To check out Pok’s page at soundcloud.com now, please click here.

Silver Ships on the Sea is a long way from being finished as we have only recorded the acoustic guitar for it so far. There are various other instruments and voices to add to this song. We plan to add it to The Lecher on his Anthology collection.

Pok plans to record We Know You Well, co-written with Mark Drower, as the next track for his Anthology. More news on this will be forthcoming in the future from the Wud Records News service.

Pok will perform live at a number of UK festivals this summer and the release of the animated version of his book The Pook of Pok is coming soon.

For more details, you can visit his blog by clicking here.

There may be one or two minor tweaks we may need to make to the overall album before it can be properly reissued, which is why we are waiting and listening and analysing the album carefully. Flicker are largely pleased with the mastering process so far.

It has not been an easy recording to remaster due to the poor condition of the original Flicker audio files. However, the engineers have done a fantastic job and At Least 1000 Words sounds much, much better than it ever did before.

If you would like to hear At Least 1000 Words, you can either visit Flicker‘s At Least 1000 Words page by clicking here, or download the album from our shop at Bandcamp by clicking here.

The wonderful Humpty Dumpty starts out with a sample from an old recording from the BBC Radio Archives of Sigmund Freud speaking about his life’s work. Sven, Maxx and George all play beautiful things throughout this song which is wistful in nature and melodic in sound.

Number 6 features a variety of guest performers and is arguably about the way that as our entertainment gadgets become more and more sophisticated, so what is broadcast through them in mainstream media becomes more and more moronic.

We hope to be able to bring you the remaining four sonically upgraded alpha tracks of Mind Dance in the near future. If you would like to listen to Humpty Dumpty or Number 6, or even the whole Mind Dance album, you can do so by clicking here.

Please bear in mind that they are only demos and not of great quality, although they possess a certain quaint charm all of their own. Many instruments are not even present on these demos, they are very raw and rough and empty.

If you would like to listen to The Snail Gauntlet Demos by Flicker now, you can do so by clicking here.

Being only alpha mixes, there is still a lot of work to be done before these Dark Company songs are finished. A lot of the strings will need to be replayed and a lot of production still needs to be done.

Nevertheless, all of the songs on Dark Company‘s Mind Dance album are developing in a pleasing way and we hope you enjoy these most recent updates. There will be more to add to the Mind Dance album in the coming days.

Standing Still features the awesome jazz harmonica of Pete as well as some wonderful drumming by Sven and Maxx’s brutal and melodic bass. It is a beautiful dreamy hypnotic song with a roots feel.

Dreadlocked is a more rocky and trancy song with a hint of eastern rhythm. Dark Company‘s rhythm section of Maxx and Sven again excel in this song. In the third verse Sven breaks free of his chains and lays down a wonderful complex groove whilst keeping all the bones of the simpler rhythm of the earlier verses.

If you would like to go to Dark Company‘s Mind Dance page to listen to these songs right now, you can do so by clicking here.

All of these demos are a sneak preview into the forthcoming HappySad album from Flicker, which we have begun to finalise. Please bear in mind that they are only demos and the quality is therefore not the same as a fully finished and mastered production.

The first track of HappySad by Flicker is It Starts Right Here and this track is finished and available for download from our shop at Bandcamp. You can download It Starts Right Here by clicking here.

Meteor is a simple acoustic song with Pete playing harmonica and is about the results of a tarot reading. It has an outdoor summer feel and a comical ending with some very strange noises in the background. Further percussion and atmospherics will be added before this song is finished.

Gottedamerung sounds like two completely different songs that have been joined together in the middle. It begins with a drum-n-bass feel and heavy guitars before mellowing to a more melodic groove.

As with the other songs we have added to Mind Dance recently, these versions are still only at alpha stage and require a great deal of work until they are finished. We shall be adding further tracks to the Mind Dance album for you in the coming days so that you can hear how this album is developing.

If you would like to listen to Meteor and Gottedamerung or indeed the entire Mind Dance album as it stands right now, you can do so by clicking here.

Astronomy is the eighth of eleven songs that will eventually make up the Cosy Lube Turtle album. The remaining three tracks are in varying stages of finalisation.

We have uploaded Astronomy to several mp3 players here at Wud Records, including our default player, the The Bastard Sons of Dennis default player, and the Cosy Lube Turtle playlist.

If you would like to listen to the Cosy Lube Turtle album here at Wud Records, you can do so by clicking here.

Astronomy has also been added to our shop at Bandcamp, so you can download this new release from there easily by simply clicking here.

If you would like to download the entire Cosy Lube Turtle album from Bandcamp, you can do so by clicking here.

Anyone who downloads unfinished works for 89% or more of the eventual sales price will be sent by email mp3 versions of sonic upgrades and new tracks, as and when they appear – for free! This is like an investment in the recording and allows the investor access to rare ‘unfinished’ material.

Track #3, Victory Garden, is a haunting and amusing look at American politics during the Clinton era and is characterised by its simple melodic guitar lines and beautiful evocative drumming by Sven. It also contains the immortal line “I lost my heart – to an organ bank”.

Track #4, Venturi, is a magical and mystical song of great power with multiple layers of vocal harmonies and wonderful melodic driving bass from Maxx. We have not yet added the wailing guitar feedback or the acoustic instruments.

In the coming days more upgraded alpha tracks will be added to the Mind Dance collection from Dark Company. If you would like to listen to these songs now you can do so by clicking here.