Pylon Reveries, by Charles Vaughan

Pylon Reveries

by Charles Vaughan

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1.	Unearthed 00:34	buy track
2.	Wasteland 04:06	buy track
3.	Fallen Pylon On Pagan Burial Ground 03:52	buy track
4.	A Warning 01:05	buy track
5.	Chased Through A Field 02:08	buy track
6.	Drones Above 03:56	buy track
7.	Low Lines Pt 1 04:25	buy track
8.	Low Lines Pt 2 04:55	buy track
9.	Along Unlit Lanes 02:02	buy track
10.	The All Clear 04:52	buy track
11.	Yesterday's Future 01:24	buy track
12.	Revery 05:24	buy track

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We've experienced somewhat of a revival for this album, special thanks to Weird Walk issue 4 (2021), never before has this release been available as a digital download.

Review: Monolith Cocktail (monolithcocktail.com/2017/03/09/tickling-our-fancy-047-mokoomba-omar-rahbanytaos-humm/)

Originally released in 2017, Pylon Reveries, the fourth release by the mysterious Charles Vaughan, is a rumination on connection and disconnection. The idea that (nearly) every settlement is connected to the national power grid by the iron giants that straddle the countryside like mysterious sentinels watching over us. And that, in spite of this connectivity and, of course, the connectivity of the internet, we as people don't often connect as well as we ought to. We're overloaded by data, that seems to obfuscate rather than enlighten.

Pylon Reveries is also about the need to disconnect. It's about being in the middle of nowhere and yet finding yourself reminded of everything via the hums and crackles of pure electricity that course through the cables overhead and the lonesome substations that inhabit the remotest of places.

It's a love letter to the ubiquitous totems of utility that inanimately populate our landscape and yet are a source of fascination and intrigue. It's about getting lost in those crackles and drones and the awe of such ominous structures we often simply take for granted.

“From an early age, I had a fascination with pylons. The public information films of my childhood did little to quell this creeping sense of unease. Over the years, this preoccupation has informed my work, inspiring many pieces of music. Some of it found its way onto the 'Substation Index' release, a mini CDr I left at any substation I came across on my travels. It was free, you just had to find it.

This collection was harvested from the many tapes and hard drives that have been slowly filling up over the years. I hope it makes some sense.” – Charles Vaughan

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released March 5, 2021

Charles Vaughan was a character in the 70's British TV show Survivors, a programme in which a virus has depleted the world's population by around 98%. When we first meet Charles, he is documenting the landscape left behind, collecting information and figures that may be of help in the rebuilding of society.

Charles Vaughan, the musical project linked to epic45, seeks to inhabit a similar world in which the TV version finds himself. A world of near silent countryside, empty buildings, ominous edgelands and the reflection these situations inspire.

2011's Documenting The Decay was a summation of this initial intention and was culled from tape experiments built up over the preceding 10 or so years. Simon Reynolds referenced the album in his Wired article ‘on undead hauntology’.

Another album emerged in 2013, part of Wayside & Woodland's 'Haunted Woodland’ series, in which Charles drew on local folklore and psychogeography to play on the idea of witchcraft that has been whispered about in and around epic45's childhood home of Wheaton Aston for as long as they can remember.

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Wayside & Woodland Recordings England, UK

Wayside & Woodland Recordings was founded by Ben Holton and Rob Glover, and is based in South Staffordshire & The West Midlands.

The home label of epic45, Birds in the Brickwork, The Toy LIbrary, My Autumn Empire, Charles Vaughan and The Balloonist

And has released works by E.L. Heath, Component#4, Richard Youngs, Oliver Cherer, They Go Boom and Mark Van Hoen. ... more

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