Foci's Left - Life In A Less Southern Town LP (Omni Music)

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http://focisleft.bandcamp.com/album/life...omni-music

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The LP is based on emotions I experience writing music in the town of Carterton, Oxfordshire; additionally Oxford, as a means to express myself - as opposed to Rochester, Kent, where I could express very little. "Life In A Less Southern Town" runs the gamut of the ambient, drone, synthesizer and modern classical worlds to offer something unique.

"Erratic Pathway" is remixed on the disc by Simon Scott of Slowdive. Scott worked with Brian Eno on the group's "Souvlaki" LP in the early 1990s.

The disc comes with at least 3 bonus tracks. Pre-orderers of the Omni Music CD in Europe will receive track 4 ("Forgotten Times"), track 6 ("In Our Lives, There Have Been Many Terrors" with Mike Twelve of Seconds Before Awakening) and track 7 ("Regulation") as appetiser downloads upon purchase. CDs ship immediately (please put your address in the Paypal notes and I'll send your copy).

Many thanks for your support - an audience means the world to me.

Mick Buckingham (Foci's Left)

Reviews:

"It reminded me of Vangelis. It's better than your first album. Smile" ~ Jonathan Tait, Subvert Central Recordings and published The Wire Letters contributor concerning Meredith Monk (www.subvertcentral.com)

"That's pretty out there man. I didn't dislike it, that's for sure, but the main thing I took from it is it was very adventurous in what it tries to do." ~ ASC on "Love Never Fails", producer mentioned by Joe Muggs in The Wire 2012 Rewind as breaking new ground. (www.auxiliarymusic.com)

credits
releases 02 March 2014
Mick Robert Buckingham - all synths, instruments and processing, except on "In Our Lives, There Have Been Many Terrors" where Mike Twelve contributes the middle part. All mastering by Foci's Left, except "Love Conquers All" which has additional mastering by Bob Macc (www.subvertmastering.com)
First purchase by Jon, yipee! Once Simon Scott has completed his remix, it'll be posted out Kisskiss
Wave
Sounding nice Wink
Thankee Palani Mutley-ani1
More reviews:

"I like it Smile Suddenly starts to get moody when the organ comes in." ~ Shiva, Bitrate Music on "With Aid Of The Assertive" [CD-R Bonus Track] (http://www.bitratemusic.com), attendant of Technicality raves in the ongoing jungle / drum 'n' bass revival.

"I thought is was nicely meandering without losing its focus." ~ Bob Macc on "Love Conquers All", jungle track in 4/4 and 5/4 time signature. (Outsider, Paradox Music, Subvert Central, Breakin, http://www.subvertmastering.com)
In other news, my mate Simon Scott of Slowdive looks set to reunite with his bandmates Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell and Christian Savil among others if this FACT magazine teaser is anything to go by...


http://www.factmag.com/2014/01/20/slowdi...o-reunite/
Missed this the first time around. Will check it out tomorrow. Smile
InfiniteSloth Wrote:Missed this the first time around. Will check it out tomorrow. Smile

More feedback from our PMs - you've heard 2 incomplete versions of part of these tunes. Wink

"Sounds like a good lead into a d'n'b track. The arrangement is very pleasant to me." ~ Nic TVG on "In Our Lives, There Have Been Many Terrors" percussion section.

"I like the part where the drums start to fall apart the best". ~ Nic TVG, Pinecone Moonshine label owner (Macc, Icarus et al) on "Love Conquers All (Outro)".
Simon Scott of Slowdive remix now added to the listening list! I'm immensely happy with it. Grin

http://focisleft.bandcamp.com/track/010-...cott-remix

Comes on the CD-R, as well as the digital version. If you pre-order the CD-R now, you get it as one of four digital downloads.
Xyxthumbs
What I haven't said there though is when you buy the CD, I add in a DVD of my back cat!
http://subvertcentral.com/forum/showthre...to=newpost

New track that looks like it'll be on my third album. I want to do more beat-orientated tracks after this album. This LP is my most accomplished release to date, and releases 2nd March. Punk
Muttley Wrote:What I haven't said there though is when you buy the CD, I add in a DVD of my back cat!

Xyxthumbs
Smile
"Yes I liked it. You've got a real talent there. I think you're an innovator." ~ Geoff Brooks PhD, clinical psychologist, hypntherapist and Reiki healer.
boh Smile
Second sold CD-R & DVD pack going to South Africa tomorrow, when I manage to get to the post office. If you are outside the EU, I'm selling these packs at £10, halving the shipping of the buyer in most cases.
Muttley Wrote:More reviews:

"I like it Smile Suddenly starts to get moody when the organ comes in." ~ Shiva, Bitrate Music on "With Aid Of The Assertive" [CD-R Bonus Track] (http://www.bitratemusic.com), attendant of Technicality raves in the ongoing jungle / drum 'n' bass revival.

Wave
Kisskiss

Latest piece of feedback:

"First impression: your music is very strong compositionally and sonically, very well made and beautifully executed. Smile" ~ Pascal Savy, Fluid Radio.
Picked up as an artist on the Noisy UK & Ireland artists roster:

http://noisybandcamp.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/noisy-uk/
My third LP, "Derelict Career", will be released tonight on Bandcamp, for the inexpensive price of £5. Includes an exclusive commissioned artwork from the Unconscious Volume exhibition in 2012, dedicated to the memory of John Buckingham, my uncle, by young artist William Rye.
Seeing as this had 227+ views in the last 3 hours, maybe people would like a link to the promo thread:

http://subvertcentral.com/forum/showthre...-available!

Thanks!
"Life In A Less Southern Town" was also picked up in Textura's monthly downloads for the month of April 2014, with the track "Love Never Fails". See the archive.

There are still CD & DVD packages available, and I hand-sign each one of them!
I need a morale boost.

Does anyone remember this?

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