Taken from the forthcoming 12" EP  'Revolutions'. 

Available on pre-order from http://helloskinny.bandcamp.com/

Hello Skinny - Crush (Zero 7 Remix)

Taken from the album 'The Man Who Likes Watching' [SLOCD004]

To purchase from the Slowfoot shop - 

The Man Who Likes Watching is the debut solo album by inventive singer and songwriter Charles Stuart and plays like a surreal cocktail of Marvin Gaye with Badly Drawn Boy. It offers a sly and witty portrayal of London life from the playful 'Sunflower' to the dark and disturbing 'Accidents Involving Pedestrians'. 'Bliss in Here' is the inverted hiphop operetta of a slacker plainclothes police man, 'Silence on Trains' is a quickie romance of a tube journey, and in the title track he dreams his father morphs into hardman Gene Hackman.

An urban album salted with soul and peppered with subversive humour, Charles draws on his British/Dominican heritage to deliver a soulful dub-reggae,folk, experimental, groovy kind of leftfield pop.

"This is original, thought-provoking and utterly compelling stuff. Wiry electronica, candid observation and shadowy imaginings juxtaposed against Stuart's velvety vocal harmonies and a rich infusion of funk, soul, dub, jazz and drum n' bass."
- Matt Dowsett

"... Marvin Gaye-meets-Brian Eno... some holy bionic spawn of a sensible Lee Perry and a stoned Goldie... the lyrics suggest... all manner of urban shadowplay, with their sly wit and crepuscular observations... A provocative collection by a wonderfully warped artist." - The Guardian

"Flawlessly executed, I couldn't care less who Stuart likes watchingas long as he keeps churning out the music" - Gazeta

Charles Stuart - Drive Through Snow

Taken from the album 'Introduction To The Story Of Spedy Sponda' [SLOCD003]

Order from the website - 


Slowfoot Records presents Oren Marshall's groundbreaking album for solo electric tuba An Introduction to the Story of Spedy Sponda. Inspired by a dream, the composition traces Spedy Sponda's journey to enlightenment, mirrored by Oren's ongoing search for strategies to unlock the potential of his instrument. When asked to describe his sound Oren replied, "...a contemporary classical ambient space heavy metal experimental improvised folk blues".

The first of a planned five part cycle, Spedy Sponda explores the unique live setup Oren has developed, and captures the range and intensity of his solo performances.

Oren uses the tuba to trigger electronic sounds and loops with the aid of a selection of effects pedals. Part of the piece also involves the connection and simultaneous playing of 5 tubas spread around the room, connected by rubber tubing- a sort of surround sound tuba scape. 
 

"The best avant-tuba record of the year"
Stewart Lee- The Sunday Times

"Imagine Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Ingram Marshall soundtracking an episode of Bagpuss scripted by Dylan Thomas and you're halfway there"
- The Wire

"This way out galactic music is definitely the future for jazz"
- DJ Magazine

"You ain't never heard nothing like this"
- Undercover Magazine

"A tour de force for tuba, one man's mission to go where no tuba player has gone before" 
- The Guardian

Oren Marshall - 6 [edit]

Tiny Pilots

Delicate Engines

Ouch Evil Slow Hop - SLOCD014 - Release date June 13th.

pre-order here - &lt;http://www.slowfoot.co.uk/ouchevil.html&gt;

Slowfoot records are proud to present Ouch Evil Slow Hop, a collaboration between drum alchemist Sebastian Rochford and Pamelia Kurstin, the woman described by Bob Moog as “one of the most important innovators of the Theremin living today.”

Although aware of one another for a number of years, Seb and Pamelia first played together at the suggestion of Brighton’s Loop Festival, and subsequently recorded this album’s material in a Brighton studio, in a number of free improvised sessions then edited by Seb. Portishead’s Adrian Utley added his unique mixing angle, and Ouch Evil Slow Hop was born.

An album that defies simplistic categorization, it veers between eerie soundscapes, locked celestial grooves and explosive workouts. Sections have variously been compared to Herbie Hancock’s ‘Sextant’ era and Soft Machine locked in a fight to the death with Aphex Twin.

Sebastian Rochford/Pamelia Kurstin - Ouch [I]

The Grip - Celebrate [LP/DL]

Slowfoot Records is proud to introduce The Grip and their debut album ‘Celebrate’.  

This playful, freewheeling and energetic trio is comprised of three of Europe’s most in demand and respected jazz musicians. Joining Finn Peters on flutes and sax, we have the highly individual playing of Oren Marshall (Sons of Kemet) on tuba and Tom Skinner (Melt Yourself Down, Owiny Sigoma Band) on drums. Both musicians have previously released records on Slowfoot, Skinner most recently under his Hello Skinny moniker, and both have collaborated extensively with Finn over the years, most notably on his critically acclaimed ‘Music Of The Mind’ project.

