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Noise for Pretend: Happy You Near [10th Anniversary Edition] *

1 CD / Hush / 2012-11-27

Tracks: Due To Lamplooking; Go Figure, Another Warm Day In; Paradise; Melatonin Head; Money Penny; Corduroy; Seven Dead Kids (For Eric); Pants With His Halfway Down; Evil Petting Zoo (A Fairy Tale); Most Red...
Artists: Noise for Pretend

Noise For Pretend includes: Esperanza Spalding (vocals, acoustic bass); Ben Workman (guitar); Christian Cochran (drums)....continue...

Carlos Forster: Family Trees [Digipak]

CD / Hush / 2011-07-19

Tracks: I Walk I Talk; Family Tree; Travel Round the World; Campfire Songs; Slouching Toward Reality; Africa; Space; Back of Motorcycle; Walking Away; If I Could Be; This Time
Artists: Carlos Forster

Personnel: Carlos Forster (vocals).

Audio Mixers: Carlos Forster; Tim Mooney.

Illustrator: Carlos Forster....continue...

Peter Broderick/Rauelsson: Réplica

1 CD / Hush / 2010-11-09

Tracks: Lobo, la Liebre y Lla Panza del Burro, El; Castillo, un Molino, un Mapa y un Plan, Un
Artists: Peter Broderick/Rauelsson

Audio Mixer: John Askew.

Liner Note Author: Raúl Pastor Medall.

Recording information: La Seta Azul, Benicàssim, Spain (02/2009); Type Foundry, Portland, OR (02/2009); La Seta ...continue...

Hosannas: Together [Digipak]

1 CD / Hush / 2010-11-09

Tracks: Hoping That You Will; Be Careful; When We Were Young; An Old Forgotten Tune; John Pilgrim; Multi-Chamber American Future; Tone Pony Crone Jonesing; Open Your Doors; Hello Moon; Then People I Know
Artists: Hosannas

Personnel: Brandon Laws (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Richard Laws (vocals, keyboards, percussion); Colleen Johnson (vocals); Alexi Erenkov (flute, clarinet); Cory Gray (trumpet, euphonium); Cristof He...continue...

Run on Sentence: You the Darkness and Me [Digipak] *

1 CD / Hush / 2010-08-10

Tracks: These Hills; Out In the Woods; I Am the Blood; Water; Lost In Winter; Do the Jellyfish; Wide Open Sky; In the Morning; Light From the East; Miracle; Light From the East; Miracle
Artists: Run on Sentence

Audio Mixers: Dustin Hamman; Lee Howard .

Recording information: Mystery Machine Studios; Portland, OR....continue...

Chad Crouch: Portland, Or

CD / Hush / 2010-05-18

Artists: Chad Crouch

Nick Jaina: A Bird in the Opera House [Digipak] *

1 CD / Hush / 2010-04-13

Tracks: Sebastopol; Another Kay Song; Days In My Room; Sleep, Child; I Don't Believe You; Officer Schoppe; Theresa; Strawberry Man; Semoline; Matrimonial Bed; Asheville; Cincinnati
Artists: Nick Jaina

Personnel: Nick Jaina (vocals, guitar, piano, electric bass, drums); Lee Howard (vocals, guitar, percussion); Scott Magee (vocals, clarinet, drums, percussion); Dustin Hamman, Ali Ippolito (vocals); S...continue...

Podington Bear: The End [Digipak] *

1 CD / Hush / 2008-06-24

Tracks: Change - (previously unreleased); Denial - (previously unreleased); Bargaining - (previously unreleased); Fury - (previously unreleased); Ebullience - (previously unreleased); Grief - (previously unr...
Artists: Podington Bear

Nick Jaina: The 7 Stations [Slipcase]

1 CD / Hush / 2008-05-13

Tracks: 7 Stations; Maybe Cocaine; One Hand Washing the Other; Red Queen, The; No Direction; Whim of the Ruling Class, The; Barleycorn & Toblerone; We Are All Alone in This World; I Will Swallow the Sea; Lif...
Artists: Nick Jaina

Personnel: Nick Jaina (vocals, guitar, piano, pump organ, glockenspiel); Gill Landry (banjo, upright bass); Peter Broderick (violin); Gavin Bowes (drums, triangle, background vocals).

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Graves: Seldom Slumber *

1 CD / Hush / 2007-10-09

Tracks: Straight 9; Kampu Blues; R.V. Love; G. Sinclair; Dead Dog; Telivision; Be Lee; Evil Stacking; Cash You In; I Am Feeling Tuff; Grupe Park; Telivicion
Artists: Graves

Continuing the string of winners that started with 2005's To Sur w/ Love, Graves leader Greg Olin maintains his role as the single mellowest dude in all of Portland, OR. It's not that put-on, hippy-di...continue...

