Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

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Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by shadowplay » Mon Dec 07, 2015 7:27 am

Hopefully someone will be into this heartstring plucking and romantic piece of exquisite, bucolic retrofuturism. It's a blend of 70's style library music, the unheard themes to rural detective potboilers, genteel radiophonics, chiming Satie, a whisp of Oliver Postgate and the sparse tinkle of 'From Gardens Where We Feel Secure' (plus the influence is the blurb below).

Vic Mars is a Herefordshire born musician currently based in London, he has recently returned from spending over a decade in Nagoya, Japan. In 2008 he released the mini-LP 'Kanransha' on Kentaro Togawa's Symbolic Interaction label, and 2012 saw the Bandcamp released library music inspired, 'Curriculum For Schools And Colleges: Volumes 1 &2'.

In 2013 whilst still based in Japan but on a visit home, Vic was stuck by the reprints of vintage British Railway posters hanging in his brothers house. Back in Japan, homesick and inspired by his childhood memories of the Herefordshire landscape he started the initial recordings for The Land and the Garden, carefully piecing together string and Mellotron soundscapes using archaic tracker software, and recording direct to cassette tape. During this time he immersed himself in the music of British classical composers such as Gustav Holst, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, the minimalist work of Wim Mertens and 1970’s children's BBC soundtracks such as those by Freddie Phillips, and Vernon Elliot.

In 2014 with the album half finished Vic moved back to the UK, and after a period of disruption where his equipment was still in transit, he completed the record in the spring of 2015.


The bad news is it sold out in an hour or two but you can buy the digital (and by the looks of itJuno might be getting in one or two that you can set up a warning for and...STRIKE!) and drift though sleepy villages all the same.

A video -Vic Mars - Road Through The Village

And full stream ahead; Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden.

Anyway,It just lightens the heart. :-*

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P.S. Claypipe Music is a superb and beautifully packed by the label proprietor Frances Castle record label and every release is one to treasure. True to form there will be second pressing in a slightly different sleeve (foxglove replaced by hollyhock), you just need to be the patient angler.

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Re: Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by noisepunk » Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:32 pm

This sounds right up my alley, I'll have to listen later though. As always, thanks for the share.

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Re: Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by mackerelmint » Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:41 pm

Yep, gonna give this a thorough checking into, your description was pretty much a checklist of things I love so I'd be a real dipshit to ignore this.

Thanks for the heads up!
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Re: Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by shadowplay » Tue Dec 08, 2015 3:33 am

Thanks for taking the time to have a look, I hope you both like it.

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Re: Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by whisperit » Tue Dec 08, 2015 5:45 am

I like what I've heard so far! Full stream is not working for me though, but I'm going to get those files.

Oh, and I just found out that 500 copies of the second edition will be available eventually.

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Re: Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by Jaguar018 » Tue Dec 08, 2015 5:53 am

I hear a lot of Japanese influence; it sounds like a soundtrack to Miyazaki film.

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Re: Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by antisymmetric » Tue Dec 08, 2015 11:44 am

Sounds very lovely. Cheers for posting!
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Re: Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by mackerelmint » Tue Dec 08, 2015 12:30 pm

Jaguar018 wrote:I hear a lot of Japanese influence; it sounds like a soundtrack to Miyazaki film.
I had the same thought. I could hear Joe Hisaishi in a lot of places.
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Re: Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by DesmondWafers » Tue Dec 08, 2015 2:02 pm

Listened to it twice, in love. But yeah, I'm definitely hearing more japan here than england.

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Re: Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by shadowplay » Tue Dec 08, 2015 2:08 pm

Weird, it sounds really English to me, it's full of tried and true British folk tropes and could easily be the unrealised score to a 70's BBC show about the adventures of a country vet and his faithful border collie.

Still it's good for are enjoying it.

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Re: Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by shadowplay » Tue Dec 08, 2015 2:31 pm

Btw folk might want to check out another Clay Pipe release; Jon Brooks (of Advisory Circle) - Shapwick. plus Jon Brooks - 52 album. I'd go into bat for all their releases,especially the Plinth album Music for Smalls Lighthouse and Sharron Kraus - Friends and Enemies Lovers and Strangers.

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Re: Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by mackerelmint » Tue Dec 08, 2015 5:08 pm

shadowplay wrote:Weird, it sounds really English to me, it's full of tried and true British folk tropes and could easily be the unrealised score to a 70's BBC show about the adventures of a country vet and his faithful border collie.

Still it's good for are enjoying it.

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Oh, I definitely heard British Folk in that. One has to ask "What are Hisaishi's influences", and what I took from it was that he probably took a lot from British composers.
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Re: Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by shadowplay » Tue Dec 08, 2015 10:51 pm

OK I get you, I didn't know who he was but my kids grew up watching Studio Ghibli and I get the pastoral musical links.

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Re: Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by noisepunk » Wed Dec 09, 2015 9:21 am

Jaguar018 wrote:I hear a lot of Japanese influence; it sounds like a soundtrack to Miyazaki film.
Good description- this is really lovely.

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Re: Vic Mars - The Land & The Garden

Post by shadowplay » Wed Jan 20, 2016 2:33 am

Repress with Hollyhock replacing Foxglove on the cover is on pre-order.

Btw I think the new Clay Pipe pin is one of the more tasteful pieces of mech I've seen in a while.

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