Singer Songwriters

Although known for his classical music Andrew Keeling is also a composer of a very different kind of contemporary music.

Bells Of Heaven, Weak And Helpless and the multi-sectional In The Pages Of Mathilda, display a hard, rock influenced style, while Avarice, Otherworld, Neurosis and the Nick Drake-esque Twenty Turbines highlight Keeling's interest in Electric Folk/singer-songwriter forms.

Contains guest appearances from Stephen Fellows (Comsat Angels), Tim Bowness (No-Man) and others.

Pre-order now for 12th March shipping.

Including material released on Virgin as well as his more recent Samadhisound output, A Victim Of Stars is a compilation encompassing 30 years of David Sylvian's constantly evolving solo material.

Contains the previously unreleased track Where's Your Gravity?

Pre-order for 27th February release.

Seamlessly combining Country and Ambient influences in a uniquely ethereal way, Letka is the latest collaboration between Irish vocalist Sandra O'Neill and English multi-instrumentalist Peter Chilvers.

The evocative digipack, designed by Carl Glover, features images from his archive of photographs of American ghost towns.

Brian Eno appears on and produces Beyond The Fold.

Kate Bush radically reinterprets material from The Red Shoes and The Sensual World on this double vinyl edition of Director's Cut.

Presented in a gatefold cover with booklet.

Judy Dyble, the legendary and reclusive former Fairport Convention and Trader Horne singer, re-emerged in 2009 with the most powerful and personal album of her 41 year career.

Co-produced and co-written by No-Man's Tim Bowness and Cromer Museum's Alistair Murphy, Talking With Strangers features stunning guest performances from, amongst others, Jacqui McShee (Pentangle), Julianne Regan (All About Eve), Simon Nicol (Fairport Convention), and King Crimson's Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald and Pat Mastelotto.

Features the acclaimed 21 minute Prog Folk epic, Harpsong.

Audiophile label Simply Vinyl has re-emerged with an exclusive release of John Martyn's 1973 masterpiece, Solid Air.

Using the latest re-mastered audio, this 180g reissue comes in a heavy duty plastic wallet and features the original gatefold design with a replica of the original Island Records label.

A magical fusion of singer-songwriter, Jazz, Ambient, Folk and Blues styles, the album features the all-time classic May You Never and the sublime title track (written about Martyn's friend Nick Drake).

"It sounds fabulous......The vinyl lets you hear the quality of playing from the whole ensemble and revels in the tone of Martyn's velvet voice placed deep in centre stage......Totally essential"- Hi-Fi Choice (5/5)

"Solid Air flows beautifully" - Sounds

"Martyn was so far ahead of everything else, it was inconceivable." - Eric Clapton

Initially formed to play three dates at the 2010 Estonian Jazz Festival, Slow Electric is a new project from Tim Bowness and Peter Chilvers, and the Estonian duo UMA (guitarist Robert Jurjendal and trumpeter Aleksei Saks).

Using recordings from the concerts as a basis, Bowness recorded new vocals and Chilvers contributed additional keyboards and atmospherics. King Crimson’s Tony Levin added bass/chapman stick to two of the album's six songs, and the multi-tracks were mixed by ace Zurich-based percussionist/producer Andi Pupato (Nik Bartsch’s Ronin).

From the elegiac opener Towards The Shore to the 5/4 groove of Criminal Caught In The Crime, the quartet combines its collective influences - singer-songwriter, electronica/ambient and European jazz - with gracefully empathetic performances.

The Carl Glover designed digipack comes with a booklet featuring sleeve notes by Tim Bowness.

Compiled by Roy Harper himself, Songs Of Love And Loss is a unique collection of Harper's most beautiful love and lament songs (including the sublime Another Day and the echo-guitar drenched intensity of South Africa and Frozen Moment).

A double cd packaged in a deluxe digi-pack with a 20 page booklet providing insights into the selected songs, this is an essential guide to the tender side of one of the UK's greatest singer-songwriters.

'The 23 tracks here radiate a quiet but mesmerising power.' - Classic Rock

'Nothing here is anything less than sublime.' - The Wire

The Unfairground was the sixteenth studio LP from former Soft Machine member Kevin Ayers.

A delightful mixture of folk and skewed psychedelia, the album was considered a massive return to form for this most eccentric of very British talents.

Features cameos from Teenage Fanclub, Euros Childs and Candie Payne.

180gm vinyl with gatefold sleeve.

A five track EP preceding Adey's new album, which will be released later in 2011.

