New Release From Phantom Channel

Konntinent - 'If I Could Buy A Map of Hope -- Volume 2' (PHCH008)

It's about time Phantom Channel issued something by Konntinent, aka London's Antony J Harrison, as he also co-curates the label. Alas, he's been busy recording for such esteemed labels including Symbolic Interaction, Dynamophone, Serein and Sonic Pieces

'If I Could Buy A Map of Hope — Volume 2' appropriately acts as an extension to the inaugural record found on ace German boutique imprint Sonic Pieces. Like its predecesor 'MOHv2' is an exploration of organic, free range melody and process moulded textures - an argument of stasis and free form.

In the palette this time around are some glockenspiels, some vocals, some splicing, some dicing and some dancing. Across 8 compositions 'MOHv2' touches various musical bases including Post-Rock, Soundscapes, Drone, Broken Vocal Songwriting and even Techno.

A must have for fans of Pan American, The For Carnation and 'Kid A' style fragmentary.

Volume 1 can be obtained from Sonicpieces

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Artwork by Mr Pillows

NB:  This one has already been downloaded over 600 times, before we had even announced its release

Time for as [Sic] Update:

A lot has happened since we last spoke...

Reviews

English Heretic - A Drone For Joe Kennedy
H.C-B - Soundcheck For A Missing Movie
Perlieu - Bloom
Last Days - The Safety of the North
Her Name Is Calla - A Blood Promise
Headquarters - Booker One Time
Reviews Round-Up (Featuring port-royal, Perlieu, Spinlords of Spintania etc)

Features

Highpoint Lowlife Label Focus
Gizeh Label Focus
Interview with Last Days

And that is just from me, elsewhere thanks to our team of passionate writers you will find interviews with Peter Borderick, For Against, Anthony Frost, Paul Draper (ex-Mansun), and Patrick Fitzgerald of Kitchens of Distinction.

There are also a tonne of reviews to browse, far too many to mention and some excellent, often hilarious commentries from our resident poet laureate Gary Stanton.

SIC MAGAZINE

Phantom Channel is proud to issue its first physical release -- St Kilda's beautiful 'EP'.  Housed in a lovely 3" CD, the four tracks represent a different, more desolate side to that of Graham Richardson, who also records as Last Days. 

St Kilda is the side-project of Last Days’ Graham Richardson. Having issued two critically acclaimed albums (soon to be three) through the evergreen n5MD, St Kilda acts as a distant counterpart or reprise to the themes established on his   2006 debut ‘Sea’.


From the lonely wind sounds that usher in opening number “This Small Boat” to the pure elegiac beauty of closing track “The Sirens”, St Kilda projects an emotional depth not normally associated with primarily digitally performed sound.Warm, shimmering soundscapes are formed using drifting, melancholic drones and subtle, heart-breaking harmonic shifts which mingle with intriguing forgotten sounds and digital scree.


JasperTX’s seminal “I’ll Be Long Gone Before My Light Reaches You” remains a suitable reference point and perhaps the more wistful aspects of Stars of the Lid’s repertoire. With four tracks gently unfolding over 20 minute duration, St Kilda will most definitely tug at your heart-strings, but those who listen deep enough will discover a journey of triumph over adversity


Order in USA/North America (30 copies)
Order in UK/Europe (40 copies)

Some new articles published over at (Sic) Mag this week for your enjoyment:

Konntinent - Degrees and Integers
Svarte Greiner - Kappe
Label Focus : Foetal Orange
Glissando Live In Glasgow

Things are moving along quite nicely with the mag.  There's some quality writers on there and some big plans I can tell you.  If you haven't already, bookmark it!

I'm back writing about music and once again enjoying after becoming overwhelmed by the amount of new music I was trying to listen to an review.  I've disabled friend requests here as it was actually becoming stressful trying to keep up with release dates and all.

Thanks to my friend Brett Spaceman, who kindly invited me to join his team of writers at his newly-founded webzine (sic) Magazine, I know have the spark and enthusiasm for it all again.  It's not so much a chore now, but an honour, I'm happy to report.  Please check (sic) out and support this worthy cause by visiting frequently

Some Reviews

Hotels - Hydra
Diagonal - Self-Titled
Soft Temple - A Living Tradition
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Hopes and Past Desires
Kontakte - Soundtracks To Lost Road Movies
Guns n Roses - Chinese Democracy
te - Beyond That, If Your Soul Agrees...
Svarte Greiner - Man Bird Dress
Rudi Arapahoe - Echoes From One To Another
Volcano! Live

Wo0is the founding member of the Belgrade Noise Society, a small group of
artists doing some strange things with the medium of sound. As an avant-guitarist Wo0, who has honed his art by performing with the likesof Fennesz, has christened his style as Sky-Noise.

Utilisinghisguitar as a receiver of signals, Wo0 captures the frequencies fromradios,computers, media players, remote controls, phones and otherinventive mobiledevices to create a very subtle, harmonic, deep andoscillatingsound.

His attempt to amplify the air has resulted in With the Flowered Mind a quite brilliant addition to the Phantom Channel catalogue

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Artwork by Graham Richardson

Stray Ghost - A House of Gold And Oak (PHCH005)


Following hot on the heels of two stellar records released on Dead Pilot Records and Highpoint Lowlife respectively, Stray Ghost delivers the monolithic ''A House of Gold and Oak" for Phantom Channel's 5th webrelease

Ghost is one Ant Saggers, who constructs deep drone steeped in a haunted melancholia. His music often teeters on the brink of oblivion, where throbbing pulses of sound and other sonic rumblings are in danger of consuming everything they touch. Yet, as this piece proves, his slowly intensifying sound exudes a sense of hope and optimism amidst the darkness as we are unwittingly led down an increasingly plaintive orchestral path.

'A House of Gold and Oak' unfurls majestically over almost twenty minutes, touching on cornerstones including Tangerine Dream and Godspeed You Black Emperor and finds Stray Ghost operating in a Symphonic-Drone stratosphere all to his own.

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