Wooden Tape to release new album “Wool” on December 5th via God Unknown!
Tim Maycox aka Wooden Tape, releases his 2nd album on God Unknown Records, following on from 2023's 'Music From Another Place'.
This album is a sonic photo album of childhood memories of Liverpool in the 1970's. A personal mythology, soundtracked by synth pads, chiming acoustic guitars and looped and treated percussion. The album is due to be released, early December, on luscious 180gm green vinyl.
"A beautifully clear melding of minimal electronics and acoustic guitar. This is music without side or cynacism that nevertheless sparkles with a kind of heeling magic" Jim Jupp, 2023
It is the late 1970's...
I am on a bus in provincial Liverpool with my Mother, my twin Aunties and my cousins. It is a sunny day and we are returning home on a green, double decker bus. I can smell the diesel fumes through the open window, and feel the sticky heat from the noisy engine as it rises through my seat. It is the holidays, and we have been to the market, where we were all bought Zorro Swords (the show is currently being re-shown on tv) We have been told off for nearly taking our youngest cousin's eye out, with our chalk tipped, black plastic swords but they are still being clacked against each other in mock combat. We also got, a Walls 'Dracula' lolly ice (this is Liverpool, we don't say 'ice lolly') It was a hot day after all!
Life is good, but as the 1970's is about to slam shut, our family is about to move and I am about to become a 'Wool' My Liverpool memories are soon to become trapped in Ektachrome, tinted amber.
So, grab a lolly ice or a glass of some garishly, coloured pop and listen with me, as I thumb through the pages of this audio photo album...
"Wool is a beautifully constructed work of musical hauntology. Conjuring a liminal space between memory and imagination" Shindig!
"Thrillingly experimental electronica with nods to both the output of Warp Records and acoustic folk, the latter part of which transports you back to the late ‘60s, and John Barry’s Midnight Cowboy theme. Wooden Tape‘s acknowledgement of present and past is effortless." The Sleeping Shaman
"A clockmaker’s ambient work in that sense that it is carefully crafted, has a deep sense of detail, and that it fully demands your attention to embrace its deep inner beauty." Weirdo Shrine
Wool is out on December 5th via God Unknown Records.
