Demdike Stare

November 29th sees the release of Voices of Dust, the 3rd LP be Demdike Stare this year. Demdike is the name of the woman involved in the trial of the Pendle witches, so straight off the occult references hit home and you'll and you might be expecting some sort of folk-y witch finger plucking, and yes the sense of the Lancashire moors about it, probably as the perpetrators Sean Canty and Miles Whittaker are local boys, but it's far from it, not a hooded cape in sight. Actually what where treated to, and believe me when I say treat, is some sort of global take on a local ghost story, and the kids are freaked, but still dancing..Dub out Anatolian chants and percussion mixed with Finnish drones and Chi-town House and many variants on the theme. Electronic music made for an yet unknown soundtrack. A lot of instrumental music takes you places and sets the imagination flowing, but with a lot of library records and soundtracks, the narrative is dictated by the visual. I get the feeling from Demdike Stare have seen this unknown movie and are playing along to it, and it's for us now to crate the narrative.

Dawn

Wake up sleepy heads... this track is taken from the first release on the Modern Love label. Miles has been a longtime affiliate of Modern Love as one half of Pendle Coven and under his own MLZ alias. The bass on this packs a punch, and just when you think your settled in, it shifts tack and just drifts off

Bardo Thodol

Eastern samples to the fore here, used to brilliant effect, and most certainly has the finger prints of Sean Canty, a well know digger round Manchester way as well as the man behind the Haxan nights and a member of the Finders Keepers team.

Be sure to keep your ears (and eyes) peeled for the release of Voices of Dust, extremely limited to 300 vinyl copies.