On These Resurrections, Adey continues to collaborate with the nucleus of musicians that worked on the acclaimed All Things Real.

Available in cd and mp3/flac digital download.

A limited edition 7" vinyl picture disc EP of outtakes from Judy Dyble's acclaimed Talking With Strangers album.

Produced and co-written by Tim Bowness and Alistair 'The Curator' Murphy, all three tracks explore an ethereal, almost Nico-esque, Wyrd Folk style, operating outside of conventional song territory.

Features contributions from Sand Snowman.

Soror finds Classical composer Andrew Keeling working in a Folk-tinged singer-songwriter territory and ably demonstrates Keeling's prowess as a lyrical acoustic guitarist, melodist and flautist.

Also includes appearances from David Cross and Margaret Young.

A random example of the songs written by Tim Bowness and Alistair Murphy/The Curator between 2006 and 2010, Everything You're Not is scheduled to appear on Postcards From Space's debut album.

A Bowness song put through The Curator's demented 'arrangement mangle', the piece features some flamboyant piano (the ghost of Liberace), atypical backing vocals, and evokes aspects of early 1970s David Bowie (Space Oddity / Aladdin Sane) and the more acoustic Tim Bowness solo work.

Recorded in July 1967, the seminal Folk-Rock album All Our Own Work was originally released in 1973, to cash in on the Top 10 successes of the Strawbs.

Containing the first recording of Sandy Denny's magical Who Knows Where The Time Goes?, the album represented a fascinating glimpse into the early work of two soon to be acknowledged major talents.

This new remastered edition comprises the complete sessions, including the original album, out-takes, demos and three previously unreleased tracks.

The detailed booklet features illuminating extracts from Dave Cousins's diary.

'An essential package.' - Sid Smith, BBC Music

Intense, poetic, earthy and emotive, the astonishing 'Bootlace Johnnie and the Ninety-Nines' contained the first new recordings for nearly 30 years of songs by Terry Stamp and Jim Avery (the songwriters at the heart of uncompromisingly political 1970s cult band Third World War).

Sensitively guided by the inventive production and playing of Alistair Murphy, 'Bootlace Johnnie' was a potent reminder of Terry Stamp's highly individual voice and lyrical style.

Occasionally recalling the likes of Tom Waits, Kevin Coyne and Van Morrison, Stamp's songs carve a highly distinctive path of their own.

Terry Stamp followed his acclaimed Burning Shed debut 'Bootlace Johnnie and the Ninety-Nines' (Uncut's 'Americana Album Of The Month' and Daily Mirror's 'Album Of The Week') with 'Howling for the Highway Home', which featured twelve evocative narrative-driven songs from the former leader of 1970s cult band Third World War (TWW).

Along with covers and name-checks from Marc Almond and Paul Weller and an article in Classic Rock, 'Howling for the Highway Home' was yet another strong addition to the growing reputation of this underrated and influential singer-songwriter.

Shifting from acoustic intimacy to metallic rage and from raga to dark electronics, Alessandro Monti's debut release as Unfolk combines unorthodox music for mandolin, with ethnic percussion, violin and a variety of guitars/electronic processes.

Presented in a gatefold cover (with insert: The Lost Opus of Heracleum Ipotesis), these are the last copies of the limited edition first pressing of the album.

'Beautifully produced music that brings a refreshing new angle to the folk/world/electro discourse.' - Daniel Biro

An unusual 'concept album', The Venetian Book Of The Dead is a remarkable collaboration between Italian producer Alessandro Monti and British songwriter Kevin Hewick.

Mixing Electronica and lyrical acoustic arrangements with beguiling and unusual song-structures, the album features 10 modern 'protest songs' and 6 haunting instrumentals.

Mastered by Jon Astley (Led Zeppelin, The Who etc), the CD comes in a beautiful limited edition gatefold cover with a 32 page booklet.

An intense modern progressive rock album mixing classic sounds (mellotrons, analogue synths and multi-tracked guitars abound) with a contemporary production sensibility,

Rich in contrasts and dynamics, Dulcima changes on a dime from serene and meditative to loud and menacing.

"The year's autumn soundtrack" (Natt&Dag)

Andrew Keeling's First Things is a collection of acoustic-based songs which Andrew refers to as, 'musical short stories linked together by the accidents of memory'.

Thin Air is Peter Hammill’s twenty-eighth solo album of original songs and follows an eventful few years (a heart attack in December 2003 and a hugely successful Van der Graaf Generator reunion in 2004).

Singularity, his last solo work, was released in 2006 and was acclaimed as Peter's most innovative and important release since his late 70s/early 80s masterpieces, The Future Now and A Black Box.

