The Kingdom of Mercia, by The Stone Tapes

The Kingdom of Mercia

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1.	George's Sister 01:49	buy track
2.	The Friar With the Gory Cowl 03:38	buy track
3.	The Marmion Stone 03:39	buy track
4.	The Lady in White 02:13	buy track
5.	Tamworth Castle 03:05	buy track
6.	The Lady in Black 03:04	buy track
7.	The Moat House 03:06	buy track
8.	The Abduction 00:31	buy track
9.	The Witches' Table 04:19	buy track
10.	The Hopwas Copper Plates 04:52	buy track
11.	George Visits Jim 00:56	buy track
12.	Jim's Synth 04:39	buy track
13.	St. Editha's 01:34	buy track
14.	Sound 66 04:39	buy track

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Conceived & created by M. Peach & K. Peach
Synths, Guitars, Field Recordings & Programming - M. Peach
Piano & Voice - K. Peach
EMS Synths - Brian Dougans & Dave Spiers
Guest Voices - Gary Parsons, Todd Gardner, Kris Harvey, Susan & Bob Aucote
Saxophones - Adrian Gibbons & Michael Somerset
Script - M. Peach & K. Peach
Engineering & Production - M. Peach at Hare's Breath Studios UK & USA

Track 11 contains an excerpt from "Subterranean Hattusa" by Synthi A from the album Ignition Of The Sun (fsoldigital.com)

Thanks to Brian Dougans at fsoldigital.com, Dave Spiers at gforcesoftware.com, Gary Parsons, Adrian Gibbons, Michael Somerset, Todd Gardner, Sue & Bob Aucote

We first met George Albert Wilberforce when he was living across the street from our studio in a council estate bungalow. He’s an old man now and hardly goes anywhere beyond the village shop, but he is full of stories of his travels.

Upon learning that we were involved in the field of music and sound production, he gave us a battered cardboard box he said he’d been keeping in his loft. Inside was a series of old electromagnetic tapes, along with some scattered notes.

G.A. Wilberforce had been a researcher of sound phenomena, and the tapes held recordings that he’d made during the course of his travels. Although he no longer wishes to talk about the recordings, from the notes we’ve gleaned that he made them whilst visiting historical sites spread throughout the British Isles.

The curious thing about the tapes is that they were made by recording stone using special modified equipment G.A. had acquired.

Using our modern studio technology, we converted the EMF and atmosphere recordings into control voltages and digital waveforms. We then sent these signals into our collection of modular synthesizers.

We have made the results of this long-forgotten experiment available for others to hear.

Some would say the recorded sounds capture the vestiges of time itself… or are proof of ghosts. We encourage you to make up your own mind on this matter.

M.P & K.P

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released April 11, 2018

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by George Albert Wilberforce, ca. 1972-1982

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