news, updates and ramblings
Foxy Digitalis have claimed Stray Ghost’s intense debut CD album “An Avalanche of Swollen Tongues” as ‘essential listening’. Read the review in full here! Many thanks to Dave.
They also gave praise to the Drone Poets compilation here. Thanks to Elliot for that one.
Whilst on the subject of Stray Ghost, Hidden Shoal have released a free download single of a track from his up coming album “Nothing But Death”. Cop it over here!.
Thanks to everyone who was involved and came along on Saturday night. It was an absolute blast. If anyone has any pics or video footage or anything, that would be ace.
The new t shirt colourways are in the store now! Limited to 25 of each colour so be quick!!
Plurals/Tuluum Shimmering Split will be available by next week, just had a slight cock up with the CDrs, oops.
Merry Christmas! x
Message to Bears are supporting Peter Broderick affiliated band Horse Feathers on Tuesday 8th December at The Jericho in Oxford.
Tickets are still available!
Check out the mix I did for Fluid Radio here or stream it below!
Thanks very much to Dan at Fluid!
Yes, worthy of a few caps I think!
Unfortunately, I’m unable to make it, but it should be grand!
Also, a favourable review of Seabuckthorn’s “Distant Summer Storm” album has poped up here!
That’s all for now, but DON’T FORGET! Message to Bears, Timothy C Holsehouse, Winter in Montreal and Plurals LIVE in Aylesbury December 12th! Would be ace to meet some fans!
xxxxxxx
Alot to say tonight!
A bunch of new distro items have been added recently;
Fugues – Unreleased Tracks Compilation
A great comp featuring Message to Bears along side some other fantastic artists.
Field Rotation – Licht und Schatten
Second release from up coming Fluid Audio label.
And the 2 latest releases from the fantastic Home Normal label have also been added to the store.
The October sale ended last weekend, so the OCT10 10% discount code can no longer be used. Thanks to everyone who ordered and made use of the discount! I’m still keeping a bunch of items at a lower price though, you can check them out here. You can now also buy Stray Ghosts “An Avalanche…” with the t shire at a special package deal price here!
I’ve just confirmed that the wonderful Experimedia will be stocking Dead Pilot releases! I’ll let you know as soon as they have them in stock. Huge thanks to Jeremy! Hibernate have also just launched a shop and will soon be stocking select releases as well!
Fluid Radio will be broadcasting a mix made by me on Saturday November 14th. It features a bunch of great music from Dead Pilot releases as well as some from my favourite non Dead Pilot artists! After it’s been broadcast, I’ll upload it for download.
The remixes for the bonus disc for the re-release of Ekca Liena’s “Slow Music…” have now been confirmed and are as follows:
- Into The Wind (Cover by Duncan Harrison)
- Post Altitude (Remix by Pupilar)
- We Are Dying Flames (Remix by Stray Ghost)
- Fire Emerging From Mist (Remix by Kixotek)
- Fire Emerging From Mist (Remix by Nadja / Aidan Baker)
I’m so pleased and thrilled with this line up. I can’t wait to get this out. More info on it’s release soon.
And lastly, the first every Dead Pilot gig is taking place in Aylesbury on Saturday December 12th with Message to Bears, Winter in Montreal, Timothy C. Holehouse and Plurals. Hopefully this will be the first of many. More info here and here. If you are interested in coming and have no idea where Aylesbury is, please do get in touch and I’ll help you out.
I think that’s just about everything. As I said, I’m taking a break from releases for a month or so, but expect to see something special soon.
xxxxx
With “An Avalanche of Swollen Tongues” still fresh in our ears, Stray Ghost’s Anthony Saggers releases another amazing set of tracks, this time on Australian label Hidden Shoal. Entitled “Each Paradise Is A Lost Paradise”, it is 3 tracks of absorbing melodic ambiance that chime and float along beautifully.
Download only I’m afraid, but you can’t have everything 
Give it a whirl here.
Message to Bears is featured on a new compilation along side Peter Broderick & Nils Frahm, Goldmund, Simon Scott and many more!
Check it out here! I’ll be stocking copies in the store soon!
First up is the long awaited full length from Operations!
http://deadpilot.bigcartel.com/product/operations-you-atomic-warfare
Operations is Chris Anderson. You may remember him from the second Dead Pilot release “Knights Move!”. Well, that was some time ago and this album has been in the works ever since, but it finally sees the light of day.
Inspired by the nuclear tests undertaken by western nations in the 1950s, this album is a deep, harrowing and affecting listen. Radio static drops in and out of dusty piano loops and delicate guitar passages over layers of feedback drenched drones. It’s highly textured yet very minimal and benefits from headphones immensely. The sound Chris has created here is very immersive and really captures your imagination; with it’s barely there instrumentation and distant noises, you will find your self discovering new sounds on each listen. The 22 minute epic “Dominic II” is one of the spookiest tracks I’ve heard in a long time. If you can imagine Godspeed and Machinefabriek soundtracking an obscure black & white horror film, I think it would sound somewhat like this. The tension created is fascinating.
Limited to 99 copies in hand stamped and hand numbered windowed digipaks, tied with string.
