The Autochrome and Other Stories

Justin Hopper & Jesse Chandler
The Autochrome & other stories

Mini CD in bespoke cover.
 Bandcamp listening party on 11 Nov 8.00pm (GMT) RSVP

Released 13 Nov 2026 

 

I'll also have copies at the Jonny Trunk Groovy Record Fayer 14th Nov at the Mildmay Club, London N16 

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Clay Pipe releases a ghost story for Christmas with our first spoken-word recording – a trio of stories by M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood retold in the landscapes of 20th-century northern Appalachia. Written and performed by Justin Hopper with music from Jesse Chandler (Mercury Rev, Midlake, Madison Cunningham) and guest luminaries including Alasdair Mclean (The Clientele), Sally Timms (The Mekons) and Alison Cotton.

‘My home in East Anglia often reminds me of the spookier side of the Western Pennsylvania region I long inhabited,’ says Hopper. ‘I wondered how these ghost stories pitting powerful against powerless from one period of transition, Edwardian England , might translate into those of another, the industrialised landscapes of pre/post-war coal country. With musicians of this calibre, the landscapes themselves are created by the music; I just filled in some characters.

‘I hope it gives a few chills next to the fire this winter, in Suffolk or Pittsburgh or wherever you may be.’

Any artist profits from The Autochrome will go to mental health charity MIND.

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We're heading quickly into the darker months, and alongside The Autochrome and Other Stories, I have a few seasonal offerings to bring you some good cheer. These will be available at the listening party, and then from the 13th Nov.

The 2027 Clay Pipe Calendar
Featuring artwork from this year's releases, alongside selections from the back catalogue.

Clay Pipe Sweatshirt
A snug Dark Heather Grey Gildan Softstyle sweatshirt, with the Clay Pipe logo screen-printed in yellow.

Four Seasonal Greetings Cards
Following on from last year's collection, I've brought together four new characters from British and European Yuletide folklore.
 

Album Cover Greetings Cards
Four cards featuring artwork from previous Clay Pipe releases. All are blank inside, ready for your own message.

Limited Edition Giclée Prints
Prints featuring the artwork for Andrew Wasylyk's Irreparable Parables and Richard Bundy & Anna Phoebe's From the Edge. Printed to archive standard on textured Hahnemühle German Etching paper, each print is signed and numbered in an edition of just 30.

Andrew Wasylyk | Tommy Perman - House with a Curse

 

Andrew Wasylyk | Tommy Perman - House with a Curse

Now available from Bandcamp and Greedbag 

(Due to new customs charges, please use Greedbag if ordering from outside the UK) 

Monorail and Assai in Scotland have special signed editions with booklets.

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Scottish composers Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman have announced their new collaborative soundtrack album, House With A Curse.

Following the success of their Scottish Album of the Year Award-nominated Ash Grey and the Gull Glides On, Wasylyk and Perman were commissioned by Dundee Contemporary Arts' Dundead Film Festival to create a brand-new score for Rupert Julian's 1925 masterpiece, The Phantom of the Opera.

Starring Lon Chaney in one of his most influential and notorious performances as Erik the Phantom, the film is filled with opulent costumes, extravagant sets, hundreds of extras and dazzling early use of Technicolor. It remains widely regarded as a landmark of the horror genre and cinema's silent era.

Written, recorded and mixed in less than three months, Andrew and Tommy reinterpret this significant cultural moment with dexterity and invention. Their score engages candidly with the film's portrayal of disability and otherness, bringing a contemporary lens to one of Hollywood's most enduring stories.

The composition process was rooted in the film itself. Wasylyk sketched melodic ideas at the piano with projections of the Paris Opera House tragedy unfolding, flickering onto the wall of his studio in Dundee.

Meanwhile, Perman made a series of experimental percussive recordings at home, focusing on the materials observed on screen: the heavy stonework of the opera house; the wood of the elaborate stage sets; the fabric of costumes, curtains and upholstery; the glass of chandeliers and poison bottles; and the metalwork of the Phantom's underground lair. The resulting textures form the rhythmic and sonic foundation of the record.

