The Belbury Circle – Outward Journeys
(featuring John Foxx)
3rd November 2017 on LP, CD, DL and Cassette.
(featuring John Foxx)
The Belbury Circle – Outward Journeys
(featuring John Foxx)
(featuring John Foxx)
Agri Montana
by Jon Brooks
A new album by Jon Brooks (The Advisory Circle, Pattern Forms, The Belbury Circle) is available now on his own Café Kaput label, as a download from Bandcamp.
Inspired by Alpine landscapes and performed entirely on the Buchla Music Easel and ARP Odyssey. Artwork by Ian Hodgson of Moon Wiring Club.
by Jon Brooks
New in the Ghost Box Guest Shop
Jon Brooks, Howlround & Keith Seatman
Available now in the Ghost Box Guest Shop…
Autres Directions – Jon Brooks
We have secured the very last of the first pressing of Jon Brook’s (The Advisory Circle) Autres Directions. This beautiful and meditative album for Clay Pipe Music takes inspiration from the French countryside.
The Guest Shop copies are from , a hand numbered limited run of 500 clear vinyl copies. Including a free download code card. Artwork and design by Frances Castle are to the usual high standard of all Clay Pipe releases.
Part episodic series of ethereal soundscape canvasses, part field recording driven hauntological essay, part ambient/prog reinterpretation of the kind of approach the likes of Pink Floyd, Harmonia or Eno were aiming for in the 1970’s – In totality it reflects all of this whilst retaining its own robust identity and makes for a deeply immersive sonic experience that reveals great depth with repeated listens.
The Active Listener.
As impressive and immersive as anything I’ve heard, this collection is a testament to Brooks’ skill as a sound designer and songwriter.
Piccadilly Records.
All hold hands and off we go – Keith Seatman
Unsettling pastoral electronica on this 5th CD album from Keith Seatman. He’s joined on two tracks by vocalist Douglas Powell.
Excellent stuff…
Simon Reynold’s Blissblog
Surreal retro analogue visions slide in and out of haunted fever dreams in this woozy, uniquely psychedelic, Radiophonic-flavored concoction that’s suffused with ambivalent subconscious.
Electronic Sound Magazine
A Creak in Time – Howlround
Howlround’s immersive and awe-inspiring soundtrack to a film by Steven McInerney. The heavyweight 180g vinyl LP comes with printed inner sleeve, digital download and a link to stream the full 27 minute film in HD online.
This recording may be Howlround’s most substantial statement to date.
Wire
As a rumination on both the firmament and the infinitesimal, A Creak in Time is timeless and singular: a cinematic triumph of style and substance.
Wallpaper Magazine
Howlround will be performing A Creak in Time at DJ Food’s Further in West Norwood, London, this Saturday night 6th May. Along with a four screen film show and DJ set from Ghost Box records, and film and music from DJ Food.
Jon Brooks, Howlround & Keith Seatman
Peel Away the Ivy, out today
Peel Away the Ivy by the Pattern Forms is out now on LP, CD and download.
There’s also a limited edition green vinyl version exclusive to Rough Trade, with a special in-store performance by The Pattern Forms in Rough Trade East tonight, 21st October, at 6:00pm.
The Pattern Forms is a collaborative project between Ed Macfarlane and Edd Gibson of Friendly Fires and Jon Brooks of The Advisory Circle, expertly blending blissful pop with more exploratory electronics, its roots lying in the artists’ shared love of soundtracks and electronic library music of the 70s and 80s. It will appeal strongly to fans of both bands.
“…starts with a clutch of songs so lovely, a floating flock of diaphanous electronic songbirds, that it feels like being seduced. The melodies and atmosphere of late afternoon sunshine slowly gathers you to its warm beating heart where, it turns out, you would rather like to stay. I haven’t heard music quite so evocative of time and place since first encountering Air’s ‘Moon Safari’. But while that consummate late-90s album had just enough dancefloor in its make up to ignite an ever-so-slightly strident sexiness, ‘Peel Away The Ivy’ swirls around a kind of epic lOcc pop beauty and whispers in your ear until you fail in love with it and its pastoral eroticism. Gorgeous.”
Electronic Sound
The Pattern Forms: Edd Gibson, Ed Macfarlane & Jon Brooks (off camera to the right)
Peel Away the Ivy by The Pattern Forms
Out 21st October
The debut album from The Pattern Forms, a collaborative project between Ed Macfarlane and Edd Gibson of Friendly Fires and Jon Brooks of The Advisory Circle, is due out 21st October.
Following on from the Other Voices 03 single in 2015, this is an album that perfectly melds blissful pop with more exploratory electronics, its roots lying in the artists’ shared love of soundtracks and electronic library music of the 70s and 80s. It should appeal to fans of both bands.
On DL, CD, and heavyweight LP, with luxurious packaging designed by Julian House. There’ll also be a special coloured vinyl version exclusive to Rough Trade Records. Pre-orders will open early October.
Edd Gibson and Ed Macfarlane (Jon Brooks is Elsewhere)
More news on this here and on our other channels soon.
n CD, LP and DL.
Out 21st October