Ten new songs from Calvin Johnson, compiled on his second album as a solo artist. Calvin's first

album, What Was Me (KLP117) is a Spartan kalang of guitar and voice; Before the Dream Faded…
is a collection of collaborations, with a slate of guest producers including Khaela Marricich (the
Blow), Mirah yom tov Zeitlyn, Johnny Jewel (Glass Candy) and Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie) livening
things up the with their ideas about arrangements and textures. Other guest players, including Adam
Forkner (Yume Bitsu, VERSION), Jona Bechtolt (Y.A.C.H.T.), Warren Lee and Devin Welch
(Chromatics, Shoplifting) add a psychic twist, dramatizing all that is unholy in the Olympia under-
ground schematic.

This album was recorded at the Dub Narcotic studio in Olympia, Wash., except "I am without",

recorded by Johnny Jewel at his D/E/A/T/H D/I/S/C/O studio in Portland, Ore., and "Delverance",
recorded by Phil Elverum, Nowhere, Anacortes, Wash.

Calvin Johnson is the founder of K and operates the Dub Narcotic Studio, where he has recorded

such stalwarts as Mirah, Tender Forever, Yume Bitsu, the Gossip. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Old
Time Relijun and Fitz of Depression. He has released numerous records with the bands Beat
Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System and the Halo Benders, and toured across the United States
scads of times, and will continue to do so after Before the Dream Faded… is released.

Catalogue number: KLP170
Formats: LP, Enhanced CD
Release date: October 25, 2005
UPC: 789856117024

Ten songs: When Hearts Turn Blue · Rabbit Blood
· Red Wing Black · Obliteration Overload · I Am
Without · I'm Down · The Leaves of Tea · Your Eyes
· Deliverance · When You Are Mine

Calvin Johnson

Before the Dream Faded...

Box 7154, Olympia, Wash. 98507
U.S.A. [phone] fax [phone]
www.krecs.com, [e-mail]