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Hello, friends of tell-all… a little update as to the state of things at our wee label.

TAR will be entering a semi-hibernation through the next few months, as some of our members travel to South America, others move from coast to coast, and others still grapple with the simple dillemas of day to day existence in the modern world. Mailorders will still be filled, our PO box will still be checked, and emails will still be answered. However, we won’t be doing anything big until we’re into the new year.

In other news, our “twelve” one-note EP series is nearly complete, with only two more notes left to go, and only a wee bit behind schedule… thanks to everyone who took a chance and subscribed to this experiment! Liam’s new album continues to receive positive reviews, and he’ll be playing two SF shows in December - On the 11th, he’ll be opening for Paul J. Williams at the Make-Out Room, and on the 19th he’ll open for Lisa Germano at the Hemlock Tavern.

As always, thank you for your continued interest and support… if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to send us an email.

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our secret lies beneath the creek is now officially available, and you can find it here and in your local record store, especially if your local record store happens to be a part of the the alliance of independent media stores. if your store is part of AIMS, you’ll find it in the listening station. so make your way to the store and throw on some headphones!

in related news, people have said some very nice things about the album: david greenwald from cokemachineglow weighs in, along with the allmusic guide, indieworkshop, and aiding & abetting, to name a few.

several tell-all artists participated in dave heaton’s 100 musicians answer the same 10 questions project. you can see answers from liam singer, scott solter, and the kallikak family alongside such great artists as paul duncan and eluvium. excellent reading.

the Kallikak Family enhanced audio RITCHEY CD-ROM with extra special content including self-designed software, text, video, and an episode of “Twin Peaks” is now available from the Yarn Lazer label. let us know if you would like more information about this extra special limited release. also please check out this nice review of may 23rd 2007 from soundsect.

in technical news, tell-all recently completed a migration to a new server. if you notice something missing or broken, please let us know — write dave AT tellallrecords.com and we’ll fix it straightaway.

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we’re proud to announce the latest addition to our twelve ep series, B by MANTA(R), aka M. Ritchey, collaborator and musicmaker with such outfits as Dear Nora, The Badger King, et al. check it out. subscribe already.

there have also been some very nice reviews of scott solter’s record, in foxy digitalis and tiny mix tapes. check them out.

also, our secret lies beneath the creek got a mention on 30music.com. its official release is august 29th, and you’ll see it in listening stations at select independent record stores around the country during the month of september. exciting!

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there have been two great reviews of one river published in the past two days from two wonderful sites : dusted magazine, who who reviewed the album here, and from pitchfork media’s cory byrom, who wrote this kind review.

if you’re here for the first time, be sure to check out liam singer’s new album, our secret lies beneath the creek, which was engineered by scott. you’ll hopefully be reading some great reviews of it in the near future as well.

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our copies of liam singer’s new album, “our secret lies beneath the creek”, just arrived in the mail today, and we’re way excited to finally have them in our hands. this album was recorded in december and january with scott solter engineering, it sounds and looks GREAT! we have some samples and an order form up on the website, so click here if you’re ready for some piano action.

scott solter’s own album, one river, has been officially released for a few weeks now, and has begun to receive much positive press - check out new reviews from indie workshop, almost cool, erasing clouds, and illinois entertainer. scott is currently in san francisco, producing and recording john vanderslice’s next album, as well as mixing a project he recorded for grant miller (of mandible chatter). however, he and his wife have recently relocated to north carolina, where he will continue running his own studio - so if you’re in that area, and are lookin g for an amazing engineer, be sure to check him out! his website is scottsolter.com, and he plans to be up and running sometime in june.

new sound samples from the twelve series are up, including new entries from one umbrella and jack shriner. give them a listen.

we’ve also got a new distro item in stock, “little darla has a treat for you vol. 24,” a compilation from darla records. it’s 36 tracks on 2 cds for only $7 plus shipping, so check it out! the comp includes an exclusive track from the kallikak family, plus new music from robin guthrie (!), run_return, aarktica, and more. check it out here.

be sure to join our mailing list using the form above, because you can get a free tell-all vol. 1 compilation. really, it’s great, and we’ll send it to you just for giving us your e-mail address! we promise not to write to you too often.

remember that we’re always accepting submissions and that we will listen to them, though; it may take us a ridiculous amount to do so, and; we can’t promise that, even if we love it, we’ll have the resources to release it! that said, it’s always great to hear the exciting sounds that people are making.

