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WERRA FOXMA - (fanzine | issue #3)

 

WERRA FOXMA ISSUE 3

 

WFR

Frazer Brown – Founder // socials

@frabroon78

Hazel Brown – Founder // design // logistics

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Alasdair O’May – A&R

@alasdairOMay

Steven Anderson – Press & PR

@lfm_idm

 

WFR Graphics Wing

Kate Bosworth

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Stephen Osborne

@stephenosborne

 

WFR Atlantic Distribution

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Salvatore Mercatante

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General Enquiries:

werrafoxma@hotmail.com

 

Submissions / demos:

wfrsubmissions@outlook.com

 

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steven@lettersfrommouse.com

 

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facebook.com/werrafoxmarecords

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Werra Foxma Records

Werra Foxma Studio

11 Anderson Avenue

Armadale

West Lothian

Scotland

EH48 3JY

 

WELCOME TO ISSUE 3 OF THE WERRA FOXMA MAGAZINE

 

Hello everyone,

Issue 3 is finally here!

Man o man, we have a lot to cover in this issue. So much so, we had to increase the size of the magazine to accommodate everything.

The first thing you probably noticed… a cover CD? Damn right! In the spirit of bringing you as much value to magazine as possible, we recruited the services of three WFR artists: Cholly, Letters From Mouse and Sulk Rooms to bring their amazing live and improvisational sounds to ‘One Shot’, a CD of long-form performances recorded live, with every nuance and element being triggered and performed on the fly.

 

Talking about live, we thought it important to look back of some of the fun live experiences of the summer, especially Emotion Wave’s ‘A Day In The Sun’ festival in Liverpool, and our first live stream festival, Foxfest. Massive thanks to everyone who took part in these awesome happenings. These two events led to the creation of ‘WFR North’, our first brick and mortar festival, coming to Edinburgh on 22 October. More information on WFR North on page 6.

Our cover artist for this issue is the amazing Elizabeth Crompton. Her forthcoming album, Problems Of Other Minds, is an absolute triumph. Deep, emotional, and stunning from beginning to end. It sees WFR entering uncharted territory – an electronic album with vocals. Everyone at the label is seriously excited for this one, and we are in no doubt you will embrace it as much as we have.

The same goes for Viewers, the new Sulk Rooms LP from the one and only Thomas Ragsdale, and we roll out the full release plan for Dohnavùr, which covers multiple reissues, remixes, and releases which have come home to roost.

It’s another stellar period of albums from the SubClub, with The Metamorph, Letters From Mouse and Gribbles enchanting us with three fresh new LPs of enduring quality.

Our artist for this issue’s ‘The Process’ is the guru of generative electronic music, Glasgow’s Mike K Smith. We hope you enjoy his Ableton-centric approach to random sound, and how rewarding the process can be. We also shine a light on the first 5 independent record stores to stock our records. We have already added more into the pipeline, but more about that in the next magazine.

Lastly, it’s with great excitement to announce that, starting from issue 4, we welcome the journalistic expertise of Michael Stanton to the WFR magazine. I’ve been winging it on my own since the start of this journey with the magazine, and I’m fast running out of adjectives to describe our amazing artists and music. So it’s with a mixture of relief and excitement that I have someone with 20 years of music journalism experience to share the load with. Mike, welcome to the team.

Enjoy this issue.

Fra

 

ISSUE 3

Contents

Intro

5             Forthcoming

6             WFR North

7             Dohnavùr reissues & remixes

8             One Shot (Cover CD)

Verse

10           WFR SubClub – July to September

15           A Day In The Sun

20           FoxFest

Chorus

22           Elizabeth Crompton

26           Sulk Rooms

30           The Process // Mike K Smith

Outro

32           WFR & Independent record stores

34           Twitter @werrafoxma

35           The Troika w/Antony Ryan

 

MOONBUILDING - The Summer Collection 2022 (fanzine | issue #1)

 

CD Companion

 

MOONBUILDING

SUMMER SPECIAL

ISUUE #1

A Castles In Space publication Starring…

DEAN HONER

Woodford Halse

Imperfect Stranger

Richard Norris

Lavender Sweep

Alex Paterson

Captain Star

+ more

 

OH HELLO

Thanks for Coming, grab a chair, we´ll be starting in a few minutes

 

OK. If we can settle down at the back, it looks like we’re ready. If there’s any questions you’ll find me at the tea and biscuits table afterwards.

Ever since I bought my first issue of Smash Hits, the music press has been a huge part of my life. Over the years, I’ve worked for some iconic titles, including Muzik, Melody Maker and NME.

Until recently I worked at Electronic Sound where it seems I accidentally created a scene. I didn’t give it a name, or draw attention to it, but there on the pages each issue was a smorgasbord of independent DIY record labels run from kitchen tables, releasing music by independent DIY artists made on their kitchen tables.

We’re talking about the likes of Ghost Box, Castles In Space, Burning Witches, A Year In The Country, Spun Out Of Control, Clay Pipe, Woodford Halse, DiN and many more who covered everything from field recordings and experimental mayhem to Berlin Schoolisms and post-rave bangers. The releases were lovingly put together and beautifully presented with great artwork. It felt like the early 80s all over again, a time when I was filling up on new-fangled labels like 4AD, Small Wonder, Rough Trade, Mute, New Hormones, Cherry Red, Factory, Fast Product, Creation…

The idea for Moonbuilding has been brewing for a little while. Yeah, I know, I could’ve just started a blog, but I figured this scene I’ve been writing about for years kind of needed a publication that shares its own DIY ethos. So here it is, just me, doing this from my kitchen table.

You will have noticed that Moonbuilding is a Castles In Space publication, but that doesn´t mean it’s all about CiS releases. Think of it like a label putting out a magazine instead of an album. Makes sense to us. Hope it chimes with you.

So that’s the plan. Let’s crack on. Tea and biscuits anyone?

Neil

 

HERE HEAR

P6-23 New and upcoming releases

Dean Honer And Kevin Pearce, Field Lines Cartographer, The Hardy Tree, The Home Current, Regal Worm, Pye Corner Audio, Howlround, Concretism, Band Of Cloud, Imperfect Stranger, The Incidental Crack, Isvisible Isinvisible, XAM Duo, Labels We Love: Woodford Halse, and a release round-up

CLOSE ENCOUNTER

P24-31 One great interview

Dean Honer opens the door to his Sheffield studio for a free-ranging chat that includes how Depeche Mode changed his life, Philip Oakley’s dog walking exploits, saying no to Madonna, and we even talk about his new album, “The Sound Of Science”.

DRIPFEED

P32-48 All the other stuff

A Dean Honer-free zone. Richard Norris atlks Strange things Are Happening mag, Lavender Sweep’s world record attempt, Alex Paterson’s West Norwood Bugle. There’s a first time for everything, some other bits and bobs, oh and the very welcome return of Steven Appleby’s legendary Captain Star.

 

MOONBUILDING

Issue One: Summer 2022

Almost everything: Neil Mason

@moonbuildingmag – moonbuildingmag@gmail.com

Everything else: Colin Morrison

@castlesinspace – hello@castlesinspace.com

Cover illustration/cover feature design: Nick Taylor

@nicktee_art – spectral-studio.co.uk

100 thank yous… Spencer Robinson (premier-printers.co.uk), David Blatner (63p.com), Finlay Milligan, Ambulance 3-13, Kevin Foakes (openminddesign.uk), Steven Appleby, Alex Paterson. Big love to Tracey, Olive, Luke and the other Alex.

Typeset in Chaparral Pro, Sunflower and assorted printing sets.

A Castles In Space publication

© Moonbuildin 2022