A quick note: A Rather Solemn Promise comes in a hand-made package. Rob Fisk (ex-Deerhoof, current-7 Year Rabbit Cycle) did the art and hand-screened the covers with Tom Carter. Christian Kiefer has hand-numbered them all in a limited edition of 500. Note that the record label (Great Pop Supplement) is already sold out of this title and CD Baby is one of the very few places you can still get one!

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There’s not much to say. One sunny afternoon in California two people came together in a small room in Rocklin, a suburb of Sacramento, and started playing music. A few hours later they stopped, one of them to welcome his wife home from her day of work, the other to retrieve his girlfriend from her mother’s house and make the drive back to the Bay Area.

But what is revealed on tape from those few hours is simply remarkable: a musical landscape that is intense, searching, and emotionally resonant in ways that are unexpe...