Phone-Dream, by Jared Thomas Friend

Phone-Dream

by Jared Thomas Friend

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jasondcrane Listening to this late at night in my temporarily broken minivan-home, stranded for several days in a small town in Oregon. The rain is smacking the roof and this album is a perfect 1:28 a.m. companion.

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Sometimes you hear a record and it instantly and without warning builds a world in front of your eyes, a place of vivid color and strange sensations, of surprises and revelation around each bend. Hearing Jared's poetry tape for the first time took me to a place I very much wanted to return to, and in fact did--playing it on repeat for five or six hours before realizing THIS would be the cassette to launch my writers record label. It was everything I wanted the label to be--audio recordings of great writing backed by music that is original, smart, and at home in its singular and incandescent vision.

Backed by music from Gogo Erlandson and Death Ribbons, Jared Thomas Friend's poetry is relevant, important, and both funny and absolutely crushing. The music weaves in and out of the background, crumbling into noise and static and fuzz, rearing up strong and dark like the Velvet Underground or Arthur Russell or softly corroding in gentle repetitions like Basinski's Disintegration Loops. It feels like stumbling upon some otherworldly, fucked-up noisy radio station where the on-air personality comes to you in a dream of phantasmagoria, as the walls and structure fall or decay or collapse right before your eyes and new architecture rises up from the sun-filtered depths like some lost Atlantean city. The writing is writing of our time, of our people, the grit and struggle of American life in the midst of a dying empire, the anguish, joy, and solace of love and friendship. It is relatable and it is human.

Phone-Dream was recorded live to analog tape at a great and much-lamented Lincoln, Nebraska arts space called Loser World. As a result there is a life and spontaneity here you rarely find in studio recordings. This is a magic moment, the kind that happens when the right people are in the right room together at the right time. I love this weird, beautiful, vital, dreamlike cassette and I hope you will too. -Adam Gnade

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1.	Shaman of the concrete jungle 06:40	buy track
2.	Phone dream 05:45	buy track
3.	Exister 04:45	buy track
4.	Laying in bed all day looking at my phone 03:24	buy track
5.	Salt Lake to Star City 03:24	buy track
6.	American by Allen Ginsberg 2 * after Allen Ginsberg 03:19	buy track
7.	Midwestern Hug Culture 03:31	buy track
8.	Love Poem to the Internet 04:10	buy track
9.	Shaman of the Concrete Jungle vol. 2 03:08	buy track
10.	Untitled 02:37	buy track
11.	Song of my Death 01:24	buy track
12.	A Walk Around 08:37	buy track
13.	Graveyard Boogie 07:07	buy track
14.	Best Wishes 03:45	buy track

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Sometimes you hear a record and it instantly and without warning
builds a world in front of your eyes, a place of vivid color and strange sensations, of surprises and revelation around each bend. Hearing Jared's poetry tape for the first time took me to a place I very much wanted to return to, and in fact did--playing it on repeat for five or six hours before realizing THIS would be the cassette to launch my writers record label. It was everything I wanted the label to be--audio recordings of great writing backed by music that is original, smart, and at home in its singular and incandescent vision.

Backed by music from Gogo Erlandson and Death Ribbons, Jared Thomas Friend's poetry is relevant, important, and both funny and absolutely crushing. The music weaves in and out of the background, crumbling into noise and static and fuzz, rearing up strong and dark like the Velvet Underground or Arthur Russell or softly corroding in gentle repetitions like Basinski's Disintegration Loops. It feels like stumbling upon some otherworldly, fucked-up noisy radio station where the on-air personality comes to you in a dream of phantasmagoria, as the walls and structure fall or decay or collapse right before your eyes and new architecture rises up from the sun-filtered depths like some lost Atlantean city. The writing is writing of our time, of our people, the grit and struggle of American life in the midst of a dying empire, the anguish, joy, and solace of love and friendship. It is relatable and it is human.

Phone-Dream was recorded live to analog tape at a great and much-lamented Lincoln, Nebraska arts space called Loser World. As a result there is a life and spontaneity here you rarely find in studio recordings. This is a magic moment, the kind that happens when the right people are in the right room together at the right time. I love this weird, beautiful, vital, dreamlike cassette and I hope you will too. -Adam Gnade

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released February 5, 2021

Poetry written and performed by Jared Thomas Friend
Recorded live at Loser World in Lincoln, Nebraska
Audio backdrop by Margot Erlandson and Death Ribbons

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