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Yawning Man Announce The Birth of Sol, Historical Graffiti & Nomadic Pursuits Reissues

Posted in Whathaveyou on August 25th, 2022 by JJ Koczan

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Desert rock progenitors Yawning Man have announced reissues through Heavy Psych Sounds for 2016’s Historical Graffiti (review here), 2010’s Nomadic Pursuits (review here) and the 2007 tape demo compilation, The Birth of Sol (discussed here), continuing a stretch of catalog deep-diving that has also seen them issue their 2005 debut album, Rock Formations (discussed here), on Ripple Music, as well as the Live at Giant Rock LP, also on Heavy Psych Sounds. Can a reissue of the 2013 Euro tour split between Yawning Man and Fatso Jetson (discussed here) be far behind? Only time and the PR wire will tell.

Plenty to chew on, either way. Nomadic Pursuits, which gets new art here, stands as a sentimental favorite for me personally, while Historical Graffiti marked a moment of departure for the long-running instrumentalist three-piece, recording in Buenos Aires with an expanded lineup to produce something distinct even within Yawning Man‘s varied discography. The Birth of Sol is rough in its actual sound — as a collection of ’80s and/or ’90s-era demos might be — but has a cult following even within that of the band itself, and was previously released on a double-cassette in 2018. I bought that shit. No regrets.

Might buy this version too, because, well, it’s Yawning Man, and the more you get this, the more likely they are to make another new record, and that’s how this thing works.

So work it:

YAWNING MAN – THE BIRTH OF SOL + HISTORICAL GRAFFITI + NOMADIC PURUSITS

Today we are stoked to start the presale of 3 YAWNING MAN reissues: The Birth Of Sol, Historical Graffiti and Nomadic Pursuits !!!

ALBUMs PRESALE:
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USA PRESALE:
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HPS201 *** YAWNING MAN – THE BIRTH OF SOL ***

REISSUE of the legendary album with brand new cover and coloured vinyls

RELEASED IN DOUBLE GATEFOLD VINYL:

10 ULTRA LTD TEST PRESS VINYLS
100 ULTRA LTD TRANSPARENT BACK. SPLATTER BLACK AND RED VINYLS
400 LTD RED VINYLS
BLACK VINYLS
DIGIPAK

PRESALE STARTS:
AUGUST 24th

RELEASE DATE:
OCTOBER 14th

TRACKLIST

SIDE A
Tuff Dude
Dots, Lines And Mesh
Faith Cakes
Devil’s Ladder
Sour Glaze
Kone Of Meet
Menso
Sinkhole

SIDE B
SLAB
Fires Of Pap’s Chile
Saucey And Saggy
Paseo Lindo
Change For A Beggar
Bet I’ll Six

SIDE C
Sweet Nuggat
Saco
Three Legged Table
Deaf Conductor

SIDE D
Catamaran
Crack, Harden & Dry
Friends Of Me
The Lonely Rancher

ALBUM DESCRITPION
Heavy Psych Sounds is reissuing the Yawning Man old demo recordings The Birth Of Sol in brand new coloured vinyls and new cover.

Dating back to 1986, these demo recordings by Yawning Man were originally only spread amongst close friends of the band. They were released on iTunes in 2009. Today you can have them on brand new coloured vinyls in gatefold sleeve.

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HPS202 *** YAWNING MAN – HISTORICAL GRAFFITI ***

REISSUE of the legendary album with brand new cover and coloured vinyls

RELEASED IN:

10 ULTRA LTD TEST PRESS VINYL
100 ULTRA LTD 3 COLORS STRIPED VINYL
400 LTD PINK VINYL
BLACK VINYL
DIGIPAK

PRESALE STARTS:
AUGUST 24th

RELEASE DATE:
OCTOBER 14th

TRACKLIST

SIDE A
The Wind Cries Edalyn – 8:32
Her Phantom Finger Of Copenhagen – 6:58
Naomi Crayola – 3:05

SIDE B
The Secret Language Of Elephants – 6:27
Historical Graffiti – 7:49

ALBUM DESCRITPION
Heavy Psych Sounds is reissuing the Yawning Man legendary album Historical Graffiti in brand new coloured vinyls.

Historical Graffiti is the band’s fourth full-length, out in 2016. Gary Arce, the guitarist, seems comfortable sitting on a single vamp throughout the opener ‘The Wind Cries Edalyn’, allowing the additions of violin and bandoleon accordion (played by the tango musicians Sara Ryan and Adolfo Trepiana, respectively) to weave melodies in between. Despite the titular connection to the Jimi Hendrix song, it bears no discernible resemblance to ‘The Wind Cries Mary’ and it is a deceptive number; what seems such a simple, almost easy-listening song reveals more colour with every listen.

