Only An Impression now available!

The 1st Gardes movie is now finally available as a DVD for worldwide order!  Just click on the cover above or right here and it'll take you through the process to have one delivered to your front door...   This should also be available for rent through your online screen at Amazon very soon.

Or, if you just visit the music store at www.thegardes.com you can order it there.  We have new physical compact discs available for the first time in a long while of the following titles- Legends Of Voddville, O My Garde!, Regardeless 1 and Dos and a brand new, first-time printing of Regardeless the Third.  Don't forget the new album, too, Make Out The Sound.  All of these are available here. 

We look forward to making our first vinyl record as one of our next projects.  Stay tuned, there will be a new digital and physical album compilation coming from lo-fi, bedroom feedback folk/rocker, Sad Sad Bicycle.

New album now available-

You can listen to it here and buy a digital download if you so desire.  If you want a compact disc, if you're a die-hard lover of things you can touch, you can also order that through this link, and that comes with an automatic download.

Check out the new album here

Make Out The Sound is MADE-

well, almost, anyway, just need to do some printing and cutting and stuffing-

Handmade in the U.S. of A.

featuring artwork by Aaron Frisby, Angela Renee Chase, Victoria Orlowski, and moi 

(except I ripped my drawing off from a Todd Golnick doodle I once saw- with

consent. Mine's the ugly drawing on notebook paper.)

Come one, Come all to VZD's  next Friday night, May 6th, for the Gardes' new album release.

It kicks off at 10 pm with a stellar set by Sad Sad Bicycle and the Gardes will

be taking the stage around 11ish, going on second.  The Gussissin will then be playing

out the rest of the night.

Sad Sad Bicycle will be playing at the Norman Music Festival this Fri. night, April 29th,

at 8 p.m. on the DOJO stage- 2 blocks east of the Main Stage.  

The Gussissin will be playing the Norman Music Festival on Sat. April 30th at 2 pm on

the Zanzibar stage.

Also, I wanted to warn people that see this booked as the Gardes that, unfortunately, Aaron Siemers will be absent for this show.  He's played at every Gardes show except the very first one, I believe- not counting a few times when the band was booked but couldn't make it so I showed up to do a solo spot. Due to situations, he won't be making it back to OK for a bit after this, and when we had the slot open at VZD's, we decided to go ahead and release the album we made and do our live rendition of it.   We did however make the album with Aaron, and he is playing on it.  Tanner, our bass player for our most "live band about town" era, also makes an appearance on the record.  I have no intention of being an Axl Rose or Billy Corgan, i.e. playing in a band with no original members, but whatever, let's not take it all so seriously- and I don't think too many people can be accused of that with the state they've left me in, haha.  The bastards.  An alternate name for this band could just be called Make Out The Sound- we almost used that as a new band name, but screw it- what difference does it make in the end? We all die. So let's live.

For the show, our friend, Aunk of Stillwater- full-name- Aunkohau Tsoodle, will be playing the bass and Beau Jennings of the Gussissin will be providing the drums.  I'll be singing and playing along w/ Victoria O.   

Picking back up the blog/newsletter.

Album Release Show- VZD's, May 6th, Friday Night-

New Album- MAKE OUT THE SOUND by the Gardes

also featuring Sad Sad Bicycle  and  The Gussissin

collage by Angela Renee Chase,

flier by the Frank Lava Group

About this:

I'd been thinking about doing a few Gardes albums with Aaron Cord at some point, bringing in a female singer to switch up some of the ingredients, and it sounded like a plan.   I wrote several songs and began singing them with Victoria Pickle, who once performed on stage with me as "Peanut", playing a Planters can, which, by the way, makes for a great percussion instrument.  Soon, we had enough for an album's worth and she and I were in a cottage in Hawaii, originally built for the purpose of being a recording studio, as yet unused- so with a click of a button, we began recording on Pickle's sister's laptop.  This was intended to be done within a few days just to reflect the duo performance we'd given lately, so we were going to call it Make Out The Sound.  However, next, we met with Aaron in Portland, who immediately got the itch to throw down bass, percussion, etc. and soon it was decided to be the Gardes, and the album was entitled Make Out The Sound.  Now, the Gardes has shapeshifted once again.  It's a monster I can't really control.  Hope you can make it out.

Progress (It's A Snail's Life)

Greetings, Earthlings,

Technical difficulties should never get in the way of a party, if you ask me.
How do you feel about that?  Are you with me?
Willie Cry Records is soon to be releasing new stuff,
and is also re-releasing some of its favorite independently produced
albums via its site, building a library catalog of new, somewhat new and kind
of old.  Right now, on  www.williecryrecords.com, we're featuring, on our home
page, Aaron Cord's debut solo album, entitled SIEMO- Fossil Record, and it's currently
available on Itunes!

We also have Sad Sad Bicycle, and you can check out some of those downloadables.
I won't describe this, just let it speak for itself.

And we also have the digital re-release of The Gardes- O My Garde!

We're adding to the artist roster on the site, so if you thought you were on the label, looked and didn't see yourself, don't worry, don't spaz out, don't spit, you'll be up there soon.  Nothing Unreal was just added last night, an old mainstay.

For those of you near the OKC, there will be several upcoming performances of the Gussissin, check those out on the site-

If anyone's interested in obtaining any tangible artifacts, i.e. CD's, T-shirts (though these aren't posted anywhere at the moment, and there aren't really any made to my knowledge, but we could make some), just send us a message at williecryrecords@gmail.com  and we'll get something your way.  Real-life things will eventually be made available for automatic order, as well as that flighty digital shit.

Tip of the hat,

Gilbert Brayenstein

Checking In On A Monday-

      This is a tardy blog.
      That word "blog" truly sounds like you're puking words on to paper, no, not on to paper, on to screen.
     All the technological failures that surround us, i.e.  I had a short vid a few nights ago that I attempted to upload several times, yet it never finished the job, and I have uploaded things to the web before.  Maybe I'll get it up (in some form or fashion) soon. It's just a little over a minute and a half of Lance Grover (Gardes alumni) and Sasha Vennekotter's wedding, taking place down in Houston over a week ago. Down there, I heard a remark that I'm pretty behind on this blog, and yes I am, so now's to get back on track, and that's one of the great things about working for yourself is you don't have to fire yourself, even if you can't always pay yourself.  This hogwash I said earlier about a new newsletter coming from Willie Cry Records instead of the Gardes may still go into effect, eventually, but not now- maybe never-
sometimes I brainstorm out loud and speak too soon.
      But now, Ladies And Gentlemen, Hermaphrodites, Robots and Animals Who Can Read- we humbly present (proudly, too)-  Willie Cry Records  at  www.williecryrecords.com   Please go there and shop around a little- I'll have you know that it's a label and site-in-progress.  Pretty simple, basic stuff right now.  The site is in its infantile state and should grow and evolve as the months and years unfold.

      Recent activity:  low-fi, avant bedroom folk punk something musical outfit known as Sad Sad Bicycle has joined the ranks- currently, the EP titled Desert People is being displayed on the Willie Cry Records home page- follow the link there to check out a few more recent releases by Sad Sad Bicycle.

      The Gardes just released O My Garde!  digitally through Willie Cry- check it.

      I'll also have you know that I started to go on various rants about the world out there, but I decided to
hold my virtual breath and fill you in on the sunshiny things you can experience through Willie Cry Records- more artists coming to the roster soon.  I'll save any ranting for another time.  This is Willie Cry Records birthday, he/she's been in the womb a long time and just popped out.  Clink your glasses to the songs to come.

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Love,

Willie Cry Records