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15/05/12
The new label mix I mentioned two posts ago is now available - here - as a FREE DOWNLOAD. please feel free to share it amongst friends and comrades and help us spread the word.
04/05/12
'All at once the remote...' by Fazio is currently 'Album of the Month' over at Textura. Our thanks to them for their kind words.
02/05/12
We have a new label mix online featuring snippets from all the albums by the artists we've released during this latest phase of Quiet World along with a couple of sneak previews of upcoming releases.
29/04/12
New issue of Wonderful Wooden Reasons is now online with audio mix. The link to the zine is over on the left in case you've not noticed before.
18/04/12
We are now competely sold out of copies of Ian's 'Handle This Wino...'
4/04/12
Susan Matthews has made her fabulous 'A Kiss For The Umbrella Man' album available as a download from her bandcamp page here.
18/03/12
Three new reviews of 'These Clockwork Tides', 'A Kiss for the Umberlla Man' & 'Eilat' have been posted at Rumbles.
15/03/12
Two new albums available today from one old friend of Quiet World and one old friend of Wonderful Wooden Reasons.
'Entrances' by Banks Bailey is a sumptuous mix of his trademark Arizonan field recordings and his own tone and drone music.
and
the stunning solo guitar mysticism of 'All at once the remote go forth my soul and my seeking, the unknowable becomes known' by (Mike) Fazio.
7/02/12
We've just sold our last copy of Darren's 'Rotate' album, sorry folks.
29/02/12
21/02/12
Just added to the shop are 5 copies of the brand new Darren Tate album 'Rotate' released in a very limited edition on his own Fungal label. I'm listening to it as I type and it's fantastic.
Also, the new issue of Vital Weekly features reviews of both 'Simple Ghosts & Lazy Old Bones' and 'Psychopomp'.
03/02/12
The error has been rectified and the discs have been re-reproduced and 'Psychopomp' by Heart of Palm is once more available from the shop.
28/01/12
27/01/12
'TimeNecrotic', Ian Holloway's new digital exclusive release is now online. More info at its release page.
18/01/12
Unfortunately there's a problem with the Heart of Palm album and I'm going to have to scrap the run. I'll announce here when they are available again.
14/01/12
Another excellent review for the Sujo album has turned up. It's not a zine I've seen before but thank you goes out to them for their kind words - A Closer Listen
07/01/12
Out today is 'Psychopomp' by the very wonderful Heart of Palm. Those of you reading Wonderful Wooden Reasons and listening to the mixcloud mixes will know how much I love the music these fellas make and so I am very pleased to be able to offer their new album to you.
Info and sample track on the release page. Album available in the shop.
03/01/12
Out today is 'Simple Ghosts & Lazy Old Bones' by Ian Holloway, Rhodri Thomas & Stephen Jones. More info and the link for download is available from it's release page or you can head over to the shop and grab yourself a copy of the limited edition CDR.
01/01/12
Happy new year to all our friends and supporters. I hope the year ahead is filled with wit and wonder.
26/12/11
Newly added to the Quiet World Bandcamp page is Ian Holloway's 'The Prescient Machine'. Originally released in 2009 as a split cassette on Agharta Tapes you can now grab a digital copy direct from us - here
25/12/11
Merry Xmas folks.
Circumstances dictated that we never had chance to make a xmas cd for our regular customers this year so here is a free download of an unreleased and very noisy little something from the vaults. Hope you enjoy and have a very merry xmas. 'Gold, Frankincense & Murder'.
20/12/11
There's a sneak preview track from one of our next releases, 'Simple Ghosts & Lazy Old Bones', posted on YouTube - here
12/12/11
Out today on Dark Meadow Recordings is their darkly (un)festive xmas album, 'Lonely Xmas Vol. 2', which features an exclusive track by Ian Holloway called 'Riddle Man Ran'.
06/12/11
Susan Matthews - A Kiss For The Umbrella Man is now sold out. Sorry.
05/12/11
Ian Holloway & Darren Tate - The Earth in Play is now sold out.
04/11/11
Released today is the new album from Susan Matthews, 'A Kiss for the Umbrella Man'.
If you head over to it's release page you'll find more info and a sample video. Alternatively you may like to head for the shop and grab a copy before they're gone.
01/11/11
Out today is the new album from Ian Holloway, 'These Clockwork Tides'. There's more info and a couple of videos over on it's release page. Copies are, as ever, on sale in the shop.
20/09/11
We are very pleased to announce the release of 'Eilat' the fantastic new album from Sujo. Regular readers of Wonderful Wooden Reasons will be aware of my love affair with his work and I am overjoyed to present this album to you.
More info (including audio sample) about Eilat on the release page. and you can grab a copy from the shop.
This is the first of a series of releases over the next year featuring some of my favourite musicians. All are presented in a limited edition of 50 copies and come with individually signed and numbered business cards.
14/09/11
A lovely review of 'A Slow Feather Falls' has appeared in Ed Pinsent's very wonderful Sound Projector.
09/09/11
I am very pleased and honoured to announce that on 28th of this month the Exotic Pylon radio show will feature an exclusive Quiet World mix. More details of other shows at the link.
19/08/11
There are plans afoot here for lots of cool things over the next year. The first part of the plan was fulfilled last week. The second part came together today. Expect more news as I'm able to announce it.
11/08/11
We have just added a couple of copies of Ian's 'Silent Spring' album to the shop.
