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150 gram vinyl LP. Comes with insert featuring artwork by Jordan Knecht.
Includes unlimited streaming of Lake Mary & The Ranch Family Band - Sun Dogs
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PACKAGE: "Sun Dogs" LP + Split Cassette with Vicky Mettler
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
150 gram vinyl LP. Insert featuring artwork by Jordan Knecht plus split cassette with Montreal, QC based experimental artist Vicky Mettler.
Includes unlimited streaming of Lake Mary & The Ranch Family Band - Sun Dogs
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PACKAGE: "Sun Dogs" LP + WSR Fall Tape Batch
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
150 gram vinyl LP. Insert featuring artwork by Jordan Knecht + 3 cassette tapes:
Trupa Trupa / Suspirians
drowse / AMULETS
Lake Mary / Vicky Mettler
Includes unlimited streaming of Lake Mary & The Ranch Family Band - Sun Dogs
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Sun Dogs Test Press + LP (Edition of 1)
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Ultra-limited edition test pressing + Sun Dogs LP + LP of your choice.
Test pressing from A to Z. Edition of 1.
Includes unlimited streaming of Lake Mary & The Ranch Family Band - Sun Dogs
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Chaz Prymek’s ongoing Lake Mary project transcended the boundaries of a mere solo project long ago, having evolved into an ever-shifting collective of like-minded artists, performers and spiritual seekers with deep ties to Colorado’s Front Range and the sprawling Missouri plains. With a stunningly executed catalog of releases for labels like Eilean Rec., Patient Sounds International and Cabin Floor Esoterica, we’ve enjoyed watching [and hearing] their transformation into this latest iteration: Lake Mary & The Ranch Family Band.
A sort of unofficial follow-up to River Ceremony – the ensemble’s 2018 release for Keeled Scales – Sun Dogs traverses a similar, albeit more focused, aesthetic terrain. As always – Chaz honed the vision for these seven tracks during numerous tour dates and studio sessions, workshopping melodic ideas and transmogrifying his band’s raw improvisations into structured compositions.
From the elegiac slide guitar work of album opener “Holy Radio,” to the motorik underpinnings of the title track and the quiet, winding guitar solos that pepper the track list, the end result is a suite of chilled folk, drone and ambient jammers that perhaps stands as one of Chaz’s most completely focused musical statements yet.
"What began as a solo project from Chaz Prymek has turned into a prairie-raised choogle ensemble. Streaks of motorik rhythms occasionally bless these astral country ditties, but mostly they chase the sunlight." - Lars Gotrich, NPR Music
" Rooted in a rambling fingerpick that recalls contemporaries William Tyler and Nathan Salsburg, Sun Dogs‘ prowess lies in deploying buttered slides throughout the entire record that yearn for a perennial peace. The record seamlessly folds in psych-touches on the album’s title track, finding the common crannies between fingerpicked folk and Kosmiche float." - Raven Sings the Blues
credits
released November 15, 2019
produced by Paul DeHaven
mixed/engineered by Paul DeHaven & Chaz Prymek
mastered by Andrew Weathers
art / layout by Jordan Knecht
all songs dreamt up by Lake Mary
Whited Sepulchre Records // Full Spectrum Records 2019
Lake Mary is the moniker of Chaz Prymek. A guitarist living in Columbia, MO. Lake Mary's work pulls from deep swaths of American Primitivist, Drone and folk.
supported by 21 fans who also own “Lake Mary & The Ranch Family Band - Sun Dogs”
I’m so grateful this crossed my path. This album is so beautiful. All the clear technique and mastery and vision are kinda secondary to the fact that this album brought me calm and joy during one of the most difficult times in my life. Yeah, grateful. David McCullough
A lost 1992 field tape recorded by Mexican ethnomusicologist Raúl García Flores featuring a duo of Tamborileros playing a baptism ceremony. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 6, 2023
supported by 18 fans who also own “Lake Mary & The Ranch Family Band - Sun Dogs”
Listened to this before reading the background and inspiration behind the album. Even without context, I could sense the intimacy and emotional complexity of this work. Not "dark ambient" but heavy and deep. Not foreboding but carries the weight of both memory and youthful potential. There is a quality of the unknown in the drones and loops, it's a little scary but inspires childlike wonder. I wonder if that's what Daniel's home felt like: endless & mysterious but also familiar & comforting. Todd Skinner