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The Advisory Circle
| Available Formats | No. of Tracks | Price | Buy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Album | 19 tracks | £10.95 | Out of stock. | |
| Download Album (mp3) | 19 tracks | £7.99 | ||
| Download Album (flac) | 19 tracks | £7.99 | ||
| Download individual tracks | from £0.99 | |||
Description
The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
The Advisory Circle bring us more timely advice on issues such as domestic isolation, tranquilliser addiction and the nuclear threat. Sumptuous booklet art by Julian House and beautifully evocative liner notes by Ken Hollings complement what we feel to be the strongest Ghost Box release so far.
Light synthesizer melodies and moments of surreal humour float in a drift of pastoral melancholia and fuzzy music concrete. Fragments of public information broadcasting are filtered through the distorting lens of prescription tranquillisers. Malicious gossip becomes jumbled and confused with continuity announcements.
Reviews
"The Advisory Circle’s debut is the most fully realised expression of the Ghost Box label’s aesthetic to date. Its artists inhabit a half-remembered zone sure to resound with impressionable listeners of a certain age. Clean, cold sounds echo the electronic incidental music of 1970s public-information films and weird children’s television.
Beautifully assembled packaging, by the designer Julian House, suggests some long-abandoned government social experiment. Other Channels uses snatches of speech and fragments of banally beautiful melodies to conjure a vivid suburban nightmare of Mogadon coffee mornings, treacherous frozen ponds and imminent nuclear war that both chills and charms."
Stewart Lee
Sunday Times
Ghost Box just keep getting better and better. On this, the label’s 10th release, Jon Brooks – AKA The Advisory Circle – heaps glorious tune upon glorious tune. Light synth melodies and fuzzy music fuse throughout to form a thing of rare beauty. Just buy it.
Stuart Aitken,
Flux
Tracklisting
CD Album (GBX010)
- The Advisory Circle - Callsign 'A' - The TV Trap
- The Advisory Circle - Civil Defence Is Common Sense
- The Advisory Circle - Mogadon Coffee Morning
- The Advisory Circle - Sundial
- The Advisory Circle - Swinscoe Episode 1 - 'Enter Swinscoe'
- The Advisory Circle - Celebrate Michaelmas NOW!
- The Advisory Circle - Fire, Damp & Air
- The Advisory Circle - Frozen Ponds PIF
- The Advisory Circle - Erosion Of Time
- The Advisory Circle - A Clear Yarn Warning
- The Advisory Circle - Keep Warm, Keep Well
- The Advisory Circle - Eyes Which Are Swelling
- The Advisory Circle - Hocusing For Beginners
- The Advisory Circle - The Coastguard
- The Advisory Circle - Swinscoe Episode 2 - 'Release The Birds'
- The Advisory Circle - Farmland, Freeland
- The Advisory Circle - Everyday Electronics
- The Advisory Circle - The Old Schoolhouse
- The Advisory Circle - Callsign 'B' - Freeland Logotone
Download Album (GBX010)
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The Advisory Circle - Callsign 'A' - The TV Trap
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The Advisory Circle - Civil Defence Is Common Sense
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The Advisory Circle - Mogadon Coffee Morning
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The Advisory Circle - Sundial
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The Advisory Circle - Swinscoe Episode 1 - 'Enter Swinscoe'
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The Advisory Circle - Celebrate Michaelmas NOW!
