This Window - 'Cassette Culture'

"Again..." release date confirmed.

2009-11-07T14:13:00.000-08:00

Available from all major download stores from 1st December 2009.

Track Listing

1	Again	4:22
2	Wedding Day	1:45
3	A Moment Longer	3:20

Label: M4tr Productions

Catalog#: 3661585186496

Format: File, MP3

Country: UK

Released: 01 Dec 2009

Genre: Electronic

Style: EBM

An article about our early days...

2009-11-01T09:05:00.000-08:00

There is a brief retrospective look back at the early days and the origins of 'This Window' in the November 2009 issue of 'The Living Archive of Underground Music'.

"I think my first exposure to Peter Bright's This Window project came with this tape on the IRRE label from Germany. Peppered with experimentalism and a sense of wander and wonder" Don Campau - Read more...

Newsletter 23 October

2009-10-23T12:52:00.000-07:00

X-rated stuff this - Breck Stewart - Interview this is splendid.

If any of you out have ever had chronic back pain you will know how I a suffering at the moment. It has been nearly two weeks since I twisted it - OUCH!

Things here have gone a little bit crazy, with us doing a couple of interviews for magazines etc. and the iminent release of our latest project on iTunes.

Your emails about our side project have been helpful and very rewarding, here are few of the latest interview pages we have done on SystemCulture.org. See: Cyphreinc Podcasts this this is a great little gem.

The website SystemCulture.org is dedicated to reviewing and interviewing artists. Each interview has the artists link widget and player on it. If you want an interview on SystemCulture.org - We want to ask you some questions; contact us if you want to participate - keep emailing us with your details and we will keep promoting your music.

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Newsletter 11 October

2009-10-11T04:57:00.000-07:00

Had a bit of a break from studio stuff and spent a long weekend in Bristol - stayed in a superb hotel, went to a gig and stuffed my face with great food. Only spoilt by three drunk blokes pissing on my feet see: Bat For lashes - Live - Colston Hall (Bristol)

Your emails about our side project have been helpful and very rewarding, here are few of the latest interview pages we have done on SystemCulture.org. See: Intrendent - Interview this chap is another hero of the 'underground'.

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Newsletter 3 October

2009-10-03T11:49:00.001-07:00

Support us by buying a track from iTunes

Here are few of the latest interview pages we have done on SystemCulture.org. There are some great interviews and words of wisdom here...

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Newsletter 26 September

2009-09-26T05:09:00.000-07:00

We have uploaded a new track onto our ReverbNation player Again (Please have a listen and let us know what you think!)

Here are few of the latest interview pages we have done on SystemCulture.org. There are some great interviews and words of wisdom here...have a look at Don Campau, this chap has done more for independent music than most of us put together.

The website SystemCulture.org is dedicated to reviewing and interviewing artists. We want to ask you some questions; contact us if you want to participate - keep emailing us with your details and we will keep promoting your music.

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PRESS CLIPPINGS

"The story continues..." — BBC online

"So, how good is it? It is exceptionally good and you can’t bank on these songs being on the next album..." — Mick Mercer

"THIS WINDOW dürfte zu einer der exzentrischsten und vielleicht auch ideologischsten CassetTenbands Englands..." — Uwe Wolfrum / Matthais Lang, Epitaph

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Newsletter 20 September

2009-09-20T02:08:00.000-07:00

Thanks for your comments on our latest track upload.

Would there be any interest out there for us to release other peoples music? If there is let us know who we should consider to release - maybe recommend yourself. (The quickest and best way to contact us is via the link on SystemCulture.org)

Here are few of the latest interview pages we have done on SystemCulture.org - The Destination Dawn pages are well worth a read!:

The website SystemCulture.org is dedicated to reviewing and interviewing independent artists. Each interview has the artists link widget and player on it. If you want an interview on SystemCulture.org - We want to ask you some questions; contact us if you want to participate - keep emailing us with your details and we will keep promoting your music.

Again we would also like to thank everyone who has downloaded our Microsoft track!

