Handspan Joensuu, Finland
A man and a big pile of ageing electronics, transplanted from the north-east of England and now based in Joensuu, Finland. Debut album The Dark is Rising, a soundtrack to the classic children's folk-horror novel by Susan Cooper, was released on cassette on midwinter's eve 2018. ... more
Handspan recommends:
Lexicon Of Paragon Pines
by The Duke St Workshop
This is bloomin' evocative, this is. I haven't even experienced the thing it's evocative of, thankfully, but it's unsettlingly immersive and beautiful all the same.
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Loop Series 2: Films (Layers)
by Benge
A meditative, reflective, repetitive album that turns its simple synth-history concept into something truly moving.
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Applied Music Vol.1 - Science & Nature
by Café Kaput
Lovely libraryish album recalling Karl Jenkins or Reginald J Lewis. Superbly sciency, brilliantly businesslike. Much more thoughtful, more immersive and less alliterative than this review.
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Scarred For Life
by Scarred For Life
supported by 36 fans who also own “Theme from The Dark is Rising”
I've never heard any of these artists before but...wait.....maybe I have..? ....in the haunted recesses of my childhood TV memories perhaps? Have you always been there? You're still here?? What do you want from me!!!? (runs to the cobwebbed, cement nuclear fallout shelter in the backyard)
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Scarred For Life 2
by Scarred For Life
supported by 35 fans who also own “Theme from The Dark is Rising”
Being a child in the 70s and early 80s had a certain spookiness to it. Spirits seemed more readily available. I recall a homesickness which would haunt me even then, as if I were from another place entirely. Life's a mystery which childhood makes even worse, so let us revisit it in all its haunting creepiness. Who are the "pocket pavilions"? I can find nothing more other than this one song, and it's a very good tune I really enjoy.
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Close Encounters of the Pennine Kind
by The Night Monitor
This modular synth masterwork from The Night Monitor was inspired by Alan Godfrey’s alien abduction story.
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