In some respects The Grip is a reaction to the Music of the Mind project, that heavily featured live sampling, electronics and ‘…covered the stage with wires'. Wanting to bring the music down to earth again, this completely acoustic trio was born. Inspired by stories fictional and true, their telepathic compositions encompass music from hard blues to free bop and deep funk.

The name "The Grip" is taken from the classic free jazz album by "Black" Arthur Blythe. Finn worked with the legendary drummer from the album, Steve Reid, shortly before he died in 2009. Oren has also collaborated with Bob Stewart, the tuba player from that record. Blythe is a big influence on the musicians, but more importantly, the idea of making events (artistic, musical, social) happen within communities is crucial to The Grip's vision.

After a string of successful dates, the group convened in label boss Frank Byng's South London studio and, true to their philosophy, recorded the album in a day. The resulting recording is fresh and spontaneous and their dynamic interplay clearly the result of years of mutual collaboration. 

The Grip will be performing alongside live Hip hop duo Con+Kwake and Michachu (Dj set) at Cargo on the October 19th, as part of a Finn's Sonic Navigation project at Cargo. Sonic Navigation aims to explore the lineage of improvised music, referencing 60 and 70's Jazz recordings that influence live British hip hop, spoken word and contemporary jazz. 

The album is being released on limited edition vinyl.


The Grip - Acorn

Remix of The Grip and their track 'Saladin'. 

In anticipation of their album 'Celebrate' The Grip have put together a mixtape which features covers, re-workings and remixes of material recorded during the album sessions, featuring Confucius MC, some additional production by Snorkel's Frank Byng and a Hello Skinny remix.

The mixtape is completely FREE!....follow the buy button to download.

The Grip Mixtape

1. Planet Earth
2. Revival [feat. Confucius MC]
3. Piano Interlude
4. Eulipians [feat. Confucius MC]
5. Sax interlude
6. Saladin [Hello Skinny Remix]

The Grip - Saladin [Hello Skinny Remix]

Obviously Confidential

Different

01 Different

Taken from the forthcoming album 'Brutalist' which is due for release on 10th January 2025.

"London-based composer and artist Robert Logan returns with Brutalist, a profound two-hour narrative of sonic exploration on Slowfoot Records. With 24 tracks spanning clinical dub techno, IDM, ambient, and electroacoustic experimentation, Brutalist is both vast and meticulously detailed—a stunning fusion of minimalism and cinematic texture." [Rendah Mag]

'Brutalist' marks the return of prodigious electronic producer Robert Logan, with his first full album on Slowfoot since 2016’s 'Flesh Decomposed'. Jumping from clinical dub techno to ambient, IDM and electro to leftfield electroacoustic experiments, Logan’s usual electronic / symphonic inspirations and ambitions are felt heavily yet are married to something new - a strange, driving minimalism sits at the core of this body of work. 

'Brutalist' is a potent, labyrinthine experience, containing 24 tracks recorded and produced over a 13-year period. This is ugly sounds sounding beautiful, impossible combinations working as music. Massive, monolithic structures emerging through rain, compositions demanding simultaneous introversion and dancing in underground bunkers. Music for after the fallout - a future reborn, remade from the elements. 

Just as Brutalism emerged in the aftermath of World War Two as an architectural statement of positive intent, an affirmation of the potential of human endeavour and of rebuilding the future after the horror and destruction that preceded it, so 'Brutalist' is a testament to the indomitable soul's capacity to rebuild amidst profound devastation. Robert Logan, faced with a crucible of severe chronic health difficulties, transmuted the pain into finishing an album, emerging with a retrospective work that reflects the spirit of architectural Brutalism – stark, raw, yet strangely beautiful. Amongst other sufferings, Logan suffered a devastating sound accident at the beginning of 2020 and spent lockdown battling catastrophic tinnitus, and this record is his attempt to revive from and appropriate the new difficulty. 

This latest addition to Logan’s oeuvre may be his most daring and experimental yet. It is infused with the same exploratory DNA as his inspirations - ranging from Aphex Twin and 20th-century classical music to Autechre, Photek, and more - but his sound remains undeniably his own. 

A mysterious, unassuming artist, Logan released his first solo album 'Cognessence', aged 19, to critical acclaim in 2007. Mary Anne Hobbs described the music on his debut as “absolutely outstanding… impossible to quantify”, with BBC Experimental calling Logan “…something of a prodigy… a man that is already showing a maturity and a musical/textural understanding that many simply never find.” Since then, Logan has carved out an unconventional career dictated by his ambition to explore the mental spaces sound can conjure. Aside from his impressive slew of solo albums and EP’s, he has made two albums with ambient guru Steve Roach and worked on album projects with heavyweights such as Grace Jones, Brian Eno, Morcheeba, and, most recently, John Grant on his latest album 'The Art of The Lie'.

