Mr Lambert’s Music Project, Crossing the Field and Discarded Bottles (Rinse and Return) Dead Wasps.

Keith Seatman · Crossing The Field (By Mr Lamberts Music Project and Keith Seatman)

Keith Seatman · Discarded Bottles (Rinse and Return)(By Mr Lamberts Music Project and Keith Seatman)

Keith Seatman · Dead Wasps (By Mr Lamberts Music Project and Keith Seatman)

 Mr Lambert’s Music Project is a lunchtime club that is run fortnightly in E10 at Theale GreenSchool.
The soul aim of the club is to create new music together to record and share to help raise money
for the school.

 

Crossing the Field is the first musical recording by Mr Lambert’s Music Project in collaboration with
Keith Seatman. The piece was written by one of the school students and recorded at the lunchtime
club. It captures the joyous memories of play and friendship in a local park in a village somewhere.

 

Crossing the Field is part of a collection of new music that explores the ideas and feelings of being in
a village. This collection of music is called Under the Village. Using brainstorming and pictures we focus on a different
aspect of the village and create titles, tunes, lyrics, sounds and field recordings based around them.
Currently we are focussing on the village green.
Various titles we are working on include: Dead Wasps, Disappointing Picnic, Discarded Bottles,
Between The Blades Of Grass, The Lovers Tried To Hide, There Was A Farm Here, Park Ranger and
Mislaid Fielder.

 

Crossing the Filed
Lyrics: T.J. Denman
Music: C. Lambert
Synths, Keyboards Production: Keith Seatman
Vocals: A. Britton
Field Recording: E. Lomath
Other sounds and vocals: E. Vallance, M. Lockley, R. Wilson, M. Hutt 

 

Discarded Bottles (Rinse and Return)
Lyrics: C. Lambert
Bottles: Mr Lambert’s Music Project
Vocals: A. Cox
Synths, Keyboards Production: Keith Seatman

 

Dead Wasps
Music: A. Hopcroft, G. Lockley, C. Lambert
Guitar: A. Hopcroft
Vocals: R. Wilson, E. Vallance, M. Hutt
Percussion: G. Lockley
Noise and Screams: T. Dasgupta, M. Lockley, A. Wilkes, A. Hopcroft,
G. Lockley, C. Lambert, R. Wilson, E. Vallance, M. Hutt
Synths and Keyboards Keith Seatman
Produced By Keith Seatman

Sad Old Tatty Bunting released Today

 Sad Old tatty Bunting has been released and is available from
Castles in Space and Rough Trade/Norman Records and many others.
Artwork by Nick Taylor

 

Castles in Space is thrilled to present a timely new album from Keith Seatman - his first “extraordinary adventure” since 2020’s “Time To Dream But Never Seen”. “Sad Old Tatty Bunting” is another multi layered, deeply psychedelic construction which contains collaborations with Jim Jupp (Ghost Box, Belbury Poly) and Douglas E. Powell (Broken Folk).

Keith provides the vision and background to the album:

“The inspiration for Sad Old Tatty Bunting came about very early one morning in April 2020, during the first UK lockdown. I had taken to going for long walks between six and seven o’clock in the morning. I would stroll aimlessly and directionless up and down terraced streets, along the beach and on the prom.
On these early morning walks, places that were once very familiar to me seemed to have changed and taken on an unfamiliar feel. With this change I noticed new things, things which I had not seen before or maybe had no memory of ever seeing.

