Over the past couple of years, Richard Skelton must be continually producing music. Not only has he produced the exquisite Landings under his own name, which is released this month, but there was last year’s Box of Birch, an amazingly rich and dense work of acoustic instruments, including guitar, mandolin, piano, violin and accordion.
Next month, Tompkins Square label will release Crow Autumn by A Broken Consort on CD, LP and digitally plus a limited edition run of vinyl.
Skelton, recording here as A Broken Consort – his most prolific and successful pseudonym – builds on the achievements of last year’s Box Of Birch, carrying on his exploration of the interface between man and nature.
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In an attempt to untangle the discography: These Broken Consort releases predate Landings by a couple of years. Crow Autumn was originally released on CD in late 2007 on Skelton’s own label Sustain Release (about 6 months after Box Of Birch), but this will be the first time it has been released on LP. Tompkins Square did a great job with the LP issue of Box Of Birch, so this will be well worth owning.
Ahh – thanks for that Scott, the Tompkins Square press release didn’t mention any of that and I’m still but a novice in all things Skelton.
There’s actually two ‘Crow Autumn’ EPs on Sustain-Release. ‘Part One’ (A Mercy Kill) was released in late 2007 (as Scott mentions), and ‘Part Two’ (Mountains Ash / The River / Beneath) was released in March 2009. This later release was written and recorded after ‘Landings’.
My idea with the Tompkins Square release was to bring these two recordings together, rework them, and then add more material. The resulting album, ‘Crow Autumn’, has the track list : “Day Reveals / A Mercy Kill / Like Rain / Mountains Ash / The River / Beneath / Leaves”…
Hope that makes things a little clearer ;-)
With apologies… Rich
Richard Skelton clarifying things on TLOBF site? That’s pretty cool.