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Adrian Slatcher writes poetry, fiction and criticism, and lives in Manchester.
Bedroom Cassette Masters Vol.8
I’m very pleased to be featured on the Bedroom Cassette Masters series of downloads for the 3rd time. Put together by the industrious Simon Holland this rediscovers those 80s bedroom musicians from a pre-internet age recording electronic music with synths, drum machines and 4-track portastudios.
My track “Complexities Part 6” is credited to The Folly and was recorded in early 1986 when was 18, turning 19. It was the high water mark of my ambient instrumental recordings, the whole piece clocking in at 22:41 – the maximum I could fit on one side of a C46 tape! This final section is far from ambient being a shimmering euphoric chord sequence.
Download and you get a lovely PDF booklet to go with it.
I was previously on volume 1 (“Exit from Maya”) and volume 5(“The Wasp Factory”) and on the 90s compilation volume 7 (“Last Night We Were Soft Porn”).
Art of Fiction – Blogging About Literature
- Blogging OffI've been blogging for a long time, but what was once called "push button publishing" has found itself left behind in an era of social media tweets and Facebook posts on the one hand, and web zines and memes on the other.I've been not writing that much here for quite some time, an the odd review or feature couldn't really make up for […]
- Albums of the DecadeWith 2019 - and the decade - coming to a rapid close, the first lists of "best albums of the 20-teens" have started to come out. Whereas the younger me could tell you what year any album had come out, everything gets a bit hazy around the millennium...and continues to be so.Was "The Suburbs", easily my favourite Arcade Fire album as long […]
- Never Mind / Bad News / Some Hope - Edward St. AubynThe three novels Edward St. Aubyn wrote about "Patrick Melrose" between 1992-94, though they've since been expanded to a quintology, are really three long chapters of the same book. In "Brideshead Revisited" Sebastian Flyte warns Charles Ryder about his family, not wanting them to first charm him, and then destroy him; but any such w […]
- Short StoriesI had a bit of a flurry of getting short stories published a few years ago, but nothing in the last year or so. Strangely the last story I had published was picked up for Best British Short Stories 2018. I think I've lost the thread of who is publishing what, but doing a bit of writer's admin, I've found I've got about half a dozen comple […]
- Art ThoughtsI've been thinking of doing more visual art for a while, and finally having a space of my own where I can set up a "studio" has led me to do it. Not being an "artist" I wondered why I was wanting to do this as well as my writing and music. Here are a few thoughts.I am not an artist. Or rather I haven’t the skill of an artist, even if […]
