CVC002: Melting - 'Dusk' Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download Out Now!

Melting

Dusk

Limited Edition Cassette & Digital Download

(CVC002)

Available via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp

Pre-Order: The Thomas Family - 'Dub Variations' (CVC001)

It's with great pleasure that I can announce the first release on Crow Versus Crow 'The Label', The Thomas Family's Dub Variations, is now available for pre-order via the Crow Versus Crow Bandcamp.

Here's a little information on the release...

The Thomas Family - Dub Variations

Tracks:

1.  I
2. II
3. III

Duration: 49:55

Label: Crow Versus Crow

Catalogue Number: CVC001

Release Date: Monday 13^th October 2014, with pre-orders available Monday 22^nd September 2014

Format: Limited Edition of 100 CDs (individually hand-assembled in hand-stamped, recycled card ‘no glue’ sleeves, with full colour 24 x 12 cm insert featuring art work by Crow Versus Crow) & Digital Download

Dub Variations is the debut release from The Thomas Family, a duo of Daniel and David Thomas (no relation). Daniel and David record and perform together as Hagman, TST (with Kevin Sanders) and as solo artists; Daniel under his own name, David as Ap Martlet. Between them, they also run the labels Sheepscar Light Industrial, Cherry Row Recordings and Kirkstall Dark Matter.

A combination of David’s solo sketches, made using a modular synthesiser, and Daniel’s field recordings, taken in Hong Kong, formed the basis for the sessions that became these Variations.

Dub Variations is a product of Summer and Winter of 2012.

Pre-Order Now

Gizeh Records & Crow Versus Crow present... AIDAN BAKER | A-SUN AMISSA | DEAN MCPHEE

Gizeh Records and Crow Versus Crow present...

AIDAN BAKER | A-SUN AMISSA | DEAN MCPHEE

Monday 18th February 2013

Wharf Chambers, Leeds

8pm

£5adv

(Tickets available from the Gizeh Webstore)

Wharf Chambers is a members' club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. To join, please visit wharfchambers.org. Membership costs £1 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.

AIDAN BAKER
http://www.brokenspineprods.com/

As a solo artist Aidan Baker creates music ranging from experimental/drone to ambient post-rock to contemporary classical using the electric guitar as his primary sound source. Baker has toured around the world and released numerous albums both solo and with various projects (Nadja, Whisper Room, Infinite Light Ltd.) on such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Robotic Empire, Important Records, and Beta-Lactam Ring Records.





A-SUN AMISSA
http://www.slowsecret.com/

A-Sun Amissa is a project formed out of Leeds, UK by members of Glissando and The Rustle of the Stars. Built on the foundations of the unknown, a project that encompasses minimalist drones, modern-classical movements and avant-garde tendencies. Richard Knox (Glissando / 'The Rustle of the Stars' / Of Thread & Mist) & Angela Chan (Glissando / 'The Rustle of the Stars' / Ten / Tomorrow We Sail) began forming initial ideas in the Autumn of 2011, moving away from the piano-led ambience of previous outputs. Long-time friend Owen Pegg was soon invited to join the project as the pieces developed to enable the songs the depth and intensity they require and more recently Gareth Davis joined, providing bass clarinet. The quartet produce a dense, drone-like atmosphere accompanying evocative, melodic string sections and intertwining guitars. The live show features sections of the recorded output combined with improvisation to unlock new movements and progressions in the music. The subtle, considered textures and the hypnotic interaction between players and instruments provide an intense live performance.




DEAN MCPHEE
http://www.deanmcphee.com/

Dean McPhee is a Lancastrian finger-picking electric guitarist now based in West Yorkshire, whose gorgeously liquid, pure-toned playing is supremely evocative of the small splendours and grand transitions of the natural environment. His magnificent debut album proper ‘Son of the Black Peace’ has cemented the reputation won by debut EP Brown Bear.

“The hallmark of McPhee’s style is a picked bassline and free-ranging variations on melodic ideas via a mesmerising progression of harmonics, cleanly picked notes, full chords and string-bending arab-esques… Son of the Black Peace is a 37 minute gem of an album” (The Wire Magazine)

British Wildlife Festival 2013

It is a pleasure to announce that I have been invited to man the iPod that is amplified through the PA system between bands' sets at the upcoming British Wildlife Festival, which features some of my favourite current UK-based bands. The line-up is slowly being announced, and to date boasts,

APOSTILLE

BEARFOOT BEWARE

BILGE PUMP

BLACKLISTERS

CATTLE

DAN BEESLEY & THE SSSSS

FALENIZZA HORSEPOWER

GALAXIANS

GODZILLA BLACK

HANK HAINT

KLAUS KINSKI

THEE MVPS

MONSTER KILLED BY LASER

NITKOWSKI

NOPE

PLEASE

QUEER'D SCIENCE

SHIELD YOUR EYES

SILENT FRONT

SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE

SUPER LUXURY

THAT FUCKING TANK

TRUMPETS OF DEATH

WAY THROUGH

YOU SLUT!

