★Singing Knives
Carrion hut
“The revered beard brandishes pick ‘n’ mix. Carrion Hut collects five very different pieces recorded between 2003 and 2007. “The Frosted Growth” finds Nyoukis in Dubbletwee mode, snarling and barking at his multitracked self. While on the side-long “Late Night Vocal Gravy”, Nyoukis is at his most composerly. The real diamond, though, is the text piece “Strange New Ache”, originally written for Inside Wino Lodge but left off the final cut. The text – read out loud, inverted and mangled, by…
Songs From The Red House
Limited 250 copies. Skilled in the black-art of ecstatic improvisation, Alex Neilson and Lavinia Blackwall continue their journey into verdant fields of free-psych-drone and traditional UK folk.
The High High Nest
Stephanie Hladowski recorded the four ballads on The High High Nest while a member of the Glaswegian ecstatic jazz and folk collective Scatter. Listening to her lean, vulnerable voice, alone or with sparse instrumental accompaniment of drones and shimmers, is a directly affecting experience ... the communicative power of the human voice remains a current truth - delicate power in Hladowski's case, but nonetheless real.