Tracker
Since 1997, Tracker has been the recording moniker for engineer / musician / label owner-worker John Askew. Following the release of Ames (the first proper Tracker album), a steady line-up took to the road. Often stopping and gathering random sorts along the way, Askew and Tracker recorded and toured and followed up Ames with the second release Polk and the third release Blankets: Recordings for the Illustrated Novel. Now, Askew engineers and produces at Type Foundry Recording in Portland, operates the recording label FILMguerrero, but spends most of the time in his basement studio Scenic Burrows and a UREI LA-4.
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MP3sThere's No One Left — from Ames CD Vanishing Cave from Blankets: Recordings for the Illustrated Novel CD |
Releases
Blankets: Recordings for the Illustrated Novel (CD Fg19)
Written and produced by Askew to accompany the graphic novel Blankets by Craig Thompson, this album quietly threads it’s way through Thompson’s stark images of Winter and first love, and the dark, yet hopeful coming of age narrative.
Close-up recording snapshots that are patient, arid, and epic wanderings for the super-8 movie.
The first release to come from Portland, Oregon based Tracker.
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