GHOSTWRITER ON HARD FORMAT (21.06.10)
See what the wonderful Hard Format music design website have to say about our Ghostwriter release here : http://www.hardformat.org/4640/ghostwriter/
WHAT'S ON THE SECOND LANGUAGE TURNTABLE? (25.05.10)
Want to know what's on the turntable here at 2L Towers? Have a listen to our free 82 minute mix here: http://soundcloud.com/second-language/second-language-playlist-mix
GHOSTWRITER 'THE CONTINUING
ADVENTURES OF THE STRANGE SOUND SOCIETY' OUT NOW! (07.05.10)
We're delighted to announce the 4th
release on our Second Language label.
Ghostwriter is the fascinating project of Devon-based Mark Brend; musician, author and respected expert on antiquarian sound apparatus (you may well know his book, Strange Sounds: Offbeat Instruments and Sonic Experiments in Pop – the definitive text on the subject). The Continuing Adventures Of The Strange Sound Association is his first longplayer under the Ghostwriter moniker. It is an album like no other.
Partially based upon archive voice recordings, fragmentary texts and ‘imagined works’ by literary figures eminent (Arthur Conan Doyle, John Steibeck), cult (Colin Wilson, John Cowper Powys) and arcane (Arthur Machen, Ivor Gurney), The Continuing Adventures… weaves ethereal atmosphere, wistful song and playful soundscape from a battery of instruments and sound sources.
Brend is assisted in his endeavours by a number of additional musicians and collaborators, including multi-instrumentalists Tim Conway and Matt Gale (Farina), singer Suzy Mangion (Piano Magic, George) and analogue synth collector Darren Hayman (Hefner), among several others.
As with all 2L releases, 'The Continuing Adventures...' has been meticulously hand-crafted utilising recyled (and recyclable) materials (check out our wonderful assembly film below).
This is a very
limited edition release! Be sure to pick up a copy asap
either from us (click on the Subscriptions
header above) or from :
Norman Records : http://www.normanrecords.com/records/116445
Rough Trade shop : http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=326465
EXCLUSIVE
SECOND LANGUAGE LABEL SHOWCASE ON FLUID RADIO
Listen to an exclusive Second Language label mix on Fluid Radio here : http://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2010/04/second-language-showcase/
Features Vashti Bunyan, Piano Magic, Dollboy, Plinth, Klima, Leyland
Kirby and many more.
DOLLBOY GHOST STATIONS SOLD OUT (13.04.10)
Dollboy's 'Ghost Stations' has now sold out. Never to be
re-pressed. All gone.
FREE PIANO MAGIC CD (13.04.10)
A 10 track CD of Piano Magic
home recordings will be given away free to anyone who subscribes to Second
Language before May 1st 2010. This free CD will be
sent out the first week of May with the next Second Language release. Piano Magic 'Home Recordings' will
not be for sale as an individual release. Neither will it be available
in record stores.
You must
subscribe to Second Language before May 1st in order to receive it.
Current subscribers will obviously receive the CD.
This is a very
limited edition release!
For a taster, click on our most recent podcast here: http://secondlanguagemusic.com/podcasts.html
MUSIC & MIGRATION
SOLD OUT
Here at 2L Towers, we've completely sold
out of our Music & Migration
compilation. For the last hope of picking up a copy, go to :
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/113509
MUSIC &
MIGRATION RECEIVES 4
STAR REVIEW IN MOJO MAGAZINE
Our Music & Migration
received a glowing 4 star review in Mojo magazine this month.
MUSIC & MIGRATION REVIEW ON DOA + INTERVIEW ON 1000BIRDS.COM
Excellent review of our Music & Migration compilation by Adrian Pannett on Delusions Of Adequacy website here :
http://www.adequacy.net/2010/02/various-artists-music-and-migration
Read an interview on Music & Migration with Second Language co-founder Martin Holm on 10000birds.com
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