Seasons Greetings

Thanks to everyone who has supported Clay Pipe Music this year, it has been hard work but exciting   and now I'm  looking forward to 2013 and the first vinyl releases on Clay Pipe.

Jon Brooks 'Shapwick' is being pressed as I write this, and if all goes to plan we are hoping for a late February release. There will be 500 hand numbered copies and each copy will come with a download code.  I'll be posting updates in the New Year, so keep checking back to the website.

Later in the spring I will be releasing Plinths 'Smalls Lighthouse' on vinyl - this was initially released on Second Language  in a edition of only 150 CDs, and is long due a re-release. It is a really beautiful piece of music that deserves to be heard by more people.

 As usual I'll be throwing all my energies into making these interesting and well designed packages. 



Plinth - Sirens (excerpt) from michael tanner on Vimeo.

Tyneham House

**SOLD OUT**

This is the second edition of the CD that was originally released as a split between Second Language and Clay Pipe, it differs to the first edition in that it  has a green cassette and comes with a download code for the audio on the cassette.

 Limited edition of 50 numbered copies of CD and cassette in a Gocco printed card box, with a  handmade canvas covered booklet of illustrations by Frances Castle.

*Only one order per person.

*****************************

The small village of Tyneham, on the beautiful Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset, was once a thriving little community – that is until the British Government requisitioned it for training manoeuvres and other ‘strategic purposes’ in the run up to WWII. This was supposed to be a temporary measure, but the area remained in military possession long after hostilities had ceased, causing distress among former inhabitants, many of whom were farmed out to prefabs in nearby Wareham and Swanage.

Tyneham was characterised by its red telephone box, a tiny parade of shops – Post Office Row – and a grand country pile which stood about half a mile away from the village: Tyneham House. The army removed the building’s oak panelling and ornate decorative details and promptly set about using it for target practice. So great was the shame expressed locally about the damage inflicted upon one of Dorset’s grandest houses that the powers that be decided to grow a copse around the remains of the structure to give the impression that it was no longer there. Despite this, a substantial part of the structure remains intact, including its Saxon hall.

Land access around Tyneham was opened up in the 1970s, but admission to the house remains strictly verboten. Those who’ve been found around the premises, especially anyone wielding a camera, have felt the full weight of military trespass law. Tyneham today is regarded as a nature reserve by some – as a national embarrassment by others. It’s still a political hot potato, in Dorset at least.

The pastoral, wistful yet ineffably disquieting music of Tyneham House is made by artists who have previously graced Second Language releases, but who wish to remain anonymous here, save for their eponymous title. The musicians are happy, however, to let it be known that these recordings have been around for some years (many of them complied from old cassettes) and that they take inspiration from the 1960s/’70s/’80s work of the Children’s Film Foundation – a body who really ought to have made a film about this mysterious West Country curio. At least now we have its endlessly poignant soundtrack. 

'Tyneham House' is a joint release between the London-based independent labels, Second Language and Clay Pipe Music. This 14 track CD album comes packaged in a Gocco-printed card box with booklet and cassette tape of bonus material (18+ minutes) - all beautifully illustrated throughout by award winning artist Frances Castle of Clay Pipe Music.

This is SL015/Pipe003_02. Limited to 50 copies only.

Tracklisting (CD) :

• A Chalk Horse
• Rookery Wood
• Coppice Walk
• Binoculars
• Bletchingley
• Post Office Row
• The Crows Circle
• Winter Carriage
• The Ragged Cat
• I Shall Not Cross The Sleeping Hill
• The Porch Room
• Saxon Chapel
• Last Village Before The Sea
• Lit Room At Midnight

Tracklisting (Cassette) :

A: A School Holiday, 1977
B: May Day, 1981

Darren Haymans Lido - Edition 2

Now available the second edition of Darren Haymans Lido, it has a different Gocco printed cover to the first edition and is limited to just 200 copies.

