David Keenan reviews “Lanreath”

Beautiful nocturnal drone scored for guitar, field recordings and ‘phonography’ by Matthew Shaw, a collaborator with Brian Lavelle and Andrew Paine and head of Apollolaan Recordings. The guitar is extremely delicate, no more than a distant hovering drone that gives off clouds of subtly shifting microtones that sound like the sun coming up in slow motion while field recordings of birds and spatial resonances add to the feel of night into dawn. The album was recorded in the town of Lanreath in Cornwall and is intended as an attempt to capture the area’s specific sonorities. A great occult drone working that should appeal to fans of Andrew Chalk, Coil, Darren Tate et al.
www.volcanictongue.com

Seatown

I am very pleased to anounce that my fist musical release of the year will be the album “Seatown” released through Siren Wire Editions on Monday 16th January.
“Seatown” was recorded exactly one year ago on the day of release. The music and sounds we’re all conceived at the place that gives the album it’s name, Seatown a very small but incredible place by the sea just south of Chideock in West Dorset. I spent the week there living in a cottage and recording by day and night both in the cottage and by the sea, walking along underneath the magnificent presence of Golden Cap, picking up fossils on the beach and even spending time in the very cold water, literally lost for a time in their currents.
Seatown will be released on January 16th 2012.

Matthew Shaw "Seatown" Excerpt by apollolaan

…according to our Phil on 26 January 2012.

Matthew Shaw continues his tour of darn sarf where he goes to a place, soaks in the vibe and then creates a piece of music based on his experiences there. Nice idea actually, and I did thoroughly enjoy his Lanreath CD. Seatown is a tiny place just south of Chideock in West Dorset and there Matthew spent a week in a cottage eating pasties, playing with fossils and making this lovely thing. Bowed guitar and phonography (whatever that is… I hope it’s not rude…) are the sounds on offer and you end up with a very nautical sounding album. The bowed guitar sounds lush over the drones and waves of blustery sea noises and wind sounds. It is just one 33 minute track and the bowed guitar makes it quite mantra-like as it’s very repetitive but it helps take you on your journey to Seatown. Hand numbered of 50 copies! Lovely!!

Norman Records

præ – A self published book of photographs

præ by Matthew Shaw | Make Your Own Book

Fluid – Radio review Lanreath

Lanreath reviewed in Zero Tolerance magazine

From the brand new Zero Tolerance magazine #44

Thank you to Scott McKeating for this review.

Two new compilation appearances

This month sees two new compilation appearances from Matthew Shaw. One is on the superb remix album Motion.Slence.Echo by Susan Matthews, the other the 50th release from the always reliable and inspirational Sonic Oyster Records.

‘Since I began releasing my own music back in 2005 I have interacted with many musicians who have impressed me not only with their imaginative and inspiring music but also with their warmth and modesty.

Motion.Silence.Echo was inspired by these musicians. I have always been interested in experimentation. I am fond of creating a sound and then working with that sound, deconstructing it, developing it, re-imagining it. In 2007 I hit upon the idea of allowing others the opportunity to remix my work.

I chose my remixers very carefully, I wanted artists I knew would have the courage and talent to really explore my music, people I knew would be unafraid of pulling it into their own soundworld, developing it and and re-presenting it back to me in a new form. People who I knew would be unafraid to show me something new about my music.

As an album Motion.Silence.Echo is diverse and eclectic, but ultimately coherent and satisfying. The results are incredible – startling, surprising, unnerving, comforting, imaginative, stark, complex, thrilling… an exciting testament to the wealth of talent within’

Susan Matthews, October 2011

A double album of remixes of Susan’s music. Released Friday 11th November 2011

Disc One

My Name Is Safe In Your Mouth remixed by Nick Grey
Un Performance de Leurre (A Decoy Performance remixed by Rainier Lericolais
A Dysfunctional Hush remixed by Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo
Where Birds Come To Die remixed by George Rogers
Joy’s Farewell remixed by M
Summer’s Faith In Summer’s End (Summer’s Over) remixed by Alistair Crosbie
Flinch remixed by Daniel Park
Blistered Moonlight remixed by Tony Wakeford

Disc Two

King Of The World remixed by Andrew Paine
The River Is Flowing (On Gwendraeth Fach) remixed by Marco Lucchi
The Lie That Holds Up The Sky remixed by Tex la Homa
Earth Stammers remixed by The Dead Mauriacs
Slow Corrosion (Hushed Corrosive/Lifelore) remixed by Clutter
Time Will Leave Me Behind remixed by Beed and Fascia
Almost February remixed by 1000 Aeroplanes Crashing In The Night
Veiled remixed by Damon Shulman

 http://www.freewebs.com/sirenwire/motionsilenceecho.htm

Strictly Limited to 50 copies on CD-R
Released 7th November 2011

To celebrate the 50th Sonic Oyster CD-R release, I asked all the collaborators, artists, groups, chancers and shysters associated with the label to dip into their archives and choose a curio for a compilation.

What we have here, ladies and gentlemen… is a 17 track album, featuring exclusive cuts by:

Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine

Alistair Crosbie

Buddha on the Moon

The Zero Map

Susan Matthews

Bolide

Astral Social Club

Will Klingenmeier (Soliloquy Sun)

Sindre

Andrew Paine (US)

Matthew Shaw

Book of Shadows

Brian Lavelle

Richard Youngs

Smoke Jaguar

Andrew Paine (UK)

Clutter

This is a strictly limited release of 50… and an essential must-have for any serious SOR fan.

http://sonicoysterrecords.blogspot.com/

Norman Records review “Lanreath”

Matthew Shaw
Lanreath

…according to our Phil on 20 October 2011.

We’ve had a few CD’s in lately by Matthew Shaw on labels such as Sirenwire and Sonic Oyster. Here’s one on his own label Apollolaan. Why have a label if you can’t release your own music eh? This is his ‘audio’ take on Lanreath which is a small Cornish village (population 514 in 2001) so don’t expect massive boom raves and that if you’re off there! This is a blissful sounding 47 minute drone piece which will evoke feelings of the countryside and the like as it’s got a pastoral vibe running through it… But that could be all the birds twattering on in the background which totally took me by surprise (I thought they were in the room….).  It’s warm evocative drone music which is extremely well done. Having never been to Lanreath I can’t say if it would remind me of it but listening to this I’d be more than happy to pop down and mince about for a bit.