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Release date: November 17th 2008

The Static Brothers are buzzed to be releasing this last missive from the (now) legendary One More Grain. OMG formed in the summer of 2006; with their first album ‘Pigeon English’ being released on that bellwether of independent labels Victory Garden. 'Isle of Grain' followed in January 2008 on White Heat grabbing album of the week in the Sunday Times (5 out of 5 stars) and the band needing a wheel barrow to carry the positive reviews. The single ‘Having a Ball’ was unlikely championed by Radio One tosser Zane Lowe.

Van 175 then, well the band locked themselves away in a studio in deepest Wapping, alongside unusual percussion including a spade, a broken primary school bell, a brass plate, Dan’s emergency hill whistle and Andrew's collection of various children's toys. Working on interpretations of 3 traditional, pre-industrial revolution, pieces from around the globe. A geographical triangle of South America, Kenya and Scarborough, highlighting the band's interests in non-Western music.

‘Scarborough Fair’ has the village fair fancifulness of Paul Simon's tinkering arrangement replaced by a both haunting and decidedly enchanting yet darker and more forthrightly trippy affair; a mind-warping, dream-like dub collage. Either a lysergic haven located deep in the mindset of Sun Ra, or a hazily atmospheric, drugged feel as if It’s Immaterial were produced by Martin Hannett. It’s a deeply engaging and crafted reclaiming of a folk foundation stone.

‘Giriama Wedding’ another traditional arrangement but this time a Kenyan wedding song which apparently was stumbled upon by way of a release on the legendary Nonesuch Explorer imprint, entitled 'Witchcraft and Ritual Music'. A dizzyingly up-tempo and frenetic gem that provides for a hot thick stew of wired, squirreling ska-like brass arrangements, all woven into an acutely vibrant and weirdly sultry ethnic pop song. If we weren't any the wiser we'd have hedged our bets by saying it was the Contortions in a gruelling stare-down with Pigbag

At present members are in Jakarta, plan to release 'avant trumpet rave' work as Gyratory System , busy cutting down gorse bushes for the local RSPB and writing a autobiography of David (Kid) Jensen.

For fans of Early Factory Records, Martin Carthy, The Fall, Martin Hannett and Terry Riley.