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The new STYLUS CD album ‘Last Night Before The Colour’ is a collaboration with West Country artist NATHAN SWENSON is now available by Mail-Order
You can purchase the album by paying £10 by Paypal to the Paypal Account sales@talbot.force9.co.uk or alternatively sending a £10 cheque made payable to Ochre Records and send it to PO Box 155, Cheltenham, Glos, GL51 0YS.....
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This is Dafydd’s tenth Stylus album and the third release on his STYLUS RECORDING COMPANY label. Please read on to find out more about Nathan Swenson.Dafydd takes up the story: ....
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I was introduced to the work of Nathan Swenson by my label manager. He suggested and came up with the idea that I write some music whilst studying this one piece of art. I agreed. What do I see in the painting. It evokes feelings to me of desolation and isolation. It has been an intriguing and challenging project. I have never met Nathan Swenson. There is no need to. I think all I have to say to him is here, in the music.....
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Stylus has had nine other albums released to date. Four of them have appeared on the Ochre Records label, ‘The Last Seaweed Collecting Hut At Freshwater West’, ‘Skomargraph’, ‘Archif:01’ and ‘Exposition’ (an album of Stylus recordings re-mixed by Experimental Audio Research (Spaceman 3’s Sonic Boom). Whilst ‘Mynydd Preseli’ was released on Mar//ino Records, ‘Pedwar’ on Fourth Dimension and ‘Eisteddfod’ on Irrational Arts. The most recent ‘Listen, Time Passes’ (2006) and ‘N.T.B’ (2008) were both realeased on Dafydd’s own Stylus Recording Company label.....
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The first three STYLUS albums formed part of a Pembrokeshire influenced trilogy. The albums influences take in the last remaining seaweed collecting hut at Freshwater West, Skomer Island and the Preseli Mountains.....
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The album ‘Mynydd Presli’ gained a rave review from Stewart Lee in The Sunday Times who ended, ‘Morgan’s music demands to be heard’. The Stylus debut album ‘The Last Seaweed Collecting Hut At Freshwater West’ was likened by the same reviewer to 1997’s ‘Dutch Harbor’ release by the Boxhead Ensemble. Whilst Edwin Pouncey in The Wire likened it to that of Lamonte Young stating the music was ‘moving and empathetic’. All albums received healthy airplay on John Peel’s BBC Radio One Show.....
The last album ‘Listen, Time Passes’ also released on the SRC, was released in December 2006. Tom Ridge in The Wire stated about the ‘Wooden Milk’ trilogy of tracks that ‘the sounds are alternately affecting and strangely menacing, with the original narration preying to a series of viral sonic disturbances. It sounds torn between being an affectionate nod to Morgan's own heritage and a playful deconstruction of it’. The Fold stated “For all it's downplayed nature, this is one of the best Stylus releases to date”.....
The last STYLUS album released last year in 2008‘N T B’ was written and inspired by the Newport Transporter Bridge which was completed in 1906 and is one of only eight transporter bridges left standing in the world today. The album features recordings of crossings made by Dafydd which formed the backing tracks.....
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The music of STYLUS has in many reviews been likened to that created by POPUL VUH who provided many a soundtrack to the films of WERNER HERZOG. Dafydd agrees that Florian Fricke has been an influence in the writing and recording for Stylus.....
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NATHAN SWENSON....
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Nathan Swenson studied in Stroud and is now based in Gloucester. He has exhibited locally for a number of years but it wasn’t until his first critically acclaimed month long ‘solo’ exhibition at Gloucester Guildhall in 2008 that brought Nathan to attention and to the forefront as one of the South West’s most exciting new art discoveries. For Nathan art is a language. With a bit of time he believes that everyone can begin to understand it and can be affected by its content and he wants his audience to become involved with his work. Expressing his ideas about the human condition and the emotions through painting, sculpture, installation and poems, his images exist in semi-abstract ambiguity. If the viewer is willing to look closely more information is revealed. The works aims right at the heart, telling us not to be afraid to feel.....
Influenced by artists as diverse as Robert Rauschenberg and Diego Velázquez his techniques and selection of medium can be very random, allocated to current state of mind behaviour.....
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Nathan states: Music and Art for me has always had a close relationship. The music and sounds have influenced the artists’ painting or sculpture. I have created works of Art listening to music. I began to think why a role reversal couldn’t occur; where the Art stimulates the music. The collaboration on Art and music on this album details this relationship of influence and control. Evidentially as Art does, the music twists and turns from its basis and roots but that birth and creation resembles the on going altitude of strength and wealth – NATHAN SWENSON