Keith Seatman // Sad Old Tatty Bunting LP [COLOR]

イギリスのマルチ奏者Keith Seatmanが、2022年2月に同国Castles In Spaceからリリースしたレコードです。

シンセをメインソースにしたサイケデリック・ポストパンク〜ストレンジビーツ11曲を収録。藍色盤です。DLコード付属。 

以下、作家本人による解説です。

"Sad Old Tatty Buntingのインスピレーションは、2020年4月のある早朝、最初の英国封鎖の時に生まれました。私は、朝の6時から7時の間に長い散歩に出かけるようにしていました。段々畑のような通りを上り下りしたり、ビーチやプロムを歩いたり、目的もなく、方向音痴な私は散歩をしていました。
早朝の散歩では、かつては見慣れた場所が、見慣れぬ雰囲気に変わっているように感じられました。そして、その変化とともに、今まで見たこともないような、あるいは見た記憶もないような、新しいものに気づきました。

「ある朝、私は古いパブの前を通りかかりました。ビアガーデンには、とても古く、かなりみすぼらしい感じの垂れ幕がかかっていました。色あせた古い色に目を奪われながら、私はなぜこの旗がそこにあるのだろうと考え始めました。長い間忘れられていた記念日のために飾られたのだろうか？それとも、ただ庭を明るくするために設置されたのだろうか？それから数週間が経ち、私は遠くまで散歩に出かけるようになりましたが、時々、木や街灯、窓からぶら下がる古ぼけた垂れ幕に気づくようになりました。このような散歩の中で、あるアイディアが生まれました。私は「Sad Old Tatty Bunting」という言葉を思いつき、とても気に入りました。友人のダグラス・E・パウエルにこの話をしたところ、古いかかしの名前（Tatty Bunting）みたいだと言われましたが、その時、Sad Old Tatty Buntingはさまざまな概念、アイデア、場所、本、物事を指すことができると気づきました。Sad Old Tatty Buntingとは何なのか、誰なのか、あるいはどこなのか？正直なところ、まったくわかりませんでしたが......間違いなく、このアイデアを追求することになりました......"

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Includes DL code. 12" blue/clear colored vinyl. 

Text by Andrew Young Terrascope (May 2022):

"Castles in Space is thrilled to present a timely new album from Keith Seatman - his first “extraordinary adventure” since 2020’s “Time To Dream But Never Seen”. “Sad Old Tatty Bunting” is another multi layered, deeply psychedelic construction which contains collaborations with Jim Jupp (Ghost Box, Belbury Poly) and Douglas E. Powell (Broken Folk).

There's no one quite like Keith Seatman. His new album Sad Old Tatty Bunting, is a psychedelic joyride through a parallel universe, a dreamlike England full of alchemists and scarecrows and gated communities guarded by gnomes.
Bob Fischer Electronic Sound (March 2022)

Keith has gradually risen to the top of the pile of the hauntology genre. For this new album It’s an album of wonky, kaleidoscopic psychedelia and has some genuinely scary moments on offer. It’s like some mad, arcade feature, I am again caught up in a seemingly never ending fairground nightmare, there’s a ton of synths and backwards guitar riffs vying for my attention."

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Artist statement byKeith Seatman:

“The inspiration for Sad Old Tatty Bunting came about very early one morning in April 2020, during the first UK lockdown. I had taken to going for long walks between six and seven o’clock in the morning. I would stroll aimlessly and directionless up and down terraced streets, along the beach and on the prom.
On these early morning walks, places that were once very familiar to me seemed to have changed and taken on an unfamiliar feel. With this change I noticed new things, things which I had not seen before or maybe had no memory of ever seeing.

“One morning I passed an old pub. Hanging in the beer garden was some very old and quite shabby looking bunting. As I stared at the faded old colours I started to wonder why the bunting was there? Was it put up to mark a long forgotten occasion? Or had it been placed there to just brighten up the garden? As the weeks went by, I started to wander further and every now and then would notice more random old tatty bunting hanging from trees, lamp posts or in windows. On theses walks an idea started to take root. I came up with and really liked the phrase Sad Old Tatty Bunting. I mentioned this to my friend Douglas E Powell who said it sounded like the name of an old scarecrow (Tatty Bunting) it was then that I realised that Sad Old Tatty Bunting could refer to many different concepts/ideas/places/books and things. What, who or even where was Sad Old Tatty Bunting? I honestly had no idea…but it was definitely an idea I was going to pursue…”

Artist : Keith Seatman

Label : Castles In Space