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NEUTRALMILKHOTELPHAROAHSANDERSTALKTALK and stuff of that ilk...
'The Highs and Lows of De Witt A Stanton',Limited edition CDs available;£5.00 incl. p&p. (click paypal button below)Also available to download (click banner below)
a cat called flea, a smashed china plate in a plastic bag, a flugelhorn from prague held together with green tape, a jews harp from venice, the birds in a graveyard in nottingham in spring, bits of electronic synthesising and effect tom-foolery, a girl mucking about with a piano, a knackered old zither, a dictaphone recording of a ukranian train station at dawn, sleighbells at dusk, an over-used loop sampler, some old jam-jars in a plastic bag, a nut-cracker named klad, a lampshade, a child's violin, and some other stuff probably too.
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"If you combined mid-90's Tortoise with the entire BBC Sound Effects Library, you may come close to approximating Awesome Wells' sound. But you wouldn't come anywhere near to his precise, caring control - the sounds ebb, flow and weave together to the point where any lingering doubts are assuaged by the gleefulness of the sonic journey you've just taken." - www.anewbandaday.com
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"music I'll admit I find it almost impossible to categorise or describe… absolutely compelling" - Sandman Magazine
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"For all those who appreciate music in its most natural form, this one is solid gold sound." - This Is Fake DIY
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"An endlessly glowing ear-painting of a piece to just get lost in and simply enjoy" - Organ Magazine
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"Combines the pitter-patter, steam-powered instrumentation of Napoleon IIIrd with the playful spirit of Animal Collective or Caribou and some strange shadow of archaic Englishness." - 7 Digital
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"Shimmers with a moment of gentle, hypnotic perfection..... It’s also pretty damned unusual." - Subba Cultcha
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"A brilliant collection of songs with attention deficit disorder....it’s like walking through an endless funfair." - Bearded Magazine
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Doctor Shibbly D'Bo tells you that it is a solo show (bo). Yeah i'm going to be cheating slightly and playing with backing tracks but i hope to play a bit of guitar too, so i won't feel like a complete twat
Roll up, Roll up, one and all, for Lord Linus Twizzle's wonderful...
!!!AVANT GARDEN PARTY!!!
As part of the 2009 Brighton Fringe Festival Linus Twizzle will be presenting one of his legendary burlesque cabaret revue's @ the Latest MusicBar on SAT 23rd MAY.
This is just a late reminder, but, tickets are still available from the fringe box office and website. Get em while they're hot, cause they're going fast!
"Sharron Kraus ha scritto una pagina indimenticabile del folk inglese ... Un disco che desta stupore e meraviglia a ogni ascolto. 8/10" - Ondarock
"...Taking traditional folk music as her starting point, Kraus adds a sense of innovation that's often startling. The end result is a record that truly updates a fine tradition for modern ears. Recommended. 4/5" - Uncut
"Dear Sharron, I'm writing these lines just to let you know that your album has made my life so much better... 9/10" - Foxy Digitalis
"Rappresenta il vertice del western folkwriting italiano, e la cura con cui si adopera per ogni minimo particolare non è di questo mondo, ripagando essa stessa il prezzo del biglietto: The Child of A Creek trasuda verità" - Blow Up
"E' nato un nuovo talento in casa Blackest Rainbow [...] Cameron Deas realizza quello che non è riuscito a fare l'ultimo Blackshaw: la semplicità del sublime.(8)" - Gino Dal Soler
"Hurray. Nice experimental work inspired by John Fahey and Robbie Basho. Lord, please kill all that modern post-rock-ambient-shoegaze" - XO8OUIU
"this is really rather good. It's some bloody good 12 string guitar action that immoderately has us making comparisons to James Blackshaw. However Cameron Deas' approach to the instrument is his own with the first track building from gentle sounds into a crescendo of intensity and energy. If you like your guitar music like Sir Richard Bishop, Ben Nash, Jack Rose, Stefan Basho Jungens etc then this is a worthy addition to your collection" - Norman Records
"Tolling, ebbing, electric like a pulsing breeze blowing random natural and manmade objects in some desolate weed punctured concrete corner. Englishman Jack Allett pulls pokes and prods his electric guitar with varying degrees of intensity on this short two part recording. His multi tracked strings stretch and bend the first track into desolate soundscapes, bone thin improvised melodies, and abstract noisedrone. Track two features a heavily processed guitar pulse around which acoustic picking, vocalized melodies, and anorexic electric guitar drift and mutate. Spoono follows in the footsteps of a myriad of solo guitar experimentalists and steps just enough outside of the lines to establish his own identity within the field. Hopefully longer recordings are to follow and he can fully blaze the trail that his guitar has cut for him. 7/10" - foxy digitalis
"In 'The Mirror of Eternal Light', the Dutch lutist Jozef van Wissem catches his own reflection in tender, minimalist picking and gold-spray overdubs" - David Fricke, senior editor, Rolling Stone Magazine
"Van Wissem seems to breeze across musical boundaries with an effortless fluency" - Pitchfork
"Jozef van Wissem constructs a time bridge which links the 17th and 20th centuries,and, needless to say, the traffic on this bridge moves in both directions. He has made 17th century music into 20th century music" - Brian Marley, Avant Magazine
"Jozef van Wissem has a creative obsession with the concepts of backwards or mirror images. On this cd he applies various palindromes. Van Wissem is accompanied on his gorgeous solos by Gary Lucas who performs a dobro solo that has the sense of intense adventure and motivation" - Eugene Chadbourne
"Jozef van Wissem has been slowly reinventing the lute for the last three decades. Among the slew of fast-picking, fancy-fretting guitar players so prevalent today, his lute’s voice is a quiet oasis, and Stations of the Cross a small masterpiece" - Nick Southgate The Wire
"the certainties of the 17th century holding tight the ugly beauty that we now see scattered around us. I loved these CDs by Jozef van Wissem, A Rose by any other Name and Stations of the Cross. And then I received a new album, A Priori, and I immediately played it and heard its stark and repetitive intensity, its stately and glacial march. There is nothing quite like it that I have heard before - it is timeless, breathing deeply and exhaling showers of snow, endless circles, mirrors, spirals, the sea. When Jozef plays the lute, he pours out endless space. What can I say but let the rain come, close your eyes and watch the stars fall and rise and fall again" - David Tibet/Current 93
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