Jumble Hole Clough: This Salty Armada - music for imaginary puppet shows volume one

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This Salty Armada - music for imaginary puppet shows volume one is the second studio album by Colin Robinson's one-man band project Jumble Hole Clough this year. The twenty-five instrumentals that are all over the place - a glimmer of an idea is enough to set him off in his home studio in Hebden Bridge, which is stuffed to the rafters with instruments and noise enhancement things.

Robinson follows just one rule: there are no rules. Everyday events and mishaps are captured in slices of freak-folk like I may have to wash my hands again, off-kilter persuccion meets progr guitar in Warming up the engines of solidarity and rage and the robotic electro-funk of Gentleman's Relish (this salty armada).

Who could turn This Salty Armada - music for imaginary puppet shows volume one into a series of short movies? Robinson himself obviously. The first frames of It's fookin' dark down there ..." are a no-brainer. The rest of it could be made by Aardman Studios and Wes Anderson.

This Salty Armada - music for imaginary puppet shows volume one is a self-released album. Buy it (pay-what-you-want) from his website.

Tracks:

1. The Open University presents "Resurrection For Beginners"
2. Null & Void in Mytholmroyd
3. Listen with Step-Mother
4. Sleeping Neat & Tidy
5. The last days of the forgotten zoological gardens
6. They were so poor, they had to make bread from tree bark
7. On a cold train to Birmingham
8. I may have to wash my hands again
9. Rattlesnake Meccano
10. Warming up the engines of solidarity and rage
11. My Jetex Motor set fire to the cat
12. Gentleman's Relish (this salty armada)
13. "It's fookin' dark down there ..."
14. The air breaks with filthy chatter
15. Fragment no.4
16. Schools Programme No.1101 - Lissajous curves
17. The Bradford Jesus Man
18. Street of Eels
19. Ghost Train
20. Unit Omega Plus
21. Old money's better than new
22. Someone in Russia is messing with my Java
23. The Dyatlov Pass Incident
24. Tributes pour in for co-founder of Shropshire model railway club
25. I felt like I was drowning

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