Cosmic Neighbourhood - Gatherings [Orange Vinyl]

Format: LP, Orange
Catalogue No.: RIVERTONE14
Barcode: 5400863089764
Release Date: 28 Jul 2023
Genre: Experimental/Electronic

Standard weight orange vinyl
Unprinted black paper 12"" inner sleeve
3mm spine, 300gsm w-w board w/ matt lamination
DL code

LP TRACKLIST:
1 1 Scarecrow Says
1 2 Window
1 3 Elf Trip
1 4 Critterpillar
1 5 Pine Cone
1 6 Green Folk
1 7 Eiderdown
2 1 Gatherings
2 2 Antennae
2 3 Owl Eyes
2 4 Procession
2 5 Treestess
2 6 Flutterby
2 7 Firebird

Imagine if Eric Carle had been signed to Ghost Box, or if the Look Around You team had ended up taking over the
Radiophonic Workshop. If you can picture that kind of sound, we’re ready to welcome you to the Cosmic Neighbourhood.

Cosmic Neighbourhood’s Gatherings is an album made for wild imaginations and deep daydreams. Its fourteen tracks
provide the kind of trip you can take if you close your eyes tight enough and let your mind wander. It’s the music of small
things, groovy sounds from way underground that’s inspired as much by Martin Rev and Moondog as it is by walking trees,
pine cones catching the bus, nocturnal farmyard symphonies and the movements of butterflies reimagined through restless
drum machines. Sounds good? Come join the gathering. There’s room for everyone.

Cosmic Neighbourhood is the musical alias of York-based illustrator and musician Adam Higton. Adam’s work encompasses comic strips, collage and sound art and documents the daily goings-on of the forest folk within the realm of the Cosmic Neighbourhood. His two albums on Kit (|Collages I and II) see each song acting as a response to a series of paper-and-scissors compositions. Sonically, these records straddle new and old, taking modular electronics, flutes, bells and softly pattering drum machines, before colouring them all with the amber glow of some forgotten, psychedelic kids' TV programme. Higton' benign toots and echoing jingles bring to mind Daphne Oram's early delay experiments or the meandering playfulness of Tom Cameron. Radiophonic and time-worn, it still somehow sounds like the future.

Gatherings follows previous Cosmic Neighbourhood albums Library Vol 1 and Collages I and II. Previous Rivertones releases
include spoken word and found sound collages by Robert Macfarlane & Chris Watson, poetry and elemental music by Will
Burns & Hannah Peel and the soundtrack to Wolfgang Buttress’ Hive structure at Kew Gardens by Be.

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