Mouth Painter – Arkturus Suite (SHR 14)

Second album from Mouth Painter.  This one is all instrumental…pedal steel, flute, saw, bass guitar.  Two side-long tracks that delve in and out of modern, western exotica and “newer” age. (37 min. cassette)
Side One:  Arkturus Suite
Side Two:  In the Verdant Slough

praise:
“An all-instrumental follow-up to their great 2018 debut LP Aloha … The blend of Valerie Osterberg’s saw and Barry Walker Jr’s pedal steel is really something to behold. Shorn of vocals this time, the music is much odder sounding, with a slippery progressive edge that is wildly compelling. A splendid lateral drift through several popular dimensions”
-Byron Coley, Wire Magazine

Hear the album here.
$5 plus shipping for the cassette.
To order, send email to snakehandlerrecordings (at) g mail (dot) com OR order from the bandcamp site.

Voices of the Sea – wasted and alone…but wasted (SHR-13)

Debut release by this Portland outfit led by Joel Seaking, and also featuring several former members of Roselit Bone.  In the dance-y Goth Surf zone.  (17 min. cassette)

1. Never Learn
2. Black Plague
3. Forever Side
4. Tasteless
5. So Cool
6. Mindless

Hear the album here.

$5 plus shipping for the cassette.
To order, send email to snakehandlerrecordings (at) g mail (dot) com.

Mouth Painter – Aloha (SHR 12)

Debut release from Mouth Painter!  Psychotropic new age, exotica, folk, and country.  Vocal harmonies, flute, pedal steel, saw, guitars, percussion.  Released in conjunction with Deer Lodge Records (DL041).  (Black vinyl; 42 min. cassette)

Side a
1. Enter the Tiki
2. Sweet Woman I’m Comin Home
3. Timeland
4. Radio Mouth Painter ->
5. Clube de Piscina

side b
1. Exosplash
2. Relish
3. Aloha
4. Lava Lava
5. Exuent

Hear the album here or on streaming services.

$12 plus shipping for the LP.
$5 plus shipping for the cassette.
To order, send email to snakehandlerrecordings (at) g mail (dot) com or purchase through the bandcamp site.

[esc] – portastudio (SHR 11)

Deranged hooks.  Lo-fi, pop out of Portland, OR.  Using primarily a keyboard and his voice, this album was recorded by drummer Ben Dahmes on his phone while he was on tour with Roselit Bone during the summer of 2017.  And it must be said…the cover artwork is a photograph Ben took of a passing desert landscape, on said tour, using an underwater disposable camera submerged in a bag of water.
(Cassette, 32 min. Edition of 50)

side a
1. sad boy
2. lazy lover
3. gospel according to ben
4. HI 5-0
5. hangover
6. morning
7. I < 3 eluvium

side b
1. they say
2. distance
3. U ()))) do it
4. cooooooorrrrrnnn
5. not today
6. lazy boss
7. sega dance night
8. another

“If John and Alan Lomax took a detour through Mario’s warp level, to bump, grind, and sashay with Prismo at the Center Of All Things, perhaps it might sound a little something like the greasy falsetto funk, synth jams, and surreal sad sack singer/songwriter seductions that comprise Portastudio.”
-Jason Simpson

Hear the album here

$5 plus shipping for the cassette.
To order, send email to snakehandlerrecordings (at) g mail (dot) com.

Barry Walker Jr. (SHR 10)

Barry Walker returns from the pools of pedal steel accompaniment to release his third album, Barry Walker Jr., a collage of country/folk songs, pedal steel experiments, pop, and rock and roll.  200 copies on black vinyl.

         

side a
1.  Waltz of the Wind
2.  For Willy
3.  Take Your Letters Home
4.  Too Late
5.  How Many Miles to Babylon?
6.  Jordan of the Rocks

side b
1.  The Boxer’s Omen
2.  Skintology
3.  Black Shit Blues
4.  Up On Johnson Creek
5.  Death (Everywhere I Look)
6.  Checking in with Bernard

Praise/condemnation:
“Trans/Sahm country for drifters on mushrooms needing a lift out of town. Imagine the Chill Out in full size pickup truck or a version of ‘Program’ by Silver Apples tuning into spaced out pedal steel, psychedelic rock and acid folk.”   – John Whitson, Holy Mountain Records

“the best Portland album of 2017”  -Scott Derr, Turn! Turn! Turn!, Black Jack Records

Listen to the album !
Check out the video for “Black Shit Blues” !

