The new record & debut vinyl release from the electronic and spoken word project of Hull native & Manchester based artist Gareth Smith aka Vanishing (Tesla Tapes, Tombed Visions)

On the night of 21st October 1904, out in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea, Russian warships mistook a British fishing trawler fleet for enemy Japanese warships, and opened fire. One of the fishermen killed that night was George Henry Smith, great-grandfather of Gareth Smith, the lyricist and artist behind Vanishing.
 
55°N, 5°E, performed on the 22nd and 23rd October 2017 on the 113th anniversary of that disaster in the dramatic outdoor amphitheatre of The Dock, Hull, and now given a full vinyl release on Outer Reaches, reawakens that history.

Scored for electronics, saxophone, violin and spoken word, three musicians and three dancers shift through five movements of a cycle. The music is part Throbbing Gristle soundscape, part Vaughn Williams folksong, part John Cale drone…part something else entirely. 

Brutalist noise & sub-bass, febrile drum machines, tense, resplendent strings and expressive intonations wade in and out. Moving between emotion and restraint, Smith communicates his fragmented narrative amongst suspense and unrest; an account of disaster and aftermath; of voids carved into a community in which family members and strong presences have been erased. 

Haunting traces imprinted in the collective memory; only murals, statues and memorials remain. Trauma and absence echoing down paternal lines.

Vanishing - Crane

The new record & debut vinyl release from the electronic and spoken word project of Hull native & Manchester based artist Gareth Smith aka Vanishing (Tesla Tapes, Tombed Visions)

On the night of 21st October 1904, out in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea, Russian warships mistook a British fishing trawler fleet for enemy Japanese warships, and opened fire. One of the fishermen killed that night was George Henry Smith, great-grandfather of Gareth Smith, the lyricist and artist behind Vanishing.
 
55°N, 5°E, performed on the 22nd and 23rd October 2017 on the 113th anniversary of that disaster in the dramatic outdoor amphitheatre of The Dock, Hull, and now given a full vinyl release on Outer Reaches, reawakens that history.

Scored for electronics, saxophone, violin and spoken word, three musicians and three dancers shift through five movements of a cycle. The music is part Throbbing Gristle soundscape, part Vaughn Williams folksong, part John Cale drone…part something else entirely. 

Brutalist noise & sub-bass, febrile drum machines, tense, resplendent strings and expressive intonations wade in and out. Moving between emotion and restraint, Smith communicates his fragmented narrative amongst suspense and unrest; an account of disaster and aftermath; of voids carved into a community in which family members and strong presences have been erased. 

Haunting traces imprinted in the collective memory; only murals, statues and memorials remain. Trauma and absence echoing down paternal lines.

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55°N, 5°E

Vanishing - 55° N, 5° E

'Farfisaline' is taken from 'Gone', the new album by London based duo Natalie Williams & Mark Courtney aka Leyden Jars, a work of fragmented musicality, electro-acoustic emission, disembodied dub, radiophonic interference, and revelatory DIY poetics.

With ‘Gone’, Leyden Jars exert an irrefutable pull, drawing the listener into a vertiginous record of drift and disorientation, a teeming portrait of absence.

Listen / Order: https://leydenjars.bandcamp.com/album/gone-2

Leyden Jars - Farfisaline

'London Gone' is taken from 'Gone', the new album by London based duo Natalie Williams & Mark Courtney aka Leyden Jars, a work of fragmented musicality, electro-acoustic emission, disembodied dub, radiophonic interference, and revelatory DIY poetics.

With ‘Gone’, Leyden Jars exert an irrefutable pull, drawing the listener into a vertiginous record of drift and disorientation, a teeming portrait of absence.

Gone

Leyden Jars - London Gone

'Palm Is Alive In a Hand That Can Crush' is taken from 'Perpetual Skip' - an album of oblique minimal synth & dislocated industrial electronics by experimental London-based artist Kevin Hendrick aka Middex

Middex - Palm is Alive in a Hand that Can Crush

- 'Spirit Shutdown' is taken from 'Perpetual Skip' - a new album of oblique minimal synth & dislocated industrial electronics by experimental London-based artist Kevin Hendrick aka Middex (@middex-682465272)

- The project's second full-length album following releases on Polytechnic Youth, The Tapeworm & Infant Tree + collaborations w/ Lindsay Corstorphine (Sauna Youth, Monotony, Oblate) & Malvern Brume

- Skeletal minimal synth, asymmetric industrial music, homespun sound art & outsider poetics – RIYL John Bender, Einstürzende Neubauten, Adam Bohman

- In 2020 independent publisher Makina Books released a booklet edition of ‘Perpetual Skip’ which was subsequently selected for inclusion in the UK’s National Poetry Library. With the album edition of ‘Perpetual Skip’ these words are reunited with corresponding sounds of discord & disruption.

- Hendrick has had stints in post-punk groups including Male Bonding, Primitive Parts & more recently joined the ranks of punk outfit Adulkt Life.

More Info / Order: middex.bandcamp.com/album/perpetual-skip

Middex - Spirit Shutdown

Outer Reaches is a label specialising in DIY & experimental music both old & new.

Demos: outerreacheslabel[at]gmail.com

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