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hi tell-all friends — we’re here with a short update.

we had some great shows in san francisco in april; thanks to everyone who came out to hear our music.

scott solter’s one river will be officially available on may 30th. we’ve already heard some nice things said about the record - smother.net made it an editor’s pick, jon worley of aiding and abetting wrote a nice short review, and babysue also weighed in positively.
music-scan.de contributed a nice review in german (translated by the googs here).

dave heaton also gave a nice writeup of the first five pieces in twelve, our ep series for the big takeover. it’s a great introduction to the series, and dave writes thoughtful short reviews of each entry.

finally, some very exciting news: liam singer’s new album is done, mastered, and is being shipped off to the manufacturer this week. the record is called our secret lies beneath the creek and we’ll have some brand new sample tracks for you to hear this week, plus the album artwork.

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tell-all friends and fans! how good it is that we get a chance to speak again.

a lot has happened since our last installment — one umbrella played an excellent showcase at oslo for sxsw, and we shared a cozy day party with western vinyl and others during the festival as well. be sure to check out the western vinyl roster — they’ve got some amazing artists.

also, we’ve got an update for our steadfast ep subscribers — due to a delay in receiving scott solter’s contribution, and a ridiculous sequence of events involving sewing and seage, we have yet to get either the february or march installment out the door. fear not! we have scott’s EP in our hands right now and it will be shipping tomorrow, and bay area composer dave malloy will contribute the march EP within a week or two. we’ll be right back on schedule for our april release featuring one umbrella.

scott solter’s record is going out the door to press and radio in the coming week - if you have any press requests, please email tellallrecords at gmail dot com. we’re excited to get this album out to the world — we’ve been listening to it and loving it for months.

liam singer’s second, still-untitled record is off to mastering, and we’re finishing the artwork and getting ready for the discs to be pressed. we’ll have some lush, beautifully recorded sample mp3s up as soon as possible.

thanks for your support, and we’ll have more news for you soon!

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It’s exciting times here at tell-all records, as our 2006 release schedule officially kicks off with Scott Solter’s One River. The discs are finally back from the manufacturer, and they look sooooo beautiful. The official release date won’t be for a little while longer, but if you want to own this wonderful album now, you can order it directly from us here.

This month’s EP series release will also be from Scott, who’s be providing us with the note “G-flat.” We haven’t heard it yet, but we expect fantastic things from this fantastic man.

In press news, Tiny Mix Tapes wrote a cool piece that pits tell-all’s The Kallikak Family against The Akron Family, and also mentions our EP series “Twelve.” It’s so cool that we can forgive them for calling us “shmoopy”… unless maybe shmoopy is a compliment. Dammit, I feel like an old man.

Tell-all’s Liam Singer is in the finishing stages of his newest release, which we expect to have out in April. Liam will also be composing the music for the April installment of San Francisco’s “GO,” a monthly event that teams together a visual artist, writer, and musician - we’ll make sure to post more info about this event as it approaches.

Several TAR artists will be playing live shows around the Bay Area in April… Liam, Dave Zohrob, and Keith Negley’s band Snowdrift will perform on the 9th at the make-out room, and a soon-to-be confirmed tell-all showcase will be happening later that month.

In other news, some people had some nice things to say about May 23rd 2007. PopMatters, Delusions of Adequacy, and woebot all weigh in. Serious stuff.

As always, thanks for your interest, and for listening. Happy Valentines day… or as we call it around here, “the love season.”

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we’re excited to announce that brian harnetty’s contribution to twelve has arrived! it’s a beautiful collage from many sources — check out the sample mp3 to hear a snippet. we’ve received more subscriptions to the series lately, so be sure to get yours now - the first 40-50 subscriptions will get “special” artwork, artwork that we put a lot of love (and time) into making.

in other news, one umbrella were invited to perform again at this year’s south-by-southwest. more details soon — we hope to follow this announcement with other invitations.

one river is headed off to the presses this week, so we’ll have it in our hands in just a few weeks. album artwork will be posted soon. we’re also working on some tell-all showcases in the bay area in february and april - we’ll keep you posted.

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happy new year from tell-all records! it’s hard to believe that 2k6 is upon us, but here we are. the kallikak family have contributed to the twelve ep series with their note, g, marking the third installment. and, speaking of the kallikak family, may 23rd 2007 continues to get new reviews, this time from tiny mix tapes , the australian weekly rave magazine, and porcys (in polish; can anyone translate?). may 23rd 2007 also showed up on many top-ten lists at the end of the year, including 3 lists from pitchfork writers, radio stations, and others. the lists close out a great year for the kallikak family and for tell-all.

liam singer spent a week in the studio with scott solter recording his next album, to be released in april/may 2006. liam and scott will take a short holiday break before a couple more days of recording in january, followed by mixing at tiny telephone. we also finally have a sample track from scott solter’s upcoming release, one river. check it out!

finally, the new ep in the twelve series, from ohio composer brian harnetty, will be available shortly. look for a sample soon. we’re also planning several bay-area shows in the upcoming months, and we’re beginning to plan for sxsw 2006. we’ll keep you posted.

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