duster

3x7" box set that includes transmission, flux (7"), apex, trance-like (7"), and the first ever 7" pressing of echo, bravo b/w what you're doing to me.

the box set also includes a duster bandana.

cover photo by erica parton. recorded at home (santa cruz and fort bragg, california) with tape machines and computers.

parton, amber: drums, guitar, bass, synth, vocals.

cover art by salvatore olentino. recorded at home (santa cruz, california and portland, oregon) with tape machines and computers.

parton, amber: drums, guitar, bass, synth, vocals.

j. albertini: drums, guitar, bass and vocals on hoya paranoia.

multiple muddguts pressings: pink vinyl, blue vinyl, black vinyl. the first 500 copies of the original pressing also included the bonus track hell's breaking loose on a postcard flexi.

reissued by numero group in 2022.

3xLP or 3xCD box set that contains all the songs from transmission, flux (7"), stratosphere (album), apex, trance-like (7"), 1975 (EP), contemporary movement (album), plus some previously unreleased and other hard to find songs and a booklet.

cover photo by telekinetic. recorded at home/low earth orbit (san jose, california) with tape machines.

parton, amber: drums, guitar, bass, synth, rhodes, hammond, vocals.

j. albertini appears on get the dutch, travelogue, cooking and unrecovery.

up records made vinyl and compact disc versions in 2000. original pressings have two songs misspelled on the vinyl labels.

reissued by numero group in 2019 as part of the capsule losing contact box set. also available individually.

recorded at home/low earth orbit (san jose, california) with tape machines.

parton, amber: drums, guitar, bass, synth, rhodes, vocals.

j. albertini: rhodes on the motion picture, drums and hammond on and things (are mostly ghosts). j. quever: rhodes on want no light to shine. m. bianchi: backing vocals on and things (are mostly ghosts).

up records made vinyl and compact disc versions in 1999.

reissued by numero group in 2019 as part of the capsule losing contact box set. also available individually.

recorded in a weird practice space (san jose, california) on cassette four track.

parton, amber: drums, guitar, bass, hammond, vocals.

original pressing has the labels on the wrong sides.

songs are included in the numero group capsule losing contact box set (2019).

songs are included in the numero group moods, modes box set (2023).

recorded at home/low earth orbit (san jose, california) with a four track cassette machine (songs 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17).

recorded at home/low earth orbit (san jose, california) with a half inch 16 track (song 3).

recorded at mountain/low earth orbit (san jose, california) with tape machines (songs 4, 14).

recorded at avast! (seattle, washington) with a two inch 24 track (songs 2, 9, 13, 16).

parton, amber: drums, guitar, bass, organ, synth, vocals.

j. albertini: drums on heading for the door, the queen of hearts and reed to hillsborough.

echo, bravo was omitted from the vinyl version, only appears on the compact disc version.

reissued by numero group in 2019 as part of the capsule losing contact box set. also available individually.

recorded at home/low earth orbit (san jose, california) with a four track cassette machine (songs 2, 3, 4, 5).

recorded at home/low earth orbit (san jose, california) with a half inch 16 track (song 1).

parton, amber: drums, guitar, bass, vocals.

songs are included in the numero group capsule losing contact box set (2019).

songs are included in the numero group moods, modes box set (2023).

we do not read DMs sent on social media, but we do read (and sometimes respond to) mail sent to our po box:

duster
p.o. box 8242
santa cruz, ca 95061
usa

duster is a reclusive experimental electronic slowcore(?) band consisting of two multi-instrumentalist members — ewing clay parton and canaan dove amber. parton sometimes appears as "e. parton", "c. parton" or "clay". amber sometimes appears as "c. amber", "d. amber" or "dove".

the band formed when parton and amber started recording themselves on cassette four track machines at home in the mid to late 1990s. they released a few records between 1997 and 2000, and then took a brief break until 2018. in 2019, they released a self-titled lp on muddguts, and numero group reissued all their previous records as the "capsule losing contact" box set. in 2022, they released their 4th LP, "together".