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'Waldheim' - 12 songs from a recent radio broadcast is out now
Number 37 in The Great Park's monthly subscription releases is out now. ‘Waldheim’ is twelve songs from a live radio broadcast in the garden of the Waldheim Wangen restaurant in the hills outside Stuttgart.
Available as a hand stamped CD-r edition with hand typed and personalised sleeves, linear notes and full quality digital download.
The Bandcamp digital download includes photos from the concert and a pdf with linear notes.
Physical edition available throughout September, digital anytime.
€10 digital / €15 physical including postage anywhere at Bandcamp or Patreon.
'Jesswood Recording' available on CD-r and download today
'Jesswood Recording' was recorded in one afternoon at home in Ireland in February 2010 and uploaded to Bandcamp a few days later. The set has now been gently remastered, an extra track discovered and is available on CD for the first time.
Available as a hand stamped CD-r edition with hand typed and personalised sleeves, linear notes and full quality digital download at:
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EINDHOVEN
Newly discovered live recording of a concert at TAC, Eindhoven on the 4th of March 2011 now out for Bandcamp Friday.
Available as a full quality digital download and perhaps soon as a limited, hand stamped CD-r if anyone would like that.
Annabel
Boys, I Am Worried
I Know What I Make Isn’t Fine
The Royal Canal
Suit Of Stones
I Do Wrong
Song For Fee
Paper Birds
Song For A Coalman
You Belong To Me, You Do
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'Bahnhof' now available
Improvisation (i)
Here Comes Your Son
If You’re Looking To Get Lost In The North That’s What We Got
Improvisation (ii)
Improvisation (iii)
Bedlam Boys Are Bonny
Improvisation (iv)
While I Was Sleeping
Make A Dead One Of It
Understudy
Bold Boy
Improvisation (v)
Recorded at Bruggen Bahnhof, St Gallen, Switzerland on the 28th of February 2023 and available exclusively as a limited edition CD-r edition and full quality download to my brilliant Patreon and Bandcamp subscribers.
'Fire Escape' available again
Number 30 in The Great Park's monthly subscription releases is out now.
Blackwater
Fair And Fine
I Will See Myself Out
Pure Black Coal
Under Water
Fire Escape
Originally released in an edition of just 20 CD’s in March 2008, and unavailable since then, ‘Fire Escape’ is a mini-album of six songs, including the 12 minute ‘I Will See Myself Out’. Recorded in a couple of different Brighton rooms, including the basement of an Oxfam shop, this features Sam Collins on electric guitar on most tracks. A loose, scrappy little set of songs recorded and released within a matter of days.
'Fire Escape' has now been remastered and the download includes new linear notes. All subscription releases are also available during the month they come out as limited CD-r editions which I personalise and will send to you where ever you are.
FREITAL II
My recording from my concert at the Spielbühne in Freital, Germany on the 4th of November 2022 is available through Bandcamp and on Patreon now.
The download is free / pay what you like and the simple, CD-r + download edition is limited to just 50 numbered copies and is €10 plus postage. I’ll send them out when I'm back from some concerts in a week and they look like this:
This was a long concert over 2 sets and I cut some tracks from the recording due to some issues with the signal I had from the mixing desk. I also played a couple of songs in the room which are missing, you can imagine.
Anyway, it runs like this - just about squeezing onto a single CD-r.
When I Was Away
The Royal Canal
Here Comes Your Son
Work With This
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn’t
Blind Willie McTell (Bob Dylan)
The Ghost Is The Only One That Beats My Drum
Paper Birds
Here
The Hills Are Alive
We Swam A Little Song
Super Good Advice
Leave Well Alone
'Ballard' now available
November’s monthly release is the complete set of pieces I improvised and recorded for the ‘Biest Liest’ book club episode about JG Ballard.
Improvisation (i) (2:34)
Improvisation (ii) (1:58)
Improvisation (iii) (4:18) - listen below
Improvisation (iv) (1.33)
Improvisation (v) (1.01)
Wise Women, 1964 (10:16)
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'Speicher Husum' 17 song live album now available on CD-r and download
Good morning all.
This month's subscription release was recorded a year ago, up on the coast of Germany next to the North Sea in Husum. 17 songs from my concert at the old Speicher, in the harbour.
Work With This
The Royal Canal
Down Down Down
When I Was Away
Deserter
Lover O Lover
Pretty Peggy-O
I Do Wrong
Luck Is Cruelty On The Wind
Song For Fee
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn’t
The Burning Of Two
Lord Franklin
Super Good Advice
So Long Song
I Was In The North Before The Fall
We Swam A Little Song
Also available in an edited, less talking between songs, all killer no filler 12 song version if that sounds a bit much - both available today and CD versions being sent out tomorrow.
Have a lovely Sunday and big thanks as ever.
Stephen
thegreatpark@icloud.com
ps - new single ‘You Were Somewhere, You Thought You Were Nowhere’ out next Friday 07.10.
'Giardino, August'
Number 27 in my monthly subscription releases is now available.
‘Giardino, August’ was recorded in one afternoon in August 2022 and features a version of a new song 'You Were Somewhere, You Thought You Were Nowhere', a Lambchop cover and a set of older things.
Also included - a 20 minute, five-part improvisation recorded the same afternoon as a change from all the words.