 Buy it in the SHOP 

Prints

Risograph prints based on the artwork from Darren Haymans Lido are now available. These are the prints that were on display in Rough Trade East. They are in small editions of between 7 to10 copies of each print, signed and numbered. I also have one framed copy available of each print - these have been professionally framed in oak frames.

Unframed £20 / Framed £75

Available in the SHOP

Darren is also selling his original drawings from the booklet HERE

Lido Sold Out

Darren Hayman's Lido is sold out on line. We have  saved a few for the event at Rough Trade East on (this) Monday 3rd Sept. It is free and starts at 7.00pm and as well as an exhibition of of the artwork from the Lido Album Darren Hayman will do a special in-store performance. The Exhibition will run until the 16th Sept.

Darren will be selling framed watercolour paintings from the booklet of Lido, and I will be selling Risograph prints (framed and unframed).  

There will be a second edition of the CD probably with a different cover design, just as soon as I can make it. The vinyl version is still available from WIAWYA

Clay Pipe Music Enamel Badge

At clay pipe we like to do things a little be differently – so instead of your average button badge I’ve created the clay pipe music enamel badge. Made in Britain and of such good quality it should last a life time.
  
100 limited edition badges.
Available in the SHOP

Lido released today.

Lido is available to order from today in the SHOP 

Hand Gocco printed cover limited edition of 300 copies.

Darren Hayman talks to Time Out about 'Lido'

Click on images to view larger. 

Lido Remixs from ISAN and The Hardy Tree

  

ISAN and The Hardy Tree have remixed two of the tracks from Lido, and we are making them available as a free download single, hopefully you will put them on your Mp3 player and play them back to back as if they were a real 7". I think both have a hazy late summer feel.


Here is what Darren Hayman has to say about them:

We think these two remixes made for the Lido project are very special and we would like to present them to you as a single.

As well as being the label that is to release the CD of Lido, Frances Castle is The Hardy Tree. The Hardy Tree produces small music that never wants to be big. I only mean that as a compliment in times like these. Like me, Frances is interested in place and location in song and also like me she tells stories using lyrical and instrumental music.

Only a few songs on The Hardy Trees first album use words, but when they appear they are precise, teasing and beautiful.                                                                                                                                

The Hardy Tree take you on little journeys. Not big ones, beautiful little ones. The first Hardy Tree album was my favourite release of last year.

Back in the late nineties when I was in Hefner we became infatuated with electronic music. Me and John Morrison would buy confusing, pretty music on labels like Wurlitzer Jukebox, Earworm and Static Caravan. My friend Glen ran Tugboat and put out the first ISAN record. We played it in the tour van.

It was music that I didn't understand completely and that made me love it more. I'm always looking for music I don't understand. I don't want to know why I like things.

I aspire to make music as good as ISANs and when the opportunity came for Robin and Antony to remix one of my tunes I became very excited. I would have assumed that I was too linear for ISAN. I gave them the keys to my house to see what they would do.
When some people remix they destroy your home. They pour red wine in your bed and sleep with your girlfriend. Others do just a little bit of light dusting.

When ISAN remixed King's Meadow they carefully moved all the furniture from one room and placed it in the other. They didn't break a thing. They just moved everything.

 - Darren Hayman

Tyneham House Reissue

I will be reissuing  Tyneham House in October in a limited edition of just 50 copies to make sure you are one of the first to hear please sign up to the mailing list. I think this will go very quickly.

The small village of Tyneham, on the beautiful Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset, was once a thriving little community – that is until the British Government requisitioned it for training manoeuvres and other ‘strategic purposes’ in the run up to WWII. This was supposed to be a temporary measure, but the area remained in military possession long after hostilities had ceased, causing distress among former inhabitants, many of whom were farmed out to prefabs in nearby Wareham and Swanage.

