Song Of Salt

The limited edition version comes in an edition of only 47 copies. A 10" clear vinyl record comes in a recycled kraft-board, gatefold jacket, which has been extensively modified in the usual TRS fashion. Imagine driving all day in the desert heat, and stumbling across one of the many deserted old houses dotting the area. Seeking shade in the home, you find covered in dust in the corner what looks like a copy of a strange old LP of some sort. The jacket front has a burned and corner mounted photo of the town of Trona and its chemical plant, with the artist and album titles hand labelled on a vintage Dymo-Mite Tapewriter. The reverse of the jacket has a unique assemblage of personal family ephemera, antique photos and letters, a paper Trona Corp. memorial coin, bible stories and other old adverts, all mounted on a sheet of vintage wallpaper as though stripped off the kitchen wall in the next room. The inside panels of the gatefold are covered with maps of the desert and its lake, upon which is superimposed a torn and reassembled aerial photo of the town of Trona. The package also includes a 10" square textual insert with the album credits and the history of Trona, another large printed photo of the town a century ago, a page from a 1950's Trona High School yearbook, diagrams and charts from a 100 year old book on the history of Searles Lake and the industrializing of it, and an old Trona postcard reproduction, hand signed by composer Nicolas Snyder.