Artist:
Andrew Blick, Peter Gregson, Land Observations, Simon Fisher Turner
Title:
One Day Band Session 14
Label:
Trestle Records
Cat#:
OBD14
Release Date:
30th March 2018
Format:
download & streaming
Tracklist: 01. ODB14 1
02. ODB14 2
03. ODB14 3
04. ODB14 4
05. ODB14 5
06. ODB14 6
07. ODB14 7
Press Info:
ODB 14 was curated by James Scott Brooks who records under the monicker Land Observations, a London based artist known for minimalist, looped electric guitar compositions that progressively layer into propulsive rhythmical instrumentals. He has released two albums to date on Mute Records and is currently completing the third. The session features Land Observations leading the way with repetitive finger picking bringing to mind the guitar style of 60,70,s American primitivists such as Fahey and Basho and more recently Six Organs Of Admitance. The 12 string guitar flows ever forward setting the mood and rhythm.
Gregson’s cello complements with a range of duties from melodic leads to textured dragging, drones and stacatto. The trumpet is also often played in long droning notes, mourneful and with additional effects creating delays and reverb resulting in an atmospheric quality that is beautifully symbiotic with Simon Fisher Turner’s electronic contributions.
“Having received the invitation to curate and record a one day session for the endlessly interesting Trestle Records, I realised it was an opportunity for me to finally improvise with the musicians, Simon Fisher-Turner, Peter Gregson, & Andrew Blick, who I had initially come into contact with during the recording and performing of SFT’s Ivor Novello award winning film soundtrack The Epic of Everest. Gathering together at Holy Mountain studios, our intention for the improvised one day session was to explore the various timbres of a ‘cello, trumpet, guitar, and drone ensemble’ through a series of cyclical drum-less patterns of varying rhythmic and atmospheric densities.” Land Observations
Press Info:
South London sibling duo PUNCHBAG (Clara and Anders Bach) pair their new EP ‘I Am Obsessed’ with their debut EP ‘I’m Not Your Punchbag’ in one combined record, marking their first-ever physical release, arriving as a Dinked Early Doors Edition.
Snippets:
Videos:
“Fuck It”
“I’m Not Your Punchbag”
“You Used To Be So Sexy”
“I Am Obsessed”
“What’s In My Bag”
“I Love This!”
Video Special:
“Live At The Windmill 2024”
Note: this is not an official recording – just something made by a fan 🙂
Press Info:
South London sibling duo PUNCHBAG (Clara and Anders Bach) today announce new EP I Am Obsessed, out 10 April via Mute. The EP will also mark the band’s first-ever physical release, arriving as a Dinked Early Doors Edition vinyl which pairs new EP I Am Obsessed with their debut EP I’m Not Your Punchbag in one combined release.
Opening on off-kilter piano stabs, the track sets up a tension that quickly gives way to something far darker beneath their restless leftfield pop. Clara’s lyrics frame fixation as bodily and inescapable, from dirt under fingernails to crumbs in bedsheets and thoughts that won’t leave your chest.
“It’s about being completely obsessed with something or someone, but not in a cute way, more in a ‘your whole body is under attack’ kinda way. It’s sort of disordered, chaotic, overwhelming,” Clara explains.
The new single follows July 2025’s release ‘I Love This!’ (also set to feature on the EP), a wide-eyed surge of feeling that reinforced PUNCHBAG’s instinct for pairing pop immediacy with emotional overload.
Speaking more on their upcoming second EP, the band said: “If our first EP was a selfie, these new songs are like zooming in and thinking, ‘fucking hell my pores look huge’. This EP is turning up the contrast on everyday life, rinsing the disgusting dish towel so far that all the gunk comes out. It’s pushing PUNCHBAG’s sonic world even further, into a grander landscape, and dramatising the everyday more than ever before.”
With each release, Clara and Anders continue to push their instincts further, tightening their sound and leaning harder into the extremes that define it – all part of a wider mission to distil the most intense, concentrated version of who they are as artists.
That intensity spills directly into their live shows, where the duo’s sibling chemistry and unfiltered energy have earned a reputation for turning rooms into something closer to group therapy than a gig – a visceral, communal thrill and a celebration of feeling too much, all at once.
PUNCHBAG were also named a Spotify RADAR: First Listen artist and sold out their debut headline show at Bermondsey Social Club, before further sold out headlines in the capital at Windmill Brixton and The George Tavern, alongside festival slots at Reeperbahn, Iceland Airwaves, The Great Escape, Bergenfest, Pstereo, Twisterella, Live At Leeds In The City, Sŵn, Ritual Union & more, as well as a live performance on Made In Chelsea.
PUNCHBAG will be heading out on their debut UK and European headline tour in April – more details coming very soon, keep an eye on their social for dates and ticket links!
Full Track Streaming:
Videos:
“I Am Obsessed”
“What’s In My Bag”
“I Love This!”
Video Special:
“Live At The Windmill 2024”
Note: this is not an official recording – just something made by a fan 🙂
Press Info:
Multi-Instrumentalist and songwriter Joshua Murphy presents his debut release – ‘Lowlands’ EP coming out via aufnahme + wiedergabe on December 2nd, 2022. Written in Berlin during 2019 / 2020 and produced by Martin J Fiedler, Lowlands unites dark ceremonial tales, a narrative of somber procession, atmospheric composition and evocative storytelling.
Born and raised in outback Australia, Joshua Murphy, to a degree, followed the path of Nick Cave – eventually moving to Berlin and becoming involved into the local scene as a member of various bands, promoter and a club-owner. Though, despite the dark ceremonial emotionality that has always been associated with Berlin, “Lowlands” takes its main inspirations from Joshua’s motherland.
Full Track Streaming:
Video:
“The Fault Was Lain There Too”
Special:
“Milk Me Session On Mutant Radio [24.03.25]”
