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.

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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.