Moodring - Scared of Ferret
CD Folio 2009 | Silber 74
1 color offset
11 tracks
Moodring brings the dense noise, electronic funk, disjointed rhythms, and all around weird sounds to Silbermedia, and Starbage Hands is proud to do the printing and design. We love it cuz the music is super but we are stoked cuz it features our favorite employee, Monte Trent Allen, on bass, as well as Mae Starr (both of Rollerball) also. Features Jesse Stevens, Michael Braun Hamilton, and Paint and Copter. Buy it already.
Road Race - The Adventures of Rocketboy and Egypt
CD 2009 | NPR 14
3D cover with 3D glasses
11 tracks
Road Race does it again. Another album of finished songs born as they were recorded. As Kirkland Leach plays keyboard and sings songs about his life and fantasy life you wonder, "Is he really Rocketboy, and is he really going to save the day?". He's 9. He plays keyboard and his mighty left hand keeps your feet and head moving while his right smites down his enemies with ferocious melody. We are glad we signed him when he was 7 cause when he's Hannah Montana's age, he'll be just as big... probably, and we hope.
Kirk, the renaissance kid from North Portland, runs Blue Jay Records, and has made thousands of handmade cdrs, tapes, videos, dvds, audiobooks, comic books, and drawings. This is a compilation of songs we licensed from him and are culled from the albums; Marley, Rock So Clever, Blossom, Rock Mix 203, and Whiskers.
The 3D cover is a drawing by Kirk, but the glasses and effect are done by the 3D genius Ray Zone. The music features members of the North Pole House Band; Shane de Leon, Gilles, and Bill Horist. The hi fidelity songs were recorded at Studio Olivia and the lo fidelity songs were recorded at the North Pole. Really you gotta hear it to believe it. Our best bet.
-500 copies with 3D glasses.
-3D by Ray Zone
-Cover art by Kirkland Leach
-Features Bill Horist (guitar), Gilles (drums)
-Produced by Shane de Leon and Starbage Hands
Bob Corn - We don't need the outside
CD 2009 | NPR 12
Offset 2 color w/ 2 color lyric sheet
10 tracks
North Pole Records is proud to release Bob Corn's new album "We don't need the outside" in the United States. Bob Corn is the songwriting vehicle of Tizio Sgarbi, from the rural Italian countryside, and his music reflects the sparseness and beauty associated with a farming life. His soft guitar, tender lyrics, and hopeful songs are filled with longing, hushed harmonies, brushed drums, and broken English. The sound is captivating; with Tizio sounding like a shy Leonard Cohen or a sleepy Bonnie "Prince" Billy.
Bob Corn has kept busy the past few years touring Europe and releasing albums on the Fooltribe label in Italy. We became interested, when Miss Massive Snowflake toured with him in Germany in 2008. The stars have aligned and the fields are fertile. The time is right for Americans to hear what Italians can do with the same tools as us. Help spread the word.
Rainstick Cowbell - fireants
CD Digipak 2009 | NPR 11
2 color letterpress Cover w/ 2 color 12 page lyric book
14 tracks
Scott Arbogast from the defunct Creepy Old Trucks now wields the moniker Rainstick Cowbell. He's left behind the bass and the drummer of his prior outfit, for an emotional excursion on acoustic guitar with tight strumming, severe picking and tense open spaces. His literary lyrics lament heroes past against snapshots of his own raw emotions. Hailed as the Acoustic Agitator, Rainstick Cowbell instigates, castigates and prognosticates about the world's weary state with an open heart and a bitter tone.
Epic in scale, intimate in detail, this is poetry and music intertwined around philosophy, history and ugly truths – laced with fragile hope. Rainstick Cowbell conjures up the great personal/political songwriters, like Billy Bragg, Woody Guthrie and Ani D'Franco, if they were more pissed..
Love Calls is an international collaboration of artists and labels. A 7” vinyl memento released between North Pole Records (American) and Fooltribe Dischi (Italian). This sweet collaboration of native Oregonian music / love channeler, Larry Yes, and Italian farmer / wanderer, Tiziano Sgarbi, aka Bob Corn has each artist performing an original song and then covering a song by the other.
Bob Corn sings in poignant accented english with an acoustic guitar. Songs of longing, memory, and love. His grammar may be incorrect but his observations are unique descriptions of transatlantic truths. Larry Yes continues the strumming as well as bringing swooning horns and suitcase drums along for some moments of stoned wandering.
Larry Yes has released 5 solo cds over the past 10 years and recorded / toured Europe and America solo and in Art of Flying, Six Foot Sloth, and The Pink Widower. Bob Corn has two cds on Fooltribe and is probably playing somewhere in the world as you read this.
Madagascar - Goodbye East Goodbye West LP
1 Color LetterpressLP | Gaarden 02
Justin Lucas delivers this great drawing of trees and foliage for a 500 print run of Madagascar LP's on Gaarden Records.
It turned out with a nice deep impression and I really like how we did it on matte paper.
Hotel
Hotel - The Sad Sea
CD 2008 | Silber 064
8 tracks, 44 minutes
Instrumental post rock inspired
by a torturous ocean journey. The sounds of hurricanes funneled through
violins, guitars, drums, & effect pedals. Feel yourself sinking
into the ocean of sound.
Letterpress, silkscreen, diecutting, and design for musicians, artists,
and everyday people since 1995.
Starbage Hands specializes in small run projects, independent artists, and a wide variety of unique handmade
paper packaging options for CD, DVD, LP, 7”, and 10” projects as well as posters, t-shirts, wedding invites, and business cards.
Prints
on paper, fabric, plastic, and wood are created using letterpress, offset, silkscreen,
stencil, drawing, and photography. Starbage Hands can also diecut, design,
and detail your project from conception to finished piece.
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at info@starbagehands.com
(503) 284-3544
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