Ernest Hood – Neighborhoods (1975/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Ernest Hood – Neighborhoods (1975/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:30 minutes | 620 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Freedom To Spend

A newly reissued private-press curio from 1974 captures the bygone sounds of daily life in Portland, Oregon, in dreamy, proto-ambient form.” Ernest Hood’s Neighborhoods was released some two decades after the Portland, Oregon born and raised musician’s first forays into field recordings. These very recordings, and those captured over intervening years, define the universal sound and aural images of childhood, a theme memorialized by Hood’s privately-pressed opus of 1975.

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Ernest Hood – Back to the Woodlands (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Ernest Hood – Back to the Woodlands (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:32 minutes | 671 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Freedom To Spend

Written and recorded between 1972 and 1982 in Western Oregon, Back to the Woodlands is a previously unreleased, and nearly lost, album made by Ernest Hood during the same era as his near mythical album Neighborhoods. A visionary combination of field recordings, zithers, and synthesizers, Back to the Woodlands offers an unprecedented depth of access to this singular artistic mind.

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