Tyneham was characterised by its red telephone box, a tiny parade of shops – Post Office Row – and a grand country pile which stood about half a mile away from the village: Tyneham House. The army removed the building’s oak panelling and ornate decorative details and promptly set about using it for target practice. So great was the shame expressed locally about the damage inflicted upon one of Dorset’s grandest houses that the powers that be decided to grow a copse around the remains of the structure to give the impression that it was no longer there. Despite this, a substantial part of the structure remains intact, including its Saxon hall.

Land access around Tyneham was opened up in the 1970s, but admission to the house remains strictly verboten. Those who’ve been found around the premises, especially anyone wielding a camera, have felt the full weight of military trespass law. Tyneham today is regarded as a nature reserve by some – as a national embarrassment by others. It’s still a political hot potato, in Dorset at least.

The pastoral, wistful yet ineffably disquieting music of Tyneham House is made by artists who have previously graced Second Language releases, but who wish to remain anonymous here, save for their eponymous title. The musicians are happy, however, to let it be known that these recordings have been around for some years (many of them complied from old cassettes) and that they take inspiration from the 1960s/’70s/’80s work of the Children’s Film Foundation – a body who really ought to have made a film about this mysterious West Country curio. At least now we have its endlessly poignant soundtrack. 

'Tyneham House' is a joint release between the London-based independent labels, Second Language and Clay Pipe Music. This 14 track CD album comes packaged in a Gocco-printed card box with booklet and cassette tape of bonus material (18+ minutes) - all beautifully illustrated throughout by award winning artist Frances Castle of Clay Pipe Music.

This is SL015/Pipe003_02. Limited to 50 copies only.

Tracklisting (CD) :

• A Chalk Horse
• Rookery Wood
• Coppice Walk
• Binoculars
• Bletchingley
• Post Office Row
• The Crows Circle
• Winter Carriage
• The Ragged Cat
• I Shall Not Cross The Sleeping Hill
• The Porch Room
• Saxon Chapel
• Last Village Before The Sea
• Lit Room At Midnight

Tracklisting (Cassette) :

A: A School Holiday, 1977
B: May Day, 1981

Lido on Vinyl

I have 20 copies of the vinyl version of Lido available to pre-order. This is released on WIAIWYA rather than Clay Pipe. Each copy comes with a free Bandcamp download code, so you can listen digitally as well. It's in beautiful swimming pool blue... SOLD OUT plenty still available from WIAIWYA

Rough Trade Instore

 3rd Sept 2012 7.00pm Rough Trade East

An Exhibition of the artwork from the Lido Album + Plus A Special in-store performance from Darren Hayman.

Lido is an instrumental album (and fully illustrated booklet) by Darren Hayman about open air Swimming Pools - released this September 2012. This is an exhibition of all the artwork and more. The exhibition will run at Rough Trade East until 16th September.

As a taster for Darren Haymans Lido we have a free  single "Jubilee Pool" available to download from the link below.

Mojo Review Lido

Darren Hayman's Lido has just received a four star review in Mojo. The beautiful swimming pool vinyl version they mention in the review is coming out on WIAIWYA records and can be pre-ordered HERE
 

GP Hall's Embarkation

 SOLD OUT

Limited edition of 100 numbered copies

Risograph printed cover.

 GP Hall is an English guitarist, composer and improviser fusing and mixing both traditional and avant-garde styles. Raised in the East End of London, Hall was schooled in classical, flamenco and jazz playing and developed his skills as a guitarist in the British blues boom of the late 1960s.

Hall went on to play at celebrated London venues including The Roundhouse, the Middle Earth club and the 100 Club (where he was a resident player). He supported the likes of Deep Purple, The Hollies, and Chris Farloweand played on stage with original American blues heroes John Lee Hookerand Sonny Boy Williamson.

Hall's musical approaches began to broaden in the early 1970s. He spent some time living with Romani musicians (studying with renowned flamenco guitarist Manitas de Plata) and subsequently became involved in more avant-garde work.

