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November 2020 Top Ten Tracks

Here are our Top 10 tracks for September 2021 on SoundCloud.
Only you can influence next month's chart, so if you hear something you like, keep playing it!
Lots more great music: soundcloud.com/wud-records/albums | soundcloud.com/wud-records/sets
Visit our website: www.wudrecords.co.uk/
Support us with a download: https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/ :)
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September 2021 Top Ten Tracks

Dancing in the Dark by Dark Company, from the album Alien Heat.

Lyrics by P. Greatorex.
Music by G. Davies/P. Greatorex/R. Holloway/M. Greatorex/G. Barbe.

Copyright © 2021 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1989 Explicit Music/Pig Pen Music.

Performers:
Vocals - PJ Speed
Guitars - Zak Black
Keys - Josh Reynes
Bass - Maxx Damage
Drums, percussion - Sven Stiglund

DANCING IN THE DARK
Dancing in the dark
Watching all the sparks of heavy sound
Pressed up to the night
Waiting for the light, waiting for the light
Waiting for the light to hit the ground

Walking down the street
Soaking up the heat of Blue Soul Sound
Pressed up to the night
Waiting for the light, waiting for the light
Waiting for the light to hit the ground

I gotta hear, I gotta see
I gotta set the rhythm free
Gotta, gotta, gotta get around
Gotta get around, get around

Dancing in the dark
Watching all the sparks of heavy sound
Pressed up to the night
Waiting for the light, waiting for the light
Waiting for the light to hit the ground

Walking down the street
Soaking up the heat of Blue Soul Sound
Pressed up to the night
Waiting for the light, waiting for the light
Waiting for the light to hit the ground

I gotta hear, I gotta see
I gotta set the rhythm free
Gotta, gotta, gotta get around
Gotta get around, get around

Gotta get around
Put my soul into the sound
Gotta hear, gotta see
Gotta set the rhythm free
Gotta get around
Put my soul into the sound
Gotta hear, gotta see
Gotta set the rhythm free

Dancing in the dark
Watching all the sparks of heavy sound
Pressed up to the night
Waiting for the light, waiting for the light
Waiting for the light to hit the ground

Walking down the street
Soaking up the heat of Blue Soul Sound
Pressed up to the night
Waiting for the light, waiting for the light
Waiting for the light to hit the... ground

Fun Facts:
Dancing in the Dark was originally written and performed by Alien Heat.
This song is in the key of Bm and the tempo is 131 BPM.
This is arguably the least intellectually challenging set of lyrics Pete ever wrote!
When Pete was referring to this song, he generally called it "Farting in the Park".
Richard's original keyboard riffs are actually played on guitar during the verses.
The guitar parts are played on the Ice Maiden.
In Alien Heat, this was the song where Graham played a drum solo, during which the rest of the band would roll and light cigarettes, or perhaps something a little stronger, before he brought them back in with a big drumroll.
Sven's drumming in this version is rather magnificent and he acknowledges the aforementioned drum solo with a short groovy drum break.
Josh replicated Richard's keyboard solo.
We double tracked it in the end after recording 20 or 30 takes and chose the best two because the synth just wouldn't quite behave itself.

See also:
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/dark-company/alien-heat-2
http://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/dark-company/alien-heat/dancin-in-the-dark
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/alien-heat
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/dancin-in-the-dark
https://twitter.com/Dark_Company
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
http://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/

Email: darkcompany@wudrecords.co.uk

Alien Heat

Dancing in the Dark

Dark Company: Dancing in the Dark (beta mix)

Farsight by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli/G. Barbe/N. Board.

