Now available
Funeral Mutes is now available from Round & Round, Polyester Records and AG Picks in Melbourne, from Repressed Records in Sydney, and from Norman Records in the UK. Digital and physical copies are available through Bandcamp. Direct orders also welcome: fplagne@gmail.com
Francis Plagne is pleased to announce the release of his new LP, Funeral Mutes, the second release on his vanity label, Mould Museum. Although there have been some collaborations (with Food Court and
Andrew Chalk) and a tape in the meantime, Plagne's songs were last heard in
long-player form on Tenth Volume of Maps, released in 2011. Here, aided
by long-term collaborators Alex Garsden, Yuko Kono, James Rushford and Joe
Talia, he continues his exploration of idiosyncratic, extended song forms and
fragmentary lyricism. Primarily recorded over a few days in late 2013 in
conditions approaching ‘live-in-the-studio’ (with overdubs added in 2014), Funeral
Mutes
presents six songs that detour through silence, blown bottles, Stormcock-influenced prog folk,
a hint of chicken scratch and a drum solo.
‘Plagne’s songs admit
to another time, and extend to take in another, possible projection of what the
world could be – carefully scripted everyday fantasias, with his backing group
playing in thoughtful service to the song. Stripped back to essentials, this
music plays tricks with the temporal compass. Funeral Mutes’ hermetic spirit
might remind, in passing, of Mayo Thompson, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and/or
Canterbury prog. Following singular logic, however, its gilded glide is all its
own.’ - Jade Pillar, 2015
Recorded,
mixed and mastered by Joe Talia, 2013-2015.
Design
by Annie Portelli.
Edition of 300 with glossy A3
lyric insert.
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