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Buy 4 of Karl's releases for only $35! - $35.00
	Includes: Nature's Got Away, Clothes Your I's, Beneath Waves, and AM Quantity:
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Zebra - $12.00
(click image to enlarge)	First 30 orders will receive an autographed copy! Listening to Karl Blau's albums and trying to describe what you hear is like walking through a local farmer's market and describing all the vegetables grown in that area. The common thread running through Blau's records is a love felt for homegrown music. Most anyone can sense the passion this cultivator has for his trade. In a world of instant access to musical cultures near and far, Blau overtly mirrors African musical influences with hints of blues, soul and rock steeped in l'herbe de Northwest and he calls it Zebra [KLP205]. This striped burro was birthed in the trusty analog setting of Dub Narcotic Studios in Olympia, Washington. For Zebra Blau explored the frontiers of folklore, adding one instrument at a time (drum, guitar, bell, keys, saxophone, flute, piano) in an organic process of response to this confluence of sounds. A restless thinker, Blau is adept at imaginative and sweet songs about education, work, love and society. Blessed with an expressive and gentle baritone, Blau asks the eternal question: "what's next?" Every generation has its own revolution and we need heartfelt music now as much as ever. Let's practice how we dance. "Equally alive to the natural and the supernatural...Blau [has a] strange and humble presence that is deeply felt. And he brings to each song a little whimsy, woe, and a deceptively intricate way to mash these sensibilities together." -Pitchfork Quantity:
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96 - $15.00
(click image to enlarge)	Track Listing 1. 96 2. snake canoe 3. back to the moon 4. hey low, halo 5. an emptiness 6. to shadows 7. baby alone 8. to go nowhere 9. go where i like 10. change your mind Quantity:
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Nature's Got Away - $12.00
(click image to enlarge)	Tracklisting 1. Moved On From Dreams 2. Make Love That Lasts 3. Before Telling Dragons 4. Nothing In The Way 5. Carry and Rob 6. Ghostly Appearance 7. Mockingbird Diet 8. Of Your Feet, Of Your Place 9. Stream Of Ganders 10. That's The Breaks 11. 2 Becomes 1 12. It's The Stars Quantity:
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Karl Blau: Clothes Your I's - $10.00
	The first edition came in some hippy purses that Karl had sewn together. The second edition came in a sleeve made out of record sleeves w/ a xeroxed drawing of an apparently pregnant mermaid. We're now soliciting this cd again in a special edition. Track Listing 1. Pendulum 2. Down In You Go 3. 100,022 4. Thorns 5. Computer 6. Sun Sign 7. Creepin' Jesus 8. Fasten Me To You 9. I Hold You Up 10. Bid -R- Bunch Quantity:
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Beneath Waves - $12.00
(click image to enlarge)	Track Listing 1. Crashing Waves 2. My Johnny 3. Dragon Song 4. Slow Down Joe 5. Into The Nada 6. Notion 7. Ode To Ocean 8. Ode To Demons 9. Shadow 10. The Dark, Magical Sea Quantity:
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AM - $12.00
(click image to enlarge)	In "AM" Karl Blau spends early mornings in magnetic tape prayer just for you. Drumming the sun up, a little distortion won't hurt either. These songs are quite reminiscent production-wise of "Clothes Your I's" Blau's full length of 2000 but switch the subject matter to opening your eyes so very early. Literally written , recorded and all just for you Dawn... Track Listing 1. Morning Prayer 2. Spring Morning 3. Yellow Sunbonnet 4. Lake King's Daughter 5. Bird Song 6. Noah Richard's Sun 7. Of Birds 8. Stream 9. Growing Up 10. In The Morning Quantity:
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Dance Positive - $12.00
(click image to enlarge)	Blau makes a dance album with intelligent lyrics of Bret Lunsford (D+ and Beat Happening). Features musicians from EARTH, Sufjan Stevens' band, Your Heart Breaks, ((((VRSNN)))))/White Rainbow, the Watery Graves, and Gift Machine. Track Listing 1. Are You Done 2. Deception Pass 3. Put Me Back 4. Megadose 5. Heatherwood 6. I Hate The Business 7. Kill The Messenger 8. Sky 9. What's No To Fall In Love With 10. Take You For Granted Quantity:
