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New Ancient Farmers Album: Seventh Heaven

BY GEOFF STANFIELD

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Steve Daubenspeck and Greg Freeman are Ancient Farmers and their new album is called Seventh Heaven .

Greg Freeman was featured in Tape Op #1, and had previously recorded two albums for Tape Op founder Larry Crane when he was in the band Vomit Launch . Greg has been in the instrumental group Pell Mell and MTV stars The Call, and ran Lowdown Studios in San Francisco for years. Steve Daubenspeck is one-time member of SF's Granfaloon Bus and has many varied releases out. Guests include Prairie Prince (The Tubes), John McEntire ( Tape Op #23), and Victor Krummenacher (Camper Van Beethoven). Additional engineering by Chris Von Sneidern and mastering by JJ Golden @ Golden Mastering. -LC

Check the album out here!

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