Framing choral voice, piano, synthesiser, drum machine, nylon acoustic guitar and Mellotron through a distorted, haunting delivery, the arrangements work in dichotomies: expansive yet claustrophobic; linear yet crooked; hypnotic and achingly beautiful. The score never concedes to traditional expectations of the horror soundtrack.

Take Callers Have Departed, shifting from heavily processed operatic voices and foreboding techno to plucked guitar and gliding Farfisa synthesiser. Or Strangler's Noose Coils Quick, leading the listener deeper into the secret subterranean chambers beneath Parisian streets. Here, a scuttling drum machine and piano patterns honour the fateful plight of Raoul and Ledoux as they attempt to rescue Christine.

Elsewhere, fear and surrender unfurl among the distorted synth bass of Empty Promise Open Palm, as a beguiling motif steadily encourages the edges of the rhythm into a dark, fatal cadence.

House With A Curse is a distillation of the duo's exchange between past and present. Expansive, instinctive and entirely of their own. A befitting alternative veil for one of the period's most quintessential horror spectacles.

Lower your masks, for beyond the mirror lies the door to love.

Live Dates 2026

Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman perform their new live score for the 1925 silent film classic The Phantom of the Opera at cinemas across the UK, October–November 2026.

Ticket links and more info here.

Press Quotes for Ash Grey and the Gull Glides On

“Jazz-tinged compositions of meditative beauty, seamlessly collaged and set to Perman’s gently beguiling beats.”
Electronic Sound

“Hopeful, forward-thinking and brimming with imagination.”
The Skinny

“Two of Scotland’s most progressive contemporary composers.”
The List

“A unique and joyous atmosphere.”
MOJO

“A seamless blend of Wasylyk’s cinematic atmospherics and Perman’s experimental electronica.”
The Scotsman

“An inspired collaboration.”
Gold Flake Paint

Malvern Line-Up Festival

Clay Pipe is delighted to have The Hardy Tree, David Boulter, and Richard Bundy and Anna Phoebe performing as part of The Malvern Line-Up Festival at the Malvern Cube, Albert Road North, Malvern, WR14 2YF, on Saturday 3 October.

With The Clientele headlining, it promises to be a magical day of music.

Tickets and more info HERE

 

Gilroy Mere - Furlongs

 

Now available to pre-order from:

Bandcamp and Greedbag

Monorail

*Due to new custom charges please use Greedbag or HHV if ordering from the EU 

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Clay Pipe Music is thrilled to welcome back Oliver Cherer with a new Gilroy Mere album Furlongs.

Since his 2023 album Gilden Gate, Ollie has kept himself busy. He has recorded an album and toured internationally with the Miki Berenyi Trio, and played bass in Lol Tolhurst’s band. Alongside this, he has made three albums with Hastings-based group Aircooled, and performed live with them in support of The Jesus and Mary Chain and Suede. He has also collaborated with long-time writing partner Riz Maslen on the soundtrack for Magick Hastings, a film by Michael Smith.

In early 2025, Ollie was diagnosed with cancer and had to cut short a tour to return home, travelling daily to Brighton Hospital for radiotherapy treatment.

“Every day for six weeks I made the forty mile train journey from my home in St-Leonard's-on-Sea along the foot of the Downs, passing the Long Man twice a day. With my laptop and some headphones, I filled the journey time making music. Cutting through the landscape that Eric Ravilious had painted 90 years earlier, the muted colours and undulations became textures, tempos and modulations. After more than a month immersed in his scenery, my laptop sketches crystalized into something that began to sound like a record, and by the end of the six weeks, I had more than enough material for this album.

Many of the pieces on this record were inspired by specific paintings that were already familiar to me, while others are reactions to the landscape gently swooshing past the windows of the train and which I knew from walking its footpaths with an ordnance survey map in hand. Furlongs is the name of the cottage where Eric and his wife Tirzah often stayed, and where he created many of his paintings. Beachy Head and Chalk Paths are tributes to well-known Ravilious works, whereas Hope Gap is an exploration of a place with an isolated coastal bleakness that I felt reflected the sadness of his early death in 1942, on an RAF search and rescue mission over the Icelandic sea.

