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Marionette

by Kirk Barley

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    Edition of 500 LPs with risograph print by artist Oliver Pitt

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    Marionette LP & Verdant Cassette

    Limited edition black vinyl with risograph print by Oliver Pitt + limited edition cassette

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1.
Nectar 03:50
2.
Courtyard 03:12
3.
Seafarer 04:24
4.
Marionette 05:11
5.
6.
The Night 03:31
7.
Kites 05:35
8.
Gate 05:01

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Whether drawing from field recordings, found sound, instrumental improvisations or synthetic processes, Barley’s compositions evoke unfolding sound worlds, as simple ideas or motifs are layered and developed into complex set-pieces that reveal themselves over time.

Marionette showcases the breadth and variety of the Yorkshire-born artist’s sound, weaving together familiar and uncanny moods of rural England and its Victorian architecture, as suggested by the gated garden print of the album’s cover. Unfurling between physical textures – the patina of vinyl crackle or gentle rain – and the hyper-real spaces that his music inhabits, Barley describes the compositions as “landscape or static scene paintings,” with many of the album’s tracks taking nature’s rhythms as their compositional cue.

On ‘Seafarer’, this manifests in the repeated synth swells of a boat on rough waters, while title track ‘Marionette’ imagines an eerie scene, were shadows flicker by an open fire. Similarly, ‘Lake of Gold’ layers plucked strings at different scales and velocities to create what Barley calls the “rain-like quality” of the rhythm.

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released November 24, 2023

written, recorded, produced and mixed by Kirk Barley

Drums on tracks Lake Of Gold and The Night performed by Matt Davies

mastered by Eric James at Philosophers Barn

artwork by Oliver Pitt

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