Zak Sally - Fear of Song

my old pals at Sub Pop records did an absolutely beautiful (embossed sleeve, flesh colored vinyl) 7" with a song from the record (and 1 and a half songs that aren't): i'm not selling those, but you can check them out (and BUY them, for that matter) here:

http://www.subpop.com/releases/zak_sally/singles/why_we_hide

and the full length? in typical La Mano fashion, it's a handmade, signed and numbered deal, with me doing the printing i was able to do myself and each copy hand assembled right here, by me (with some help from my crack intern Maddie and whatever pals i can bribe into helping out).

and this is where we get into some weirdness, because obviously, Zak Sally, is, you know-- ME. so if i were someone else, i could go on about my years in the minimalist rock trio LOW, (and stints with other outfits such as Enemy Mine, the Dirty Three, Kid Dakota), and how i started making this record in my basement over a year ago just to see if i could finish ONE SONG (this being something that had been a REAL PROBLEM for the previous 36 years of my life), but then actually started enjoying the process until finally i went over to my good old friend Ben Durrant's (Andrew Bird, Dosh, tons of great stuff...) Crazy Beast Studio and slowly tore our hair out strand by strand until, LOOK-- a WHOLE RECORD! NEAT!!
and, if i wasn't me, i could say-- it's a good record. i set myself with the goal of making EVERY SOUND on the thing, and so that's what it sounds like.
it sounds like me.

and, to be honest, whether you like the music or not, i think you'd be hard pressed to find a physical object containing music on it where the artist was MORE INVOLVED in every aspect of the thing; i mean, i made all the sounds and all that, but i also designed it, and laid it out for printing, then made the plates (poly, on a hopped-up HP computer printer), then PRINTED the damn thing on my OWN PRESS, and did all the machine trimming and folding, then HAND GLUED a 4" square to the front of each one then a 2" square to the BACK of each one then HAND folded and taped each sleeve (which i ALSO printed) and inserted the disc and then just to beat a dead horse i SIGNED AND NUMBERED EACH ONE and shoved it in a vinyl sleeve, and it's just about 97% sure that I'LL be the guy packing it up and sending it to you, and...look: I DID EVERYTHING BUT MILK THE FUCKING SQUID ON THIS THING. i'm not listing all this to toot my horn or to impress you (because it's not like someone was holding a gun to my head telling me to do it this way, you know, it's just that this kind of stuff is WHAT I LIKE), just because...you should know what your $13 bucks is getting you. this isn't a PRODUCT. you know those cd's in jewel cases or digipaks? well this isn't that. this is something different, and all this is stuff I'D want to know, so i'm telling you here.*

fear of song package 1fear of song package 2fear of song package 3fear of song package 4
anyway, it took me a LONG TIME to get this thing out into the world, but here it is. maybe you'll like it. i'm real proud of it, and i'm not going through distros or anything-- i'm selling it HERE, to YOU. RIGHT NOW:

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