While finishing the recordings I called on friends to help out on a few pieces which lead to contributions from Helen Edwards on clarinet, Hutch Demoulpied on trumpet and flute and stalwart collaborator Riz Maslen on flute and vocal. It was all written on the train and recorded in my studio, The Laundry, in St Leonard's on Sea.”

Almost a year after diagnosis Olly was given the all clear, and is now back at work touring, recording and playing music.

 

 

Clay Pipe will also be re-releasing Gilroy Mere’s first two albums The Green Line and Adlestrop as a double CD. They were previously only available on vinyl. 

 

From the Edge - Richard Bundy & Anna Phoebe

 

From the Edge - Richard Bundy & Anna Phoebe

 

Available from Bandcamp and Greedbag 

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From The Edge is a long-form musical work shaped by the acoustics, history, and atmosphere of Dover.

Conceived by Kent-based composers Richard Bundy and Anna Phoebe, and supported by a host of other musicians and artists, the album sits at the heart of their Dover Unlocked project — a body of work that reimagines and quietly subverts the accepted narrative of this UK coastal border town.

At its core is a simple idea: to use music to open up hidden, overlooked historic spaces and let them be heard again. These include sites such as the Grand Shaft - a Napoleonic-era spiral staircase that descends 140 feet through the iconic chalk cliffs - as well as St Edmund’s Chapel, the Maison Dieu, and Fort Burgoyne, built in the 1860s to guard the high ground just north of Dover Castle.

The project is rooted in the act of performing within these places. Each space has its own character and resonance, which affects the sound and influences the performance within it. The music itself takes many forms, from the delicate acoustic and electronic textures of the opening passages to the rhythmic intensity of the Sacconi Quartet recorded in St Edmund’s Chapel. Anna Phoebe’s violin weaves through the LP, linking dusty electronic beats and choral voices, while Richard Bundy’s piano adds moments of expressive clarity. Beyond the music, the outside world - like the A20 road - seeps into the recordings, becoming an unseen performer. Jazz drums, uptempo synths, and resonant bass combine to create a world where history and music intertwine.

Richard Bundy toured the world for more than 30 years as a musician and Musical Director, collaborating with many well-known artists. He now composes music for film, as well as creating neo-classical and ambient works. His credits include the score for The Protagonist, which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival.

Anna Phoebe is a violinist, composer, and broadcaster whose work blends contemporary classical, electronic, and experimental music. She co-hosts the much-loved Radio 4 show Add to Playlist and creates immersive album and score projects that are both raw and cinematic. Her work has featured across Apple TV+, Channel 4, Netflix, ITV and the BBC, and has been championed by BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 3 and KEXP.

The Dover Unlocked project became more than live performances, more than the creation of an album, more than a film. Ultimately, it became the unlocking of a town through time - and that town was waiting to be heard.

D. Rothon - Angel Pavements

  

Angel Pavements - D. Rothon

A limited edition Mini CD inspired by twentieth-century London literature  

 

SOLD OUT

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 Clay Pipe welcomes back D. Rothon with four signature instrumental compositions featuring his beautiful pedal steel and keyboards as well as contributions from regular collaborators Hilary Robinson and Johanna Warren. Created to mark Clay Pipe’s event at Soho Poly in London, this new Mini CD gathers four pieces inspired by the London novels of the likes of James Curtis and Patrick Hamilton, which strongly evoke a largely forgotten yet distantly familiar world.  

 “For years I’ve enjoyed hunting down novels of everyday London life – and low life – especially from the early-to-mid 20th century. It all started with James Curtis’s brilliant The Gilt Kid – a charity shop punt – then tracking down his other books and any others vaguely like them. I’ve already stolen a few titles for tracks on my other Clay Pipe releases, but thought it was time I did a whole set of pieces based around this theme. On Angel Pavements the track names are taken not just from book titles but also chapters or quotes lifted from the text. “

 

Clay Pipe Music · D. Rothon - In The Racket Too

Andrew Wasylyk - Irreparable Parables

 

Pre-order the 2nd pressing in golden-yellow sleeve from -

Bandcamp and Greedbag 

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For his new album, Irreparable Parables, Andrew Wasylyk felt a strong desire to write a set of songs featuring an element hitherto rare in his work: the human voice. Equally strong was the conviction that he did not want to sing them himself.

