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Post by doug61 on Apr 25, 2021 12:37:15 GMT
Any fans of the label and the "Hauntology" style. Must admit I love some of their stuff, especially the successfull "Broadcast And The Focus Group – Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age" and some of the stuff from Belbury Poly
Some of it fits nicely towards the TV music and themes from the 70's vibe of the other thread.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Apr 25, 2021 17:34:47 GMT
I like Broadcast And The Focus Group (Andy LS is also a fan). I didn't realise Broadcast were part of some broader style so shall go forth and investigate
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Post by Lord Emsworth on May 4, 2021 12:29:47 GMT
:format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/A-466915-1271158309.jpeg.jpg) As mentioned in late April, I have gone away and delved into the wonderful world of Ghost Box ghostbox.greedbag.com/I've always been a sucker for psychogeography, hauntology etc Somehow Belbury Poly had passed me by but it looks as though there is a trove of great stuff to enjoy and appreciate What's not to dig....? The music of Belbury Poly is, by turns joyous, naive or shot through with terror and supernatural wonder. Parallel world TV soundtracks and nostalgia for an imaginary past.
The band of Ghost Box co-founder Jim Jupp, supported by a loose ensemble of session musicians. Melding hints of folk, krautrock, psychedelic rock and library music. On the one hand it’s escapist mood music, but there’s also an eerie sense that the sounds are bleeding through from a strangely familiar otherworld.What those pesky critics have been saying... “…electronica rarely comes as intriguing and atmospheric and laden with weirdly unshakable tunes.”
The Guardian
“…a turning point for modern electronica: inventiveness pushing right up against the boundaries, made accessible through a door left ajar to memories.”
Record Collector
“Transporting you to those especially daft places only Belbury Poly can – Tizer-fuelled 70s youth club discos with side-rooms for Ouija boards, say.”
Electronic Sound
“…an innocent Anglo Saxon eccentricity, channeled through a panoply of vintage analogue equipment. The result is mesmerizing.”
Flux MagazineSo much more to investigate too...
Next stop....
Justin Hopper & Sharron Kraus With The Belbury Poly – Chanctonbury Rings
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Post by Lord Emsworth on May 5, 2021 9:46:22 GMT
Today's investigation sees me give a loving embrace to Mount Vernon Arts LabMount Vernon Arts Lab being a pseudonym of Glasgow's Drew Mulholland (aka Black Noise, Mount Vernon Astral Temple and N). The lab joined Ghost Box after years of experimentation in geomancy, psychogeography and ancient British Electronics
Its séances evoke visceral sounds that immerse the listener in a world of deserted tube stations, Quatermass, 18th century secret societies, time haunted vaults beneath Neolithic barrows and pub cellars, and the footsore reveries of the modern flaneur
Warminster 4 · Mount Vernon Arts Lab
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 30, 2021 14:29:05 GMT
Today's investigation sees me give a loving embrace to Mount Vernon Arts LabMount Vernon Arts Lab being a pseudonym of Glasgow's..... Drew MulhollandThe Guardian referred to artist/musician Drew Mulholland as “the putative godfather” of the psychogeographic rock movement. Mulholland’s idiosyncratic compositional techniques (for that is the right word) include “sampling” the atmosphere of a particular location and incorporating this resonance/mood/memory into his soundscapes. Formerly trading under the name Mount Vernon Arts Lab, he has staked out a territory between psychogeography and hauntology, inspired by séances, Cold War architecture, desolate places and the occult. Mulholland has collaborated with the likes Isobel Campbell, Sonic Boom, Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake, Adrian Utley from Portishead and Barry 7 of Add N to (X). He has also worked with Coil, which… makes a lot of sense The subject of Mulholland’s latest project is a strange bookstore recalled from childhood. It was an actual, real shop at 624 Alexandra Parade in Dennistoun opposite Wood Street until the mid 1970s.
Messer's Circulating library sounds like the evil twin of Brian Eno’s On Land or the soundtrack to the infernal rites of a 19th century secret society and comes in a slickly published, limited edition object d’art record jacket from the Library of the Occult label.
Album here...
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Post by doug61 on Jul 30, 2021 16:15:46 GMT
Today's investigation sees me give a loving embrace to Mount Vernon Arts LabMount Vernon Arts Lab being a pseudonym of Glasgow's..... Drew MulhollandThe Guardian referred to artist/musician Drew Mulholland as “the putative godfather” of the psychogeographic rock movement. Mulholland’s idiosyncratic compositional techniques (for that is the right word) include “sampling” the atmosphere of a particular location and incorporating this resonance/mood/memory into his soundscapes. Formerly trading under the name Mount Vernon Arts Lab, he has staked out a territory between psychogeography and hauntology, inspired by séances, Cold War architecture, desolate places and the occult. Mulholland has collaborated with the likes Isobel Campbell, Sonic Boom, Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake, Adrian Utley from Portishead and Barry 7 of Add N to (X). He has also worked with Coil, which… makes a lot of sense The subject of Mulholland’s latest project is a strange bookstore recalled from childhood. It was an actual, real shop at 624 Alexandra Parade in Dennistoun opposite Wood Street until the mid 1970s.
