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Forest Records Artists & Bands
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Danseizure make noise.
Sometimes on own.
Sometimes with other people like CMG
Sometimes with other people in other places.
Sounds are for collecting
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Ragland is an island of musical adventures, where musical adventurist and Crusoe-style castaway Gareth Warner has found himself shipwrecked, with only a guitar and some coconuts for company...
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Based in Bristol, UK Arctic Circle are a 7-piece
multi-instrumental pop band led by professional daydreamer Matthew
Cheney. Despite this being their first proper album, they have
previously existed in various incarnations in Glasgow, Edinburgh and
Vancouver. They play like a school orchestra abandoned by its
conductor, left alone with the key to the instrument cupboard. Arctic
Circle lodge infectious melodies and brittle harmonies so deep into
your head that you’ll be whistling their merry tunes as you walk but
cursing their name as you try to get to sleep. They embrace boy/girl
vocals and have a box of tricks that includes accordion, clarinet,
glockenspiel, effects pedals, pan lids, melodica, analogue electronics
and all the rest. At live gigs the stage often resembles a jumble sale,
echoing their love of homespun aesthetics and languid afternoons. Their
humdrum lyrics tinker with domesticity and pithy politics yet they
somehow unearth the poetics of yearning that lurks deep within the
washing up. Musically, they knuckle down and waft away, soaring up
above the terracotta in a haze of triumphant psychedelic glory. Arctic
Circle pride themselves on only once having been told to keep it down
by neighbours. Instead a pair of feet usually appear underneath the
garage door where they practice, and those feet are at the end of a
pair of legs, and those legs head north up to a neck, and the neck
leads to a mouth and the words waiting in that mouth are “can I join?”
This is how there came to be 7. But like the tortoise they’ll get there
in the end – no pushing, no shoving, no underhand tactics, just a good
clean show.
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Dirk Markham grew up in Aboyne , a village in "Royal" Deeside in the north east of Scotland (an hour inland from Aberdeen ). Dirk has been making experimental recordings and teaching himself every intrument he can get his hands on since his years studying mental philosophy at Edinburgh in the late 90s. His music is mainly instrumental although occaisonally the odd folk-rock song pops up out of nowhere.
Dirk Markham aka The Hemulen, Drock, dPak, systeme D, Disk is constantly reading The Manual by the KLF, which he regards as the only book worth reading. Despite this he is a long way from having a number one hit.

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Poetry to MUSIC by Ryan Van Winkle
feat music by John Cave, Mikel Krumins, Uncle Beasley, Danseizure, the dirkstra and more
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The Very are Jake Miller and Robin Von Blitz. Jake Miller is half-Canadian but was born in Scotland and lived there as a child. He spent most of his teenage years either skateboarding or playing the drums, an instrument his Folk-loving father suggested to him at the tender age of 11. “I would watch the drummers in the marching bands”, Jake remembers, “and just knew that’s what I wanted to be doing.” |
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the abdominal showmen strike again! The Abdominal Showmen hit the strees with a major release ourang - outang.
- Available at Fopp or at the Forest
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CMG | Cheney Markham and Gorman |
CMG
Cheney Markham and Gorman
AN ONTOLOGY OF MUSIC
Music has several distinct existential modes. The Being of live music is radically different from that of recorded music. Live music itself can be separated into at least two forms: pre-composed music (music with a score or predetermined structure) and improvised music.
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Scottish Rap and Beats coming to you from Edinburgh |
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The original Piano and the Man from down under. Fresh mixes of Acoustic piano sounds and experimental electronics.
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MGM Urban Exploration Squad |
description: Field Recordings made by The Forest Urban Exploration Society
- Dan Gorman operates an an experimental sound researcher-collector under the name Danseizure .
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The sour fiddler with a toy guitar makes match-box songs from broken chairs, string and nightjar wings.

Jack Richold's new CD: Eigg, now available from Forest Records.
For sale at 3 Bristo Place, EH1 1EY.
check www.myspace.com/jackrichold for samples from the cd and more.
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