a r t i s t : Mount Vernon Arts Lab
t i t l e : The Seance at Hobs Lane
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : Ghost Box (GBX009)
g e n r e : Electronic
r l s. d a t e : Mar/2008
t r a c k s : 11
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 68,9 MB
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Mount Vernon Arts Lab join Ghost Box, after years of
experimentation in geomancy, psychogeography and ancient
British Electronics. Visceral sounds that immerse the listener
in a world of deserted tube stations, 18th century secret
societies, time haunted vaults beneath Neolithic barrows, and
haunted Scottish pub cellars.
http://www.ghostbox.co.uk
Ken Hollings, The Wire
July 2007
This welcome reissue of Mount Vernon Arts Lab's 2001 album
suggests that the progressively groovy Ghost Box label is now
so far advanced into the future that they're prepared to bring
the past along with them. The brainchild of composer Drew
Mulholland, the project's title alone twitches and seethes
with enough occult and pop cult references to set the senses
reeling. As featured in Nigel Kneale's TV series Quatermass
and the Pit, Hobs Lane was the site of numerous disturbing
apparitions, where ghosts and goblins didn't even wait for the
formality of a seance to start showing up.
Mulholland's visionary approach to London's hidden spaces and
uncanny secrets embraces skewed references to Sir Francis
Dashwood and The Hellfire Club and old submarine yards on the
Thames just upstream from Hammersmith Bridge. Everything is
darkly alive, and with VCS3 synthesizer, theremin and guitar
he conjures up sinister whirring vibrations that seem to come
from deep beneath the ground. Adrian Utley's analogue synth on
"Warminster 4" recalls Glynis Jones' work at the BBC
Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale during the early 1970s,
while the rolling reverberations of "The Mandrake Club" echo
Tristram Cary's soundtrack to the 1967 film version of
Quatermass and the Pit, created at the Royal College of Music.
Remixes from Coil and Barry 7 of Add N to (X) manage to
suggest where the music is going as well as where it's been.
http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/reviews/wire05.htm
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01-The Fog Detonator [00:58]
02-Hobgoblins [05:48]
03-The Mandrake Club [02:37]
04-Dashwood's Reverie [03:59]
05-The Black Drop [03:13]
06-Sir Keith at Lambeth [06:08]
07-The Submariner's Song [01:20]
08-The Vauxhall Labyrinth [05:22]
09-While London Sleeps [05:27]
10-Warminster 4 [03:25]
11-Percy Toplis [14:43]
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