NEWS:

**31st December 2009** - Four O*Clock Chimes released by Clinical Archives

Four O*Clock Chimes is an album of pure electroacoustic improvisation by Clutter using field recordings from around the UK. Tracks 2-4 were originally recorded for a session on the Jeff Grainger Show on Dandelion Radio in October 2009. All tracks were recorded with a combination of software and hardware and have only been topped and tailed for release no other editing has taken place.

Download the album here:

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**21st December 2009** - Merry Christmas from Clutter

Just to wish you all a very merry Christmas from Clutter - thanks to everyone who came to see me play and who listened to my various projects during 2009 - means a lot to me :-)

Highlights of 2009:

Playing at Sonic Picnic, Cumbria's first ever sonic arts festival in Workington through an 8 channel 3D speaker system - wonderful :-)

Getting asked along to Centrifuge nights by Frakture - These are wonderful events of top improv in Manchester, through which the projects Id of Mobius & Deep Clutter have evolved

Releasing some wonderful music - Clutter - On Ha'Penny Bridge, Id of Mobius - Excursions & orfeo 5 - a year on the ice being particular highlights for me

The continued colaberations with Susan Matthews - Getting invited by her to work on a piece for FON was really special

Meeting and playing with so many talented musicians over the year all over the country - was a really creative year for me and I've had a brilliant time

Coming up in 2010:

The next Clutter album - Four O*Clock Chimes will be released for free download by Russian net label Clinical Archives very soon

orfeo 5 are off to Wales in February to work with Susan Matthews on a new piece then we head out on a UK tour in March - watch this space for details

Off to London in February with Susan Matthews to play a show for Tursa

A new colaberation with photographer Richard Davis will premier at The Dukes, Lancaster in February at Wired In

A new Clutter album, the first available on CD is scheduled for later in the year

So all very exciting, really looking like it could be a brilliant 2010 and beyond for Clutter related product. Thanks to all who have shared the journey so far and looking forward to meeting loads more cool people in the future. So keep a look out for Clutter, orfeo 5, Deep Clutter, Id of Mobius and other projects

REMEMBER - there's always room for a little extra Clutter

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**30th October 2009** - Dandelion Radio Session and release on Clinical Archives

I forgot to mention I've been in session on Dandelion Radio on the Jeff Grainger Show throughout October, but as a special treat for anyone who missed it you can catch the last track of the session on Jeff's show in November.

The 3 tracks from this session are featured on the next Clutter album Four O*Clock Chimes which is released for free download by Clinical Archives in December. Keep your eyes peeled for this as it's damn good even if I say so myself :-) It is an album of pure electroacoustic improvisation and whilst still having the Clutter sound is pretty minimal.

In other Clutter activity I had a wonderful time working with Susan Matthews at FON Festival at The Canteen in Barrow last week. We created a new piece of work for the festival which we premiered live on the Friday night.

You can hear a snippet of it at the Clutter Myspace page. I will let you know if it is released at any point, it went down really well and it was great to get to know and work with Susan after so long being internet friends.

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**7th July 2009** - On Ha'Penny Bridge - OUT NOW FOR FREE DOWNLOAD ON EARTH MONKEY PRODUCTIONS

EMP074 | Clutter | On Ha'Penny Bridge

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Another album of twisted ambient melodies, field recordings and electro-acoustic compositions pulled together in Clutter's idiosyncratic trademark style.

A journey from death, loss and grief to acceptance, love and joy - dedicated to Hazel and Janice.

Review at The Internet Archive - Clambering around on Ha'Penny Bridge, cluttering around creating groovy clanging rhythms until night falls and the bridge starts to glow with blurred reflected night lights. Slowly mysterious shapes start to appear in the river as the early hours of morning arrive - as daylight approaches fear and the unknown retreat leaving space for calm droplets of dew to flicker from the frame of the bridge into the river and another day begins.

An interpretation of the title track - and that is the beauty of this new release from Clutter - every track, as it relays into the next, enables the listener to imagine their own scenario.
In 'After the smog has cleared' a slowed down toy box tune mournfully marches through an English village swamp towards a church bell beckoning it on. The tension builds almost unbearably as the tune gets lost in the haze and weight of it's own terrible memories of war.

During the opener 'Every silver lining has a cloud' a submarine is visited by an ice cream van during a rain storm, conversations are half heard at the beach and seagulls loop around while motorbike engines are deconstructed.

This album feels like a long lost dream interspersed with half remembered timeless memories. You don't just listen, you become immersed and enriched.

Oh the joy, and terror of an everlasting summer holiday!