Hello, I've been busy having children but now the latest one has clocked up his first year, I figured it was time for an update:

SLOMO - the new Slomo album THE BOG is finished and now in the quintessentially slomo design phase. Important Records will be releasing THE BOG at some point over the summer ... June/July/August 08 if all goes to plan.

THE BOG features a guest appearance from Julian Cope, who recites a short poem written especially for the album.

PADMA - Padma's debut album HERE is released via Just Music in June 08. I produced the album and played the odd thing here and there. It bears little resemblance to any other recordings I've been involved in - essentially being an acoustic-based singer/songwriter album - but I did get to play the shruti and apply some psychedelic textures. Most importantly, underneath my applications are a big bunch of smart songs sung by an incredible voice. Check out his site here.

CADAVEROUS CONDITION have released a remix album DESTROYING THE NIGHT SKY. I contributed the track "Death Warmed Up", which is an interpretation of the outrageously jolly "Destroy Your Life" as imagined from the inside of a retort chamber. The album features remixes by Nurse With Wound, Thighpaulsandra, Nocturnal Emissions, Colin Potter, Andrew Liles + loads more. I have a few copies for sale in the STORE.

Finally, at some point this summer I will be releasing the incredible debut album by TOMB ZERO. 10 years in the making, this is very much an album of the North, and will appeal to quaffers of krautockers such as Witthuser & Westrupp, Popol Vuh, Sergius Golowin and Walter Wegmüller, as well those hip to the gleaming contemporary sounds of Werkraum, Sturmpercht, In Gowan Ring etc. etc. etc. Cosmic folk music to soundtrack significant celestial events in Northern skies.

A semi-official bootleg on Southern Cross ... this 47 minute disc contains a soundboard recording of my live set from ROME WASN'T BURNED IN A DAY in October 2003 plus other recordings from around the same time sequenced into one massive burnout. Available now from the STORE page at £9.99.

Just received copies of the BURNING HOLY ROME bootleg on Southern Cross ... it's my live set from ROME WASN'T BURNED IN A DAY in October 2003. CDR limited to 99 copies, available now from the STORE page.

In other news, Slomo's next album THE BOG is coming along nicely (if slowly). We're looking at a late Spring/Summer release on Important Records. Important are also putting out an expanded version of SMASHED AMPS & SUNN GUITARS around the same time.

Also, I've been producing HERE, the debut album from singer/songwriter-type Padma ... its in the mixing stage now but a release date is as yet unknown.

I've been interviewed in the current issue of Rock-A-Rolla Magazine, talking about my stuff, Slomo, woods and pub toilets (unless of course, they edited any of that stuff out - I haven't seen a copy yet).

Both 'Collecting Earthquakes' and Slomo's 'The Creep' have been reviewed at Musiquemachine.com

Collecting Earthquakes
The Creep