Independent Label Market

 

Clay Pipe will be at the Independent Label Market at Coal Drops Yard, Kings Cross, London on Saturday 10th May, with new and rare back catalogue stock. There will also be a new low-run release especially for the market, more info on that soon.

Micro Moon - Figure in a Landscape

 

Micro Moon - Figure in a Landscape

Limited Mini CD in bespoke printed cover

Available from Greedbag and Bandcamp

Clay Pipe Music is pleased to introduce London-based Anglo-Spanish duo Micro Moon - pianist/synthesist Isabel Pérez Castro and guitarist/synthesist Stephen Holbrook.

Their Mini CD Figure in a Landscape blends classical piano with rich electronic textures and melodies, taking you to diverse locations—from the sound mirrors of Romney Marsh in Kent to the atmospheric Fábrica da Luz, or 'light factories,' nestled in the Galician mountains of Spain. It’s a beautifully crafted sonic journey inspired by the various regions they have hiked and explored.

After discussing a musical collaboration for years, the couple finally started working together during the early days of the pandemic, experimenting with sound at home and teaching themselves production along the way. This lead to their debut project Public Health—a work inspired by an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection on historical public health initiatives, as well as Iain Sinclair’s book Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts. Iain allowed them to use some spoken text from the book for their track, City Rites.

Drawing on subtractive synthesis, drone music, the Radiophonic Workshop, and psychogeography, Figure in a Landscape sees the duo crafting immersive compositions inspired by real-world locations, transporting listeners into vivid aural environments.

A Dolby Atmos mix of Figure in a Landscape is on Apple Music.

Stagdale part 3

 

Stagdale part 3 is available  from the Clay Pipe Greedbag shop and The Hardy Tree Bandcamp.  

Frances Castle presents the third part of her graphic novel Stagdale, accompanied by a new soundtrack EP from her musical alter ego The Hardy Tree.

Stagdale Part 3, drawn and written by Clay Pipe Music founder Frances Castle, continues the story of Kathy and Max—two strangers, a generation apart, who both unexpectedly find themselves living in the isolated village of Stagdale.

When twelve-year-old Kathy discovers a wartime diary hidden behind the skirting board of the old cottage she and her mother are renting, she is instantly captivated. As she delves into its pages, she begins to suspect that the tale of the missing Stag Jewel - told to her by her new friend Joe - isn't quite what it seems. Could the diary hold the key to unravelling a mystery that's been buried for 30 years?

A special edition of the book will include a Flexi Disc featuring the title track “September 1975.” There will also be a limited reissue of the original Flexi Disc editions from Books 1 & 2. Additionally, Book 2 has been reprinted with a matt cover, so all three books in the series now have a more cohesive look.

 

Also available from Greedbag on the 29th November will be coaster sets based on the artwork for Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman's  Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On and Risograph prints of The Hardy Tree's All the Hours.

Clay Pipe will be at the Groovy Record Fayre

 

Clay Pipe will be at Jonny Trunks Groovy Record Fayre on the 2nd November at The Mildmay Club, London,  N16. Lots of hard to find back stock, as well as new releases, badges etc. Free entry from 10am. Hope to see you there.

The Hardy Tree - All the Hours

 

The Hardy Tree 

All the Hours

Release 6th Sept 2024

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The Hardy Tree, the musical project of Frances Castle, founder of the acclaimed Clay Pipe Music label, is pleased to announce the release of All the Hours as part of the Clay Pipe Mini CD series. This 20-minute composition beautifully captures the passage of a day, from dawn to dusk.

All the Hours was initially composed for a live performance at The Betsey Trotwood pub in London last February. The piece serves as the soundtrack to a slow-moving animation inspired by the cover art of The Hardy Tree’s previous album, Common Grounds. It takes listeners on a journey from night to day and back again, unfolding through delicate looped woodwinds and melodic soundscapes. The music was created using an Elektron Syntakt and an Elektron Digitakt, and the limitations and constraints of the instruments helped define the sound of the music.

Frances will be performing “All the Hours” on September 14th, 2024 at The Lexington on Pentonville Road in London, supporting Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman. There will be CDs for sale at the event. Tickets.

