Saturday 15 January 2022, 8pm
Clay Pipe is a London based record label established in 2011 by Illustrator Frances Castle, it specialises in releasing atmospheric instrumental music with a strong theme or sense of place. The label is highly regarded for its beautifully produced vinyl LPs.
Andrew Wasylyk is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer who has led many interdisciplinary projects, collaborating with a broad spectrum of creative practitioners, including visual artists, choirs, poets, playwrights and choreographers.
Wasylyk's arrangements span the breadth of contemporary-classical, ambient soundscapes, through to cinematic scores and spiritual-jazz, often embellishing these with experimental electronica. His work has been lauded in mainstream press, such as The Times and The Herald, through to independent cultural platforms, The Quietus Clash and Record Collector Magazine His 2020 album, 'Fugitive Light And Themes Of Consolation’, was selected as Album Of The Year by BBC Radio 6 Music’s Gideon Coe, and was long listed for Scottish Album of the Year. In 2021 he released 'Balgay Hill; Morning in Magnolia' on Clay Pipe Music an album inspired by morning walks in Dundee’s 19th century Balgay Park.
David Rothon is a musician from south London who has been involved in a variety of musical activities over the years, from garage bands to experimental spoken-word projects. These include a collaboration with Ian Masters (Pale Saints) as Sore & Steal and Cloudier Skies with performer/chanteuse Claudia Barton. More recently he has played pedal steel on albums by Lost Horizons (on the John Grant-fronted track Cordelia), Liela Moss and Johanna Warren. He has also contributed to three compilations on the Second Language label.
David has released two solo LPs on Clay Pipe the nocturnally inspired 2018 LP Nightscapes described by Electronic sound as a “beautifully somnolent neo-classical/ambient work” and Shindig "A Suite of gently haunting instrumentals..Hunker down, listen after dark and let it infiltrate your dreams" His second LP the spaceage ‘Memories of Earth’ was equally well received. He is currently working on his third LP for Clay Pipe.
Trading as Dollboy, Rhododendron, and Australian Testing Labs as well as his own name, Oliver Cherer has meandered his way through the backwaters of left of centre English folk, ambient and electronic music, issuing numerous albums of original music to much critical acclaim via highly regarded boutique labels such as Static Caravan, Second Language, Deep Distance, Polytechnic Youth, and Awkward Formats. More recently he has found success with Motodisco project ‘Aircooled’ with Justin Welch and Katharine Wallinger.
He has released two LPs and a flexi-disc EP, on Clay Pipe under his ‘Gilroy Mere’ moniker the beautiful transport inspired ‘Green Line’ and ‘Adlestrop’. Both records have proved enduringly popular the vinyl edition of Green Line has been repressed three times, and a third repress of Adlestrop is due spring 2023 along with a new album ‘Gilden Gate’ that explores the underwater world of lost medieval Suffolk town Dunwich.
