SAPAT - "Mortise and Tenon" LP

Sapat - Mortise and Tenon LP (Siltbreeze, 2007) A must-own, all-time personal favorite Louisville release of utmost personal importance. Not only is the music on this LP a sublime levitation of laid back, late night hypno volk-rock river steam, seance blooze, and warehouse commune trashcan fire-circle sonic incantations, but: it was also by way of my getting to know many -- of the MANY -- of the ensemble's members (past, future, and always/occasional) upon moving back home in the late '00s that I was fortunate enough to unearth a sizable handful of my "forever people." Needless to say, Sapat is a special band. To me, to my friends, to this part of the country and its role in extending our own underground to that of America's shared one. An underdog psych unit of brilliantly zapped heads, misfit midwestern econo-jammers, junkyard improvisers, drunken virtuosos, seemingly "normal people" saddled side-by-side with human UFOs, and soldiers of boundless inspiration. Start here if you're new