Email: lanterns [at] lanternsmusic [dot] co [dot] uk
---------------RELEASES------------------
JUST OUT!!! Split 12" LP with Gultskra Artikler on Other Electricities . Details and track previews can be found here and can be bought from the label directly or through the usual UK & US distributors. It's also available for download at iTunes and eMusic .
NEW!!! "Harpooned" CD-R on Chironex . 5 jams collected over the last couple of years, ranging from cosmic keyboards to more delicate guitars and what-not, real happy with this one. Head straight to Chironex , Boa Melody Bar or email us to get your copy.
NEW!!! "Rippers & Creepers Vol.1" cassette compilation on Pendu Sound . 35 different artists in 69 minutes. A mixtape for champions.
NEW!!! "Mad River" CD-R on Housecraft. We're very excited about this one, 3 tracks, one of which being a 20 minute long live set of unrelenting drums, guitar and violin action from Leeds in 2007. $5 in the US, $7 for the rest. Go to Housecraft , Volcanic Tongue or Boa Melody Bar to buy.
Andreas solo Single Helix CD-R, titled "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", is available to buy at Volcanic Tongue , Boa Melody Bar or by Paypal. £5 with UK postage included, £6 elsewhere. Lovely handmade colour sleeves with some incredible artwork by Adam Harries. Email lanterns*at*lanternsmusic*dot*co*dot*uk.
Split cassette with Jazzfinger on Sick Head . Sublime levitating drones by Jazzfinger and an interstellar trip to Saturn and back from ourselves. Comes in the lovely cassette boxes we all know and love by Sick Head , but now in colour! Available to buy direct from the label, here .
"Lughnasadh" CD-R on Peasant Magik , three tracks of primitive basement folk'n'drone with lovely artwork from Mel of Ashtray Navigations/Ocelocelot. Purchaseable here and here .
C30 cassette on Beyond Repair titled "The Uncanny Valley", two side-long space-capades recorded in june 07. Availabe from Beyond Repair direct or Tomentosa .
Chora+Lanterns - "Baron Grooner" collaboration on Blackest Rainbow . Available through Tomentosa Records in the US and alt. vinyl in the UK.
One track on the wonderful fox-themed compilation Reynardine on Phil Legards Larkfall label, available from Phil himself or Volcanic Tongue .
3" CD on First Person available for £3 (incl free p+p in the UK) by contacting FRSTPRSN(at)YAHOO.CO.UK. or Boa Melody Bar
Split CDR with Chora now available. 74min of blissed out space-sermons with handcrafted full-colour sleaves. Edition of 75. SOLD OUT
"Blue Beads" C30 cassette release on Sloow Tapes .
"Meandering drones resonating in eerie Taj Mahal-like mushrooms stuffed with chimes, ebowed strings, subtle electronics and other shimmering nightly meditation tools.", says Bart Sloow. Edition of 70. SOLD OUT
"Wax Cavern" CDR, handmade in an edition of 75 copies. Sold out but available to download here .
CD-R "Once" limited to 75 copies with laminated leaf and textured wallpaper insert. Now sold out but MP3s can be downloaded here .
-------Reviews of "Monkey Lament" split LP with Gultskra Artikler-------
...both artists find unique ways to blend acoustic and electronic elements, as well as structure and improvisation. Given both the quality of the music and the artwork, there's much for fans of experimental music to enjoy from this record. 8/10...Paul Simpson ( Foxy Digitalis )
...“Snake Ice,†an instantly appealing piece whose emotive Kosmische style can't help but call to mind the work of artists like Popul Vuh, Neu, and Faust. A disorienting character pervades “Snake Ice†as it twists and turns through various psychedelic episodes, with keyboard melodies and distorted strings snaking their way through a dense sea of churning noise. “Dir Tup†plunges even deeper into a psychedelic rabbit hole with a wooden flute, acoustic guitars, animal sounds, and myriad other noises pushing the song into a tripped-out psych-folk and backwoods country jam... Textura
-------Reviews of "Mad River"-------
...one of the best surprises of the year! Britain’s Lanterns, after releasing more than a handfull of cdrs and tapes truly deliver on this behemoth of psychedelic groove and full-blown drone drone-meets-VanHalen-extravaganza...8/10.. Foxy Digitalis
...Gelt, the Mad River, which is suposedly a live recording, and it must have been one hell of a gig. The track begins with a repetitive but uncompromising drum rythm which occupies pretty much the whole 20 minutes. It starts slow and meditative, but soon various layers of guitar, feedback and violin (burried there somewhere) start to build more and more tension. Torwards the end it turns into a powerfull splutter of guitar noise, feedback and fierce drum pounding...I really do like it - this just sounds like the kind of "energy outburst music" done right... Hum of the Earth
-------Reviews of Chora split-------
...this split CDr on Screetching Snowflake pits these two head-turning units with unique approaches to new jack tribalism that both succeed on the psychedelic battleground leaving plenty of bloodied, powdered wigs in their path...Kenneth Zubiate... Foxy Digitalis
-------Reviews of "Wax Cavern"--------
...It winds and moves with a delight and softness, cries out with wonderully subtle electronic shifts and breathes with an enormous frailty...Joe Luna... Foxy Digitalis
...Fuzzed out guitars, harmonious space whispers, shadowed guitar melodies, bowed strings, cavernous noise, hazy drone fog, occasional percussion, subtle electronic shifts, chiming bells, pulsing metallic sounds and glistening rays of atonal violin screech blend into a kind of radiant free music where melodies are melted, separated, put under the wave scope and set free into the ether...Mats Gustafsson... Broken Face
-------Reviews of "Once"----------
...Lanterns search for the ruinous green light amongst various electronic boxes, guitars, bows and microphones, and this EP is a totally great wash of thick colour and pulsing undercurrents that really threaten to wash you away with the tide...Joe Luna... Diskant
...Like the cover design and packaging, Lanterns music is beautifully unassuming, and at 34 minutes the album is over way too fast. Now Im gonna put it on repeat, go to sleep, and dream of more...Navad Carmel... Foxy Digitalis
