New Moon Wiring Club single 'Always A Party' out 3 February 2012!

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"A 7" Vinyl single in full-colour sleeve, elongated and extricated from the recent Moon Wiring Club long-player Clutch It Like a Gonk. The 'Out-of-the-Hat' mix of Always A Party perfectly captures the euphoric feeling of being eternally trapped in a disorientating ghastly party situation, and was possibly deemed 'too deranged' for release in any other format. Accompanying upon the reverse is a 'once heard never forgotten' extended remix of up-tempo Dancehall Gonk favourite; Infernal Devices."

Released 3 February 2012. Pre-order your copy now!

Wil Bolton's "Quarry Bank" - a beautiful new package from Colin Herrick's Time Released Sound label

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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.

 

Time Attendant, Pye Corner Audio and Moon Wiring Club live at the Dog and Partridge, Bolton, 1 October 2011

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Pye Corner Audio

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Moon Wiring Club

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As fine an array of gadgets, gizmos and boxes of tricks as you'll find in any mad audio scientist's laboratory... (And some spare batteries, just in case!) 

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Listening Mirror "The Heart of the Sky" out now on Bathetic Records

Heart of the Sky by Listening Mirror is just out on Bathetic Records and features four new tracks including the gorgeous Mixtli Sleeps (above), a collaboration with Birds Of Passage.  The tape is limited to 100 copies and is sure to be a fast-seller, so you'd better order soon!

Leyland Kirby's "Intrigue & Stuff - Volume 2" out now

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Volume 2 of Leyland Kirby's 4-part Intrigue and Stuff series is out now in a limited edition of 500, the initial copies of which are pressed on clear vinyl. If, like me, you invested in one of Leyland Kirby's Digital Subscriptions, check your inbox now for your download links. Otherwise, you can listen to excerpts and order your physical copy now from the wonderful Boomkat, who have this to say about the release:

There's absolutely no predicting what direction this series will take, and in this instance we're privy to an internal ocean of quieter thoughts and moods, smudged with a majestic yet somehow solipsistic glow. As ever, there's a wealth of cultural mulch swirling below the surface, siphoning the slyest hints of Harold Budd and dormant spirits of the new age with a dissolute mix of cynicism and sincerity.

Embarking at 'Eventually, It Eats Your Lungs' we navigate the crests of swelling choral samples and strangely tactile blasts of blurry bass, delivered with a physicality not unlike being touched in a dream. The two elements tussle and tumble in this fluctuating mindspace, reaching irregular resolutions that still leave us baffled - in the best possible sense. After dilating our sense of time with this passage, we're briefly extruded through the cosmic chrono-chaos of 'Speeded Up Slow Motion', a piece that feels like gazing into localized miniature black hole. That's all preparation for 'Complex Expedition', one of Leyland Kirby's most breathtaking productions to date. Spanning all 20 minutes of the B-side, the milk sea is curdling and we're stranded, eons away from anyone or anything.

Great stuff!

"Luminaries & Synastry" by Motion Sickness of Time Travel out tomorrow!

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Tomorrow sees the release of Luminaries & Synastry, the second vinyl LP from Motion Sickness of Time Travel (aka Rachel Evans), whose Seeping Through the Veil of the Unconscious made some massive waves earlier this year. Released again by Digitalis (and also available from Boomkat for those of us on the UK side of the pond), Luminaries & Synastry will be available on vinyl LP (the initial copies of which will be in coloured vinyl) and CD. The CD features two bonus tracks that aren't on the vinyl LP, but as all vinyl LPs also include a copy of the CD, nobody loses out (and those of us who play our music mostly digitally are saved the trouble of ripping the LP!)

You can preview a taster track from the album and see what Rachel has to say about it on the Motion Sickness of Time Travel website.

New Advisory Circle album "As the Crow Flies" available for pre-order

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As the Crow Flies, the third album by The Advisory Circle (aka Jon Brooks) will be released on Ghost Box records on 8 July 2011. As the Crow Flies will be available as a vinyl LP and CD (with two bonus tracks).

"This third album from The Advisory Circle is an exploration of the passage of time and the traditional wheel of the year. Achingly beautiful and melancholy melodic analogue electronics, the trademark Advisory Circle sound palette is broadened to include some traditional acoustic instrumentation. One of Julian House's strongest Ghost Box covers so far with beautiful sleeve notes courtesy of Professor Ronald Hutton, Head of History at Bristol University and author of the monumental work on the traditional British calendar, Stations of the Sun."

For more details and to pre-order, visit the Ghost Box shop here.