Plus - Your name on each of the next three album sleeves for being a friend of Delia - that's the forthcoming limited edition, heavyweight eco-vinyl, double album in gatefold sleeves, by Brown Fang, Torn Sail, and Shrinkwrap (phew!). You'll also receive albums four weeks (or thereabouts) ahead of the official release date.
Plus - 33% discount on your purchase(s) of the forthcoming albums by Brown Fang, Torn Sail, and/or Shrinkwrap. (One album per artist for this deal).
Plus, wait for it - the exclusive Delia Recordings fridge magnet!
(Offer ends before or on Sunday10th March 2024)
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Hunters and shepherds
Recieve the departing soul
Worthy of such grace
Keep my heart pure
And so the story goes
Bound by the cold pressed calling
To the sea we cast the time
Finally the suffer seeing
And the gold inside the fire
Brothers are moving
Upon the rivers edge
Into the depths they flow
When will we disappear
And so the story goes
Brothers are moving
Upon the rivers edge
Into the depths they flow
When will we disappear
And so the story goes
And so it goes
Bound by the cold pressed calling
To the sea we cast the time
Finally the suffer seeing
And the gold inside the twine
Getting drunk
Sitting with John
Back home with Caroline
Drinking wine
Listening to Keith Jarret
I say "That's the future -
Harry and the Last Pedestrians,
Harry and the last pedestrians."
He says "That's okay."
And they are an amazing band
She says "What you thinking?"
I got Nag Champa Romance and I love the smell
It's got me like Gerry's ornamental garden
Made me laugh
She's not believing
What you really thinking?
It's that boring
It's as wild as I get
Take a little time to consider your position if its true
Take a little time to consider your position if its true
Why don't you?
I don't know
I don't know
Any more
You beautiful thing
You
You beautiful thing
You
You beautiful thing
You
You beautiful thing
You
You beautiful thing
You
You beautiful thing
You
You beautiful thing
You
You beautiful thing
You
Family Forgive
Friends will forget
Meanwhile I’ll
Regret
Causing
Upset
All the things I’ve ever done
Weighed against what I could do
Hurry back accordingly
Into some organic stew
Onwards upwards that seems best
When will this depression lift?
Hopefully when skies are blue
I won’t have to ignore you
Family Forgive
Friends will forget
Meanwhile I’ll
Regret
Causing
Upset
Can we can we can we can we can we save the world by dawn
Can we can we can we can we can we save the world by dawn
Can we can we can we can we can we save the world by dawn
Can we can we can we can we can we save the world by dawn
about
Nottingham’s new micro-record label, Delia Recordings, is thrilled to announce its first release, a compilation that samples three upcoming albums by label artists Brown Fang, Torn Sail and Shrinkwrap, and provides a state-of-play survey of Nottingham’s Balearic-to-Laurel Canyon music scene.
Entitled The Horizon Is On The Horizon (referencing both fastidious craft, attention to never-ending detail, and vinyl production schedules) it’s released on 26th April 2024 on heavyweight vinyl and old-school CD, with digital and streaming later in the year.
Curated, mixed and produced by lifelong gear collector Matt Horobin, it combines his signature downbeat, dub-steady, head-nodding grooves with the three-dimensional micro-detail that references his back catalogue from the halcyon era of jungle and drum-n-bass.
“We started with the idea of a sampler of tracks from our first release schedule, paying due reverence to both ‘A Factory Sample’ and Warp’s ‘Artificial Intelligence’, but it quickly evolved into a record in it’s own right, an imaginary soundtrack more akin the The KLF’s ‘Chillout’ ,” says Horobin. “It’s down-tempo, glacially-paced in places, but definitely not background ambience – it’s organic, human, deeply emotional”.
The Horizon Is On The Horizon is structured around two re-edited tracks from each of the first three album releases by Delia Recordings artists.
Brown Fang’s Netherfield Lagoons album brings classic American minimalism, dub basslines, Tangerine Dream synths and widescreen, slow-release guitars, evolving the sound from the previous record, Sherwood Pines, released in 2021 by NuNorthern Soul.
Torn Sail’s Steady Weather continues themes familiar from previous releases and live shows, mapping a territory that spans space music, jazz-fusion, 1970’s West-coast virtuosity and classical English introspection, like a post-Castlemorton, later-period Talk Talk, or John Martyn produced by Trevor Horn.
Shrinkwrap’s as yet untitled album is a lost 1990’s studio project that started as a contemporary to Zero 7’s Simple Things and has evolved to include twenty-five years of new influences, developing craftsmanship, and painstaking construction. This is the album that’s travelled the greatest distance to reach the horizon.
Woven around the edge are five tracks which show the diversity of Delia’s friends and reference points, but find common ground in beauty, fragility and the place where the electronic and organic become inseparable. Brown Fang’s Henry Claude is utterly heartfelt as Never Ending Birthdays, with Nottingham risen-star Daudi Matsiko on backing vocals while Nine Voices is a hint of a future project and a nerve-tingling choral close to the first side.
As well as showcasing both the starting point and future direction of Delia Recordings, The Horizon Is On The Horizon catalogues yet another Nottingham scene that refuses to stay underground, but resists mainstream compromises, so remains ‘in the know’. It’s an intricately connected, self-reliant network – the shared musicians of Brown Fang and Torn Sail make up Jim ‘Crazy P’ Baron’s new live band for example – and this record captures a moment of the magic, the people and the place.
