The Stone Tapes : Avebury Extended Edition

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s0mska most mystical thing I even listen
: Favorite track: The Owl and the Druid Stone.

Desdenova A strange story - straight out of 1970s British TV - emerges through washes of sound with undefinable noises hidden within. Melancholy music, mostly electronic, occassionally almost folky, and snatches of dialogue, some of which is furtively whispered.

Excellent - more please, when you get chance. Favorite track: Shelter in the Lychgate.

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The Stone Tapes : Avebury Extended Edition Compact Disc

Featuring four previously unreleased tracks - The Vicar's Wife Calls Kat, Reminiscences of the Parish, Bird's Nest in the Stones and Sound 13.

01. Kat Calls the Vicar
02. A Page From John Britton
03. Red Lion Interlude
04. Faces on 19b
05. The Vicar Calls Kat
06. West Kennet Ritual
07. Shelter in the Lychgate
08. The Owl and the Druid Stone
09. Petrosomatoglyphs
10. Incident on the Herepath
11. Sound 23
12. The Vicar’s Wife Calls Kat
13. Sound 13
14. Reminiscences of the Parish
15. Bird's Nest in the Stones

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. and K.B.

Conceived and created by M. Peach and K. Beem

Vicar of Avebury played by A. Hayward
Vicar’s wife played by K. Harvey

Produced by M. Peach at Hare’s Breath Studios

© 2017 Hare’s Breath Records
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UPC 096962325886
EAN 0096962325886

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1.	Kat Calls the Vicar 03:06	buy track
2.	A Page From John Britton 07:42	buy track
3.	Red Lion Interlude 01:11	buy track
4.	Faces on 19b 02:28	buy track
5.	The Vicar Calls Kat 00:29	buy track
6.	West Kennet Ritual 02:08	buy track
7.	Shelter in the Lychgate 01:04	buy track
8.	The Owl and the Druid Stone 02:53	buy track
9.	Petrosomatoglyphs 05:46	buy track
10.	Incident on the Herepath 01:42	buy track
11.	Sound 23 01:20	buy track
12.	The Vicar’s Wife Calls Kat 00:44	buy track
13.	Sound 13 04:57	buy track
14.	Reminiscences of the Parish 04:28	buy track
15.	Bird's Nest in the Stones 04:21	buy track

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Glass master Compact Disc. Featuring four previously unreleased tracks - The Vicar's Wife Calls Kat, Reminiscences of the Parish, Bird's Nest in the Stones and Sound 13.

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released June 1, 2017

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. and K.P.

Conceived and created by M.P. & K.P.

Vicar of Avebury played by A. Hayward
Vicar’s wife played by K. Harvey

Produced by M. P. at Hare’s Breath Studios

Equipment used in this project :

Analogue Solutions VCO-Sub, Analogue Solutions EG01 Envelope Generator, Analogue Solutions VU01 VU Meter, Synthrotek ECHO CV Echo, SSSR Labs SM000 Mult2x4, Music Thing Modular Mikrophonie, Mutable Instruments Clouds, Doepfer A-110-1 VCO X2, Doepfer A-110-2 VCO, Doepfer A-106-6 16-Fold Xpander VCF, Doepfer A-120 24dB Low Pass, Doepfer A-103 18dB Low Pass, Doepfer A-114 Dual Ring Modulator, Doepfer A-115 Audio Divider, Doepfer A-116 Voltage Controlled Waveform Processor, Doepfer A-130 Linear Voltage Controlled Amplifier, Doepfer A-131 Exponential Voltage Controlled Amplifier, Doepfer A-140 ADSR Envelope Generator X2, Doepfer A-138a Mixer, Doepfer A-138b X2 Mixer, Doepfer A-170 Slew Limiter, Doepfer A-145 Low Frequency Oscillator, Doepfer A-146 Variable Waveform LFO, Doepfer A-148 Dual Sample and Hold, Doepfer A-118 Noise / Random, Doepfer A-119 Ext.Input / Env.Follower, Doepfer A-160-5 Ratcheting Controller, Doepfer A-180-2 Multiple 2x4 multiple, Doepfer A-183-1 Passive Dual Attenuator, Doepfer A-161 Clock Sequencer, Doepfer A-160 Clock Divider, Doepfer A-156 Dual Quantizer, Doepfer A-180-1 Multiple, Doepfer A-190-1 MIDI-to-CV / Gate/Clock Interface, Doepfer A-138d, Doepfer A-196 PLL, Doepfer A-138d CFX, Doepfer Dark Time, Music Thing Modular Radio Music, Make Noise Mult Passive Multiple, The Harvestman MIGGS Attenuator - Multiples, Pittsburgh Modular Outs (Mk.II), Pittsburgh Modular Mixer, Pittsburgh Modular Multiple. Novation Bass Station II, Roland SH-101, Alesis Microverb 4, Alesis Nano Collection, Zoom RFX-1000, MAM Freebass 383, Akai S5000 Sampler, RNC1773 Compressor, Uoki-Toki Siren, Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Hardwire Pedals, Focusrite Saffire Soundcard, Various Microphones, Ultrapatch, Pioneer CT-447, Pioneer, SU-2700, Baldwin Piano, Mobile Phones and Landlines, Sony and Philips Reel to Reel machines, Various Software. Original recordings made by George Albert Wilberforce ( Fictional ), EMR Device By Jim Macarthur ( Fictional )

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