St. Just Vigilantes

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Transparent Face and Static Caravan are proud to present “Pastor of Oaks, Shepherd of Stones”, the debut release from St. Just Vigilantes. Clocking in at 55 minutes, this blotter paper cascade is the work of Little Sparta’s Alan Boyd and Jonathan Twilight Orr, an erstwhile Irish Jihadi with a cape of crystal visions. Having met in the rainforests of British Columbia some twenty years ago, it was not until late 2007 that the Jihadi climbed into his balloon and set course for Roman Londinium, floating for months before descending upon the Spartan in his clockwork tower. For one week they popped and fizzed, refracting light through hopeful wires and broken instruments to conjure this work of alchemical beauty. And what a joyfully peculiar creature it is. Pastor of Oaks, is a shape-shifting dervish where pop mantras melt into vespers for broken angles and hymns for the dream brigades. It’s a cactus trance of ancient metronomes, ESP murmurs and pomegranate flavoured candy canes; kaleidoscopic drift giving voice to ashtray throwing poltergeists, grooving as they do, twisting the night away. An unborn baby’s heart beats next to a flurry of incandescent splendour and the vigilantes quote the poet Rumi as they stumble and skip. Histories without words are the cords that bind and (for now) Just is patron saint of opiate mystics; Sufi Strung Out, Shepherd of Stones. This is a unique piece of genuinely progressive music that draws in a huge range of ideas and influences to create a

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Pastor of Oaks, Shepherd of Stones

For the Angel in the Angle: Live in London 2008

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Radiant Cadences

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Our Books Withstand the Fire

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Pastor of Oaks, Sheppherd of Stones

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Live London 2008

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Pastor Of Oaks, Shepherd Of Stones (Selections)

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AAA SJV2 Demos

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Swans Evangelist

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The St. Just Vigilantes

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Pastor Of Oaks. Shepherd Of Stones

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Pastor of Oaks, Shepherd of Stones [static caravan, 2008]

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