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A Concert.

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Posted bytornsailNovember 5, 2019November 5, 2019Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on A Concert.

Birds Re-release on Claremont 56.

The ‘Birds’ 12” with a Tiago remix on the b-side, originally released on Claremont 56 in 2011 has been repressed in an edition of 250. You can get a copy here at the Claremont 56 Torn Sail store.

Posted bytornsailJune 25, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: Claremont 56, Huw Costin, Torn Sail, VinylLeave a comment on Birds Re-release on Claremont 56.

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Brown Fang have made this crystal clear rainbow juice and called it Sherwood Pines. Brown Fang are John Thompson & Henry Claude who play bass & guitar for @torn_sail, and several other musical outfits & ideas. For me this album is up in the clear blue heights with Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks by Brian Eno, & Chill Out by the KLF. Sealed and pure like a jar of Everest air. It’s on Spotify (Brown Fang - Sherwood Pines), not yet in all good record stores, but it should be. @brown_fang @henryclaude_ #musicambient #electronicmusic
A beautiful photograph by @robert_cook_369 of @henryclaude_ playing guitar with torn_sail Sunday gone.
Singing Ricochets, Sunday night, all that time ago. We had a blast. Thanks to those that came down, apologies to those who couldn’t get in. Photo by @robert_cook_369
Lee’s back. Selecter tour done - back with his proper band @torn_sail playing @runninghorsenottingham tomorrow. Doors @4pm. £9/£1 All the hits 2004-2019. E.R Thorpe supports. #tornsail #theselecter #nottinghamgigs #originalmusic
@torn_sail album sleeve outfit option 1. Any takers? #tornsail
Sailing tonight. Arriving 1st December @runninghorsenottingham 4pm. Support from E.R. Thorpe #tornsail
Sailing today. No rest for the wicked, or the very good. 2 weeks today. 4pm, @runninghorsenottingham
This is a still from a wonderful timeless film made by @robert_cook_369 for my friend E.R Thorpe for some new music she’ll release in the not too distant future. I’m lucky enough to have seen the film and heard the music - sang harmony for the recording actually - and it really is special and worthy of yours and ours fraught and hectic lifetime. It’s music for us, from the heart. There’s currently no label or website or distribution or mailing list - life is full on - but watch this space and I’ll try and spread the word from here. You can come and listen to Emma opening for @torn_sail on 1st December at the Running Horse, Nottingham. @e.r.thorpe @runninghorsenottingham #singersongwriter #nottinghamgigs #darkfolkmusic
4 weeks!
Remixing. With a 1972 Vox AC30, naturally. A good year. #voxac30
Ten years since this scratchy old cosmic, kitchen-sink baby went out. Ten years. Fifteen since it was started. Playing one or two off this again. Remembering the words. Listening is a bit too much. Memories of old cold flats, taking way too much, hating the 9-5, a broken heart, maybe breaking one too. I was asked to re-record the songs with a band for the K7 label, or maybe it was Ever. I could’t face it - I just didn’t want to go down the mine again. The music is moody as ever, but life is happier. I’ve boxes of these albums lying around, not streaming it yet, more important things to do. It sold barely any on release - great review in the NME yearbook though. Send me an SAE.
Video still by Emma Reading for Scared Of My Heart by @torn_sail. @lemone_ranger
Playing a gig. All the hits. Last for a while. Running Horse. 1st December.
Writing Paper.
A year on, and made by humans, with these machines - the exquisitely beautiful Shrinkwrap remixes of the Torn Sail track Gains on Gains, is set for release on the Sun Sea Sound label later in the summer. #tornsail #shrinkwrap #studiolife @mighty_clouds_of_harmony @matthorobin @brown_fang @lee.horsley.18
@e.r.thorpe playing Tramlines, Sheffield. I’m happy to say Emma has agreed to let Bible, a track of hers I produced, feature on the forthcoming Torn Sail album. Photo by @buffaloghost.music #tornsail #erthorpe #huwcostin #buffaloghost
Inspiration. #marklanegan #tornsail #pomonabooks #books
Posted @withrepost • @huwcostin With Earth the Californian Love Dream circa 2001 at Gorthleck recording for the Pink Pink Skin single. Our sometime synth player Ben Smith invited us up. It’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever played. He still records there - most recently working on the last Smith & Mudd album. I’m glad to say we’re all still in touch. Ben (aka BJ) brings his electronic wizardry, and Jonny his acoustic drum wizardry to the forthcoming Torn Sail album. Photo by Carrie Massey. @jonny8track @movedrill @koukoutsi #tornsail #earththecalifornianlovedream #gorthleck
This little picture of a prince, a princess is one of the few remaining treasures I have from my days working at the Cottesmore & Somerby Household Refuse Sites in the early ‘90’s. I wrote the germs of a lot of songs there in my cabin, out in the sticks, during 12 hour days in the snow and sun often alone, earning my pound an hour cash-in-hand with a generous psychedelic breakfast thrown in. The prince, the princess inspired Sadness All Over - a song from the new @torn_sail album. It’s just gone for mastering, and should be out in the world next year. We’ll see. #tornsail #sciencefriction #psychedelic #huwcostin @michaelchapmanguitar @e.r.thorpe @brown_fang @lee.horsley.18 @movedrill @henryclaude_ @lemone_ranger @jonny8track @joakim_boren @specialdesignstudiouk
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