In 1972, Hall was commissioned by the South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell to write The Estates - a "large and complex" musical piece intended to depict the breakdown of established communities to make way for the New Town of Bracknell. The piece was scored for a large ensemble centred around guitar, bass, clarinet, glockenspiel, hammer dulcimer, assorted percussions and two specially prepared piano frames. The Estates was recorded and released on album by Prototype Records in 1972.

From the mid 70s through to the early 80s Hall's career was dogged by personal trauma, He suffered from depression and became homeless and destitute on several occasions. Since recovering he has made over ten albums including the 1995 album Imaginary Seasons.

Embarkation

I was always intrigued and fascinated by journeys, be they physical or metaphysical.

A crowded airport, train station, or docks, make for imaginary travel. Where are people going? Where are they from?

The journey of life has trillions of embarkation points but only one arrival and where that is only time will tell. Where will the future embarkation platforms be - maybe on other worlds?

When composing this music it was as detailed. Do I add or take away notes? Is the space between the notes long or short? Is the tone hard or soft? Is it the silence that has more impact? Was I inspired by the ocean, the mountains, love, or a sunset behind an abandoned industrial site? Well, everything.

- GP Hall 2012 

 

Darren Hayman and GP Hall ready for pre-order.

Darren Hayman's Lido and GP Halls Embarkation are now available to pre-order in the shop. GP Halls CD will ship on 30th July, and Darren Haymans CD on the 27th August.

Darren Haymans- Lido
Limited edition of 300 copies.
Hand Gocco printed cover. 

Pre Order HERE

 

GP Hall - Embarkation.
Limited edition of 100 copies.
Risograph printed cover.

Pre-Order HERE

Hardy Tree on Bandcamp

All physical copies of The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath by The Hardy Tree are now sold out. You can now download the album HERE via bandcamp. It comes with a scan of the booklet and artwork.

GP Hall 'Embarkation' coming soon

GP Halls CD 'Embarkation'  has been slightly delayed due to problems with  printing. Just to wet your appetite here is a photo of GP from the 70s with the pianos he used to record his Estates album.

This is what he says about them:

There were 2 piano frames used, one was a percussion piano frame the other a solo piano frame. one was single and the other was double (meaning another frame bolted on-to the top of the wooden base so air/harp type sounds could be accomplished, each were tune in banks of chords, the tunings have been lost, and I have no idea now what they were, the percussive use of metal chains dragged over the chords and slammed down caused an explosive tuned sound energy, also on top of this air sounds were used as the dying crescendo faded ( this frame had no wooden structure supporting it ) anything that enhanced the sound chords were used. The Estates had movements and melodic themes + avant garde improvised sections

These piano frames were made by myself in 1970 and were the first Industrial Sound-Sculptures a genera I invented. I used them also with a mobile theatre company touring Europe, called "engineers of the imagination" (Welfare State) based at the time in Burnley Lancashire, and were last seen being burnt in a fire sculpture installation somewhere.

Lido

I've written a short piece on Darren Haymans Lido blog about the ideas behind Clay Pipe and about my grandfather who did posters for British Railways.

  

Extract from 'The Pheonix Guitar Concerto'

Coming soon on Clay Pipe is  'Embarkation' by GP Hall. 

GP Hall is an English guitarist, composer and improviser fusing and mixing both traditional and avant-garde styles. Raised in the East End of London, Hall was schooled in classical, flamenco and jazz playing and developed his skills as a guitarist in the British blues boom of the late 1960s.

Hall went on to play at celebrated London venues including The Roundhouse, the Middle Earth club and the 100 Club (where he was a resident player). He supported the likes of Deep Purple, The Hollies, and Chris Farloweand played on stage with original American blues heroes John Lee Hookerand Sonny Boy Williamson.

Hall's musical approaches began to broaden in the early 1970s. He spent some time living with Romani musicians (studying with renowned flamenco guitarist Manitas de Plata) and subsequently became involved in more avant-garde work.

