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'

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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