Journey to the West (1979-2017), by Watch Repair presents The Mystic Umbrellas

Journey to the West (1979-2017)

by Watch Repair presents The Mystic Umbrellas

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Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Plus notes by
Mark Valentine (Mystic Umbrellas)
Anthony Clough (Conventional Tapes)

Also Includes contextual info from original cassette releases
plus contemporary UK music press listings.

Design by John Coulthart
Photography by Deborah Judd

Purchasable with gift card

£7 GBP or more

1.	The Mystic Umbrellas - Journey To The West (1979) 03:58	info
2.	Further To The West (2014) 22:10	info
3.	Rainsboroughs Grave (4PM) 15:25	info
4.	Rainsboroughs Grave (4AM) 12:58	info

about

“On a Summer afternoon in the back bedroom of a Sixties semi-detached house on the western edge of Northampton, over thirty years ago, a boy of twenty improvised melodies on a reed organ and captured them on a cassette recorder….He knew nothing of music, had never been taught it, but wanted to express a certain mystical longing always with him: he was trying to do this through writing too.”

(Mark Valentine, 2014)

Original source recordings from the early 1980s independent tape scene in new expanded elaborations

24-bit digital-to-analogue cassette master Feb 2015
(Yamaha KX-393 / TDK MA C60)

As well as the digital album, there is also a special edition comprising two CDRs, four postcards, and texts by Mark Valentine and Anthony Clough, with design by John Coulthart, photography by Deborah Judd, and packaging by RebexLibris. This includes a download code.

Limited to 100 numbered copies / SOLD OUT