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"'Jude The Obscure'" My My Little, http://www.mymylittle.com/

"The story continues..." BBC online

"I am extremely intrigued by your sound.. highly fascinating and very unique, catchy because it really sticks with you!" DestinationDawn, ReverbNation

"So, how good is it? It is exceptionally good and you can’t bank on these songs being on the next album..." Mick Mercer

"THIS WINDOW dürfte zu einer der exzentrischsten und vielleicht auch ideologischsten CassetTenbands Englands..." Uwe Wolfrum / Matthais Lang, Epitaph

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Finish The Story

2009-09-14T05:05:00.000-07:00

My past always seems to catch up with me.....(Peter)

Recording ‘Doorways’ the beginning and the end, a conversation between Gary Smout and Peter Bright, to be overheard by other people who know nothing about Finish The Story. Transcript by MDM.

“Tell me, after the Malvern gig did you take the synths back to Bromsgrove? How did they end up there because as far as I recall there was never any intention at that point to take FTS further and our going to Bromsgrove was more of an autopsy/end of gig thing - wasn't it? That's sort of how I remember it.” (Garry)

The only thing I can remember is my parents were on holiday and the three of us ended up at 59 Crabtree Lane. At some point you went back to Bristol and Nicola was still with me in Bromsgrove. I can vividly remember walking into the newsagent, buying ‘Record Mirror’ 1and reading a review of the Malvern gig. The review was full of praise and contained an intriguing and telling couple of lines at the end ‘..the crowd were obviously impressed, even though the band weren’t. Quite a début.’ I think we were prepared for an autopsy but not prepared for the praise. It was at this point we got our heads together and decided we would ‘have a go’ to see if we could build on the success. Unfortunately we weren’t strong enough emotionally or as a unit to cope with the sudden roller coaster ride - we weren’t allowed to make our mistakes in private (in the rehearsal room) we had to test-drive new material before we could actually play it with confidence. It was a bizarre journey – to be in the music press described as a ‘band’ with Nicola not knowing who I was and me not knowing who she was – you had to be the artery for our creative juices (yuk!). You could argue that this was pure, a creative, adrenalin driven ideal scenario for the creation of something different and unusual. - I would agree to that in theory but in reality it was incredibly stressful. We had got our product to market too quickly; we hadn’t invested enough time in development. We were ‘…better than the second coming of Jesus Christ’ – we proved that eighteen months later when we had matured and got to know each other better.

‘Doorways’ was recorded on a 4 track Tascam 144 cassette recorder – I had bought this in Birmingham – the store fleeced me with excessive repayments – they were expensive bits of kit and a piece of cutting edge technology - in comparison with today’s digital audio world they were positively primitive. This was a massive investment for me and at the time - it was the best available home recording equipment on the market and Finish The Story had two of them. (Peter)

“Yep, two tascams, mine and yours. We both saw the Tomorrow's World when they appeared and instantly wanted one - took some time I seem to remember. I don't think though you bounced down to each other - I was sure you had a reel to reel but if not it does explain how it was recorded.”

Nicola was new to me, we had only met a handful of times so everything was polite courteous. She was ‘mike shy’ and it was difficult to get her to sing with any power. I can remember it being a deliberate process – the recording was organized and structured.

There are five recorded parts to the track: Drum Machine, Guitar, Vocals, Roland JP4 percussion track (drum sound) and an Elka string machine/ JP4 synth voice part. The master tape has been lost but I think I bounced the JP4 percussion track and the string/voice keyboard track together (internally). There is a point on the tape where I had to drop edit the string/voice track – it involved remarkable timing by you and a swift left index finger by me. You can here this where the flanger’s tonal sweep changes towards the later end of the track – this edit actually emphasised the elation of the keyboards, a lucky accident and I can remember us all jumping up and down with relief – it was a shit or bust moment.

"I remember laying down the drum track, just playing that odd percussion sound on the RJ4, slightly off, doubled up here etc and getting very bored so stopping after so long - hey this track ain't going to be this long - and then hours later Nicola doing her final vocal - she had just written the lyrics so no one knew how long it was going to be and as she was singing it you recorded it as with her then there was a danger she would clam up. The counter kept getting closer to the final number and Nicola seemed to never end. If she continued and the drum track, along with your guitar, stops she is going to be pissed as hell, then she stopped, mere seconds before the drum, that's why the end nicely falls apart, it is us naturally stopping, not a contrived ending or a bloody fade out.

History would repeat itself doing 'Cold as Roses'. We laid out a long, long track; she wouldn't sing so Lazlo just played a very long solo and gave a typical violin ending. She comes along, does her bit then suddenly starts that 15 bar yell that worries the crap out of us as yet again we are running out of recorded track and then she ends smack on Lazolo's flourish – amazing."