YUGOSLAVIAN BOYS

amongst it's confirmed acts. 

You can keep abreast of further announcements here.

Noise Ark and Crow Versus Crow present... THOUGHT FORMS | SUNWOLF | EYES | R'HLLOR

Ark Noise and Crow Versus Crow present...

THOUGHT FORMS | SUNWOLF | EYES | R'HLLOR

Saturday 13th October 2012

Wharf Chambers, Leeds

7.30pm - 11.00pm

£5

Facebook Event Page

I am very pleased to be involved in setting up a second gig in as many months at the most excellent Wharf Chambers, this time in collaboration with Leeds-based Ark Noise.

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Thought Forms

Thought Forms' Website

Bandcamp

Facebook

Sunwolf

Eyes

Eyes' Facebook

R'hllor

Benbow / Leeds \ Grime

Here is a 12 minute mini-mix of Leeds-ish Grime-ish tracks made by Benbow, freely available to download and/or stream, featuring Rian Treanor, Mossmade Beatz, Sarantis ft. Dialect and Pak-Man.

Benbow / Leeds \ Grime by Crow Versus Crow on Mixcloud

Thank You

Crow Versus Crow and Sheepscar Light Industrial present...

Crow Versus Crow and Sheepscar Light Industrial proudly present...

PETRELS | AQUA DENTATA | MAX BONDI | BBBLOOD | BEN GAYMER

Saturday 15th September 2012

Wharf Chambers, Leeds

7-11pm

£4

Facebook Event Page

It's a pleasure to be able to work with Sheepscar Light Industrial in putting this event together. Check out their previous and continuing work here.

Petrels (Tartaruga Records / Denovali Records)

'...A deluge of beautiful noise and crushing melody, which ebbs and flows beneath the surface. Utilizing bowed strings, discarded electronics, found percussion and occasional vocals, portentous drone and cascading rhythm.’

Petrels is London-based musician Oliver Barrett (Bleeding Heart Narrative/Grapefruits). Debut album 'Haeligewielle' was released on Tartaruga Records in 2011 and re-issued by Denovali Records in early 2012 on CD and vinyl, combining bowed strings, discarded electronics, sporadic percussion and occasional vocals; "frighteningly claustrophobic but exultant in a beautifully understated way... monstrous arvo part-isms and peter wright destructo-drones. and with similar tropes can come across like richard skelton on steroids." (cowsarejustfood).  Petrels has played shows in the UK, Germany, France, Belgium and Denmark alongside acts such as Nadja, Trouble Books, Geoff Mullen, The Samuel Jackson Five, John Chantler, and Ronin amongst others, and 'Haeligewielle' was nominated for The Liminal's Uranus prize 2011

Petrels Bandcamp
Denovali Records
Petrels Facebook

Aqua Dentata

As Aqua Dentata, Eddie Nuttall (Baraclough) creates sounds with synths, tapes and, according to the blurb at Beartown Records, "bowed miscellany"; sounds to consume and get lost in, be they shimmering and beautiful or throbbing and fizzing...

Aqua Dentata Website
Aqua Dentata Soundcloud

Max Bondi (Tartaruga Records)

'...An exploration of constraint, limitations, and repetition. Fragments of sound fold in upon themselves, constructing patterns and melodies which overlay, interfere and diverge, varying from dense clusters of pulsing frequencies to torrents of cascading electronic notes.

This is uncompromising machine music, but with a melodic edge, rhythmical but irregular, ‘electrical’ rather than electronic.'

Max Bondi is an electronic musician and owner/founder of Tartaruga Records.  He recently released his second album under his own name - 'Convolution' - on Tartaruga Records, which was an album of the week on Boomkat and Fluid Audio, and picked up further praise from Experimedia ('my personal favourite new listen this week. can't stop listening!'). "A totally fucking incredible record... Masterful in ways that are beyond me... A record this fucking good only comes around once in a long while" (Anti-Gravity Bunny)

Tartaruga Records
Tartaruga Records Facebook

BBBlood

Paul Watson, aka BBBlood, is a maestro of noise. Harsh noise. Wandering through his extensive back catalogue, you'll come up against some pretty intense sounds; however, there's a depth and consideration with Paul's approach that soon has you warming to them and reaping the rewards accordingly...

Bbblood Blogspot
Bbblood Soundcloud

Ben Gaymer

Ben Gaymer is the lead guitarist in Bleeding Heart Narrative and has also played with Brassica, Damo Suzuki, Grapefruits and Minus Two Quartet amongst others.  His debut album will be released on Tartaruga Records later this year. Live he creates an enveloping miasma of sound akin to Emeralds, Baths and Popol Vuh.

Wharf Chambers is a members' club and you need to be a member, or guest of a member, in order to attend. To join, please visit wharfchambers.org. Membership costs £1 and requires a minimum of 48 hours to take effect.