Orthodox Tales, by Andrew Sherwell

Orthodox Tales

by Andrew Sherwell

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Martyn James Lovely restrained ambience - reminds me of a walk around Venice at Sunrise in the depth of winter. Such a well timed release. Favorite track: Cathedral Doze.

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WLR025 Steve Pacheco 'The 4th'
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WLR031 The Prairie Lines 'Eyes Down Slowdown'
WLR032 Tsone 'Purification Verses'
WLR033 Andrew Sherwell 'Orthodox Tales'
WLR034 James Osland 'Gone For A While'
WLR035 Robert Farrugia 'Almost There'
WLR036 Slow Clinic 'Discarded Things Once Loved'
WLR037 Paper Relics 'The Road Home'
WLR038 Sven Laux 'Schachmatt'
WLR039 Valotihkuu 'Fragile Melodies'
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1.	In Baba's Yaga Hut 06:04	buy track
2.	Of Vasilissa's Beauty 03:52	buy track
3.	And The Smoke of the Incense 03:29	buy track
4.	Cathedral Doze 05:05	buy track
5.	A Mesultane's Flight 05:45	buy track
6.	Beware Koschei's Visit 08:45	buy track

about

Orthodox Tales is the debut album from West London, UK based artist Andrew Sherwell. He was part of a stream of bands in and beyond his teenage years centred initially on jangly post-punk Funk. The band’s name would change routinely each time a band member left which was regularly and eventually, it was just Andrew left as the band grew more and more experimental in their approach. He did manage to rack up some releases around this period, some 30 years ago – however these are lost to the mists of time due to the Rough Trade period when things would come and go within a weekend.

Andrew is still an avid collector of physical records and thanks to inspiration drawn from Svarte Greiner, The Caretaker and Xela as well as Eastern European choral music, Film and soundtracks, Andrew has increasingly been inspired to create his own experimental music.
After a good deal of time spent working on the backbone of an album, Andrew had a demo in place and before submitting it to a label, he had it professionally mastered by Stephan Mathieu. He then dropped it over to us and the rest is history…

Orthodox Tales sees us welcome back Federica Jeanne De Luca, the artist that supplied the cover artwork for Philippe Lamy’s Inner Stretch. Her artwork provides a beautiful backdrop for this six track journey through tape loops, Korg Volca keys, samples, effects, and field recordings which re-enact the tales told by Andrew’s grandfather.

For the whole of the inter-war period, his grandfather travelled back and forth through the turmoil of the Balkans, Central Europe, the Caucasus and South Russia, returning with many treasures on the eve of the Second World War. Andrew recalls his Grandfather as an old man when he’d spend school holidays at his house. On occasion at bedtimes, his Grandfather recounted wild tales of his ‘adventuring’: of the peoples he met and their folk tales, of days lost in endless forests, of nights camped out on a sea of grasslands when the frost was so hard that his blanket twinkled in the moonlight, as brightly as the myriad stars above. He told of feasting with mountain goat herders and with Orthodox Bishops, of shape-shifting shaman and of beautiful Princesses, of demons and of angels in human form. After a while, he’d be lost, transported to the magical world of his descriptions. Grandfather would lower his voice, he would wander from the story into more philosophical byways and soon, Andrew would fall asleep.

Orthodox Tales is a deeply personal account of Andrew’s childhood experience but as the themes and anecdotes play out in musical form, the album works as a conduit in which to transfer these tales to you the listener.

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released January 20, 2018

Written and produced by Andrew Sherwell
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu
Artwork by Federica De Luca

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