Documenting The Decay, by Charles Vaughan

Documenting The Decay

by Charles Vaughan

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1.	Waving Goodbye 04:35	buy track
2.	Norfolk Branchlines 04:15	buy track
3.	Gone Away 03:55	buy track
4.	Clouds By The Old Church 01:57	buy track
5.	Lichens 02:36	buy track
6.	Barnston Substation 03:17	buy track
7.	Skies In '85 03:08	buy track
8.	Ruins 03:11	buy track
9.	Dusk Across Fields 02:30	buy track
10.	A Dying Thought 08:56	buy track

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Finally, the debut from Charles Vaughan is with us. Ever since the mysterious arrival of the ‘April15th’ EP back in 2007, this album has been rumoured, along with a host of other slowly gestating projects which will all, hopefully, see the light of day on Wayside & Woodland Records sometime in the future.

So, who is Charles Vaughan? Some may know him as the figure from the popular ’70s science fiction show ‘Survivors’, a character who dedicates himself to documenting, cataloguing and indexing what’s left of civilisation after a plague has wiped out 99% of the population. This was surely the inspiration on the musician behind the crumbling, mildewed sound-scapes to be found on Documenting The Decay.

The music here, as mentioned above, is a collection of tape distressed instrumentals, mainly played on ancient synths, piano, old broken vinyl and the odd detuned zither. A copy recently found its way to the influential writer Simon Reynolds who wrote about it in a article on how ‘Hauntology’ (a term he himself coined) is far from dead, indeed, it is very much still ‘undead’. It’s safe to say that the music contained on the album could fit into that category, with its evocations of a future that never was, redundant technology left to rot and fading memories of post-war optimism.

Musical reference points could include the work of William Basinski, Aphex Twin’s ambience, Eno and The Caretaker. But Charles Vaughan has very much carved out a peculiarly isolated area of his own, a strange, mouldy, spore marked environment in which he continues to produce these documents…

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released October 10, 2011

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Wayside & Woodland Recordings England, UK

Wayside & Woodland Recordings was founded by Ben Holton and Rob Glover, and is based in South Staffordshire & The West Midlands.

The home label of epic45, Birds in the Brickwork, The Toy LIbrary, My Autumn Empire, Charles Vaughan and The Balloonist

And has released works by E.L. Heath, Component#4, Richard Youngs, Oliver Cherer, They Go Boom and Mark Van Hoen. ... more

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