The version of A Broken Consort's Crow Autumn just released by Tompkins Square is a new version of Richard Skelton's Crow Autumn, or rather it's a new version of the Crow Autumn and Crow Autumn 2 recordings (previously released on his own Sustain Release label), reworked into a cohesive and well-balanced whole, with a new [...]
A Broken Consort - The Elder Lie
As you can gather from the interview with Richard Skelton I published yesterday, he is in a particularly fertile period at present. Aside from the reissued Box Of Birch LP, I recently took delivery of two hugely differing new bundles of intoxicating Skelton sound: a new CD under each of his A Broken Consort [...]
It was around 18 months ago that I first came upon the work of Richard Skelton, via the initial pressing of his Box of Birch album on his own Sustain-Release label. It is without doubt one of my favourite albums of the last few years, an emotional immersion whose depths have only increased since via [...]
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British artist/musician Richard Skelton, aka A Broken Consort, started the Sustain-Release Private Press four years ago, releasing his music alongside his late wife Louise's artwork. The resulting handmade editions are gorgeous -- tiny wooden boxes, thick paper, leaves, rocks, pine cones. He's recorded under names like Heidika, Carousell, Harlassen and Clouwbeck and is about to release his second A Broken Consort album A Box Of Birch on the U.S label, Tompkins Square. It initially came out as an edition packed with birch twigs collected from Lancashire's West Pennine Moors. In a similar vein, the new version [...]
A Broken Consort - The Elder Lie A Broken Consort is a man from the UK by the name of Richard Skelton. I know what you're probably thinking. "Oooh, a one man band on AGB. This is either gonna be a some crazy noise or a guy making lots of guitar loops." Well, you're wrong. For the most part. I guess A Broken Consort might be leaning towards the latter. Yes, a guitar is used (I [...]
There are many layers to the work of Richard Skelton. I don't just mean instrumentally, for there is so much more to him as an artist than simply the music. His work is inextrically bound up with emotion, with imagery, with history, with location, with nature, and even with poetry. While I [...]
1. The Necks – Townsville ( Milk of Fish / ReR ) MP3: Townsville (Excerpt) Last October – in what normally would have been nothing but a typical autumn week with darkness setting in early and people wrapped in warm clothes, hiding from the cold wind – I experienced what was most definitely the musical highlight of the year for me. Maybe even the musical highlight of many, many years. That entire week the city was besieged by music and film dedicated to "minimalist" composer and legend Philip Glass. Every [...]
A broken consort is "an ensemble featuring more than one family of instruments". A Broken Consort are a broken consort in a sense – they have the requisite disparity of instruments - but they have only one member, Richard Skelton, and he can't consort with himself. He'd go blind. Box of Birch is a magical construct, and by pulling a similar trick to the most confusing sorcery performed by airplanes it manages to be both floaty and dense. It has none of that noisy rushing about that tends to come as [...]
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