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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
This is beautiful Sky Blue 140 gram vinyl, a limited edition of 100. The vinyl jacket is full-color 24 pt. high-quality SBS board with a pleasant matte finish. The inimitable and mighty Steve Johnson wrote the inspired liner notes on the back cover. All photos for the album, including the cover, back cover, LP center labels, and LP full-color insert, are by Dave Heumann.
Includes unlimited streaming of Guitar Tapes Vol 1
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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$20USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
This is Classic Black 140 gram vinyl, a limited edition of 200. The vinyl jacket is full-color 24 pt. high-quality SBS board with a pleasant matte finish. The inimitable and mighty Steve Johnson wrote the inspired liner notes on the back cover. All photos for the album, including the cover, back cover, LP center labels, and LP full-color insert, are by Dave Heumann.
Includes unlimited streaming of Guitar Tapes Vol 1
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
This is a limited edition of 300. Comes in a wallet-style cover with semi gloss finish; 1/8 inch printed spine; inside thumb notch; full-color disc surface; and liner notes by the mighty Steve Johnson. All photos for the album, including the cover, back cover, disc surface, and inside the wallet, are by Dave Heumann.
Includes unlimited streaming of Guitar Tapes Vol 1
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Signature Bundle: Limited Edition Sky Blue Vinyl LP, Signed By Dave Heumann + The New Digital Album, Themes From Blue Honey
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Signed copy! This bundle includes the Sky Blue vinyl LP signed by Dave Heumann, the digital release of Guitar Tapes Vol 1, PLUS the digital release of Dave's new album Themes From Blue Honey. The code for Themes From Blue Honey will be emailed to the address you use to purchase. Limited time only!
The vinyl jacket is full-color 24 pt. high-quality SBS board with a pleasant matte finish. Steve Johnson wrote the inspired liner notes on the back cover, and all photos for the album, including the cover, back cover, LP center labels, and LP full-color insert, are by Dave Heumann.
Includes unlimited streaming of Guitar Tapes Vol 1
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Signature Bundle: Limited Edition Classic Black Vinyl LP, Signed By Dave Heumann + The New Digital Album, Themes From Blue Honey
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Signed copy! This bundle includes the Classic Black vinyl LP signed by Dave Heumann, the digital release of Guitar Tapes Vol 1, PLUS the digital release of Dave's new album Themes From Blue Honey. The code for Themes From Blue Honey will be emailed to the address you use to purchase. Limited time only!
The vinyl jacket is full-color 24 pt. high-quality SBS board with a pleasant matte finish. Steve Johnson wrote the inspired liner notes on the back cover, and all photos for the album, including the cover, back cover, LP center labels, and LP full-color insert, are by Dave Heumann.
Includes unlimited streaming of Guitar Tapes Vol 1
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Sold Out
Signature Bundle: Limited Edition Compact Disc, Signed By Dave Heumann + The New Digital Album, Themes From Blue Honey
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Signed copy! This bundle includes the Limited Edition Compact Disc signed by Dave Heumann, the digital release of Guitar Tapes Vol 1, PLUS the digital release of Dave's new album Themes From Blue Honey. The code for Themes From Blue Honey will be emailed to the address you use to purchase. Limited time only!
Comes in a wallet-style cover with semi gloss finish; 1/8 inch printed spine; inside thumb notch; full-color disc surface; and liner notes by the mighty Steve Johnson. All photos for the album, including the cover, back cover, disc surface, and inside the wallet, are by Dave Heumann.
Includes unlimited streaming of Guitar Tapes Vol 1
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Limited Edition Postcards
Poster/Print
This is a very limited edition postcard packet containing four postcards. Ideal for mailing to fellow fans or collecting. These are frameable, high quality postcards featuring still images from the official music video for Dave Heumann's "Serpentine Sunlight," one of seven electric guitar improvisations on Guitar Tapes Vol 1. The cards are full color on the front; black & white on the back with printed lines for the addressee.
Dave Heumann's newest solo record, Guitar Tapes Vol 1, is music for the journey — a masterful collection of seven electric guitar improvisations for the traveler and the traveler's visions. At once transportive, meditative, and grounding, Guitar Tapes Vol 1 integrates moments of serene observance with up-tempo exhilaration, drawing you forward through wooded footpaths and forested foregrounds that dissolve into sloping fields and megalithic horizons. Having stepped into an unknown yet familiar place, you get the feeling that everything you need is here, right now, within you, with the woods of the world flowing by, bending into the resonant periphery. It is your world, after all, and always has been, and Dave, with his music of heartening, amaranthine growth, gives dexterous articulation to the silent, knowing nature within — the nature that you know you are.
As with much of Dave's music, Guitar Tapes Vol 1 invites you to walk with him for a time — to perceive with wonder the subtle seismic shifts beneath the arbours. The seven improvisations compiled here evoke sonic atmospheres that lend themselves to years of exploration. Whether you're near a turntable or traveling across the wild country, the images conjured by this record blend spontaneously into the steady walk of the mind. The body and spirit become one and the same. The journey is at once inward-going and outward-going. Prismatic and tessellated. A tribute to trusting yourself, without question, to know the way, to make the right move, in the moment.
We are deeply honored and overjoyed to offer these extraordinary recordings from a musical icon and innovator whose profound engagement with musical process, close listening, and sonic storytelling continues to inspire and reward fans, musicians, and spiritual voyagers the world over.
— Sun Cru
Dave Heumann's notes on production:
"This collection was compiled from recordings made throughout December 2021 and January 2022, almost entirely in the late evening hours. None of the music here was composed prior to being played, and no overdubs were added after the fact. Everything was recorded with a mono source coming directly from the recording output of a tube amp into an audio interface, and some plugins were used in mixing for tonal coloring and for widening the stereo field."
Excerpt from Steve Johnson's liner notes:
"The magic hour's grand changeover can be heard rendered in a tenor drone amidst the granular sputtering of upper register modal runs that flutter like bats in a crepuscular feast of echo-location, each patiently waiting for their call to propagate through the rarefied slap-back air. The trail, stony underfoot, played out in an ever-unfurling tone to be followed to the outermost edge where the elevation drops."
credits
released September 16, 2022
Played, recorded and mixed by Dave Heumann
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering
CD manufacturing by Morphius Records
Vinyl manufacturing by Blue Sprocket Pressing
Photos by Dave Heumann
Liner notes for the CD and vinyl by Steve Johnson
Layout by Josh Collins
Dave Heumann is a founding member of the bands Arbouretum, Human Bell, Coil Sea, Heumann Homan Highway, The Sea Caucus, and
The People's Longband. His latest solo record, Guitar Tapes Vol 1, compiles seven electric guitar improvisations that explore spiritual and creative life at the intersection of location, story, and memory.
supported by 25 fans who also own “Guitar Tapes Vol 1”
I’m so grateful this crossed my path. This album is so beautiful. All the clear technique and mastery and vision are kinda secondary to the fact that this album brought me calm and joy during one of the most difficult times in my life. Yeah, grateful. David McCullough
supported by 22 fans who also own “Guitar Tapes Vol 1”
Now to spin this and take flight.
As a former card carrying member of jamband scene this would have fit nicely back in the late 60's-70's and the late 90's-00's when improvisational jams were king.
This is going to take the scene into another direction with Garcia Peoples.
Vinyl Purchased 10/3/20.
Arrived 10/26/20. The Midnight Toker.