Delia Recordings is an independent record label, event series and magazine, founded in 2023 by Huw Costin, Matt Horobin and Simon Rudkin to release records by Brown Fang, Torn Sail, Shrinkwrap and more, coming from the heart of Nottingham’s Balearic-to-Laurel Canyon music scene.
credits
released April 26, 2024
DELIA RECORDINGS PRESENTS
THE HORIZON IS ON THE HORIZON
Compiled, edited and mixed by Matt Horobin
#DELIA001
Huw Costin, Matt Horobin and Simon Rudkin – concept and design
Simon Rudkin – artwork
Maia Stock – photography
Created in Nottingham, England.
Mastered by JP Braddock at Formation Audio.
Special thanks to Delia Horobin, 1941–2022
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1: SHRINKWRAP
Vibra Marimba (4:36)
(Horobin / Rayner)
Matt Horobin – synths, fx and programming
Mark Rayner – programming and direction
Thanks to Sam Brown for the vibraphone and marimba
Kontact sampler instruments, recorded and produced
at Kinema Audio.
Produced and mixed by Matt Horobin and Mark Rayner
at OPM Studio.
2: BROWN FANG
A Fixed Point (4:37)
(Claude / Thompson)
John Thompson – bass guitar, synth, programming
Henry Claude – guitar, synth
Recorded at The House of Fang, The Magic Pantry,
and OPM Studio.
Recorded and produced by John Thompson and
Henry Claude.
Mixed by Matt Horobin at OPM Studio.
3: TORN SAIL
Mud People Rise (6:20)
(Cahill / Claude / Costin / Deats / Horobin / Thompson)
Huw Costin – voice, guitars, synth
John Thompson – bass guitar
Henry Claude – harmony guitar
Jay Cahill – drums
Paulus Deats – piano
Matt Horobin – additional synths, samples and
programming
Carrington Primary School Singing Club – chorus vocals
Initial band recording made at Random Recordings by
Huw Costin and Guy Elderfield.
Overdubs by Huw Costin.
Lead vocals, piano, and chorus vocals recorded at
Kinema Audio by Huw Jones.
Henry’s guitar recorded by Matt Horobin at
OPM Studio.
Arranged and produced by Matt Horobin and
Huw Costin.
Mixed by Matt Horobin at OPM Studio.
4: C5 & C6
Where’s Gordon Gone (4:10)
(Horobin / McCourt)
Benjamin McCourt – Rhodes, synth and programming
Matt Horobin – synth, fx and programming
Produced by Matt Horobin and Benjamin McCourt.
Mixed by Matt Horobin at OPM Studio.
5: NINE VOICES
So It Goes (2:20)
(Costin / Smith / Thorpe)
Emma Thorpe – voice
Ben Smith – voice
Huw Costin – voice
Emma and Huw’s voices recorded at home in
Nottingham by Huw.
Ben’s voice recorded at home in Edinburgh by Ben.
Produced and mixed by Ben Smith at Gorthleck.
6: TORN SAIL
Consider Your Position (3:17)
(Claude / Costin / Costin-Locke / Horobin / Thompson)
Huw Costin – voice, acoustic guitar, harmonica
John Thompson – bass guitar
Henry Claude – electric guitar, backing voice
Matt Horobin – additional synth, programming
Jove Costin Locke – swell guitar
Initial recording made at home in Nottingham by Huw.
Overdubs by Matt Horobin at OPM Studio.
Produced by Huw Costin and Matt Horobin.
Mixed by Matt Horobin at OPM Studio.
7: SHRINKWRAP
Beautiful Dub Thing (4:09)
(Horobin / Kristiansen / Rayner)
Bettina Kristiansen – voice
Matt Horobin – Rhodes, synth, fx, programming
Mark Rayner – programming and direction
Recorded, produced and mixed by Matt Horobin
and Mark Rayner at OPM Studio.
8: BROWN FANG
Tenori Respira (Edit) (3:08)
(Claude / Thompson)
John Thompson – Tenori-on, synth
Henry Claude – synth, piano, electric guitar
Recorded at The House of Fang and The Magic Pantry.
Recorded and produced by John Thompson and Henry
Claude.
Mixed by Matt Horobin at OPM Studio.
9: MODULAR SYNTHESIS SCHOOL
Birdsong In Podlog (4:59)
(Horobin)
Matt Horobin – Mungo Enterprises p0, Lifeforms
Voltage Lab, synth, fx, field recordings
Produced and mixed by Matt Horobin at OPM Studio.
10 : N E V E R E N DI NG B I RT H DAYS
Mushk (3:10)
(Claude)
Henry Claude – voice, synths, programming
Huw Costin – backing voice
Daudi Matsiko – backing voice
Recorded at The Magic Pantry and at home in
Nottingham by Huw.
Title inspired by the play ‘Mushk’ by Nic Harvey, Tim
Evans and Gemma Caseley-Kirk.
Produced by Henry Claude.
Mixed by Matt Horobin at OPM Studio.
11: HUW COSTIN
Save The World By Dawn (3:45)
(Costin)
Huw Costin – voice, guitars, field recordings
Recorded at home in Nottingham by Huw, except field
recording at Seven Dental, Hyson Green.
Title taken from ‘Save The World By Dawn’ by Popsneon.
Produced and mixed by Huw Costin at home.
Delia Recordings is an independent record label, event series and magazine, founded in 2023 by Huw Costin, Matt Horobin and
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