Sir Tad is back with his third album, Generation Joint, a 22-song double album of lofi dubby bubbly-keyboard 4 track tape haze psych pop, clocking in at 69 minutes. For the non-stoner, a “generation joint” is a joint rolled from the leftover roaches lying around. Smoking it can be a special occasion because it represents “generations” of smoke sessions and different strains, time spent with friends and family.
For this album, Sir Tad dug through twenty years of recordings: cutting up jam sessions, building upon old tape loops, or returning to old songs and finally landing on a finished version, he takes these musical “roaches” and rolls them together into a generation joint twenty years in the making. Gear-wise you can expect the usual array of instruments such as cheap keyboards/organs, tape players, tape loops, melodica, autoharp, mandolele, drum machines, all recorded to Tascam Portastudio 4-track cassette tape.
The music is woven with voice samples, sometimes found sound but mostly culled from Sir Tad’s personal family tapes, thus folding & flattening time so four generations are in conversation with each other, blurring past, present, and future.
Generation Joint is also a fun, smiley, BRIGHT album, as reflected by the colorful album cover, a handpainted paper collage by Pearl Morgan. Physical tapes released by DNT Records in an edition of 54, pro-dubbed C70 cassettes on purple swirl shells & smokey case, full-color artwork.
Purchase Cassette: Sir Tad – Generation Joint
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