The Uncle Sold
by Ed Dowie
John Mark
baryy
Hardsparrow
George Hayes
Shaun Buckett
patrick Chéron
Lee Anderson
trenty
raffaele melina
dario
Karl Benedek
Gordon Roland Peden
James Downing
Simon Rinaldi
Cactus Breath
Alex Brogan
sam mayer
dk
Russell Mowbray
Michael Bjorn
ravedamage
Robert Wells
Scobie
Ray Hogan
Jamie Scott
kafuka
Stuart Carter
Mal Porter
Alistair Vale
Timothy Starkey
Steve Cartwright
wonderdog
Gordon Robertson
The shining example
Kenny McLeod
Kicker of Elves
Philip Lacey
Brocki
duncan ellis
peterofbrill
Thomas Kay
Jake Pilikian
David
Jonathan Gray
Arab
nfauk
Michael Huddleston
Joel Wirth
acb
Herr Hugel
Chris DJ DAPPER DAN Brown
Nwlcx
Karl Patterson
Jon Clinton
ade
Carsten Krause
Phil Barden
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Streaming + DownloadIncludes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumRepress back in stock! The LP comes in full colour printed sleeve, with 12" insert with extra artwork and handstamped labels.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Uncle Sold via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 3 daysedition of 250£17.99 GBP or more
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumHandstamped CDs in customised printed gatefold sleeve.
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Poster/PrintLimited edition first run, 100 copies, a set of 9 printed postcards, one for each track on the album. Comes with download code for full album.ships out within 3 daysedition of 100
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Verbarhemiopia
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Red or Grey
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Yungpawel
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Bastard Harbour
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May for a Dead Queen
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David is Unwell
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Richard
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about
Ed Dowie learned the piano and the organ as a child from his father, before becoming a chorister and an organist in Dorset. His music career began in earnest in 1998 when his Bournemouth-based psychedelic-dub-pop band Brothers in Sound – stablemates of the legendary Beta Band on cult Parlophone subsidiary Regal Recordings – released three EPs and the album Family Is For Sharing, all of which were met with considerable critical acclaim. After Brothers in Sound’s untimely demise, Ed spent several years studying experimental music in Leicester, Montreal and York, before moving to London in 2008 and joining puppetry/animation/film company The Paper Cinema as a composer for various theatre, short films and art projects. He has played at venues including the Tate Britain, the Barbican and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as further afield at festivals in France, Denmark, Portugal, Spain and Azerbaijan.
Ed's debut album The Uncle Sold takes its title from the 1995 Kazuo Ishiguro novel The Unconsoled, a unique and inspirational book that takes the reader on a continually evolving, dream-like journey around a non-specified city. Recorded in London at studio spaces in Dalston and Haringey, it’s a sometimes wistful, sometimes sad, sometimes uplifting and at all times surprising listen that paints a picture of a range of characters struggling for certainty in a metropolis beset by continually changing forces, be they political, personal or financial.
Openers ‘Verbarhemiopia’ and ‘Red or Grey’ are gently prismatic wonders each, variously encompassing dreamy multi-layered voices, firework field recordings, static hiss, twirling fairground ride melodies and a playful, vaguely Gallic sounding accordion solo. A slowly crashing wave of heavy-hearted electronica with ethereal yet understated vocals summoning the spirit of Robert Wyatt and Arthur Russell, ‘Yungpawel’ is a song about “a couple of very good friends of mine who sort of represent an ideal of how it’s possible to be,” says Ed, “inspiring, intelligent, active, self-aware, conscious, caring”. Set to a field recording of pouring rain, ‘Bastard Harbour’ is a hauntingly melancholic piano meditation on ageing and death. Climactic closer ‘Richard’, a drowsy collage of needling guitars and sparkling synths with hints of Spiritualized and Super Furry Animals, brings a note of acceptance to the album’s final phase as the song’s titular drifter finally comes home.
Ed's debut album The Uncle Sold takes its title from the 1995 Kazuo Ishiguro novel The Unconsoled, a unique and inspirational book that takes the reader on a continually evolving, dream-like journey around a non-specified city. Recorded in London at studio spaces in Dalston and Haringey, it’s a sometimes wistful, sometimes sad, sometimes uplifting and at all times surprising listen that paints a picture of a range of characters struggling for certainty in a metropolis beset by continually changing forces, be they political, personal or financial.
Openers ‘Verbarhemiopia’ and ‘Red or Grey’ are gently prismatic wonders each, variously encompassing dreamy multi-layered voices, firework field recordings, static hiss, twirling fairground ride melodies and a playful, vaguely Gallic sounding accordion solo. A slowly crashing wave of heavy-hearted electronica with ethereal yet understated vocals summoning the spirit of Robert Wyatt and Arthur Russell, ‘Yungpawel’ is a song about “a couple of very good friends of mine who sort of represent an ideal of how it’s possible to be,” says Ed, “inspiring, intelligent, active, self-aware, conscious, caring”. Set to a field recording of pouring rain, ‘Bastard Harbour’ is a hauntingly melancholic piano meditation on ageing and death. Climactic closer ‘Richard’, a drowsy collage of needling guitars and sparkling synths with hints of Spiritualized and Super Furry Animals, brings a note of acceptance to the album’s final phase as the song’s titular drifter finally comes home.
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released January 27, 2017
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