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Last Updated: 11/19/2009

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Status: Single
City: Hiding in the woods
Country: UK
Signup Date: 3/20/2006

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Thursday, June 18, 2009 
Possibly a confused consequence of  an early  horrified  reading of the warlike and  predatory Calormene warriors in CS Lewis’ hyperviolent and racist The Last Battle,  Moonhowlers were yet another of my childhood night demons.
Already bloodthirsty and heavily armed, these shapeshifting hordes could be further enraged and physically transformed by the moon and were about to imminently ravage the Cornish landscape and populace, ending their gore-soaked  festival of pain at my window. It hasn’t yet happened.
Saturday, May 16, 2009 
Part two of the series on enduring childhood demons deals with my abiding terror of a shadowy figure called ( by my younger self) the Tinderboxer.

A psychotic version of the fairly benign Sandman, the Tinderboxer brings tools to the bedside that can set fire to dreams , and  turns parts of the sleeping child's  brain into ash.  Kiddie dream ash is what he wants.

I had a lot of migraines as a child.

Friday, April 10, 2009 
Ever since I was a child , my dreams were in danger of being hijacked by the whirring arrival of a giant dusty beast , its velvet proboscis poised to drink my eventually blood-diluted tears. That's the pigmoth. The mp3 on our page was composed with shaking fingers and occasional choked sobs. Enjoy ! kn x  
Friday, January 02, 2009 

Follow the link for a free three-track ep based loosely on the miseries , decadent joylessness and occasional delights of the season. It lasts till May.

Happy new year !

 

kn x

 

Thursday, November 27, 2008 

The recent series of traffic-themed mp3s have been collected into a pseudo-ep mp3 collection you can find here for the foreseeable future. Have it if you like. It's free.

best wishes kn xxx

Sunday, November 16, 2008 

"Cowfolding" , the latest audio tribute to locations on the legendary and thrilling A23 thoroughfare , should be honking out of ourspace at the moment.

Sometimes glimpsed in Dopplervision as we cruise past it at seventy , Cowfold deserves its moment of glory. "Cowfolding" is also a little-known but much feared rural practise , although space and decorum prevent me from giving further details. Those familiar with the results  will understand why.

best wishes

kn x

 

 

Monday, October 27, 2008 

Some Halloween  pagan slowjam for you......" Moonhowlers" refer to those people who kept dancing after the sun went down , and what happened to them.

 It's a nocturnal , terrified version of "Denaissance" , which you can also listen to if you like.

More to follow......

best wishes as always , kn.

 

    

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 

It's the depths of sodden autumn , recession has arrived , the rough beast  is slouching towards us to be born , and British television has a reality television show aimed at creating child politicians.  

 

What better time to listen to a decade-old audioliterary triptych  from Norton towers , three fragments of doom for the price of one, that deal with …..

1        global paranoia and magical thinking ( William Burroughs on cracked vocals)

2        the decay of love and the psychosis of obsession ( Loic Rich reading WB Yeats)

3         the inevitability of death ( Philip Larkin reading himself).

All other sounds by a fresh-faced Kemper Norton ( circa 1998).

Available on ourspace for a limited time only.

Apologies for any sound issues created by  passing time , primitive recording equipment , digital decay and  youthful naivety.  Enjoy!

Best wishes

kn x

Monday, August 04, 2008 

" Pease Pottage " , which should be blurting out of ourspace now , is the first in a hopefully short series of non-motorik service station traffic jam contemplations of locations on the M23 , one of our favourite thoroughfares.

Like all road journeys , it goes on a little too long.

 

Pease Pottage itself has been the scene of  transcendent  boredom , occasional bursts of speed, impotent rage and dank spells of  existential despair. 

What is it with cars anyway?

Monday, June 30, 2008 

Now bouncing around ourspace should be Kemper Norton's reimagining of the mighty Ice Bird Spiral's epic soundscape  " 5 Black Yachts for Jean".

Essentially , we chose one of the billions of melodies that the Spiral churned out . and took it for a dayglo unicorn ride. We then put a gratuitous dulcimer and guitar all over it ( as usual).

It was a pleasure.