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01. JAM MONEY - Away Inside
02. JAM MONEY - Thimble Theatre
03. JAM MONEY - Games Of Go
04. JAM MONEY - Hail's Roof
05. JAM MONEY - A Gathing Kind
06. JAM MONEY - Bubbled Other
07. JAM MONEY - Konkapot
08. JAM MONEY - Nutheran Reed
09. JAM MONEY - Solar Broom
10. JAM MONEY - Sounds Around
11. JAM MONEY - Whorl&Spike
12. JAM MONEY - Petaloid
13. JAM MONEY - Comet Friends
14. JAM MONEY - Milk River
15. JAM MONEY - Magnus
16. JAM MONEY - Hark's Gate
17. JAM MONEY - Turnstone Walk
18. JAM MONEY - A Make Believe
19. JAM MONEY - The Air Is A Root
ARTIST
TITLE
A Gathering Kind
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
N 056LP N 056LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/9/2016

Jam Money is the shared musical vision of Kevin Cormack and Mathew Fowler. Mathew (Bons) and Kevin (Half Cousin, Harry Deerness) first began collaborating as part of the Blank Tape Spillage Fete, an ongoing collective project of art and music which focuses on the creation and perpetuation of small DIY exhibitions, related events and limited releases that celebrates the hobbyist nature of home recording. Jam Money revolves around a passion for the simple and sometimes restrictive nature of four-track cassette recording. Using old half-broken guitars, clarinets, charity shop keyboards, toys, family heirlooms, zithers, home-made percussion, and household objects a shared dialog appears, involving both mark making and musical mishaps, allowing the makers to be carried along as the music finds its own way. Genre definitions melt away in Jam Money's music as ambient dissolves into lo-fi rock, noise into fragile, naive classroom melodies. Creativity beyond easy categorization. The first recordings titled Blowing Stones were self-released in 2014. The cover and insert artwork for this record featured abstract paintings by the artist Aimée Henderson whose work and process is a great influence on their music. Having played gigs alongside kindred spirits National Bedtime and Plinth, the tail end of 2015 saw the band travel to Germany to play with The Notwist and Le Millipede for a series of "Alien Disko" nights organized by Alien Transistor, a label with a shared kinship of both the weird and wonderful. A Gathering Kind is the second album by Jam Money: a journey of sound and color, subliminal images and narrative. The roots of this collection found Fowler and Cormack using an earthier, more instinctive language, making it a rougher-edged sibling to their other recordings, with parallels to the home-spun worlds of Flaming Tunes, Pumice, Maher Shalal Hash Baz and World Standard. Henderson's artwork features again, both paintings and music forming a collective language of dream-like adventure. Poignant and exploratory. Melting together acoustic and electronic elements, the narrative throughout is one of a ghostly world heading for winter. A firm fan favorite Stephen Pastel on Blowing Stones: "Created in question and answer form, their songs exist like little sculptures - wayward and peaceful, sometimes whirring into automatic life under the pair's combined attention." Includes a booklet and a download code. Edition of 300.