I’m really loving all of the Mark McGuire LPs coming out this year; also really loving Editions Mego’s 2010 rollout of artists – I’m guessing this will be another fantastic addition to the catalog for all parties involved. Mark’s excited about it, and you should be, too; you just can’t ever really have enough blissed [...]
Nice to see more and more Emeralds members’ solo albums popping up on the vinyl format. The Arbor label, no strangers to releasing ace vinyl editions, have now got for sale: a full LP of material from John Elliott performing under his Outer Space moniker. Limited to 650 on clear vinyl, this is bound to [...]
As the cassette market becomes more and more over-saturated, it’s nice to see some of these artists break out onto the vinyl format. This is, I believe, the first vinyl outing for John Elliott’s Outer Space project. Apparently John plays in some other group called Emeralds and shares a side here with like-minded artist Raglani. [...]
You know it’s going to take one hell of a pre-order to pull me out of my usual Friday night stupor and write something up, but my enthusiasm for this group truly knows no bounds. It’s like everything I love about Tangerine Dream minus the new-age gaudiness, plus more drugs. Pure drone wizardy from the [...]
Emeralds new 2xLP on eMego is finally starting to show up in mailboxes (and hopefully some US distros soon). If you’ve already spun your copy out and need even more epic synth and guitar jams, then you should get in on the chase for the forthcoming Emeralds 7″ series, featuring outtakes and alternate versions of [...]
Emeralds’ guitarist Mark McGuire dusts off some old cassette tapes and the weirdos at Weird Forest decide to get them cleaned up by James Plotkin and pressed onto 2xLP. 4 sides of sustained guitar string bliss and electronic ornamentation. Everybody wins. No baseball jokes. Comes on a badass Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket, colored vinyl and [...]
What’s that? New material from somebody in Emeralds? I almost just broke my mouse. $15 ppd from amethystsunset.com. I suppose I should clarify that Mist is John Elliot from Emeralds playing synths with Sam Goldberg. And also that Amethyst Sunset has released a new LP (previously cassette only) from the impossible to pronounce Ajilvsga. Harsh [...]
Vin Du Select Qualitite is a vinyl-only series that features acoustic guitar work from some of the underground’s best artists. Volume 2 features the string wizardry of Mark McGuire aka 1/3 of white-hot Cleveland drone trio Emeralds. For around $15, this very special record can be all yours – limited to 500 with a letterpressed [...]
I do love me some new Emeralds vinyl. Truth be told, I pretty much scour the internet for it daily. It’s a problem. Thanks to the HammerSmashedJazz blog for being an enabler. This is currently available on randomly colored vinyl in an edition of 1000 at the Hanson Records webstore, where you have to calculate [...]
I find myself torn between my extreme aversion to overpriced seven inches and my compulsion to buy every single piece of wax this Emeralds band puts out. I mean this is $11ppd but its also limited to 420 on clear vinyl. The fuck am I supposed to do? If you prefer spacing out in 4-5 [...]