Clay Pipe Music · All The H

ours - Radio Edit

Vinyl Delays

If you preordered the second pressing of David Boulters St Ann's or Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman's Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On there has been a delay in the records reaching us. We now hope to start shipping them in the second week of September. 

If you are attending any of Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman's shows in the next month they will have a small amount of records with them. They are all we have right now.

If you ordered a CD, they will ship in time for release.

 

Andrew Wasylyk | Tommy Perman tour dates. On 12/09 they will be joined by Clay Pipe artists Zyggurat in Birmingham and by The Hardy Tree in London on the 14/09 Tickets: thegullglideson.co.uk
 

Andrew Wasylyk | Tommy Perman 'Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On'

Andrew Wasylyk | Tommy Perman 

'Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On'

LP/CD/DL

Greedbag - Orange vinyl with print

Bandcamp (and all good record shops) - Orange vinyl

Monorail - Ash grey vinyl with booklet

Assai - Ash grey vinyl with booklet

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‘Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On’ is the new album by Scottish composers Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman. The pair have orbited each others worlds for a number of years through audio-visual collaborations spanning record releases, films and sound installations. Wasylyk’s cinematic compositions have been nominatedfor the Scottish Album of the Year Award and been awarded BBC Radio 6 Music’s Gideon Coe’s Album of the Year. He has collaborated with former National Poet for Scotland, Liz Lochhead, and written soundtracks for Radio 4. Perman’s work as a musician and DJ has taken him across the world, with numerous record releases under his own name and with experimental group/arts collective FOUND, alongside visual works at the Sydney Opera House and National Museum of Scotland.

 ‘Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On’ is the pair’s first collaborative album as a duo. The record is rooted in Perman's ambient-acid-house grooves and multi-textural percussion built from sampling the knocks, clangs and creaks of Wasylyk’s upright piano. These are woven through a palette of drum machines, rolling transcendental piano motifs, fluttering synthesisers, saxophones swells and hymnal choral vocals.

Approaching the meditative ten-song collection, Tommy posted Andrew three envelopes containing ‘Recording Instructions’, ‘Tempo Cards’ and ‘Chord Cards’. Nodding towards the Fluxus instructions of Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit and the environmental cues of Perman and Wasylyk’s collaboration on Sing the Gloaming (‘If it’s wet outside: 100bpm. If it’s dry outside: 70bpm’) the cards inspired exploration and improvisations which were then cut up and collaged.

The spirit of this project channels through ‘Communal Imagination’ as Wasylyk’s trademark airy piano chords float above Perman’s juddering rhythms, conjuring a Balaeric abstraction of Basil Kirchin. The group brass and stuttering echoes of ‘Root Grow Emerge’ are accompanied by field recordings of Tommy’s children playing and reciting cyclical chants. ‘Blessing Of The Banners’ slowly unspools through spiritual cinematic jazz patterns into a hymn of hope, whilst ‘Spec Of Dust Becomes A Beam’ ignites into an expansive, kosmiche four-to-the-floor crescendo.

A sense of warmth, openness and curiosity floods through ‘Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On’. A document of forward-thinking artistic union from a pair at the height of their imaginations, perched over the Tay estuary.

“So leave us as you found us, walk with us or around us, you might find nothing to see here, but come tomorrow we’ll still be here,” warmly warns Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap) over ascending chords on the album’s closing track ‘Be the Hammer’: a mantra of quiet defiance from idiosyncratic composers in full flight. Liminal, illuminating ideas landing where melody meets rhythm: ‘Ash Grey And The Gull Glides On’ is a place where community, love and goodness prevail.

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The orange vinyl is available directly from Clay Pipe through Greedbag & Bandcamp and also from all good record shops. If you order through Greedbag you will get a free print by Frances Castle. There are enamel badges and our usual CD/LP/Badge bundle through both Greedbag and Bandcamp. CDs available across the board.

Monorail in Glasgow and Assai in Dundee have limited signed 'Ash Grey' editions that each come with a different booklet of Tommy Permans artwork. Monorail's book showcases stills from the videos Tommy has done for this project, and Assai's displays his graphics for the tour posters.

All vinyl copies come with a Bandcamp download code in the sleeve.

 

 

 

 

 

Video's by Tommy Perman