Messer's Circulating library sounds like the evil twin of Brian Eno’s On Land or the soundtrack to the infernal rites of a 19th century secret society and comes in a slickly published, limited edition object d’art record jacket from the Library of the Occult label.
Album here...
The ";Library Of The Occult" label looks interesting, will have to check out some of their other releases. |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 30, 2021 16:28:49 GMT
Yes, some intriguing looking stuff...
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Post by doug61 on Aug 1, 2021 12:21:34 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Aug 1, 2021 12:43:53 GMT
It's a thing of beauty Doug  |
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Post by doug61 on Aug 7, 2021 10:01:02 GMT
It's a thing of beauty Doug Got it on vinyl and played it yesterday. Loved it. |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Aug 7, 2021 11:05:34 GMT
Glad to hear it Doug
I notice that Ghost Box are taking pre orders for the new album by ToiToiToi, Vaganten: an elegant, whimsical and slightly nutty album of electronica recorded deep in the German countryside.
ghostbox.greedbag.com/buy/vaganten/
ToiToiToi - Vaganten
In this second LP for Ghost Box, Sebastian Counts leads us a merry dance; a tipsy pilgrimage through a unique sound world of lost European landscapes, odd folk customs, cod-medievalism, sample detritus and electronic melody.
ToiToiToi - Schlendersilber
ToiToiToi - Never a Dull Moment
ToiToiToi - Whimsical Waltz
ToiToiToi - Kuckuckswalzer
ToiToiToi - The Inner Hobo
ToiToiToi - Tee muss tanzen
ToiToiToi - Vaganten
ToiToiToi - Locus of Control
ToiToiToi - Durch die Glut
ToiToiToi - Ley Hunter's Chant
ToiToiToi - Goliards
ToiToiToi - Corpus
ToiToiToi - Tandem
ToiToiToi - Wrong Place, Good Times
Snippets here...
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Apr 22, 2022 8:07:06 GMT
Another fine looking release from the good folk of GB...
The Carrier is a succinct distillation of folk-rock magnificence.
SHINDIG
A fine slice of haunted (and hauntological) folk rock.
UNCUT
...captures the moment when the post-hippie comedown was chiselled into Deep Purple granite... Effortlessly magical.
ELECTRONIC SOUND
Hung with Baroque curlicues of English wood-smoke, the title cut from the upcoming LP, The Carrier lets the listener into Large Plants’ world softly. Like slipping through a mossen dell and into a secret garden of sound.
RAVEN SINGS THE BLUES
The Carrier comes across like a late-'60s soundtrack to an underground biker film that occasionally veers towards horror - Uneasy Rider, perhaps?
MOJO
The Carrier is an impressive package all round, and one that could easily end up on a few Album of the Year lists.
WE ARE CULT
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Post by doug61 on Apr 22, 2022 8:39:18 GMT
Another fine looking release from the good folk of GB...
The Carrier is a succinct distillation of folk-rock magnificence.
SHINDIG
A fine slice of haunted (and hauntological) folk rock.
UNCUT
...captures the moment when the post-hippie comedown was chiselled into Deep Purple granite... Effortlessly magical.
ELECTRONIC SOUND
Hung with Baroque curlicues of English wood-smoke, the title cut from the upcoming LP, The Carrier lets the listener into Large Plants’ world softly. Like slipping through a mossen dell and into a secret garden of sound.
RAVEN SINGS THE BLUES
The Carrier comes across like a late-'60s soundtrack to an underground biker film that occasionally veers towards horror - Uneasy Rider, perhaps?
MOJO
The Carrier is an impressive package all round, and one that could easily end up on a few Album of the Year lists.
WE ARE CULT
I posted the single elsewhere here a while back, La Isla Bonita cover version, glad the whole album is out now. |
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Post by doug61 on Apr 28, 2022 13:46:27 GMT
Another fine looking release from the good folk of GB...
The Carrier is a succinct distillation of folk-rock magnificence.
SHINDIG
A fine slice of haunted (and hauntological) folk rock.
UNCUT
...captures the moment when the post-hippie comedown was chiselled into Deep Purple granite... Effortlessly magical.
ELECTRONIC SOUND
Hung with Baroque curlicues of English wood-smoke, the title cut from the upcoming LP, The Carrier lets the listener into Large Plants’ world softly. Like slipping through a mossen dell and into a secret garden of sound.
RAVEN SINGS THE BLUES
The Carrier comes across like a late-'60s soundtrack to an underground biker film that occasionally veers towards horror - Uneasy Rider, perhaps?
MOJO
The Carrier is an impressive package all round, and one that could easily end up on a few Album of the Year lists.
WE ARE CULT
Just arrived and been given a spin. Good but not great, well worth a listen though. Being followed up by more Ghost Box on the turntable.....  Now this really is a 10/10 for me. |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Apr 28, 2022 14:25:12 GMT
Oooh. Thanks Doug. I agree about The Carrier - perfectly fine but not as great as the reviews I've read suggest
Will check out Entangled Routes
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