The New Honey Shade - Ceyx Quest

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Limited Edition CD may be purchased from UK label handstitched*

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"Handstitched* is happy to announce the release of a new album by The New Honey Shade, after hearing 'Ozark Dream' back in 2011 I was hooked on Mark's approach to music, sound design and luxurious beard, it's a great moment to release an album from him.

The album was made using the classic Arp2600, features 15 deep and mysterious tracks and comes bundled with two limited edition collage prints by the artist Michael Tunk. 'Ceyx Quest' appears in stitched manila card stock sleeves which slide nicely into glassine bags. Limited to 60 [sixty] copies." - Tim Diagram (Roadmap Studios UK)

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credits
released May 27, 2017

All Sound + Production :: Mark Kuykendall

Special thanks to :: Tim Diagram (Roadmap Studios UK)

Music by Mark Kuykendall / Recorded at Unknown Tone Studio, Tulsa, OK (2014-2015)

Created with an Arp 2600 Synthesizer and a TEAC 3440 // Violins by Lindsey Neal Kuykendall.

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Find Your Conjectures

Elevated brain theme

Treadwater Fury comes in a lathe cut record edition of just 40 copies. This album is a  hauntologically tinged and soundtrack-centric paean to family and small town England from British musician, Poppy H.

Leaning heavily into folk, ambient and modern classical, and retaining the same long production model, he used a smartphone to capture improv, compositions, and field recordings, and then mixed and mastered the album on the same device.

B6 Just Can't Take Another L

As explained by the artist himself...

"The album is, to a large degree, about family and the east end of London where I'm from. I feel guilt about having distanced myself from the people and places of my childhood. My mum was one of three sisters, their dad died when she was 17 (everyone called him Poppy - hence my pseudonym) - and I was very close to their mum/my nan who herself died relatively young. So, the record is about losing the first of my uncles on my mums side, and how it compelled me to evoke an imagined image of post-war London (when they were born) - and with it a darkness, melancholy but also a bittersweet nostalgia."

A1 Eel & Pie

'Poppy H is a musician and producer from east London, now residing in the far east of England where he uses any spare moment to experiment with a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments, and field recordings. He makes and releases music like each day is his last.’

A4 RJHRIP

Tament is an exploration of sound as both memory and possibility-an attempt to blur the boundary between the concrete and the imagined, the heard and the felt. This album is born out of an ongoing curiosity: what kind of dialogue can exist between the raw, unfiltered audio of the everyday and the abstract sonic worlds we construct through synthesis and production?

At its core, Tament weaves together field recordings, modular synthesizers, and software-generated textures. The ambient recordings are drawn directly from the soundscapes that surround me: the footsteps echoing through familiar streets, fragments of passing conversations, distant traffic, the subtle rhythms of urban life. These are the sounds that often fade into the background, yet they form the soundtrack of my existence. By capturing them, manipulating them, and placing them in new contexts, I aimed to reframe the ordinary-to open a space where the habitual becomes mysterious, and the familiar is rendered strange.

This project is not about documentation or representation. Rather, it’s about translation. I wanted to create an alternate version of the spaces I move through-a kind of dream logic of place, where reality is stretched and reassembled into something more ambiguous, immersive, and open-ended. In doing so, Tament becomes a liminal zone, a place between places.

Just as important as the sound itself was the intention behind its structure-or rather, the lack of imposed structure. I deliberately avoided giving the tracks a fixed narrative or emotional direction. There are no clear themes or guiding concepts here. The music offers a frame, not a story. It is a space left intentionally undefined, allowing each listener to encounter it without expectation, to inhabit it on their own terms. In that sense, Tament is less an album and more a set of sonic invitations.

It is about listening closely, noticing what usually slips past us, and discovering new meaning in repetition, texture, and silence - Glinca

Music, production, and mixing by Tazio Iacobacci
Mastering by Sebastiano D’Amico at Zen Arcade
Track 8 - 'Horocele', features Francesco Canè on modular synthesiser
Design by Daniel Crossley

Glinca - Alized

Anjelica Lindsey is a violinist, composer, and enrolled Citizen of the Cherokee Nation based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She specializes in neo-classical music but has a penchant for exploring various styles and genres. Noted composer Dr. Daniel Felsenfeld has described her compositions as "romantic minimalism."

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