Some British Accents & Dialects

I first heard of this album in connection with Brian Eno -  this 1971 LP was one of only a few recordings he took with on a vacation to Thailand in the late '70s. It got him interested in the musical properties of speech, especially when regionally accented or dialect - he was fascinated by the "redundant information" it contained, a non-signifying surplus that gave it character and rhythm. That led ultimately to My Life In the Bush of Ghosts.

Fancied having this for quite a long while before finally splashing out a few years ago (although it wasn't that pricey and seems to be cheaper these days). But then as you do, only just got around to listening to it. 


                                          

Listening to it now, there is a poignant overlay that would not have been present when Eno heard the record only seven or eight years after its release. It's a document of localized speech patterns, idioms and sometimes words that must have largely disappeared by this point. Almost all of the speakers - who seem to have been middle aged or elderly at the time of recording - will surely have passed away by now too.


Side One 
1 Birmingham
2 Black Country
3 Buckinghamshire
4 Cornwall
5 Cotswolds
6 Cumberland
7 Devonshire
8 Geordie (Durham)
9 Newcastle
10 Hampshire
11 Lancashire
12 Liverpool
13 Manchester
14 Leicestershire

Side Two
1 London (Cockney)
2 Norfolk
3 Somerset
4 Bristol
5 Suffolk
6 Sussex
7 Wiltshire
8 Worcestershire
9 Yorkshire
10 Isle Of Man
11 Ireland: (Ulster / Eire)
12 Scotland: (Edinburgh / Glasgow / Inverness)
13 Wales: (North / South)

Winter Broken Folk

Release Date November 14th.
Available from
The Belbury Music Shop (Vinyl)
Bandcamp (Digi) 
An EP of collaborations with folk singer Douglas E. Powell selected from Keith Seatman’s last two albums. It opens with a remix of the title track Broken Folk by stalwarts of British pastoral electronica Belbury Poly.
Melancholic and subtly psychedelic, these songs are redolent of supernatural short stories and winter afternoons out on English landscapes. They are dark rustic reveries, occupying the overlapping territory between haunted electronica and wyrd folk. Seatman builds a dense collage of electronics, fragmented melody and found sound, around which Powell weaves his dreamlike lyrics. The tracks have been remastered for the EP by Belbury Poly’s Jim Jupp and the 10” is pressed on translucent green vinyl with sleeve art by Jim Jupp. It’s released on Seatman’s own label KS Audio in conjunction with Jupp’s Belbury Music.
All instruments
Keith Seatman (& Jim Jupp on * ). Vocals Douglas E Powell
Produced by Keith Seatman & Jack Packer.
Except * produced by Jim Jupp
Written by Seatman & Powell.
Except * by Seatman, Powell & Jupp
Mastered by Jim Jupp
Cover design by Jim Jupp
(P) & (C) K S Audio 2018
Belbury Music

Pushing the Envelope The Deleware Road

Two brilliant composers create the soundtrack to 1960's Britain then stop making music FOREVER. You won't believe why. London, 1968. Iain Parker & Cissy Wakefield are two electronic musicians who work for The Corporation. Their innovative sound design for TV & radio is in huge demand. Yet all is not well. The Delaware Road is an occult, radiophonic fantasy written by audio archivist Alan Gubby with additional prose by David Yates / Dolly Dolly. Illustrated by Nick Taylor, Jarrod Gosling, Luke Insect & Enzo Triolo. 
A5 colour / b+w 20 page illustrated screenplay, Individually numbered, limited edition of 100 presented in a protective clear sleeve mounted on black board. Comes with an immediate download of the track Water Gardens by Ian Helliwell taken from the compilation album The Delaware Road.
Available from Buried Treasure Records