Super XX Man: X

1 CD / Hush / 2006-04-11

Tracks: Collecting Rocks; Up Up Up; Usual Way; Garage Apartment; I Can't Figure Out These Bottle Caps (I'm a Lonely Guy); Hearts and Stars; Grace; Coulee City; Generosity; Stroll on Through New Orleans; See ...
Artists: Super XX Man

Personnel: Scott Garred (vocals, guitar, ukulele, harmonica, piano, marimba, cymbals); Zach Boyle (electric guitar); Michelle Garred (accordion, piano); John Vecchiarelli (frame drum).

Liner No...continue...

Blanket Music: The Love/Love Translation *

2 CD / Hush / 2006-04-11

Tracks: Slide; Insurrection; I Noticed You; I Love You; Kiss; Love Police; Stand to Love; Unabridged; Day by Day; Backdrop; Reno; Come to Me; I Take on Your Days; That's How Love Is; Collecting Rocks; Connec...
Artists: Blanket Music

For their fourth proper album, Portland quartet Blanket Music gathered in the former South Portland Library to self-record a collection of love songs rooted wholly...continue...
Personnel: Dave Depper (acoustic guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, wah-wah guitar, harmonica, organ, synthesizer, background vocals); Greg Lind (drums, bongos, shaker, percussion).

Recording i...continue...

Parks & Recreation: What Was She Doing on the Shore That Night?

1 CD / Hush / 2006-02-14

Tracks: What Was She Doing on the Shore That Night?; Perfect Love, The; Break into Song!; La La La La, La; Maybe the Moon Knows Something; Danny Built His House All Spiral; I Tried to Date the Singer in a Ba...
Artists: Parks & Recreation

Personnel: Michael "Mike Dee" Johnson (vocals, guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Jason Hughes (guitar); Amanda Lawrence (viola); Larry Wright (cello); Joe Ballman (tenor saxophone); Dan Evans (trom...continue...

Kind of Like Spitting: Old Moon in the Arms of the New

1 CD / Hush / 2005-11-01

Tracks: Old Moon Meet New; Boy Cries Wolf; Two Violins, Which Are Meant to Represent the Forest; Tyco Racing Set and a Christmas Story Fifteen Times; Dostoyevsky Gets Mugged Outside a Donut Shop in Jersey; O...
Artists: Kind of Like Spitting

Kind of Like Spitting's man behind the curtain, Ben Barnett, can write wistful, fiercely emotional tunes like nobody's business. And one would be hard-pressed to find a more gorgeous tracks from the y...continue...

Blanket Music: Cultural Norms

1 CD / Hush / 2004-10-05

Tracks: You Shouldn't Have Said That; Guernica; Back to the Grind; Keep the Prices Down; Solider's Story, A; Cats Corps; Press Conference; Just Us; I'm Fat; Filesharers Lament; Of Thee We Sing; Digital Pedes...
Artists: Blanket Music

Blanket Music: Michael Johnson (Fender Rhodes piano); Dave Depper (bass guitar); Greg Lind (drums); Chad Crouch.

Personnel: Chris Funk (guitar); Jenny Conlee (accordion); Joe Ballman (tenor sax...continue...

Graves: Yes Yes Okay Okay

1 CD / Hush / 2004-08-03

Tracks: Will Now, The; Holding Your Arms; Connection Time; Headphone Brigade; Shake the Walls; Big Pill; End Love; Sugar Came & Tuff Love; Strength in ###'s; French Connection Time
Artists: Graves

Graves: Greg Olin.

Recording information: The 1536, Portland, OR; The Type Foundry; Type Foundry, Portland, OR.

With Yes Yes Okay Okay, Graves -- the nom de rock for Portland, Oregon-bas...continue...

The Places: Call It Sleep *

1 CD / Hush / 2004-05-04

Tracks: Dead Reckoning; Birds Are Waking; What I Wouldn't Do for You; Travel Light; Clean Starts; Ruined New Life; Program Ten; 'Til the Death
Artists: The Places

Audio Mixer: Larry Crane .

Recording information: Type Foundry, Portland, Jamaica (2001-2002).

Photographer: Amy Annelle.

Featuring contributions from members of Swords Project, D...continue...

Various Artists: Read: Interpreting Bjork

1 CD / Hush / 2004-02-03

Tracks: It's Oh So Quiet - Noise for Pretend; Hyper-Ballad - Blanket Music; Hunter, The - Kaitlyn Ni Donovan; Joga - Ben Barnett/Ben Gibbard; Human Behavior - The Decemberists; You've Been Flirting Again - C...
Artists: Various Artists

Read: is a combined label sampler/tribute album from the Portland-based imprint Hush. These interpretations are tasteful, almost reverent -- even when the arrangements are modified, there's considerat...continue...

