***Back from the silence from which P.G. SIX always emerges, the new album release Murmurs & Whispers is the first proper P.G. Six album since 2011’s Starry Mind. Time passes slowly, as they’ve been known to say out in the country, and before you know it, there’s a bunch of it behind you. After five releases in the first decade of P.G. Six, it may seem a bit of a surprise to have not heard something new in the past twelve years—but a cursory listen to Murmurs & Whispers will answer why, as the deep acoustic focus of the tracks imply an investment of the type of compassion and understanding that takes time and concentrated effort to conjure. Additionally, PAT GUBLER's always got a few pots going at once in his ever-expanding musical universe. He’s been active since the mid-90s, first with Memphis Luxure and Tower Recordings, then as P.G. Six, and as a member of METAL MOUNTAINS, WET TUNA, GARCIA PEOPLES and WEEPING BONG BAND. Additionally, some time was spent making collaborative records with Dan Melchior (in 2019) and Louise Bock (in 2021). Pat’s been playing the harp for more years than he’s been in bands, but when he realized that he was writing a set of songs cen- tered around harp compositions, he spent some time in the woodshed with his instrument, a late 80s model Triplett Celtic 34 String Harp (which replaced a lovely Paraguayan harp he’d played for years previously). After the previous P.G. albums of...
LP $24.85
09/01/2023
***Amish Records is pleased to finally announce an expanded and remastered edition of P.G. SIX's 2001 debut album, Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites, to be released as a gatefold double LP and digitally on Feb 24, 2023. Fully remastered by GIUSEPPE IELASI, MEREDYTH SPARKS reimagines the beautiful CHRIS KROL cover art in an evocative gatefold design. An eight-song bonus LP entitled Live Cuts and Radio Favorites will be included. Documenting performances from the calendar year just before and after the release of Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites, the bonus album gathers radio and live shows. P.G. Six plays both songs off the debut and the music of others: Pearls Before Swine’s “I Saw the World” (1968) becomes minimalist, approaching modern classical in his repetitive and percussive piano work; X’s “Drunk in My Past” (1983) feels refracted beyond the horizons of Los Angeles punk; PAT GUBLER even looks back to his more recent past with “Cover Art,” from the debut album of Tower Recordings; looking forward, the bonus LP also includes versions of songs that would later appear on the album The Well of Memory (2004), which Amish will release in an forthcoming expanded edition.
2XLP $28.95
03/10/2023
***A half-dozen records down the road, P.G. SIX is a long way from the rustic home of his debut, Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites. Sparks set off at the conclusion of 2007’s Slightly Sorry—flashes of full-bodied electrical folk-rock—fire Starry Mind’s arc through our skies. But the change shouldn’t surprise. This evolution was openly predicted way back on his second album, The Well of Memory. Starry Mind picks up the tale with a fully electrified Celtic traditional and dances lightly forward, with guitar lines chiming and entwining above while drums and bass deliver thumping kicks below. PAT “P.G. Six” GUBLER is still enmeshed in the mystic and the unknowable even as he feels and knows the fullness of his rock phase. Applying everything he has learned to this latest passage, he relaxes as he dissolves his latest epistles into the fresh, clean, communal air. (STREET DATE - 8/23/2011)
LP $19.75
08/23/2011
CD $13.75
08/23/2011
***The second full-length album from TOWER RECORDINGS founding member and new folk favorite PAT GUBLER under the PG SIX moniker. Continuing the many themes introduced on his Parlor Tricks And Porch Favorites debut, Gubler makes nods toward 1960s folk artists like Bert Jansch, Pentangle, Incredible String Band, and John Fahey, while also fitting in with contemporary artists like Devendra Banhart, Alasdair Roberts, and Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny. Abstract, dreamlike, and transcendent.
CD $14.00
04/27/2004