Performers:
George: guitars, synths, keys, samples
Dave: bass, drums, samples 

Samples:
Maharaj Ji, Jonathan Agnew, stinsv.com

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at Clark’s Cottage, West Putford, North Devon.
Strings recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1995 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
* Farsight is the oldest piece on the album At Least 1000 Words.
* It is a piece that George wrote around March 1995, during the days of The Ug Brothers.
* Any recordings of the original have been lost to the vortices of time and the land of refugee cassettes – the Tape Void, as the Ug drummer Graham used to call it.
* Originally there were words for it too.
* These lyrics described the kingdoms of the mind, those inner spaces, places and temples; the mythology of the self that begins in early childhood, a mysterious and magical place that is a sanctuary where only you can go, a place that is reachable in the blink of an eye yet can be so far, far away in space, time and reality.
* This place never really allows any other individual, however close a relationship and understanding they may have with you, ‘access all areas’ – perhaps for the best, as we all need our own castle to retreat to occasionally.
* Farsight is dedicated to that very world that exists within all of us, our private fantasy space, where we go in our dreamtime, and the place from where art comes or is filtered through to us from the farside perhaps, and the zone you are in when you are ‘in the zone’.
* Dave then wrote some other more Ug-like words.
* The only two that can be recalled are “wondering why”.
* The Ug Brothers disbanded before the song was ever performed live.
* This was a great shame as Farsight was one of the band’s collective favourites and one of the last new pieces they worked upon.
* We have been unable to dig up any Ug Brothers recordings of Farsight.
* Natalie, the Ug singer, came up with a vocal melody for the lost lyrics penned by Dave.
* A small fragment of that melody remains, in the very beginning of the lead guitar part, the rest again vanished forever to the realms of nilspace.
* This instrumental version of Farsight seemed to be a convenient resolution.
* In as many ways as possible it is largely true to the original Ug Brothers version.
* The piece begins in G minor but ends in C major and runs at 120 bpm.
* That was exactly the speed of the rhythm of the bridge on the USS Enterprise in the first Star Trek series, a sound which we used from the website www.stinsv.com, and just seemed perfect by its synchronicity.
* As the piece begins you can hear a Klingon door opening, from the same site – to let you in.
* Flicker tried to get the sound of a motor race into the soundscape, but it didn’t work so was left out.
* The percussion is probably not so different from the original played by Graham, again lost to the mists of time.
* Dave certainly delayed coming in with the full drumkit to the exact same point as The Ug Brothers.
* Dave’s beautifully expressive and critically acclaimed bassline, played on the Fender, was what drove and made the piece distinct.
* All the guitar parts are played on the Ice Maiden apart from the lead line, which was recorded using Nicodemus.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/farsight

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

At Least 1000 Words

Farsight

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Flicker: Farsight

Moonpath by Flicker.
Album: At Least 1000 Words

Music by G. Davies/D. Danielli.    

Performers:
George: guitars, Plank, synths, percussion
Dave: drums, djembe

Project directed by George Davies.

Drums recorded at The Old Mill Studios, Thorverton.
Recording engineer: Greg Daniels
Strings, synths and percussion recorded at Chiseldon House, Exeter.

Engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Dave Danielli.
Remastered at Wud Records Studios (uk) 2012.
Remastered again at Wud Records Studios (EU) August 2023.

Originally released 31st July 2002.
First re-release 12th May 2012.
Second re-release 1st September 2023.

Copyright © 2023 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 2000 Explicit Music.

Fun Facts:
* After dark, when the moon is low in the sky, it makes a beautiful shiny road to itself all the way along the top of the sea.
* The moon always looks so beautiful on the sea at Sidmouth, where Flicker and their friends used to go.
* Sidmouth is bang in the centre of Lyme Bay, and the sea looks so big.
* The moonpath there was even better before all the breakwaters were built.
* The guitar parts for Moonpath were all played using the Ice Maiden, which is double tracked left and right.
* The rhythm guitar was the origin of the track and carries the melody as well.
* The tempo is 138 BPM and the key is C# minor.
* There are many hybrid chords involving fretted notes and harmoonics.
* Moonpath ends up on a B.
* Full details here: https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words/moonpath

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/flicker/at-least-1000-words/
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/track/moonpath
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/flicker/at-least-1000-words
https://www.discogs.com/release/17114565-Flicker-At-Least-1000-Words
https://www.redbubble.com/people/flickermusic/shop
https://twitter.com/flickermusic
https://www.instagram.com/wudrecords/
https://www.facebook.com/flickermusic
https://twitter.com/WudRecords
https://linktr.ee/flickermusic

Moonpath

Flicker: Moonpath

Celestine by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009. 

* Celestine is a song of several parts.
* Sometimes it seems to be in the key of B minor, other times G major.
* In the end it resolves to D major.
* Celestine is an Alchemeon exclusive, having not been performed by the Spacegoats, nor any of the Masters of Drone bands such as Now or Laughing Sun.

