On this installment, I’m joined in the studio by Matthew Himes and Jason Millard, two artists based in Minneapolis with a long history of making and releasing music in the sub-underground in various solo and collaborative projects. Himes’s musical output traces back over two decades to when he was recording under the name Shep & Me, and he has also been running the Lighten Up Sounds tape imprint for well over a decade now, issuing works from a roster of both local and international artists, and being the primary outlet for Millard and his music. In 2021, however, Himes and Millard together started Home and Garden, a “small private imprint releasing handcrafted psychedelia” in limited edition releases. To date, Home & Garden has maintained a truly private press approach by only releasing their own music, which has arguably been some of the strongest material that they’ve ever put out. For this episode, Matthew and Jason performed live solo sets at the KMSU studios, and then they hung out for a bit to discuss Home and Garden and the music that they have been making of late. Throughout the show, you’ll also get to hear a broad overview of the music they have issued on Home and Garden, including a few tracks from some forthcoming releases. Hope you enjoy this new episode. Feel free to get in touch if you have any comments or questions. As always, thanks for looking and listening.

• ~Introductory Music: New Glue “Entrance and Exit” The Electric Path (Lighten Up Sounds)
• Hiram “Wind Song” Water Rise (Home and Garden)
• Millard “Creaking Doors” b​/​w “See Myself” (Home and Garden)
• Matthew Himes live in-studio performance:
  1. “The Shadow”
  2. “Amaryllis”
  3. “Hemlock and Bergamot”
• Jason Millard live in-studio performance:
  1. “Strung Up Like a Deer”
  2. “Solid Enough”
  3. “I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground (traditional)”
  4. “Way Out and Down The Road”
  5. “Untitled” (instrumental)
• ~Interview segment with Matthew Himes & Jason Millard~
• M.H.H. “Argus” Cassiope: Protection Songs for Guitar (Home and Garden)
• Matthew Himes “I Feel Fine” Hemlock & Bergamot (Home and Garden)
• Hiram “Breath Escapes” Artemisia (Home and Garden)
• ~Interview segment with Matthew Himes & Jason Millard~
• Millard “Forlorn Fist” Kicking A Hole (Home and Garden)
• Drooling Clerics “Pick and Save” Handful of Earth (Home and Garden)
• Jason Allen Millard “Dark of Night” w/ “Solid Enough” (Home and Garden)
• ~Interview segment with Matthew Himes & Jason Millard~
• The Living Sky “Cooling It Down” Enter the Sky (*forthcoming on Home & Garden)
• The Living Sky “Setting Sunday” (*unreleased track)
• Earth Speaks “At Beartooth” (excerpt) At Beartooth (Home and Garden)

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