the "Douglas Fir Tape"
Ahhhh… The “Douglas Fir Tape”… I remember it well. Yes, the blabbering gentleman going on about Christmas for 18 minutes… ah but no! Things are not always as they seem, my little grasshopper!
This is not THAT kind of Douglas Fir Tape. Well, it used to be, but now it’s 18 minutes of the Water. Configured in a one-of-kind track list that you will never again see. Consider it a mixtape. Two classic albums, two classic songs from each, all four songs have massive “Doug Fir Vibes”.
Side A:
“Red Tide”
“A Campfire Song”
(from 2018’s album, “June Gloom”)
Side B:
“The Birds Pt. 2”
“Where Roads Are Narrow”
(from 2008’s album, “Follow That Sound”)
The tape hiss blends nicely with the original recording hiss. If you listen ever so carefully, you can even hear the babbling gentleman in the distance, perhaps sleeping amongst the brush. Wishing he could better immerse himself in the pungent boughs of time and space, the needles of joy, the sap of life itself. Instead, he calls out from cavernous depths, barely alive. Forgotten but not erased. A sleeping giant among many comparatively smaller people that are awake.