Adam Walton - Afal (album)
release date: Friday 29th April 2022

 STREAM: https://soundcloud.com/adamwalton/sets/adam-walton-afal (shareable)

My name is Adam Walton. I’m from Mold in north Wales. 

My new album ‘Afal’ is released on Friday 29th April 2022. It’s folkish, melodic (I hope) and a little bit trippy, dictated by the songs having been mostly written and recorded after late shifts at work. I wanted to preserve as much humanity and natural grain in the recordings as possible… eschewing autotune, multiple takes and any urge for perfection.

I love slightly off kilter chord sequences and melodies that weave and glow. If the melodies weave and glow for you, I’ll be a happy-ish man.

Musically-speaking? I don’t know… there are scraps of Emitt Rhodes, Beck, De La Soul, Elliott Smith, Love, Teenage Fanclub, Modern Life Is Rubbish-era Blur, Richard Holland’s compilation tapes… The Zombies, Pink Floyd and The Boo Radleys.

It’s about being older and not hating it; not eschewing responsibility, but giving your imagination and flights of fancy daily mouth-to-mouth and defibrillation. 

It’s trying to elicit the same sense of wonder that Operation Jonah, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Wacky Amoebatrons, Many Happy Returns, The Lotus Caves, And Your Bird Can Sing, Strange Perceptions, Runequest, The Losers Club, and rainy, deserted winter afternoons in Portmeirion elicited in me.

To my mind, the instrumental sketches interspersed throughout the album are just as important as the songs, but then the songs aren’t all that important, anyway, so it’s a moot point.

I do hope you like ‘Afal’, I won’t pretend otherwise. I hope it casts a spell over you.

Thank you for listening / diolch am wrando.

The album is available via all the usual streaming / download outlets from Friday 29th April 2022, and also as a limited edition black vinyl LP (300 copies) from bandcamp.
https://theimmediate.bandcamp.com/album/afal

All songs ©2022 written by Adam Walton (Copyright Control) 

Recorded by a combination of me and Russ Hayes, between my house and Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr.

Artwork by the very wonderful Beverley Dale
http://beverleydale.com

Live Dates
10.06.22 The Lexington, London (with Helen Love)
18.06.22 Le Pub, Newport (with Martin Carr and Richard J. Parfitt)
24.06.22 Elysium, Swansea
09.07.22 B-Fest, Caerwys
23.08.22 Loud & Local Festival, Alexander’s, Chester
03.09.22 Well Inn Music Festival, Holywell

For bookings, please mail: mradamwalton@googlemail.com

Adam Walton - Afal

Listen in solitude.

SIDE 1
	1.	#1									0’33
	2.	Rain On Your Parade					2’59
	3.	#6									0’46
	4.	Emily Said (On Account Of The Days)		2’16
	5.	#4									0’34
	6.	Mary Sees UFO’s						3’22
	7.	Cornelian							2’49
	8.	#12									1’10
	9.	Cloudburst II							3’20
	10.	#5									1’31

SIDE 2
	1.	Blinded By Headlights					2’55
	2.	#8									1’01
	3.	Goldfinch							3’36
	4.	#2									0’27
	5.	2269								3’23
	6.	#3									0’30
	7.	Foreveryou							3’08
	8.	#10									0’43
	9.	The Moon And The Stars					3’16
	10.	#7									1’53

All songs ©2021 Adam Walton except track 12 which was co-written by / features a sample from ‘Walker’ by David Ian Roberts ©2020.
2, 4, 13 & 19 recorded and mastered by Russ Hayes at Orange Sound Studios.
All other tracks recorded at home.
Cover painting and design by Beverley Dale. http://beverleydale.com

For Jane and Graham.

Thanks to: Gail Watt, Ava Walton, Jo Walton, Danny Walton, Ritzy Bryan, Janice Long, Ben Hayes, Huw Williams, Tom & Carrie Hyndman. 

facebook.com/adamwaltonsongs

Made in the UK
Whipcord Records WCRACKLP01

Adam Walton - Afal

Adam Walton - Afal

Listen in solitude.

