Royal Rhino Flying Records Compilation to Feature High Water Marks, Visitations, Calvin, Don't Jump!, Seamonster, and More

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Royal Rhino Flying Records Compilation to Feature High Water Marks, Visitations, Calvin, Don't Jump!, Seamonster, and More

Published Monday, June 18, 2007 by Jeff | E-mail this post

Royal Rhino Flying Records, a fantastic new indie label, has a number of projects on the horizon of interest to fans of Elephant 6. First up is Build Your Army with Potatoes, to be released later this summer. The compilation will feature tracks by High Water Marks, Palermo, The Visitations, Calvin, Don't Jump!, Bombay Bicycle Co., King of Prussia, and Seamonster (contributing "Robert Schneider's Abacus," a beautiful tune we featured on this site not too long ago).

Further down the line, a second compilation in the Potatoes series will feature "new and unreleased material" by The Instruments, Great Lakes, Von Hemmling, Vince Mole & His Calcium Orchestra, Midget and Hairs, and the Mendoza Line. The label is also set to release the vinyl of the High Water Marks' new album, Polar (Happy Happy Birthday to Me is handling the CD release), with two exclusive bonus tracks and unique artwork. Label founder Dwight writes, "Beyond that, we're hoping to do some small, tiny, eency-weency releases in the fall with Von Hemmling (a dedicated release and a Minders split), Midget and Hairs (unreleased material), the High Water Marks (an EP), and possibly Great Lakes. Nothing is really set in stone though."

To say that this is an indie label worth following is an understatement. You can take a gander at their MySpace page, and keep checking back here for updates. Thanks to Dwight for the info and Adam Schragin and Paige Dearman for the head's-up.