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We've been publicising the new GOATS album for a couple of months now, so we're absolutely delighted to announce its general release. Far Out is GOATS' second album, with a change of personnel and a change of direction. The core members Alan Morse Davies and Declan Owen remain and are augmented by Jorge Mario Zuleta …
Next month we have another big release, the much anticipated new album from experimental supergroup GOATS. Far Out is GOATS' second album, and it is a different beast from the first album. There has been a change of personnel, and this time the album is a single 38 minute piece; chief goat herder Alan Morse Davies …
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Our final two releases of the year will be released in December; both are new artists to the Submarine Broadcasting Company, with contrasting styles but both represent the highest quality of music possible. First out the blocks are Spanish project Menhir, with their beautiful and startling Sound Track, part of their multimedia project, Desert Series. …
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As previously advertised on this very blog, Whettman Chelmets' glorious new single is released today. It's a lovely slab of retro shoegaze goodness. Here's the story: “Alas… The Sun is Shining and You are Still Alive” finds Whettman Chelmets exploring more of the guitar sounds and textures that defined his teenage life, and that sound …
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Here in the Conning Tower we're entering another one of our fabled busy periods; this Friday sees the release of Whettman Chelmets fuzz-drenched shoegaze maxi-single Alas... the Sun is Shining and You are Still Alive (see previous blog post), followed on Monday by a new album by multi-media artist Hans Castrup. Das 7. Siegel (The Seventh Seal) …
Ah, autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitlessness. Our release for the tail end of September is 'Suburban Solitude' from our resident mystic t.r. hand in collaboration with Glauber K. de Souza of the Amao Quartet. The album contains the field recordings and sound collages you've come to expect from t.r hand, but taken in …
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One of the features of the Submarine Broadcasting Company is that in addition to our roster of lovely musicians we also have guest artists from time-to-time who will release work through us rather than their home label... Cousin Silas earlier this year, and just recently Ippu Mitsui graced us with a release or two. The …
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A quick round up on some of the radio appearances happening soon: Stringmodulator on Grand Music for Tiny Souls (plus our Bearsuit friends Bunny & The Invalid Singers) Stringmodulator on the Comfy Show (plus our good friend Jaime Munarriz): t.r. hand on The Recognition Test (along with our friends Alwin van der Linde + {AN} …
September 10th sees the release of three special albums, all quite different but with a common theme running through them. We have... From Germany, Stringmodulator with their debut album 'Manifesto'. Reclusive krautrockers K-Elektronischer Automatisten's new album 'Verlorene Tonbänder Maschinengefühle' English krautrock from Dynamo Snackbar with 'A Myriad of Catalysts' Three melodic instrumental albums that nod …
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Everyone here at the Conning Tower was winding down, lowering the periscope, ready for the traditional English August of drizzle and traffic jams, when a most remarkable thing happened... a new EP from the reclusive guru of mind-training, self help/abuse and prison tattoos, t.r. hand, landed on the desk. There's a super-size serving of concept …
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