The Shining Pyramid, by itdreamedtome, Facing the Ocean, John Harvey, Embla Quickbeam, Tristan Rhys Williams, Leona Jones

The Shining Pyramid

by itdreamedtome, Facing the Ocean, John Harvey, Embla Quickbeam, Tristan Rhys Williams, Leona Jones

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Limited Edition Cassette and handsewn letterpress cover booklet, token & badge
Cassette + Digital Album
Essays about the Welsh literary occulture of Arthur Machen, John Cowper Powys, Thomas Vaughan & more accompany a full colour Maltese cross encased cassette, limited to 50 with new hermetic sound from: Embla Quickbeam, Facing the Ocean (founder members of the Oroonies), Tristan Rhys Williams, John Harvey, Leona Jones & itdreamedtome, presented in handsewn booklet on Medieval laid paper, with original line art illustration by Brian Lucas (Angel Archer/Old Million Eye), a letterpress cover and letterpress card token, a button badge and digital 12 page supplementary photo/text/links pdf.

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1.	Facing the Ocean - Pen Caer 04:02
2.	itdreamedtome - Y FfenestrGron 03:33
3.	Leona Jones - in(ex)teriors 14:35
4.	Tristan Rhys Williams - Mithraeum 1 10:46
5.	John Harvey - Such a Noise as if All About Was Going to Pieces 03:00
6.	itdreamedtome - trwExtracts 03:33 video	info
7.	Embla Quickbeam - The Shining Pyramid 15:00

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The roots of this project lie in a desire to work with sound archives held in the National Library of Wales. The Story of the Forest is a gigantic set of oral history interviews with field workers. However, as discussions continued it became clear that gaining permission and rights to use this material creatively were fraught with difficulties.

So, the project quickly became about what sound does best. Rather than aspiring to work with material testimony we gave attention to the imaginative sonic landscapes of a speculative Wales. Unland became the topos for a psychogeographical, folkloric and literary exposition through sound.

The scene had been set for a symposium, concert and improvisation workshops with young people. Prior to lockdown the first part of Unland-a graphic score by Roberts, was performed in St Padarn’s, Aberystwyth by Richard Craig, Rhodri and Angharad Davies. The pandemic required subsequent events to be cancelled and the project to refocus wholly on to the speculative, imaginary, and virtual.

The Ysbrydnos/Hallowmas live stream is a celebration of the mysteries associated with Halloween, the spectral and in Wales our own Noson Calan Gaeaf. We take this as an opportunity to launch a new collection of tape music based on Welsh occult writing including Arthur Machen, Thomas Vaughan, Edmund Jones and others. Many of the performances in the Ysbrydnos/Hallowmas are by artists who are present on the upcoming tape music release The Shining Pyramid.

Diverse interpretations of Machen and other writers are made by: Facing the Ocean, Leona Jones, Embla Quickbeam, Tristan Rhys Williams, John Harvey and itdreamedtome.

For The Shining Pyramid, itdreamedtome and Embla Quickbeam collaborated, with the latter making her sound piece as a novel sound track to itdreamedtome’s Machen inspired film. The Ysbrydnos/Hallowmas livestream includes a second audio visual piece by itrdeamedtome, as well as a live realisation of Embla Quickbeam’s recorded composition. Other artists responded to the call, some perform live to tape others fashion visualisations stemming from their spectral compositions.

The Shining Pyramid will be available shortly after the launch as a booklet and cassette tape and digital stream: listentothevoiceoffire.bandcamp.com

Artists taking part in Ysbrydnos/Hallowmas livestream include:
Leona Jones & Sion Dafydd Dawson, Embla Quickbeam, itdreamedtome, Tristan Rhys Williams, Ffrwd, Phosphene, Barretts Dottled Beauty, Andrew Leslie Hooker, Ed Wright, Rhodri Davies, Hawthonn, Our glassie Azoth

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released October 31, 2020

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