title: Sleepy Insect Music
artist: The Boats cat#: FLAU19
date: 09.Apr.2010
The Boats are of course the well known duo of Craig Tattersall and
Andrew Hargreaves, now joined by Danny Norbury on cello, as well as
Chris Stewart and Elaine Reynolds on vocals. Craig has previously recorded
under Hood, the Archivist and The Remote Viewer, runs the Cotton Goods
label and co-runs the excellent Moteer and Mobeer labels with Andrew
Johnson. Andrew Hargreaves records as Beppu and co-runs the Lacies’
label with his partner, Alice. As The Boats they have released various
works on Moteer, Our Small Ideas, Flau (’Faulty Toned Radio’) and Home
Normal with ‘Words Are Something Else’. The newest member to The Boats
as of 2009 is the very talented Danny Norbury. He regularly works with
Library Tapes, as well as being one-half of the duo Le Lendemain (with
David Wenngren aka Library Tapes), and he has also recorded solo projects
for Ono, Static Caravan and last year’s wonderful Light In August release
on Lacies’.
During the various meetings, phone calls and emails back and forth,
we decided that it would be a perfect time to release something of an
‘unknown’ overview of where The Boats are at and what they have done
over the years. flau and Home Normal decided that it would be entirely
appropriate to do a one-off collaborative release between Home Normal
and Flau, as we are such closely tied labels, mutual friends with The
Boats, and as a way of coming together for an album release to tie in
with our combined Boats and Danny Norbury Japan tour in May of this
year .
The result of all this is Sleepy Insect Music, a compilation of unreleased
or very limited edition works on compilations and Our Small Ideas, an
unreleased remix and reworking of previously released work (’raindrops’).
As such it is an essential collection of work for Boats fans and new
listeners alike, a wonderful summary of who The Boats are, or the perfect
introduction, however you want to view it.
-tracklist-
01.Palais Glide
02.understand
03.victor silvester plays for a party
04.veleta two step
05.There are tunnels where we live
06.Birthdays
07.I did not sleep so soundly
08.Raindrops
09.on the level
10.Italics mine
11.George Herbert Leigh Mallory
12.Louise (Boats remix)
13.If All Else Fails
14.why you wanna do this
15.The Arrow Home
16.big ben banjo band sing song