On ‘Doorways’ the vocals are recorded in sections, you can hear these distinctively, the echo/reverb on Nicola’s voice has different qualities. (The echo/reverb was recorded directly onto the track – 144’s only have one send and return, mix downs are limited.) This simple little track was hard to record, caused by the restrictions of the 144 – if we recorded it now it would be a piece of cake - but would sound completely different. Doorways captures a unique moment. A moment which can never be repeated – lost innocents, optimism, hope, naivety and desperation. Doorways was also our fate – we couldn’t play it live and we never recorded anything afterward that came close to its awkward perfection. We never recorded anything afterward that was worthy of our pride.

"I do remember playing it to The Photos and to Tim at his place later the next day or week and them going in disbelief 'That's Nicola?' The most interested and supportive was Ollie who listened to it about 3 times. He was a man of few words; most of them sarcastic, so the fact he was genuinely interested spoke tons."

Finish The Story never recorded anything that we were happy with – I know most artistes say that….but everything we recorded was useless, there was always something catastrophically wrong with each track: bad mix, bad guitar, bad keyboards, bad vocals, bad hair day etc. None of the tracks stood a chance of being released they were just demo’s, we were a live band every gig was a performance never to be repeated or captured.

"All we recorded was really for a record company's ear not for the general public; the only one that was deliberately 'given' to the public domain was that one the two of you did."

Yes, the only thing that did get released was when Finish The Story was as good as finished – I’d walked off stage in the middle of a gig at the ‘AdLib’ and decided to call it a day (or was I sacked?). It had all got too much for me, all I could here was that fucking violin and I thought I’m playing bollocks? I can’t hear Garry, has Nicola done that bit yet? This sounds shit and I am disappointed. It was the last straw that broke…….besides. I was trying to hold down a job and I was in love. I’d reached breaking point. Nicola and I eventually put this behind us and we had a go at writing songs together. Zig Zag (magazine) offered Nicola a track on an album they were releasing in conjunction with Situation Two (Beggars Banquet) - we recorded a version of ‘Like A Sickle Runs Through Corn’ on the old Tascam 144 which I mixed onto a Revox PR9910 - that was released on ‘Gunfire and Pianos’ (like ‘Doorways’ a track recorded in a bedroom in Bromsgrove).

"I was never told, contacted or asked about my feelings concerning the ‘wheat through whatever song’ and I must admit I was a little pissed off when I found out but when I heard it - what the fuck could I have offered? It was wonderful, it was FTS! It is also one of my favourite FTS songs. If you have a chance to work with her again please, please, please don't see me as important or necessary. From me: Support, images, feedback, love etc yes: playing? writing? Um, sorry, no. You two were the best version of FTS."

I disagree. What I really want to happen is…….

Newsletter 6 September

2009-09-06T10:16:00.000-07:00

This weekend has been another one of traveling - We went to see Muse play in Teignmouth, which is where they were formed. This sleepy seaside town was closed off and 10,000 people invaded (read more? Muse - Live Teignmouth)

This week is going to be a very busy one, I am curating an art exhibition - the paperwork is getting me down!

Below are a few of the latest interview pages we have done on SystemCulture.org - have a look and support these artists:

The website SystemCulture.org is dedicated to reviewing and interviewing artists on ReverbNation. Each interview has the artists link widget and player on it. If you want an interview on SystemCulture.org - We want to ask you some questions; contact us if you want to participate - keep emailing us with your details and we will keep promoting your music.

Again we would also like to thank everyone who has downloaded our Microsoft track!

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Jude The Obscure

2009-09-02T08:14:00.000-07:00

"Jude the Obscure" was released in May 1989 and is the second solo release by T/W on M4TR and is seen as a natural progression from the first tape 'Hope’, which was released twelve months before. The songs on Jude are more inventive and the recording style more experimental e.g., the use of different speeds, machines, tape types with and without noise reduction, the use of microphones (different types in various different rooms)at one point the whole house became the studio, the bathroom the live room, the bedroom the dead room, etc. The most important thing about JTO is that these diverse factors combine together to create a whole product in which traditional songs of melody and musical structure combine with experimentation to compliment each other and the bitch is raw in places The use of instruments on JTO creates a bizarre effect, one minute a crazy AXEMAN guitar will disappear into a didgeridoo droning underneath a flute and eastern drum and the next a floating female vocal will be echoed by a telephone answer machine. The whole experience was a great adventure.

