Neighborhoods

by Ernest Hood

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cademon bishop this album was a fixation of mine, I listened to it over and over again (about 30 times)in the fall of 2022, kept finding comfort and new ideas within the sound. Find comfort in it still
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newcommute Back in print again from Freedom to Spend is Neighborhoods, the mythical masterpiece from Ernest Hood whose early ambient soundscapes of Portland, Oregon circa 1975 rest underneath a halo of zither and synthesizers. Favorite track: Saturday Morning Doze.
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aaaaaa Maybe the most “transportive” album I’ve ever heard. I sometimes put this on for walks around my own neighborhood and every time it’s a hallucinatory experience Favorite track: August Haze.
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  • Ernie in the Matrix T-Shirt
    T-Shirt/Shirt + Digital Album

    Just before Easter Sunday in 1976, Ern made a trip to a local mall in the greater Portland, Oregon area and rolled away with a charming dot matrix portrait of himself. That print out, uncovered alongside the trove of music and assorted ephemera from the Hood family farm house, features on this t-shirt and guarantees a head turn or two with the price of admission. Printed on a high-quality, 100% recycled cotton t-shirts, responsibly sourced from our environmentally minded family at EVERYBODY. With a custom FT$ tag, too!

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  • Test Pressing
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    — Edition of 3 test pressings of Neighborhoods, each lovingly assembled and numbered in custom inner sleeves and jackets

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about

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.

Freedom to Spend has restored Ernest Hood’s nostalgic masterpiece with the same care with which he viewed his source material, offering a remastered version of Neighborhoods transferred from the original tapes, expanded across four vinyl sides (the original version was crammed on two). The new edition reproduces Hood’s celebratory liner notes in full, alongside new liner notes by Michael Klausman.

credits

released October 11, 2019

Music and field recordings by Ernest Hood
Original liner notes by Ernest Hood
New liner notes by Michael Klausman
Copy edit by Zonder Titel
Tape transfer by Russ Gorsline for REX Production & Post (Portland, Oregon)
Mastered by Josh Bonati for Bonati Mastering (Brooklyn, NY)
Illustrations by Ernest Hood.
Design by Will Work For Hood.

Licensed under permission from the estate of Ernest Hood. The recordings are presented in the best fidelity possible but occasionally betray the limitations of the master source. Originally released on Thistlefield ‎in 1975 (RR 5120).

Special thanks to Tom and Laurel Hood and Russ Gorsline.

© + (P) 2019 Freedom To Spend. All rights reserved. Unauthorized copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting is strictly prohibited. www.freedomtospend.org

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