Michael Yonkers, the current king of “sought-after LPs that are way out of print, so we’ll find a friendly indie label to reissue it, and a whole new generation of hipsters can enjoy my music that I recorded decades ago,” has another LP scheduled for a long-overdue reissue, coming not long after De Stijl’s recent Michael and The Mumbles repress. This time around, the label is Secret Seven Records and the album is entitled Goodby Sunball.
Originally released in 1974 and recorded at Yonkers’ home studio, the album is more of the classic folk/psych that Yonkers’ name has become synonymous with. Chronologically, the album came a few years after Microminiature Love and just before Lovely Gold. The reissue has been remastered from the original LP and will be limited to 500 copies. The limited quantities will, of course, necessitate this album quickly going out of print, again, where it will once more sit in the collections of aging hipsters and hoarding music nerds until it is once again reissued, still with limited quantities, in 2046.
In fact! I actually have a quote from a future Tiny Mix Tapes article that I will write: “This new reissue of Goodby Sunball is truly a step above the original reissue, with the music finally being released to BrainMP3 and straight to every user’s consciousness. The new remaster, straight from the memory banks of the original owners, sounds superb when played on 8DSound data-stream players. I just wish they didn’t release it in such limited quantities. Again.”
Goodby Sunball is available for purchase on July 7.
Tracklist:
01. Goodby Sunball
02. Tell Me of Love
03. The Day of Jubilee
04. Angel of the Snow
05. The Swamp of Love
06. Anne Is My Lassie
07. Another Day
08. Morning of Love
09. Someone Like You
10. Early Wakin’ Morning
11. Strange and Lonely Land
12. Oh Can You Tell Me
13. Time Honored Love
14. Goodby Sunball
• Michael Yonkers: http://www.michaelyonkers.com
• Secret Seven: http://www.secretsevenrecords.typepad.com
