Cosmic Neighbourhood – “Gatherings” (Released 11th August 2023)

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£22.99 – 1xLP, Limited Edition Orange Coloured Vinyl (plus DL Code)

Cosmic Neighbourhood’s Gatherings is an album made for wild imaginations and deep daydreams. Its fourteen tracks provide the kind of trip you can take if you close your eyes tight enough and let your mind wander. It’s the music of small things, groovy sounds from way underground that’s inspired as much by Martin Rev and Moondog as it is by walking trees, pine cones catching the bus, nocturnal farmyard symphonies and the movements of butterflies reimagined through restless drum machines. Sounds good? Come join the gathering. There’s room for everyone.

Cosmic Neighbourhood is the musical alias of York-based illustrator and musician Adam Higton. Adam’s work encompasses comic strips, collage and sound art and documents the daily goings-on of the forest folk within the realm of the Cosmic Neighbourhood. His two albums on Kit (|Collages I and II) see each song acting as a response to a series of paper-and-scissors compositions. Sonically, these records straddle new and old, taking modular electronics, flutes, bells and softly pattering drum machines, before colouring them all with the amber glow of some forgotten, psychedelic kids’ TV programme. Higton’s benign toots and echoing jingles bring to mind Daphne Oram’s early delay experiments or the meandering playfulness of Tom

Cameron. Radiophonic and time-worn, it still somehow sounds like the future.

Tracklisting:

Scarecrow Says
Window
Elf Trip
Critterpillar
Pine Cone
Green Folk
Eiderdown
Gatherings
Antennae
Owl Eyes
Procession
Treestess
Flutterby
Firebird