One time in 2006 I was on tour alone in Toronto and I happened to have a day off and they happened to be holding a film festival. That night was a showing of David Lynch's new movie, Inland Empire. How lucky! So I went. It was in an old movie theater with big red velvet curtains and old world sconces along the dim walls, dark corridors with people leaning in the shadows. Totally perfect. And in the lobby they were selling cups of hot black coffee that David Lynch had presumably roasted himself. WOW! Imagine sitting there in the theater watching an immersive and weird movie about immersing into the great mystery via an old theater, volume cranked, sipping hot coffee that was also part of the whole-sensory experience! The steam in my face held the smell of the artist's world. It was total.
I've come close to selling coffee before. I've always thought it would be nice to be a purveyor of something more tangibly useful than ephemeral music and vague ideas, something like frying pans or tarps. Food. I've come close but it's never quite felt right.
Finally it feels right. The coffee that I drink at home is roasted by Camber in Bellingham, Wash., and this is the coffee that soaks every song on Night Palace. They reached out to me to offer to do a temporary finite collaboration, and I said hell yeah. We went back and forth about the beans, the roast, and ended up with this: single origin heirloom Guji from Ethiopia. It's really good. Not as fruity as the Ethiopias that I think of, more like a fruit that was left under hot mountaintop grass for a couple of nourishing afternoons, ground loam and fresh wind imbued. Free nuts. Squinting in sweet wind.
They come in 10 oz. bags, whole bean.
This is a month-long pre-order, then it will be gone. Quantity is not limited, just the time window that you can order it. On April 4th, 2025 we'll take down this page and roast it all fresh and ship it out to you.
Enjoy!