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Monday, January 26, 2026

Out now: 'The Well,' Independent Project Records' rarities collection



Independent Project Records (IPR) has released a decades-spanning various artists compilation titled The Well, featuring many rare and unreleased tracks from the label’s vaults, as well as music from forthcoming releases, on Special Edition double CD.

The two-disc, forty-one song collection features many previously unheard songs from IPR artists such as Barry Craig (A Produce), Camper Van Beethoven, David J, Lanterna, Middle Class, Savage Republic, Scenic, Shiva Burlesque, and more, as compiled by IPR co-owner and founder Bruce Licher. 

Track listing: 

Volume One:

1 AFTERIMAGE “Afterimage”
From the Faces To Hide retrospective album released on IPR

2 LESLIE MEDFORD “Leslie's Dream”
Previously released as a digital single on IPR, first physical release

3 SHIVA BURLESQUE “Midnight Chapel”
Previously unreleased new recording

4 GREG LISHER “Zen and the Art of Long Distance Driving”
From the Underwater Detection Method album released on IPR

5 THE OPHELIAS “Sleepy Hamlet”
From the Bare Bodkin retrospective album released on IPR

6 SPRINGHOUSE “Sea and Rain”
From the From Now to OK album released on IPR

7 DAVID J “Punishment By Roses”
From the forthcoming Tracks from the Attic Revisited album to be released on IPR

8 HALF STRING “Honeycut”
From the A Fascination With Heights album released on IPR

9 JEFFREY RUNNINGS “Heretofore”
From the Piqued album released on IPR

10 DRIVEWAY CEILING “mr walden”
From the forthcoming death of the walden newspaper co album to be released on IPR

11 ALISON CLANCY “The Valley”
Previously released as a digital single on IPR, first physical release

12 BRUCE LICHER “Tundra”
From the Tape Excavation compilation album released on IPR

13 WOO “The One That Got Away”
From the Xylophonics/Robot X album released on IPR

14 CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN “Vegetables”
Demo recording from 1983

15 FOURWAYCROSS “Halloween”
From the Pendulum archive series release on IPR — forthcoming retrospective release on IPR

16 KOMMUNITY FK “Antipop”
From the The Vision And The Voice album released on IPR in 1983 — forthcoming remastered reissue on IPR

17 JEFFREY CLARK “Sacred”
Previously unreleased recording

18 DECEPTION BAY “It'll Be My Day”
Previously unreleased live recording

19 SPADRA MOODS “New Colours”
From a very limited band-released cassette tape from the mid-1980’s by this group featuring future members of Savage Republic and Scenic

20 BPEOPLE “Persecution, That’s My Song”
Originally released on the Alternative Tentacles Records compilation Let Them Eat Jellybeans in 1981 — forthcoming retrospective release on IPR

21 SCENIC “Hole in the Wall”
From the Incident At Cima album released on IPR

22 A PRODUCE “Tunnels”
From the The Clearing album released on IPR

23 RED TEMPLE SPIRITS “Dark Spirits”
From the Red Temple Spirits 3-CD set released on IPR

Volume Two:

1 SAVAGE REPUBLIC “Archetype”
From the Customs album originally released in 1989 on the Nate Starkman & Son Greece label

2 BARRY CRAIG “I Woke Up Dreaming”
Previously unreleased recording circa 1989 by Afterimage guitarist and well-known ambient electronic artist A Produce

3 DAVID J “No One Looks Like Christopher Walken”
Previously unreleased demo recording

4 TORN BOYS “Mystery”
Previously unreleased version of a song originally released on the 1983 retrospective album on IPR

5 MIDDLE CLASS “Politic (Body and Soul)”
Originally released on the Munster Records compilation What Have We Wrought? A Mike Atta Benefit in 2013 — forthcoming retrospective release on IPR

6 SCENIC “Raintree Road”
Previously unreleased recording from the sessions for The Long Sun 10” release on St. Ives Records

7 THE INVISIBLE OPERA COMPANY OF TIBET “Here I Am”
Red Temple Spirits offshoot from the very limited band-released cassette tape titled The Alien Host from 1996

8 SNUFFY “Breezy”
Previously unreleased recording from Fourwaycross bassist Steve Gerdes circa the late 1990’s

9 WOO “Tibetan Trains”
Bonus track from the expanded reissue of the Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong album released via IPR

10 EDWARD W. DAHL “A Wink and a Nod”
Previously unreleased instrumental mix from the Louder Than You Think soundtrack album to be released on IPR

11 THE SUNFLOWER CONSPIRACY “Spacetime”
Indiana-based shoegaze/dream pop band — from a very limited band-released cassette tape from the mid-1990’s titled Silver Satin Grey

12 LANTERNA “Aegean”
From a very limited artist-released cassette tape from 1992 titled Of Shapes That Haunt Thought’s Wilderness

13 MIKE WHITE “Hangliders Torn Wing”
Previously unreleased solo recording from the 2nd guitarist in the early 80’s incarnation of San Francisco band The Sleepers

14 JAZZ BEDOUINS “Mingus Mountain”
From a very limited 2007 artist-released CDr from this Sedona, Arizona-based modern jazz trio titled Beautiful Trash

15 NEEF “Radiant Transfer To Non-Grey Walls”
From a very limited artist-released self-titled cassette tape from 1979, the first music release that IPR founder Bruce Licher is featured on

16 SCENIC “Film Music #6”
Previously unreleased recording circa 2001

17 A PRODUCE “Jimbe”
From the expanded edition of the Land of a Thousand Trances album released on IPR

18 BOXHEAD ENSEMBLE “Rank”
From the The Unseen Hand: Music For Documentary Film album released on Jealous Butcher Records, featuring guitar work from Bruce Licher

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