Category: Sheep Fiends

Sheep Fiends – Keep Your Kool

Album #: 97 Recording Dates: 2016 – 2018 Release Date: 2019 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: Keep Your Kool is another strong collection of improvisational songs from the Café Royd studio. Nerves are on tap as tales of circus tragedy, primate boxing, insomnia, landlords and so much more haunt this fun set of tracks. Three Track Sampler Track 01 – Circus Girl …

Sheep Fiends – Farm Jam VIII is Ba

Album #: 96 Recording Dates: May, 2018 Release Date: 2019 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: In keeping with tradition, Farm Jam 8 took place in May 2018. Farm Jam VIII is Ba presents highlights from this event. I was not in attendance for this multi-day event but do appear on a studio track also included in the collection. No Track Sampler …

MX Skroch – Scratchrock Volume XVII

Album #: 94 Recording Dates: 2012 – 2014 Release Date: 2018 Catalog: SMR 34 ScratchNotes: After the artistic and recreational success of Sheep Fiends’ “Farm Jam” the group was eager for an encore…every single year! Aaron and Mark joined in on year two and thereafter. Matt joined the caravan in 2013. For the fourth Farm Jam I fell ill …

Sheep Fiends – Farm Jam VI : Cicada Rising

Album #: 92 Recording Dates: May 2016 Release Date: 2017 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: You know the story by now. It’s Farm Jam! For a sixth consecutive year we braved the horrors of Ohio in quest of Pennsylvania solitude. Well, solitude with access to ice cream and Budweiser. Tracks are less about the drive and farm this time around, and …

Sheep Fiends – Farm Out, Man

Album #: 91 Recording Dates: 2011 – 2015 Release Date: 2016 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: The first five farm jams events resulted in a huge collection of recordings. We realized each farm jam had a few tracks we were fond of that did not make it on the official album. So that’s the rabbit hole that led to this collection …

Sheep Fiends – Varm Jam

Album #: 89 Recording Dates: 2015 Release Date: 2016 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: Once we started going out to Pennsylvania every year for a weekend of farm rocking it just kept going. Here is a collection of the best recordings from the fifth annual edition of Farm Jam – Varm Jam! Three Track Sampler Track 06 – Shoshanna (Sheep Fiends) – So …

MX Skroch – Scratchrock Volume XVI

Album #: 88 Recording Dates: 2010 – 2011 Release Date: 2015 Catalog: SMR 33 ScratchNotes: I finally got back into doing music regularly, but it primarily took the form of mixing multi-track Sheep Fiend recordings. The Rumpus Room Studio was fully functional and capturing everything. Good fortune shone upon us as Brian M got to know the evocative and personable …

Sheep Fiends – Ziggarnaut Paradox

Album #: 86 Recording Dates: 2010 – 2014 Release Date: 2014 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: This is our final CD recorded at Brian’s amazing Rumpus Room studio. There is a certain sadness to the songs as we end a major era. While largely recorded in 2014 this also features some real bangers from recent years that hadn’t yet been revealed …

Sheep Fiends – Gathering the Ghosts

Album #: 85 Recording Dates: 2013 Release Date: 2014 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: This album captures a rather successful reunion with Sheep Fiends powerhouse Dave Ladd after several years of absence. One of our spookier releases for sure as paranoia and horror dominate the lyrical content while some creepy instrumentals tie it all together like rusty chains on a long …