Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Julie Tippetts
Martin Archer

Tales of Finin

(Discus, Discus 39CD) (UK) (2-CD set)

CD A

  1. In Memoriam (Below the Moat) (3:55)
  2. The Battle of Finindene (4:32)
  3. At the Ready (3:12)
  4. At Fininbrook Bridge (5:17)
  5. The View from Finintor (4:44)
  6. Fininsgate (5:37)
  7. The Other Side (6:55)
  8. Fininscreek Castle (13:44)

CD B

  1. Fininsridge (8:14)
  2. Taunts of the Fallen (4:00)
  3. Below the Moat (2:43)
  4. Crossing the Line (6:37)
  5. Away Too Far (3:14)
  6. Pulling Back (4:20)
  7. Straight Talking / Elegy (4:17)
  8. Should I Go Home? (5:05)
  9. Atonement / The Way Back (4:43)

All music composed by Martin Archer and Julie Tippetts except "Elegy" on B7, by Julie Tippetts; and B8, by Martin Archer, Julie Tippetts, and Chris Sharkey
All words by Julie Tippetts

Julie Tippetts: voice (all tracks), singing bowls (A8), small resonating chambers (A8), pocket pitch pipes (B7)
Martin Archer: laptop (A 1, 2, 4-8; B 1-3, 5-9), violin (A 1; B 3), sopranino saxophone (A 2, 7, 8; B 1, 2), baritone saxophone (A 2, 8; B 1, 4), woodwind synthesizer (A 3), rhodes (A 4, 7; B 2, 5, 7), Hammond (A 4, 6, 7; B 2), minimoog (A 7), singing bowls (A 8), alto saxophone (A 8; B 1, 9), feedback loops (B 1), keys (B 4), clarinets (B 4), backing vocals (B 4), recorder (B 5), melodica (B 6, 9)
Paul Schatzberger: violin (A 1, 3, 6, 8; B 3, 5)
Beatrix Ward-Fernandez: violin (A 1, 3, 6, 8; B 3, 5)
Angela Rosenfeld: cello (A 1, 3, 6, 8; B 3, 5)
James Archer (A 2): bass and drum program, keys
Chris Sharkey: guitar (A 4, 7; B 1, 7, 8)
Charlie Collins: drums and percussion (A 4, 5, 8; B 1, 4, 5, 9), waterphone (A 8)
UTT: turntable texture (A 5), turntables (B 6)
Steve Dinsdale: drums (B 2)

Track A 5 contains samples from "The Green Country," performed by Jimmy Giuffre (clarinet), Bob Brookmeyer (trombone), and Jim Hall (guitar), and from "A Walk in the Night," performed by Junior Walker and the All Stars.
Track A 7 contains a sample from "The Freedom Rider," performed by Art Blakey (drums), and from "Nirvana," performed by Herbie Mann (flute).
Track B 7 contains a sample from "Éclairs sur l'Au Delà," by Olivier Messiaen, performed by Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung
Track B 9 contains a sample from "Ancestral Dub," performed and produced by Michael Campbell aka Mikey Dread

Recorded by Martin Archer at the Telecottage, Sheffield, in 2009 and 2010
Drums recorded by Charlie Collins at The Sound Kitchen
Produced by Martin Archer and Julie Tippetts
24-bit mastering by Ian Stead
Artwork by Julie Tippetts
Lettering by Luke Tippetts, decorated by Julie Tippetts
Includes a 16-page booklet with texts of tracks

Released in January 2011