SIDE 1
	1.	#1									0’33
	2.	Rain On Your Parade					2’59
	3.	#6									0’46
	4.	Emily Said (On Account Of The Days)		2’16
	5.	#4									0’34
	6.	Mary Sees UFO’s						3’22
	7.	Cornelian							2’49
	8.	#12									1’10
	9.	Cloudburst II							3’20
	10.	#5									1’31

SIDE 2
	1.	Blinded By Headlights					2’55
	2.	#8									1’01
	3.	Goldfinch							3’36
	4.	#2									0’27
	5.	2269								3’23
	6.	#3									0’30
	7.	Foreveryou							3’08
	8.	#10									0’43
	9.	The Moon And The Stars					3’16
	10.	#7									1’53

All songs ©2021 Adam Walton except track 12 which was co-written by / features a sample from ‘Walker’ by David Ian Roberts ©2020.
2, 4, 13 & 19 recorded and mastered by Russ Hayes at Orange Sound Studios.
All other tracks recorded at home.
Cover painting and design by Beverley Dale. http://beverleydale.com

For Jane and Graham.

Thanks to: Gail Watt, Ava Walton, Jo Walton, Danny Walton, Ritzy Bryan, Janice Long, Ben Hayes, Huw Williams, Tom & Carrie Hyndman. 

facebook.com/adamwaltonsongs

Made in the UK
Whipcord Records WCRACKLP01

Afal (mastered)

Emily Said (On Account Of The Days)

Rain On Your Parade

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With two new vocal additions from PEACH. and Mat Lloyd, this is a reimagining in so many ways.

"The original track felt like it gave me space to reflect on the question ‘where would we be?’ We have such brilliant minds and have the solutions to most of the worlds problems, but yet, here we are. I’m guilty of spending a lot of time in my own mind imagining better futures, personally and globally, and I got thinking maybe if we were more present, instead of imagining these futures we could build them. I wanted to use Amanda’s original track to create a context into which I could present PEACH. and Mat, and their take on these ideas."

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Secluded Bronte - Richard Thomas, Adam Bohman, Jonathan Bohman - formed in London and launched in New York City in 2002. The trio have been likened to This Heat, Wire, The Specials, Talk Talk, The Residents, The Fall, John Cage and Sun Ra, but this doesn’t really touch the sides, Secluded Bronte are unclassifiable.

Since 2020 Secluded Bronte have released six albums on the Ffordd Allan label, an album on Cafe Oto’s Takuroku label, a 7” EP on Felix Kubin’s Apolkalypso label, contributed to several compilation albums and toured extensively throughout Europe and the UK. A new album, Incidental Games, is imminent in late 2024.

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“What is this? The pop group we always wanted.” - Jennifer Lucy-Allan, The Quietus/BBC Radio 3, October 2023.

"People who hate my stand-up often deny it even constitutes ‘comedy’. Doubtless many would wonder if the work of the veteran improvisatory trio Secluded Bronte should be considered ‘music’. Instruments may be involved, perhaps furniture, maybe even words, or all three in a chance collision of calculated heterogeneity.  All that is certain – time will pass, and something will happen. Start your day in a right state.” - Stewart Lee, Brighton Psych Fest publicity blurb, June 2024.

“Metronomic electrical pulses are made beautiful by multiple layering into complex rhythms with melodic pitch changes, accompanied by spoken words as if walking through a hall of mirrors or a scene from Alain Resnais’s Last Year in Marienbad.” - Jo Hutton, The Wire Magazine, December 2022.

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VIDEO
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Live at Acid Horse (Ffordd Allan)
Live at Supernormal (Ffordd Allan)
Live in Zurich (Ffordd Allan)
Queens (Ffordd Allan)
For Entertainment Everyone Dies (Apolkalypso)
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Magnetic Crochet (Ffordd Allan)

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Oxfordshire, Gerlesborg School, Sweden, WORM, Rotterdam, The Knitting
Factory, New York, Le-non Jazz, Paris, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Prestatyn,
Cafe Oto, London, Wharf Chambers, Leeds, The Cube, Bristol, Close-Up Cinema, London, Musik Aktuelles Festival, Bremen, Kongsberg International Jazz Festival, Kongsberg, Eastville Project Space, Yeovil, Klang Tone Records, Stroud, Audiograft, Oxford, Rammel Club, Nottingham, Le 102, Grenoble, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, FON, Barrow-in-Furness, Fuel, Manchester, Acid Horse festival, Wiltshire, LCB Depot, Leicester, Shift, Cardiff.

