Catalog number: LTD048
Release date: November 8, 2024
Format: Cassette
Edition size: 100
Let’s get this circle going is the latest collection from Cla-ras, the recording project of multidisciplinary artist and perennial Lily Tapes & Discs collaborator Jeremy Ferris, following a string of excellent releases including Five Clusters in 2021, also released by Lily Tapes, and a self-released split tape this past summer with fellow LTD mainstay Jason Calhoun. Where Five Clusters reached deep through the roots of the American Northeast in search of decay and rewilding, Let’s get this circle going reaches further back and farther away. Inspired by a trip to the North Frisian Island of Föhr, where Jeremy’s great-grandmother Clara was born, and recognition of the ways it mirrored the landscape of his own upbringing, the album channels the eerie sensation of marveling at a wide expanse while something – maybe everything – is churning away just over the horizon. A call to action loaded simultaneously with both joyful abandon and labored focus, Let’s get this circle going invites us to meditate on the power that land holds over its stewards, how that power transmutes across time and distance, and the strange beauty we can intuit from it.
Jeremy played and recorded acoustic guitar, digital piano, effects, electric guitar, glockenspiel, lap harp, mandolin, mountain dulcimer, synthesizer, and tape loops.
Mastered by M Deetz.
Michael Bullister at Microscopic Sounds recorded and mixed the tracks “Cythelm resje” and “O hloendy chring.”
Cover painting by Noah Frase.
Artwork printed using size 24pt Freehand metal type on a Vandercook No. 4 press at Flower City Arts Center in Rochester, NY.