Quiet Constant Friends: A Christmas Sale (40% Off!)

Jon Doyle — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 17:25:26 +0000

If you have visited our site in the past few months, you will more than likely be familiar with Quiet Constant Friends, a literary-themed compilation in support of the global literacy Worldreader. If you want to read about the project in more detail, you can visit our original post from back in October.

Because we still have a fair amount of tapes left, and obviously want to raise as much as possible for Worldreader, we have decided to run a special holiday offer. So, as suggested below in stylised sans serif, entering the code ‘HOHOHO’ at the checkout on Bandcamp will get you a handsome 40% off both digital and physical copies of the compilation. This will still cover the production cost of the cassette, but remember all profits go to charity, so every extra pound you give will be a pound well spent.To refresh your memory, here’s what you’ll be getting if you put some of your hard earned cash towards Quiet, Constant Friends:

Side A

Danielle Fricke – The Well
Lotte Kestner – Cattleya
Wes Tirey – Akhnilo Blues
Pasture Dog – Everything That Rises Must Converge
Old Earth – Pretty Steep
Salt Altars – Little Big Man
Henry Demos – Not Her
Beat Radio – Mexico City
Sondra Sun-Odeon – Hair

Side B

Nathan Amundson – Haruki Murakami
Windmill – Jim & The Rather Large Nectarine
ARMS – The Book of Love
Oh, Rose & Sawtooth – TV
Free Cake For Every Creature – Don’t Go Away (Ahumpf Acgroof)
John Ross – The Overlook Hotel
Kissing Fractures – I Drank Phosphorus With Aunt Lucy
Nice Legs – Past Lives
Ben Seretan – King of Crumbs
Trouble Books – Oak and Linden Tree Abridged
Lewtrakimou – I’m a Book on Tape
Nadia Reid – Runway

Quiet, Constant Friends by ARMSIf that wasn’t cool enough, we also got a troupe of artists to produce a piece for every track on the release, a few of which will come packaged up with your cassette. You can see the full collection of artworks below (click through the pictures to be taken to the artist’s page):

Grab a download or cassette now via our Bandcamp page, and be sure to remember to use the code ‘HOHOHO’ for your discount.

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Quiet, Constant Friends: Lotte Kestner – Cattleya

Jon Doyle — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 20:12:58 +0000

Today’s track from Quiet, Constant Friends is from Lotte Kestner, aka Seattle’s Anna-Lynne Williams. ‘Cattleya’ is from her self-released 2008 album China Mountain. She says that the track is a tribute to Proust’s mammoth novel ‘Remembrance of Things Past’, and it certainly follows the same wistful path through love and anxiety.

This drink doesn’t make me sleep
Didn’t think it would
The numbers on the clock are green
The rest of this is mud
We let off the heavy chains
But I’m not free
Til you say this life is worse without me
You must say the right thing some time.
And you know that I’ll wait up
As if though for my true love
And you know that I’ll wait up.

The artwork for this song was done by Teresa Romo from Santiago, Chile. You can follow her on Tumblr, Facebook and Instagram, and buy her lovely work on her Etsy page.

Pre-order Quiet, Constant Friends now via the Wake The Deaf Bandcamp page. Every penny goes straight to Worldreader, so spoil yourself with a clear conscience.

P.S. If you are a fan of Lotte Kestner, let me point you in the direction of a new collection of covers she released this week. Best of: Requested Cover Songs is comprised of her take on 17 songs requested by fans, including Beck, Slowdive, Radiohead and Pink Floyd.

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Quiet, Constant Friends: Lotte Kestner – Cattleya