‘Her Phantom Finger of Copenhagen’ is slightly darker and almost sounds, with the slight distortion on Arce’s guitar, as if it could have come from Pot Head, the EP the band released in 2005. Mario Lalli, the bass player, begins the third song, ‘Naomi Crayola’ with a throbbing single note, aided by Bill Stimson’s metronomic drumming. Imagine if Can grew up near the beach, it’s that sort of vibe. The only problem with the song – and the album, as it happens – is that it is too short. Ryan’s violin returns in ‘The Secret Language of Elephants’, this time playing the role of keeping the main vamp alive while Arce’s guitar generates an evocative soundscape that opens in your mind a wide, violet sky like that above a desert the moment after the sun disappears for the night.

The closing song and title track is the most free of the five on the album, with Stimson’s beat conjuring memories of Kyuss’s more mellow moments from Welcome to Sky Valley, Lalli’s bass marking the simplest of bottom ends and Arce having a ball over the top.
(taken from the band’s Bandcamp)

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HPS203 *** YAWNING MAN – NOMADIC PURSUITS ***

REISSUE of the legendary album with brand new cover and coloured vinyls

RELEASED IN:

10 ULTRA LTD TEST PRESS VINYL
100 ULTRA LTD TRANSPARENT BACK. SPLATTER BLUE/ORANGE VINYL
400 LTD GREEN VINYL
BLACK VINIYL
DIGIPAK

PRESALE STARTS:
AUGUST 24th

RELEASE DATE:
OCTOBER 21st

TRACKLIST

SIDE A
CAMEL TOW 5:02
SAND WHIP 6:54
FAR-OFF ADVENTURE 8:28

SIDE B
BLUE FOAM 4:31
GROUND SWELL 6:16
CAMEL TOW TWO 5:00
LASTER ARTE 4:28

ALBUM DESCRIPTION

Heavy Psych Sounds is reissuing the Yawning Man legendary album Nomadic Pursuits in brand new coloured vinyls and new cover. Nomadic Pursuits is the second Yawning Man studio album, released in 2010. With a five-year gap between the first album and this one, the band had time to further expand on their freeform desert sound. Heavy Psych Sounds is now giving new life to this psychedelic gem with a new special edition!

YAWNING MAN IS:
Gary Arce – Guitar
Mario Lalli – Bass
Bill Stinson – Drums

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Yawning Man, Historical Graffiti (2016)

Yawning Man, Nomadic Pursuits (2010)

Yawning Man, The Birth of Sol – The Demo Tapes (2009)

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Album of the Summer of the Week: Yawning Man, Nomadic Pursuits

Posted in Features on August 15th, 2012 by JJ Koczan

This one is, I admit, a personal pick. The past six weeks of Album of the Summer of the Week choices have all had various appeals, but Yawning Man‘s 2010 outing, Nomadic Pursuits — even for just being two years old — has as much personal association as any album I own.

I only wrote about it a little bit at the time, but from July-August, 2010, The Patient Mrs. and I rented a cabin in Belmont, Vermont, for the whole month. I was only vaguely employed at the time, and she had the summer off from teaching, so we put what little money we had into it and made it work. Nomadic Pursuits was one of the albums I brought with me to review (and I did; review here) while we were up there.

The thing about it is, that month in Vermont was almost everything I’ve ever wanted my life to be. I woke up every day at 10AM, rolled over in bed, picked up my laptop, and wrote. I wrote stories, I wrote essays, reviews, whatever. All of it. I just wrote. I wrote, and wrote and wrote, and writing is the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do. Well, that and travel, but even the traveling is part of the writing.

But that’s what life was in Vermont. I wrote, and The Patient Mrs. did her work, and we read, and we hung out with the little dog Dio, and when we were done for the day, we’d eat some local cheddar at the small kitchen table and watch the sunset over the lake down the way or knock off down the side of the mountain and hit up the Irish pub to watch the baseball game. By the end of the month, they knew our names, we’d been there so often. It was damn near perfect, living that pipedream and forgetting by the end of it how much it actually cost to make that happen, how unfeasible an existence that was. It was so hot up there, this and Quest for Fire‘s Lights from Paradise were all I had to keep cool.

Every time I hear Nomadic Pursuits — which was crafted by Yawning Man to represent an almost-opposite landscape of the Californian desert, not the forests of New England — I go back there, riding up those empty roads in the middle of the night after some show I drove down to New York to see, or sitting on the patio at night with the bug zapper going. Honestly, it’s a record I can barely listen to at this point, in light of all the stupid decisions I’ve made since then — things like going back to work full-time, and, well, staying back at work full-time, cutting myself off from writing almost completely in ways that aren’t either this or corporately-mandated shilling — but putting it on today to write up this post, it’s a sweet bit of escapism I’m enjoying. We were back by this point in August, anyway.

I’m still holding out hope that Gary Arce‘s new Yawning Man lineup will have an album out before the end of this year, but in the meantime, here’s the opener that more or less defines the course of this whole record:

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