the "out of Stock" Village of Spaces "alchemy and trust," LP repress available from our website sooooonnn.....

TRD W/D #23 village of spaces "Alchemy and Trust" LP Reissues finally done!

The Village of Spaces "Alchemy and Trust" LP, was originally released in April or May 2011 in a run of 500 copies. We sold out and repressed another 450 copies, these with an offset printed insert instead of the original 2 color screen print. We're so psyched to have more copies of this around.......Its now available from our website.......http://www.turnedword.com/vinyl.html

Here's a review of it......Featured on David Keenan's "Tip of The Tongue" http://www.volcanictongue.com/tips/show/264

Morning Nap review by Nick Williams!

http://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2011/05/village-of-spaces-morning-nap-c46.html

tUESDAY, MAY 17, 2011

VILLAGE OF SPACES CORNERS
"Morning Nap" c46 (Turned Word)

Wow, this is a really lovely tape. For those who aren't in the know, Village of Spaces (currently residing in and around Belfast, ME) is the new moniker for Dan Beckman and Amy Moon's longstanding group that began as Dan's solo project, Uke Of Phillips, morphed into Uke Of Spaces Corners County, which released two LPs on Corleone (check their website: they didn't quite get the baffling syntax right!) and is now onto a more collaborative band sound with members Asa Irons (Feathers), Clare Hubbard (Caethua, Sports, Ancestral Diet), Andy Neubauer (Ancestral Diet, Impractical Cockpit), Big Blood and Michael Hurley (!). This tape is a collection of "demo" versions of the tunes that appear on the newly released Village of Spaces "Alchemy and Trust" LP (which is a co-release between Turned Word, Corleone and a few other labels). I believe they were both recorded by Nemo from Time-Lag Records.

These versions are just as strong as the ones found on the record, and I actually find myself listening to this one more, though I suppose that's because I don't have a record player in my car. It's got an over all rawer sound and there are times when you can hear Dan and Amy's kid crying, but I count both of those things as assets. The songs are vaguely psychedelic (read: echoy with cryptic lyrics), but they also fit nicely into a number of American and English folk traditions. The first cut, "Alchemy & Trust" is so jaw-dropping that I would call it nothing short of a masterpiece. The rest of the album flows nicely from there, with all of the tunes creating wonderful mind-pictures of the beautiful, but sometimes challenging, Maine landscape.

I really haven't found a tape that has been this exciting to me since Chris Weisman's outstanding "Fresh Sip" from last year. Dan covers most of the lead vocals here and his vocals have that amazing nasal/otherworldly quality of Ed Askew's work, but his lyrics are a touch more grounded in reality than on that classic ESP folk disk. But now that I mention it, you should also check out the new Ed Askew LP reissue "Imperfection" on Galactic Zoo Disk/Drag City. Those songs are more autobiographical then any of his two previously released albums, & it's so wonderful!! Only 500 copies, so get it while the getting is good. But hey, we are talking about Village of Spaces here. This thing is only an edition of 100 copies, so snap it up before it's gone.

Peace

Sunday Oct 16th Village of Spaces
@ Homegrown Festival Boston, MA at Aprox. 3PM
@ Villa Victoria
85 West Newton Street
Boston, MA(the South End)
http://www.villavictoriaarts.org/visit.html

http://www.homegrownfestboston.com/

IN A HOLLOW LOG AUG 19th and 20th

fast approaching is the second annual in a hollow log music etc. fest in the kingdom - - this year's event with take place on august 19th and 20th - please save these dates! there is a bog and a waterfall to swim in there are woods all around please bring $5 for the performers and something to add to friday's potluck some refreshments will be sold on one or both days - - - address: 52 kingdom rd. montville maine 04941 directions: take rt. 3 to montivlle - from south off I95 in augusta - from north off rt. 1 in belfast the kingdom rd. is a tiny dirt road directly off rt. 3 - on the left from the south - on the right from the north you've missed it if: - from the south you've reached mt. repose cemetery on your right - from the north you reached 10-4 redemption on your left call: (207) 589-3025 if you have any questions

Village of Spaces @ RO HE GE MON AUG 8th

POT LUCK @ 6PM

Musics @ 7

BJ SNOWDEN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDVDqJ7o8LE

ASA IRONS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOSFVcv18Rc&feature=related

VILLAGE OF SPACES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbiB1yPrFfo

RO HE GE BARN

12 Mill LAne Belfast, ME USA

Arootsakoostik Music Festival Saturday, JULY 9, 2011 Thomas Park - New Sweden, M

Arootsakoostik Music Festival Saturday, JULY 9, 2011 Thomas Park - New Sweden, ME

Village of Spaces will perform for 35 minutes starting at 1:50 PM.

Hope to see you there!

Reviews of Village of Spaces "alchemy and trust."

Hey there. I'm dedicating this post to reviews. There have been some really good ones about the new Village of Spaces Lp and we wanted to give them another home where they could be viewed all at once......

http://www.volcanictongue.com/tips/show/264

TIP OF THE TONGUE 21 AUGUST 2011

Village Of Spaces
Alchemy And Trust
Turned Word Records No Cat
LP
OUT OF STOCK!

