Goetheanum’ comprises two beautifully measured slices of drone as cosmic debris: true knowledge falling in and around infinite dimensions in its quest for spiritual wakening.
Two pieces for guitar, piano, singing bowl and voice.
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Originally released on Sonic Oyster Cassettes: Strictly Limited (numbered) edition of 50 copies.
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.
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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
From the brand new Zero Tolerance magazine #44
Thank you to Scott McKeating for this review.
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
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