~ LAAPS 043 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP43]

artist : Ben McElroy
album : Elkwort
duration : 41.21 mn
date : April 28th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / green LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : April 10th, 2025 / official release : April 28th, 2025
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Ben McElroy - composition, arrangement, mixing, instrumentation

Elinor Rowlands - spoken word on "The Howling and I Must Have Walked past There a Thousand Times"
Debbie Armour - vocals on "Kindling and "Deosil"
Nick Jonah Davis - guitar and bowed weissenborn on "A Dream Of Deosil"

Recorded at home, Jt Soar (with Phil Booth and Rich Snug) and Nick’s studio-shed.

Mastered by Nick Jonah Davis
Artwork by Nieves Mingueza
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://benmcelroy.bandcamp.com/
https://www.benmcelroy.co.uk/
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Ben McElroy - I Must Have Walked Past There a Thousand Times (with Elinor Rowlands)

self-taught musician & multi-instrumentalist since 2008. since 2010, monolyth & cobalt has been released on some labels such as Kesh recordings, Audio Gourmet, Twice Removed Records, Time Released Sounds, Unknown Tone Records and eilean rec.

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each release start with the end of the previous one.
in sounds and visually. 
an exquisite corpse with 100 releases which will make the loop.
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Federica Jeanne de Luca 
Visual artist based in Milan | working on visual-audio synaesthesia | album cover artwork | record labels contributor

Projects and collaborations with record labels, musicians, composers:
Marco Tiraboschi (Italy)
Fabio Perletta & Luigi Turra (Italy)
AQRR Mathias Lystbæk Hansen (Denmark)
Vittorio Guindani (Italy)
Sebastian Morawietz (Germany)
The Humble Bee & Offthesky (Colorado, U.S)
Same Waves + Hibernis - John Hughes & Lindsay Anderson (Illinois, U.S)
Voga (Canada)
Andrew Sherwell (UK)
Daliah (California, U.S)
Sound Meccano | Jura Laiva (Latvia)
Antoine Hubineau (France)
Sven Laux (Germany)
Fleur de Chien (France)
Anomali (Germany)
Philippe Lamy (France)

Collaboration with independent record labels:
Da Vinci Publishing (Japan)
AQRR (Denmark)
Laaps Records (France)
Hefty Records (Illinois, U.S)
Whitelabrecs (UK)
Eilean rec (France)
Microrama (France)

For any informations please feel free to contact me by email: info.federicadeluca@gmail.com