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8 Black Postcards

by Churn Milk Joan

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Lee Adcock
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Lee Adcock A thick, heady mix of seedy beats and misplaced sounds, chugging along on its own warped path. Entrancing. Favorite track: Boom Dipper Stick.
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Colin 454 "...take some Funk, Krautrock, Brit Humor, mix it up with a bit of Eno, Fripp, a bit of David Bowie and T-Heads ala Remain in Light....and toss it in a blender with some Cayenne Pepper....and a Valium or two or three....strap yourself into your comfy chair with your best headphones and go for a ride."
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Fell through the sky Dropped through the Earth lyrics by Marian Sutton 2012
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my companions send their regards one tallow in a pretty town I am constantly hungry underground how is it his fault? picture me at noon I ate and lost my grip travel the dark I took them down my companions gloat people said he's likely to float Alizon Device Elizabeth Device James Device Anne Whittle Ann Redferne Alice Nutter Katherine Hewitt John Bulcock Jane Bulcock underground... Lyrics by Richard Knutson, Marian Sutton & Colin Robinson 2012
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Menagerie 07:28
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Ford Madox Brown incarnated by mistake baked a cake till it became golden brown till it became orchestra brown electric brown chicken brown Alcock and Brown Ford Madox Brown all there is... Ford Madox Brown has 8 simple ways has 8 everyday has 8 arteries has 8 baking trays has 8 yogurt snacks has 8 heart attacks has 8 black postcards has 8 all there is... Ford Madox Brown has come here by mistake by mistake that's all there is I wouldn't say it's wrong Lyrics by Richard Knutson, Marian Sutton and Colin Robinson 2012
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one working isolator one piston out of 8 one pump to fracture one to isolate ya would you like to go outside in the cold looking in would you like to be OK just press start to begin boom dipper stick doomer in what's left of the wood holy mountain you never should remove the layers one by one for an ounce of gold look at the sun got a message you've been left behind a whiff of atoms no one will find eyeless babies forever climb you are running outa time one working isolator... the land cracks under the sun insects hum a dragonfly climbs, larvae like an alien burned heather cracks under foot like charcoal the sun is too hot until it rains and the rain will wash the land away one working isolator... Lyrics by Richard Knutson & Marian Sutton 2012

about

These songs sprung from improvisations recorded in the Hebden Bridge studios on Saturday 13th October 2012 - Richard and Colin with original Big Block 454 guitarist Pete Scullion and Marian Sutton, live and simultaneous.
Later in 2012 - 3 overdub sessions, 5 days editing, 8 black postcards.

"The Letter - Beware: this omni-groove wants to eat through your ears & nibble your frontal lobes." - the famous Sid Smith, King Crimson biographer, blogger, and friend to the stars... www.sidsmith.net

"some epic magic going on" - Andy Wagner

""...another stunner... a taut percussive backdrop against which sparse guitar patterns interweave, Tago Mago-esque musical interludes rise and fall and something not unrelated to a funk vibe drags you into a sonic blender into which sounds are tossed before coming out of the other end entirely transformed, as indeed is the listener." - Mark Whitby, Dandelion Radio unwashedterritories.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/churn-milk-joan-8-black-postcards.html

"...take some Funk, Krautrock, Brit Humor, mix it up with a bit of Eno, Fripp, a bit of David Bowie and T-Heads ala Remain in Light....and toss it in a blender with some Cayenne Pepper....and a Valium or two or three....strap yourself into your comfy chair with your best headphones and go for a ride." - Michael Inman

"....... dark in a slightly unhinged way! Some lovely, almost-haphazard sounding, improv grooves. Great building guitars and riffage! ...Wow, loving the ultra-funk of The Letter ! Somewhere in between early Talking Heads and The Normal..." - Paul Dementio

"... a package that grooves, unsettles, exhilarates and occasionally makes you smile... five tracks of unclassifiable genre-bending, all recorded in Hebden Bridge (seemingly a hive of avant-garde activity)...Without resorting to pastiche or reverie, Churn Milk Joan are forging a peculiar path between referring to past music and creating a music for the present. There’s no evocation of bygone days or futurism….if anything, this is existential music." - Paul Dementio echoesanddust.com/2013/01/churn-milk-joan-8-black-postcards/

"A thick, heady mix of seedy beats and misplaced sounds, chugging along on its own warped path. Entrancing." - Lee Adcock

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released January 21, 2013

Richard Knutson: bass, vocals
Colin Robinson: guitar, synth, 6-string bass, groovebox
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Pete Scullion: guitar
Marian Sutton: vocals, field recordings

Production: RK/CR
Mastering: RK
Engineering: CR
Artwork: RK
A Churn Milk Joan Production, © 2012

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Churn Milk Joan Hebden Bridge, UK

Music created by American Richard Knutson and Englishman Colin Robinson.

"One of the most extraordinary outfits I ever heard. Intriguing, irreverent and funny as Hell"

Sadly, Richard died from Motor Neuron Disease in March 2020.
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