Proven Winners: Orindal Records Sampler Vol. 3 is now available on streaming services! Find it HERE.
Proven Winners compiles fifteen of our favorite tracks from Orindal's recent releases. You'll find the complete tracklisting HERE.
CD copies of Proven Winners will also be included with all vinyl & CD mail order while supplies last.
Cover art by Karly Hartzman of Wednesday
Mr. Chill, the debut solo EP by Dan Wriggins, is out now! Listen on your preferred streaming service or purchase tapes & downloads HERE. UK & EU buyers can also avoid overseas shipping charges by ordering tapes from our friends at Juno Records.
Here are some press quotes:
“Wry and quietly wonderful... another solemn gem from one of the finest songwriters around.” — GoldFlakePaint
"Dan Wriggins’ voice—gravelly and plaintive and guttural—is one of those voices that gets in your head and stays there, wringing emotion from unseen reserves." — American Songwriter
"Dan Wriggins has led the Philly indie band Friendship for years, but in early 2021 he put out his first single
under his own name, and his solo material proved to be some of his most
gripping music yet. Now he's back with a solo EP, featuring five new
songs (with the two songs from the single as cassette-only bonus
tracks), and the whole EP scratches the same appealing itch that those
singles did. As a solo artist, Dan makes plainspoken somber folk music
that falls somewhere in the Neil Young/Will Oldham realm, and this is
some of his most attention-grabbing lyricism yet. It can seem casual and
unassuming at first, but before you know it, you're hanging on his
every word." —
Brooklyn Vegan
Mr. Chill, the debut solo EP by Dan Wriggins, is out March 12 on Orindal Records. To celebrate its release, Dan will be performing the record live on YouTube on Saturday, March 13 at 8PM Eastern. Karima Walker & Lina Tullgren will support the show with streaming sets & Dan's Friendship bandmate, Jon Samuels, will host the event. Subscribe to Dan's channel & watch the show for free at youtube.com/watch?v=u2t-1kT51mo.
Just in time for Bandcamp Friday, we're releasing cassette editions of both Gia Margaret albums: 2018's There's Always Glimmer & 2020's Mia Gargaret. Both cassettes are professionally dubbed onto high bias chrome tape in imprinted shells with full color, two-sided j-cards. The cassette edition of Mia Gargaret comes in an aqua blue shell. The cassette edition of There's Always Glimmer comes in a silver glitter shell & includes two bonus tracks: "Babies" & "Smoke (Acoustic)". Each edition is limited to 250 copies.
You can order your copies now through the link in bio, or add them to your Bandcamp cart to buy tomorrow!
Waking the Dreaming Body, the gorgeous new album of melancholic Americana & sun-drenched synth drones by Karima Walker is out today on Keeled Scales / Orindal Records!!!
Listen on your favorite streaming service, pick up an LP, tape or CD at your local independent record shop, or order a copy right here.
Read some reviews of Waking the Dreaming Body:
Read Loud and Quiet Magazine's interview with Karima Walker
Read Earlyworm's interview with Karima Walker
Read For the Rabbits' interview with Karima Walker
Read Our Culture Magazine's interview with Karima Walker
Read Since I Left You's interview with Karima Walker
"Each song oscillates between rich, ambient textures and melancholy poetry, ebbing and flowing between moments of stark lucidity and blissful ethereal haze.... From the lonely campfire folk of ‘Softer’ to the sound of howling wind that underpins ‘Windows 1’, each song evokes a landscape in some way, inviting you to lose yourself in the sheer open vastness. Trust me – that takes some pretty powerful magic." — Loud and Quiet Magazine
Photo: Evangeline Krajewski
"Dan Wriggins’
voice—gravelly and plaintive and guttural—is one of those voices that
gets in your head and stays there, wringing emotion from unseen
reserves." —
Matt Wallock, American Songwriter
Today, American Songwriter premiered "Lucinda on June Bug," the second advance single from Dan Wriggins (of Friendship)'s debut EP of stripped-down alt-country & folk stunners, Mr. Chill. The premiere is accompanied by an interview with Dan where he discusses the writing & recording of "Lucinda on June Bug."
“I hope people think the song is funny, and take the title [as] I meant
it: ‘Lucinda on June Bug’ means ‘Lucinda Williams’ body of work on the
topic of june bug(s),’ the way an egghead might say ‘Tolstoy on
morality’ or something. I also hope people like the George H. W. Bush
joke at the end.”
Read my salty lips: Mr. Chill is out on cassette & digital formats March 12, 2021. Pre-order your copy HERE.
You'll find the "Lucinda on June Bug" premiere & Matt Wallock's interview with Dan HERE.
"Waking the Dreaming Body," the title track from Karima Walker's forthcoming album (out February 26 on Keeled Scales / Orindal Records), is streaming now on all platforms.
Various Small Flames premiered the single yesterday along with this intimate acoustic performance video of the song:
“This was the last song I
wrote for the record,” Walker explains. “It became the song that was able
to bridge, with a certain kind of peace, a space that I had been in for a
long time. It moved from a stuck-and-in-between place to the place I
was physically in, which was beautiful and singular. I was outside and
camping and I think you know the feeling I’m talking about. All the
uncertainty and fear spilled out into something very present and
joyful.”
