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.

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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

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The first release on Clay Pipe Music is 'The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath' by The Hardy Tree. It comes limited to 100 copies with hand printed cover and booklet. Any further editions will have different packaging.

The Hardy Tree is Frances Castle who used to record under the name Transistor Six.

The music on 'The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath' was inspired by Frances' local London neighborhood, a soundtrack to the past beneath the pavements, its early grass covered hills, Victorian heyday, and 20th century sprawl. Recorded at home in an attic room over a year, she has patched and stitched together an orchestral jigsaw puzzle of sounds that hint at audio memories from lost kids 70 TV program's, ghost orchestras, cinema organs, folk song , and static and crackle.