Why not visit ourlabel pageM4tr Productions. With a little bit of luck there should be some interesting developments happening soon, with new releases coming out from different artists. (M4tr is a small UK independent, alternative, music label that was formed in 1985. The majority of the bands/artists featured are from Europe.)
…..afree download made possible byMicrosoft is still available here via the link , it is a slightly different version to the one that is available from
We are really excited that a free download of ‘You Have The Power‘ by This Window is available, this has been made possible by Microsoft. Click the banner below or follow this direct link http://www.myspace.com/windows?homepage=thiswindowThis version is a slightly different mix to the one that appears on ‘Cassette Culture 1989 - 2009‘ so it is worth having even if you have the iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Emusic etc mix.
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The clutter of the studio after a session. Montage stolen from Jake Bright.
For those of you who have bought ‘Cassette Culture (1989 - 2009)‘ here is the studio version of a Salle De Bain Mix (2:25) that appears on the Extract (Live Regensburg Germany) track.
This track was released on 26.06.2007 you can only get it from indiestore
Collecting Easter eggs and telephone answer machine messages. Taken from ‘The Obscure Jude’. The first 15 tracks of this download are from the ‘This Window’ 1989 cassette release Jude The Obscure. Band members on this release include: Peter Bright, Veronica Henry and Steve Portnoi.
Download the full Mp3 version….only £2.50p for 18 tracks!
As you may know we are based in North Devon and not a lot really happens here. The West Buckland Festival is not a wild upbeat affair; it is however a ‘charming’ event with a mixture of Art, Jazz and Classical music - not snobbish but simple and pleasant, not exciting words but still worth going.
West Buckland Festival is a festival of music, entertainment and leisure, held in a small village on the edge of Exmoor. This year’s festival will feature more than a dozen events between Thursday September 10th and Sunday September 13th 2009.
‘West Buckland is located within North Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Braunton Hundred. It falls within South Molton Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 257 in 1801 277 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 45 adult males signed the Protestation returns.’more…
Get yourself noticed - place a banner advert on this site for twelve months - for as little as £10.00. The money generated by this website will be added to the funds raised by the festival whose purpose is to provide music, art and entertainment for the people of North Devon. Money raised is divided between a Charity or Charities chosen by the Festival Committee and the upkeep of St Peter’s Church, West Buckland.
An interview with Jake Bright about the difference between playing bass for ‘The Dastards’ and double bass with The North Devon Sinfonia. This interview took place in-between rehearsals for the Sinfonia’s performance at the Landmark Theatre (Ilfracombe) which was on April 18th 2009. The programme included: Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Strauss’ Four Last Songs with the soprano Naomi Harvey from the Welsh National Opera and finally Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, op.64. The disciplines require for both instruments influences Jake’s own compositions.
There is also an interview with Dave and Sadie Green. Dave is a photographer and Sadie has spent the last few years in the funding side of the Arts. This interview discusses the demise of ‘ArtsCulture’ in Devon and the vacuum left behind by this organisations disappearance.
Here are a few other things we have produced over the last month for radio.
What’s it really like living with creativity? Look back over the years at the tortured artists, drunken writers and drug-crazed musicians who litter our heritage and you might start to ask the question: is creativity a blessing or a curse?…the temptation to contain creativity and make it conform to ‘the norm’ is what normally happens in businesses. You can’t have a random, inspired, maverick shooting off left right and center - this is chaos….or is it?
Juggling with creativity, trying to make it fit into your daily life is a logistical nightmare. In an interview I did with Claire Barker, an artist, illustrator, author, mother, wife, farmer, she explained to me how she talked to the solicitor of the estate of Ted Hughes (UK poet) to get their permission to use one of his poems and still managed to deliver lambs.
Can a creative person ever be truly happy as they constantly strive for perfection in their chosen art? Listen to an interview with Garry Smout, who talks about the problems of using early portable black and white video cameras in the 1970’s, pioneering literary review website the Barcelona Review, early synths and how to kill your babies. The problem with being creative is that everything has to be pushed to the limits.
Creativity is something we are all born with to greater or lesser degrees. It is a vital part of our physiological make up and development. We learn to play and fantasize as children, skills we carry forward into our adulthood. However, if creativity takes hold of your entire existence then it becomes a disease that is parasitic, eating away at your whole world. It might sound melodramatic but creativity can become a cancer of the body or the trigger for psychotic episodes.
Listen to Alisha, a doctor, a GP who is also a poet. I try to find out if creativity is a madness, a disease, an anesthetic or a poison but find out that maybe it could be a ‘Zebra’. Does she use creativity in diagnosis and consultation?
Sometimes I’m not sure how to cope with my creativity, all I know is I have to continue living this YO-YO lifestyle because that is how I work best….read/listen to more.
This release contains remixes of ‘Morgue Studio Demos’ and a section of the live Plac.Art.X set (Extract - Live Regensburg Germany) recorded in 2007 by Jake Bright. This also contains his remixed version of ‘Extraction’.
There will be more downloads available from This Window with an album called ‘Cassette Culture 1989 - 2009′, this release contains remixes by Jake Bright. This should be available to download from the end of February 2009. This release contains the remixes of ‘Morgue Studio Demos’ plus new tracks and the complete 1989 release ‘Extraction’…..more info. to follow.
West Buckland Festival 2009 Events - North Devon
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