“My parents were living in Bolinas when i was born. this was the early 70’s. there was alot of weaving, ceramics, banjo playing and this kind of thing back then. My mom said the other day she had developed a course, to be taught at the Bolinas community center, 'Self-Awareness Through Macrame'. i said ‘oh, thats interesting, do you keep in touch with any of the students?’ she said ‘no, no one signed up’. that made me laugh.” "This record was mostly made during the pandemic, in a few masked sessions. The songs came about organically with Josiah Flores, Ava Lynch, just playing around in the pandemic with no agenda. Tahlia Harbour and Rusty Miller appeared later on most tracks and then a few other friends sprinkled around towards the end." "Waiting came about watching my teen age son during the pandemic, waiting in his room for something to change. He was sewing a lot, making garments. I began to imagine he was sewing an outfit he would wear when he would leave this weird dystopian planet, when a UFO came down and helped all the teenagers escape the dumpster planet we’ve made. Shadows was also about the pandemic, and imagining our shadows to be our friends from another realm, always sticking by our side, up until death. City Life came out of moving to the country during the record. When I would visit the city it took on a new feeling, it felt more like a sci-fi landscape, and...
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09/15/2023
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09/15/2023
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09/15/2023
***AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! Helmed by the acclaimed songwriter, playwright, author and onetime troubadour piano man SONNY SMITH, THE SUNSETS hail from San Francisco’s Ocean Beach district and feature a revolving door lineup that now permanently includes KELLEY STOLTZ, RYAN BROWNE and TAHLIA HARBOUR. Friends and neighbors including JOHN DWYER (OH SEES) and TIM COHEN (FRESH & ONLYS) appeared to contribute to their debut LP, Tomorrow is Alright. Sonny & The Sunsets’ first release on Future Stress Recordings comes in the form of a four-song 7-inch. Three of the songs were recorded at a Headlands Center for the Arts residency in March 2009, and are not featured on the full-length.
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09/20/2011
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