Once and for all, and much to our delight, Brah Records aims to answer the dogged and mystifying question that has plagued the art-rock universe for more than a decade: Why is it that Tampa, Fla. band Home's discography begins with IX? And better yet, this uber-epic, 8-disc basement-to-the-moon collection known as The Home Boxset: I-VIII, is available to you right now through digital music retailers everywhere.
The lo-fi opus began unintentionally in 1991 when Eric Morrison and Andrew Deutsch, sharing a small Tampa apartment, began to use a Radio Shack "supertape" to mix down their latest songs. When the tape was filled, it seemed to fill at least the technical definition of an album. Twenty cassette copies were dubbed, loaded into a candy jar and placed on the counter of Tampa's Blue Chair Music, where they were sold for $1 -- which also gave you the OK to grab some candy out of the jar. Over the next two years, Home -- joined now by bassist Brad Truax and drummer Sean Martin -- recorded seven more tapes in the same manner, on gradually less-crude equipment, refilling the candy jar each time. That said, it's high time you get yourself some candy, dudes.
The 8-album boxset is now available through SC Distribution and most every digital retailer at the fan-friendly price of $15.99. Many more clues and photographs concerning the history of Home I-VIII can be found by venturing HERE. Home is Andrew Deutsch, Brad Truax, Eric Morrison and (in mouths) Sean Martin
Photograph by John Cason
With the boxset now out on the market, the men of Home and Brah are prepared to unleash the next chapter in the story of the band, Home XVII, to be released January 26. The forthcoming record is very much inspired by the band's early forays in home recording. Recently, the members converged on Devils Isle WetLab Studio to record the skeleton tracks for Home XVII and tackle the long-overdue digitizing and mastering of the first eight cassette albums. Somewhere in analyzing the tapes, Home became re-interested in the sound of songs in their genesis: the wholly imperfect object that is felt but not yet processed; the carefully crafted uber-story abandoned for passing fancy; the MS-16 fullness for the red-line compression of a 4-track. The result of this return is Home XVII, a scattershot sampling of moments and perspectives that awkwardly leaves archeological traces of cross-dressing and identity destruction.
For a sampling of the forthcoming Home XVII, give a listen to "Photographed With Ease," a piano-plucking autumnal slow-jam that escalates into a heavy, psychedelic (and strangely humorous) plea for metaphysical assistance from beyond. Download "Photographed With Ease" from Home XVII, to be released January 26 in both digital and vinyl formats.
Home XVII
Meanwhile, Home has a string of U.S. dates lined up for November, all of which are listed below.
Home Live Dates:
11/07 Memphis, TN - The Buccaneer
11/08 New Orleans, LA - Hi-Ho Lounge
11/09 Pensacola, FL - Sluggo's
11/12 St. Pete, FL - The Emerald Lounge
11/16 Brooklyn, NY - Bruar Falls
11/18 New York, NY - Mercury Lounge w/ Times New Viking
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