You Were Somewhere, You Thought You Were Nowhere
The Man Who Loved Beer
Matthew And Robert
One Bite At A Time
Here
Soldier Johny
And I Don’t Know Why
Improvisation (i)
Improvisation (ii)
Improvisation (iii)
Improvisation (iv)
Improvisation (v)
As always, these are released as very limited CD-r editions, which I personalise and send to you, or as a full quality digital download. Each physical edition is available the month of release, the digital whenever. This means that if you subscribe now you get to download all previous volumes, as well as dozens of other songs and images I’ve been making exclusively for subscribers. Here are the links:
'Giardino, May' at Bandcamp
A little EP I recorded a few months ago but somehow neglected to upload is now available on my Bandcamp page here.
It includes 6 songs, one of which is an R.E.M. cover, which I’m leaving hidden until it’s downloaded. Otherwise, goes like this:
Blackwater
??
Boys, I Am Worried
Pretty Peggy-O
Canary
Leave Well Alone
All recorded in the tiny Giardino house in the countryside near Stuttgart and I’ll have more from this lovely little place in a week.
S
'Palmetta' now available
The latest in the series of monthly releases is now available. Volume 26, ‘Palmetta’ is 16 songs recorded in the Italian countryside before and during a concert at the Centro di Palmetta in Terni, way back in 2009. Includes early versions of songs later recorded for ‘The Wife’ and the ‘Cellar’ albums:
Afternoon recording:
Annabel
Suit Of Stones
Careless Man
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Dig A Hole For Everyone)
You Belong To Me, You Do
St Mary
Palmetta Instrumental
Days Without You
Concert:
Annabel
Blackwater
Here
I Do Wrong
You Belong To Me, You Do
Fair And Fine
Paper Birds
Days Without You
As always, these are released as very limited CD-r editions, which I personalise and send to you, or as a full quality digital download. Each physical edition is available the month of release, the digital whenever. This means that if you subscribe now you get to download all previous volumes, as well as dozens of other songs and images I’ve been making exclusively for subscribers. Here are the links:
My 25th subscription release is now available
A live recording from a few weeks ago in Hamburg is now available through my Bandcamp and Patreon subscriptions. ‘Cafe Feuerwache 2’ is a return to the old house in Altona where I first played in November last year and from which a recording is also available. This was a very enjoyable, relaxed night and I think the set came out grand.
When I Was Away
The Royal Canal
Work With This
Here Comes Your Son
Lover O Lover
I Do Wrong
Paper Birds
The Woods Were Full Of Them
Leave Well Alone
The Hills Are Alive
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn’t
Super Good Advice
So Long Song
As always, this is available as a limited CD-r which I make and personalise and also as a full quality 24bit download. Please sign up below:
Here’s the 9 minute ‘The Hills Are Alive’ from the evening:
'Maastricht Morning' now available
An eleven song collection recorded in 2010 and previously unreleased is now available through my Bandcamp and Patreon subscriptions.
Jesswood
St Mary
Tom
Winter
Improvisation
St John The Gambler
Little Mice
Quarrel
Annabel
Days Without You
If You Can Hold It You Can Throw It
Seemingly recorded at the Artspace Rondeel the morning after a concert there, I have no recollection of this and just found the folder a few weeks ago. As with all of my monthly subscription releases this is available now as a full quality digital download and very limited, personalised CD-r edition. Here are the links again to my Bandcamp and Patreon subscriptions.
Listen to the rarely played ‘St Mary’ and ‘Tom’ below.
CD-r and digital download of 'The Groninger Museum' available now
The physical edition of the 23rd subscription release ‘The Groninger Museum’ is available now and throughout April. If you would like a copy of this please subscribe through my Bandcamp or Patreon site before the end of the month.
Spaces for this are limited as I make each copy myself. The discs are hand stamped and each typed sleeve personalised for you and this takes me a fair bit of time each month. Digital editions of each release are always available to subscribers but the CD-r edition is limited to about 30 copies.
Thanks to everyone who goes for these - I’m sending them out now and again at the end of the month for anyone new that signs up.
For more details about this release please click the cover image:
Bandcamp Friday for Ukraine
Bandcamp Friday, a day where the platform waives it’s payment fees and 100% go to the musicians and labels is here once again. This time I’ve decided to donate any sales I get to United Help Ukraine in an effort to do something.
I feel very uncomfortable taking up space on social media to promote anything at the best of times but at least this way I feel it’s valid.
I have a lot of albums, singles, live recordings and EP’s on Bandcamp and I’m also discounting the option to buy the complete catalogue of over 80 releases by 75%.
I certainly don’t have a lot of money but I seem to have made a lot of music - please head over to my Bandcamp page and pick up something if you can.
Thanks everyone,
S
'Luck Is Cruelty On The Wind' (Cafe Feuerwache)
Live in Hamburg, last November. From the 'Cafe Feuerwache' release available tomorrow as a full quality digital download and limited handmade CD edition on Patreon or through my Bandcamp subscription.
'Five New Songs' out today
A set of new songs is out today. Recorded a few weeks ago and written in sporadic, fast moments - these are loose things that I tried not to over work or over think. Piano, electric guitars, percussion and various things mostly first takes and all this.
This Is How You Make It What It Is Not
Look Out Kids
Bern
Here Comes Your Son
I Once Knew The Lowlands
Available as a full quality digital download or limited hand stamped, personalised CD-r edition through my Bandcamp or Patreon subscriptions.
Other songs I have will go with these and recording goes on towards a larger set that will be the next album. Hopefully soon-ish.
Have a lovely Sunday everyone,
Stephen
