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  1. Land of the ferns

    December 14th 2013

    Man, that’s a shitload of wintering ferns (alongside the West Dart)

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  2. Dewerstone

    December 10th 2013

    The River Plym south of the Dewerstone. Been coming here for 35 years and still feelin it…

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  3. The Elements’ Rage – Reviews

    November 9th 2013

    Two cool reviews of the latest album from Allan at Aquarius Records here (search on ‘urthona’) and ye Archdrude Julian Cope here (scroll down a bit)

    Thank you, Gents!

  4. New album in record shops

    October 8th 2013

    If you’re in the locale of Marlborough, Wiltshire or San Francisco, California (twinned towns possibility right there), the new Urthona Elements’ Rage (A Clash of the Stars and Moon) is available at our two fave record shops Sound Knowledge (UK) right now Aquarius Records (USA) next couple of days.

  5. The Elements’ Rage (A Clash of the Stars and Moon) OUT NOW

    September 28th 2013

    The Elements’ Rage (A Clash of the Stars and Moon)

    The most ambitious expression yet of the West Country guitarist’s heavy rural sound: a tumultuous tempest which will burn your windmills and rip the tiles from your roof.

    Inspired by the storm that swept across the southern British Isles in November 1703, the single epic track on Urthona’s fourth solo album builds from the disquieting sound of an approaching storm and accelerates into a full-on psychedelic maelstrom of colossal guitars, wrecked drums, Townshendian feedback and entirely appropriate (and painstakingly gathered) field recordings.

    The Elements’ Rage (A Clash of the Stars and Moon) CD comes in beautiful four-panel fold-out packaging with a 12-page pull-out, printed using vegetable based inks on 100% post-consumer recycled board. Initial copies come with an additional strictly limited hand-printed insert created by Urthona. The album is also available as a download.

    Both versions are available here.

     

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  6. Cover

    September 16th 2013

    Outer and inner cover with fold-out

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  7. New album

    September 14th 2013

    Here are a couple of snaps of the totally EPIC packaging being put together for the new album, The Elements’ Rage (A Clash of the Stars and Moon). First pic shows a table of hand printed inserts going out with the initial copies, second pic shows a second 12 page folded insert coming off the folding machine at the printers. Cover images to follow next week. CD to follow a few weeks after that.

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  8. Brownsea

    September 10th 2013

    Early morning yesterday, Brownsea Island – hell yeah

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  9. Brisworthy Stone Circle

    August 17th 2013

    Brisworthy Stone Circle, Dartmoor. Tomo lovin it!

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  10. Stonehenge 1972

    August 16th 2013

    Check out this super-awesome 1972 edition of the (still essential) Sky at Night tv show featuring Gerald Hawkins at Stonehenge, including a real-time recording of a perfect near-midsummer sunrise over the Heel Stone. Yeah! (Cheers, Pete).