***A brandnew album by Brattleboro, Vermont "freak folk" singer-songwriter Ruth Garbus. Lyrically vibrant & musically sophisticated in its sonic simplicity & sheer virtuosity, Profound was recorded live to tape by Kyle Thomas aka King Tuff in Brattleboro with Ruth's live trio (featuring Nick Bisceglia on guitars and elie mcafee-hahn on keyboards). Profound could perhaps be best described by a quote from the album's lyrics: "gentle and magical yet avant-garde."RIYL: Dear Nora, Wendy Eisenberg, The Roches
CD $13.50
06/12/2026
LP $22.50
06/12/2026
***Ruth Garbus’s Alive People is a studio album full of underground anthems for sensitive people of all ages that happened to be recorded in a club with an audience of a hundred. In between the compositions are interstitial improvisations that happened on stage during the performance. These are not presented in sequence. It’s not a lesser copy of a moving experience. It’s an echoing recreation, traveling- out photons bent thru and into a pastel rainbow. Ruth was joined on stage at different points by collaborators: elie mcafee-hahn on synth and bass, Julie Bodian on atypical guitars, Julia Tadlock on voice and presence. Nick Bisceglia engineered, with Ruth’s two vocal mics taped together, the room split to its mid and sides, the pop filter a matte circle in front of the shimmering curtain.
LP $23.50
11/03/2023