two fell swoops

Last summer, the Swoops took a trip to South Dakota and recorded music. We just pressed our first installment of this project, a 4-song 7″ record that you can buy exclusively on December 1st at the Shadow Art Fair!

Here’s the blurb Tim wrote about the project:

In the Summer of 2007, we packed our car full of instruments and drove to an old one-room schoolhouse nestled in a remote corner of South Dakota’s Black Hills.

We spent a week recording music. The noises we couldn’t make with what we brought were provided to us – by the curiosities buried in local secondhand shops and the howls echoing across the valley at night.

We had never even talked about making music together before.

This is our record of what happened that week.

You can preview two songs from our myspace page, myspace.com/alkalaischool