A Brief History The Phantom Carriage came into existance sometime in the early Nineties when Mike Seed & Empire State Human started messing around with tapes and an old Casio SK5 sampling keyboard.
Many many tapes were recorded, but around the end of the Millenium they went their seperate ways to concentrate on their highly successful (?) solo careers and it wasn't until 2005 when Mike and ESH decided to get together again and do it properly (whatever that means)
and record the album 'Late Comers' which was released on CD with a gorgeous hand made sleeve on the ever excellent Anticlock Records.
(Sadly the CD is sold out now, but is available for fee download below.)
With Mike supplying the voice and instrumentation and ESH supplying the noises they also drafted in the help of two friends. The Palace Lido recorded the stark music for 'Swineherd Passes' transforming Mike's dark tale into an even darker tale, and Buggane who recorded the hypnoticly swirly 'The Fourth Angel Is Concealed'.
The album was very warmly recieved... "Dark uneasy and on edge... there is not much like this around!" "One of the darkest, most fucked up weird folk records I’ve heard in a while".
Step forward two years and The Phantom Carriage are back, this time the line-up features Mike Seed and The Palace Lido (with The Grinning Ape featuring on 'A Brackish Spirit') who have crafted another album full of twisted tales and twitchy sparse electronica called 'Skull Exposed to March Rain'.
Both albums are availabe to download completely free below and contain all the print quality artwork.
SVC-014 - June 2007
'Skull Exposed To March Rain'
01. Folly
02. Gorse Fire
03. Three Wishes
04. Skull Exposed To March Rain
05. Prepare The Way
06. Lie Forsaken
07. Hawthorn Tree
08. Edward Kelley
09. Blood
10. A Brackish Spirit
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including full artwork.
01. The Ghost Of A Hare
02. The Colour Says
03. White Fields
04. Burning Star Maps
05. Trees Full Of Ice
06. Swineherd Passes
07. Number 10
08. Hello There
09. The Fourth Angel Is Concealed
10. A New Job
11. The Surrealist Phantom In Trafalgar Square
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including full artwork.
Reviews "Dark uneasy and on edge... there is not much like this around!"
"One of the darkest, most fucked up weird folk records I’ve heard in a while"
'Late
Comers' review at Hoodlum
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