“One morning I passed an old pub. Hanging in the beer garden was some very old and quite shabby looking bunting. As I stared at the faded old colours I started to wonder why the bunting was there? Was it put up to mark a long forgotten occasion? Or had it been placed there to just brighten up the garden? As the weeks went by, I started to wander further and every now and then would notice more random old tatty bunting hanging from trees, lamp posts or in windows. On theses walks an idea started to take root. I came up with and really liked the phrase Sad Old Tatty Bunting. I mentioned this to my friend Douglas E Powell who said it sounded like the name of an old scarecrow (Tatty Bunting) it was then that I realised that Sad Old Tatty Bunting could refer to many different concepts/ideas/places/books and things. What, who or even where was Sad Old Tatty Bunting? I honestly had no idea…but it was definitely an idea I was going to pursue…”  

 

All instruments Keith Seatman, with
Jim Jupp - Synths on Jumpy's Playroom
Douglas E Powell - Voice on Burial at Bevill's Leam

All Tracks Written by Keith Seatman, except
Seatman and Jupp - Jumpy's Playroom
Seatman and Powell - Burial at Bevill's Leam

All tracks produced by Keith Seatman and Jack Packer, except
Jumpy's Playroom - Produced by Jim Jupp  

Pre-Order Time to Dream Norman & Rough Trade Records

It is now possible to Pr-order Time to Dream but Never Seen from
Norman Records

 

and Rough Trade

Time to Dream but Never Seen (Feb 28th 2020)

Time to Dream but never Seen.
Release Date Feb 28th 2020

 Credits
All Tracks written by
Keith Seatman
Except*
Seatman and Powell
Music
Keith Seatman
Words and Voice
Douglas E Powell 
Produced by
Keith Seatman and Jack Packer
© Keith Seatman 2019
Many Thanks to
Jim Jupp for Sleeve Notes and Audio Advice
Simon Heartfield Audio Advice
Jez Stevens for Video
Colin Morrison at Castles in Space
Nick Taylor for Artwork/Design
Antony at RedRed Paw Mastering

CiS would like to thank Spencer Robinson for
invaluable production support
Cat: CiS042

 Keith Seatman’s music is an anachronistically repurposed assemblage of sounds, melodies and technologies plundered from different time zones. Perhaps no surprise as he lives and records a stone’s throw from the jaded, yet jaunty seafront of Southsea in Portsmouth on the south coast of England. This album however is far from being a haphazard and spontaneous collage. Keith’s busy and dense soundworld is composed though a very deliberate and painstaking process. Unlikely musical and sonic juxtapositions artfully evoke a sense of place and narrative. This latest excursion is bad-trip psychedelia shot through with wistful and whimsical melodies and occasional haunted voices.
So, on Last One In for example, what could be a chirpy and exciting theme tune to a 1970s kid’s adventure series is modulated into a minor key by a sinister synth bass line and menaced by a stomping bother boy rhythm. In the opening track On to the Pier & Down to the Sea, the amusement arcade din is submerged in a watery digital swirl during. Likewise, on Tippy Toe Tippy Toe the tiddly-om-pom-pom of the pier is heard from the point of view some approaching aquatic creature or perhaps by a drowning man. This track heralds the closing section of the album which shifts focus from the seafront to its rustic precursor, the mayday fair. Something weird comes to the village in Waiting by the Window. Sounding as if late period Radiophonic Workshop (when they got hold of expensive synths) had popped back 15 years to work with their boffinish tape wielding forbears. It summons an atmosphere like a Nigel Kneale drama or one of those folk-horror inspired episodes of Dr.Who. 
Finally, the album’s title track seems to offer a chance of escape to a more rustic idyll 
with melancholy mellotron flute and mumbled nursery rhymes. But as the album 
closes it feels like a relentlessly inescapable holiday-special steam train drags us back
On to the Pier & Down to the Sea. Jim Jupp, Ghost Box Records   (extract Sleeve Notes) 

 

A bit of an update

There are now only 5 CD copies of Disjointed Oddities and Other Such Things left on my Bandcamp site
The Broken Folk 10inch EP is still available from the re-vamped and new looking
Belbury Music Shop.

My last album was All Hold Hands and Off we Go in 2017 and I spent most of 2018 working on the 2 EPs and Tracks for A Year in the Country and Wyrd Kalendar

I do have plans to release another album sometime, tunes have been recorded and at present its lots of listening back and whittling the tracks down to maybe a dozen.
At present really not sure when or how it will be released.
I have recorded a track for A Year in the Country for relese later in the year.
When I do know what I am doing (do I ever ???)
I will post all info here and on Twitter

Broken Folk EP Excerpts. Release Date Nov 14th 2018

All Hold Hands for one last time.

