Here we are at Test Transmission 49 and this is the 1st Test Transmission featuring a Guest Mix. This time round it is from Mr Simon Heartfield. I have known Simon for decades. I have had the pleasure of working with him musically on many projects (Psylons, Seatman Separator and all sorts of other collaborations) always great company, a gentleman a scholer and probably is an acrobat. The 1st 21 minutes are my musical ramblings, from then on its Mr Heartfield. Until next time.....tata.
Tracklist
The Sound of Science - Everything’s made of Atoms
Billy Currie - Theremin
Large Plants - La Isla Bonita
PJ Harvey - The Crowded Cell
ToiToiToi - Never A Dull Moment
The Inigo Kilborn Group - A Tune For Lucy
Mike Sammes SIngers - Telephone Song
Mr Heartfield Guest Mix
PIKSEL - Walk In
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION - Are You Hung Up?
SPACEMEN 3 - Just to See You Smile
BRIAN ENO - Late Evening to Jersey
FIELD LINES CARTOGRAPHER - Inside a Star
MOGWAI - Autorock (Live)
CLPPNG - Dream
HARA ALONSO - The Centre of the Sun is Empty
VANGELIS - Albedo 0.39
ROMEO RUCHA - Your Brain
THESE NEW PURITANS - Organ Eternal (Live)
HILDUR GUONADOTTIR - 12 Hours Before
LONELADY - Cries and Whispers
65 DAYS OF STATIC - d|| tl | | |
PERE UBU - Non-Alignment Pact
ASHER LEVITAS - Vapours
KARL O CONNOR & ANN MARGARET HOGAN - Temporary Thing

Full Electronic Sound Interview Haunted Generation

TRIP ADVISOR

There is nobody quite like Keith Seatman. His new album Sad Old Tatty Bunting is a psychedelic joyride through a parallel universe England, a dreamlike realm of alchemists, scarecrows and gnome-filled gated communities. Passports out, everyone, for a one-way journey to Seatmanworld. Words: Bob Fischer

Full interview Electronic Sound interview here 

Test Transmission Archive Reel 48

After quite a long break, here is Archive Reel 48. Spring is here so I have a right old foot tapping collection to keep you going through the season. For your audio enjoyment we have Cate le Bon, Can, British Stereo Collective, Basil Kirchen, France Gall, Stavely Makepiece, Vince Guaraldi, Third Ear Band, Vic Mars, Billy Nomates, Unthanks, Pneumatic Tubes, Nathan Hall and the Sinister Locals and loads more. Do I know when there will be another Archive Reel.....have not got a clue???? might be a few changes to all this soon. So until then TATA

Racton Ruin and Demis Roussos

 

Welcome to Racton Ruin also known as Racton Monument and Racton Tower. Racton is not the most easiest place to find. Tucked away in the back waters of West Sussex just of the B2147 and then up a tiny lane/horse track. You can see Racton from the B2147 but I still managed to drive past it. Racton was built around 1772, designed by Theodosius Keene for The Earl of Halifax. There are mixed views as to the purpose of Racton. Some say it was built as a summer house as part of The Stansted Estate. Another is that it was a view point for the Earl to observe ships in the Solent. The Totally Haunted Bods say they found a reference to Racton being used as a brothel, but do not include any info about this reference.

Racton is a popular place for the Ghost Hunters, and is supposed to have had links to The Occult and Devil worship. Another local rumour is that it was used by smugglers. In the late 80s and early 90s Racton was the scene of many raves and parties. I personally remember driving with a car load of people from one end of Sussex to the other in search of a party at Racton, which we never found and maybe never even really happened. Perhaps the strangest story concerning Racton Ruin is the rumour that the singer Demis Roussos was interested in buying the Folly once. Strange indeed.

Found Objects: Haunted England and Folk Customs, Christina Hole

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March 2022 Electronic Sound 87

In Jan 2022 I was interviewed by the wonderfull Mr Bob Fischer for Electronic Sound.
Bob and I chatted about Alchemists, Gnomes, Out of bounds Grandparents rooms, Franny Lee, odd Parades, Strange Solicitors, half baked ideas, Devo Cardiacs The Cramps old Cassette Recordings and other daft ramblings? This interview has surfaced and was in the March 2022 edition of Electronic Sound. Sad Old Tatty Bunting Out Now on Castles in Space

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  

Some Vids by Mr Stevens

 Some wonderful short Promo Videos made for the new album
Sad Old Tatty Bunting.
All videos By Jez Stevens

 

23rd Century Giants. Renaldo and the Loaf.

