In this episode, the first of a two part interview, I sit down with guitarist and label owner Eric Hardiman. We discuss his highschool and college years in the DC area, early musical influences, his hiatus from playing live music, and his eventual resurgence into the underground music scene after moving to Albany. In this part, we also cover his time in the improv collective Burnt Hills, his solo project Rambutan, his duo Century Plants with Ray Hare, and his label Tape Drift.

playlist:

Rambutan - Aside From What Matters (from Universal Impulses cassette on These Are Not Records - https://thesearenotrecords.com)

Burnt Hills - Over The Rainbow (on Outer Bounds of Sound series on Noiseville and Flipped Out - https://flippedoutrecords.com)

Century Plants - The Twin Paradox (on Intrinsic Geometry Vol 1 on Tape Drift)

Chalaque - Simple Mathematics (from Sounds From The Other Ideology LP on Golden Lab Records)

Rambutan - Frozen Flower (from Inverted Summer LP on Fabrica)

links:

Rambutan https://rambutan.bandcamp.com/

Tape Drift https://www.tapedrift.com

Sedimental Records https://sedimental.com/

Sky Furrows https://skyfurrows.bandcamp.com/releases

Century Plants https://centuryplants.bandcamp.com/

Spiral Wave Nomads https://twinlakesrecords.bandcamp.com/

Burnt Hills https://www.discogs.com/artist/825470-Burnt-Hills

Stunned Records https://www.discogs.com/label/115915-Stunned-Records

Flipped Out Records https://flippedoutrecords.com

Parallel Systems promo