OTOLITH

 

1 So You Say
2 Restitution of Decayed Intelligence
3 Romance of Names
4 Cast Lives
5 Sea Palling
6 Bass Aqua
7 Rasp
8 Otolith
   
 
Found sounds of sea shores, steam engines, slot machine arcades and driving rain are combined with electronic and acoustic instruments, improvisation and loops, to build complex multi-layered soundscapes. Eschewing conventional rhythms and tonal constraints, compositions of harrowing, labyrinthine depths and shimmering heights emerge.

Otolith (Release date: October 2010, asc records)
Copyright Steven Earnshaw and Simon Fawcett
All tracks Earnshaw/Fawcett
Clarinet, alto sax, piano, synthesiser (Earnshaw); bass, guitar, loops (Fawcett)
Mixing: Simon Fawcett
Artwork: Steven Earnshaw; Original Photography: Simon Fawcett
Excerpts from tracks 1, 2, 4 and 8 can be downloaded.
To purchase cd (£10) contact: simon@siandal.freeserve.co.uk or via asc website

 

 

 

 

CROWS

haunting sonic landscapes, ambient electronica punctuated with bursts of lyricism, pulsing bass, hypnotic loops, and anguished reeds (the ‘crows' of the title) ... a single track to draw the listener through several movements,  terminating in an unsettling, subtly changing finale.

 

1 2.40-6.00
2 11.45-14.07
3 20.27-21.13
 

 

 

Crows (Release date: September 2009, asc records)
Copyright Steven Earnshaw and Simon Fawcett
All tracks Earnshaw/Fawcett
Clarinet, alto sax, piano, synthesiser (Earnshaw); bass, guitar, loops (Fawcett)
Mixing: Simon Fawcett
Artwork: Steven Earnshaw; Original photography: Simon Fawcett
Excerpts listed above can be downloaded.
To purchase cd (£10) contact: simon@siandal.freeserve.co.uk or via asc website

 

 

STILL

 

1 After the Rain
2 Echo Verse
3 Burial
4 Moor to Peak
5 Mean Streets
6 Brown Bread
7 Odd
8 Moorish Edifice
   
 

Still (Release date: January 2009, asc records)
Copyright Steven Earnshaw and Simon Fawcett
All tracks Earnshaw/Fawcett
Clarinet, alto sax, piano, synthesiser (Earnshaw); bass, guitar, loops (Fawcett)
Mixing: Simon Fawcett
Artwork: Steven Earnshaw
Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 6 can be downloaded.
To purchase cd (£10) contact: simon@siandal.freeserve.co.uk or via asc website


 

THIS IS NOT IT

 

1 Overspill
2 Not This
3 Swamp
4 Repeat Ghost
5 Hammer Bell
6 Enough Rope
7 Come O'er the Sea
8 Made by Subtraction
9 Chesterfield Road
   
 

This Is Not It (Release date: February 2008, asc records)
Copyright Steven Earnshaw and Simon Fawcett
All tracks Earnshaw/Fawcett except 'Come O'er the Sea' (Moore)
Clarinet, keyboards, synthesiser (Earnshaw); bass, guitar, loops (Fawcett)
Artwork: Steven Earnshaw
Tracks 2, 8 and 9 can be downloaded.
To purchase cd (£10) contact: simon@siandal.freeserve.co.uk or via asc website

 

 

NEW LEAF

 

1 New Leaf - First Movement
2 New Leaf - Second Movement
3 Beast in the Cathedral
4 SMF01
5 Subterraneans
6 Derived From Phrases
7 Asthmatic
8 Neepsend
9 Fallen Angels
10 Shit or Bust
  New Leaf (2007) Copyright Steven Earnshaw and Simon Fawcett
All tracks Earnshaw/Fawcett except 'Subterraneans' (Bowie)
Clarinet, keyboards (Earnshaw); bass, guitar, midi (Fawcett)
To purchase cd (£7) contact: simon@siandal.freeserve.co.uk
Image: Alison Fawcett
Tracks 1 and 3 can be downloaded.

Web design: Steven Earnshaw