Carrido by Pure Bathing Culture

These recordings were made at National Freedom in Cottage Grove, Oregon in early September 2018, two months after Richard Swift passed away.

After Richard died his wife Shealynn reached out and asked if we would come to Cottage Grove and work and record in the studio. HIs family wanted to make sure that the music would continue at National Freedom and it meant a lot to us to have the opportunity to reconnect with Richard and a place that has played a really important role in our music over the years.

When we arrived at the studio we found it to be much the same as we’d always known it to be, a sacred place where our friend made sense of his influences and helped us make sense of ours. After he passed Richard’s family brought his ashes home and placed them in the control room of the studio in the chair at the console in front of the monitors where Rich always sat during sessions. On the box his birth name could be seen simply written: RICARDO OCHOA.

As we were working I was doing something I often do, I started writing the same word over and over again and in this instance the word was RICARDO. As I wrote his name repeatedly it started to shift and soon it transformed and I started writing the word CARRIDO over and over again.

For us Carrido became a world where we could be with our friend again, a place where we could be together one more time doing what we love. It’s a place where we can make sense of the things that happen that feel tragic and inexplicably heart breaking….it’s a place where we can go to find our way back to ourselves again.

A duo with a knack for making music that sounds unearthly yet familiar. The beautiful strangeness of Sarah Versprille and Daniel Hindman's music dominated their 2013 debut album Moon Tides; on later albums, such as 2015's Pray for Rain and 2019's Night Pass, they streamlined their sound and put their catchy songwriting front and center.