Awesome Wells
The Highs And Lows Of De Witt A Stanton
£8.00 - CD£5.00 - Digital
TRACKS
- Sunday Morning
- Who, or what, destroyed the Hindenburg?
- Omar, Omar Taught Me How To Dance
- I Think Thanks-giving Will Turn Kurt Cobain Around
- Mablethorpe
- The Bearophone
- I Think I Just Heard The Hens Applauding In The Hen-house
- Song For Sandy Dan
- It's Springtime In Steyning!
- The Bear
- The Sea-trout and The Fly
- The Yellow Tree
Limited hand made sleeve - 50 copies
Awesome Wells has been recording music and hibernating in bedrooms in valleys, kitchens by railways and bunkers in the city for several years.
His music envisages a huge soundscape bringing in many elements of his diminished fantasy travels. Wandering the world through the mediums of sound collages, most likely on his own or with the kind help of a cat called Flea. It definitely included a smashed china plate in a plastic bag, a flugelhorn from Prague held together with green tape, a Jew’s harp from Venice, the birds in a graveyard in Nottingham in spring, bits of electronic synthesising and effect tom-foolery. A girl mucking about with a piano, a knackered old zither, a Dictaphone recording of a Ukrainian train station at dawn, sleigh-bells at dusk, an over-used loop sampler, some old jam-jars in a plastic bag, a nut-cracker named Klad, a lampshade, a child’s violin, and probably some other stuff too. This all makes for a wonderful sound, taking in influences from A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Animal Collective and Dexys Midnight Runners, to name a few.