07/08/11
Those of you with 1970's Action Man Eagle Eye vision will notice that there is a new link in the menu over there on the left. We have now archived all our videos on the site. Hope you enjoy.
04/08/11
Now in the shop is the brand new album from Banks Bailey - 'While the Mourning Cloak Sleeps' on Darren Tate's Fungal label. We only have a couple of copies of this lovely and very limited album so be quick.
31/07/11
There's a new video posted in the blog (see link to left). Hope you enjoy.
19/07/11
New issue of Wonderful Wooden Reasons is now online (link on the left). Also the WWR site has had a bit of an overhaul with a newly alphabetised book section. Enjoy.
01/06/11
Hidden amongst Ian's discography are a number of albums that will never be re-issued by us either physically or as paid downloads. As such we are making them available to you for free! Aren't we kind.
You can download 'Itto - Sound on an Empty Road' by clicking here
You can download 'Jebus - The Ants Are Eating My Head' by clicking here
more to follow.
31/05/11
First review of 'A Slow Feather Falls' is in the current issue of Vital Weekly - thanks Franz.
21/05/11
Released today is the new album from Ian Holloway & Banks Bailey, 'A Slow Feather Falls'. For more information please head over to the shop.
in other news Ian's long delayed follow up to his loop album of 2006, Pendulum, is finally nearing completion. The music is complete as is most of the packaging. Just the cover image and the title to decide on. It should be available sometime in the summer. Those not keen on waiting should maybe click here for a video featuring one of the tracks.
03/05/11
New Quietude mix (#5) is now online - here.
02/04/11
They keep on coming thick and fast. Out today exclusively for download is the 2nd in Ian's four album sequence of music inspired by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 'Phantasms II'.
Don't forget we are now facebook friendly - Quiet World Facebook - stop by and say hi. It'll be good to meet you
01/04/11
12/03/11
Another new album from Ian called 'Silent Spring' is available today from Dark Meadows Recordings as part of their POD project. It's £2 to buy or FREE to download. More info and sleeve at the blog.
04/03/11
Quietude #3 is now online.
Quietude for those that don't know is our occasional mix of other types of music i dig that doesn't normally get featured in the WWR mixes.
Check out the player in the blog.
03/03/11
New album from Ian Holloway called 'Passing Through Occasionally' is now available on Phonospheric.
More details and sound sample at the blog.
28/02/11
Read the blog for more details.
04/02/11
After a long break of enforced inactivity due to ill health and varioius other commitments 2011 will see a raft of new music from Ian Holloway. The first is a download only long drone piece called 'A thorn may pick you but a falls tounge even more' and is now available from here. Hope you enjoy. More info on the other releases as soon as I know more.
14/09/10
Released today exclusively for download is the new mini-album from Ian Holloway entitled Phantasms.
Click here for more info.
13/08/10
Just added to the shop is the new album from Darren Tate called 'Late Afternoon (for Keijo)'. Stock is limited. - SORRY, SOLD OUT.
12/08/10
I'm slowly remodelling large parts of this site. If you head over to the Releases page you'll now see links to info, reviews and streaming audio for many of our releases. More will be added over the coming weeks.
05/07/10
Due to a complete lack of shelf space I've decided to have a sale of much of my CD collection. I've kept the prices low and the proceeds will go towards paying for next years site hosting both for here and for the WWR site.
01/06/10
First review of 'The Earth In Play' is in and it's a corker. Thanks to Frans at Vital Weekly for his kind words.
The new issue isn't online as i type this but you can read the review in our archive here.
06/05/10
There are a variety of new items in the shop - some books and the new album from Darren Tate called The Night.
Out in about a weeks time is our latest release - Ian Holloway & Darren Tate - The Earth in Play. Ian's been working on this on and off for about a year and it's really rather fab. More info when it's back from the printers.
01/05/10
Quiet World now has a Facebook fanpage. Come search for us and say hello. It'll be good to meet you.
23/02/10
Out now is the new album from Ian Holloway called 'Handle this wino like he was an angel: Baubles & Gewgaws 2002-2008'. The album consists of a set of out-takes and detours from the sessions for the 7 Psychic Space Invasion albums. It's like almost nothing you've ever heard from Ian before, the closest approximation would be the Ashram Psych Tip christmas album from a couple of years back. If you'd like to try before you buy then the full album can be streamed here.
04/02/10
Just published is a nice review of The Prescient Machine with an accompanying interview with Ian. you can find it here.
31/12/09
Happy new year to you all. I hope you had a fine xmas and that 2010 brings you all the peace, love and happiness that you could ever want, need or handle.
To set your year off to a nice start i've just posted the latest issue of Wonderful Wooden Reasons which apart from the usual reviews of new releases has a huge selection of Best of 2009 lists from various musicians and labels associated with the zine.
23/10/09
We are pleased to announce the release of Ian Holloway & Banks Bailey - A Brief Sojourn. Currently available exclusively through our shop. Other locations to follow presently. Also available today is the new split cassette on Agharta featuring Ian Holloway and Andreas Brandal. More details at the link given in the previous post.
02/08/09
Coming soon on the Agharta label out of Lithuania is a new very limited split cassette release featuring Ian Holloway. I'm not a hundred percent sure who the other artist is but Ian's side is a 29 minute dark drone piece called 'The Prescient Machine'. we're only getting a couple of copies of this so we probably won't have any to sell. If you'd like a copy then please contact Arma at the label.
