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  1. Projection

    June 12th 2010

    Here’s a 5m edit of a Urthona/Asterism live projection on youtube. The music is a live rehearsal tape of an unreleased track recorded last month. YouTube Preview Image

  2. Live pix – Windsor

    June 10th 2010

    Some photos of the Urthona/Asterism show supporting Julian Cope in Windsor on 29.05.10 taken by Murmurations cover artist Cathy Ward

  3. Urthona show 29/05/10

    May 7th 2010

    Urthona and the Asterism will be supporting Julian Cope at The Firestation Arts Centre in Windsor on 29th May. The spirits of Cyril Tawney and William Crossing will be channelled via the Kennet and Avon Canal and River Thames, hell yeah. For tickets come hither.

  4. Murmurations review

    February 24th 2010

    Read a review of Murmurations on the FREQ noisesite here

  5. Murmurations available in the US

    January 16th 2010

    Aquarius Records in San Fran now have copies of Murmurations for sale – and plenty less expensive than buying from us here in the UK! To go spiraling through the aether click HERE.

  6. Murmurations cover artwork

    January 4th 2010

    Cathy Ward’s original artworks for the Murmurations cover will be on display at the Strange Attractor Salon show being held at  Viktor Wynd Fine Art in London between 7 and 31 January 2010. The Strange Attractor team have been long-term collaborators and pals of Urthona, and the month-long show/happenings will incorporate a wide range of media (painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, sound and video) concerned with inner space, craft, science (natural and unnatural) and the fantastic. More info here.

  7. Murmurations out now

    December 9th 2009

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    Further Recordings are immodestly pleased to announce their fifth CD release, Murmurations, the first collaboration between Urthona and The Asterism.

    Murmurations is less of a soundclash than the fallout from two worlds in collision: Urthona’s rural guitar-based heaviness slams into The Asterism’s towering analogue electronics, somewhere in space between Princetown and Fitzrovia.

    The album features two instrumental pieces:

    River Severn Bore (24.20) is an infinitely cascading surge of sound that makes you wonder what would have happened if an angry Neil Young had interned at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. RSB began life as a pulsating Asterism synthline that was guitared-up, trampled under foot and re-assembled by Urthona.

    Murmurations (19.50) was inspired by the annual starling swarms that invade the Somerset levels each Winter. Initially a gently-flowing, aetheric Urthona guitar piece, it was quickly savaged by The Asterism’s synthesised sparrowhawks who left only a shower of blood and feathers in their wake.

    (There are links to short edits of both tracks in the SOUNDS section.)

    Murmurations comes in a three panel sleeve featuring original artwork and inserts by Catharyne Ward and is available from the SHOP.