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Cosmic Neighbourhood - Gatherings

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An absolute delight on Caught by the River’s Rivertones label.
Description
Imagine if Eric Carle had been signed to Ghost Box, or if the Look Around You team had ended up taking over the Radiophonic Workshop. If you can picture that kind of sound, we’re ready to welcome you to the Cosmic Neighbourhood. Cosmic Neighbourhood’s Gatherings is an album made for wild imaginations and deep daydreams. Its fourteen tracks provide the kind of trip you can take if you close your eyes tight enough and let your mind wander. It’s the music of small things, groovy sounds from way underground that’s inspired as much by Martin Rev and Moondog as it is by walking trees, pine cones catching the bus, nocturnal farmyard symphonies and the movements of butterflies reimagined through restless drum machines. Sounds good? Come join the gathering. There’s room for everyone.

Cosmic Neighbourhood is the musical alias of York-based illustrator and musician Adam Higton. Adam’s work encompasses comic strips, collage and sound art and documents the daily goings-on of the forest folk within the realm of the Cosmic
Neighbourhood. His two albums on Kit (|Collages I and II) see each song acting as a response to a series of paper-and-scissors

compositions. Sonically, these records straddle new and old, taking modular electronics, flutes, bells and softly pattering drum machines, before colouring them all with the amber glow of some forgotten, psychedelic kids' TV programme. Higton's benign toots and echoing jingles bring to mind Daphne Oram's early delay experiments or the meandering playfulness of Tom

Cameron. Radiophonic and time-worn, it still somehow sounds like the future. Gatherings follows previous Cosmic Neighbourhood albums Library Vol 1 and Collages I and II. Previous Rivertones releases include spoken word and found sound collages by Robert Macfarlane & Chris Watson, poetry and elemental music by Will Burns' & Hannah Peel and the soundtrack to Wolfgang Buttress’ Hive structure at Kew Gardens by Be.

Available as a very limited special edition to include a hand personalised edition of the 7" Trees EP.
Editions

+ Standard weight orange vinyl
+ Unprinted black paper 12" inner sleeve
+ 3mm spine, 300gsm w-w board w/ matt lamination

+ Special edition includes a bonus 7" Trees EP that has been hand personalised.

Tracklisting

Scarecrow Says
Window
Elf Trip
Critterpillar
Pine Cone
Green Folk
Eiderdown
Gatherings
Antennae
Owl Eyes
Procession
Treestess
Flutterby
Firebird

Release Info

Release Date: 28th July 2023
Format: LP
Label: Rivertones

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