The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies

As The Crow Flies

The Advisory Circle

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The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies

This third album from The Advisory Circle is an exploration of the passage of time and the traditional wheel of the year. Achingly beautiful and melancholy melodic analogue electronics, the trademark Advisory Circle sound palette is broadened to include some traditional acoustic instrumentation. One of Julian House's strongest Ghost Box covers so far with beautiful sleeve notes courtesy of Professor Ronald Hutton, Head of History at Bristol University and author of the monumental work on the traditional British calendar, Stations of the Sun.

Reviews

On this exceptional album’s inner sleeve, a sixties bypass bisects a prehistoric earthwork, and the folklorist Ronald Hutton discusses seasonal rites. Within, a set of tuneful, tonal, slices of clean and cold electronica hums with post-war optimism, warped by echoes of the transcendentally bland music that underscored Seventies architects’ pitches for concrete car parks. The comforting irony cloud, that shadowed earlier Ghost Box label experiments in emotionally manipulative nostalgia, has evaporated. Without anything so prescriptive as lyrics, The Advisory Circle offers a disarmingly sincere, pellucidly beautiful, and hauntingly disorientating exploration of your civilisation’s problematic relationship with the landscapes of its past.
Stewart Lee, Sunday Times

Inspired by the sounds of 70s ‘polytechnic’ TV - Open University, Public Information Films, Play For Today - Jon Brooks’Advisory Circle tap into a collective nostalgia for a post-war paternalistic Britain. His 2008 album, Other Channels, was an eddying, whisper of ghostly broadcasts, the family telly as portal to otherworlds. Blending chiming folk acoustics with wistful analogue electronics, As The Crow Flies feels like a more personal work, both a soundtrack to dreamlike childhood summers and an imagined government guide to the cycles of the seasons, complete with linernotes by historian and folklorist Ronald Hutton. With the current government’s attempts to strip the country of its libraries, forests and broadcasting corporation, anything that reconnects us with richer ideas of nature and culture should be cherished. As such, imagining a departmental handbook on the primal power of the pagan year feels positively revolutionary.
Andrew Male, Mojo

All told, this is arguably The Advisory Circle’s most fully-realised set to date (accompanied by a typically eye-catching sleeve by Ghost Box’s in-house designer, Julian House), exhibiting a stronger sense of (dis)place(ment) than before and, as such, constitutes the perfect entry point for anyone looking for a way into Brooks’ enchanting, wistful realm.
Spencer Grady, BBC Music Website.

Tracklisting

12" Vinyl Album (GBX015LP)
  1. Logotone I – Decisions
  2. Now Ends The Beginning
  3. Here! In The Wychwoods
  4. The Patchwork Explains
  5. Everyday Hazards
  6. Ceridwen
  7. As The Crow Flies
  8. Innocence Elsewhere
  9. Logotone II - The New Traffic Signs
  10. Modern Through Movement
  11. Learning Owl Reappears
  12. Further Starry Wisdom
  13. We Cleanse This Space
  14. Beyond The Wychelm
  15. Logotone III - Eyes Inside You
  16. Route Along 18 Corners
  17. Wheel Of The Year
CD Album (GBX015CD)
  1. Logotone I – Decisions
  2. Now Ends The Beginning
  3. Here! In The Wychwoods
  4. The Patchwork Explains
  5. Everyday Hazards
  6. Ceridwen
  7. As The Crow Flies
  8. Innocence Elsewhere
  9. Logotone II - The New Traffic Signs
  10. Modern Through Movement
  11. Learning Owl Reappears
  12. Further Starry Wisdom
  13. We Cleanse This Space
  14. Beyond The Wychelm
  15. Logotone III - Eyes Inside You
  16. Route Along 18 Corners
  17. Wheel Of The Year
  18. Unforgotten Path
  19. Lonely Signalman
Download Album (GBX015)
  1. Logotone I – Decisions
  2. Now Ends The Beginning
  3. Here! In The Wychwoods
  4. The Patchwork Explains
  5. Everyday Hazards
  6. Ceridwen
  7. As The Crow Flies
  8. Innocence Elsewhere
  9. Logotone II - The New Traffic Signs
  10. Modern Through Movement
  11. Learning Owl Reappears
  12. Further Starry Wisdom
  13. We Cleanse This Space
  14. Beyond The Wychelm
  15. Logotone III - Eyes Inside You
  16. Route Along 18 Corners
  17. Wheel Of The Year
  18. Unforgotten Path
  19. Lonely Signalman