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Ian Hawgood :: all these places, together
Ambient on tape: Ian Hawgood gathers friends’ field recordings into one instance.
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Records are followed back into the things that made them: rooms, instruments, damaged tape, field recordings, weather, family histories and particular stretches of land. Folk, ambient, experimental music, electronics and song meet here without a fixed hierarchy. Hwael listens closely to the music, and to everything that has entered the recording with it.
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June McDoom :: Follow the Light
Folk and dub debut where a grandfather’s voice note sits under the harmony.
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The Owl Service :: Tied to the Land
Psych folk: murder ballads slowed down by the slowcore of 1994.
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Bibio & Dorian Concept :: Answers
Electronica and folk by correspondence: two friends, one shared folder.
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The Reds, Pinks & Purples :: True Love Daydream
Three songs wander through a garden of unfinished memories.
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Rebecca Leivers :: Other Hands
Three acoustic songs introduce Rebecca Leivers’ solo work.
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The Balloonist :: Spirit Duplicator
Revisits the schoolrooms and half-heard pop of an 80s childhood.
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Helen :: Linda's Head
Shoegaze pop, eleven years on: short songs facing a coast that isn't there.
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Heron & Crane :: Migrations
Pastoral Downtempo, Instrumental psych folk and dream travel.
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Songs of Green Pheasant :: Sings The Passing
Ambient folk, Pastoral fog, tape fragments and a buried brass band.
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Petridisch :: SP-404
Electronica and synthetic voice: Petridisch revisits nine years in seven tracks.
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Vanishing Twin :: Archives
Distance, collage, axe ballads, frog-women, dub, yé-yé, archives.