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.

 

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!

Communicating From Within a Wooden Box by Motion Sickness of Time Travel reissued on CD by Reverb Worship

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UK label Reverb Worship have released Communicating From Within a Wooden Box - the last of their trilogy of classic re-releases from Motion Sickness of Time Travel.  The release is limited to 75 copies, and the previous discs sold out very quickly, so don't delay!

Reverb Worship say:

"Communicating From Within A Wooden Box" is my third CD reissue in a series of early Motion Sickness Of Time Travel recordings. This originally appeared on Hooker Vision as a cassette in a minute edition of only 9 copies in December 2009. This CD is split into two 30 minute plus pieces of music. "Mid - Afternoon" and "Evening". This time we get a intense full on sonic maelstrom. As before the CD has new artwork by Rachel using photographs taken by Grant. The CD comes in an edition of 75 hand numbered copies. Printed on recycled paper. Available now !!

You can order from Reverb Worship here, again on a strict one copy per-person basis.