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This beautifully-crafted package is the tenth release from Time Released Sound and comes in a limited edition of 100 copies. Inspired by Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire, the CD and accompanying booklet (including historical photographs and other material relating to the mill) come in a hand-made bag made out of heavy raw cotton cloth made at the mill itself.

"Quarry Bank Mill, in Cheshire, was one of the largest and most important of the cotton mills in England. Founded in the late 1700′s, it was a working mill for well over 150 years, and has now been rehabilitated and refurbished, and is again a functioning mill, as part of the UK National Trust.

Wil has gone to the mill on numerous occasions and surreptitiously made recordings of the working machineries and environs. He has overlayed these field recordings with some extremely beautiful musicianship, and created here, a homage of sorts to the mill, to the people that worked in it (the majority of which were unpayed and indentured child laborers,) and to the regions around."

 My own photographs of Quarry Bank Mill are on Flickr here.

"Sourced from his mysterious collection of 78s, these vague snippets of archaic sonics reflect the ability of Alzheimers patients to recall the songs of their past, and with them recollections of places, people, moods and sensations. The effect is subtly amplified by the chronic vinyl cut at Berlin's D&M, allowing each memory to segue seamlessly and unpredictably into the next for an otherworldly and disorienting experience."

Limited edition vinyl album on transparent blue vinyl available now. A CD edition to be released on 6 June 2011 is also available to pre-order. And for those of us who have taken out the annual subscription to Leyland Kirby's new releases should be getting an email with the download link very soon!