Graham Lambkin - guitar, tapes, piano, keyboard, flute, vocals, artwork, lyrics
Darren Harris - vocals, percussion, guitar, keyboard
Tim Goss - electronics, keyboards, vocals
Influences
This Heat, The Fall, Tyrannosarus Rex, Shirley Collins, The Godz, ZNR, Whitehouse, Mark Perry/Alternative TV/The Good Missionaries, The Door & The Window, Nurse With Wound
Sounds Like
claustrophobic, detuned, minimal, primitive folk & electronics with dry, thick Brit-accent spoken word vocals
Record Label
Swill Radio, Dry Leaf, Siltbreeze, Corpus Hermeticum
NEW! Shadow Ring 'Life Review 1993-2003' 2CD (KYE03)
A double-disc retrospective of The Shadow Ring's entire body of work, including several unreleased, live and hard to find tracks! The final word in Shadow Ringing. Highly recommended! If you are interested, you can order directly from Mr. Lambkin via this e-mail link.
OUT OF PRINT Graham Lambkin 'Salmon Run' CD (KYE02)
1993 to 2003
R.I.P.
PLEASE NOTE: This is now a semi-official profile, which started out as a fan page. I figured since there was no Shadow Ring presence on MySpace and most likely never would be that I'd take it upon myself to represent one of my all-time favorites....that is until MySpace says, "Enough is enough, I've worked with better bands".
"Led by Graham Lambkin, avant-rock minimalists the Shadow Ring constructed a strange, lo-fi sound built on folk, experimental noise (from both guitar and electronics), tape loops, and spoken-word poetry. Formed in Cheriton, Kent, England, the Shadow Ring initially consisted of guitarist Lambkin and percussionist Daren Harris, with occasional supporting personnel. Forming their own Dry Leaf label, the group made its LP debut with 1993's City Lights, and scored U.S. distribution with the Siltbreeze label for the 1994 follow-up, Put the Music in Its Coffin. It was followed by a 1995 American tour with several Siltbreeze labelmates, including Harry Pussy. Full-time electronics manipulator Tim Goss joined the Shadow Ring for 1996's Wax Work Echoes, on the New Zealand-based Corpus Hermeticum imprint. Lambkin subsequently worked with Harry Pussy drummer/vocalist Adris Hoyos in the noise-rock project Transmission over 1996-97, but remained active with the Shadow Ring, which next issued Hold Onto I.D. on Siltbreeze in 1997. The double LP Lighthouse followed on Swill Radio in 1999, featuring contributions from Karla Borecky and Scott Foust of Idea Fire Company, while also drawing comparisons to Captain Beefheart. Lambkin, Borecky, and Foust also formed the side project Tart, which went on to issue an album called Radio Orange; Lambkin also issued the solo album Poem. The Shadow Ring returned in 2001 with a limited-edition LP on Swill Radio titled Lindus." - by Steve Huey for www.allmusic.com
DISCOGRAPHY
Don't Open The Window / The Heavy Foot Of The Lark 7" (Dry Leaf Discs DF001) 1993
City Lights LP (Dry Leaf Discs DF002) 1993
Tiny Creatures / Harlequin (Darkest Part Of The Sky) 7" (Siltbreeze) 1994
Put The Music In It's Coffin LP (Siltbreeze) 1994
Some Of Us / Wallet Of Wasps 7" (Dry Leaf Discs DF004) 1995
Rats & Mice 7" lathe-cut picture disc (Dry Leaf Discs DF006) 1996
Wax-Work Echoes CD (Corpus Hermeticum) 1996
Live In USA LP (Alpine Archives) 1996
Mouth .. / Mouse In Mouth 7" (MykeDroner) 1997
Hold Onto I.D. CD (Siltbreeze) 1997
Lighthouse 2xLP (Swill Radio) 1999
Lindus LP (Swill Radio) 2001
I'm Some Songs LP (Swill Radio) 2003
Life Review 1993-2003 2CD (KYE03) 2009
Compilation Tracks:
"A Flash Of 8-Watt" from Neon Signs In A Dralon Sky (Cass) 1994 Fisheye
"The Unnatural Crime of Laying an Egg" from Cock Displacement EP 1995 Superlux
"All Frock Colours" from Untitled (7") 1996 Giardia
"Back-Combed Lines" from Breaking The Plastic Hymen, Vinyl Virgins & Lo-Fi Whores (4x7") 1997 Fisheye
"The Way of the World" from Four Years In 30 Seconds (10") 1997 Dirter Promotions
"Tiny Creatures" from Tard & Further'd (CD) 1997 Siltbreeze
"Prawnography" Waiting To Be Old (CD) 1997 Opprobrium
"The Way of the World" from Four Years In 30 Seconds (CD) 1998 Dirter Promotions
"Tuna in Brine" from Patchouli & Echoes (2xCDr) 2004 Beast 777, Chocolate Monk
Side Projects: Klaus Canterbury & the Aces:
s/t 7" EP (Dry Leaf Discs DF003) 1995 Transmission:
"EP 1" 7" (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) 1996
"S/T" CD (Audible Hiss) 1996 Elklink:
"The Rise of Elklink" cass (Polyamory) 1998 Graham Lambkin:
"Poem For Voice & Tape" LP (KYE01) 2001
"Unfocused Hands" art book/CD (Uberkatze Studios) 2003
"Draining The Vats" cass (Swill Radio / Pineapple) 2006
"Salmon Run" CD (KYE02) 2007