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Kelp #3 Turning Tutu, Turning Leaves - $15.00
(click image to enlarge)	Fall 2003 tour documentary on the road with K.Blau & The Gift Machine. Dave Matthies and Karl Blau & family travels from Salt Lake City to New York meeting Old Time Relijun, Landing, Dirty Projectors, Mount Eerie, Y.A.C.H.T., ((VVRSSNN)) and many more sounds as well as songs... Quantity:
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Kelp #5 Purple Heart - $15.00
(click image to enlarge)	Songs by Familia Wanderstaff, Brian Malloy, Nate Ashley, and The Gift Machine. Medley of pop, synth and grunge, Purple Heart exposes a main artery of Skagit Valley flavor. Not for lovers only... Quantity:
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Kelp #17 Sing Together / Lonely Under The Covers - $15.00
(click image to enlarge)	Nate Ashley covering Karl Blau songs and vice versa. There's always been a contrast with these artists, here is no exception: Nate Ashley has done up Blau songs with multitrack bliss and Karl Blau has stripped Ashley's (more often lavishly orchestrated) songs down to a voice with piano accompaniment. A co-written duet entitled "Loneliness" splits the disk which features Ashley's robust instrumentation and both artists' singing. other treats include a duet of "Starrust" sung by Dave Matthies of the Gift Machine with Karl Blau, and check Nate's sweet melodica performances. Quantity:
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Kelp #18 Beer & Chai - $15.00
(click image to enlarge)	Your Heart Breaks and Steve Moore Agency. With first tracks "Bad Company" and "The Rats" you may find it difficult to not keep restarting the record, but when you finally relax you'll be greatly rewarded as Your Heart Breaks takes you by the hand on pirate/pyro sea adventures, to Manhattan and along for a lovey Peterson/Blau duet. Six classic YHB-ultra lo-fi splendore split with a line set of: Steve Moore- wurlitzer piano Don McGreevy- drums Karl Blau- bass guitar Quantity:
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Kelp #19 Flotsam and Jetsam - $15.00
(click image to enlarge)	What The Heckfest Comp 2005. WTHF's fith year of grunge swap meet meets the flea market bands. This is a double CD compilation spanning from Calvin Johnson's dub country ballad to Fanny Alger's salmon slam dance. This is a lot of music; yet the songs are neatly arranged, reads like an Aesop fable. Quantity:
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Kelp #20 Let It All Out - $15.00
(click image to enlarge)	Arizona's original lo-fi hip hop closet sensation Kevin Atwood aka Coamhim springs life-changing ballads eternal. He records under the moniker Coamhim(pronounced 'Kwahm-heem')with a style like no other. Rough grooves like driving a small power boat into high seas, but all the while some rainbow sea serpent has your eyes transfixed. But these are not sea chanties. This is suburban testimonial hip-hop. Quantity:
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Kelp #21 Sigh Lens - $15.00
(click image to enlarge)	Johanna Kunin & Garrett Devoe(Pure Horsehair) NW meets NE, Johanna Kunin of Seattle is the latest buzz of the biz, find a clear evening hour and a bottle of red and bask in this lush velvet of Kunin's voice. Then after you've relished a glass, pour another for Brooklyn's Garrett Devoe, for he'll keep your mind spinning and spiritually lubed with his clever croons and beautiful guitar. Quantity:
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Kelp #25 Free The Bird - $15.00
(click image to enlarge)	Accomplice To What The Heckfest 2006 2006 Heckfest compilation. Featuring artists such as The Blow, Lake, Mt.Eerie, Karl Blau, Spoonshine, Viking Moses, Y.A.C.H.T. Quantity:
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Kelp #28 In Return Of Ghost Country - $15.00
(click image to enlarge)	In this record are songs recorded from moving vehicles upon arriving back home from the 3 week long Japanese tour with Arrington deDionyso opening for Maher Shalal Hash Baz. Very Tori Kudo influence of course. Very rough. Includes earliest version of "Dark Sedan" from Karl Blau's Zebra release on K Records. Quantity:
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