Perhaps Transparent Records

The Old Bergen Vault EP Series is a 9 EP collection of unreleased, rare and live recordings from the 'Hutton House' era of Pothole Skinny. Some tracks were originally released as a free podcast through iTunes. After discontinuing the podcast, more tracks were mastered, collected and packaged for a digital download release as a since discontinued 'pay your price' option through Bandcamp. Along with this collection of digital EPs is an accompanying .pdf booklet.

EP and Track Listing:
Complete from The Benefit EP
1. Our Vanishing Landscapes (unedited) (30:08)

Reaping The Bounty EP
1. Messages Sent to Dublin (5:45)
2. Mission of The Tribes (22:48)

Smoke Signals For Our Nations EP
1. Ballad of Mary Cecilla Rogers (4:42)
2. Awakened Tribes Will Rise (4:46)
3. Dreams At The Theater (1:38)

Videos:
"Catacombs of Her Dear Heart" from the Moon Mountains Cast Sun Shadows EP

Reviews:
Terrascope online (by Jeff Penczak):
The Old Bergen Vault gathers together assorted uber-stoned sundries (live, rare, and unreleased) from New Jersey’s finest wyrdfolkies. Megaton acid drops like “Clandestine Forest Lore”’s 22-minute ‘Skin of The Temple’ and Kamiellistat Ytevat-styled furniture movers like “Oil From The Hands of The Empire”’s ‘Whispers The Beginning’ jockey for supremacy with more structured concoctions like the mandolin, tin-whistle, and tabla stomp of the fairy dancing ‘Stoking The Fires on Sorrow Mountain’ (“From The Years of Ashes”) or the country mosey of “Gorge Music for Lovers”’ ‘Sweet August.’ A gentle acoustic guitar flutters around tinkling bells on the navelgazing, Donovanesque ‘In Observance of Old Scars’ and there’s a swirling, Eastern vibe to ‘He Came From The Clouds’ that ends “Ashes” back where “He” came from!
             ‘The Whaler’ opens “Gorge Music for Lovers” with the delicatest of acoustic guitar ruminations, as if someone recorded the sound of honey trickling across the strings, and ‘Descending Deeds’ closes the EP with eerie sci-fi stringbending haunting ten minutes of more acoustic, walk-in-the-forest musings.
             ‘Racing The Chariots Over Babylon’ (from “Moon Mountains Cast Sun Shadows”) offers a glimpse into  the band’s live program (recorded at New Jersey’s WFMU, it was originally released with Dream Magazine #4); it slowly mounts a daring rescue of your weary mind from the drudgery of everyday “folk music” and is not unlike some of the thousand yard stares that Tanakh elicit with their similarly executed dreamscapes. If you enjoyed PG Six’s set at Terrastock VI in Providence, this is right up the pink side of your drainpipe. I’d also like to hear “Moon…”’s ‘Spelunking with The Devil’ in a Tarentino or Rodriguez film – it’s a mean, slow, dirty slide down a slippery slope to hell with nothing but sticky BBQ sauce and a rack of ribs to break your fall. If you prefer your live jams more open-ended, try “Reaping The Bounty”’s 22-minute statement of purpose, ‘Mission of The Tribes.’ I don’t  think the crowd at NYC’s Pianos has yet recovered from this Jodorowsky-induced nightmare of equal parts sushi Western, New Year’s Eve at Times Square, Chinese fire drill, and The Conet Project. Industrialised souls raised on steady diets of Faust, Nine Inch Nails, and Einsturzende Neubauten will wet their undies, but I think this is the sort of stuff that the Terrastock crowd passes out to on their lunch breaks.
            I don’t know why the band weren’t invited to perform ‘Washington Breakdown’ at Pete Seeger’s 90th. Maybe the invitation got lost in the mail, but surely their hoedown take could’ve breathed some life into that  stodgy, reverential backslapping contest. I also dug the ZZ Top-meets Duane Eddy twang of ‘Cypress Voodoo Waltz’ (“Oil From The Hands of The Empire”), the hauntingly gorgeous guitar duet, ‘Ballad of Mary Cecilla Rogers’ and the stark staring, loner/stoner madness of the Julia Vorontsova-assisted ‘Wicked Tribes Will Rise’ (both from “Smoke Signals For Our Nations”). ‘From The Sky Fell Moon Passengers’ (“The Waters of Dead Rivers”) is exactly as engagingly surreal and headswirling as you would expect, the stunning, goosepimpled beauty of ‘Harnessed in The Catacombs’ gets another home, in case you missed the Ptolemaic Terrascope #34 freebie, and there’s even a little bluesy, slide guitar shuffle, ‘Playing Dark River Blues’ if you’re looking for a little variety from the folkier stuff. These last three, along with a sinewy, Neil Young & Crazy Horse-styled ‘Gasoline Dry,’ recorded live at Jersey City’s Waterbug Motel before a very intimate audience – you can practically hear them breathing through the stage mics – give a bit of a tip to “The Waters of Dead Rivers” as my personal favorite (and who could argue with their well-wishing adieu, “Thank you, have a good trip!”) with “Ashes” and “Moon Mountains” close runners up), but there’s bound to be something to satisfy your mind within these nine offerings, be it their more traditional acoustic folk strums, their avant garde, head scratching weirdness, or the just plain skin melting beauty of their shimmering guitar glissandos. (NOTE: The band have announced that they will no longer release material via the CD medium, but you can order all nine of the EPs that make up this archival release directly from them at their special “Pay Your Price” offer).