A fascinating and mature addition to Peter’s brilliant body of work.

Rhys Marsh And The Autumn Ghost's debut album, 'The Fragile State Of Inbetween' is a a collection of delicate and atmospheric songs that sometimes recalls the heartbreaking beauty of the melancholy likes of Nick Drake, Burt Bacharach and David Sylvian.

Featuring members of Jaga Jazzist, Änglagård and Anekdoten, a veritable orchestra of hushed voices, acoustic guitars, pianos, double basses, flutes, trumpets, pedal steels, violins and cellos (in addition to a fleet of Mellotrons!) provide an ideal soundtrack to our ever-changing moods.

Evocative and intense, 'My Hotel Year' is the debut solo album from Tim Bowness, marking Tim's return to the One Little Indian label after a decade's absence.

Primarily written and produced with No-Man collaborators David Picking and Stephen Bennett, the album was recorded in England and Germany over a six-month period. Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine), Roger Eno, Michael Bearpark, Peter Chilvers and Centrozoon's Markus Reuter, also make superb contributions.

'One of the year's most original, personal and haunting records' (Martin Aston - The Times/MOJO)

2 Track CD Single taken from the Tim Bowness album My Hotel Year, includes the non-album track Unprotected.

Unavailable since 2000, 'World Of Bright Futures', Tim Bowness's 1999 album with Samuel Smiles (Mike Bearpark, Peter Chilvers, Myke Clifford) is now available as an exclusive Burning Shed download.

Taking its cue from the timeless and sensuous late night ambience of John Martyn and the Blue Nile, and occasionally drawing from the darker terrain of Peter Hammill and Mark Eitzel, the album offers eight original compositions and two cover versions (Hammill's 'Ophelia' and King Crimson's 'Two Hands').

Featuring Sandra O'Neill, Tony Harn, and Porcupine Tree's Colin Edwin and Steven Wilson, World of Bright Futures is awash with cheap drum machines and high emotions, digital hardware and human heartache.

Headphones ahoy!

Critically lauded Maltese/English singer-songwriter Martin Grech returns with 'The Heritage', the first single taken from his forthcoming album, ‘March Of The Lonely’ (which will be released in June).

Martin first entered the public consciousness when his debut single, the haunting falsetto track ‘Open Heart Zoo’, was used by Lexus cars in a TV advertising campaign in 2002. The track, written by Martin when he was only 19 years old, proved a sizable hit when released on Interscope through Island Records, and a debut album of the same name followed. Produced by Andy Ross, the album brought favourable comparisons with the intensity and vision of Radiohead, Talk Talk and Nine Inch Nails, and the dynamics and depth of Porcupine Tree and Jeff Buckley.

In 2005, Martin Grech released his second album ‘Unholy’, which despite taking a darker and more experimental turn, met with even greater critical acclaim, being hailed in some quarters as one of the albums of the year.

Steeped in acoustic influences such as Crosby, Stills & Nash, Johnny Cash and Simon & Garfunkel, 'The Heritage' is the first taste from what will surely come to be regarded as Martin’s most important work to date, 'The March Of The Lonely'.

Featuring new mixes of songs from Steve Adey's acclaimed debut All Things Real, Mississippi: Remixed includes inventive re-mix contributions from artists including Sweet Billy Pilgrim and A Marble Calm.On the one hand, the mournful, home-made alt-country of Will Oldham and Smog; on the other, the pristine atmospheres of the Blue Nile and Talk Talk.... - Sunday Times, Record of the Week

Steve Adey's slow burning piano and vocal led debut 'All Things Real' received huge critical acclaim - Times: best songs of 2006. The Sunday Times: CD of the week. US journal for improvised and progressive music Signal to Noise heralded 'All Things Real' as "haunting folk into straight-up epic territory".

Available as a CD or Download.

A new setting of the ‘Pieces’ lyric taken from the ‘Storm Blue’ Album, recorded especially for mp3 release. A sparse, understated performance from Sandra O'Neill and Peter Chilvers, echoing elements of June Tabor's folk-melancholy and the atmospheres of Gone To Earth-era David Sylvian.

Goodwin's burnished blend of downbeat domestic poetry and cracked, acoustic beauty, calls to mind the West Coast 'sadcore' of Red House Painters, American Music Club and Idaho, while never losing sight of its uniquely personal and British origins.

This four track collection,is also available as a CDR from www.paulgoodwin.com containing three new studio tracks, and the 'mighty lord chilvers' remix of Ediburgh.