Beautiful original edition with sleeves letter-pressed by Stumpdown Printers.
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Limited to 10 Cassette Edition
Cassette + Digital Album
In addition to the 11 tracks available online, each hand-painted cassette contains a unique guitar improvisation that can be heard no where else. I have painted each cassette with care, and I hope you enjoy them. Thank you for your support during this difficult time.
Includes unlimited streaming of Floating Rhododendron
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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"Volume 12 in VDSQ’s impressive acoustic series features a player who beautifully navigates the interval between American Primitive and Folk Baroque, never fully falling into either’s gravity through the pure propulsive nature of her creative playing. There’s invention here without novelty. The playing reminds me at times of Harris Newman’s, exploring the tension between various intervals and letting that dissonance state itself rather than using dissonance as an affectation. This record is the sort that makes me love the sound and possibilities of the acoustic guitar."
-Ben Chasny
"Although Sarah Louise has only one release to her name so far, Vol. 12 quickly places her alongside impressive contributors like Sir Richard Bishop, Glenn Jones, Bill Orcutt and Tashi Dorji. But Louise's music is spiritually and tangibly set apart from her peers', her 12-string compositions culled from birdsong and rivers as well as the sacred drone of Appalachian folk music."
-NPR
"Allowing listeners to find the calm in such furiously beautiful skill, Sarah Louise’s talent defines modern guitar master-work"
-Tiny Mix Tapes
"Sarah Louise's cassette on Scissor Tail was a late-breaking favorite last year. Her VDSQ LP is even better, as her bell-like 12-string tones and lush melodies combine into a sound that manages to be earthy and cosmic all at once...on several tracks I’m reminded more of Terry Riley’s solo piano work, where the repetition of themes creates a mesmerizing atmosphere that rewards repeat listens."
supported by 69 fans who also own “Evidence of a Bear”
I’m so grateful this crossed my path. This album is so beautiful. All the clear technique and mastery and vision are kinda secondary to the fact that this album brought me calm and joy during one of the most difficult times in my life. Yeah, grateful. David McCullough