From the album 'Nocturnes' by Tom James Scott. Official release Friday 31st March. Digital available from all the major download/streaming sites. Tape+digital edition available for pre-order now from http://skire.bigcartel.com/. All orders will ship from Monday 3rd April.

Tom James Scott - The Roseate Dreamlight

This work is dedicated to Annette Vande Gorne and Musique et Recherches.

A series of memories interrupt, overlap and flow into one another on a summer's day.

This piece is made exclusively from field-recordings taken in Brussels and Ohain in July 2011 and was begun at the studios of M&R and completed in the composer's own studio.

The creation of this piece was supported by the PRS Foundation and the Bliss Trust.

The Sun Warms The Memory (2011)

appears on "shipwrecked". digital album available here: https://bridgethayden.bandcamp.com/album/shipwrecked

also appeared on 7 inch vinyl compilation on KRAAK: http://freemusicarchive.org/label/Kraak/blog/God_Damn_I_Hate_The_Blues_1571


aye fond kiss

Download - https://greaterthanmusic.bandcamp.com/track/dope

DOPE

Download

Field of fragile friends to enter frame 
Think fast before they clickety-clack saddle your brain

Feels like I chase the rain, some place in the mist 
Enticing pleasures & a brick hard wall hit with a fist

Fester in numbness
Dance for your own eye to see...
But I disappear when you near me.

FRAGILE FRIENDS

Under The Wave

Blue, Dim And Half Light

Inferior stereo version of a 5.1 surround sound composition, which played as an installation on seamless loop in a dark room, at Sound 12, Sage Gateshead.

Light Years (Summed from 5.1 to stereo)

'Ray' is Ashley Paul's bright, sensual return to Slip: a lifting, delighting suite of yearning winds, loose beats, and cocooning, humid bass coming together and falling apart as songs. 

The LP airs Paul's new trio, alongside bass clarinettist Yoni Silver and bassist Otto Willberg, who fatten out and shine light on her singularly intimate, multi-instrumental with mystery and grace. 2018's 'Lost In Shadows' wrote into the bewildering ecstasy of recent motherhood with a tingling resolve. On 'Ray' - recorded remotely during lockdown - Paul's deliciously hesitant songcraft is an outpouring and an anchor in freshly tumultuous times. 

Says Ashley:

"Over the past six months I’ve found myself needing music in a new way, a way of coping. I found again albums I had loved in the past, full of melody and humour, to cancel out the barrage of terrible news happening outside. I think this album is a reflection of that need. There is the playfulness of spending my days with our four year old, and the hours spent tending to plants in the garden and examining bugs, and also the pain of missing family and friends. It’s hard for me to fully comprehend the breadth of emotion I've felt recently but maybe this is a small window.
The trio idea had been formulating in my head for months, and then lockdown happened. At first I was very disappointed and thought I'd be waiting forever to finally make it a reality, but time passed. I started working on a new album and could only hear it with these guys. We recorded remotely. I sent material in a variety of ways; written, aurally and verbal ideas/queues, sometimes with just a shell of a track and other times nearly completed. I wanted all our voices to be present, and to allow freedom in the parts for interpretation and improvisation. Maybe because we’ve all worked together in various situations and are friends, I’m not sure, but it came together naturally, magically and quickly."

'Ray' [SLP060] is available from November 2020 on LP and download. Painting by Gayle Paul. Design by Ashley Paul. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Distributed by Boomkat.

LP/DL

Light Inside My Skin - Ashley Paul

foggy memory triggers, minimalism, lower-case psychedelia and half-remembered dreams from Newcastle, UK.  this project has grown in several different directions since it started, and this page is to share a cross section of it all (or at least, most of it)- electroacoustic/collage/ambient pieces, compositions for solo electric guitar and (soon) eurorack modular, and other miscellanea, installations/soundtracks/field recordings etc. this page is also a temporary soundcloud home for the mutant big-band midnight doctors. thanks for listening.

Light Years (Summed from 5.1 to stereo)

Phil Begg / Hapsburg Braganza