CELESTINE
Celestine they make their way
Brothers to the water
To cleanse the crystal in the head
Still in silent laughter

The drop into the forehead
Silver people roam
To lace the time
With story rhyme
And drink the river’s daughter
Drink the river’s daughter

Oh! La la la la…

Pyramids inside the mind
They walk the crystalline
To trade their scarlet thoughts for talk
All wisdoms from the grail

Tower stands against the sky
The people are not there
Stone’s old voice speaks of an age
The brothers hear and reel amazed
The brothers hear and reel amazed

Oh! La la la la...

Wind through stone
Your eyes and your ears
Our time has come
Wonder begun

Wind through stone
Your eyes and your ears
The time has come
Wonder begun
Wonder, wonder

Now to be
Now to be
Now to be
Now to be
Now to be

La la la la la…

Words and music by Simon Miller.
This arrangement by S. Miller/G. Davies/J. Peters/Iggy.

Performers:
Pok the Bard – guitar and voice
Jim Iz – keys and voice
Iggy – drums and percussion
George – bass and technicals

This version recorded live at Sound Gallery, Exeter, 22nd February 2009. 
Cassette salvage and remastering at Wud Records Studio One, 2020.

Cover illustration by Pok the Bard.
Graphic design by Sam James.

Released worldwide September 14, 2020.
Original release date: 10th April 2009.

Copyright © 2020 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1993 Pok Songs/Explicit Music.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/alchemeon/
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/alchemeon/alchemeon-lyrics/celestine
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-spring-2009
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-winter-2008-09
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Live In Session Spring 2009

Celestine

Alchemeon: Celestine

Finale by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009.

* Finale is a song in the key of E.
* It would have been the final encore of an Alchemeon live show.
* Finale was originally performed as the closing track for the play Chameleon, which Pok wrote in the mid 1980s.
* A version of this song is in the works for Pok’s growing Anthology album.
* Finale was also performed live by the Spacegoats.

FINALE
When we were young
We saw the faces
And friends from the stars
Built the earthworks with us
And energy ran through
The earth’s sacred surface
Messages ran from star to star
Aaaah

All you can see
All you can be
All that is now
All that’s to come
And all that means something
All that’s inside
All that you covet
All that you hide
Aaaah
Aaaaah

Words and music by Simon Miller.
This arrangement by S. Miller/G. Davies/J. Peters/Iggy.

Performers:
Pok the Bard – guitar and voice
Jim Iz – keys and voice
Iggy – drums and percussion
George – bass and technicals

This version recorded live at Sound Gallery, Exeter, 6th April 2009. 
Cassette salvage and remastering at Wud Records Studio One, 2018.

Cover illustration by Pok the Bard.
Graphic design by Sam James.

Released worldwide September 14, 2020.
Original release date: 10th April 2009.

Copyright © 2018 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1985 Pok Songs/Explicit Music.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/alchemeon/
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/alchemeon/finale
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-spring-2009
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-winter-2008-09
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Finale

Alchemeon: Finale

The Freaks (Shall Inherit The Earth) by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009.

The Freaks (Shall Inherit the Earth) is a glorious rock n roll anthem and call to action in the key of G major. It was performed by the Spacegoats before Alchemeon started playing it. The Freaks (Shall Inherit the Earth) would have been the final song in an Alchemeon set, with Orb and Finale as encores.

During this rendition one of Jim's keyboards started to misbehave. It was either too quiet or too loud and harsh despite his numerous and ongoing fiddlings and twiddlings. At 3:29 he becomes a bit frustrated and gives it a good bash.

THE FREAKS (SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH)
How many jacks are kept in their boxes?
How many dreams are trodden underfoot?
Could it be in you or it could be in me
The fate of all nations or a colour TV

Look down any road see a million faces
Scream back their pain from a sheer concrete wall
There’s a million products made just to fill that hole
But you never never, can never fill it at all

It’s a cry from the depths of a pin-stripe suit
And whose voice dares not to conform
Why is it just those who can see through the see through?
They’re the misfits who break out from the norm

The Freaks! The Freaks!
The Freaks shall inherit the Earth
The Freaks! The Geeks!
Who speak shall inherit the Earth

Should we obey what the government say?
Is it wrong not to tag along?
The question is no question at all
But what we do with our backs to the wall

What is a freak? I think we’ll see
When what is established gets washed away
Those who cling to it will not survive if
Destiny’s child awakes a new day

Just look around you see those bulldozers working
Ripping up the land for fool’s gold again
It’s getting worse, can’t go on forever
And who’s gonna be here when these dinosaurs fall?

