News

The Bastard Sons of Dennis may be playing a special Plymouth show this coming Monday as part of the Royal Jubilee celebrations.

At present there are very few details concerning this performance. We hope to be able to provide more details in the coming days.

You can hear some of the wonderful music by The Bastard Sons of Dennis at our shop at Bandcamp by clicking here.

We have had a very busy couple of days in the recently rebuilt Studio One with Pok and have made a great deal of progress. Besides doing more work on the beautiful, ethereal Silver Ships on the Sea, as mentioned in a recent news post, we have begun the recordings of We Know You Well and Centre of the Cyclone, two epic tracks that were performed by Laughing Sun.

There is a lot of material to work with here and we anticipate that it will be a few weeks before these songs are ready for a release. We shall keep you updated with further news in our News section.

Pok has also created the artwork for the Live in Session Autumn 1985 collection from Laughing Sun. We will be working on the completed art package for that album in the coming days. You can download tracks from the album from our shop at Bandcamp by clicking here.

In more news concerning Pok and his artistic exploits, he has collaborated with Celestial Elf in producing a short animated film of his fable, the Pook of Pok. This is a wonderful piece of work and we recommend that you watch it – you can do so by visiting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Bg7ilxO8M.

Pok has created a new page at soundcloud.com so his fans can enjoy listening to his wonderful songs and bardic tales. We have added a link to his page in our ‘links’ section.

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

We have been busy in Studio One with Pok recording acoustic guitar for his beautiful song Silver Ships on the Sea. It was composed nearly 30 years ago and is still one of the most evocative and wonderful pieces of music we have ever heard.

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.

We have just about finished the remastering of the album At Least 1000 Words by Flicker and are fairly happy with how things are. We will study the work that has been done and soon there will be more news regarding a tenth anniversary reissue. How the time flies…

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.

Humpty Dumpty and Number 6 are the two latest songs to be added to the Mind Dance collection by Dark Company. These are songs #9 and #10 of the 14 that make up Mind Dance and are only alpha mixes. We shall let you know when these songs are upgraded further through our News service.

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.