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NMAS CATALOG
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NMAS 014: Any-Angled Light (12" 180-gram vinyl LP and Digital Download)
Any-Angled Light US $20.98 / $8.99 (download) Any-Angled Light is a suite of instrumental music featuring bass, guitar, piano, tenor saxophone, electronic synthesis, and field recordings. Mixing song-structures with open-ended ambient compositions, melodies with sound-collage, the seven individual tracks invoke a range of genres and influences while a breadcrumb trail of sounds and motifs scattered throughout the album builds a sense of continuity, reflecting the unifying theme of a sonic reckoning with the natural world. Recorded by visual artists and musicians in Montreal, Toronto, and rural Ontario, these songs were constructed in a call-and-response fashion with audio sketches, drawings, photographs, text, and video sent back and forth between the players - a conversational process that began during the winter of 2020 and continued off and on over the next 2 years. Any-Angled Light is Jen Dorner (piano), Alex Geddie (electronic synthesis), Mike Glendon (tenor saxophone), Kamryn McFarlane (electronic synthesis), David Poolman (bass, MIDI instruments, field recordings), Mike Vass (guitar). Click Here to Purchase |
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NMAS 013: Field Recordings From Grassy Creek (CD and Digital Download)
Martha Spencer US $14.98 / $8.99 (download) Martha Spencer is a singer-songwriter, mountain musician and dancer from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She grew up in the musical Spencer family and from a very young age has been dancing (flatfoot/clogging), singing, and playing guitar, fiddle, banjo, bass, dulcimer, and mandolin. Over two-days in July 2019, Never Met A Stranger conducted an intimate recording session with Martha in a farmhouse in Grassy Creek, North Carolina. Of this session, Martha writes: These recordings are dedicated to a lot of strong women I was influenced by growing up in my family and community around Whitetop Mountain VA. Many of the songs are ones I remember hearing my mom sing and play on the banjo. My cousins Audrey Hash Ham and Ola Belle Reed, Granny Della Reedy (Albert Hash’s mom), and the Carter Family all inspired me to learn different songs that we’ve recorded for this album. Wayne Henderson, Doc Watson and Larry Sigmon all ring out through my heart and mind too in some of the picking. These are a lot of the songs I grew up with and there’s an original of mine added in too. Thanks to Dave and Jeremy for a fun couple days in Grassy Creek! Click Here to Purchase |
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NMAS 012: "Upon My Word and Honor" (CD and Digital Download)
John Haywood US $14.98 / $8.99 (download) Kentucky mountain music was described by Pete Seeger in 1987: "I have no proof, but I suspect that the Kentucky mountain style (of singing a short verse in a high intense voice, and then playing for 20 or 30 seconds some lightning quick notes on the banjo) is descended from the West African style in some way." The music Seeger described came to east Kentucky from Virginia with the enslaved, mixed-race people (some known as Melungeon), and white musicians whose ancestors socialized with African Americans beginning in east Virginia. Banjo songsters, once common in the Kentucky mountains, are now scarce. John Haywood is one of the last of the Kentucky mountain banjo songsters. When listening to Haywood's recording, "Upon My Word and Honor," one can hear echoes of West African music through his high, intense singing and his outstanding banjo playing. Haywood's selection of tunes are a tribute to songsters who are no longer with us: the Couch family of Harlan County, Lee Sexton, Dewey Shepherd, Morgan Sexton, Willy Chapman, Gran Hudson, Roscoe Holcomb, Reverend Buell Kazee, WL Gregory and Clyde Davenport, Jack and Henry Bunch, Rufus Crisp, Banjo Bill Cornett, and Coy Morton. -- George Gibson, Knott County, Kentucky, Winter 2023 Click Here to Purchase |