Second up is a new disc by the brilliant Pete Fosco!
http://deadpilot.bigcartel.com/product/pete-fosco-crescent-avenue
Pete Fosco comes to Dead Pilot after releases on Reverb Worship and the fantastic Digitalis Limited cassette range.
Crescent Avenue is made up of 2 tracks. Western Ave. I and Western Ave. II. Western Ave. I is a 32 minute dirge through volcanic rumbling tones, with semi-psychedelic licks and swells and delicate melodic passages floating in and out of the clouds. It’s quite dense and heavy in places but it never gets too bleak; there is always a nagging hopeful airy-ness throughout the piece. Western Ave. II is eerie and dark, with twisted riffs and distorted memories fighting to break free; and when they finally do, it’s chaotic but engaging and brilliant. As the track dies out, you can’t help but feel moved in a peculiar way.
Limited to 100 copies, hand stamped in new card digipaks with 4 circular holes hinting at the artwork.
Lastly is entry number 6 in the split series, from Archers by the Sea and Pine Smoke Lodge
http://deadpilot.bigcartel.com/product/archers-by-the-sea-pine-smoke-lodge-split
Number 6 in the Spilt Series sees Archers by The Sea (Vicent, previously known as The Pistil Cosmos and “V”) from France paired up with mysterious US outfit Pine Smoke Lodge.
Archers by the Sea offers up a mind blowing 32 minute track of euphoric drones and sun drenched melodies. This track is simply stunning, probably one of the best I’ve heard from Vincent. It’s kaleidoscopic, intense and uplifting. Flaming synths gush and warble above cascading textures. It’s like a journey through space at a million miles an hour. Ending with a playful psychedelic guitar passage, that seems like a dream. F**king fantastic.
Pine Smoke Lodge bring us 3 tracks of weirdo-ritualistic forest drone. Foggy tribal rhythms and lone cries of witch craft play over hazey drones and doomy textures. Like wandering through unknown lands late at night. It’s ghostly and very strange. A brilliant counterpart to Archers by the Sea.
Limited to 80 copies, in standard windowed sleeve.
Don’t forget, for the month of October, if you order 3 or more items from the store, you can use the discount code OCT10 for 10% off!!
Thank you xxx
*please note as I am currently quite ill there may well be a delay in sending out orders, so please bare with me, thank you.*
So, as we say goodbye to the month of September and hello to the month of October, I’d like to bring a few things to your attention(s).
First off:
Stray Ghost’s fantastic full length “An Avalanche of Swollen Tongues” released a few weeks has had a bloody fantastic review by our friends at Sonic Reverie.
“There are strains of the Japanese aesthetic Wabi Sabi throughout Stray Ghost’s music, the fact that we cannot quite hear what is buried below the synthetic drones and static makes it seem all the more appealing in it’s imperfection. We are forced to press our ears to the speakers and listen closely to catch scintillating frames of the beauty which is buried beneath the kind of harsh protrusion of external noise which invades our hearts and minds on a daily basis.”
Read the full review:
http://sonicreverie.blogspot.com/2009/09/stray-ghost-avalanche-of-swollen.html
Secondly (and whilst on the subject of “…Swollen Tongues”:
You can now purchase the limited, hand numbered, tied with string and with bonus disc version of the album on it’s own WITHOUT a t shirt. So, those of you who like to listen to music topless, but still want the limited edition special-ness and bonus disc, can now purchase it on it’s own!
http://deadpilot.bigcartel.com/artist/stray-ghost
For all the Stray Ghost purchasing options!
Thirdly:
New distro items have been added from the lovely Hibernate records and my favs Small Doses. Check out the distro section for these gems (limted copies of everything!):
http://deadpilot.bigcartel.com/category/distro-items
Lastly:
With the nights drawing in and such (and the amount of amazing and larger scale releases planned over the next few months) I’ve decided to do a bit of a sale to shift the last few copies of some releases and make way for all the lovely new ones.
http://deadpilot.bigcartel.com/category/sale-items
Some stuff is down to just ONE COPY so if anything does take your fancy, get on it or be disappointed!
Also, during this sale time, if you order 3 (THREE) or more items (releases, distro items, sale items, t shirts ANYTHING!), you can use a special discount code: OCT10 for an extra 10% off. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS ONLY TO BE USED ON ORDERS OF 3 (THREE) OR MORE ITEMS, NO LESS. ANY ORDERS NOT FOLLOWING THESE INSTRUCTIONS WILL NOT BE PROCESSED AND YOU WILL LOSE OUT. SORRY.
Okay, that wasn’t quite last; final things:
Regarding the re-release of Ekca Liena’s Slow Music; please join the mailing list (on the home/start page) to be kept up to date on when this will be out. Joining the Facebook group and following the Twitter page wouldn’t help either. This way you will be notified of all goings on.
A few new places will be stocking Dead Pilot releases! More info shortly. Mega thanks to those guys for stocking us!
Out next week: Pete Fosco – Crescent Avenue (ltd. 1oo), Archers by the Sea/Pine Smoke Lodge – Split (ltd. 80) and Eyeballs – The Roof of the World re-issue (ltd. 40)
Finally, thanks to everyone for your continued interest and support. Keep it up and keep physical music and the DIY ethic alive!
