Tunng and Pinkunoizu toured together across mainland Europe and the UK in September/October 2013. To celebrate, the two bands remixed a track from each of their most recent albums.

The original of 'The Great Pacific Garbage Patch' is taken from Pinkunoizu's 'The Drop' - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-drop/id668541365 
The original of 'Embers' is taken from Tunng's 'Turbines' - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/turbines/id642832029

Tunng - Embers (Pinkunoizu remix)

From the album, 'South Wind,Clear Sky,' out now on Second Language Music.  www.secondlanguagemusic.com

Perhaps still most widely recognised for Dreaming With Alice, his 1972 psych-folk debut for RCA Italy as a 19-year-old art student-troubadour, Mark Fry has been turning his creative gaze on the world, and alchemising its elements into shimmering, quietly visionary works of art, ever since. Certainly not an artist who dances to the music of time in any conventional sense, Mark, a respected, and collected, painter, most often to be found holed up in his Normandy farmhouse studio, allowed more than three decades to glide by before recording Alice’s follow up, 2008’s Shooting The Moon. His subsequent musical activity has been frenetic by comparison.

Mark’s beguiling, Arcadian-flavoured 2011 Second Language album, I Lived In Trees, recorded in collaboration with The A. Lords – musicians from a more recent generation of psychedelic-folk experimenters – proved a major critical hit, demonstrating that Mark Fry’s musical stock lay not only in the Paisley-hued haze of his Aquarian Age youth, but also in the full glare of the postmodern, internet-facilitated present. A series of concerts in Japan and Scandinavia, and a widely reported ‘supergroup’ London showcase, featuring members of Mercury Rev, Super Furry Animals, Tunng and Lemon Jelly, further evinced the subtle but inexorable diffusion of the Mark Fry legend, something abetted by BBC Radio 4’s Today programme airing an interview with Mark in the wake of Trees’ release.

All of which brings us to Mark Fry’s latest, most exquisitely realised musical offering to date, South Wind, Clear Sky. Sung with that now familiar alloy of cool restraint and wondering innocence, and passingly reminiscent of the kind of English pastoralism associated with the likes of Kevin Ayers or Bill Fay, the album’s leanly arranged yet immersive songs are propelled by Mark’s glinting, plangent guitars and deliciously embroidered by John Parker’s double bass, Angèle David-Guillou’s piano and backing vocals and Katie Lang’s French horn, all bound together by producer Guy Fixsen (My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab) into a delightfully iridescent whole. For all its finely honed arrangements, and the translucence of its recording, South Wind, Clear Sky is still very much the work of the man who made Dreaming With Alice; the mature Mark Fry’s feeling for wonderment and magic, for the dreamlike and the innocently surreal, is just as pervasive, and persuasive here, only more focused, and etched against a more luminous, even heavenly canvas.

Where the lyrics on his last album found Mark reaching up through the summer branches toward an azure sky, here that celestial dimension provides the focus for eight shimmering chamber-folk essays whose wistful narratives of flight and fancy and empyrean romance purr and soar with a stately grace, like the ‘Aeroplanes’ of the album’s richly melodic opening track.


Mark Fry - Aeroplanes

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John Roberts' Paloma is one of the most interesting tunes of the collection, a track that confirms the American producer's recent return to an even lusher battery of sounds, drifting more freely towards John Cage'ian shores and melting elements as diverse as nervous guitar vibratos and strings getting distorted in an background orgy of swashing percussions.

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John Roberts - Paloma [Dial]

I don’t know about you
But lately
I’ve been overwhelmed
By the news
Somethings you can accept
Somethings you can
Get used to
Somethings you can ignore
But I’ve heard enough
Not any more
I’ve heard enough
I’m closing my door
I’m clearing my mind
I’m leaving the ugliness
behind
In a place where
No one can find it
Anymore
Peace and order
Have to be restored
Living this way
Just makes a culture poor
Its heart and soul
Gets torn
And pain spreads
Over the land
And the cry goes out
And humanity 
Makes their demands
They’ve had enough
And they want control back
In their hands
©2025 wr heustis

Enough

My Brother Jon

Taken from 'At The Dam' LP by Mary Lattimore, out March 4, 2016.

Order at The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/at-the-dam
Or at the retailer of your choice: https://ghostly.lnk.to/mary-lattimore-atthedam

At The Dam

Mary Lattimore - The Quiet At Night

Tompkins Square is very proud to announce the signing of Welsh multi-instrumentalist, Gwenifer Raymond. Hailing from Cardiff and now residing in Brighton in the South of England, Raymond began playing guitar at the age of 8. 

Her debut album, You Never Were Much of a Dancer, is out on Tompkins Square in early 2018.

Sometimes There's Blood

Efrim Manuel Menuck
Pissing Stars

Constellation
CST129
Out 02/02/18

Efrim Manuel Menuck • "LxOxVx / Shelter In Place"

Christopher Willits - Olancha Hello
taken from Oktaf#04
Various Artists - Lost In The Humming Air (Music inspired by Harold Budd)
Out on Oktaf (Kompakt) april 9th.

Buy CD/DIGITAL at: oktaf.bandcamp.com

Also at:
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With "Lost In The Humming Air - Music inspired by Harold Budd" oktaf records announces an amazing collection of thirteen exclusive tracks made by a selection of some of todays best known ambient music producers giving their tribute to the outstanding piano legend Harold Budd.

The playlists features names as: Deaf Center, Loscil, Martin Fuhs, Biosphere, Xela, Marsen Jules, Andrew Thomas, Mokira, Christopher Willits, Taylor Deupree, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Porn Sword Tobacco and bvdub feat. Criss Van Wey.

Well known for his spaceful piano playing and his early cooperations with Brian Eno, Harold Budd has inspired a whole generation of modern protagonists of ambient, jazz and especially the so called modern classical genre. WIth his recent releases on David Sylvians Samadhi Sound label as well as on Darla, he is still showing his outstanding musical genius to the world.

"Lost in the Humming Air (Music inspired by Harold Budd)" will be released on April 9th (March 26th digital) on oktaf records. Exclusively distributed by Kompakt.

Olancha Hello

From the album A Separation Of Being by JOYFULTALK

JOYFULTALK
A Separation Of Being
180gLP/CD/DL
CST150

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A Separation Of Being

JOYFULTALK • "Part II - Pixelated skin"

**taken from the upcoming Zelienople album "Hold You Up", coming March 13th on Miasmah.

"For their first album in 5 years, Zelienople turns on the current time with a record of low-key decaying songs wrapped in hypnotic, driving rhythms.

The Chicago based trio is back with a stunner of an underground pop album. Their most reverb heavy bombast is gone in favour of pure earth bound intimate tunes that feel like they summon the spirit of the late Mark Hollis. Shrouded tribal percussion and rippling vocals are at the forefront, while looped atmospheres echo in the distance.

Since the release of their last album, vocalist Matt Christensen has been known for pouring his soul out in countless bandcamp releases of singer/songwriter, experimental and ambient offerings. It's hard to keep up with him, but one can't but to admire the dedication and extremely high quality of it all. Mike Weis on the other hand is less prolific, but has become a focused student of Korean Shaman and Buddhist music, often performing in zen based percussive rituals when he's not involved in side projects of improvisational music. Brian Harding is perhaps the most anonymous of the three, yet he is the steady, grounding element on bass that keeps them as one. Together, they create a beautifully realised own voice that feels especially close on their new album. Hold You Up is like a slow walk through a withering world, though one with a sense of refuge. This is music with heart - navigating darkness through light."

Hold You Up

Zelienople - You Have It

Independent record label based in London.  2009 - present day.