Filed under: Tinyfolk
Hey ho!
Hope everyone’s winter is going well. We’re still reeling from the Codes for Go comp but now it’s time to start looking towards the next release, which will be a full length by Tinyfolk, entitled Black Bears. Russ has been streaming songs on his website for a while now; what a swell guy. So if you can’t wait, you can preview a bunch of songs right here.
Album coming in March. Sit tight!
Filed under: various artists
Codes for Go
Various Artists
hrtph014 : Compilation
Released: January 3, 2010
All files and art in this .zip file (archive.org)
1. Calm Will Come Around – Patch
myspace
2. Runaway – Alan Price
myspace
3. The Ride Home (demo) – Sleep Out
myspace
4. Two Women – Beaujolais
myspace
5. Nonpareils – FailedSitcom
CLLCT
6. In My Sleep – ski_music
myspace
7. I Want to Vomit on Everything – Dad Lipsticks
myspace
8. You Are Ambient Noise – hollAnd
official
9. All the Bad Things – Jason Sposa
myspace
10. Creation Upon Pharaohglacier – 1st Dude
official
11. Wizard on Fire – Robert Church & The Holy Community
myspace
12. you fell over. – Tinyfolk
myspace
13. Keep Digging – Hanalei
myspace
14. Mean It – Mike Downey
myspace
15. Travel On – Fruktsalat
myspace
The first heartphone compilation! These 15 songs each touch on the various elements of what makes heartphone tick: Honest, humble, homemade and creative musics grounded in pop sensibility.
Codes for Go is a statement. We don’t wait for nods from others. We don’t ask around. And we do not think twice. We only move forward, leaving these songs in our wake.
Codes for Go by Various Artists is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
Filed under: news
Hey gang,
Just wanted to chime in and give some news about the compilation I’m currently putting together. The title is Codes for Go. The artwork is completed (thanks Joe!) and most of the submissions are in. Just let me just say that WOW, there are some amazing songs awaiting your ears. The artists, which I’m going to keep secret until the tracklist is official, come from different corners of the globe. Some names you’ll surely recognize and hopefully you’ll find some new artists to jump onboard with.
The compilation is slated to be released the first week of 2010. Have a great holiday season!
Hey everyone,
Hope you’re all doing well. The Swedish autumn is pretty much packing its bags and making way for mister winter. And in my eyes the winter months, especially in cold climates like this, are reserved for holing up and being creative. The beach has turned to a skating rink and I have holes in my socks.
So I’m really happy to announce some new heartphone music in the pipe: Bloomington, IN-by-way-of-Chicago Russ Woods will be releasing his next Tinyfolk full length on heartphone this December. The album is entitled Black Bears. Stay tuned for more details.
If the name Tinyfolk already sounds familiar to you, well that’s because there are a lot of releases already floating around the internet and most of them are avail for free download. I would suggest starting at the Tinyfolk CLLCT page and grabbing what you don’t already have.
And of course, you already know that Tinyfolk and I collaborated on a little EP under the name A Football Fields last year. Don’t have it already? Had it but your sister spilled Kool-Aid on your computer and fried it? Go grab it right here.
Filed under: news
Ok, gonna try out a little experiment here…
At the moment I don’t have any plans for the next hrtph release. It is going to take me a while to get my next full length together. And I haven’t been out looking for any new artists lately. I’d still like to keep new music coming out if I can.
So, the newest idea is to release a compilation. If you have listened to hrtph releases you’ll get the idea of what sorts of musics “fit”. I’m open-minded, but not that open-minded. Get it?
If you think you may have something that would be of interest please send an mp3 to info at mike-downey.com
I’d prefer only exclusive songs as opposed to something already released or slated to be released.
Thanks for reading,
hrtph
Filed under: Mike Downey
Audio Graves, Vol. 4
Mike Downey
hrtph012 : LP
Released: September 12th, 2009
320kbps MP3 and lossless files are available here. Check out the liner notes by clicking “Info” next to each song.
