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DAVID A JAYCOCK - The Coleopterous Cuckoos
Collude
(RDC 010)
Released on the red deer club label
http://reddeerclub. ithinkmusic. com/my-store/detail. php?page=LR&r=4604
Named after a Hitchcock-esque nightmare
in which he was set upon by a pair of hard-winged, marauding cuckoos, David
A Jaycock’s second album is step forward from the pastoral motifs of his debut,
incorporating an expansive country-folk sound alongside the indigenous qualities
and general oddness that have made his name.
An active member of Pickled Egg recording
artists Big Eyes, as well as The Big Eyes Family Players, David plays a vast
selection of instruments, with his signature guitar intricacies joined by
analogue synthesizers, bowed banjos, toy piano, harmonium, and a zither . Subsequently,
The Coleopterous Cuckoos Collude is an achingly beautiful work of cinematic
majesty; its progressive classicism enhanced by David’s will to actively break
traditional musical boundaries. Press Release
In equal measure ethereal and energetic, the beautiful but unsettling collection from pastoral oddity David A Jaycock is a mind-blowing array of guitar mastery and folk soundscapes. As a whole, the album is as complex to take in as its prosaic title, with the range of songs moving through hints of the Arabic souk to disturbed takes on nursery rhyme melodies. High Voltage
Acclaim for The Improvised Killing Of
Uncle Faustus
“constant sonic flourishes of mystery”
Plan B
“timeless melodies” Losing Today
“top marks” Sandman
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'The Improvised Killing of Uncle
Faustus and Other Mythologies' (David. A. Jaycock) [ORDER]
Released: 8th January 2007 at
the Early
Winter Recordings website and all good record shops*
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Press Release (Plan B Magazine)
"The Improvised Killing’s miniature set-pieces
are hard to document in real time. Each one’s self-contained, delicately detailed
like an entry in a Victorian child’s encyclopaedia, and as with an encyclopaedia
you can dip in and out, follow your own path through the album. But listened
to as a whole, its secrets creep out at the listener: constant sonic flourishes
of mystery, ripples at the edges of reality.
For even as Jaycock’s accomplished guitar playing creates a still, bright core
to the music, there’s always something amiss, awry: a keening, vintage synth;
a diabolical fairground-organ lilt in the sweetest of tunes; a darkening drone
in the distance; or a sinister chorus of voices. On the title track, the guitar
stands strong amid a rumble of kettle drums and growling electronics, and a
found flute straight from an MR James tale.
While drawing subtly from classical, folk and blues techniques (and the extended,
experimental style established by Fahey and carried on by the likes of Jack
Rose and Ben Chasny), Jaycock colours his take on acoustic guitar’s traditional
warmth with an edge of thoroughly chilling British oddness. Listen close, and
you’ll hear the ghostly textures of hauntology pioneers Broadcast or Belbury
Poly; the sinister regularity of a Hawksmoor church; the inevitable, fateful
ending of a folk tale; the clash of reason and superstition that gives tension
to a Victorian ghost story; and always, somewhere, a sense of quite beautiful
unease..."
- Frances May Morgan, Editor, Plan B Magazine
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Contacts:
http://www.earlywinterrecordings.co.uk
mailto:info@earlywinterrecordings.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/davidajaycockmusic
mailto:davidajaycock@hotmail.com
*You can order them directly from us
via Paypal/personal cheque, or buy from several mail-order/retail outlets in
the UK….Jumbo / Norman Records in Leeds, Piccadilly Records in Manchester, Forever
Changes / Jacks / Rare and Racy / Record Collector in Sheffield and Rough Trade
in London. Cargo are also distributing them elsewhere around the globe.
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