The Arch Hill Free Range are a series of FREE album releases. They are albums we think are good and deserve to be heard – but they are free!

For more info on the Arch Hill Free Range check here

Yes we know we released this as a digital stores only release a few months ago…well, guess what, we’ve decided to make it the first release on the Arch Hill Free Range (if you already did a paid download consider yourself a good citizen! or if you'd rather not be a good citizen get in touch and I'm sure we can cut you some kind of deal)

We think it is a pretty great album, so, if you like gentle but unusual haunting music – then this is for you. Here’s what some people had to say about the The Haints of Dean Hall - Sleeper:

“many of the songs sound so ancient, you might expect to find them amongst a pile of dusty 78’s abandoned in some rundown Appalachian shack… they collaborate on rustic country waltzes, electified folk ragas, and mysterious backwoods ballads in which unreliable narrators dredge up memories through a moonshine fog.” Grant Smithies – Sunday Star Times

"There are lovely songs here: the sad Paper Plate with its melody gently rising then retreating; the flat delivery of much of Brown Wig which makes the modulations of the melody seem even more pronounced; the gentle guitar jangle behind Stereo Off and the monochrome title track . . .
And the simple, almost a mere fragment, Marie is the prettiest song you will hear in a long time."
Graham Reid – Elsewhere

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The Haints of Dean Hall debut self titled CD album available for $15

Make sure you go along and see the Sam Hunt movie called Sam Hunt: Purple Balloon.

The music is by David Kilgour and the film also features some footage of the shows they did after the Falling Debris album

The film is showing at the following

25th July - Auckland - Sky City

29th July - Wellington - Paranount

4th of August - Dunedin - Rialto

We've decided to do it - it's the Arch Hill Free Range!

The Arch Hill Free Range are a series of FREE album releases. They are albums we think are good and deserve to be heard – but they are free!

At Arch Hill we have always believed that a lot of really good music is small scale and specialist. You won’t hear it on commercial radio, see it on the TV or on the charts. Sometimes it is even hard to find on the interweb.

But, that doesn’t mean it’s not good. It’s just that it doesn’t have mass mainstream appeal or a big marketing plan behind it – that’s all.

We like these artists and want them to be heard. But these days it isn’t viable to spend a whole bunch of money releasing the album on CD, marketing it and so on. So, rather than do nothing and see this good music disappear without getting heard as it should be, we’ve launched the Arch Hill Free Range.

The Arch Hill Free Range is (approximately) one bi-monthly album 100% FREE, available from the Arch Hill Recordings website. (Please note - not everything we do or release will be free!...we’re not stopping you from buying other stuff!)

To stay posted about the Arch Hill Free Range then sign up to our newsletter, join our FACEBOOK PAGE or regularly visit our website at www.archhhill.co.nz.

We will be announcing the first Arch Hill Free Range artist very soon – STAY TUNED!

Watch the new Street Chant "Yr Philosopy" video - made by Rover. Album out August 2010.

For those of us who were stuck in the southern hemisphere and missed out on The Clean's live sets at Primavera, All Tomorrow's Parties, Brixton Academy (with Pavement) and/or European tour, here is a small consolation: an article, videos and a live recording by Brian Turner at WFMU of their Primavera in Barcelona

Family Cactus - live video of them performing at The Powerstation in May 2010 in support of The Phoenix Foundation. Video by Bryson Rooney

Family Cactus at The Powerstation from bryson rooney on Vimeo.