Ok. What’s it going to be if it is as we’ve hear?
Who’s gonna emerge with these worlds have submerged?
When the profit is made from the damage is done
You wanna cling to the wreckage or go with the change?

CHANGE!!!!!

Now there’s some pretty megaton forces
Stirring up hate and making a war
Who can get poison and spit out the bullet?
Who are these freaks, do you think that one’s you?

The Freaks! The Freaks!
The Freaks shall inherit the Earth
The Freaks! The Geeks!
Who speak shall inherit the Earth

The Freaks! The Freaks!
The Freaks shall inherit the Earth
The Freaks! The Geeks!
Who speak shall inherit the ….. Earth!!!!

Words and music by Simon Miller.
This arrangement by S. Miller/G. Davies/J. Peters/Iggy.

Performers:
Pok the Bard – guitar and voice
Jim Iz – keys and voice
Iggy – drums and percussion
George – bass and technicals

This version recorded live at Sound Gallery, Exeter, 23rd February 2009.
Cassette salvage and remastering at Wud Records Studio One, 2020.

Cover illustration by Pok the Bard.
Graphic design by Sam James.

Released worldwide September 14, 2020.
Original release date: 10th April 2009.

Copyright © 2020 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1992 Pok Songs/Explicit Music.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/alchemeon/
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/alchemeon/the-freaks-shall-inherit-the-earth
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-spring-2009
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-winter-2008-09
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

The Freaks (Shall Inherit the Earth)

Alchemeon: The Freaks (Shall Inherit the Earth)

Castrol GTX a Go-Go by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009.

This song was composed by Pok in 1992 at George's flat, opposite the Heavitree swimming baths and just a couple of doors downhill from The Emporium, a fabulous old traditional second-hand hi-fi and vinyl shop in Exeter run by John John, who still to this day DJs a fabulous weekly progressive rock radio show on Phonic FM.

Among those present were the famous and acclaimed photographer Marcus Podilchuk. Pok said he would write a song for Marcus and sat on the floor with pen and paper. After some time, when he had finished, he sang this for us. We loved it!

"Is that really for me?" asked Marcus, slightly surprised.

"Actually, no," replied Pok.

* Castrol GTX a Go-Go starts on an A major ands ends on a D minor.
* Simplified, the chord sequence for the verses is A – G# – Dm – Bb – A – Dm.
* Describing to Iggy how the beginning should be played, Jim said “Play some jokes! Play some musical jokes!”
* Children seem to love the whackiness of this wonderful song.
* Castrol GTX a Go-Go was first performed by the Spacegoats before Alchemeon started playing it.

CASTROL GTX A GO-GO
We’re gonna juice you to the bone
Feed the ogre faintly bold
He’s grinding chrome

West is my kind of tree
Feel till you’re opaque in the door
Scooping up the gnomes from the floor

Blessed be the world
For there is a dragon deeply curled
Well I’ll sing a sweep of dreams
Crown the day with night

I’m a matt-bam-bootle
Ride away on my scooter
I peel oranges now

Castrol GTX a go-go
I’m gonna motor your mojo
Brideshead’s eagle and a seagull
Home again, ogre-man

Words and music by Simon Miller.
This arrangement by S. Miller/G. Davies/J. Peters/Iggy.

Performers:
Pok the Bard – guitar and voice
Jim Iz – keys and voice
Iggy – drums and percussion
George – bass and technicals

This version recorded live at Sound Gallery, Exeter, 23rd February 2009.
Cassette salvage and remastering at Wud Records Studio One, 2020.

Cover illustration by Pok the Bard.
Graphic design by Sam James.

Released worldwide September 14, 2020.
Original release date: 10th April 2009.

Copyright © 2020 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1992 Pok Songs/Explicit Music.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/alchemeon/
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/alchemeon/alchemeon-lyrics/castrol-gtx-a-go-go
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-spring-2009
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-winter-2008-09
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Castrol GTX a-Go-Go

Alchemeon: Castrol GTX a-Go-Go

It's a Blue Sky Don't Hold No Rain by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009. 

Jim takes the lead vocal at the start of this song. A little later on, there is a moment of comedy.

