A thread to consider Second Language (Plinth, Piano Magic, Dollboy etc) and beyond (Clay Pipe Music, David Sheppard, Michael Tanner etc)

Any thoughts on the few releases that are still available?

http://textileranch.bandcamp.com/album/polynomials

A Directorsound album is the first in the label's new Library Series, apparently. Colleen album is 4th in the series. No idea what are second and third.

I note that earlier today the label was accusing other labels of plagarism.

(Directorsound album is up for sale on Norman Records but not yet mentioned on Second Language's website).

I note that earlier today the label was accusing other labels of plagarism.

i hope he's not referring to the other label of the same name, that existed before he started his terrible, boring label

I couldn't for the life of me work out who they were referring to. There's some nice stuff on the label - as well as some boring stuff - but I'm not sure it is a label that is distinctive enough to be claiming others are ripping them off.

I can see why people might be tempted to subscribe (for the bonus discs).

Any thoughts on the Directorsound album?

New Piano Magic compilation. Apparently they've split up.

(Perhaps not before time, judging by that reaction).

indeed

Anyone been keeping up/still interested?

SL025 Various Artists Music & Migration III - ORDER HERE

SL025x The Home Current Mizieb EP - ORDER HERE

SL024 Sharron Kraus Pilgrim Chants & Pastoral Trails - ORDER HERE

SL024x Sharron Kraus Night Mare - SOLD OUT

SL023 Colleen The Weighing Of The Heart - ORDER HERE

SL023x Colleen The Weighing Of The Heart - Iker Spozio ltd edition hand-engraved print - SOLD OUT

SL022 Áine O’Dwyer Anything bright or startling? - ORDER HERE

SL022x Áine O’Dwyer Safely Adrift - ORDER HERE

SL021x Piano Magic Never It Will Be The Same Again - ORDER HERE

SL021 Piano Magic Heart Machinery - A Piano Magic Retrospective, 2001-2008 - ORDER HERE

SL020x Directorsound Sins Of The Leopard Suite - SOLD OUT

SL020 Directorsound I Hunt Alone - ORDER HERE

Plus Plinth's 'Music For Smalls Lighthouse' re-released via Clay Pipe Music.

Was the Dollboy album any good?

It is!

Here is a Dollboy/Sone Institute interview and live session for a Podcast that I engineer:

http://www.jointhecircle.net/radio/?p=1868

Also in a related note, Directorsound are playing at the Union Chapel in London tomorrow afternoon (free admission, but suggested donation) for Arctic Circle/Daylight Music whom I am part of.

http://www.unionchapel.org.uk/pages/events-daylight_music-364.html

apologies for sucky grammar..

Ta. Was pondering whether to buy the re-issued Ghost Stations.

Slightly surprised this thread doesn't have more traffic.

SL030 Silver Servants s/t - ORDER HERE

SL030x Silver Servants Cold Lazarus - ORDER HERE

SL029 Oliver Cherer Sir Ollife Leigh & Other Ghosts - ORDER HERE

SL029x Oliver Cherer A Millying & Mor

SL028 Robin Saville Public Flowers - ORDER HERE

SL028x Robin Saville Hybrids

SL027 littlebow Pi Magpie - ORDER HERE

SL027x littlebow Five White Feathers

SL026 Dollboy Ghost Stations / Geisterbahnhöfe - ORDER HERE

SL026x Dollboy Sidings

i have no idea what a lot of these things are, but all the littlebow records i have heard have been very lovely things

Mildly tempted by the Mark Fry album.

Not strictly Second Language (it's on Wayside and Woodland) but I'm fond of this for reasons that I can't quite figure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEvx8T3gOqQ

From the Durutti Column thread:

https://olivercherer.bandcamp.com/

Vini's guitar being used well.

― djh, Wednesday, February 6, 2019 7:45 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

saw this revive and simultaneously experienced two very different and extreme emotions:

VINI DIED.

VINI'S BACK.

both with this facial expression: O_O

glad i was wrong.

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, February 6, 2019 10:47 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, he is literally using one of Vini Reilly's guitars!

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, February 6, 2019 10:55 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

x-post.

Yes, I have previously proposed a ban on this thread just because I always jump to the first of these.

Haven't actually heard the story of the guitar and wonder if it is mundane as "Vini sold his guitar"? Still, I have time for Cherer.

Might move this conversation to the Second Language thread - less traumatic for those watching.

― djh, Wednesday, February 6, 2019 11:03 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This sounds really promising, based on the first track. His Gilroy Mere project also got a lot of play here last year.

Quite enjoying Glen's Arcane Delights:

https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/arcane-delights-05th-september-2020/

New one:

https://www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/arcane-delights-03rd-october-2020/

Clay Pipe not Second Language but the new Andrew Wasylyk ("Balgay Hill - Morning In Magnolia") is very nice to have trickling along in the background.

I've greatly enjoyed the two EPS released this year by Theory of Ghosts, which has also prompted a deeper dive into the Piano Magic/Second Language discography. Glen's songwriting is really strong with this latest project. One of my top picks for 2023.

This is my Piano Magic "Best of", albeit the "Best of" on the night/week/whatever that I compiled it:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3mNbqSlhPB6b9rw7A5EqMt

At different times it would have contained more whirring and clicking.

very nice list

btw, the Theory of Ghosts EPs are pretty good. I know glen a bit but haven't asked him specifically why he essentially just changed the name of the band, but maybe it's just because he retired PM, then felt like still making music, but didn't want to pull an LCD Soundsytem and return two years later. I know the ToG lineup plays PM songs live though. If there's a difference, it's that it's focused more on the 'rock' side of PM which always fluctuated in prominence

Glen gets into those questions in the interview he did with Sound of Violence earlier this year

Also thanks djh for the playlist