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NMAS 011: The Parlor Room Sessions (CD and Digital Download)
John Haywood, Kevin Howard, Russell Griswald US $14.98 / $8.99 (download) Captured late one summer evening in Haywood’s tattoo shop (The Parlor Room - Art & Tattoo), this 16-track album celebrates the lineage of Eastern Kentucky musical traditions as John, Kevin and Russell swap stories and perform songs they learned directly from old time legends George Gibson and Lee Sexton, among others. Highly celebrated in their own right and much like their mentors and predecessors, John, Kevin, and Russell continue to carry on these traditions by performing throughout the region and by teaching at the Cowan Creek Mountain Music School in Whitesburg, KY. Click Here to Purchase |
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NMAS 010: Photos from the Field (Photographic Prints)
Jeremy Drummond and David Poolman US $50.00 (each) Including in this series are a selection of research photos taken throughout central Appalachia between May 2016 – August 2019. These photographs document the evolving landscape, industry, and towns where we interviewed musicians, artists, clergy, and cultural workers in Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina for our book, NMAS 009: As Has It. Photographs are printed on 260gm, 100% cotton, archival Epson Velvet Fine Art Paper. Print Size: 13.5 x 8.5 inches / Paper Size: 18 x 13 inches *Custom Sizes Available. Click Here to View and Purchase |
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NMAS 009: As Has It (2xCD)
Various Artists US $20.98 / $13.99 (download) A 2xCD collection of 60 field recordings captured throughout central Appalachia between May 2015 - July 2019. Note: These are the same recordings included with NMAS 008: As Has It. Artists include Josh Bearman, Bonnie Bond, Eddie Bond, Debbie Bramer, Kelley Breiding, Karen Carr, Wayne Dye, Dom Flemons, Trish Fore, Russell Griswald, John Haywood, Wayne Henderson, Donald Hill, Kevin Howard, Billy C. Hurt Jr., Chris Johnson, Minnie Lou Johnson, Carl Jones, Erynn Marshall, Rich Miller, Tom Mylet, Frank Newsome, Ethan Pardue, Hazel Pasley, Lucas Pasley, John Perry, Kinney Rorrer, Kyle Dean Smith, Emily Spencer, Kilby Spencer, Martha Spencer, Thornton Spencer, Robert Stowe, Kirk Sutphin, Janet Turner, Betty Vornbrock, Peco Watson, Earl White, and Chris Wolfe. Click Here to Purchase |
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NMAS 008: As Has It (240-page book and 2xCD)
Jeremy Drummond and David Poolman US $40.98 As Has It is a collection of interviews, photographs, and field recordings captured throughout central Appalachia between May 2015 and July 2019. These documents explore the connections between vernacular culture, landscape, and contemporary life in central Appalachia. As Has It features interviews with Kelley Breiding, Dom Flemons, John Haywood, Billy C. Hurt Jr., Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones, Frank Newsome, Kinney Rorrer, Ada Smith, Emily Spencer, Martha Spencer, Betty Vornbrock and Earl White; and is accompanied by two CD’s of field recordings by Josh Bearman, Bonnie Bond, Eddie Bond, Debbie Bramer, Kelley Breiding, Karen Carr, Wayne Dye, Dom Flemons, Trish Fore, Russell Griswald, John Haywood, Wayne Henderson, Donald Hill, Kevin Howard, Billy C. Hurt Jr., Chris Johnson, Minnie Lou Johnson, Carl Jones, Erynn Marshall, Rich Miller, Tom Mylet, Frank Newsome, Ethan Pardue, Hazel Pasley, Lucas Pasley, John Perry, Kinney Rorrer, Kyle Dean Smith, Emily Spencer, Kilby Spencer, Martha Spencer, Thornton Spencer, Robert Stowe, Kirk Sutphin, Janet Turner, Betty Vornbrock, Peco Watson, Earl White, and Chris Wolfe. Click Here to Purchase |
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NMAS 007: Martha Spencer – The Grassy Creek Sessions EP (7" 45rpm Vinyl EP and Digital Download)