Brutalist

Microstates

Robert Logan - Microstates [Rendah Mag Premiere]

Clever Bunny - Each Time EP

All tracks composed and produced by G. Allen & P. Saville.

Guests:
Frank Byng - drums [all tracks]
Ryan Jacob - trumpet [trks 1, 4]
Phillip Granell - strings [trk 2]

Mixed by G. Allen
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schweburg Mastering
Artwork & Photography by P. Saville

Clever Bunny is the twitching, long eared remedy for the restlessness of 2 old friends.

Giles Allen and Pete Saville, a psychiatrist and artist respectively, share a love of music tinkering and together ran the Carbon Lodge rural recording studio for 6 years, where Clever Bunny was born from late night sessions and a photo of a precocious rabbit playing a toy piano.

The original sound of Clever Bunny was a lo-fi collision of Allen’s penchant for UK Garage & House and Saville’s addiction to early Croydon eski-beat and 70s library music. The only trace of that beginning is a lost 7” called “Liquid Kosh” carrying their distinctive keyboard rabbit emblem screen-printed on the sleeve. 

Forward to 2024, Clever Bunny is the duo’s ongoing commitment to meet annually and experiment within a broad range of genres; beat, bass and voice driven, and to pursue their long form conversation about atheism and metaphysics, synthesis, serendipity, impossibility
and the nudging of improvisation into familiar structures.

Their recent desire to start documenting their activities led them to an off grid cabin in the woods near Horsham. It is a place of willing entanglement, where a handful of synths, a computer, a melodica and a pneumatic organ lead them on a merry dance.

‘Each Time’ captures the spirit of this latest wave of Clever Bunny’s output.

The title track’s lyrics were inspired by Saville’s fascination with apiculture and composting, observing the exchanges between insects, plants and the wonder of fungal mycelia. Frank Byng’s (This Is Not This Heat, Snorkel) impeccable drumming, which infuses this teapot of an EP throughout, drives the song on a swampy swelter, while Ryan Jacob’s (Phaedra Ensemble) 2-tone style trumpet peppers its waltzing trek.

‘Uninhabitable’ is a lament for our World, a Wiley-esque loop soon dissolves, voices are enpaddened and bit reduced, Philip Granell’s (Phaedra Ensemble) violin and viola lead sparse skittering beats and Byng’s smart bell work in a tragic dirty tumbling down.

‘Rolling in the Hay’ is a bottom heavy urgent love song. With its chin-wide nod to Wookie, synthetic beats propel a rolling bassline and vocal through slate grey skies to another world, where we breath different oxygen.

What to make of the ‘Lizard Zoo’? Public Image Ltd meets the Blockheads? This lumbering whiplash dozer of a song is a cathartic rant, a commanding plea to be left goddamn alone! Its indignant vocal and melodica describe a fantasy space where the noisy and feckless can spend time cooling off.

‘Olinda’ was built around an improvisation on an op-1 and a microfreak, then packaged for more one-take mistreatment at the mercy of Frank Byng’s drum sticks into what might be the sound of Photek on a rowing machine. Byng’s intricate fills & breaks lead the listener towards the collapsing crescendo and the end of the EP.

The Wire described the Slowfoot label as releasing music “that might otherwise fall between cracks, but always hits the groove” and that “has evolved organically by occupying the
grooves between genres.” Clever Bunny’s Each Time EP does both.

Each Time EP

Each Time

01 Each Time

03 Rattled and Snaked

13 Eat Your Head Out

07 Word Repellent

04 Go South

14 My Friend Electric

15 Clouded Chords

09 Bruised Crews

01 Night Flight

05 Black Wave Breaks

16 Ground Swell

08 Snacking

12 High

17 No One Home

06 Sirene

10 Flash Flood

02 Ogotemmeli

19 The Wasp Factory

11 All Before And After All

18 Leaving Jet Trails...

New single taken from the forthcoming album 'As Above So Below' [LP/CD/DL].

'As Above So Below' is the brilliant new album by Soccer96, the synth and drums duo of Danalogue [Dan Leavers] and Betamax [Max Hallett] who transmit epic synth-scapes over poly-rhythmic drums and infectious dance grooves in a brutal cocktail of tight electronica and the spontaneous energy of improvisation.

The duo, most known as being two thirds of The Comet Is Coming [with Shabaka Hutchings], currently to be heard whipping up a cosmic storm on their recent acclaimed album 'Channel The Spirits' [Leaf], also collaborate with a huge array of talent. Leavers is currently playing live and recording with Henry Wu, Scratcha DVA, Simbad and Rozi Plain as well as finding time to produce albums by Flamingods, Snapped Ankles and Ibibio Sound Machine. He also plays sax in The Archie Bronson Outfit. Hallett, also a member of groups Super Best Friends Club and Hot Head Show, has played drums with the likes of Sons Of Kemet, Melt Yourself Down, Boredoms, Yussef Kamaal & Nitin Sawney.

