St Martin’s - 29th July 2004

Original limited release on Palimpsest Recordings, 2005, then re-released by the band in 2008 and again by Antigen Records in 2012.

Recorded by Simon Loynes (aka The DOOZER) and initially released on his own Palimpsest label, this set was the result of a week building music for the space.  The nave of the empty church of St Martin’s, Colchester (lent out by the Churches Conservation Trust), was filled up by the band and an assortment of instruments; constructing joyous funeral marches, delicate melodies and moments of abstract experimentalism, by way of copperplate records, birdsong, celeste, drainage grating, suitcase drumming, huge old organ pipes and ever present harmonium and violin.

An integral moment in how the band and their working methods would develop.

Track listing: Copperplate/Pipes/John Wort's Grave, Tinderbox, Walrus Hunt, Joy/Sorrow.