Monday 14 November 2022

GOATHERDER - THE HAYTON TAPES 2

 




















TOR090. Released November 2022.

01 Is there No One in Your World but You I
02 Is there No One in Your World but You II

Recorded, constructed and produced by Stephen Benson.

Live improvisations performed by Stephen Benson, Felicity Cromack,
Emily Ford, Stephanie Gardner, Camille Matton, Asha Nicholson,
Samantha Staniforth, Nick Taylor, Amy Tweddle and Stevie Westgarth.

Recorded at Hayton Castle, November 14th, 2021.

Collage mixed and assembled, Summer - Autumn 2022.

Mastered by Jonathan Sharp.

Artwork by Emily Ford.














Free download and streaming, extremely limited cassette available from Bandcamp.





Friday 23 September 2022

THE NIGHTOWL SINGS - TEST CARD / CHICAGO GIRLS DREAM OF GLASGOW

 




















TOR089. Released September 2022.

01 Test Card
02 Chicago girls dream of Glasgow

The Nightowl Sings is Marc Gillen - Guitars, keyboards, melodica, drum machine and vocals.

All words written by Marc Gillen.

Recorded at home summer 2022.

'Test Card' mixed, manipulated, arranged and produced by Alastair Popple.

'Chicago Girls Dream of Glasgow'  mixed, manipulated, arranged and produced by Stephen Benson.

Photography by Marc Gillen and artwork design by Stephen Benson.

TOR089.

Saturday 30 July 2022

GOATHERDER - MUSIC FOR PROMENADES

 




















TOR088. Released July 2022.


01 Sea Barn
02 Dubmill Point
03 Piano #1
04 Lapse
05 Music for Promenades
06 The Hayton Tapes (Vocal Drone)
07 Chichester House
08 W. Rag
09 New Years Day
10 Postmodern Grief Possibilities

All music performed, recorded, edited and produced by Stephen Benson, October 2020 to October 2021.

Guitar, voice and effects on 'Music for Promenades' and piano on
'Postmodern Grief Possibilities' by Emily Ford.

Drums on 'Postmodern Grief Possibilities' by Steve Orchiton.

Voices on 'The Hayton Tapes' by Felicity Cromack, Emily Ford,
Stephanie Gardner, Gareth Hodgson, Ricardo Marzo, Camille Matton,
Asha Nicholson, Nick Taylor and Samantha Staniforth.

Mastered by Jonathan Sharp.

Cover art by Stephen Benson.


"Recorded during a pretty awful period...a collage of sounds and ideas that document that time. An avant-garde meditation on loss and grief." - Stephen.

Available for free streaming/download or as extremely limited vinyl pressing from Bandcamp.

Wednesday 29 June 2022

THE NIGHTOWL SINGS - THESE DISLOCATED ISLES

 




















TOR087. Released June 2022.

01 These Dislocated Isles (Part 1)
02 These Dislocated Isles (Part 2)

Marc Gillen - Vocals, Drum Machine, Electric Guitars, Keyboards, sounds & samples.

All music and words written by Marc Gillen except ‘Lighthouse’ written by Marc Gillen and Alastair Popple. 

Version of ‘Lighthouse’ sample used prepared by Alastair Popple.

Recorded at home October 2021 to January 2022.

Mixed and edited by Stephen Benson.

Mastered by Jonathan Sharp.

Artwork and design by Emily Ford.


"These Dislocated Isles, and the lighthouse is broken. The last several years has been a heady trip, sometimes dark and long, sometimes baffling and strange, always surprising, always changing. Strange times indeed as I often hear people say. 

Lucky for me, I’m still here to hear them call out, still enjoying the glimpses of light and euphoria when they bolt from the earth and sky.
Feelings and events (personal and communal) have come and gone like quicksands on a ghost beach. Themes emerge and permeate in the ether.

Divorce, bouts of loneliness, falling madly in love and re-marrying, the joy of DIY and punk noise, depression (mostly of dear others) have all featured as constants in my mind casting a tangled web. STICKY.

Add to this constant social and political upheaval, Myopia (everywhere), attacks on the common good, serious illness, lucid dreaming, near death flirtations and explosions of art, song, love and future fever dreams and you have a cerebral headfuck.

This thirty-minute (or so…) TONE POEM (HA!) is a reflection on our personal and shared dislocations, mentally, physically, politically, socially, geographically, economically and spiritually. I pieced it together at the end of 2021 intending to perform it live. Alas, illness has prevented this as yet.

For now, here is A version of These Dislocated Isles for prosperity, bundled up inside tape and digital space, making little sense but holding onto something…. for something (people). 

Thanks for listening, everything is possible.

xx 

Whoever you are, no one belongs here more than you." - Marc
















Free download, streaming and limited edition cassette available from Bandcamp.

Friday 13 May 2022

MYSTERY SPRING - THIS HOUSE IS ON FIRE

 





















TOR086. Released May 2022.