Download the full Mp3 version....only £2.50p for 18 tracks!

West Buckland Festival (10th - 13th September 2009)

2009-09-02T01:15:00.000-07:00

West Buckland Festival is a festival of music, entertainment and leisure, held in a small village on the edge of Exmoor. This year’s festival will feature more than a dozen events between Thursday September 10th and Sunday September 13th 2009.

The program includes a Classical Concert with some of the most outstanding young musicians in the South West, an evening of Jazz with international stars Ruth Applin and Josh Kemp and the outstanding pianist, Harry the Piano. There is also an Old Time Music Hall evening and an art exhibition. Read more...

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‘West Buckland is located within North Devon local authority area. Historically it formed part of Braunton Hundred. It falls within South Molton Deanery for ecclesiastical purposes. The Deaneries are used to arrange the typescript Church Notes of B.F.Cresswell which are held in the Westcountry Studies Library. The population was 257 in 1801 277 in 1901 . Figures for other years are available on the local studies website. In 1641/2 45 adult males signed the Protestation returns.’ more…

Get yourself noticed - place a banner advert on this site for twelve months - for as little as £10.00. The money generated by this website will be added to the funds raised by the festival whose purpose is to provide music, art and entertainment for the people of North Devon. Money raised is divided between a Charity or Charities chosen by the Festival Committee and the upkeep of St Peter’s Church, West Buckland.

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Newsletter 30 August

2009-08-30T03:15:00.000-07:00

The summer is nearly over, it is a bank holiday weekend, the sea looks icy cold, there is no surf, there is a cold wind, and it's raining again. I love British summers (not). It might be time for us to leave the UK and find a more clement clime - any ideas where we should move to?

'Rainy days and Sundays always get me down' I can't believe I've got a 'Carpenters' song going around in my head - quick somebody pass me the 'mind bleach'.

Below are a few of the latest interview pages we have done on SystemCulture.org - have a look and support these artists:

We have had loads of response to our call for reviews and interviews. We are a little behind in processing requests but - keep emailing us with your details and we will keep promoting your music.

Again we would also like to thank everyone who has downloaded our Microsoft track!

Thanks for your support,

This Window

2009-08-24T13:25:00.000-07:00

I must be getting old - I've just got back from three (or was it four) days on the road with another band and I'm f####d. I can't do going to bed at 4am and getting up at 8am anymore.....

Below are a few of the latest interview pages we have done on SystemCulture.org - have a look and support these artists:

The website SystemCulture.org is dedicated to reviewing and interviewing artists on ReverbNation. Each interview has the artists link widget and player on it. If you want an interview on SystemCulture.org ? We want to ask you some questions; if you want to participate contact us.

We have had loads of response to our call for reviews and interviews. We are a little behind in processing requests but - keep emailing us with your details and we will keep promoting your music.

Again we would also like to thank everyone who has downloaded our Microsoft track!

Thanks for your support,

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Get heard

2009-08-24T13:21:00.001-07:00

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Videos

2009-08-24T07:46:00.000-07:00

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Want your music reviewed?

2009-07-26T03:22:00.000-07:00

With the help of M4tr Productions, we have begun creating a website dedicated to reviewing artists on ReverbNation . Each review will have the artist's link widget and player on it. It is early days yet but if you would like a review on SystemCulture.org then contact us via the website. Send us about 250 words about yourself and we will load it up with our review. This should promote us all and benefit everyone.

Here are a few we have already done

Still Available from Electro Arc

2009-07-22T13:13:00.000-07:00

Review:
...As the stony voice and slithering guitar move deliciously over the stark beat and disdainful bass 'Where Is My Jesus' creeps about imperiously and carries a chorus like a sodden flag. You'll be hooked into its quicksand embrace quickly enough...

Where Is My Jesus...

...availble from iTunes

Where Is My Jesus - off Net.Ware Stimulation

Stream Lounge (Music Maniacs Home)

2009-07-22T00:46:00.000-07:00

We have just joined Stream Lounge ( http://stream-lounge.ning.com ) This is a fantastic site for listening to electronic music with a really heavy, mean attitude.

Visit Stream Lounge

You can also join up and create your own profile. Tracks on there include stuff from the Eletro Arc stable with artists like Code Machine, First Aid 4 Souls, Homicide Division etc. You must go for a listen!