Reclinerland: The Ideal Home Music LIbrary, Vol. 1: Show Songs *

1 CD / Hush / 2003-11-04

Tracks: Give Up Your Film Career (Lenny's Theme); Long Island City Love Song; Girl of My Dreams, The; Come on Summer; Crash Site; One of Those Nights; Miracle of Miracles; My New York; Oh James; Stayin' In (...
Artists: Reclinerland

Reclinerland: Michael Johnson (vocals, guitar, piano); Cory Gray (trumpet); Derek Trost (vibraphone, drums); Nathaniel Halloran (bass).

Additional personnel: Chad Crouch, Morgan Grace, Colin Me...continue...

Norfolk & Western: Dusk in Cold Parlours

1 CD / Hush / 2003-11-04

Tracks: Marriage Proposal, A; Letters Opened in the Bar; Terrified; Kelly Bauman; Jealousy, It's True; Impossible; Oslo; Disappear; No Else Where He Can Go; Hymnal, A; Tired Words, The; At Dawn or After Dusk
Artists: Norfolk & Western

Norfolk & Western: Adam Selzer (vocals, guitar); Rachel Blumberg (vocals, vibraphone, drums); Tony Moreno (guitar, organ, soundscapes); David Welch (bass).

Additional personnel includes: M. War...continue...

Bobby Birdman: Born Free Forever

1 CD / Hush / 2003-02-04

Tracks: Born Free; So the Blood; All Right; Fear, The; All Right (Reprise) - (Reprise); Demon Heart; Fire; Here I Am, All Brokenhearted; I Said, "Ok", The Wind Said, "No! "; I Hope/I Grow; Flood/The Blood, T...
Artists: Bobby Birdman

Bobby Birdman: Rob Kieswetter.

Additional personnel: Zak Rile (vocals, banjo); Abra Aneliffe (vocals); Kyle Field (cello).

Personnel: Zak Riles (vocals, banjo); Kyle Field (vocals); Jord...continue...

Blanket Music: Move

1 CD / Hush / 2002-04-02

Tracks: Move; Hips; Tap the Beat; I've Got to Be My Own Way; Hot Designers; Get Togetha; Walk the Dog; Cityscape; Karaoke; Costa del Sol; Itchy Popcorn; Move (Reprise) - (Reprise)
Artists: Blanket Music

Blanket Music includes: Chad Crouch (vocals).

Personnel: Esperanza Spalding (vocals); Ross Seligman (guitar); Jez Miller (bass guitar); Greg Lind (drums, percussion); Pete Miser (programming); ...continue...

Bobby Birdman: Let Me In

1 CD / Hush / 2001-10-30

Tracks: I Must Admit That I Love You; Moving On/Up; Paradise Dub; Golden Arms; J Tear; Hey Now; Such an Icy Feeling; Let Me In; Blue Skies; Perfect for Light
Artists: Bobby Birdman

Additional personnel: Rob Kieswetter, Abra Ancliffe, Zak Riles, Basil Bits.

Recorded at The Birdnest, Portland, Oregon.

Recording information: Birdnest, Portland, OR (2001).

Bobby...continue...

Fancie: A Negative Capability

1 CD / Hush / 2001-01-16

Tracks: Sea, The; Love Is Meat; If I Could Hie; I Lose; Lovers Who Are Seekers; Punkin; Fancie Slip, A; Signing; Want Your Child; Strut; Stolen Moments; Dig; Crack Up; [Untitled Track] - (hidden track)
Artists: Fancie

Fancie: Elisabeth Wood (vocals).

Additional personnel: David Tollefson (guitar, piano); Jason Higgins (guitar); Kaitlyn Ni Donovan (violin); Ben Lund (cello); Kate Krulick (flute); Jen Henderso...continue...

Various Artists: Flag

1 CD / Hush / 2000-02-29

Tracks: Yves Montand - Kaitlyn Ni Donovan; 2000 - Kaitlyn Ni Donovan; Part 4 in Which We Are Introduced to the Soldier of Love - Chad Crouch; Devotion - Chad Crouch; Ode to the Exhausted - Amy Annelle; Place...
Artists: Various Artists

Personnel: Corrina Repp, Paul Hixon Pittman (vocals, guitar); Mollie Hardy (violin); Marty, Greg Lind (drums); Meredith (background vocals).

Recording information: Bens; HUSH HQ; Jackpot!.
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