Neighborhoods by Ernest Hood

Ernest Hood’s Neighborhoods was released some two decades after the Portland, Oregon born and raised musician’s first forays into field recordings. These very recordings, and those captured over intervening years, define the universal sound and aural images of childhood, a theme memorialized by Hood’s privately-pressed opus of 1975.

Freedom to Spend has restored Ernest Hood’s nostalgic masterpiece with the same care with which he viewed his source material, offering a remastered version of Neighborhoods transferred from the original tapes, expanded across four vinyl sides (the original version was crammed on two). The new edition reproduces Hood’s celebratory liner notes in full, alongside new liner notes by Michael Klausman.

Tracklist

1.	Saturday Morning Doze	7:33

2.	At The Store	6:30

3.	August Haze	8:09

4.	The Secret Place	5:13

5.	After School	11:34

6.	Gloaming	8:32

7.	From The Bluff	6:24

8.	Night Games	3:35

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Credits

released October 11, 2019

Music and field recordings by Ernest Hood
Original liner notes by Ernest Hood
New liner notes by Michael Klausman
Copy edit by Zonder Titel
Tape transfer by Russ Gorsline for REX Production & Post (Portland, Oregon)
Mastered by Josh Bonati for Bonati Mastering (Brooklyn, NY)
Illustrations by Ernest Hood.
Design by Will Work For Hood.

Licensed under permission from the estate of Ernest Hood. The recordings are presented in the best fidelity possible but occasionally betray the limitations of the master source. Originally released on Thistlefield ‎in 1975 (RR 5120).

Special thanks to Tom and Laurel Hood and Russ Gorsline.

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