https://cached.media cached.media Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:23:54 +0000 https://cached.media en https://cached.media/home Mon, 03 Jan 2022 20:36:47 +0000 cached.media https://cached.media/home CACHED.OUT: After almost 6 years, Cached will not release any new titles henceforth. Current and instock titles will be for sale in the ARCHIVE at a discounted rate until they sell out. Some titles may be appearing in stock with distributors in the coming weeks and months.Events from ONESTRAW will continue to be posted there until further notice. If you care to read more about this choice, please navigate to an open letter HERE. Thank you! 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width="1600" height="2071" width_o="1600" height_o="2071" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71dcad336d5a781509a2b8735dfcd963a608af295cd3afcf2a3c3898aaa343c3/windy-and-carl-may-2026---WEBREADY.jpg" data-mid="245540292" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71dcad336d5a781509a2b8735dfcd963a608af295cd3afcf2a3c3898aaa343c3/windy-and-carl-may-2026---WEBREADY.jpg" /> <img width="785" height="783" width_o="785" height_o="783" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1046e90c4978f057b3b2501bf60c3f0d9ce73761f9457081341730d5404a740a/0.jpg" data-mid="245540337" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/785/i/1046e90c4978f057b3b2501bf60c3f0d9ce73761f9457081341730d5404a740a/0.jpg" />Windy &amp; Carl have spent 30 years creating a captivating and foundational style of mostly instrumental cinematic compositions. Primarily using guitars, their long form ambient pieces sit alongside forays into dreampop and shoe gaze. Signing to kranky in 1998, the duo amassed a large body or work and toured in the USA and Europe before taking a hiatus in performing in 2012. Recently back to writing and recording, the duo are once again performing live and we are fortunate to host them in collaboration with Ghost Canyon Fest for a weekend of mile high drift! 5/16 in Longmont at the Hayloft. 5pm doors / 6pm music.&nbsp; Seating is limited for this intimate and earthly early evening of music !! Supporting Windy &amp; Carl are Prymek &amp; Sage (half of Fuubutsushi) and New Standards Men; a free jazz stew gaze mountain pastoral barn drifter of a night! 5/17 in Denver at the Bug Theater. 6pm doors / 7pm music. A more traditional theater setting for this one! Ritger and Weathers will open this evening with some extended technique free improvisation electro acoustic wizardry.&nbsp; You can purchase tickets for both events at a discounted rate too! PAST EVENTS: <img width="1600" height="2071" width_o="1600" height_o="2071" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0ffff08f8b9a4d61449badcc33568b1e1b6de7a71b3006f75735a39475bb195/jakob-pek-onestraw-4-web.jpg" data-mid="245540541" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0ffff08f8b9a4d61449badcc33568b1e1b6de7a71b3006f75735a39475bb195/jakob-pek-onestraw-4-web.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1500" width_o="1200" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/819d8cdb401f2bd5c63d0efe8debf0b1dc7b6b7799b370841e2981be21de5463/ro-lundberg-addendum-graphic.jpg" data-mid="240794697" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/819d8cdb401f2bd5c63d0efe8debf0b1dc7b6b7799b370841e2981be21de5463/ro-lundberg-addendum-graphic.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1553" width_o="1200" height_o="1553" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b56c6b9d5adc915641e70c8dd1c4f33c4170133c53e24234ed53f047539e226/mueller-slide-1-v2.jpg" data-mid="239420344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b56c6b9d5adc915641e70c8dd1c4f33c4170133c53e24234ed53f047539e226/mueller-slide-1-v2.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1553" width_o="1200" height_o="1553" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a9650e20e20b264a53bc690c6b5e15f893160e74c7a1e162e3f129612fad5e43/mueller-slide-2-v2.jpg" data-mid="239420346" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a9650e20e20b264a53bc690c6b5e15f893160e74c7a1e162e3f129612fad5e43/mueller-slide-2-v2.jpg" /> <img width="1900" height="2459" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-src="//freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a95b962eb19a8759381553cb3ded08c6b31ec8bb00a4cbb3cfa43c51a7dcef8e/6-15---16---monypeny-corcoran-sheet-v2.jpg"> <img width="1600" height="2071" width_o="1600" height_o="2071" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02f9d2cbeefaa7fa98a7aead6a5930c7dc856dae5a4fb808bccb4f2bdb35a9af/confluence-2025-web-flier.jpg" data-mid="234319048" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02f9d2cbeefaa7fa98a7aead6a5930c7dc856dae5a4fb808bccb4f2bdb35a9af/confluence-2025-web-flier.jpg" /> <img width="1484" height="1920" width_o="1484" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e146436f7e471ad01e31f4bc20e840c3a113569424b448148293e49d8fff9e22/hatakeyama-tour-graphic-web.jpg" data-mid="235950688" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e146436f7e471ad01e31f4bc20e840c3a113569424b448148293e49d8fff9e22/hatakeyama-tour-graphic-web.jpg" /> https://cached.media/seymour Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:18:20 +0000 cached.media https://cached.media/seymour Seymour by Andreatta, Raymond, Sage <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/771f737f4f0d33c26227abd61928e198902894ff059a284ce92cd52deb2b0058/a1721751984_10.jpg" data-mid="203206924" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/771f737f4f0d33c26227abd61928e198902894ff059a284ce92cd52deb2b0058/a1721751984_10.jpg" /> Compact Disc released April 2020 - Out of Print Digital Files Below Gianni Andreatta, Zander Raymond, and Matthew Sage come together as a rare trio to create live and improvisatory tenderness and electronic felicity on "Seymour." The three, whose individual hands become almost undistinguishable in this formation, combine lush melodic impressions for guitar and synthesis nestled between nettlesome electro-acoustic textures and