Name: I A Moon - RSD 2020
Brand: North Sea Radio Orchestra

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

THM001LP

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Colour

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Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Available for the First time on Vinyl.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-08-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Shellshock

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5052571084717

Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / red

Artist

North Sea Radio Orchestra

Genre GB

Folk

Label GB

The Household Mark

Written throughout the Autumn and Winter of 2010 / 2011 by band leader and guitarist Craig Fortnam with a pencil and paper, guitar and piano and recorded 'at various locations in southern England on his laptop', I A Moon retains the unique North Sea Radio Orchestra line-up of strings, woodwind, percussion, guitars, keyboards and voices but with a darker, less pastoral sound, with synth and percussion taking a more prominent role than on their previous two albums. Another departure is a move away from using poetry to the more personal use of self-penned lyrics : 'I a moon, orbiting myself. Sometime gravity pulls me close….'. On this release, the influences apparent on the first two albums (Britten, Vaughan Williams, Reich, ISB, 70's prog) have been augmented by a distinct whiff of Krautrock (on the instrumental Berliner Luft) while the angular guitars of Ring Moonlets show a debt to the dual guitar textures of Deerhoof.

North Sea Radio Orchestra continue to blend their influences in a highly imaginative and unusual way, while all the time having an ear for the beautiful, be it in melody, texture or chord. North Sea Radio Orchestra - I A Moon; beautiful, redolent, ancient and modern, English and world, unique.

I A Moon - RSD 2020

Music GB