are talking about da spider that few up turned into a red yellow steak? Cuz I though that was incredible

Beyond fab! Now can i have my family back in the physical form they left and not as a blue vapour, the school took objection after last time.

Great stuff. I enjoy your blogspot as well!

Watching Dead Empires in Decay’, an album recorded under another of Kirby’s pseudonyms ‘The Stranger’ and released on Modern Love, a label that has been close to Kirby through these last eventful 15 years. It’s a dream album for the label: perhaps the most ambitious of Kirby’s career so far. It’s complex, singular, enigmatic, percussive, dark, and you just can’t work out how it was constructed.

Gone are the sampled 78’s of The Caretaker, but it also doesn't exactly sound electronic - you just can’t quite fathom how any of it was put together: Field Recordings? Found Sounds? Sheets of metal scraped and hammered? Drum machines re-wired? It’s stark and unsettling, haunted, even troubling - but often just beautiful.

The Stranger - Providence Or Fate

https://hoverman.bandcamp.com/album/meteor-remixes-pt-1

Sercient (sandpass remix)

This one is a foot in the puddle of my heavier ambient sound with some clackity beats and waves of fuzz from my guitar, but not so fuzzy the lord can't hear the melodies. There is a sample in there somewhere from some Beach Boys ripoff 60s vocal group and it originally sounded like they were saying "Hurry" which is where the name came from. Under all the layers of guitar and shit you can hardly hear it.

Hurry Poison

This is probably the poppiest track on the album. It is fairly simple and short. I had a dream where I had lost my bag in some shopping centre that had become a warzone. There were soldiers and rebels shooting each other and conflict everywhere.  I wanted to get out of there but I had lost my bag. I was searching through this big pile of bags to find mine. At the same time some children were searching the same pile of bags for their friend - who they referred to as "The Rain Captain". They were shouting his name in my dream.

My new album is available now. https://locusttoybox.bandcamp.com/album/stringland

From The Rain Captain

http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2014/05/clay-stool-tv-theme-tune-klofracs.html

Watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMjcn8_F3SA

The theme tune from "Clay Stool," a popular 1970s children's daytime TV programme for 4 to 7 year olds, was released as a single in 1973 under the title "Demons Come In All Shapes & Sizes."

"Clay Stool" acquired its name from a form of medieval punishment for witchcraft. Originally, alleged witches were strapped to a wooden chair - a ducking stool - then plunged into a river. If they sank they were innocent, if they floated they were in league with the devil and summarily executed.

Samuel Revile, a local priest and freelance misogynist, wondered if ducking stools, which were traditionally festooned with dozens of inflated pigs' bladders, colourful helium balloons, and tethered albatrosses had something to do with the high numbers of people being found guilty.

Revile set about inventing the heavier "clay stool." A year after its introduction 100% of accused witches, mostly women, had plummeted to the riverbed where they drowned, proving their innocence.

Revile's work also alerted communities to the dangers of balloons. It was they, he maintained, not the women, that floated and were therefore in league with Satan. To this day, people who make balloon animals are considered unholy and are barred from church jumble sales.

Though Revile revolutionalised the justice system by inventing compassionate torture, he inadvertently caused widespread redundancies in the execution sector.



Demons Come In All Shapes & Sizes (Klofracs Records, 1973)

A Tale of Sorcery

This is more lost pop. Rebuilt from a Noon loop that never made it into a full track, until now. This is the sort of sound I like. I should make more stuff like this.

Junispecting

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http://scarfolk.blogspot.com Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979. Instead, the entire decade of the 1970s loops ad infinitum. Here in Scarfolk, pagan rituals blend seamlessly with science; hauntology is a compulsory subject at school, and everyone must be in bed by 8pm because they are perpetually running a slight fever. "Visit Scarfolk today. Our number one priority is keeping rabies at bay." 


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