At about 5.20, when the vocals come back in again, Jim's lyric sheet makes a sudden leap for freedom. He manages to grab it in mid-air before it escapes. You can hear the "glorch!" of the keys as some part of his anatomy comes into contact with them when he goes for the grab, the little giggle when he catches the sheet, and the mumbulated lyrics as he tries to unfold the paper with one hand while playing the keys with the other.

* It’s a Blue Sky Don’t Hold No Rain was one of the very first songs that Pok ever wrote.
* There are probably not many 17-year-olds who would write such a thoughtful lyric as this.
* Pok once described the song as being about “the loss by genocide of the native Americans and general early eco lament directive for that generation.”
* He also said that the original idea for it came from listening to Neil Young.
* The very first time we heard this was when it was played by Pok on a 12-string acoustic with only six strings, as he sat on a bench along a footpath in the dark in Honiton late one evening.
* Its first proper live performance was at the Sidmouth International Folk Festival in the summer of 1983.
* It’s a Blue Sky Don’t Hold No Rain has been performed by Laughing Sun and the Spacegoats previously to Alchemeon performing it and you can hear their versions at Bandcamp, SoundCloud and the Wud Records website.
* It’s a Blue Sky Don’t Hold No Rain is in the key of E minor and begins and ends with a big glorious Em7 chord.
* The chords in the verses are Em7 – Am7 – C/G – B11#9.
* There is a rather wonderful key change in the “What have we done” section, which is C7 – D7 – Gm7 – D7 – Am – C/G – Em7.

IT’S A BLUE SKY DON’T HOLD NO RAIN
I'll try and try and try and try to get to you
I'll try and try and try and try forever
I'll try and try and try and try to get to you
I'll try and try and try and try forever
Forever

We came across some bones of men
Scattered in the rust
So many good souls turned to dust
Within their shattered husks
And these people had worn jewels
And their heads had been held high
Speckled foreheads touched the sky
Behold the sparkling in their eye

Don’t you know it’s a blue sky
Don’t hold no rain
Don’t hold your love in vain
‘Cos we’ve still got some loving to do

Some time ago the white man came
Bringing bible books and swords
Bound them up in twining cords
In the name of their great lord
They slew down the Aztec, Inca, Ibu, Masai
Now we hide in concrete lies
So to my Mammon side I cry:

"What have we done
To the Mother Goddess Gaia?
Why can’t we nestle in her
Warm aching bosom?"

Aaaah...

Now the world’s a spinning ball
Two thirds with none to eat
So while we chew our scrawny meat
Can you hear those big bells beat?

What have we done
To the Mother Goddess Gaia?
Why can’t we nestle in her
Warm aching bosom?

Words and music by Simon Miller.
This arrangement by S. Miller/G. Davies/J. Peters/Iggy.

Performers:
Pok the Bard – guitar and voice
Jim Iz – keys and voice
Iggy – drums and percussion
George – bass and technicals

This version recorded live at Sound Gallery, Exeter, 22nd February 2009.
Cassette salvage and remastering at Wud Records Studio One, 2020.

Cover illustration by Pok the Bard.
Graphic design by Sam James.

Released worldwide September 14, 2020.
Original release date: 10th April 2009.

Copyright © 2020 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1983 Pok Songs/Explicit Music.

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/alchemeon/
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/alchemeon/alchemeon-lyrics/its-a-blue-sky-dont-hold-no-rain
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-spring-2009
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-winter-2008-09
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

It's a Blue Sky Don't Hold No Rain

Alchemeon: It's a Blue Sky Don't Hold No Rain

The Winged Man by Alchemeon, from Alchemeon Live In Session Spring 2009.

* The Winged Man is in the key of A major.
* This is the version with the new ending.
* The Winged Man is an Alchemeon exclusive.
* It was never performed by any of the Masters of Drone bands such as Laughing Sun or Now, nor by the Spacegoats.

