Video: More Unreleased Jeff Mangum

As the week started with the digital release of a new Jeff Mangum track on the Chris Knox tribute record, why not end the week with more unreleased video of Jeff playing in April 1998. This time he treats the audience to one of my favorite bootleg tracks “Sailing Through” from the cassette tape dubbed Beauty that is still available on most of the bittorrent sites that are still up and running.

Like the other videos that have been popping up, Jeff hold back no emotion on this live version of “Sailing Though” that then goes directly into “Two-Headed Boy Part 2″ in this 9+ minutes of musical ecstasy.  This might be one of the only videos of him performing rarely-played song at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, CA.  Thanks goes out to defgav for the post.  Its been a good week.

Neutral Milk Hotel To Release New Double Record!

Well … a new record of old songs, but great news nonetheless.  According to Neutral Milk Hotel’s offical website, there are currently plans to release a two-volume set of early NMH. This will include music from the early, self-released cassettes, live performances, and unreleased recordings that are currenlty traded on Ebay and scattered across torrent sites.  The band wants to do this because of the excessive prices at which bootlegs are currently selling online and elsewhere. They will be available from Orange Twin, Jeff’s label that he has released his Orange Twin Field Works Vol. I, a series of musical/sounds and noices that take you into areas of Bulgaria and the surrounding regions, as well as Jeff’s now classic acoustic performance Live At Jittery Joe’s.

The actual release date is unknown. Therefore, this could be relased in three months or three years. But it’s still good news for NMH fans, as it opens the possiblity that a few jems might still be on Jeff’s eclectic shelf of cassette tapes. The news posting also goes on to mention that Jeff has been working on a collection of short stories and joined the circus and wants to make a movie about snails, so take the news for what its worth.  However, with NMH news as rare as a Jeff Mangum sighting, this is big news.