The Scottish multi-instrumentalist and composer set about assembling a group of guest singers, sending out the songs to wherever they were in the world. The vocals were recorded remotely and then, like migrating birds, winged their way back to Scotland. The result is an album of great beauty which, perhaps preeminently in Wasylyk’s work, expresses the vulnerability and resilience of the human spirit.

Six singers appear on the record, represented by six songbirds illustrated on the sleeve by Clay Pipe Music’s Frances Castle. The cuckoo is a nod to Belle and Sebastian’s 2004 single ‘I’m A Cuckoo’, that band’s Stuart Murdoch being the first voice you hear on the new album. When the vocal for ‘Private Symphony #2’ arrived, says Wasylyk, “it was everything that I was looking for and more. But this is Stuart Murdoch. Of course he’s going to make something incredibly beautiful and thoughtful.”

The song lyrics were, for the most part, written by the singers. The music is Wasylyk’s creation. He navigates a sound world that lies somewhere beyond the borders of classical and jazz, ambient and abstract. It is difficult to describe, but easy to understand, which is to say to feel. That is the way Wasylyk’s work is experienced: as a feeling. It takes you back to childhood, perhaps, to feelings of comfort and safety, or to memories of walks at sunrise and sunset, or to the way a shadow falls on a particular field in a particular place at a particular time in your life. This is consoling music. That is why, though pretty, it is not merely pretty. These are songs to shore up the soul.

Wasylyk writes in a room, in his native Dundee, full of “half-broken” instruments. He picks these up, plays a little, seeking an idea, a feeling, a door that lies ajar. The musical palette of Irreparable Parables includes brass and woodwind, a six-piece string section, guitar, bass, drums, vibraphone, Mellotron, Fender Rhodes, tape loops, synthesisers and percussion. The strings were arranged by the cellist Pete Harvey, a long-term collaborator.

Among the other guest vocalists are Gruff Rhys of the Super Furry Animals, Saya Ueno from Japan’s Tenniscoats and Peter Brewis from Field Music. Wasylyk himself takes the lead vocal on the title track, though a throat infection and touch of pitch-shifting have altered his singing in a way that even he, having fallen out of love with his own voice, finds acceptable.

The heart of the record can, arguably, be found in two tracks, ‘Love Is A Life That Lasts Forever’ and ‘Spectators In The Absence of God’, sung respectively by Molly Linen and Kathryn Joseph. The former, bright with trumpets, was inspired by the writing of Derek Jarman. “I was feeling deeply upset about the world and wanted to try and write something that was obviously hopeful,” Wasylyk says.

‘Spectators …’ offers an emotional counterpoint. It is an “apocalyptic hymn” that seems to grapple with watching human suffering from afar, too distant to be at physical risk, but experiencing the psychological wounding, and feelings of helplessness, even complicity, that come with constant awareness of other people’s pain. “Kathryn’s a pal, I love her dearly, and she’s a brilliant artist who really feels what she writes,” Wasylyk says. “The cracked tenderness of her voice is spellbinding.”

The album closes with an instrumental piece, ‘Soul Enters The Ocean Sun Climbs Out Of The Sea’, all piano and strings, that offers a sense of resolution and ascension. A good moment, too, for Wasylyk to reflect upon the artistic companionship that he enjoyed while making this record – the songbirds that answered his call: “These humans are incredible at what they do. I’m deeply grateful and feel so lucky. It blows my mind.”

‘Irreparable Parables’, released Friday 6th March, 2026 through Clay Pipe Music & State 51 on vinyl, CD & digital.

Dinked Edition, marbled vinyl with numbered print signed (by illustrator Frances Castle)  and a CD of Inundated Indentations (Inundated Indentations is a companion piece to Irreparable Parables, that exists as a self-contained work in its own right. Composed entirely of instrumentals, it offers alternative mixes that stand apart from the original recordings). 500 copies. SOLD OUT

 

Clay Pipe Bundle (only from the label) includes vinyl of Irreparable Parables, vinyl of Inundated Indentations -  an enamel badge and signed cards by Stuart Murdoch, Molly Linen and Gruff Rhys. 100 copies.  SOLD OUT

 

 

Calender, Cards, Prints and Bags

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As the days get shorter and the winter solstice approaches, here are a few seasonal offerings from Clay Pipe to hopefully give you some cheer. All items are available from our Greedbag and Bandcamp shops.

