Tiger Friends is a boutique record label offering selections from unique and inspiring artists. Known for their versatility, these artists are chosen for their dedication to their craft, strong community involvement, music knowledge, and personal commitment to bringing their best to the arts.
TREESUS/LOTUS EATER
JACOB MINGLE/ TREESUS/ LOTUS EATER
Songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist Jacob Mingle has traveled his musical path with many names. The following is excerpted from a Tiger Friends interview.
*** I got my first guitar when I was ten, but didn’t really play it until I was 19 or so….it was then that I really started to spend time with my guitar and figure it out. When I was real young I loved The Beatles and Beach Boys, then it grew into Modest Mouse, Built To Spill, and Pavement in my later teens. Early 20’s until now I’ve been really into Will Oldham (bonnie “prince” billy), Jason Molina (magnolia electric co.), Phil Elvrum (the Microphones, and Thee Silver Mt Zion.
Music was a big part of my family growing up, my dad plays, my uncles play, we were always listening to it, we were surrounded by it, and it shows, everyone in the family has a natural gift with music.
Lotus Eater has an album (dormir) coming out in may of 2010 on Klang Association. Tom from Klang did an amazing job mastering all the songs, and decided to release it, on his new up and coming label/collective. Los Webelos has couple of albums floating around still trying to figure out what to do with them, and I self-released two Treesus albums.
I feel that there’s a separation of sorts happening between analog and digital…..I think that the analog and vinyl movement is very exciting, record labels like Constellation releasing just about every album on vinyl (as well as C.D.) I think that’s the most exciting thing and I’d like to see more of it. ***
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