Memories of Earth

The Spaces Between

The Hardy Tree – Common Ground
Frances Castle is the illustrator/owner behind the Clay Pipe record label and The Hardy Tree is her on- going musical project. Common Grounds was started at the beginning of the 2019 pandemic - when time moved very slowly and travel away from home became impossible. 
“Like many others with extra time on my hands I walked the streets of my neighbourhood for exercise and well-being. I rambled like I might in the country side; stopping every now and then to take in the view, or notice something I’d missed before. I took to looking up local streets in historical newspapers, and read reports of murders and deaths and robberies that had happened in the past.  I researched the names of the people who had lived in my house before me, viewed old census returns from the surrounding area, and noted the birth places and livelihoods of past residents. I began to see the ghosts of these people on my walks, and notice the things that they had left behind; shapes of ancient tram tracks creeping under the tarmac, an old gas street light in an alley way, a tiny metal sign indicating a culverted  river.   I spent my evenings writing and recording the music on this LP and then the following day would listen to the rough mixes as I walked, the music began to soundtrack the walks, and the walks began influencing the type of music I was creating.”
Frances Castle 2022

05 The New River Path,  August

01 A Garden Square In The Snow

LFO-18

LFO-18  C-Shape

"Rionnach Maoim" - shadows cast on the moorland by clouds moving across the sky on a bright and windy day (Gaelic)

Music by Benoit Pioulard
Artwork by Gregory Euclide 

Place Language is an international non-profit compilation album project inspired by the themes found in Robert Macfarlane’s widely-acclaimed book ‘Landmarks’. In particular it focuses on the book’s extensive topographic glossaries, the “word-hoard” of depictive landscape terms gathered from 30 different languages, dialects and sub-dialects around Britain & Ireland and divided into sections by type of terrain (Flatlands, Uplands, Waterlands, Coastlands, Underlands, Northlands, Edgelands, Earthlands and Woodlands). Relying on these topograms, or “tiny place poems”, as creative prompts, Place Language seeks to both inspire a renewed interest in our surroundings and reinvigorate our appreciation for the audible textures & patterns that characterize a place in keeping with the book’s stated desire to “re-wild” our vocabulary.

The collection features the work of 28 different sound-artists, field recordists, and musicians from around the globe each of whom selected a Landmarks topogram and recorded an impression of it thus adding rich new aspects of dimensionality through the act of sonification. These selections cover all nine of the book’s glossaries along with place-words of  new coinage as prompted by the blank one which Macfarlane leaves at the end of the book for readers to fill in from their own experience. The end result is a truly global and collaborative survey of place, language, and sound.

More info: https://stationarytravels.wordpress.com/place-language/

Benoit Pioulard - Rionnach Maoim

"Black-east from the crow" - cold, dry east wind (Galloway) / stone shed (West Cornwall)

Music by Bethan Kellough
Artwork by Gregory Euclide

Place Language is an international non-profit compilation album project inspired by the themes found in Robert Macfarlane’s widely-acclaimed book ‘Landmarks’. In particular it focuses on the book’s extensive topographic glossaries, the “word-hoard” of depictive landscape terms gathered from 30 different languages, dialects and sub-dialects around Britain & Ireland and divided into sections by type of terrain (Flatlands, Uplands, Waterlands, Coastlands, Underlands, Northlands, Edgelands, Earthlands and Woodlands). Relying on these topograms, or “tiny place poems”, as creative prompts, Place Language seeks to both inspire a renewed interest in our surroundings and reinvigorate our appreciation for the audible textures & patterns that characterize a place in keeping with the book’s stated desire to “re-wild” our vocabulary.

The collection features the work of 28 different sound-artists, field recordists, and musicians from around the globe each of whom selected a Landmarks topogram and recorded an impression of it thus adding rich new aspects of dimensionality through the act of sonification. These selections cover all nine of the book’s glossaries along with place-words of new coinage as prompted by the blank one which Macfarlane leaves at the end of the book for readers to fill in from their own experience. The end result is a truly global and collaborative survey of place, language, and sound.

More info: stationarytravels.wordpress.com/place-language/

Bethan Kellough - Black-east from the Crow

He's come to terms with a new
Kind of fire it's true
Burning deep beneath the ground he walks on
The ones he thought might matter won't do

I looked into that flame to find
A set of lovely eyes whose gaze searched for mine
And I realized
I feel this too

And now every false step I ever took has led me here
I do whatever I must but I could never disappear
The fingerprints I held 
Are from a different time
When I crossed your path
I touched the glass
And you came to my mind

Now this pool of our reflection
Is a flood of our creation
It's a vote of our devotion
When we both dive in hearts open
But you take it away, take away
You say this can't be, cannot stay
We got carried away, carried away
Look at me and please just be brave

Our faces
Now posed
To each other
You're you
I'm me
We're one, but
Unfamiliar

He's seen a new day it's been said
He's dancing forward and on up ahead
Burning all the bridges that he walked on
Takes what he needs and doesn't dare look back

And now every false step I ever took has led me here
I do whatever I must but I could never disappear
The fingerprints I held 
Are from a different time
When I crossed your path
I touched the glass
And you came to my mind

Now this pool of our reflection
Is a flood of our creation
It's a vote of our devotion
When we both dive in hearts open
But you take it away, take away
You say this can't be, cannot stay
We got carried away, carried away
Look at me and please just be brave

Carried Away

One of Bern's finest selector and @studio-mondial affiliate, @trilliontapeman hits again with a new powerful & mystic mix.

TRACKLIST:
Millie&Andrea - temper Tantrum (tt shorts & hats edit)
M.E.S.H. - Antechamber
Andy Stott - Dismantle
Bully Fae - Elevator Pitch
SLV - Glassed
Kode9 & Spaceape - Black Smoke
DJ Rashad - Brighter Dayz
Hamilton Scalpel - Uprated Nite Zone
Jan Loup - Greatness
Millie&Andrea - Corrosion (tt anti-raw edit)
Seven Orbits - Manits (Zaliva-D Remix)
Vanligt Folk - Snipp Snapp
Zuli - Trigger Finger
Cuban Chamber of Commerce - idk
Moor Mother - The Myth Hold Weight	
Tinkah - Humility

Trillion Tapeman mixxxx

Ep - 21 4

LFO-21

LFO - 21

Guest bedroom music from Calgary.
Murky and raw. Mellow and understated. 
Inspired by everything. Not sure of anything.
-Miranda

Carried Away

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