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A Broken Consort
12+ albums
ambientexperimentalfolkpsychedelicacoustic
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Richard Skelton is an artist from Lancashire in the UK. He started his Sustain-Release Private Press in 2005 as a commemorative tribute to his late wife Louise, with the intention of publishing her artwork alongside his own musical offerings. Since its inception he has released a slew of raw, beautiful recordings presented in lovingly-assembled, individualised editions. Operating under a variety of guises, including Heidika, Carousell, Harlassen and Clouwbeck, Skelton creates powerful, instrumental music out of densely-layered acoustic guitar, bowed strings, piano, mandolin and accordion, often laced with delicate, shimmering percussion. The result is something utterly unique – a music which is both life-affirming and yet etched with memory and loss, evoking equal parts Arvo Pärt and Ry Cooder, Nick Drake and Henryk Górecki. It is with A Broken Consort, perhaps, that Skelton most-assuredly draws these elements together, creating an ever-changing drift of rich textures and interleaved melody that effortlessly evokes the landscapes which inspired it. Box Of Birch, his second album in this guise, was originally published in a boxed edition that contained, among other things, birch twigs collected from the West Pennine Moors. For Skelton these things act as a synecdoche for the landscape itself, a physical connection to the places in which much of his music is recorded. In this new edition for Tompkins Square, Skelton has created an exclusive series of artworks which draw on th
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albums
Box of Birch
Crow Autumn
The Shape Leaves
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The Wire - Below The Radar Vol 1
Crow Autumn Part Two
*SKURA
Dyad
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Too Big To Fail : The Tompkins Square Label 5th Anniversary Amazon Sampler
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The Tompkins Square 5th Anniv eMusic Sampler
The Complete Crow Autumn
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Tompkins Square Label : Year In Review
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10 Years of Tompkins Square: Some That You Recognize, Some That You've Hardly Even Heard Of