plinking digital utterances. Samples and guitar become arboreal architecture that air and light move through fluidly. Guided as much by chance operation as by intuition, these 15 motions present a specific and organic form of home-grown digital impressionism.music and visual elements by Gianni Andreatta, Zander Raymond, and Matthew Sage https://cached.media/birthmark Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:16:33 +0000 cached.media https://cached.media/birthmark Birthmark by Frank Baugh &amp; Matthew Sage <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a74d59cb7641498fef2b9d3f379dce2e9f36cf1f11d630fda074192446f9c1ab/birthmark---artwork.jpg" data-mid="203206133" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a74d59cb7641498fef2b9d3f379dce2e9f36cf1f11d630fda074192446f9c1ab/birthmark---artwork.jpg" /> Compact Disc released July 2020 - out of print Digital Files below During the first stretch of social distancing, Frank Baugh (Sparkling Wide Pressure) and Matthew Sage produced Birthmark, an uncanny pastoral gothic transmission of smeared melodies and interstitial rumblings. Created through a process of correspondence and layering, the album feels like an amassing of history like sedimentary soils, a disrupting of that history like a landslide or a well digging, a feeding back the past into the present, tainted water desalinating as it passes through a layer of carbon coal and computer chips. Flickers of banjo and guitar are overgrown with radio chattering brush and debris, birds and boys whistling in harmony, voices ping in the static, bouncing between rhythmic loops and clattering signals like lost friends. Terrible and awesome walls of distortion peel through the valleys, leaving behind leveled rumination, a few screens sprayed with static, and only those few trees left with deep wide true roots.Frank Baugh:samples, synthesizer, bass, guitar, banjowhistle, voice, percussionMatthew Sage:synthesizer, autoharp, organ, guitar, percussion,banjo, field recordings, voice, radiorecorded in Illinois and Tennessee in 2020visual elements by Danny Greene and Frank Baugh https://cached.media/fuubutsushi Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:17:31 +0000 cached.media https://cached.media/fuubutsushi Fuubutsushi (風物詩) by Fuubutsushi <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ccec1dba9bd38f2898724d65a0a60c4acd903fcdc9356370811a48a0626b4f0/fuubutsushi-1600px.jpg" data-mid="203205779" border="0" data-scale="90" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ccec1dba9bd38f2898724d65a0a60c4acd903fcdc9356370811a48a0626b4f0/fuubutsushi-1600px.jpg" /> Compact Disc released September 2020 - Out of Print Digital Files Below Fuubutsushi is the second entry into this now established series of CDs released on cached that features musicians collaborating through social distancing measures. Here, a quartet comes together while staying apart to miraculous ends, leaving space for memory to wander in a shimmery autumnal dappling. Chris Jusell (violin), Chaz Prymek (guitars, field recordings, voice), Matthew Sage (keyboards, percussion, voice, field recording), and Patrick Shiroishi (alto saxophone, clarinet, flute, glockenspiel, samples, whistling, voice) have collaborated on projects on and off in the last several years (some you may have heard, some yet to be released), but here, the four worked together as a singular unit in a playful and focused way. These compositions, a kind of wistful cool jazz diluted by ambient figures and new age hallmarks, could possibly be tucked into the “Post Rock” sector, but may actually be more aligned with ECM’s school of playership. Through a combination of varied classical training and (here subdued) experimental tendencies, a harmony is achieved wherein melody is itself a texture to play with. In their solo work, some of these players wander in much more cerebral, jarring, psychedelic, unconventional airs, but on Fuubutsushi, they present as a tightly connected quartet prepared to woo listeners with these honeyed impressionistic strains. Songs are structured around muted piano parts from Sage that he augmented with percussion and occasional synthesizer flourishes. Flutters of reeds and winds from Shiroishi paint the scenes with nostalgic tenderness and vibrancy. Prymek’s nimble guitar figures add longing and character, texture and dynamism. Jusell’s violins drift about in emotive drafts and eddies of harmony, darting into lyrical spurts at opportune moments. There is a restraint and a mutual leaning-back that these players offer one another on these songs, and so, they all have their space to stretch out, to incorporate emptiness into their parts, to smile at one another warmly in those spaces. With such hospitality and kindness for each other, the music feels as much like an unexpected and joyful crossing of paths as it does a kindred reunion at a remembered crossroads.The term Fuubutsushi, or 風物詩 in kanji, is a kind of seasonal nostalgia. A longing for the approaching season upon its first sign. That moment in late summer when you can sense autumn is approaching -- maybe it is that cool night bitten by the scent of frost and wood smoke, or the soft rotting leaves in a warm beam of morning light -- and so you anticipate that approaching autumn using past autumns as a frame of reference. “That new old feeling again.” This is a music of looking forward and looking back simultaneously. Both nostalgic and hopeful, wistful and realistic. Apart from their respective bodies of work or other collaborations, consider this album a singular offering from this quartet that is, as each season that passes, unique, however familiar it feels. Chris Jusell - violinChaz Prymek - guitars, field recordings, voiceMatthew Sage - keyboards, percussion, voice, field recordingsPatrick Shiroishi - alto &amp; tenor saxophones, clarinet, flute, glockenspiel, samples, whistling, voiceadditional vocals on "Chorus Wheel" by Matt Crook and Anna Wilsonrecorded in Arizona, California, Illinois, and Missouri in late summer of 2020photographs by Chaz Prymek