All Hold Hands for one last time. Only 8 left then no more.

Available from Bandcamp

Disjointed Oddities and Other Such Things EP (Excerpts) and Maybe a 12inch

Due for release later in the year Disjointed Oddities and Other Such Things is the 1st EP of Odd Strange Electronics, Psych, Radiophonics, Drone and quirky Folk by Keith Seatman. Track five on the EP is a remix of the 2015 album track Broken Folk, the original version of Broken Folk can be heard on the album A Rest Before the Walk. Broken Folk Spiricom Shakedown Remix is by Revbjelde who appear courtesy of Buried Treasure Records Disjointed Oddities will be available as a CD and Digital download from Bandcamp later in 2018. Also there plans and negotiations in progress for a 4 track 12 inch single release somewhere along the line. This single will be a totally separate release consisting of reworks/remixes of 4 other previously released tracks which were co-written and sung by  Douglas E Powell. More news on that later in the year.

Working Hard

At present trying to work on a couple of projects for 2018. Hopefully there will be a CD/Digital EP out and also a 7in Vinyl EP, featuring reworkings of four tracks cowritten with Douglas E Powell taken from the last two albums (All Hold Hands and Off We Go, A Rest Before the Walk).
The Reworks are Boxes with Rhythms in, Broken Folk, My Morning Ritual and Mr Metronome. At present we do not know when the 7inch EP will be released and are currently considering, and looking into any offers that come our way to assist with the release of this single EP. Here are a couple of images secretly taken of the team working hard on projects for 2018.

 

What Next????? There is a Plan (Maybe)

A while back I had the idea to maybe rework (polish and tidy up) four of the tracks that have appeared on the last two albums (all hold hands and off we go, A Rest Before the Walk) which feature the vocals and lyrics of Douglas E Powell. I trekked down to North Devon to have a bit of a summit meeting with Doug and to discuss this idea and maybe release four tracks on a 7inch EP. Doug liked the idea, so in July this year, after a long old slog in Doug's studio we finally finished the music side of this project. There are still some vocals to re-record, but getting there. The Tracks are Boxes with Rhythms in, My Morning Ritual, Broken Folk and Mr Metronome.

We are not sure when the EP will be released...........at first we were optimistic that it was going to get released by another label, but that has fallen through now, so unless we get interest and someone else picks this up, we will probably release the EP ourselves sometime in 2018. I have now also started to record new tracks myself. Not sure what I will do with these??? again might end up on an album or I might do another EP myself??? Who knows???

All 5 albums for £15 a mighty digi discount

As from today you can now download and get all 5 Keith Seatman albums

for £15 from here. 

Thats 

all hold hands and off we go

A Rest Before the Walk

Around the Folly and Down Hill

Boxes Windows & Secret Hidey Holes 

Consistently Mediocre and Daydreams

A Mighty bargain if ever there was.

 

all hold hands in the Ghost Box Guests shop

As from today a limited number of all hold hands an off we go will be available to purchase from the Ghost Box Records Guests shop. Digital and CD copies of all hold hands, and previous albums can also be purchased from Bandcamp.

all hold hands and off we go (Release Date April 10th)

If all goes to plan Monday April 10th

Test Transmission Archive Reel 28

Here we are with the 1st Test Transmission Archive Reel of 2017. We have music from (but not necessarily in this order) Peter Howell & John Ferdinando, Eno, Max Gregor, Obsil, The Glove, Johnny Flynn, Simon Heartfield, Perrey & Kingsley, Bare Bones, Pram, Owl Service, Ligeti, Jacky, The Séance with Lutine, Quintron and Jeff Mills. Hope that keeps you all going. So until next time. TATA.