Mojave Between Ludlow and Needles

by Andrew Weathers

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The latest installment in Full Spectrum’s ongoing Editions Littlefield series, which explores notions of intentional communities and progressive living, comes from Full Spectrum label head Andrew Weathers himself. A love letter of sorts to a particular hill in the midst of the Mojave Desert’s expansive wastes, Weathers’ vision for Mojave Between Ludlow & Needles was to create an aural snapshot of a place that he’s traversed many times.

While not a particularly pretty spot, Weathers describes this location as “moving in its isolation.” His first visit included a fraught overnight campout, during which time he was convinced he would be attacked by coyotes in the night. On his latest visit, however, he had driven through the night and happened upon the hill a little after sunrise. He pulled over and sat on the hill, meditating on the brutality of the desert as the day’s heat set in.

It’s a strangely specific locale to have woven into the comings and goings of one’s life, to be sure; and in like fashion, Weathers constructed the album through different divination procedures. He would set guidelines for his sessions, then record several tracks without using previous tracks as reference. The end result is a shambling mist of acoustic resonance and opaque melodies that rattle like tumbleweeds in the dry desert air, seeking their path of least resistance across the dusty landscape.

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released September 15, 2016

Recorded Spring 2016 at Second Dream and DUOPOD, Oakland, CA

AW - guitars, banjo, bass, synth, electronics, organ, percussion, recorder, shruti box, harmonica

Artwork by Gretchen Korsmo

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Andrew Weathers Littlefield, Texas

Andrew Weathers plays Real Life Rock & Roll and lives in Littlefield, TX. Splitting the difference between folk music & Land Art.

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discography

The Land Ethic (Extract)

Jul 2022
Sciatic Assemblage

Apr 2022
The Land Ethic, Third Winter 2022

Mar 2022
The Land Ethic, Second Summer 2021

Sep 2021
The Land Ethic, First Summer 2021

Aug 2021
Catalogs: Sound Pieces with Text and 10 Unrealized Scores

Jul 2021
The Land Ethic, Second Spring 2021

Jun 2021
The Land Ethic, Spring 2021

Apr 2021
The Land Ethic, Winter 2021

Feb 2021
The Land Ethic, Second Autumn 2020

Dec 2020
The Land Ethic, First Autumn 2020

Oct 2020
Recordings with Guitar

Sep 2020
The Land Ethic, Summer 2020

Sep 2020
AW Solo Album

Aug 2020
The Thousand Birds in the Earth, The Thousand Birds in the Sky

Aug 2020
Two Songs

Jul 2020
Music

Jun 2020
Two Loud Rooms

May 2020
Five Remote Duos

Mar 2020
Dreams and Visions from the Llano Estacado

Mar 2020
Put the Ospreys on it and You’ll Know the End

Sep 2018
Guitar Man Whirligig

May 2018
Build A Mountain Where Our Bodies Fall

Sep 2017
Under the Tree

Apr 2017
Mojave Between Ludlow and Needles

Sep 2016
Rock & Roll Can & Will Heal Us

Jul 2016
North Fork of the Jump

Jul 2016
Ever Steady

Jan 2016
Omaha / The Reason Young People Use Drugs

Nov 2015
I AM HAPPY WHEN I AM MOVING

Oct 2015
Real Life Rock & Roll

Aug 2015
Fuck Everybody, You Can Do Anything

Jun 2015
Light in the Valley

Apr 2015
This World Is Not My Home / Fifty Miles of Elbow Room

Mar 2015
Littlefield

Mar 2015
Raised High in Badwater Basin

Dec 2014
One Day We'll Find the Valley

Sep 2014
What Happens When We Stop Remixes

Apr 2014
Sings Praise, Glory, Make A Way, Hallelujah

Jun 2013
What Happens When We Stop

Mar 2013
For AG

Oct 2012
We Don't Have Sun Like This

Aug 2012
Guilford County Songs

Apr 2012
Rough Hemmed Seams

Jul 2011
We're Not Cautious

Mar 2011
A Great Southern City

Jan 2010

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