Name: Six Twenty Negative
Brand: The Twelve Hour Foundation

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CiS065

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Colour

brown

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Heavyweight Vinyl with Tabbed Sleeve.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-11-20

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Forte

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / brown

Artist

The Twelve Hour Foundation

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Castles in Space

Bristol's Twelve Hour Foundation return to Castles in Space with their first new LP since 2018's long sold out Tree Little Mile Egg Book...and Other Non Sequiturs. Their blend of musique concrète, treated field recordings, library music, early electronic pop and the Radiophonic work of John Baker and Paddy Kingsland has never sounded better. The initial inspiration for the album is a journey - regularly taken by Jez Butler (Yamaha CS-10, flute, vocals, field recordings) until the end of the 70s, from Cleethorpes to Hull, by diesel multiple train and British Rail paddle steamer, hence track titles like Lincoln Castle Engine Room, New Holland Pier and Chalk Factory - a reference to a small production plant viewed from the train window that rendered the neighbouring landscape white. The ferries and pier were scrapped following the opening of the Humber bridge. As with the previous album, the idea behind most of the music is to draw on abstract childhood emotions and their associated memories. It's an incredibly warm and evocative listening experience. The majority of tracks are expertly underpinned by a musique concrète backing, drawing on the band's recordings of houshold objects. In most cases, the bass was derived from a length of ribbed plastic tubing, the cymbals from a metal kitchen draining rack, and the pads/chords from the filtered sound of an electric hair clipper. This is overlayed with vintage analogue synthesizers, treated field recordings and - on a couple of tracks - the odd vocal or flute line. The track Polivoks takes it's title from the Soviet analogue synthesizer of the same name which was manufactured throughout the 1980's. The album's sleeve was designed in keeping with the scholastic nature of much of the music, incorporating Polly Hulse's (Moog Rogue, Korg Volca Keys, concrète sequences) photos from the University of Bristol's School of Chemistry. The album's title, Six Twenty Negative refers to the film used in the Kodak Brownie Box camera. Famous for producing slightly wooly prints from large individual negatives. The record itself is pressed on heavyweight brown vinyl. The high gloss sleeve has authentic foldback tabs making for a wonderfully tactile and alluring package.

Six Twenty Negative

Music GB