The Old Thrawing Crux / The Preliminaries (Repress) (Richard Skelton)

​- Two silkscreened glass-mastered CDs
- Artist-made four-panel gatefold sleeve.
- One of two paste-on photographic cover prints.
- Music download card.
- Limited edition of 100.

 

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- Bandcamp download codes for both albums are included -

I.M. Roy Skelton, 1939-2024.

 

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"Written within sight of the Old Thrawing Crux, County Galway, and recorded to a Phasic 2½ inch reel-to-reel in September and October of 2023, this series of twelve songs was originally conceived for the ‘Carna’ clavophone, a uniquely chaotic electroacoustic device on loan from the Ryan Institute. The reels, however, were later unaccountably damaged and the work was subsequently abandoned. After a 2024 crowdfunding campaign, portions of the tapes were reconstituted using the Punctus E.R.R. immersion system currently in development at Lightford Laboratories. The remainder was interpolated from the original scores. The resulting recordings were mixed at six feet above sea-level by J. Gall Inglis, and final mastering was performed by William Boyd Carpenter at the Wrackrooms."

 

The Old Thrawing Crux is a silkscreened glass-mastered CD presented in an artist-made gatefold jacket with custom CD enclosure. It is accompanied by the album The Preliminaries, which features a series of further experiments conducted at Lightford Laboratories in early spring 2024.