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	WINTERMITTENS is guitarist/vocalists Gibbs Chapman and Rick Weldon (Din Triptych, The Supreme Reality) backed by drummer Geoff Soule. They started writing songs in Oakland in 1996. Despite Rick's relocation to Portland, Oregon and Geoff's endless wanderlust, they continued recording on the cheap in a variety of studios whenever they could manage. In this manner they've been able to produce a record of their work every ten years. 1997's "Unable To Leave Message On A Delicate Matter" has recently been followed up by 2007's "Bed, Book, Camera, Towel". Wintermittens even managed to perform this many times: 1998 FEBRUARY 7 - at 716 Peralta, West Oakland 1998 AUGUST 23 - w/Swell at The Make-Out Room, San Francisco 1999 JANUARY 4 - w/Cat Power at Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco


	WINTERMITTENS Bed, Book, Camera, Towel CD, Cat# BENT015 (2007, Non Productions) Total time 47:46 TRACK LIST: // 01 Instruments Of The Orchestra // 02 Her Mustang Mind // 03 Pre-IT 15 Alteration Checklist // 04 Off The Main Artery // 05 The Post-Holocene Is Nigh // 06 Loose In The Laboratory // 07 Winding Ribbon Song // 08 Avanie [Boby Lapointe] // 09 The Conversation // 10 Little Melonae [Jackie McLean] // 11 Service Provider $12 POSTAGE PAID	Take some kids, burns off the rock'n'roll fantasy with oxalic acid, reduce the sex drive with American television, keep 'em upright with coat-hanger wire and then have a sniff around for that brown muck the world calls "art." What you're probably whiffin' is the new Wintermittens record, their first in ten years. Before going any further, name-dropping: Wintermittens are Geoff Soule (Fuck, Fibulator), Rich Wells (aka Rick Weldon (Din Triptych, Gray Davis)), and filmmaker / varietal media wank Gibbs Chapman. While its subject matter sometimes ponders the mathematical beauty of the physical world, Bed, Book, Camera, Towel is much more than the sound of strong bonds, weak attractions, and strings with loose ends. It is a treatise on everything, a universal theory, persuasively penned and set to music. Shambling, melancholy, and brimming with “sophistuhmacation,” the trio’s second full-length album serves up eleven slices of blurry, slurry hypnotica. With songs of the quintessential lonely highway, a certain languid poetic burble strewn with droll audio snippets, and two offbeat covers Bed, Book, Camera, Towel provides an enigmatic reverie in a world of hidden mics and two-way mirrors. One song sounds very much like Oxbow deliberately running into a vintage Cadillac driven by Donald Fagen. Another sounds like Rickie Lee Jones’s autistic brother quietly daydreaming. Then someone makes fun of the French. Again. Jackie McClean frets over the dissected remains of Little Melonae. The film (recording) ends. You jump up, almost kill yourself putting on your slippers and run down the stairs and around the corner. You see an old utility vehicle leave the lot. You run toward it but it’s too late.

CD RECALL: The first pressing of "Bed, Book, Camera, Towel" had an error which makes it fairly unpleasant to listen to. Unfortunately, the error was not discovered until after some discs had been shipped to record stores. How you can tell for sure: the "good" discs have an extra bit of printing on the disc itself (see photo).

If your disc does NOT have this printing, it is one of the "bad" discs.
Please CONTACT GIBBS to arrange an exchange.


	WINTERMITTENS // THE KING'S MARCH TO THE GRAVEYARD	This instrumental track is from demo recordings made in 1996.