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Untitled Film Stills EP

by Andy Bell

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    Limited-edition 10” pressing of the ‘Untitled Film Stills’ EP featuring cover versions of songs that inspired ‘Flicker’, originally by Yoko Ono, Pentangle, The Kinks and Arthur Russell. Pressed on frosted clear vinyl with blue splatter.

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“The ‘Flicker’ song ‘Jenny Holzer B. Goode’ refers to a few of the female artists from the music and art worlds who I find inspiring – along with Jenny Holzer, others referred to include Laurie Anderson, Yayoi Kusama, Elizabeth Fraser, Cindy Sherman and Yoko Ono. So, it felt right to cover ‘Listen, The Snow Is Falling’, my favourite Yoko song.

“After doing a series of EPs we called ‘Ever Decreasing Circles’ last year, here’s this year’s retro TV reference, ‘Light Flight’, the theme tune from ’60s drama series Take Three Girls which was performed originally by Pentangle. The song came out in 1970 (the year I was born), and although I never knew about the TV show until recently, I’ve loved this track ever since I heard it on the 1997 folk compilation Transatlantic Ticket.

“Nat Cramp, head honcho of Sonic Cathedral, requested a cover of ‘The Way Love Used To Be’ and, as he gave me the puppy dog eyes, naturally I couldn’t refuse. I’d never heard this song despite being a big fan of The Kinks and owning the album it’s from (Percy), but it’s lovely and it felt very natural to cover it. All hail Ray Davies!

“Arthur Russell has been a big reference point for all my music away from ‘band world’. There is something impressionistic and open-ended about his records, and he was also unafraid of trying different styles, which I’ve found really inspirational. And there’s the fact that he worked alone, which is something I’ve got used to now, in-between band albums. I guess you could describe the production style I’m trying for on my version of ‘Our Last Night Together’ as ‘World Of Echo meets This Mortal Coil doing Skip Spence’.”

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released November 25, 2022

1 written by Yoko Ono (Downtown DMP Songs); 2 written by Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Danny Thompson, Terry Cox, Jacqui McShee (Carlin Music); 3 written by Raymond Douglas Davies (Sony/ATV Music Publishing); 4 written by Arthur Russell (Domino Publishing)

Recorded and mixed by AB

Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC

Artwork by Marc and Stuart Jones
Photography by Joe Dilworth

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