3inch Mini CD in bespoke case.
Bandcamp download code in sleeve.
Cut out and keep A4 library box.
After the sell out success of the first series of Mini-CDs, Clay Pipe kicks off the second series with D.Rothons 'Lonesome Echoes'.
D. Rothon’s third solo release for Clay Pipe, Lonesome Echoes, is a
selection of four beautiful melodic instrumentals, featuring pedal
steel, Omnichord, theremin, flute and live drums – and inspired by the
long-lost south London village of Lonesome.
“My curiosity about Lonesome started years ago when I noticed the name
on the map in the London A to Z, not far from where I grew up. It seemed
such an unlikely name. But it wasn't until recently that I discovered
its slightly odd history…”
The origins of its name lost in the mists of time, the village of
Lonesome emerged in the 19th century from the swampy, isolated lands
between Streatham Vale and Mitcham Common. By the early 1900s intrepid
reporters were already speculating on whether the place was mere myth.
The intervening years saw the rapid rise and fall of Lonesome. Its prospects as a desirable
place to live were compromised by the combined fragrances of piggeries
plus chemical, fireworks and gas mantle factories – which would
undoubtedly have overpowered the sweeter aromas from the nearby lavender
fields of Mitcham. It also gained a reputation as a haunt of footpads,
vagabonds and cutpurses.
A failed development by one “Squire Blake” of aspirational middle class
villas – which became known as Blake's Folly – helped cement Lonesome’s
reputation as a ghost town.
Now long subsumed into suburbia, aside from the odd street and building name little trace remains of Lonesome.
Also in the shop Clay Pipe 2024 calender*, Gilroy Mere 'Gilden Gate' Giclee prints and new black T-shirts.
*initial copies sold out pre-order second run via Bandcamp