On March 30, 2009, Mount Eerie's Phil Elverum entered the White Stag Building in Portland, OR on invite from Matther Stadler and his Publication Studio Organization. The building, owned by the University of Oregon, sits on the old mud where Portland began. Elverum was invited to occupy the building for one week and record the sounds he made within the structure. What came out of this experience is a 10-song CD of 4-track recordings titled White Stag Building.
The CD-R, which comes, in classic Elverum-style, folded inside a "poster with words and imagined historical scenery," is limited, though it will probably be officially released on vinyl at some point in the future. According to an interview that Elverum did with the Portland Mercury, White Stag Building is about "how hard it is to maintain a relationship with memory when something bad has happened. It's an extreme view, but that's essentially what happened: White men decided to build here and oppress native peoples and nearly destroyed the environment in the process. Living with a memory of darkness almost requires that it be repressed or else covered up with a thin veneer of wholesomeness. With all its brutal bricks and sustainable eco-wood, this building represents that."
Get it before it's gone here! (And don't forget to purchase our benefit comp, which features an exclusive Mount Eerie track.) Meanwhile, the new "proper" Mount Eerie album, Wind’s Poem, is completed and should be out relatively soon.