In 1972, Hall was commissioned by the South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell to write The Estates - a "large and complex" musical piece intended to depict the breakdown of established communities to make way for the New Town of Bracknell. The piece was scored for a large ensemble centred around guitar, bass, clarinet, glockenspiel, hammer dulcimer, assorted percussions and two specially prepared piano frames. The Estates was recorded and released on album by Prototype Records in 1972.

From the mid 70s through to the early 80s Hall's career was dogged by personal trauma, He suffered from depression and became homeless and destitute on several occasions. Since recovering he has made over ten albums including the 1995 album Imaginary Seasons.

Embarkation

I was always intrigued and fascinated by journeys, be they physical or metaphysical.

A crowded airport, train station, or docks, make for imaginary travel. Where are people going? Where are they from?

The journey of life has trillions of embarkation points but only one arrival and where that is only time will tell. Where will the future embarkation platforms be - maybe on other worlds?

When composing this music it was as detailed. Do I add or take away notes? Is the space between the notes long or short? Is the tone hard or soft? Is it the silence that has more impact? Was I inspired by the ocean, the mountains, love, or a sunset behind an abandoned industrial site? Well, everything.

- GP Hall 2012

Shapwick

 SOLD OUT

I'm  sorry to everyone who missed it, but Shapwick  sold out in just a few hours. The next edition will most probably be on vinyl, if you would like to be kept up to date on this please sign up to the mailing list or follow us on facebook/twitter. Next up on Clay Pipe is GP Halls CD 'Embarkation'.

 Jon Brooks Shapwick is here and available in the shop. 

A limited edition of 110 copies. Each comes in a hand made cover with a Gocco printed front and a Risograph printed interior. Illustrations and artwork by Frances Castle


It's funny how serendipity can shape the creative process. The most unlikely situations can provide a framework. Shapwick is just such a case in point.

I had been stuck in a five hour long traffic jam on a motorway in the autumn of 2011. At the end of the ordeal, we left the motorway and noticed the traffic was backing up onto local roads near Glastonbury; streams of cars, full of hot-headed motorists crawling along congested highways, the roads groaning under a volume for which they were not designed.

I searched the map for alternative routes. We had several hours of further driving ahead of us and it was already dark. One such route was through an area close to Shapwick, a small rural village. As we joined the approach to the village, we headed through several miles of unlit roads, with nothing but gnarled trees and woodland either side, the car headlights suggesting the twists and turns ahead.

I felt a certain energy around the place. The images created by the trees in the dark conjured inspiration and it struck me that an album could be based on an imaginary impression of this area. I had already recorded some pieces that were in search of a home and the idea formed within seconds.

The music I had been writing was recorded directly to a four-track cassette recorder. There were some piano recordings that I had made at my uncle and aunt's house in Devon (where I had stayed prior to the traffic jam), along with other acoustic and electronic pieces. With the Shapwick framework in mind, I recorded much more material. Using everything from a song harp in a garden, to a modular analogue synthesizer, I set about creating textures that would place my own notion of Shapwick on some kind of map; to create a geographic narrative.

I carried forward the notion of recording on four-track cassette - a very immediate recording medium, where there is little chance to manipulate the sound after the fact. This way of working shaped the project further and the medium suggested textures by itself - I had been using very old second-hand cassette stock that had been recorded on by others; subsequently, fragments of recordings already on the tapes showed up at various points and took on their own new lives in the tapestry.

The reality of Shapwick is probably quite different to the impression in my own mind, but nonetheless I think it's interesting to form an impression based on how a place could be, just by passing through it in the dark... and building from there.

- Jb

Shapwick Photos

Its going to be a close run thing, but fingers crossed Jon Brook's 'Shapwick' should be ready on Monday. Here are some photos. If you'd like a copy please sign up to the mailing list/ facebook/twitter feeds, as I don't think it will be around for long.

