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PAUL BRADLEY & COLIN POTTER
'THE SIMPLE PLAN'

Recorded and completed at the end of 2008 and on into the first months of 2009, ´The Simple Plan´ offers a change in focus from previous collaborations between these two artists.
Comprising five tracks, ´The Simple Plan´ is purely instrumental, recorded in real-time and subjected to only minimal digital processing.
Before recording began, the decision was made to create a simpler, more organic piece of work, using computers only sparingly to record the tracks and help with arrangements. There was to be no extended manipulation of sounds, so what you hear, is basically what was played together with no overdubbing and captured live in the studio as both artists alternated between playing vintage synthesizers (the active use of synthesizers being a first for Paul Bradley) and guitars whilst being aided by a selection of new and classic effects pedals. Although not completely analogue in realisation, it was analogue in its intent.
All at once harmonious and dissonant, melodic and atonal, calming and animated, these juxtapositions marked the beginning of significant new chapters in the personal lives of both artists and this influenced the work to an almost undeniable degree and is something that subsequently underpins the fundamental nature and feel of ´The Simple Plan´. There is somehow an abstract sense of desire and resolve that although never initially intended as a concept, naturally informed the final recordings.
The first 135 special edition copies come with a bonus disc of additional tracks titled ´Accretion´ which offers reworkings of the original recordings where the rules that governed the original sessions were not applied. ´Accretion´ is therefore quite a different selection of pieces offering alternative combinations and views of the original

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Standard edition £10

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MONOS
'ABOVE THE SKY'

Part One : Back in March 2006 Monos performed their one and only live show, comprised on the day of Darren Tate, Colin Potter and Paul Bradley. The show is recorded on a handheld recorder placed somewhere within the audience by Darius Akashic. Sometime later (probably 2007 no one can remember exactly) the material captured on that recording is revisited in the studio where the track (A Place Of Voices) is recreated over a couple of afternoons and many cups of tea. After that, not much happens.

Part Two : Cut to several months (possibly over a year) later and the recordings are revisited again. This time rather than recreating the material in the studio the original live recordings are used and supplemented with some extra new studio material to create a second track (Cloudless Day). This second track is far more abrasive, abrupt and low-fi than the first and the two pieces stand together in interesting contrast to each other. The familiar and unfamiliar, the context changed, the final result very different, yet at the same time completely natural and cohesive. Then again, not much happens for a time.

Part Three : Skip to sometime late 2008. The two tracks are revisited again along with a third piece that was discovered from a period prior to the performance in 2006 that seems to lay some of the foundations for what was presented live. Originally consisting of raw synthesizer and guitar recordings that were later remixed, effected, spat back out and complimented with other sounds and existing recordings and mixed in the studio to create what was later to be called Rivers (from the bonus disc). A few adjustments are made to A Place Of Voices and the three tracks are prepared for a final release.

In early 2009, it is decided to create a fourth track to complete the project and Perhaps (from the bonus disc) is born. The project is now nearly finished and along with some financial assistance from the ultimately very patient Marek Nawrot, almost ready for pressing. Then again, nothing much happens as the project is delayed due to some personal upheavals. It is not until late 2009 that the artwork is finally completed with the help of Jonathan Coleclough, and everything sent for manufacturing, which is then delayed again not only due to the holiday season, but also because of some very severe wintery weather.

Part Four : So, early 2010, after almost four years since it´s initial inception, with tracks spanning that entire period and from even earlier, Above The Sky is finally completed. Delivered from the manufacturers on a snowy day, where ankles are nearly broken hauling the boxes up some very icy steps; it is finished.

It has also come full circle; the night of the original concert back in 2006 was also marked by the sheer ice rink that slid downhill outside the venue as we all left in the dark and several of the audience (and some performers) were seen slipping in the air and sliding down the hill on their backs. A strange coincidence.

There are 135 special edition two disc copies that come with the bonus album titled Below The Earth which offers an overview of the entire story, and also a standard one disc edition is available that presents the main body of work.

It was a long journey, but well worth it.

SPECIAL EDITION NOW SOLD OUT
Standard edition £10

ALSO ON ICR

PHIL MOULDYCLIFF & COLIN POTTER
'TRAJECTORIES'

Phil Mouldycliff was contacted by Dave Carson with a view to making a work based on the unique wildlife of this very isolated island in the Pacific Ocean. This resulted in Phil visiting the island to absorb the environment & make many hours of field recordings. The final work will be an audio-visual show designed to be shown in domed structures & planetaria. The field recordings were taken back to IC Studio where Phil & Colin Potter processed them & mixed them with female voice and piano interpretations of birdsong. As unlikely a this sounds, the end result is an album which sounds simultaneously electronic/synthetic & natural. Hopefully this conveys the nature of the island from an unusual tangent.

cdr £8

Nurse With Wound - Automating Volume 3

Latest installment in the series,containing tracks from long lost compilations, covering the period from 1984 to 2008. 

£11.00

Colin Potter & Michael Begg - Fragile Pitches

A recording of the  performance in St.Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh by Potter & Begg (Fovea Hex, Human Greed)

Double CD  £12.00 

Also a special edition of 120 copies with an extra CDR of the music played before, between & after the 2 sets.  £15.00

Colin Potter & Phil Mouldycliff - Grey Skies On Asphalt

An edition of 400 on BLRR in a gatefold card sleeve. Another collaboration between Potter & Mouldycliff. with a basis of field recordings made in France. The sound travels between reality & somewhere else far, far away. 

£10.00

Faust / Nurse With Wound - Disconnected 2LP

We have a small number of copies of the double LP  COLOURED VINYL GATEFOLD SLEEVE version of the NWW / Faust collaboration. The original editon was meant to be in a gatefold sleeve but the manufacturer screwed up. Finally, they managed to produce the correct cover, so a small pressing of 300 has been issued to re-dress the balance.

The price is £22.00 but please email colinpotter@another.com for postal details & to reserve a copy. Comes with the extra disc with new tracks from both bands.