 

The Clay Pipe Calendar returns for 2026, featuring artwork from across the label’s catalogue.

 

There’s also a new set of four greetings cards, each depicting a character from European Christmas and Yuletide folklore.

 

After many requests over the past year, I’ve finally made a Giclée print of Cate Brooks’ Lofoten artwork — a super-high-quality print on textured Hahnemühle German Etching paper, signed and numbered in an edition of just 40.

 

We also have the new Clay Pipe Music canvas accessory pouch with embroidered logo.

 

All items are available now while stocks last. If you’re based outside the UK, you’ll find shipping cheaper via the Greedbag shop.

 

 

Oneiric by Rural Tapes

 

 

Oneiric by Rural Tapes

LP/CD/DL  

Available from Bandcamp and Greedbag

 

 

Oneiric has been picking up some great reviews, here’s what the papers say: 

 “It’s such a listenable album, weird and woozie in places, clear and direct in others. Just like your dreams… I’ll wager you’ll find yourself listening to it two or three times in a row the first time you put it on”
Moonbuilding

 “A masterclass in eclecticism”
Shindig! 

“A pupil-flicking riot of joyous befuddlement”
Electronic Sound

“TNT-period Tortoise with a nostalgically psychedelic twist”
Uncut 

“Blissed-out sounds with a few chills from Nordic dreamweaver”
Prog Magazine

“Songs presenting themselves as wistful meditations, and others transporting the listener to realms beyond our comprehension”
Far Out Magazine

Read an interview with Arne on the Clay Pipe SubStack  

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Clay Pipe Music is thrilled to welcome to the label Norway’s Rural Tapes - the alias of producer and multi-instrumentalist Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen.

His new record Oneiric is one for the dreamers - a trippy, cosmic aural experience of mostly instrumental music, recorded on analogue equipment at his Nygrenda Vev & Dur studio in rural Norway. Arne is also joined on two vocal tracks by long-time collaborators Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip) and Gary Olson (The Ladybug Transistor).

He says: “The word Oneiric refers to things connected with dreams. I've drawn inspiration from the strange, surreal, humorous, imaginative, and vividly colourful experiences that often unfold within them.”

“I have played with genres, sounds and timbres and put together pieces of music that I think could be the soundtrack to a dream sequence. I love the way a dream can be so bizarre and yet still feel so natural, and I can relate to that otherworldliness in the way I compose and put together musical pieces. Some songs have a clear structure, some have not, some are minimalist, some are maximalist, some are wistful and some are joyful, but I think all of them are quite colourful and playful.”

“I’ve taken inspiration from many different music eras and many different corners of the world, from quirky British music to French dream pop to the 60s New York tape music scene to ambient and psychedelic music. The music is created hands on using old analogue gear such as tape machines, dictaphones, tape echoes and more to colour the music and give the sounds the right textures. This way I feel connected to the music I make.”

Over the past two decades, Arne has established himself as a key figure in the Norwegian music scene. He has played in influential bands including I Was A King and Heroes & Zeros, and more recently has been releasing music and playing live with The No Ones — alongside Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey and The Minus 5, and I Was A King frontman Frode Strømstad.

He launched his Rural Tapes project in 2021 with a self-titled debut which established his reputation for inventive, forward-thinking music. He has continued to draw widespread praise across subsequent releases, including Inner Space Music (2022) and Contact (2024).

 

 

 

David Boulter - Whitby

10" Vinyl/CD/DL

Vinyl back in stock in Greedbag 

CDs available from Bandcamp and Greedbag 

 

David Boulter, best known as a long-time member of Tindersticks, returns to Clay Pipe Music with Whitby - an evocative mini-album inspired by the stark beauty and unsettling calm of England’s North Yorkshire coast. 