192kbps zip file is available here (archive.org)
1. Green Star for New Day (1999)
2. Come and Go (2007)
3. Over the Handlebars (1997)
4. This is How You Get Home (2005)
5. The Real Knockouts (2000)
6. I’m Starting a League (2000)
7. There’s Mountains Under There (1996)
8. Oh Silly Scope (1997)
9. Heartphone (1998)
10. Way Far Away I Try (2007)
11. Unicorn and the Rainbow (2000)
12. Bloody Knuckles Champion (1998)
13. Classic Settings (2003)
14. I Smoke, She Don’t (2005)
15. Did You Know I Was Looking? (1995)
16. Mood Swing King (Slackjawed version) (1996)
17. Forever Scars (1998)
18. You’ve Your Spymap Out (version) (2006)
19. Quite the Navigator (1997)
20. Yeah You Slowed Me Up (1997)
21. Sudden Bright Suns (2005)
22. Password (1998)
23. Quick as it Kills Us (2004)
24. Do the Vibe (2003)
25. We Did the Drugs that You Left Us (2003)
The Same Heart
Jason Sposa / Mike Downey
hrtph013 : Split EP
Released: September 9, 2009
All files and art in this .zip file (archive.org)
1. Bullets (Jason Sposa)
2. Directions of You and Me (Jason Sposa)
3. Things Have Gone this Way (Jason Sposa)
4. The Same Heart (Jason Sposa and Mike Downey)
5. Leaf and I (Mike Downey)
6. Owned You (Mike Downey)
The Same Heart’s first murmur occurred when Jason Sposa and Mike Downey began collaborating on this EP’s title track in the summer of 2009. After the song’s completion both dug into their archives and picked previously unreleased songs to fill it out. The outcome is a candid peek into both artists’ somber sides presented in the lower-fi frequencies.
The Same Heart by Jason Sposa / Mike Downey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
Hey gang,
Thanks for stopping by. A little news on some upcoming releases….
Audio Graves, Vol. 4 will be out within the next week or so. It’ll be nice to have all 4 volumes out, finally. Thanks to all of you who have taken the time to listen thus far.
Also coming soon is a split release with Jason Sposa and me (Mike Downey). Jason gives us 3 low key, lo-fi goodies. I’ve got 2 of my own that I think compliment his nicely and to finish it off we’re debuting our collaborative efforts on a song in which Jason recorded the original music for and I sang over and added a few touches.
Stay tuned,
hrtph
Filed under: Mike Downey
Audio Graves, Vol. 3
Mike Downey
hrtph011 : LP
Released: August 17th, 2009
320kbps MP3 and lossless files are available here. Check out the liner notes by clicking “Info” next to each song.
192kbps zip file is available here (archive.org)
1. Something’s Got Me (1999)
2. You Knock on Doors (2006)
3. Stopped By (1996)
4. Calling Your Cloud (2004)
5. Skyrockets Needed Advice (1997)
6. Forgot How to Dance (1998)
7. Years, Nights (2006)
8. Submarine Battleship (1996)
9. You Dig? (2001)
10. Bleeding Toy (1996)
11. Portable Archive (2002)
12. The Blackheart Boys’ Club (2004)
13. Nautilus (2000)
14. Four Tries and I’m Gone (demo) (1994)
15. Stick Around (2000)
16. The Boneyard (2003)
17. Brown Bottles (1998)
18. Combustion Eyes (1995)
19. All Vietnam (1998)
20. A Plot to Destroy Oliver Cromwell (1996)
21. Cool Babe (2004)
22. The Trilogy (1997)
23. Scary Sunshine (1997)
24. Distant Vision (acoustic) (1995)
25. Summer Skiers (1999)
Vol. 4 coming in September…
Filed under: Mike Downey
Audio Graves, Vol. 2
Mike Downey
hrtph010 : LP
Released: July 19th, 2009
320kbps MP3 and lossless files are available here. Check out the liner notes by clicking “Info” next to each song.
192kbps zip file is available here (archive.org)
1. Hung Up (1996)
2. Barkley Evergreen (2002)
3. Is A Home (1999)
4. Oh Girl (2004)
5. Milk and Farm (2003)
6. Bonfire (My First Flat version) (1997)
7. Vanderbilt Trains (2002)
8. Windmill (1996)
9. Tired Lights (2000)
10. Get the Flashlight (1999)
11. From Now On I’m A Rainbow (1996)
12. I’m Going to Smile, Right? (1997)
13. Sort it Out (demo) (2009)
14. Easy Alright (2002)
15. I Simply Couldn’t Move (2000)
16. Excuse (demo) (1994)
17. Flock at my Feet (2003)
18. Remember the Quarantine (1996)
19. Hesitate My Love (2002)
20. Tough Old Stars (1999)
21. Hopeless but Clever (1995)
22. She’ll Throw You Away (2003)
23. Range Sixteen (1996)
24. The One I Used to Move (1998)
25. I’m Not Afraid of Love (2000)
Vol. 3 coming in August. Stay tuned!
