A Broken Consort — Crow Autumn
"Crow Autumn" gathers together and reworks two previous recordings issued by Sustain-Release, namely — SRL09 Crow Autumn (Part One) & SRL12 Crow Autumn (Part Two). It was released by Tompkins Square Records on the 9th of February, 2010, in a beautiful limited-edition vinyl pressing, and an all-card CD digipak accompanied by a 12-page booklet of artwork. A limited number of both the LP and CD are available directly from the artist, with a bonus CD of rare and collaborative work.
Richard Skelton — Landings
"Landings" is the culmination of four years spent recording on the West Pennine Moors in northern England. It was first released on the 28th of June, 2009, in a small edition of 28, accompanied by a chapbook of poem fragments taken from the soon-to-be-published book of the same name. It was then re-released in a larger edition to coincide with the pressing of the 96-page "Landings" book, on the 12th of December, 2009. Later that month, a beautiful double-vinyl pressing (see picture) of the album was released by Type Records, and in January, 2010, a jewel-cased CD edition was also published by the same label.
Clouwbeck — Wolfrahm
"Wolfrahm" is the follow-up to 2007's "A Moraine", and continues the artist's preoccupation with landscapes, land formation, erosion, decay and renewal. The album's title is a reference to the mineral ore that produces Tungsten — a metal which, amongst other things, is used to make violin strings. The music itself brims with a rich, textural ebb and flow — a sonorous drift of shifting layers, with dark seams of beautiful, bowed melodies and eddying, turbulent undertow. The album was released on Shining Day Records in July of 2009.
Richard Skelton — Marking Time (Limited Vinyl Edition)
This is a vinyl-only reissue of "Marking Time", originally released by Preservation in 2008 (see below). It was remastered by the legendary Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin, and given a new track sequencing for the reissue, which came out on Type Records in May of 2009. As with most of these releases for other labels, the artwork is the artist's own. In this case, it's a medium-format photograph of a bank of poplar and birch trees in Lancashire, northern England.
A Broken Consort — Box Of Birch
"Box of Birch" was originally released with the catalogue No. SRL07, as a double 3-inch CDR boxed edition of just 28, on the 28th of June, 2007. For this Tompkins Square reissue, the album was reworked and remastered to create a 2nd Edition (which is now listed as catalogue No. SRL11 — replacing SRL07, which is no longer available). The beautiful Tompkins Square edition was released on the 28th of April, 2009, as a heavy duty vinyl LP and an all-card CD digipak with accompanying 12-page art booklet.
Richard Skelton — Marking Time
"Marking Time" is a suite of songs which together constitute a mediation on loss and the passage of time. But more than this, each of the album's songs draw on the redemptive, life-affirming influence of the natural landscape and the cycle of the seasons. This can be seen in the names of songs themselves, which were derived from landscape features of the moors of northern England. The album was released on CD with bespoke artwork and packaging by Preservation, on the 4th of September, 2008.