To order, send an email to snakehandlerrecordings (at) gmail (dot) com.
$15 plus shipping

NEW SONGS NEW SCIENCE – v.a. (SHR 09)

Snake Handler’s first compilation, featuring fourteen tracks from artists from around the country. This tape presents a wide scope of music ranging from synth meditations to volk songs to exotic ambient music.  An integration of digitalscapes and mossy, forest dwellings.  Put on the headphones, settle in for the ride.  
$5 (Cassette, 64 mins, edition of 250)

side a
1. Mike Erwin – Requiem (April 27, 2015)
2. Faretheewell – Dark as a Dungeon
3. Derek Monypeny – Now Be Thankful
4. Ocean Flauta – Crab
5. Barry Walker Jr. – Arkturus
6. Rob Smith – Tennessee
7. Jordan Norton – 19.9 KCLO

side b
1. Wednesday Knudsen – Petrichor
2. O Hannah – Sella Sela
3. Wes Tirey – The Body’s Better
4. Hayden Pedigo – Dust
5. Andrew Quitter – A Murder in the Moss
6. Furnace Bellows – Josephine
7. Jordan Martins – Seven Days Darkness

The whole compilation can be heard/downloaded/purchased HERE
For more info, contact us at Snakehandlerrecordings (at) G – mail dot com

Gnome Coffin – I (SHR 08)

First release from this shadowy collective from western Oregon.  The music is improvised meditations and beauty grooves.  Also, there’s a Sun Ra cover. Recorded in Corvallis and Portland, OR 2010 – 2014.
Cassette, 60 mins (edition of 38)

 

side a
1. Alap: mobilism
2. Gat: mobilism

side b
1. The Peacock
2. Images -> We Travel the Spaceways
3. Epilogue

From the cassette:
“Gnome Coffin is a gestalt organism experiment first begun in Corvallis, OR in late 2009. Conjuring the moniker ‘Gnome Coffin’ was condign–a spirit equitable to the unconditionally open nature of the band. This music is for, and by, all of us.”

praise:
“I can guarantee you that you will never play here again.”
-Mike Harver (~late 2010), then-manager of Bombs Away Cafe in Corvallis.

contact Snake Handler Recordings for a copy.

Roselit Bone – Blacken & Curl (SHR 07)

First vinyl release by Roselit Bone.  Apocalyptic, psychedelic country and western music.  Recorded in Portland Oregon, 2013 – 2014.
LP $12 (Black vinyl.  edition of 500 copies).  CDs $5 (edition of 300)

side a:
1. Slow Hot Death
2. From Sun to Sun
3. Dust on a Calf
4. No Color of Earth or Sky

side b:
1. Land of Broken Men
2. Roselit Bone
3. Mojave
4. My Coward Heart (Is Yearning)

Music can be heard and downloaded HERE
For more info contact the Snake Handler through this website,
or roselitebone_at_gmail_dot_Com

That Coyote (SHR 06)

First release from That Coyote, a Corvallis, OR prog/hard rock band.
Captured sonically by the Vallis Labs mobile recording unit at the Ruby Palace, OR.
CDR, edition of 100.  (CDRs sold out. See below)

Track List

1. Shipwrecked on Olympus
2. Spark ->
3. Wolves
4. Cheating Life
5. Change
6. Thousand Mile Stare

More recent music by That Coyote can be heard and purchased HERE

 

SPUR! – Lost the Trail (SHR 05)

First true release from SPUR!, a polymorph of original snake handlers, the Taint Brothers.  The territory is bent country music with western exotica interludes consisting of home recordings (and one live recording) made from 2012 to early 2013 in Bellingham and Seattle, WA.  Cassette, 60 mins  (Cassette Sold Out.  email us for details)

side a
1. midnight prelude
2. Another Train Song
3. Rez Dog Blues
4. Sparklin Spurs
5. Living with Juanita
6. Back in the Saddle
7. Mule Train

side b
1. Taint the Metolius
2. The Searchers
3. Running Back to You
4. Welcome Brain Waves
5. The Drifting Cowboy

“Next, a cover of Ernest Tubb’s Driving Nails has everyone drinking followed by an almost signature cover for SPUR!, Ghost Riders in the Sky. Something beautiful and strange is in the room: weird whistles and chimes, sad stringed instruments and haunting rhythms, music composed of dark fragments of a lost western dream…. in other words SPUR!” -Scot Casey WHAT’S UP! September 2012

For a taste of the music, go here.