Unlike the familiar seaside towns of his youth - Great Yarmouth, Scarborough, Filey - Whitby held no particular memories for Boulter until he visited with his family in the summer of 2024. "I’m constantly inspired by my surroundings, or memories of them," he says. "Sat on an almost deserted beach, halfway between Whitby and Sandsend, it really hit me. The absolute beauty - and how alien it seemed. It was quite a stormy day: grey skies coming in off the North Sea, sun breaking through. The way the light hit the rocks, scattered across the beach; the waves crashing. Walking up to the ruined Abbey at sunset, again almost deserted. I imagined human life disappeared."    

That sense of stillness and natural drama became the emotional core of the album. "At a time when it seems we are pushing our planet to the edge, and the wars we rage continue, I felt such calm and connection to the landscape - and how simple beauty can be. The whale bones on the hill reminded me how we always take so much. But we can change."

As with much of his work, Boulter began composing in response to these experiences. On Whitby, the music takes on a more organic quality than his previous releases. While he initially made field recordings of the environment, he later chose to reinterpret them musically - using instrumentation to evoke the atmosphere of the coast: sitting on the beach, walking up by the Abbey, tracing the path of the old Cinder Track railway line.

The result is a quietly powerful musical meditation on history, landscape, and the enduring presence of nature.

Cate Francesca Brooks - Lofoten

 

Cate Francesca Brooks - Lofoten

LP/CD/DL + Enamel badge. 

450 hand numbered vinyl copies

Vinyl SOLD OUT

CDs via Greedbag & Bandcamp 

Digital only from: Cate Brooks 

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There are imagined landscapes we all carry within us—dreamed, half-remembered, or just beyond reach. Lofoten, the new album by Cate Francesca Brooks on Clay Pipe Music, is a musical reflection on one such place.

Located above the Arctic Circle, Norway's Lofoten Islands are known for their dramatic peaks, open seascapes, and distinctive red fishing cabins dotting the shoreline. Though Brooks has never visited this remote northern region, it became an unexpected source of inspiration.

The project began when Cate listened to a narrated "sleep story" set in the islands. Intrigued, she researched the region and found herself drawn to its stark beauty. "I fell in love with creating an impression of somewhere I would probably never visit, but felt a real affinity with," she explains.

This ambitious album translates that connection into sound. Through carefully crafted electronics, melodic themes, richly layered textures and big production, Brooks captures the essence of Lofoten—its icy light, vast horizons, and profound quiet.

"The other thing that happened around the same time was the first lockdown here in the UK. I had taken the opportunity of having some extra time to learn a new (to me) method of synthesis; that of the Synclavier, which uses one aluminium wheel and an array of buttons to control every parameter of the sound.

"I took to it with intrigue and before I knew it, I had built up hundreds of original sounds, many of which were perfect for the textures I could hear in my head for Lofoten. So that (along with a Prophet synth and a TR-808) became the sound world."

Lofoten stands as an evocative testament to how music can transport us to distant places, transforming geographical limitations into imagined creative possibilities.

 

 

The Baker Fields - Independent Label Market

The Bakers Fields – Frankley My Dear

Mini CD in box

 

Second edition available Friday 23rd May via - Bandcamp

Clay Pipe will be at the Independent Label Market on Saturday 10th May 2025 with lots of rare back stock, new stock, vinyl LPs, enamel badges, prints, Mini CDs, Flexi discs and test pressings!

Please drop me an email if you are coming and would like to reserve an item. 

Clay Pipe Music invites you to take a journey through the Midlands countryside with Frankley My Dear – a new Mini CD housed in a handmade box from Andy Baker’s The Baker Fields. 

The 5-track collection takes its cue from a bicycle ride through Andy’s local area – past the duck pond at Lickey Hills, through Uffmoor Woods (named after the great Mercian King Offa, where a carpet of bluebells appears in spring), and on to Frankley Beeches, which overlooks Birmingham. On Bonfire Night, people gather here to watch a million fireworks across the city, and on quieter days, you might hear the call of a Yellow Hammer. The journey also takes in the old church in Romsley, named after St Kenelm, who was believed to have been murdered on the nearby Clent Hills.

Each track is infused with a fuzzy melancholy, melodic grace, and a gentle psychedelic undercurrent – music shaped by quiet lanes, half-forgotten landmarks, and the gentle passing of time.

Clay Pipe Music · 3. Did He Ever See The Bluebells

Clay Pipe Music · 5. St Kenelms Reverie

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.