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Tyneham House

Tyneham House (10'', Blue and Transparent Marbled + Booklet)

Label: Clay Pipe Music

Format: 10"

Genre: Folk

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"Back in 2011 when I was tentatively looking for a second release for my fledging record label Clay Pipe Music, I stumbled upon a mysterious MySpace page by a group called ‘Tyneham House’, the page was decorated with artwork by Rena Gardiner (who was unknown to me at that time) and the music was an otherworldly mix of field recordings, Mellotron and acoustic guitar. It turned out that Tyneham was promised to Glen Johnson’s Second Language label, so I offered to do the artwork, and in January 2012 the two labels co-released it on tape and CD in a cardboard box with a handmade booklet of my illustrations. In 2016 Clay Pipe reissued it on 10” vinyl, in an edition of just 300, which has since become sort after. The new 2023 pressing is on blue and transparent marbled vinyl, with a reverse board cover and inner sleeve, and the booklet of illustrations has been given a complete redesign." - Frances Castle, 2023

The pastoral, wistful yet ineffably disquieting music of Tyneham House is made by artists who wish to remain anonymous here, save for their eponymous title. The musicians are happy, however, to let it be known that these recordings have been around for some years (many of them complied from old cassettes) and that they take inspiration from the 1960s/’70s/’80s work of the Children’s Film Foundation – a body who really ought to have made a film about this mysterious West Country curio. At least now we have its endlessly poignant soundtrack.

Details
Cat. number: PIPE 005_03
Year: 2023

Release notes

Housed in a reverse board cover and inner sleeve, and includes a completely redesigned 16-page saddle stitched booklet of illustrations. 700 hand numbered copies. Comes with a download code voucher which also includes the two bonus tracks that was featured on the [url=https://www.discogs.com/release/3384424-Tyneham-House-Tyneham-House]original 2012 cassette[/url]: 'A School Holiday, 1977' and 'May Day, 1981'. All runout details are machine stamped.

Tracklist
A1A Chalk Horse
A2Rookery Wood
A3Coppice Walk
A4Binoculars
A5Bletchingley
A6Post Office Row
A7The Crows Circle
B1Winter Carriage
B2The Ragged Cat
B3I Shall Not Cross The Sleeping Hill
B4The Porch Room
B5Saxon Chapel
B6Last Village Before The Sea
B7Lit Room At Midnight
Credits
Frances Castle
Artwork
Antony Ryan
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