Shapwick - Please Drive Carefully

Jon Brooks 'Shapwick' will be out on the 21st of May, there will  be an initial run  of 100 copies, if you'd like a copy please sign up to the mailing list, twitter or facebook.

 
It's funny how serendipity can shape the creative process. The most unlikely situations can provide a framework. Shapwick is just such a case in point.

I had been stuck in a five hour long traffic jam on a motorway in the autumn of 2011. At the end of the ordeal, we left the motorway and noticed the traffic was backing up onto local roads near Glastonbury; streams of cars, full of hot-headed motorists crawling along congested highways, the roads groaning under a volume for which they were not designed.

I searched the map for alternative routes. We had several hours of further driving ahead of us and it was already dark. One such route was through an area close to Shapwick, a small rural village. As we joined the approach to the village, we headed through several miles of unlit roads, with nothing but gnarled trees and woodland either side, the car headlights suggesting the twists and turns ahead.

I felt a certain energy around the place. The images created by the trees in the dark conjured inspiration and it struck me that an album could be based on an imaginary impression of this area. I had already recorded some pieces that were in search of a home and the idea formed within seconds.

The music I had been writing was recorded directly to a four-track cassette recorder. There were some piano recordings that I had made at my uncle and aunt's house in Devon (where I had stayed prior to the traffic jam), along with other acoustic and electronic pieces. With the Shapwick framework in mind, I recorded much more material. Using everything from a song harp in a garden, to a modular analogue synthesizer, I set about creating textures that would place my own notion of Shapwick on some kind of map; to create a geographic narrative.

I carried forward the notion of recording on four-track cassette - a very immediate recording medium, where there is little chance to manipulate the sound after the fact. This way of working shaped the project further and the medium suggested textures by itself - I had been using very old second-hand cassette stock that had been recorded on by others; subsequently, fragments of recordings already on the tapes showed up at various points and took on their own new lives in the tapestry.

The reality of Shapwick is probably quite different to the impression in my own mind, but nonetheless I think it's interesting to form an impression based on how a place could be, just by passing through it in the dark... and building from there.

- Jb.

Shapwick

Jon Brooks 'Shapwick' is on its way. I've been printing, and gluing, and folding and slowly each one is taking shape. There will only be 100 copies of the first edition, and if we do decide to do another it may be some time before it sees the light of day. If you want a copy please sign up to the mailing list, or twitter or facebook as I have a feeling they are going to sell out quick. More news soon.

DJing at the Hangover Lounge

I will be Djing at the Hangover Lounge at the Lexington, Pentonville Rd, London N1 this Sunday afternoon. (the 18th). Doors open 2pm, they do a really great vegetarian Sunday Lunch there! I'll be playing some Clay Pipe releases along with lots other great stuff, also bands playing upstairs all free! more info HERE

Interview

The nice people at Oh Comely interviewed me about Clay Pipe and Tyneham House you can read it HERE

Tyneham House is gone but....

Tyneham House sold all its 300 copies within 3 weeks, but do not despair I have new releases planned:

First will be 'Shapwick' by Jon Brooks of Advisory Circle and Ghost Box fame - this is really something quite amazing, I'm currently working on the sleeve design hoping I can come up with artwork that does it justice.

Secondly will be Darren Hayman's Lido album - an instrumental album about open air Swimming Pools. We are hoping this will be ready at about the same time that the weather gets warm enough for outside bathing. Check out the Lido blog HERE

Thirdly is GP Halls Phoenix Guitar Concerto & Trinity Symphony, A symphony recorded with a Roland MC-909 - I discovered GPs Music via a friend of a friend who found his 1972 'The Estates' album in a charity shop. Its really beautiful music, and I'm very excited about this release. More info on GP HERE

Tyneham House Podcast

Second Language present a podcast to accompany the beguiling agrarian enigma that is Tyneham House. Interleaved with field recordings and typically bucolic extracts of music from the album, a handful of artist friends of the reclusive Tyneham House creators reminisce evocatively about growing up in small rural towns and villages. Out of the rustling, sun-dappled atmosphere, a theme slowly emerges: the Proustian mystery of lost time and place and how the free spirit and wonderment of childhood grapples with the beauty and oppression of the countryside...

