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We have added the album Ride That Fantasy by the young virtuoso Devon rock trio of yore Recluse to our archives. The album was probably made in 2001, although we have no exact details, and demonstrates some of the extraordinarily cunning songwriting techniques these boys had up there sleeves.

We suspect that Alex Painter was the main man behind this album as we recognise his vocal and guitar style. We believe he may have played a baritone guitar for much of this fine album.

If you would like to listen, you can do so by clicking here.

We have remastered Dark Company’s Rage in Heaven album from 1993 and are not especially overjoyed at the results as there were a few anomalies in the original mixes we had to work with.

As such we have uploaded the files to our shop at bandcamp.com and left the album and its individual tracks at the discounted price until we have either remastered the album again or come up with a new plan entirely.

Rage in Heaven is a glorious album and we highly recommend it to everyone as it shows off Dark Company’s virtuosity when they were pioneers of the trance-rock sound. The album features the songs Medicines, The Forger and Last Train to Heaven, with Medicines becoming a minor hit record in Europe in the late part of 1993. If you would like to visit the Rage in Heaven page at bandcamp.com you can do so by clicking here.

We’ve uploaded some rough demos of some songs that will eventually come to form the Drift of Stars album by Dark Company. Some of these demos are extremely (!) sketchy and we hope to be able to update these songs in the reasonably near future. We intend to add a couple more songs to this collection as well. If you would like to listen to these songs, you can do so by clicking here.

One of the Drift of Stars songs, Joe Right, comes in two separate versions, a rock version and a jazz version. The rock version is the Drift of Stars version, and the jazz version has been added to the Can of Worms album. To listen to the Can of Worms album please click here.

We are very pleased to say that there is very little left to make rough demos of from the vast archive of Dark Company’s back catalogue. A fairly large number of other songs exist but Wud Records and/or Dark Company themselves have taken the executive decision to reject them.

The lyrics from two Dark Company songs have been published in the latest edition of Reflections magazine. The songs that have been printed are Tilt and Now or Never, both from the forthcoming Noir album. If you would like to hear some demos of the Noir album, you can do so by clicking here.

Beautiful Wings from the album At Least 1000 Words by Flicker has been used as the soundtrack to a short film about a horse. It adds a lot of atmosphere to the images and gives the film an emotional context of being from the distant past, whereas the movie was actually shot on the weekend just gone. If you would like to see the video, please click here.

The horse in the film, Vivian, is in fact for sale right now, so if you like horses and would like to play with and care for this one she is near Regensburg in Bavaria. You can contact Vivian’s owner by clicking here.

Beautiful Wings is also on sale at Bandcamp! You can download a copy by clicking here and you can download the entire album At Least 1000 Words by clicking here.

If you would like to see a video of George playing the acoustic guitar part for Beautiful Wings, complete with out-takes at the end, you can do so by clicking here.

We have sent the first three songs from the forthcoming Dark Company album Bad Habits to the BBC so that the band can be exposed on air. That is to say, have their songs played on the radio, rather than being stripped naked in front of a large audience of the general public. Ewww… :-o

Whilst we are on the subject of double meanings and in order to clarify our slightly contentious headline, we cannot confirm or deny whether or not the BBC indulge excessively in smoking, spitting, swearing, nose picking, masturbation, gambling, drug abuse, poor personal hygiene or other such behaviour.

We have sent the Bad Habits songs to be played on Introducing with Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music and our local Introducing show at BBC Cornwall. The songs we sent were Tip the Rest, Whisky Priest and Pale Sky, the first three songs from the Bad Habits album.

When we have a few more of these songs mastered we shall upload them to the Bad Habits page here at Wud Records and the Bad Habits page at Bandcamp. There will also be numerous special mixes of each song to allow musicians to play along with Dark Company on their instrument of choice.