Planetudes Vinyl LP

Your retro-future, nature-inspired, analog-bliss music experience.
Planetudes is part one of a two-part sound adventure, a double concept album in the tradition of the great studio albums of the '60s and '70s. The LP is sure to transport you to vivid imaginative places—taking you into a future of greenness, diversity, and imagination.

Standard Edition includes

• The LP, shrink-wrapped, in its black sleeve and tip-on jacket
  
• 12" x 12" Planetudes emblem poster with liner notes
• Holographic Planetudes emblem sticker
• Need more artwork? Check out the Deluxe Edition

Explore the telescoping layers of connection between the cosmic, earthly-animal, and human-made worlds with Planetudes. Good for dreaming, imagining, letting go, reframing, recharging, invigorating…the album paints and inspiring picture of your planet.

The Planetudes sound is crafted from a fusion of analog electronica, including a rare 1969 R. A. Minimoog, experimental rock, and soaring orchestration, interwoven with an abundance of samples recorded directly from nature, offering relief from the chaos in our lives. An experiential epic featuring a "Wrecking Crew" of Portland's finest instrumentalists, Planetudes also ventures into forests and oceans to include the beautiful and uncanny solos of Weddell seals, thrushes, owls, crickets, wolves, and humpback whales.

MADE INDEPENDENTLY IN PORTLAND, OR
With uncompromising quality and attention to detail, Planetudes is carving a new niche, greenwave music, and doing it independently. 

Limited pressing of 500

• 180 gram audiophile quality black vinyl
• Mastered by Bernie Grundman (Prince Purple Rain, Earth Wind and Fire, Janelle Monae, Pink Floyd remasters) 
• Engineered by Drew Canulette (Soundgarden, Nirvana, Neil Young, Danny Elfman, Sun Ra) 
• Pressed at the legendary Quality Record Pressings* plant in Salina, Kansas 
• Traditional hand-tipped Tip-On Jacket® with UV spot gloss detailing by Stoughton Printing*
• Album art by Portland artist/designer Liz Gill Neilson
• Poster included, portraying the Planetudes planet emblem

About the Art
Behind the art of Planetudes is painter and graphic designer Liz Gill Neilson. The art for this album, both the cover and the individual track artwork (depicted in miniature on the back of the jacket), all started with an emblem we call "the planet graphic", featured on the poster insert included with this LP. Liz created a kind of symbolic key in which every track on the album is represented as one of sixteen sections, the first eight of which comprise this album. She then made artwork for the individual tracks based on the planet graphic as a key.

Dive in now while this limited printing lasts. 

 *featured in the documentary Vinyl Nation