P.W. Elverum & Sun announcements

Soon by Hana Stretton

Hello! Two pretty major announcements in this newsletter. Welcome to it. The first is that my little non-label, P.W. Elverum & Sun, is dressing up as a real record label for a minute and releasing someone’s record! It’s happened a few times over the decades but it’s been a while. This is momentous.

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Winnipeg and Kyoto

Can one show be called a “tour”? Sure. It’s dumb but sure why not? One time I played 5 shows in 5 different places (in Portland) all in one day and called that a tour, which it definitely was. What about if I go on a trip and not play any shows? Should I make a poster for that? One time traveling by train/backpack alone in Europe I had some days off between shows and went as far as I could into the Swiss Alps by train and gondola. With nobody around, at the edge of a glittering thawing lake near the summit, I arranged my merch on a cold rock. No sales. Was that a tour?

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idea hours

Oh hey, I’m playing in Japan really soon! The Tokyo show is sold out but there are still tickets left for this one at Guggenheim House in Kobe: 4/18 (木) 神戸 旧グッゲンハイム邸（078-220-3924） 開場 7:00pm／開演 7:30pm 予約 4,500円／当日 5,000円 ※別途ドリンク代不要 学生500円割引（予約・当日共／要証明書提示）

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Leaping

It’s Leap Day, a calendar math holiday. Happy Leap Day everyone. Here are some advertisements for you about my music band Mount Eerie. I’m on tour right now. Me and Bilbo just got done rehearsing our long spaced out electric guitar set at my brother’s neighbor’s practice shed here in the dry squinty Eastern Sierras of California as we make our way sou…

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cold water swimming stunt

Hi. Just a minor blip in your email box today. Me re-advertising myself to you, couple little things I’ve got happening. “No worries if not” type of energy. The first one is actually not that little and it’s actually yes worries if not. It’s that tickets are still available for this little west coast tour that’s happening in a few weeks. Please get a…

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Nomadic Revery

(I accidentally first published this post as a “paid subscribers only” post, but I meant to send it out to everyone. I’m doing that now. Sorry to those of you receiving it twice.) Good afternoon. It’s late January in the year 2024. Here the long nights and short days are perfect for a brain like mine which seems to be at its best with abundant time f…

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Wood Theft

Happy winter solstice, happy long darkness. Is it time soon to crack an eye open and squint toward a clarifying next year? I’d like to keep sleeping, but the days keep coming. 2024 will bring a few more Mount Eerie shows for me to tell you about along the historically hippie dippy west coast. Tickets are all on sale now by clicking on the venue name:

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studio peek

This brief update is just to say Hi. I’m in the studio. I’m not writing on the computer. I’ve been very fortunate to have the ideas be flowing and to have these little slivers of time to spend exploring and expanding the ideas. The hugest of luxuries while genocidal horrors roll through our screens and radios and sleepless anxiety nights afflict even the closed-hearted.

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Keep honking

new product announcement: JUMBO BUMPER STICKER: 15" wide x 3.75" tall CLICK HERE TO BUY KEEP HONKING!! I’m listening to the song “Troy” by Sinéad O’Connor and watching footage of her playing solo acoustic on a huge European festival stage in like 1988 wearing jean shorts with a baby onesie hanging from the butt, and especially the part where she sings real…

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That one egg was forty eggs?

Hi again. I’m here to prod you with more invitations to Mount Eerie concerts. This is what you asked for when you clicked “subscribe”. I forgot to mention the other day about this one-off show in North Carolina soon. Please come! Friday, November 17th, 2023

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