Pre-order Waking the Dreaming Body on mail-order-exclusive color vinyl, black vinyl, compact disc, cassette or download HERE.
Durham, NC synth pop phenom Moon Racer filmed a delightful live session for the Hopscotch Music Festival & NPR Music. You'll find cozy living room performances of Is It Really a Secret? highlights "New Crush," "Friendly Ghost" & "Last Kiss" on the NPR site. You can also watch Moon Racer's full 6-song set below!
On March 12, Orindal Records will release Mr. Chill, an EP of five "busted and beautiful" folk songs by Dan Wriggins (also of Friendship). This morning, GoldFlakePaint premiered the title track, calling it "another solemn gem from one of the finest songwriters around."
Dan explains:
"I wrote the song 'Mr. Chill' while working for an arborist/tree care
company in the Philly suburbs. The hours were long and strenuous, and
like most of my friends, I was balancing full time work with writing
music and playing shows. That’s where the clock-punching lyrics come
from. This was a couple years ago, and I am only realizing now that “Mr.
Chill” might be a Christmas song. It also reminds me of the Disney ride
“It’s a Small World.” It’s the only song I’ve written so far that does
not rhyme.”
The EP Mr. Chill is Wriggins’ debut release under his own name.
Michael Cormier’s minimal production is an open frame; quiet drums in a
big room, classical guitar, and melodic organ lift Wriggins’ prose-poem
lyrics. His solemn, wounded delivery makes lines like “you trust your
gut/and your gut lies” and “read my salty lips/no new love” into deadly
serious jokes. Title notwithstanding, Mr. Chill isn’t great background
music - it’s rich and powerful, demanding attention as a profoundly
moving and original work.
Find "Mr. Chill" on your favorite streaming service HERE.
Mr. Chill will be released on cassette & digital formats on March 12, 2021. Pre-order your copy HERE.
Dan Wriggins, frontperson of Philadelphia alt-country band Friendship, has released his first two solo singles, "Dent" & "The Diner." Recorded in October 2020 at Big Nice Studio in Lincoln, RI, both songs feature Dan Wriggins on classical guitar & vocals with accompaniment from Michael Cormier (drums, organ), Lina Tullgren (violin) & Pete Gill (guitar). Both songs carry the same commiserative humor & emotional heft that made Friendship’s 2019 album Dreamin’ a cult favorite.
This morning, Brooklyn Vegan premiered "Dent" & "The Diner" alongside a music video for “The Diner,” directed by Dan & his brother, Adam
Wriggins, & filmed in the brothers’ hometown of Yarmouth, Maine. Brooklyn Vegan's Andrew Sacher writes:
"Friendship's music is on the quiet, plainspoken side to begin with, but 'Dent' and 'The Diner' do feel even more stripped-back and minimal, and
the lyrics often sound like they're ripped straight out of a diary.
They're both folky songs that feel ragged and lived-in (similar vibe to
Neil Young, Will Oldham, etc), and they're both songs that can stop you
in your tracks and leave you hanging on every word."
Read the full article HERE.
"Dent" & "The Diner" are streaming now on all digital platforms. You can also purchase a download HERE.
Order your copy HERE.
Waking the Dreaming Body, the new album by Tucson, AZ sound & video artist Karima Walker, is out February 26, 2021 on Keeled Scales / Orindal Records. This morning, Brooklyn Vegan premiered Karima's music video for "Horizon, Harbor Resonance," an epic 13 minute ambient track & the second single from Waking the Dreaming Body. Karima explains:
"I have performed parts of "Horizon, Harbor Resonance" live for a couple years now, the piece initially developed after my last record. There’s a large cathartic rain that falls a couple times and stands as a kind of threshold for me during live shows. I have been obsessed with waves and tsunamis for the past few years (Harbor Resonance is an effect that happens during a tsunami, where the force of the wave is magnified when it’s contained) and this song was a way of working through that obsession.
The video traces the Rio Grande river valley across the New Mexico Colorado border. Touring in the western US, on these long drives, I would enter a kind of altered state, watching the landscape change over many hours. This particular region stayed with me, and ended up inspiring large parts of the record and "Horizon, Harbor Resonance" especially. I remember passing San Antonio mountain for the first time. It’s the mountain you see toward the end of the video. It’s unattached to any range (a friend recently told me that it is the largest free standing mountain in the continental US), and rises up out of the desert as you leave New Mexico. It’s massive and takes a while to pass, marking the beginning of the San Juan Mountains.
I wanted to share this special way of seeing with people, to stretch and compress time like in a dream, the way mountains will sometimes move like water as you move through a landscape over the course of a day, and how our experience changes when the ‘eye’ is steady or hand held. These ways of seeing change our perception and experience, and so too our participation in a place and our access and connection to it."
Pre-order Waking the Dreaming Body by Karima Walker on vinyl, CD, cassette & digital formats HERE.
