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Instance

by Gavin Laird

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    Contains PDF Booklet of imaginary 10" LP Art, Insert and labels
    2 extra tracks from the CD Edition
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  • Ltd Edition CD
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Limited Number of the Temperate Man CD Edition - comes in Full Colour Digipak

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1.
Like An Old Fetched Stick 01:28
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2.
Hill Sea Horizon 03:45
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3.
Everyone Is Cooking Now (Part A) 03:54
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4.
Charlie And The Reluctant Pleasure Dome 04:44
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New Fake Tribes 03:31
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6.
Was The Colonel Even Real? 04:19
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7.
The Absent Cohort Effect 06:34
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Lewis And The Great Astral Library (feat. Make Flames) 04:39
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9.
Slack Artistry 03:38
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10.
Everyone Is Cooking Now (Part C) 03:58
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11.
Instance 00:36
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12.
A Hoard Of Small Actions 04:07
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13.
Lewis And The Great Astral Library (Original) 04:19
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Lewis And The Great Astral Drone (feat. Make Flames) 04:08
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about

The first solo album by Gavin Laird of Telstar Ponies, Macrocosmica and The Porch Song Anthology on CD via Temperate Man Records and Glass Miniature on download.

Recorded at his home in Glasgow in the winter of 2016, Laird used a single microphone to record over five hours of improvised instrumental acoustic guitar, synth and piano. The album also features Joel Derby (Make Flames), who contributed to the track Lewis and the Great Astral Library.

“I set up the microphone, and just start playing without any real plan or thought of how it would sound. I didn't write anything in particular they were just improvised until the track fell apart...I'd stop, take a break and start again,” says Laird.

As the recordings progressed, conscious choices sounded forced.

“I was trying to not overly direct my thoughts,” muses Laird. “Through that I found I was drawn towards the sections that sounded more melodic - didn't fit the clichéd idea of what people think improvisation is, full of chromatic notes and discordance. When I set out to play in a more chromatic style it sometimes sounded self conscious and wooden.”

“I should probably point out that Everyone Is Cooking Now (Part C) was recorded immediately after Part A and so I suppose it isn't fully improvised as it reuses themes from Part A. There is no Part B.”

Laird set out to create an album in the mould of John Fahey, Six Organs of Admittance, Jack Rose, Bert Jansch, Sandy Bull, etc but ended up with a record that reflects a lifetime of musical loves.

“I think the note choices come from everything I've ever listened to - there are even some metal riffs in there,” he says.

Laird left the files on the computer over Christmas and returned in the New Year to shrink 5 hours to 45 minutes.

For the intriguingly opaque song titles, Laird drew on a serious of instants; moments in time that relate back to the tracks. He offers these to the listener to make of them what they will:

"They are moments in my past but I also wanted them to sound like the title of a movie or book,” he says. “The listener can use them to soundtrack a movie inside their head - with the opportunity to make their own mind up about what it means. Obviously, instrumental music easily opens itself up to the possibility of someone projecting their own meaning onto it.”

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released November 10, 2017

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Glass Miniature is a download only division of Glass Records, the Zapple to our Apple, the JAPO to our ECM, for fucked up rock'n'rollers with one foot in the grave.

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