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Originally posted by Birdsong:
Last week, I discovered this:

[b]Moon Wiring Club A Stray Tabby At The Cat's Wedding

I first came across Ian Hodgson's tales from 'Clinksell' eary last year during the 'Wierd Tales for Winter' series on Resonance FM, and I've listened to bits and pieces of his since. This is the first whole album I've got that's connected to Ghostbox as well, who I find fascinating but probably don't really "get" if I'm honest.

This long album (22 tracks) comes across to me like it was written as a soundtrack to an interpretation of Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. It's peculiar, oddly constructed and jammed full of seemingly random dreamlike sequences, connected by repeated samples, bells, ringing telephones and disembodied voices. Doors open and close on different scenes - like rooms in apartment block. Full of seemingly un-connected people whose interaction with one another is entirely coincidental.

The repeated elements phase in and out like bits of our own past. You come across people or events you think you have experienced or met before, but can't quite place where. We can't choose what we remember.
It's quite funny too in places, like a very clever script for an afternoon play. Very Radio 4. Fragments from an Edwardian drawing room populated by Bright Young Things and belligerent Great Aunts. Think TS Eliot and Evelyn Waugh, Tenniell and Edward Lear

There were these ghosts. And they had a dance.

Childlike, naive and charming - yet also threatening, complex and completely mad.
Or is it...?

Another one of those albums that I wish I'd heard before because it goes so well with everything else and makes me understand it all so much less [/b]

Originally posted by Birdsong:
Last week, I discovered this:

[b]Moon Wiring Club A Stray Tabby At The Cat's Wedding

This long album (22 tracks) comes across to me like it was written as a soundtrack to an interpretation of Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. It's peculiar, oddly constructed and jammed full of seemingly random dreamlike sequences, connected by repeated samples, bells, ringing telephones and disembodied voices. Doors open and close on different scenes - like rooms in apartment block. Full of seemingly un-connected people whose interaction with one another is entirely coincidental[/b]