01 Manuela
02 Ghost Ship
03 Rainmaker
04 Wish You Well
05 Cold Country
06 Black Dog Heal
07 Unbroken Light
08 Kiss For Kiss

Marc Gillen - Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Piano, Melodica,
Drum Machine and Field Recordings.
Catherine Reding - Vocals, Violin, Bass and Keyboards.
Alastair Popple - Mixing and Additional Production.

All songs written by Marc Gillen.

Mixed and mastered at The Kitchen Sync by Alastair Popple.

Recorded at home May 2021 to April 2022.

Artwork by Stephen Benson, back cover photograph by Marc Gillen.














Extremely limited CD and free download available from Bandcamp.


Friday 25 March 2022

GLÜCKSFALL - CARNIVAL IN DENTON HOLME

 













TOR08. Released March 2022.

01 Track One
02 Track Two
03 Track Three
04 Track Four
05 Track Five
06 Track Six
07 Track Seven

Glücksfall make their live return with 77 minutes of spontaneously composed noise recorded live at The Source Cafe, Carlisle 21/01/22.

Stephen Benson - Guitar
Asha Nicholson - Vocals
Adam Robson - Drums
Mike Roper - Bass
Jonathan Sharp - Synth & Electronics
Amy Tweddle - Guitar
Steve Wilson - Drums

with

Tom Hepburn - Drums
Jon Ny - Vocals
Dan Russell - Saxophone
David Thompson - Vocals
Loki Thompson - Violin & Synth

Mastered by Jonathan Sharp

Cover art by Stephen Benson

Free streaming and pay-what-you-can download from Bandcamp.



Video highlights reel available here.

Tuesday 22 February 2022

SHELTERLAND - AT THE SERPENT SOLSTICE

 




















TOR084. Released February 2022.

01 A Crack in the Lake
02 Rites of Presage
03 The Scorpion and the Seahorse
04 The Girl and the Glass Ocean
05 The Prettiest Corpse
06 Shades from the Witching Well
07 Night Falls
08 Circle
09 The Lesley Experiment
10 Winter of the Red Queen
11 Parliament of Tears
12 Cadexe
13 The Leph
14 The Sun Chimes
15 The Sentinel and the Ferryman
16 Another Dawn

The players were:-

Al: atmospherics (3, 4, 6, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16), bass (3, 15), cello (1, 3), chant (2), chimes (4, 16), choir (2), drill (3, 11), drones (1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16), drums (3, 9, 15), field recordings (2, 3, 8, 9, 15), fridge (2), glass (2, 3, 4), keys (4), organ (4, 15), percussion (3, 4, 11, 15, 16), piano (1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15), shamisen (15), strings (4)
plus lephertronics on everything except (9), on which there are no lephertronics.

Ste: acoustic guitar (3, 4, 10, 14), bass guitar (3, 9, 13), field recordings (3, 5, 9, 15), mandolin (7), sitar (15)

Marc: acoustic guitar (2, 13), bass guitar (4, 6, 13, 14), inverted vocal (15)

Steve: Drums (3, 9, 15)

Brian: fuffing (15)

Catherine: violin (2, 7, 13, 14, 15)

Dave: vocals (10, 15, 16)

Tim: vocals (1)

Anna: spoken word (2, 4, 10, 11, 12)

and

Robin: flaneurettes (5, 6) - scannerdot.com/2020/04/the-birth-of-flaneur-electronique/
Free to use without copyright

"neatonk": "MISStereoPiano" (1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13) - freesound.org/people/neatonk/packs/9133/
"khunseng": "DR000723" (2) - freesound.org/s/112141/
"Satoration": "mass in croatian cathedral" (2) - freesound.org/s/54753/
"Kaiho": "Sitar long.aiff" (15) - freesound.org/s/37715/

All players performed by Shelterland; all music written by Shelterland
words on (11) adapted from «Людей теряют только раз» by Геннадий Шпаликов

Design & photography by Al
(except image #7 adapted from a photograph taken by Joy & Alf in Soweto, January 13th, 1976)
Box design by Al

Mixed at the Kitchen Sync between 2014 and 2022

freesound.org samples adapted and edited under Creative Commons Attribution license
Summary: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
License: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)

© Shelterland, 2022 ℗ Treehouse Orchestra Recordings, 2022

Thanks for their (sometimes unwitting) involvement goes to Alastair Popple, Stephen Benson, Marc Gillen, Steve Orchiton, Catherine Reding, Dave Thompson, and Tim Popple.
Circle is for Anna, a friend in need.
Brian was a pheasant, by now long since lunch.
Also thanks to Robin Rimbaud for his free flaneur sample pack, and to the uploaders at freesound.org.


Handmade double CDR edition in engraved wooden box with photo booklet, plus USB drive containing the album in various digital formats, an 'Isolated Versions' edition of the album, and a bonus EP of exclusive tracks.

Streaming, download and limited edition box available from Bandcamp.