Obvious!

2009-07-21T12:20:00.001-07:00

We have put up another track: Obvious, which is a very sad love song (sentimental, self indulgent rubbish really). Have a listen and if it makes you puke.....we apologise.

We have recently got back from 'Chagstock Festival' where Jake played (supporting 'Squeeze') in his other band 'Dastards'. It was a great weekend and was the first time I have ever stayed in a Tepee. It was an enormous thing about 18 feet high and would sleep eight comfortably - Must do it again. The Dastards were one the stars of the show - a great (brief) performance. Next stop 'Fahrenheit Festival' in Cambridge (7,8 and 9 August)

George, Wake, Mudie (drums) Jake on the main stage at Chagstock

Trouble (at Chagstock) Dastards
Another video from the Chagstock Festival.

The sun came out and shone on the assembled crowd.

We are really behind on replying to emails and stuff so forgive us if we haven't replied...

.....a free download of 'You Have The Power' by This Window is still available, this has been made possible by Microsoft.

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German reviews etc.

2009-07-14T09:47:00.000-07:00

We're still number 1 on the ReverbNation Alternative charts for South West, UK. www.reverbnation.com/thiswind

Click the link below for our free track from Microsoft.

Old Articles/Reviews

Review in German magazine 'Epitaph' 1991, contains list of solo releases from 1988 - 1991 [1]
Review and interview with the BBC in 2005 about the release of 'The Sampler #05'.[2]There is a link on this page to an audio clip of the interview.
Review by Mick Mercer: [3]in 2007.

Number 1 in South West

2009-07-09T04:52:00.000-07:00

We are running on a bit of a high at the moment - it is difficult to keep on top of things. If you have the time visit ReverbNation.com go to our page and have a listen to all of our friends. There are some great tracks on there.

We're number 102 on the ReverbNation World Alternative charts. www.reverbnation.com/thiswi...
Not only are we number 18 in UK, we're number 1 on the ReverbNation Alternative charts for South West, UK. www.reverbnation.com/thiswi... Thanks!

Jake is busy rehearsing with The Dastards for their Chagstock Festival appearence supporting Squeeze on the 18th July.

Music to die for

2009-07-07T16:28:00.000-07:00

It was a pleasant surprise to find This Window mentioned in a classic book about the history of music. Mick Mercer has compiled a remarkable directory of bands that have been inspired or are inspired by the post-punk Goth phenomena. This book contains discographies and web links (plus a load of other stuff).

....

Music to Die For

...the postman arrived and I have sat here for the past hour or so thumbing through and reading the pages. It was a great relief to find out that I could still read the printed word - my dependence on visual and aural spoon fed pap via MySpace has been cured. The logical cataloguing of this tome is a truly important achievement and it is a relief to be able to find something (in alphabetical order) easily. The only warning I must give is - beware of the photographs, there are some ugly mugs in there. You have to get this book it is more than just a simple list, it is a Bible.…

This Window are number 20 on the ReverbNation Alternative charts UK. www.reverbnation.com/thiswi… and This Window are number 2 on the ReverbNation Alternative charts for South West UK. www.reverbnation.com/thiswi…

‘You Have The Power‘ by This Window is available, made possible by Microsoft. Get it now! It is a different mix to the one on iTunes.

M4tr Productions

2009-07-04T02:29:00.000-07:00

Why not visit our label page M4tr Productions. With a little bit of luck there should be some interesting developments happening soon, with new releases coming out from different artists. (M4tr is a small UK independent, alternative, music label that was formed in 1985. The majority of the bands/artists featured are from Europe.)

.....a free download made possible by Microsoft is still available here via the link , it is a slightly different version to the one that is available from

We are still busy listening and visiting our friends in ReverbNation World - Please drop by and visit us. http://www.reverbnation.com/thiswindow

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M4tr Productions expansion in the pipeline http://www.m4tr.co.uk

2009-07-03T11:06:00.000-07:00

We are now number 25 on the ReverbNation Alternative charts for UK. www.reverbnation.com/thiswi... a free download (You Have The Power) made possible by Microsoft is available here

A free download

2009-06-30T13:24:00.000-07:00

We're number 27 on the ReverbNation Alternative charts for UK. www.reverbnation.com/thiswi.... Free download http://bit.ly/ix9jM

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