Sing it Softly to the Pebbles, by Vernon & Burns and friends

Sing it Softly to the Pebbles

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CD originally produced by Vernon & Burns for 'Open Field' - an exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow in 2008.
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Comes in limited edition gatefold card sleeve featuring artwork by Tian Miller and Katy Dove.

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1.	Old Dreamy Addresses 01:43	buy track
2.	One More Step 02:39	buy track
3.	Don't Tell 02:34	buy track
4.	Forever Amber (A Horizon Chorus) 01:55	buy track
5.	The Path of Needles or the Path or the Path of Pins 00:35	buy track
6.	The Bone Grubber 01:06	buy track
7.	Kissed by Apples 01:12	buy track
8.	Stepping Tones 00:53	buy track
9.	Reversible Ice Creeper 01:44	buy track
10.	A Frozen Month 00:30	buy track
11.	Smiles Without Faces 01:41	buy track
12.	Heavenly Blank 01:09	buy track
13.	The Cloud Gymnasium 01:30	buy track
14.	The Hopeful Soap 00:34	buy track
15.	Deep Sleep Trawler 01:03	buy track
16.	She Had Quitters for Socks 02:09	buy track
17.	The Departure 00:52	buy track
18.	The Only Clock Eyed Lady in the World 01:01	buy track
19.	Melt Water Streams 01:26	buy track
20.	Cake-Mix Carillion 00:51	buy track
21.	The Gloaming Procession 02:52	buy track
22.	The Prisoner Under Glass 01:29	buy track
23.	Cupid's Harness 01:37	buy track
24.	Just Whispering at You 01:41	buy track
25.	The Smirk of Dawn 03:07	buy track
26.	Die Bauchrednerpuppe 10:22	buy track

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A CD produced by Vernon & Burns for 'Open Field' - an exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow.

Review:

"Mark Vernon and Barry Burns won my heart years ago with a brilliant, entertaining and humourous LP called The Tune the Old Cow Died Of, a tape-edit masterwork on which they almost reincarnated themselves as many-tentacled mad BBC Radio producers from the fifth dimension. Here's their welcome return on Sing it Softly to the Pebbles (MEAGRE RESOURCE PRODUCTIONS MERE 024), a complex assemblage of field recordings, sound effects, music and story-telling which they put together with the help of various collaborators, including a writer, an animator, a painter and an inventor of musical instruments. These 26 mostly-short tracks are almost like tiny episodes from a non-existent radio soap opera, a sort of avant-garde version of The Archers. As such, they lend themselves to radio broadcast, and indeed the piece – originally commissioned for a contemporary arts event in Glasgow – was played on Resonance FM last Boxing Day.

There is a restrained and very pastoral charm to Sing it Softly, and while I personally found the narrative elements (and the overly-precise speaking voices) a bit cloying, that's my problem entirely. I do sense that Vernon and Burns have had to rein in their more experimental methods slightly, in order to help the collaborative process succeed. That said, it's still a work full of much originality, economy, and ellipsis".

Ed Pinsent, Sound Projector

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released December 28, 2008

Music by Barry Burns, Katy Dove, Sarah Kenchington, Belinda Gilbert Scott and Mark Vernon
Improvised stories by Wendy Woolfson
Sighs by Xia Huang
Front Cover Artwork by Katy Dove
Back Cover, CD and Interior Artwork by Tian Miller

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Vernon & Burns Glasgow, UK

Dredging the kleptomanic plunderground, this singular double act in stereo create aural mystery from oral history. Rarely agreeing upon anything, their music is a tug-of-war between music hall and musique concrète. From the gently sublime to the raucously ridiculous they create a soundtrack to the notion of nonsense. ... more

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