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Released: Jan 1, 2007

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Calenture
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Briar Patch
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Kitty’s Blues
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Hearing Shapes
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At Cross Purposes
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Genre: Alternative / Experimental
Location Manchester, UK
Profile Views: 12925
Last Login: 10/26/2011
Member Since 7/25/2005
Website www.stray-light.co.uk
Record Label Doubtful Sound
Type of Label Indie
Bio
The new Stray Light album 'Waves Broken' is out now (released January 2009) - a numbered, hand printed limited edition of 200. You can order these via the Doubtful Sound website for £6 including postage: http://www.doubtfulsound.net/ .... Or just £5 if you see one of us in person! .... It is our most diverse collection of songs yet and we've also branched out a bit instrumentally with the addition of flute, viola, balalaika, and some slightly unorthodox piano amongst other things, to the usual line-up. There are two tracks here and some more tracks on our website. We also hope to book some more gigs in the coming months… Do get in touch if you are interested in putting us on. .... Stray Light formed in late 1997 and since then the band has developed an ethos of collective composition and improvisation. Given this, and the band's disparate and eclectic musical tastes and influences - from experimental noise to Russian folk music - a highly original approach and sound has resulted. Playing shows in Manchester (supporting bands such as Bardo Pond, Stars of the Lid, and Do Make Say Think) developed the material that would be recorded in 2000 for our first CD - Mile 7 - a disparate collection of songs, improvisations and soundscapes unified by a subtle melancholia, influenced by a millennial roadtrip across the open deserts of Nevada and Arizona. In contrast, the bulk of our second record, Careers, was conceived, finalised, or improvised in a single week of recording in the wilds of deepest Sussex in September 2002. Careers was released on our own label (Doubtful Sound) and can be purchased from our website. .... “Stray Light are all about slowburning intertwined guitar melodies, bolstered by sweet violin drone and skittering drums” – Brainwashed .. .. .. ..
Members
David Bennett - guitar .... Dan Chadderton - drums .... Kat Moor - guitar, flute, vocals .... Ellen Poliakoff - bass, violin, viola, balalaika, piano, vocals
Influences
Anything from Russian Folk Music through to Doom Metal...
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