Label: goods outward

Folklore Tapesファンは是非!!ジャケットのテクスチャーも素晴らしい変則フォルクローレ!!UKより未知の作家を送り出す新興エクスペリメンタル・レーベルGoods Outward。6~7種類程の変名を使い分け英国にて活動、英Folklore Tapesにもカセット音源を残している実験作家Carl Thomas Brown。変名Mari Returnとしての1st音源となる10インチ作[Mote of Interest]をリリース。リブル川のほとりの部屋で録音されたという音源集で、ハンマー及び弓で叩かれ擦られた道具、家庭用品、即席楽器のサウンドをひたすら感覚的に積み上げる。まるでふわりと浮かび上がる断片的な会話の様。









Black vinyl, printed sleeve and labels, reverse board

Mari Return dispatch a quietly uncanny collection that sits
somewhere between decayed songform and domestic interference.

Mote of Interest was recorded in a room beside the River Ribble, where environmental influence seeps into the fabric of the album - not through literal field recordings, but in the album’s fluid pacing and sediment-like layering. Pulsing beds of tone, gated hiss, and tape-warped textures feel half-submerged, eroded. Guitar phrases stagger and repeat with hazy logic - part instinct, part accident. While fragments of voice - often heavily treated; sometimes just barely there bubble up like half-remembered conversations.

Hammered and bowed utensils, household tools, and ad hoc instrumentation were deployed not just for their texture, but to
intentionally disrupt familiar compositional habits. Mote of Interest holds a sense of stability at arms length and instead leans into restraint and fragility.

Enticing fans of quiet disturbances.

Music performed and produced by CT Brown
Clarinet on Moonlight Still Leaks by Otis Jordan
Mastered by Tim Crompton
Artwork, design and layout by Niall Greaves