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The Advisory Circle - Fire, Damp & Air
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The Advisory Circle - Frozen Ponds PIF
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The Advisory Circle - Erosion Of Time
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The Advisory Circle - A Clear Yarn Warning
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The Advisory Circle - Keep Warm, Keep Well
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The Advisory Circle - Eyes Which Are Swelling
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The Advisory Circle - Hocusing For Beginners
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The Advisory Circle - The Coastguard
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The Advisory Circle - Swinscoe Episode 2 - 'Release The Birds'
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The Advisory Circle - Farmland, Freeland
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The Advisory Circle - Everyday Electronics
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The Advisory Circle - The Old Schoolhouse
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The Advisory Circle - Callsign 'B' - Freeland Logotone
mp3 downloads
Downloads
| Track Number | Listen | Track Name | Track Length | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Callsign 'A' - The TV Trap | 18s | £0.99 | ||
| 2 | Civil Defence Is Common Sense | 2m 52s | £0.99 | ||
| 3 | Mogadon Coffee Morning | 2m 57s | £0.99 | ||
| 4 | Sundial | 3m 28s | £0.99 | ||
| 5 | Swinscoe Episode 1 - 'Enter Swinscoe' | 1m 58s | £0.99 | ||
| 6 | Celebrate Michaelmas NOW! | 2m 42s | £0.99 | ||
| 7 | Fire, Damp & Air | 3m 44s | £0.99 | ||
| 8 | Frozen Ponds PIF | 52s | £0.99 | ||
| 9 | Erosion Of Time | 3m 32s | £0.99 | ||
| 10 | A Clear Yarn Warning | 1m 14s | £0.99 | ||
| 11 | Keep Warm, Keep Well | 2m 48s | £0.99 | ||
| 12 | Eyes Which Are Swelling | 2m 18s | £0.99 | ||
| 13 | Hocusing For Beginners | 3m 50s | £0.99 | ||
| 14 | The Coastguard | 2m 42s | £0.99 | ||
| 15 | Swinscoe Episode 2 - 'Release The Birds' | 1m 46s | £0.99 | ||
| 16 | Farmland, Freeland | 3m 39s | £0.99 | ||
| 17 | Everyday Electronics | 3m 20s | £0.99 | ||
| 18 | The Old Schoolhouse | 2m 36s | £0.99 | ||
| 19 | Callsign 'B' - Freeland Logotone | 10s | £0.99 | ||
| Entire MP3 Download Album (19 tracks) | £7.99 |
- MP3 format technical details
- These mp3 tracks have been encoded with LAME using the '--preset extreme' VBR setting, providing you with a very rich listening experience. No DRM or copy protection is built in to the mp3s.
flac downloads
Downloads
| Track Number | Listen | Track Name | Track Length | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Callsign 'A' - The TV Trap | 18s | £0.99 | ||
| 2 | Civil Defence Is Common Sense | 2m 52s | £0.99 | ||
| 3 | Mogadon Coffee Morning | 2m 57s | £0.99 | ||
| 4 | Sundial | 3m 28s | £0.99 | ||
| 5 | Swinscoe Episode 1 - 'Enter Swinscoe' | 1m 58s | £0.99 | ||
| 6 | Celebrate Michaelmas NOW! | 2m 42s | £0.99 | ||
| 7 | Fire, Damp & Air | 3m 44s | £0.99 | ||
| 8 | Frozen Ponds PIF | 52s | £0.99 | ||
| 9 | Erosion Of Time | 3m 32s | £0.99 | ||
| 10 | A Clear Yarn Warning | 1m 14s | £0.99 | ||
| 11 | Keep Warm, Keep Well | 2m 48s | £0.99 | ||
| 12 | Eyes Which Are Swelling | 2m 18s | £0.99 | ||
| 13 | Hocusing For Beginners | 3m 50s | £0.99 | ||
| 14 | The Coastguard | 2m 42s | £0.99 | ||
| 15 | Swinscoe Episode 2 - 'Release The Birds' | 1m 46s | £0.99 | ||
| 16 | Farmland, Freeland | 3m 39s | £0.99 | ||
| 17 | Everyday Electronics | 3m 20s | £0.99 | ||
| 18 | The Old Schoolhouse | 2m 36s | £0.99 | ||
| 19 | Callsign 'B' - Freeland Logotone | 10s | £0.99 | ||
| Entire FLAC Download Album (19 tracks) | £7.99 |
- FLAC format technical details:
- These FLAC tracks are superior to MP3 in that they are compressed without any loss in sound quality. For further technical details or player tips, visit the Help section
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