OTHER CHANNELS AND SEANCE AT HOBS LANE VINYL RE-ISSUES

Two classic Ghost Box albums are re-issued for the first time on vinyl today. Both remastered especially for this format - heavyweight 180g vinyl packaged in luxurious redesigned artwork by Julian House, with original liner notes on beautiful colour inner sleeves.

Other Channels was the first full length album from The Advisory Circle. It evokes a world of public information films, domestic isolation, tranquilliser addiction and the ever present nuclear threat. Jon Brooks achieves this with a carefully crafted sound palette of analogue synthesisers and fragments of long lost broadcasts.

Light synthesiser melodies and moments of surreal humour float in a drift of pastoral melancholia and fuzzy music concrete as the album’s protagonist stares out forlornly at the modernist public library outlined against the ancient bulk of Belbury hill.

Beautifully evocative liner notes by writer, broadcaster and journalist Ken Hollings set the music in a context of domestic neuroses and cold war paranoia.

Séance at Hobs Lane by Mount Vernon Arts Lab is a classic of psychogeographical electronics. Hobs Lane is the fictional tube station where the action of Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass and the Pit takes place. The album plunges the listener into a world of abandoned underground stations, eighteenth century secret societies and the footsore reveries of generations of flâneurs from Thomas De Quincey to Iain Sinclair.

The album was conceived and recorded by Drew Mulholland in 2001, and collaborators included Adrian Utley (Portishead), Jhon Balance (Coil), Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) and Barry 7 (Add N to X). Sleeve notes by the novelist Lawrence Norfolk.

Both are available now in the Ghost Box shop on vinyl and download. They'll also be at your usual stockists very soon. Vinyl customers in the Ghost Box shop will also qualify for a free download version of these albums.

(NOTE: this only applies to Ghost Box shoppers - no DL code is included with the LP anywhere else)

The Twilight Language of Nigel Kneale

Last November in New York, author and journalist, Sukhdev Sandhu curated an event on science fiction screen-writer and author of Quatermass, Nigel Kneale. The Twilight Language of Nigel Kneale is a limited edition book to commemorate the event.

 

Its beautifully designed by Rob Carmichael and the first batch come with a music compilation on cassette titled, Restligeists.

The book and cassette feature some of our own parishioners many names that will be familiar to regular readers of the Parish Magazine...

 

contributions by a wide range of musicians, artists, curators and cultural theorists including Sophia Al-Maria, Bilge Ebiri, Mark Fisher, Will Fowler, Ken Hollings, Paolo Javier, Roger Luckhurst, China Mieville, Drew Mulholland, David Pike, Mark Pilkington, Joanna Ruocco, Dave Tompkins, Michael Vazquez, and Evan Calder Williams. Initial copies will come with RESTLIGEISTS, a tape of specially-recorded Knealiana by The Asterism & Xylitol, Emma Hammond & Robin The Fog, Hong Kong In The 60s, Listening Center, Mordant Music, and The Real Tuesday Weld.

 

 

It really is a beautiful and fascinating piece of work  and its available in the UK from our friends at Strange Attractor. For sales in the rest of the world please write to ss162@nyu.edu

Concert of new work by Drew Mulholland

Drew Mulholland, the founder of Mount Vernon Arts Lab, is currently working as a composer in residence at Glasgow University. A concert of new pieces commissioned by the Department of Astronomy including Stella Nova inspired by the early 19th c. belief in the "Nebular Hypothesis" will be held in Glasgow in November.

Performers: Drew Mulholland, featuring the Edinburgh String Quartet, Jemma Knox (Percussion), Laura Baxter (Piano), and The Madrigirls (Choir).

This FREE concert begins at 7.30pm on 2nd November  in the University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel.