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Month: August 2020

Harold Budd – ‘The Pavilion Of Dreams’ (Obscure Records, 1978)

“I realized I had minimalized myself out of a career. It had taken 10 years to reduce my language to zero but I loved the process of seeing it occur and not knowing when the end would come.”

Mücha (Interview with Amanda Butterworth)

“If I connect genuinely with even a couple of people, that’s ace and really that’s something to focus on, rather than focus on who I’m not connecting with.”

amanda butterworth, electronic music, electronica, Mücha, the colour of longing

The Durutti Column – ‘Without Mercy’ (Factory Records, 1984/Factory Benelux, 2018)

“But wait! A drum machine in a modern classical piece? Only on Factory Records. I’ve never, to this day, heard anything so wrong be so right. “

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If only I could get up before 9am…(My Record Store 2020 picks for August 29th)

“Re-issue, re-package, please the press in Belgium?”

4ad, 4ad records, ben watt, cherry red records, factory records, record store day 2020, robert wyatt, the durutti column, the wake, the wolfgang press, vini reilly, vinyl

Heavenly Bodies – ‘Celestial’ (Third Mind Records/C’est La Mort, 1987)

“The ghost of early Dead Can Dance understandably lingers in the tribal percussion and heavily reverbed guitar work and Seaman’s voice is most definitely from the school of Lisa Gerrard, albeit via Alison Shaw.”

celestial, Dead Can Dance, ethereal, heavenly bodies, music, Third Mind Records, This Mortal Coil

Spoonfed Hybrid – ‘Spoonfed Hybrid’ (Guernica, 1993)

“…an album that’s both more varied and sonically untethered than any of their previous incarnations, the noisiness of their previous groups consigned to the corner, allowing a vast space for a plethora of electronic and acoustic instruments to interact, meander and contort…”

ac temple, chris trout, dreampop, guernica records, ian masters, kilgore trout, pale saints, spoonfed hybrid

Jane And Barton – ‘Jane And Barton’ (Cherry Red, 1983/Optic Nerve Recordings, 2016)

“…if you listen carefully, you can almost hear the sound of a gentle breeze in the rushes as you laze on a soft picnic blanket, staring up into the blissful blue.”

1983, album, cherry red records, edward barton, indie, jane and barton, Jane lancaster, music, record

Hood ‘Cold House’ (interview with Richard and Chris Adams)

“When I think of ‘Cold House’ I just think of one thing and that is rain. Relentless freezing cold rain.” – Richard Adams

Arcane Delights Radio Show 1 (CAMP Radio, 8/8/20)

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Brendan Perry (Dead Can Dance) interview

“Homo sapiens have stayed pretty much as they were, as hunter/gatherers, except that they have supermarkets now where they gather. “

4ad records, brendan perry, Dead Can Dance, interview, Lisa Gerrard

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