 

Out on March 8th 2022
23rd Century Giants (on Blu Ray and Digi)
More info Here

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Sad Old Tatty Bunting (Norman Records Pre-Order)

A darkly unique new transmission from the
incomparable Keith Seatman.

Sad Old Tatty Bunting
Format: 12” Coloured Vinyl LP / Download
Released: 18th February, 2022
Catalogue Number CiS093
Distributor: Forte Music
Genre: Electronic, Leftfield, Abstract, Psychedelic, Folk
Pre-Order Norman Records
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…”

Test Transmission Archive Reel 47

 

Welcome to Test Transmission Archive Reel 47. The Winter Months are here and Festive celebrations are being thought about and prepared. So to see this strange old year out here is a 60s Psych/Electronic/Folk/Soul Mix. Everything in this mix is from 1960-1970…however I have excluded the obvious (Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Velvet Underground, Who etc) with so much to choose from there was absolutely no reason to include any of those bands. So all sorts of musical Oddities and Quirkiness from West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Perrey & Kingsley, the Aquarian Age, Marlena Shaw, The Nocturnes, White Noise, Fifty Foot Hose, The Mesmerizing Eye, Mary Hopkin, Joe Meek, David Cain, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The 101 Strings, United States of America, Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, Free Design and loads and loads more. So until sometime in 2022 I will now leave you. Enjoy the Winter Months ahead and all the best for the New Year.

Endangered Species 1998 (Castles in Space Subscription Library)

 

 

In what appears to have become an annual event, the second Castles in Space Subscription Library album based upon a set of Royal Mail stamps has arrived.

This time, the inspiration is taken from The Endangered Species Presentation Pack, which was pack number 284, issued in January 1998.

I contacted the artists in Autumn 2021 and gave them only the image of the stamp for which they were to compose a piece for. I’m in awe of what they have produced for this album and acknowledge their intellect and great ability in interpreting nothing more than an image, beautiful though the images are, into these wonderful, interpretive pieces.

Please download the album which includes the PDF file of the accompanying booklet. We were down to the wire this time, so the physical booklet will be issued to subscribers early in the new year.

Colin Morrison, Biggleswade, December 17th, 2021
Released December 17, 2021

In The Fields Round The Back (Excerpt)

 

In The Fields Round The Back is from the New Keith Seatman Album, Sad Old Tatty Bunting (CiS093) Due for release Late Feb/March 2022 on Castles in Space. Video filmed and produced by Jez Stevens. Jez also made The Avoid Large Places Video for my 2020 album Time to Dream But Never Seen and the Renaldo and The Loaf video A Convivial Ode. Another short promo (silly and odd) will appear in late Jan/Early Feb 2022. Sad Old Tatty Bunting Castles in Space (CiS 093) Feb/March 2022

Some thoughts ramblings and waffle from me

 Some links to thoughts ramblings and waffle from my brain.
Interview from Haunted Generation
and some questions from Wyrd Daze

https://hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2020/03/12/keith-seatman-doctor-who-and-time-to-dream-but-never-seen/   

https://wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2021/09/08/wyrd-question-daze-keith-seatman/

Woodford Halse. Undulating Waters 6 and 7. Nov 2021

Keith Seatman · The Odd Admin Sub Committee Excerpt

I have a new track (The Odd Admin Sub Committee) on the new Undulating Waters 7 compilation from the Woodford Halse Label.
But before Undulating Waters 7 there is also Undulating Waters 6.
Following on from 5 previous volumes of our flagship series, Undulating Waters now makes
the jump from cassette onto glass mastered CD with two further editions. Each volume
features new or previously unreleased contributions from an amazing array of talented
musicians from across the globe and across multiple genres. Some names will be familiar,
others may be new to you (there are one or two debut appearances here too),
but what we have is a wonderful collection of new music as the soundtrack to the
end of a not-so-wonderful year. (Matt Handley Woodford Halse 2021)

Volume 6:
Angeline Morrison (UK, folk)
Apta (UK. ambient/electronic)
Aural Design (Portugal, hauntology/library)
Bernard Grancher (France, experimental pop/electronic)
Camp of Wolves (Canada, ambient/electronic)
Holy Ghost People/Adam Stone (UK, post-punk/dub/spoken word)
Korb (UK, kosmische/motorik)
Luzon Valley Fearless (UK, alt country)
Nilson (Germany, hauntology/experimental)
Personal Bandana (USA, kosmische/synthwave)
Quiet Clapping (Ireland, drone/minimalism)
Ryan James Mawbey/Jonathan Hill (UK, post-rock)
Sairie (UK, folk)
Salvatore Mercatante (USA, techno/electro)
Xylitol (UK, kosmische/disco)

