HARDY TREE, The - Through Passages Of Time - Vinyl (LP)
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March 7, 2017
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Free delivery on many items. Same-day despatch, no-question returns. Authorised dealers - full technical support. Online since 1997. Sales & help: 020 7424 1960 ● ebay@juno.co.uk Shop categories Information The HARDY TREE Through Passages Of Time(numbered limited yellow vinyl LP + MP3 download code) Clay Pipe
Cat: PIPE 014LP. Rel: 6 Feb 17
Experimental/Electronic
Side 1 - Track 1. Looking Down On London Side 1 - Track 2. The Culvert Side 1 - Track 3. The Peerless Pool Side 1 - Track 4. St John Horsleydown Side 1 - Track 5. Newport Market Side 1 - Track 6. Baltic Wharf Side 1 - Track 7. Pepy's Walk Side 2 - Track 1. Sandbridge Court Side 2 - Track 2. Sluice House Tavern Side 2 - Track 3. Penny's Folly Side 2 - Track 4. Near Windmill Bridge Side 2 - Track 5. Harringay House Side 2 - Track 6. Cut Throat Lane
On Through Passages of Time, Clay Pipe founder Frances Castle - AKA The Hardy Tree - has attempted to "soundtrack buildings and areas of London that no longer exist". Fundamentally, it's a kind of an extended ode to a London that has been cast aside in the rush towards gentrification. Musically, it feels contemporary but nostalgic, a feeling enhanced by the use of vintage equipment ("clusters" of sequenced Moog synthesizers, proto-sampling keyboard the Mellotron, and so on). Most of all, though, this is down to Castle's ability to conjure evocative aural images through the use of bittersweet melodies, melancholic chord progressions, and snatched field recordings.
