New album by The Caretaker "An Empty Bliss Beyond This World" out now

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"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!

The latest 7" singles in Ghost Box's Study Series are on their way...

Releases 5 and 6 in Ghost Box's delectable, collectable Study Series of 7" singles are released on 8 April 2011 and available to pre-order now at the Ghost Box shop. As with the previous releases, there is a special price if you order both releases as a bundle.

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Study Series 05 is "The Open Songbook", by Hintermass - a collaboration between Jon Brooks (The Advisory Circle, D D Denham, Cafe Kaput) and Tim Felton of Seeland.

"For the first time pop music comes to Ghost Box, in the form of rich, melancholy song underpinned with haunting analogue electronics."

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Study Series 06 is "Le Train Fantôme" by Jonny Trunk (of Trunk Records).

"On this single Trunk plays with a wonderfully woolly palette of electronic sound reminiscent of grainy old stop motion animation soundtracks."

"I am a poor wayfaring stranger" by Danny Clay on Heat Death Records

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If you locked Harold Budd and The Caretaker in a haunted studio overnight, you might in the morning, if you were very lucky, have something like Danny Clay's I am a poor wayfaring stranger.

Though there are five separate tracks on the CD, these play more like one haunting, drifting piece of music. Even without cues like the beautiful cover image (a blurred, snowy field photographed through a frosty window) or the track title "Winter Veil", this music has a distant, wintry feel. The ambient piano, looped, treated or simply played, provides the fragile melodies which layered over atmospheric crackles, clicks and rumbles, give the work its vintage feel.

Released on 3" CDr in an limited numbered edition of 75 by Heat Death Records (mine, of course, is number 23!), you really should pick this up before it sells out. When you order, you also get an immediate digital download of the tracks, so you can start listening straight away.

 

'Tryptych' by Demdike Stare available now from Boomkat

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Shipping now from Boomkat, Tryptych is a 23-track, 3CD set that brings together Demdike Stare's three vinyl albums from 2010 together with 40 minutes of extra, previously unreleased material from the same sessions, all wrapped up in a limited edition deluxe triple-panel Digifile. 

"Demdike Stare is a project made up of two insatiable vinyl collectors based in the north of England: Sean Canty (who works for the esteemed Finders Keepers label) and Miles Whittaker (a longtime producer and DJ who has released music under the MLZ moniker and as part of Pendle Coven). The music Demdike Stare make is hard to pin down, based largely around archival musical sources ranging from obscure library records to long forgotten jazz, early electronic, and industrial recordings, alongside an array of Iranian, Pakistani, Turkish and Eastern European material largely unknown in the Western world. Demdike Stare absorb and re-align these found sounds via their ever-expanding array of analogue machinery, ending up with something that is in part Plunderphonic, but ultimately completely new."

Golau Glau's Christmas Output - The final roundup

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It's Christmas Eve and Golau Glau have finally finished (I think!) their festive output. So, to sum up, we have the excellent Myrrh & Myth EP (featuring 5 beautiful new tracks, a Pye Corner Audio remix and a bonus track, last year's Christmas single Foolstide) a Christmas carol (the multiple-child-murder themed Coventry Carol) and no less than three festive mixtapes. All FREE, all great Christmas listening. And to make things even easier, you can access all the download links from this page!

 

MisinforMation: vintage public information films get the Mordant Music treatment

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"MisinforMation is the result of the BFI asking mysterious music makers Mordant Music to re-score an array of 70s and 80s public information films and documentary shorts produced by the Central Office of Information (COI); a serendipitous meeting of sound and image that has produced one of the BFI's most startling and uncategorisable DVD releases."

Here's the BFI press release:

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And you can pre-order MisinforMation at the Boomkat website.

"Tryptych" by Demdike Stare out 24 January 2011

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Tracklisting: 

Disc One - Forest of Evil
01 Forest of Evil (Dusk)
02 Forest of Evil (Dawn)
03 Quiet Sky (Bonus Track)

Disc Two - Liberation Through Hearing
01 Caged in Stammheim
02 Eurydice
03 Regolith
04 The Stars Are Moving
05 Bardo Thodol
06 Matilda's Dream
07 Nothing But the Night 2 (Bonus Track)
08 Library of Solomon Book 1 (Bonus Track)
09 Library of Solomon Book 2 (Bonus Track)

Disc Three - Voices of Dust
01 Black Sun
02 Hashshashin Chant
03 Repository of Light
04 Of Decay & Shadows
05 Rain & Shame
06 Desert Ascetic
07 Viento de Levante
08 Leptonic Matter
09 A Tale of Sand
10 Filtered Through Prejudice (Bonus Track)
11 Past Is Past (Bonus Track)

This 3-CD set will be released on 24 January 2011 by Modern Love and comprises Demdike Stare's three 2010 vinyl LP releases together with 40 minutes of previously unreleased material.