Volume 7:
Arboria (UK, psych-folk/spiritual jazz)
David Colohan (Ireland, ambient/folk)
Ffion (UK, ambient/electronica)
Floodlights (UK, post-pop/electronic)
Giants of Discovery (UK, ambient/electronic)
The Home Current (Luxembourg, electronic)
Jacken Elswyth (UK, folk)
Keith Seatman (UK, psychedelic/electronic),
Letters From Mouse (Scotland, electronica/idm)
Listening Center (USA, kosmische/radiophonic)
Lo Five (UK, ambient/electronic)
Pigeon Postal Service (Portugal, hauntology/radiophonic)
Polyhymns (UK, dream pop/electronic)
Prana Crafter/WindKraft (USA, acid folk, cosmic)
Rupert Lally (Switzerland, electronic/synthwave)

Artwork for these beautiful editions comes from Nick Taylor (Miracle Pond) for Volume 6 and
Kevin McFadin (Sunrise Ocean Bender) from Volume 7. Doncaster wordsmith and Beam
Weapons noise maker Paul Bareham also returns with his continuing off-kilter narration of the
Woodford Halse saga which continues on the reverse of the oversized cigarette card inserts.

Undulating Waters on Vimeo
Undulating Waters 6
Undulating Waters 7

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Test Transmission Archive Reel 46

 

Dark old October is here, and the end of the year is edging closer. So to keep you going as the evenings draw in, here is a selection of tunes that will hopefully keep you all snug over the coming months. So this time round we have Axxess, Simon Heartfield, Carole Ward, The Equals, Man or Astroman, Anika, Morecambe and Wise, Sleaford Mods, Faust, Simple Minds, Andy Roberts, Cult of Wedge, Pulselovers, Be Bop Deluxe, ToiToiToi and loads more. There will be a themed Test Transmission Archive Reel at the end of the year, but until then goodbye for now.

Alice's Wunderland

 

"Good eventide, earbandits. You are invited on a journey of shelf discovery, as you take a trip to Wunderland - the Poundland of magical realms. It’s a kingdom much like our own, yet also nothing like it in the slightest" Alice's Wunderland is a Comedy sketch show written and performed by Alice Lowe, narrated by Marcia Warren
I 1st became aware of this funny and magical series via Bob Fischer's Haunted Generation.
Bob interviewed Alice Lowe and in the interview Bob asked Alice about his favorite episode of Wunderland. "Can I ask about your radio show, Alice’s Wunderland? There’s one episode in particular that I love, and it ties in with lots of things that we’ve talked about. It’s the episode with the ghost of a child who has died in 1977. And everything is in there: there are Public Information Films, creepy school assembly songs, pantomime dames… was that episode a nice way of chucking all of your favourite scary 1970s things in there?" (Bob Fischer Haunted Generation)
The whole series is really wonderful and a joy, but this episode (Series 3 episode 2) really is spot on with its 70s public information references, Panto Dames as Police Men, creepy things. A Child Ghost who died in the 70s after being killed by a speeding icecream van and also getting his PE bag tangled in a drunken moped belonging to a stranger who handed him a hot sparkler which he touched without gloves, then in hospital threw a frizzbee to his friend which went into the pathway of oncoming cows. Then he got squeshed. Trapped in time with the same haircut the Child Ghost enlists Alice to help him solve his murder. Lots of fantastic nods to many other series "Oh for a kind lady with a Scandinavian  accent and forensic pullover".  Very funny and superbly written.
All episodes available on the iPlayer
Interview with Alice Lowe (Velvet Onion 2012)

Test Transmission Archive Reel 45

 

Welcome to Test Transmission Archive Reel 45. The temperature is on the rise outside and getting very hot. So to keep you entertained here are some weird wonderful and footapping tunes to keep you all going throughout the long old summer.
Audio wonders from Billy Nomates, Television, Terry Thomas, ELO, Eccentronic Research Council, Drew Mullholland, Cyril Ornadel, The Inmates, Hattie Cooke, Altered Images, Maximilian, Concretism, Bellprover, Babe Ruth, Sandy Nelson, Beautify Junkyards & Belbury Poly a hint of Gregory's Girl and even Charlie and Lola.
As usual have no idea when the next one will be, so until then…all keep safe and look after yourself’s.