Listen HERE

Tyneham House is here!

Tyneham House has finally arrived, this is a joint release with the Second Language label and can only be bought directly from their website. SOLD OUT

The small village of Tyneham, on the beautiful Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset, was once a thriving little community – that is until the British Government requisitioned it for training manoeuvres and other ‘strategic purposes’ in the run up to WWII. This was supposed to be a temporary measure, but the area remained in military possession long after hostilities had ceased, causing distress among former inhabitants, many of whom were farmed out to prefabs in nearby Wareham and Swanage.

Tyneham was characterised by its red telephone box, a tiny parade of shops – Post Office Row – and a grand country pile which stood about half a mile away from the village: Tyneham House. The army removed the building’s oak panelling and ornate decorative details and promptly set about using it for target practice. So great was the shame expressed locally about the damage inflicted upon one of Dorset’s grandest houses that the powers that be decided to grow a copse around the remains of the structure to give the impression that it was no longer there. Despite this, a substantial part of the structure remains intact, including its Saxon hall.

Land access around Tyneham was opened up in the 1970s, but admission to the house remains strictly verboten. Those who’ve been found around the premises, especially anyone wielding a camera, have felt the full weight of military trespass law. Tyneham today is regarded as a nature reserve by some – as a national embarrassment by others. It’s still a political hot potato, in Dorset at least.

The pastoral, wistful yet ineffably disquieting music of Tyneham House is made by artists who have previously graced Second Language releases, but who wish to remain anonymous here, save for their eponymous title. The musicians are happy, however, to let it be known that these recordings have been around for some years (many of them complied from old cassettes) and that they take inspiration from the 1960s/’70s/’80s work of the Children’s Film Foundation – a body who really ought to have made a film about this mysterious West Country curio. At least now we have its endlessly poignant soundtrack.

'Tyneham House' is a joint release between the London-based independent labels, Second Language and Clay Pipe Music. This 14 track CD album comes packaged in a Gocco-printed card box with booklet and cassette tape of bonus material (18+ minutes) - all beautifully illustrated throughout by award winning artist Frances Castle of Clay Pipe Music.

This is SL015/Pipe003. Limited to 300 copies only.

Tracklisting (CD) :

• A Chalk Horse
• Rookery Wood
• Coppice Walk
• Binoculars
• Bletchingley
• Post Office Row
• The Crows Circle
• Winter Carriage
• The Ragged Cat
• I Shall Not Cross The Sleeping Hill
• The Porch Room
• Saxon Chapel
• Last Village Before The Sea
• Lit Room At Midnight

Tracklisting (Cassette) :

A: A School Holiday, 1977
B: May Day, 1981

Find out more about Tyneham House (the village) here: http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/85/tyneham_village_of_the_vanished.html

Due This Weekend.

The new CD will be available this weekend.

New Release

Here's a candid photo of the new CD from Clay Pipe. As mentioned before this is a joint release with Second Language and I can't say exactly what it is until all their subscribers have a copy. However copies should be available from their website in the next week or so.

Peter Hall

Later in the year Clay Pipe is going to put out some new music by Peter/GP Hall who released the above album 'The Estates' in 1975. It is really quite a magical piece of music that was created for the launch of South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknel... kind of unlikely, but then the best things often are. Its very rare and really needs to be reissued I think - along with the original artwork that is just so perfect for it. Unfortunately Clay Pipe isn't really a re-issues label, and it is Peters more recent music that I'll be putting out, but I'd love to find a home for this. You can read a description and download 'direct from vinyl' scratchy MP3's HERE