In 2012, Soccer96 released a self-titled album, garnering praise from the likes of The 405 and Tom Robinson [BBC6], and leading to a live BBC session for Steve Lamacq. Since then the band have been performing extensively around the UK and abroad playing alongside the likes of Melt Yourself Down, Hello Skinny and Zombie Zombie as well as collaborating with Can frontman Damo Suzuki. More recently they released a vinyl 7" on Wot Not called 'Jupiter Masterdrive' [2014] followed by a released edit from legendary NY DJ Danny Krivit of their tune 'Flight Formations'.

'As Above So Below' is the result of ongoing experiments in various studios over a four-year period including the Total Refreshment Centre in Dalston [with Capitol K] and at Slowfoot label boss Frank Byng's Snorkel Studios in Forest Hill [Byng also contributes percussion to one track]. Recorded using old-school analogue methods, their intention was, partly inspired by Eno's philosophy of 'using the studio as an instrument', to allow the processing of sound to become part of the compositional process whilst embracing Miles Davis' idea of tracks being 'in a state of becoming', a captured moment in time - in their words… "…to allow ourselves to make music as a game, a beautiful, nonsensical voyage into serendipity."

The album is rooted in the timeless human endeavor to reach out beyond everyday existence, in search of dream states and altered states of consciousness…“Our aim was to monitor the effects on the conscious mind when accelerating musical elements at great velocities into high energy collisions. We took specific genre plasm and begun to create sonic compounds with completely alien properties. Avant-garde, hip hop, electronic, pop, prog, jazz and psychedelic particles have been mixed together at an atomic level."

With influences ranging from groups like Can, This Heat, 23 Skidoo and Silver Apples, for their bold approach to improvised composition and recording processes, to the more recent experimentation of artists like Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Gaslamp Killer and Zombie Zombie, the band deliver a dazzling and lysergic blend of jazz, prog and electronica. 

As Above So Below

Feels Right

Soccer96 - Feels Right [Single Edit]

From Monkey Puzzle Trio's debut album "White World". 
Released 20/09/10 on Slowfoot Records.

Monkey Puzzle Trio are:  Charles Hayward --  Viv Corringham -- Nick Doyne-Ditmas


"An utterly impressive début, 'White World' is the exciting sound of three musicians tuned perfectly to each other's sonic free-thinking." [Rock A Rolla]

"...fascinating and hypnotic music." [The Wire]

'When this particular threesome converges, the result is a music that only exists as a very particular collision. The roots of their soundscapes are inextricably entwined with the German avant-groove combo Can producer Adrian Sherwood's output and The Slits, in their dubbier incarnation... ...A lightness of rhythmic touch is the main character of these improvised pieces.' [BBC online]

"Their debut was recorded in just four days and is one of the most mesmerizing avant-jazz albums that Notion has heard for some time." [Notion]

Monkey Puzzle Trio - Araucaria Araucana

Hello Skinny - Bump

Slowfoot is a South London based record label that explores the boundaries between popular and experimental music.

"There really aren’t that many labels around that will smash you with shards of electro bolshiness one minute, soothe you with tuba loops the next and then allow you to fully embrace the jazz fiend inside moments later; but Slowfoot manage it and it make it seem like the most normal thing ever". [Rock A Rolla]

"...in the last decade Slowfoot's roster of acts and releases has coalesced into an eclectic home for music that might otherwise fall between cracks, but always hits the groove." [The Wire]

"Slowfoot Records is fast becoming one of England's foremost purveyors of essential experimental soundscapes, putting out records that utilise wildly innovative recording processes to make future-music built on the recognisable foundations of genres such as jazz, dub and electronica." [Experimusic]

"The South London-based label procure a wealth of experimental and boundary-shoving talent, with all the fine artists on the label carving their own individual style - yet somehow sharing a similar ethos, a collection consciousness based somewhere in leftfield. Slowfoot bridge the multi-layered gap between old school kraut-jams and afro-beat, with contemporary electronica stylings." [The 405]


The current roster includes -

Soccer96
Phall Fatale
The Grip
Hello Skinny
Sebastian Rochford/Pamelia Kurstin
Snorkel
Monkey Puzzle Trio
Crewdson
Robert Logan
Oren Marshall
Charles Stuart
Crackle
Charley Marlowe

Forthcoming releases -

Crewdson - 'Toys' [LP/CD/DL]
Soccer96 - 'As Above So Below' [LP/CD/DL]
Robert Logan - 'Flesh Decomposed' [DL]


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