Norman Church - Plagued By The Bastard
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Fresh handing from Bristol, Avon's very own Norman Church, formerly known as Kinlaw The 1st, known to make, as part of Avon Terror Coprs, unruly music in ye olde Police cells, also known as 'The Island', around the 'mead in the centre of town.
Anyway, enough informational fanfare - some of you might remember that Norman Church and Fohn tape we had in stock here some moons ago - a cassette from Bristol's underground circuits handed to us directly by Hamish somewhere off the beaten track in St Werburgh's. That tape sold out in a matter of hours on here, and based on that, we don't expect this CD to last much longer - not least because we only have 5 copies, and these aren't available on any high street store or even webstore - it's strictly hand-to-hand (and perhaps via postal person) business - a few handmade CD copies, no digital online, this is the kind of honest, non-fame-seeking business that we love most at rwdfwd.
Musically, this Norman Church solo mission is his first ever recorded solo piece under this new name, as far as we're aware.
Titled 'Plagued By The Bastard' this album features the sound of Kinlaw going acoustic, i.e. keeping it raw and real, whilst exploring his incline for Pheasantry music and medieval 'lore in new ways of sound search and deeper meditation.
Not unplugged really... but plugged in a different way - in this case highly influenced by his recent acquisition of a Dulcimer instrument (a medieval-esque instrument that sits on your lap, to be gently plucked in a regal, or not-so-regal way), which Norman Church plays freely here on this album, sacking off overly-in-awe traditional reciprocation in favour of raw expression, bristol style post2020 industrial-acoustics backed up by a fizzing kind of amplification and unpolished but honest sound, which seems to embody a kind of sonic ground between cyberpunk Kinlaw and Medieval punk Norman Church, giving the dulcimer sound heart-on-sleeve type bruises and scars but still shimmering with plenty sentimentality too.
This album sits sonically somewhere between 2025(soon to be '26) and around that time when William The Conquerer, aka The Bastard was preoccupied with the anarchy around Norman Church, pretty much exactly one Millenium ago now.
Yes, it time travels, but hovers right around you in the present time too. An archaeological piece that tells of then, now, and back then - raw and unpolished, not the radio edit, clean shaven version.
P.S/:
Cop this alongside the newly released Kinlaw & Franco Franco album 'Faith Elsewhere, out on Drowned By Locals - in stock here too - and get your double dose of that raw real stuff.
Very limited edition CD in envelope with printed labels on each side, made available via The Pheasantry Society. No Digital.