THE WINGED MAN
Heaven knows why but he saved us from the furnace
We mistreated his kind and stained his need to see

Heaven knows why
Our people will fly
Memory will die
This winged man he cried

Melting above he drew his energy from below
And seeing the sun he knew he had to go

Heaven knows why
Our people will fly
Memory will die
This winged man he cried

Can you hear the voices?
Hear the voices around you
And the echo of the voices
Hear them too
Play on
Play on

Seething below the man was a wreck of invention
And we brought him down just like a crash landing

Heaven knows why
Our people will fly
Memory will die
This winged man he cried

He was too far ahead for us here and so he flew
Back to the sun where he’s working on something new

Heaven knows why
Our people will fly
Memory will die
This winged man he cried

Words and music by Simon Miller.
This arrangement by S. Miller/G. Davies/J. Peters/Iggy.

Performers:
Pok the Bard – guitar and voice
Jim Iz – keys and voice
Iggy – drums and percussion
George – bass and technicals

This version recorded live at Sound Gallery, Exeter, 6th April 2009.
Cassette salvage and remastering at Wud Records Studio One, 2020.

Released worldwide September 14, 2020.
Original release date: 10th April 2009.

Copyright © 2020 Wud Records.
Copyright ℗ 1985 Pok Songs/Explicit Music. 

See also:
https://www.wudrecords.co.uk/artists/alchemeon/
https://www.explicitmusic.co.uk/lyrics-information/alchemeon/alchemeon-lyrics/the-winged-man
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-spring-2009
https://wudrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-session-winter-2008-09
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

The Winged Man

Alchemeon: The Winged Man

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Flicker, Dark Company, Pok the Bard, The Bastard Sons of Dennis

LEGACY ARTISTS:
Alchemeon, Clonk!, Dr Watson, The Ug Brothers, Alien Heat, Rough Terrain, The Subterraineans, The Addled Eggs, The Masters of Drone, Laughing Sun, Wud, Lemming Meringue, Sirius Rising, Now, Fooog Dinboffin and the Release, Mark Drower and the Everyones

ARCHIVE ARTISTS:
Andromeda, Critical Error, Dayglow, Demon Groove Lizards, Ember, Fruit Bats, Goodstaff, Guarana, Murdock, Prism, Pyg, Recluse, Search Party, Spacegoats, Stephen Yates, The Chillun, Watershed

* For DIY musicians:

Looking to grow your fanbase? Here's a proven strategy for success. It's a bit time-consuming at first because you need to work at it often. However, the awesome results will make it worth your while:

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/be-discovered-on-social-media

That article was published in March 2017. While some of the links may no longer work, the theory absolutely will. Try it for yourself!

* Unfortunately...

Due to brexshit, broken britain, rip-off britain, corruption, lies and bias in the media, bigotry, racism, intolerance, polarisation, the fact that some of our family members would not be allowed to remain post-brexit, state-sponsored child trafficking (yes, that's right, we said it - it's pretty shocking, start reading from here if you don't believe it: https://forced-adoption.com/), an increasing sense of frustration and exasperation, and general total weariness of being treated with nothing but derision, ignorance and contempt by the entire shebang since the early 80s, we decided enough was enough and moved our entire operation from brexeter in the uk to begin our grand brexodus in 2017. We are now brefugees, living in brexile very near the border of the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany. If you live in (the crumbling remains of) the uk, do yourself a favour and leave. The upgrade in life quality will blow your mind.

* What do we stand for as a label?

We support all independent musicians who are doing something we find interesting. Our team members all have formal music education qualifications.

We are against corporate brainwash muzak, their puppet friends in the mass media, and many other corporate activities. We will fight their desecration of music until either it stops or we die. 

We believe in helping others in the face of corrupt laws and a broken system. We are pro democracy, green energy and free speech.

We're politically liberal. We cannot support the republicans, maga or gun violence in the usa. We don't see there's any real difference, other than in name, between the christian far right in the USA and the taliban in Afghanistan.

In the uk we are broadly pro LibDem/Green/Labour/SNP. We are VERY anti-tory, bnp, ukip, and any of their friends and associates. We have no trust at all in the uk right wing press monopoly and the bbc. Beware the bbc and its claims of neutrality. It is the propaganda mouthpiece of the tory party. It even charges a propaganda tax called the licence fee. But we like Test Match Special and Radio 6, so does that make us hypocrites...? Hmm.

We support independence for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Cornwall. We support the individual and the underdog. We are anti-putin and his war, and pro-Ukraine.

Please notice the careful use of capitals. Capital letters imply respect!

We're only interested in the colour of your soul. Not your skin, hair or socks.

We like cricket! Most of us support Somerset County Cricket Club.