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David a Jaycock

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DAVID A JAYCOCK - The Coleopterous Cuckoos Collude
(RDC 010)
Released on the red deer club label http://reddeerclub. ithinkmusic. com/my-store/detail. php?page=LR&r=4604 Named after a Hitchcock-esque nightmare in which he was set upon by a pair of hard-winged, marauding cuckoos, David A Jaycock’s second album is step forward from the pastoral motifs of his debut, incorporating an expansive country-folk sound alongside the indigenous qualities and general oddness that have made his name. An active member of Pickled Egg recording artists Big Eyes, as well as The Big Eyes Family Players, David plays a vast selection of instruments, with his signature guitar intricacies joined by analogue synthesizers, bowed banjos, toy piano, harmonium, and a zither . Subsequently, The Coleopterous Cuckoos Collude is an achingly beautiful work of cinematic majesty; its progressive classicism enhanced by David’s will to actively break traditional musical boundaries. Press Release In equal measure ethereal and energetic, the beautiful but unsettling collection from pastoral oddity David A Jaycock is a mind-blowing array of guitar mastery and folk soundscapes. As a whole, the album is as complex to take in as its prosaic title, with the range of songs moving through hints of the Arabic souk to disturbed takes on nursery rhyme melodies. High Voltage Acclaim for The Improvised Killing Of Uncle Faustus “constant sonic flourishes of mystery” Plan B “timeless melodies” Losing Today “top marks” Sandman PRE ORDER NOW £9.99 (inc p&p) click here....
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Released: 8th January 2007 at the Early Winter Recordings website and all good record shops*
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Press Release (Plan B Magazine)

"The Improvised Killing’s miniature set-pieces are hard to document in real time. Each one’s self-contained, delicately detailed like an entry in a Victorian child’s encyclopaedia, and as with an encyclopaedia you can dip in and out, follow your own path through the album. But listened to as a whole, its secrets creep out at the listener: constant sonic flourishes of mystery, ripples at the edges of reality.
For even as Jaycock’s accomplished guitar playing creates a still, bright core to the music, there’s always something amiss, awry: a keening, vintage synth; a diabolical fairground-organ lilt in the sweetest of tunes; a darkening drone in the distance; or a sinister chorus of voices. On the title track, the guitar stands strong amid a rumble of kettle drums and growling electronics, and a found flute straight from an MR James tale.
While drawing subtly from classical, folk and blues techniques (and the extended, experimental style established by Fahey and carried on by the likes of Jack Rose and Ben Chasny), Jaycock colours his take on acoustic guitar’s traditional warmth with an edge of thoroughly chilling British oddness. Listen close, and you’ll hear the ghostly textures of hauntology pioneers Broadcast or Belbury Poly; the sinister regularity of a Hawksmoor church; the inevitable, fateful ending of a folk tale; the clash of reason and superstition that gives tension to a Victorian ghost story; and always, somewhere, a sense of quite beautiful unease..."
- Frances May Morgan, Editor, Plan B Magazine
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Contacts:

http://www.earlywinterrecordings.co.uk

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.myspace.com/davidajaycockmusic

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*You can order them directly from us via Paypal/personal cheque, or buy from several mail-order/retail outlets in the UK….Jumbo / Norman Records in Leeds, Piccadilly Records in Manchester, Forever Changes / Jacks / Rare and Racy / Record Collector in Sheffield and Rough Trade in London. Cargo are also distributing them elsewhere around the globe.

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My Interests

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Member Since: 05/12/2006
Band Website: http://www.earlywinterrecordings.co.uk
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Influences:
The big stuffed tiger in Manchester Museum and the cat mummy, Iago, Ladybird books, James Mason, chiken pox, scrumping, Skeletor, Mr T, Jen 1000 & Jen 2000, Simon Jenkins, Matchbox cars, No6, Spiderman, I.K Brunell, Fishing boats, Edgar & Edmund, Segovia, Stravinsky, Bartok, Satie, Paco Pena,Burman amps, J Fahey, JS Bach, Narnia, S L Weiss, Schoenberg, Klezma, Hauntology, Hammer Horror soundtracks of which Paul Giovanni is a particular favourite. Captain Beefheart, Ennio Morricone, Walter Carlos, Can, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Bert Jansch, The Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, J Green, Will Oldham, The Tindersticks, 1970s prog insrumentals, Bagpuss, fairgrounds, things that drone on and on and on, Look and read, Original fairy tales with bad endings. The great British countryside, The weather, Bret Marvin and the Thunderbolts, Dick Dale, Polanski, N Roeg, Miles Davis, Pat Garrett, Ewan Mcoll.
Sounds Like: Muggety Pie
Record Label: Early Winter/Red Deer/Great Pop Supplement
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Sigle of the week-Norman Records

Hello, my new single is "single of the week" at Norman records too......Well, there you go then.
Posted by on Tue, 05 May 2009 05:35:00 GMT

New 7" record of the week

My new single is now out. It is a 7" vinyl affair on the great pop supplement label.Side a is "a new love song" and side b is "that warm feeling in my belly"Piccadilly records have named it "record of...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:00:00 GMT

All my new brains

Hello anybody. I suppose i am very busy. I have a  7" single coming out on the great pop supplement record label in the very near future. I really like this label, they have released some very good st...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:18:00 GMT

New Project

I have uploaded a new piece called "The machines are alive." This is one of thirteen pieces designed to unsettle the discerning listener to the point where they would want to check that the back door ...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:21:00 GMT