Christmas Download

You can download the title track from the Hardy Trees CD 'The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath' From Darren Haymans Christmas in Haworth MP3 Advent Calender Here. He is putting up two free MP3s by musicians he likes every day until Chritmas. I'll be releasing a CD by Darren next year of instrumental tunes inspired by lidos/out door pools. So stayed tuned.

The next CD on ClayPipe will be out in January, It will be a co-release with the wonderful Second Language. We are keeping the details under wraps for now as the CD will be send to their subscribers first, after that the CD will be available through their website rather than through mine. As usual copies will be limited, sign up to the Clay Pipe facebook/twitter/mailing list to hear about it first. The packaging is really elaborate on this one and of course the music is very very special.

I'm very excited about the projects I have planned for Clay Pipe, it has been an amazing first year. I've got a lot lined up for next year and I'm really looking forward to working with, and creating the best packaging I can for some really interesting artists.

Happy Christmas!

Dazed and Confused

Clay Pipe has made it into Dazed and confused magazine and I got my photo taken by Rankin. It was due to Jarvis Cockers support - he seems to like what I'm trying to do!
Just finished stapling and folding 300 booklets and a whole pile of Goccoing - fingers crossed there will be another release before Christmas.

The Hardy Tree on Music and Migration 2

The Hardy Tree has a track (Cutty Wren) on the Second Language compilation Music and Migration 2, proceeds to Birdlife International. More information Here.

Thalassing all gone - but you can now download it.

You have probably realised that Thalassing has been sold out for a while now. However all is not lost as you can download it HERE via Michael Tanners Bandcamp page. The original Clay Pipe artwork is included in the download.

Two New CDs

'Thalassing' is a self titled CD by duo Michael Tanner and Kerrie Robinson.
Michael has made music under many guises Plinth, Cloisters and The A.Lords to name but a few as well as recording and playing live with Mark Fry and Sharron Kraus. Last year he released the brilliant 'Music for Smalls Lighthouse' on Second Language. Kerrie plays in Betika.

Thalassing was improvised in one night in front of projections of the sea, and is limited to 100 copies.

*SOLD OUT

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The Hardy Tree - The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath

This is the second edition of the Hardy Tree CD this time in lovely Yellow Ochre, once again limited to 100 copies.

The music on the first Hardy Tree CD 'The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath' was inspired by Frances Castle's local London neighborhood, a soundtrack to the past beneath the pavements, its early grass covered hills, Victorian hay day, and 20th century sprawl. Recorded at home in an attic room over a year, she has patched and stitched together a wonky orchestral jigsaw puzzle of sounds that hint at audio memories, ghost orchestras, cinema organs, folk song , and static and crackle.

£11 + P&P
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Thalassing out Monday 4th July 2011

From next Monday you will be able to buy Thalassing by Michael Tanner and Kerrie Robinson and also the second edition of 'The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath' by The Hardy Tree. If you were on the reserve list for either of these and didn't get an email from me this morning please get in touch via info@claypipemusic.co.uk

Thalassing

The Hardy Tree - The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath

Thalassing and 2nd Edition Hardy Tree

Just to clear up any confusion those on the reserve lists for 'Thalassing' and the 2nd edition of 'The Fields lie Sleeping Underneath' will get an email at the beginning of next week with details of how to pay. I'll send out those Cds first, then the following Monday you will be able to buy both CDs on the website. I hope that makes sense.

Email me on info@claypipemusic.co.uk if you want to go on either reserve list.

printing gluing folding..

Printing, gluing, folding.. Thalasing and the 2nd Edition of the Hardy Tree CD are coming along. I'll be emailing those on the reserve lists soon. Both CDs will be out on the same day.

Thalassing Is On Its Way

Thalassing is slowly coming together, the CDs are back from the manufacturer and the front has been hand printed - all that is left to do is to construct the little booklet that will make up the CD cover. If you want to reserve a copy please let me know at info@claypipemusic.co.uk - there will only be 100 copies and I think this will sell out really quick.
At about the same time as the Thalassing CD comes out the second edition CDs of the Hardy Tree's 'The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath' will also be available - please stay tuned.

Review from Terrascope

A lovely review from Terrascope:

And now for something utterly delightful. “The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath” is a collection of gentle, eccentric and at times child-like tunes inspired by the past and present of the London neighbourhood inhabited by Frances Castle, recording here under the name The Hardy Tree. Among the ten tracks are the tale of a tragic demise, dancing at the long gone Astoria Theatre (the Finsbury Park one and not the recently demised rock-grot palace off Oxford Street) and an affirmation that the memories of the past lie slumbering beneath today’s busy, hectic urban lifestyle. The overall sound is magical and ethereal, a bit like a dream where you are never quite able to reach the end of the journey to grasp the situation you suddenly find yourself in. If there is a bucolic and innocent charm to be derived from modern day London then Ms Castle has tapped into it. One part each of Nico, a string quartet on laudanum occasionally downing tools and playing children’s toy instruments instead and 70s kiddies’ TV programme Bagpuss, this here’s a tonic for the ears.

www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_January_11.htm

Thalassing

The next release on Clay Pipe will be 'Thalassing' a self titled CD by a duo compromised of Michael Tanner and Kerrie Robinson. Michael has made music under many guises Plinth, Cloisters and The A.Lords to name but a few as well as recording and playing live with Mark Fry and Sharron Kraus. Last year he released the brilliant Music for Smalls Lighthouse on Second Language. Kerrie plays in Betika.

Thalassing was improvised in one night in front of projections of the sea.

To put your name on the reserve list email here: info@claypipemusic.co.uk

The CD should be ready in the early spring, there will be 100 handmade copies. To keep up to date follow Clay Pipe on Twitter or Facebook.

SOLD OUT

The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath is now sold out. There will be another edition, if you would like to know when this is ready please join the mailing list via the box in the right hand panel, follow Clay Pipe on Twitter or Facebook. Or email here: info@claypipemusic.co.uk