio Tape-Echo using images from the Defever family archive:
> His Name Is Alive Tote Bag
> His Name Is Alive A2 Poster
> His Name Is Alive Postcard
Tote bag is a large, heavy duty organic cotton bag screen-printed on both sides by VinoSangre using vegan ink.
Includes unlimited streaming of A Silver Thread [Home Recordings 1979 - 1990]
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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4 disc, 60 track anthology compiling early work by Warren Defever aka His Name Is Alive, prior to signing to 4AD. This set compiles 3 volumes previously released on vinyl, alongside a bonus disc and 36 page booklet.
For the past couple of years the Disciples label has been exploring the His Name Is Alive tape archives, charting the development of their sound over 3 roughly chronological volumes - All The Mirrors In The House, Return To Never and Hope Is A Candle (the latter LP being released alongside this boxset). The full vinyl trilogy is anthologised here, alongside a bonus disc which collects together the best tracks from a series of cassette companion volumes that Defever compiled to go alongside each LP - 6Teen OK, Return Versions and Ghost Tape EXP.
Whilst ‘official’ His Name Is Alive albums are much-loved by fans of the 4AD label in it’s crepuscular Cocteau Twins/This Mortal Coil period, these tentative tracks reveal a different kind of sound, notably losing the layer of prominent female lead vocals to reveal the shadowy instrumental moves going on underneath, with some tracks recorded when Defever was as young as 10.
With help transferring ageing cassettes and annotating the results from Shelley Salant of Tyvek, the unearthed results are revelatory - a gorgeous sequence of gently decaying tone float made with an incredibly primitive DIY set-up. Comes with a 36 page booklet containing essays on each of the vinyl LPs by Mike McGonigal (author of books on My Bloody Valentine, Galaxie 500 and noted for his publications Chemical Imbalance, Yeti and Maggot Brain), alongside beautiful photos from the Defever family album.
Personnel:
Warren Defever: guitar, piano, sampler, echo, phaser
Shelley Salant: tape transfer engineer and archivist
J Rowe: production consultant
Jymn Auge: Guitar on final track of Return To Never
All songs by Warren Defever (Perforate My Heart Music, BMI)
Liner Notes by Mike McGonigal
Photos by my mom and dad, except Hope Is A Candle cover by Angie Carozzo
Thank you John and Matt Defever
Layout by Studio Tape Echo
Commissioned by Disciples
Warren Michael Defever SUNSHIP an album that has neither song titles, vocals, melodies, beats or chord changes. One of the Detroit Metro Times top picks of the year File under New Age / Meditation His Name Is Alive
Rachel Haden (that Dog, Haden Triplets, Todd Rundgren, Rentals) beautiful and dreamy debut solo album produced by Warren Defever, recorded in upstate New York next to a waterfall His Name Is Alive
Shelley Salant, a completely original solo guitarist without parallel who creates swirling worlds of familiar feelings and moods. Recorded 11.11.11 and released 12.12.12 mixed by Warren Defever His Name Is Alive