Okay: can’t recall the last time I was so completely blown away by an out of nowhere release but this new LP from Maine’s Village Of Spaces aka Uke Of Phillips aka Uke Of Spaces Corners has very quickly become the most played LP of the year at VT. Recorded over the space of several years (some of it by Nemo Bidstrup of Time-Lag Records) and featuring the core duo of Daniel Beckman and Amy Moon alongside guest spots from Michael Hurley and members of Big Blood, Ancestral Diet and Caethua, Alchemy And Trust is a modern masterpiece, beaming the kind of stoned devotional folk style of Witthuser & Westrupp, Siloah, Tower Recordings and Hurley himself into the future via beautiful, drugged acoustic arrangements, heavenly male/female vocal interplay and perfect psychedelic songwriting complete with visionary lyrics that trip off the tongue and work obsessively repeating imagery into new alchemical forms. The opening track, “Ovum’s Influence”, has such a slow-motion dosed aspect, the feel of distant tonal sunrises and rural time/space, the vocals intertwining over nodding mandolin, keyboard, guitar and bass, that it instantly transports you to an isolated communal freakscene, complete with some of the more ‘in the pocket’ aspects of downhome psychedelic voyagers like Matthew Valentine and Erika Elder and The Cherry Blossoms. As the album progresses the mood becomes more hypnotic, sundazed even, with simple guitar/vocal duo performances like “House A Home Part 2” coming over as masterclasses in revenant atmospherics with alla the genuine magic of two musicians pulling force and form straight out of the air. I mean, in an age where ‘musicians’ talk of creating their music from fuggin You Tube clips and any clown with a Knight Rider t-shirt and a sampling keyboard can make ‘new age synth’ soundtracks it’s nothing short of revelatory to encounter this kind of higher-minded instrumental ability, with a group that play well beyond any inherited notion of technique and with such emotional and atmospheric articulacy, such devastating control over precisely-keyed psychedelic transmission. Alchemy And Trust is a modern classic and I’d easily line it up alongside epochal outings like The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughters, The Cherry Blossoms LP, Dom, Siloah, Hurley’s Blue Navigator, Witthuser & Westrupp’s Trips und Traume, Dreaming With Alice, even US Saucer’s masterful My Company Is Misery, a record that shares much of Alchemy And Trust’s instrumental and atmospheric persona. Seriously, if you’re in any way tuned in to fully blasted/zoned acid folk w/a utopic stoned rural vibe then you really need to check this out. Pretty much eclipses everything else right now as hands-down album of the year. Edition of 500 copies, already sold out at source. Highest possible recommendation! David Keenan

JUNE 2, 2011 STILL SINGLE

Village of Spaces – Alchemy and Trust LP (Turned Word/War On Records/Corleone/Don’t Trust the Ruin)

The ever-changing name of this group (Uke of Spaces Corners and the variants therein proceeded this record) gives chase to all but the folk faithful, which hopefully can stop soon, especially given the level at which they’re now performing – surely these people don’t want to evade notice when they make music this stirring. It’s country folk with an eye on the clouds, set to wander, but with the cosmos in full view, providing an endless depth to their sound and removing them from any traveler/bike punk hoi polloi. The austerity and wholesomeness of their sound is fairly stunning, even as danger lurks in the corners and fringes of their sound. Perfect for twilight saunters through the wheatfield idyll, on that night when you meet the fairies and decide never to return to your loved ones. Their best release to date. (http://www.turnedword.com)
(Doug Mosurock)

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REVIEW: Village Of Spaces’ “Alchemy And Trust”

Published June 19th, 2011 at 10:40 pm in Music Reviews with no comments
Tagged with Americana, indie folk, indie pop, Village Of Spaces

The sound offered by Village Of Spaces on their album Alchemy And Trust (Corleone) sounds like someone went into a lab, dissected the DNA of Flaming Lips and Wilco and lubed it up with infant pig oils. The album (a short one at about 33 minute) feels like entering the woods of the mind, one you didn’t think you wanted to go but discovering you belong, and embellishing in its fine oats. It’s acoustic, it rootsy, it sounds like it doesn’t belong of this time and yet it is very much of its time, an anti- music that’s more about the music than the anti-, you know? You don’t know?

Let me put it in another way. It’s the kind of music you might hear at a folk life festival, or at a food cart pod, where the musicians arrived their on bicycles and all they’re hoping for in return is a sandwich and a beer. Instead, what they get upon playing is appreciation from the crowd and maybe a few people wanting to sign up to their mailing list. It’s of the earth, and I would love to be a worm.

VILLAGE OF SPACES - ALCHEMY AND TRUST

Album Details

• Artist: Village Of Spaces
• Album: Alchemy And Trust
• Label: Corleone
• Year of Release: 2011
• ME Rating:
• Reviewed by: Mike Wood on2011-06-27

• Recommend

Village of Spaces might physically be from Belfast, Maine, but their music hints that, somehow, they spend some of their time in an obscure place in the cosmos which only they can describe. The psychedelic feel of the folk on "Alchemy and Trust" helps the tracks walk a sweet line between the intimate and the majestic. This is a band that has played with its name for sometime (most notably calling themselves Uke of Spaces at one point); if they can keep themselves a bit more easy to find, more seekers will certainly be jumping on this holy bandwagon.

Their songs have been recorded when able, usually on the road and with the help of whatever family or new friend has dropped by. The ease with which songs like "Ovum's Influence" and "Mountainside" unfold such genuine emotion and sprawling message from the simplest of melodies is testament enough to their honesty and genius. This is not a typical freak folk pose by well-heeled, sane as a banker college kids; this is music grown slowly, joyfully, and tested by the road to help burn off the bullshit.

The vocal interplay of Amy Moon and Dan B. center all the tracks, but are especially evocative on the jittery minimal "Buoy Gong" and "Forget Me Not," providing intimacy and off-kilter melody.

Any band that lists Alice Coltrane, Harry Partch and The Fugs as influences is all right by me, as it hints at their aims and their hearts. Village of Spaces have an umbrella big enough for all, with music that embraces chance, fun, the holy and naughty, and the guts to explore their cosmic muse with poetry and improvisational glee. "Alchemy and Trust" is a good place to jump aboard if you haven't already.