Lavender is a collection of drones, improvisations and textural works from Favorite Haunts. A project from San Francisco-based Alex Muñoz that runs the gammut from lofi pop songs, to a large upbeat improvisational live group (adding Sewing Circle to the name for these), to experiments with looping, tape recording and sampling. This new tape finds Muñoz in an introspective head space, improvising with a variety of acoustic instruments, organs, keyboards tapes, microphones, and electronics. The results feel devotional, comforting, and dynamic with an emphasis on exploration, tone seeking and texture building. Jump into these sonic fields of floral olfactory inspired tones with ears engaged and let them wash over you, til you are splayed out on your back among the foliage, watching the clouds dance on by.

Favorite Haunts is Alex Muñoz 
favoritehaunts.bandcamp.com

notes from Alex:

"a collection of drone music, tape music, and microphone music written and recorded during a very emotional transitional period in my life. the music presented here is very personal to me and helped me find peace during that time.

thank you to inspirations phil elverum, amps for christ, old saw, water shrews, hailu mergia, michael hurley, friends of the road, arthur russell, flatsound, animal collective, swinging, terry riley, cambodian sim card, erik satie, sun ra, the museum of jurassic technology, paul horn, emahoy tsege mariam gebru, john dwyer, brigid dawson, patrick mullins, fletcher barton, johnny rafter, adam weddle, stress actual, hfm, rich jacobs, steve roden, and lavender sachets everywhere

Recorded and mixed by me in 3 different homes in 3 different cities, in may, june, july, and august 2025.

On this album I play: bowed cigar box guitar, acoustic guitar, sampler, yamaha keyboard, hammond organ, field recordings, tape machine, delay pedal, and wizard harp.

Thank you Bud Tapes"