RADIO
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For my dad, Graham, who's been gone too long, and for anyone missing their dad today, or any day.

Dad took us all to Italy in 1977. He borrowed John Selby's Maxi and we drove from Nannerch to Lucca. It took three or four days: three or four days of a leaky tent; little bro Danbles demanding fish 'n' chips from bemused French, Swiss and Italian waiters; me completely refusing to go to the toilet. 

It was the most exciting holiday I've ever been on. Sometimes the smell of the Tuscan hillsides comes back to me, or the feeling of absolute contentment reading my dinosaur book by candlelight in our rickety, leaking villa.

And there were scorpions and lizards... SCORPIONS AND LIZARDS!!

Love you and miss you dad.

There is a new album coming soon. This isn't on it.

Thanks for listening.

Written and played by Adam Walton
Drums by Rachel Williams (Peaness)  https://www.facebook.com/rachelwilliamsdrummer
Produced by Adam Walton & Russ Hayes
Recorded at Orange Sound Studios, Penmaenmawr by Russ Hayes.
Field recording courtesy of Eliseo Di Malto & Roberta Musillami
Artwork by Adam Walton

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[For enquiries about my BBC Radio Wales music show, please email my BBC email address... you can easily guess it. Music submissions for the show should be sent via the BBC Introducing Uploader (please). I can't guarantee that I'll see messages sent via Soundcloud - thank you.]

The Immediate are a three-piece indie, power pop band from Mold in north Wales.

We release our Mold EP on Friday 3rd March 2017. The EP will be available to buy on limited edition CD and digitally via bandcamp / iTunes etc.

Mold features 4 brand new recordings, 3 of which are exclusive to the EP.

Lead track, What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?, is a song about some of the kids we went to the Alun School with, who weren’t as fortunate as us and didn’t make it into their 30’s. 

Light Dimensions is the first song we wrote when we reconvened after a long hiatus.

Manbuoy is the title track of our forthcoming debut album, however it does not feature on the album itself. It’s a mostly spoken-word piece that exaggerates all of its writer’s worst qualities.

Mold was recorded at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr, North Wales by Russ Hayes, who has worked on recordings by Peaness, Campfire Social, Kidsmoke, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Billy Bibby and the Wry Smiles.

The sleeve design was done by Paul Maurice from Wrexham. It’s a detail of Shire Hall, the brutalist former seat of Flintshire County Council that sits on a hill, above Mold town centre.

The Mold EP will be launched at a hometown gig at Theatr Clwyd, Mold on Friday, 3rd. March. We’ll be joined by our friends Campfire Social and Skellums. Tickets are £7 and available here:

https://www.theatrclwyd.com/en/whats-on/headliner-rock-night/

Mold EP tracklisting (r/d 3rd March 2017):

1.	What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?
2.	Light Dimensions
3.	Tremble
4.	Manbuoy

If you have any further enquiries, please contact:

theimmediateband@gmail.com

http://facebook.com/theimmediate
http://twitter.com/the_immediate

There is a YouTube video telling the story of the band so far, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtERsE3ihDg

We originally split in 1997 due to frustration, an argument over a mouth organ and the success of Stereophonics.

We released one single (unaccountably popular in Sweden), made every conceivable mistake in the How To Be A Successful Indie Band handbook, toured with some excellent bands (Mansun, 60ft Dolls, Dodgy) and flickered out, leaving behind the memory of some great gigs, a few fine songs, and little else.

In March 2016, we reconvened to repair friendships and renew tinnitus. New songs came much more easily than the old ones, probably because we are playing to please only ourselves - with no thoughts of success or acclaim - for the first time in our existence.

There is more truth and resonance in our songs now than ever before. And power. And invention. We write songs about hope and love in the face of the moribund, daily grind. 

You will possibly hear fragments and echoes of the following artists in our sound (The Jam, Wire, XTC, Pixies, Badfinger, REM, Dr Feelgood, Small Faces, Husker Du, The Who, Ride, Big Star, The Cure, Joy Formidable, The Go-Betweens, Teenage Fanclub), but nothing has been plagiarised or misappropriated to mask a deficiency of our own ideas.

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