Burhlap 'Heyl Towans' (IT013)
Fan organ, whistles, accordian, objects, guitar and field recordings, assembled in a damp and drafty cabin on the Hayle Towans, West Cornwall in February 2022.
Side A - Twenty one minutes of music
Side B - Twenty one minutes of Cornish rain on a cabin roof.
Mastered by Malvern Brume, With thanks to Cleo and Daisy.
Photographs processed by Imogen Frost at Cornwall Community Darkroom
Remaining cassettes availible through Infant Tree, World Of Echo, Tobira Records, Cafe Oto and mindseye.xyz.
"More sounds dredged from sunken lands from the ever reliable Infant Tree universe. Burhlap is Ben Victor Waggett, a peer/occasional collaborator of IT leader and Malvern Brume/The Sprigs mastermind, Rory Salter. Their music shares much common ground, seemingly plugged straight into the same olde soil in an attempt to divine some ancient folk inspiration. Waggett weaves a precious and prettied web of organ, guitar, whistles and found sound, be those Cornish voices or flowing water. The impression is not so much one of creating as it is channeling what's already long been there, hanging in the air waiting to be redirected - perhaps this music blew in off the coastal paths straight in through the door and into Wagget's hands? The 21 minute closer, twenty one minutes of cornish rain on a cabin roof, is just that, and an unusually fitting conclusion to a collection of tracks that feel elemental and primary, even in their modest construction feeling like an expression of something bigger. In that sense, proper environmental music."
- World of Echo
TWO WAY DREAMING, Broadcast on the 5th of April, 2023 on NTS radio. Readings by Christopher Jones author of The Killing of The Elephant & The Destruction of The Castle. The zine/essay writes against the 'redevelopment' of the area and for a community that, in/through its dense practise of sociality, refuse that 'redevelopment'. Thanks to Christopher Jones and 56a infoshop.
'Irene'. taken from V/A - I DON'T WANT TO BE DUG UP FROM THE WET EARTH ANYMORE. Infant Tree Various Artists Compilation. IT003.