Martha Spencer US $10.98 / $3.99 (download) Over two-days in July 2019, Never Met A Stranger conducted an intimate recording session with Martha Spencer in a farmhouse in Grassy Creek, North Carolina. This session resulted in 24-tracks of original and traditional material featuring Martha singing and playing guitar and banjo. 4 of these tracks have been selected for inclusion on NMAS 007: The Grassy Creek Sessions EP – a 7” record pressed at 45rpm and housed in an offset-printed picture sleeve in an edition of 500 copies. Click Here to Purchase |
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NMAS 006: The Fries Sessions (CD and Digital Download)
Eddie Bond, Karen Carr, Donald Hill, Peco Watson US $14.98 / $8.99 (download) Recorded May 18, 2016 at the Fries Community Center in Fries, VA. Eddie Bond, Karen Carr, Donald Hill, and Peco Watson rip through twelve tracks of great old-time classics. An excellent recording of a truly remarkable performance. Click Here to Purchase |
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NMAS 005: The Uncommitted (12" 45rpm Vinyl LP and Digital Download)
The Uncommitted US $20.98 / $8.99 (download) This 20-track LP was pressed at 45rpm and clocks in at just over 14-minutes – a blazing soundtrack companion to the New Year touching on everything here from geophagy to dormophonics to self-annihilation. This debut features a cover of The Fugs’ “Nothing” and some scorching lap steel! From 1985 to 1992 Tim Freeborn fronted the Meaford/Toronto hardcore band SONS OF ISHMAEL, whose “Hayseed Hardcore” 7” was included on Pushead’s infamous “Unofficial Top 100 of the 80s” list of hardcore albums. Click Here to Purchase |
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NMAS 004: Dark Holler (Blu-ray Disc, 30:08 Minutes)
Jeremy Drummond and David Poolman US $150.00 Built on a soundtrack of environmental soundscapes, field recordings, sound collages, and re-interpretations of traditional music of central Appalachia, Dark Holler is a 30-minute observational video recorded on Pine Mountain in the coalfields of Eastern Kentucky. Somewhat of an anomaly in this region, Pine Mountain has withstood the effects of industrial coal mining -- this mountain exists because nothing can be mined from it. For centuries, Pine Mountain has also served as a home for musical, oral, and religious practices that have a complicated relationship with industrial progress and environmental degradation. Home to evolving cultural traditions as well as a contested site of industrial production and social resistance, Pine Mountain serves as a microcosm for exploring relationships between industry and the environment, landscape and vernacular culture, and preservation versus progress. (Coming Soon) For public sreenings, festivals and preview copies, please contact us here. |
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NMAS 003: Thornton Spencer, Things Left Behind (CD with Commemorative Print and Digital Download)
Thornton Spencer, Emily Spencer, Kilby Spencer, Deb Bramer, Kelley Breiding, Cameron DeWhitt US $14.98 / $8.99 (download) The last recordings of renowned Old Time fiddler Thornton Spencer (Whitetop Mountain Band). Accompanied by Emily Spencer, Kilby Spencer, Deb Bramer, Kelly Breiding, and Cameron DeWhitt. Recorded in May and July 2017 in Crumpler NC. Included with this CD is a hand-numbered limited edition commemorative print. Click Here to Purchase |
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NMAS 002: Old Time Mountain Music (12" Vinyl LP or Digital Download)
Jeremy Drummond and David Poolman US $20.98 / $8.99 (download) A vinyl record composed of environmental soundscapes, field recordings, sound collages, and re-interpretations of tradition music as produced and documented by Never Met a Stranger throughout central Appalachia. Composed, recorded, and mixed by Jeremy Drummond and David Poolman. Click Here to Purchase |
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NMAS 001: The Uncommitted (Limited Edition Cassette)
The Uncommitted Sold Out Debut seven-song EP by The Uncommitted. (Tim Freeborn, formerly of Sons of Ishmael). |
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