Exotic Pylon Festival
Our Live Last Bow – A 4-DAY spectacular climax to the regular Exotic Pylon Live project at our home-from-home, The Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston.
EP05 Gentleforce – Looking Through New Window
The next release on Exotic Pylon Records is a gorgeous live mini-album by Gentleforce.
Street Date – 26th March 2012 - Ltd. Cassette & Digital Download.
You can PRE-ORDER the VERY limited cassette from our Greedbag store here.
Here is an excerpt from the EPR Soundcloud page that you are welcome to share with the world…
And here is another excerpt from the Gentleforce Soundcloud page:
Release Notes:
My youngest child had a Gentleforce t-shirt by the time he was 3 months old. Sacred Spaces was the second album he ever heard (the first? Coil presents Time Machines). It was one of only a handful of records in those first days of his life that he understood, that hummed with the same rhythmic shifts as his emergence. He wasn’t quite in the world yet but this music eased his passage, settled him. He never slept but he listened and at heinous hours, as the clocks dripped and we all fell in and out of consciousness, Gentleforce played out, over and over, keeping everyone calm. This is music that will, for me, always be associated with the slow, Eternal time between 3 AM and sunrise; it’s music for dawnings, for new beginnings, for Terence Malick films. It’s a resolutely benevolent kind of music, perfect for babies and munkins and lost boys recovering from their acid supping. Gentleforce is cosmic music via Kepler; music that works in spheres, that unfolds gently, that announces itself by absence; of inferior beasts, of dissonant planes. Even the name is perfect; this gentle force, this incline, this guiding hand. More people need this music than realise it. Listen, learn, make the t-shirt.
Loki (An Idiot’s Guide to Dreaming)
Looking Through New Window (a live piece) was recorded, mixed and mastered November 2010. The piece was created for Refraction at Serial Space. Gentleforce is Eli Murray.
Here is some live footage of Eli from The Vortex last year (from the Exotic Pylon Youtube Channel) – don’t let they typically naff sound quality and dull-ass static camera put you off the sublime sounds within…
Gentleforce: Website
Gentleforce: Facebook
Gentleforce: Twitter
Wermonster!
WHO is Wermonster?
Wermonster is the name of Berlin-based producer Nicolas Mercet who will be dropping his incredible long-player Ghosts Move Slowly soon on this very label. It’s an epic trawl through a haunted mostly-instrumental hip hop landscape and we’re absolutely drop-dead fucking thrilled to be bringing this out in to the world…
In the meantime and hot off the presses this morning, you can grab an awesome FREE EP of remixes, More Embryonauts, from Wermonster’s Bandcamp site here.
Nico’s SoundCloud site is here.
Norman Records
Those wonderful (and quite crazy) folk at Norman Records are now stocking Exotic Pylon Records here.
Go have a butcher why dontcha…
Soundcloud
I’ve finally got round to sorting out a soundcloud page for the label with tracks and edits for each Exotic Pylon Records release, including the next 2 forthcoming epics!
Of which more… soon.
HOLIDAYS!
EPR is out of here until January 16th – in cases of absolute URGENCY you can get me at exoticpylonrecords AT gmail DOT com but i will only be checking this sporadically.
THANK YOU for all your incredible support in our opening few months – we have a KILLER year coming in 2012!
Happy Holidays to you all
jonny mugwump
Transpontine
Neil at the ever-wonderful Transpontine has written a preview of Holy Joy’s pending New Cross return this Thursday (tickets here).
Transpontine is a blog detailing the life, loves and history of South East London and it got me to thinking that Exotic Pylon Records is basically a New Cross label which makes me feel very proud (and still completely amazed that the whole enterprise hasn’t back-fired yet).
SO, you should have a wander round this most unique of blogs and if you follow this link you can trace all previous Band of Holy Joy history there which includes some beautiful photos and various warm and intimate encounters with the band in one form or another.
Bag Love-Action
And so Mrs Mill and The Lord‘s sterling work on Jesuit Trifle Syndrome has been picked up on another design blog – The Creative Review. Have a looksee here.
BOHJ Live in New Cross Thursday
MY GOD – this is going to be one hell of a homecoming.
Band of Holy Joy originally formed in New Cross nearly 30 years ago and for the first time in many many years they are returning to their old stomping ground to perform live at the brilliant Montague Arms. Tickets here.
Holy Joy have had an incredible year with Butterfly being one of the most (deservedly) acclaimed albums of their history, and in the very strangest of circumstances it transpires that Exotic Pylon Records lives and operates out of the same address where the Band used to hang and er, drink tea (etc.) back in the day. Call it fate, coincidence or whatever but seriously, what are the odds?
This is what they have to say:
“The night is in honour of Betty and Stan who have ran the Montague since time began and beyond. It’s an amazing pub in itself and well worth a visit we feel its going to be a beautiful mad chaotic night. We are playing with Beata Positiva and Hillfield and Stone it’s an inspired line up and we’d love to see you there.”
This is the perfect way of welcoming in Christmas and it might be wise to not make any plans for the following morning – this is going to be LARGE!
Butterfly ALBUM OF THE YEAR!
Well, we knew we were sitting on a winner.
The lovely folks over at Beat Surrender have made Band of Holy Joy’s How To Kill A Butterfly their album of the year.
Band of Holy Joy are at their finest right now and yet it feels like there’s so much more to come…
Johny Brown, Inga Tillere, Chris Brierly, William Lewington, Andy Astle and James Stephen Finn – many many congratulations – you completely deserve it.