Sean Smith’s LFZ debuts new album “Raveled Veiled Known” on Gnome Life Records :: 03/22

It’s been a little over two years since we last heard from Gnome Life Records, a label based out of the eternal cliff sides and prehistoric forests of Big Sur, California. Run by musician, artist, label boss and founder of Wildtender, Fletcher Tucker, the label is widely known for releasing euphoric meditations of sound, tone and poetic rehabilitation into the more natural world from which it derives from. With artists such as Little Wings, the late Robbie Basho, Fountainsun/Daniel Higgs and Tucker’s very own work, the estate of the label is captivating and potent with each releases and project that it casts into the ethereal pool of humanity. As we further transcend into the year of 2024, gaining radical momentum both in peace and chaos, the label has come full circle in its near 20 year existence with the release Sean Smith’s new LFZ album entitled “Raveled Veiled Known”. A project that dates back nearly a decade, but prior LFZ, Smith released records under his own name such as as his self-titled on Isota Records, his debut on Tompkins Square entitled “Berkeley Guitar” - with Adam Snider and Matt Baldwin and his 5th record, “Huge Fluid Freedom” on Strange Attractors Audio House. His work was first introduced on the label during its early origins with the reissue of his third LP entitled “Eternal” and he has since released a number of albums under LFZ like “Pointless Prism”, “Name Plus Focus”, and the “Sketches of Jupiter Volumes”.

With his grand return to Gnome Life Records, Smith has conjured up an album of electrifying songs and a cataclysmic mixture of sound waves and retro signals. Detonated from some secret network of mycelium and seasonal bliss, Smith is able to create radical arrangements that favor the greats, but without any comparisons, his work displays an organic approach and can be heard expressing this on his most recent effort, “Raveled Veiled Known”. The albums first single, “View From Here” is exactly that. A calculated shadowing kneeling before some spacious horizon clipped with bruised darkness and an ongoing ancient light leak. Awesome signals of creation and ultimate demise throughout the 4 track album, LFZ unites a family of fluidity and nurturing depth across the leaderless landscape. Its horizontal soldiers steeped in corduroy and lamented glass reflecting upwards into a biblical garden, Smith bridges astrological elements with temporary sitcom aftermath. The album’s ‘unveiling’ will take place on the 22nd of March. Keep up with Smith and Gnome Life Records activities via their social media and matrix brick and mortar sites.