Vic Mars - The Land And The Garden

The next release on Clay Pipe will be Vic Mars - The Land And The Garden. Pre-orders will be available from 23rd November 2015. Please sign up to the mailing list for a reminder. Release date 4th December 2015.  It will cost £15.99

300 hand numbered copies, reverse board mat cover, and printed inner sleeve with download code included.        

 Vic Mars is a Herefordshire born musician currently based in London, he has recently returned from spending over a decade in Nagoya, Japan. In 2008 he released the mini-LP 'Kanransha' on Kentaro Togawa's Symbolic Interaction label, and 2012 saw the Bandcamp released library music inspired, 'Curriculum For Schools And Colleges: Volumes 1 &2'.

In 2013 whilst still based in Japan but on a visit home, Vic was stuck by the reprints of vintage British Railway posters hanging in his brothers house. Back in Japan, homesick and inspired by his childhood memories of the Herefordshire landscape he started the initial recordings for The Land and the Garden, carefully piecing together string and Mellotron soundscapes using archaic tracker software, and recording direct to cassette tape. During this time he immersed himself in the music of British classical composers such as Gustav Holst, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, the minimalist work of Wim Mertens and 1970’s children's BBC soundtracks such as those by Freddie Phillips, and Vernon Elliot.

In 2014 with the album half finished Vic moved back to the UK, and after a period of disruption where his equipment was still in transit, he completed the record in the spring of 2015.

Two Events

On the 11th Oct there will be a Clay Pipe special afternoon at the Hangover Lounge in their new home at The Betsey Trotwood, in Clerkenwell, London.  Sharron Kraus and Directorsound will be playing. There will be Clay Pipe DJs and a Pop Up shop selling Clay Pipe goodies which will include 'Market Only' copies of  the Thalassing and Hardy Tree CDs. + A FREE COPY of the above A3 poster for everyone who attends.

    

Following a series of events in North and West Wales, East Cornwall and Bristol, Caught By The River are excited to announce their return to the capital for a unique afternoon event at Bush Hall. The Caught by the River Social Club on Sunday 15 November will comprise music, film, talk, poetry, a fully stocked bar and a bookshop. Featuring a selection of our friends and contributors, including:

• Darren Hayman presents ‘Thankful Villages’.
A Thankful Village is a village where every soldier returned alive from World War I – Darren is currently visiting all 54 of these villages, making a piece of music and short film for each one. He will be providing a taster of both the films and music from this project.

• A rare live performance from July Skies.
July Skies’ classic much underheard debut album ‘Dreaming of Spires’ was first released in 2002. This month has seen the album released on vinyl for the first time. A Caught by the River classic. This will be their first London gig since god knows when.

• Richard Skelton in conversation with Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood.
Richard, along with his partner Autumn Richardson, runs Corbel Stone Press, taking a particular interest in landscape, the poetics of place, ecology, folklore and animism. Richard will be talking to Colin Greenwood about his new book, Beyond the Fell Wall, published by Little Toller Books in November.

• Poetry from Faber New Poet Will Burns and Martha Sprackland.
Named as one of the 4 Faber & Faber New Poets for 2014, Will Burns is our Caught by the River Poet-in-Residence. His pamphlet was published by Faber in October 2014. Martha Sprackland has previously won the Foyle Young Poet Award, and is Assistant Poetry Editor at Faber & Faber.

• DJ Frances Castle.
Based in North London, Frances Castle is a freelance illustrator. In 2011, she set up Clay Pipe Music, a boutique record label determined, in an age of anonymous downloads, to release beautifully designed and illustrated CDs and LPs. Clay Pipe specialises in releasing atmospheric music with a strong theme or sense of place.