MOUNT EERIE SINGERS LP RARE COVER mt microphones mirah

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This is a copy of Mount Eerie "Singers" LP. The thing that's different about this copy is that it comes with an extremely limited, ~11"x25" folded over, watercolored, tracing paper cover. I put a piece of cardboard in the back of the plastic record sleeve to ensure that the cover stays flat and does not tear or wrinkle. I purchased this at a non-musical event in Seattle that Phil Elverum and Rich Jensen held at Richard Hugo House in 2005, entitled "Let's Get Out of the Romance". This cover was created in order to have the record available for purchase before the street date of the release, also before the regular covers were finished. There are only 25 copies in existance, well, even less if you count the one that was destroyed in someone's car. At least, that's what I was told happened to one of the copies. I think that might make this the second rarest Mount Eerie record, behind the Twenty Bees 7" (which is limited to 20 copies). Bid accordingly.

Here is all the information for the event where I purchased this record. I pulled it from seedcake.com/mattbriggs/projects.html

May 6th and 26th. The Let’s Get Out of the Romance:
Exhibit Station & Soundcheck. Rich Jensen & Phil Elverum
Rich Jensen and Phil Elverum present a month-long utopian experiment and audio conversation.  They will occupy the gallery space at Hugo House for the month, beginning at an opening on May 6 (Soundcheck) and final presentation of their results on May 26th at 7:30. Jensen is a writer and entrepreneur who has been engaged in various utopian businesses in the Pacific Northwest since the mid-1980s including K Records, Sub Pop, Up Records and now Clear Cut Press. Elverum, from Anacortes, has recorded music as The Microphones and Mount Eerie. His albums include THE GLOW, PT2, and IT WAS HOT, WE STAYED IN THE WATER. The artists will use the Gallery as a Composing Desk. Wall-sized panels will be attached temporarily to the existing walls of the gallery. The panels will be covered with white paper etched with page templates for a coffee table book that Phil and Rich will compose during the three-week interval from opening to Soundcheck. The topic of the book-template will focus on the deflation and crash of various utopian aspirations as the artists have experienced them. Phil will draw from the production history of five particular record albums. Rich will look at the social groups he moved in over the last twenty years and how their emotions were modulated by technology. They will rigorously chart their personal observations onto a kind of visual space-time co-ordinate system that will overlay the book-template grid. They are describing a communal atlas of utopian despair? Could be. When it comes Soundcheck time they will move the Book Panels from the gallery walls into the Studio/Theater where they will become the raw  ompositional material that informs the Soundcheck program. Among other things, the Soundcheck will be a collaborative author-audienceinterviewee-er chat show for this: the Northwest’s latest lifestyle-book sensation. They will use the launch of the gallery exhibit to explain the nature of the Soundcheck event, their use of the gallery and ways for the audience to participate.

Rich Jensen is the publisher of Clear Cut Press. He has been involved with a number of utopian enterprises including K Records, Sub Pop and Up Records.

Phil Elverum records music as both The Microphones and Mount Eerie. His most recent albums are Mount Eerie, Singing from Mount Eerie, and Live in Japan Recorded Feb 19th, 21st and 22nd, 2003.

Vinyl and cover are NEW. This copy has never been played. I have a regular version of this LP that I play. It does not come with a regular cover, it just comes with the watercolored tracing paper cover (with cardboard insert), album insert, and white vinyl record.

I can take more photos of the record if you really want me too, but there isn't much else to see. Unless you want to see the insert or the labels, but they are the same as the regular version.

Buyer pays $5 shipping in the US, $8 to Canada, $16 to the rest of the world. Sorry about the high overseas shipping, but you can definitely combine shipping if you win multiple items. Inside the US items will be mailed via USPS Media Mail (other methods and insurance are available by request at an extra charge, and international orders will be shipped via USPS First Class Airmail.

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