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Artist:	MCPHEE, DEAN
Title:	Brown Bear
Label:	BLAST FIRST PETITE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	PTYT 046CD

West Yorkshire's Dean McPhee self-released on his own Hood Faire label a limited 12" in 2009. Blast First Petite picked up rights for this CD re-release after hearing a track on WFMU New York, and Dean has gone on to record a new album for BFP. John Peel's son, Tom Ravenscroft gave the 12" an honorable mention in a round-up of his current favorite music. In New York, a store reported that it seems every time they put the record on they sell one, so immediate is the "McPhee Effect." Reviews of the 12": Brainwashed: "This is a very promising and assured first release, as McPhee displays a rare combination of technical skill, simplicity, and subtle unpredictability." Boomkat: "Dean McPhee offers a more complete picture of his talents as a solo guitarist on this new 12" for the Hood Faire label. Playing clean electric guitar without too much in the way of reverb, McPhee plucks his way through some lovely instrumentals here, perhaps bringing to mind John Fahey's more melodic Table Of The Elements output or certain Six Organs Of Admittance recordings. Best of the bunch is the B-side-filling title track which makes good use of delay/loop pedals and stirs up a wonderfully dense atmospheric backdrop after the more skeletal, naturalistic sounds of the A-side. Recommended." Foxy Digitalis: "Arguably the best solo guitar record in the past few years. 10/10."

Artist:	MCPHEE, DEAN
Title:	Son Of The Black Peace
Label:	BLAST FIRST PETITE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	PTYT 047CD

West Yorkshire's Dean McPhee releases his first full-length album consisting of four new tracks of his singular signature style of introspective, drifting instrumentals, masterfully-played eclectic electric guitar and efx meanderings. Quiet-time music; summer fields and winter fire-tending. Future dub folk from an olde English tradition that no one can quite put their finger on. Blast First Petite re-released his initial Brown Bear EP on CD in spring of 2010 to a growing press awareness of this young man's talents with Boomkat, Brainwashed and Foxy Digitalis giving him the big ears kudos and MOJO and Tom Ravenscroft firmly planting the McPhee flag as a talent to watch out for. A steady rivulet of live dates are planned with sympathetic souls old (Michael Chapman's Ecstatic Peace! tripping) and new (Richard Skelton psychogeographical séances with place).

Artist:	MCPHEE, DEAN
Title:	Son Of The Black Peace
Label:	BLAST FIRST PETITE (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	PTYT 047LP

LP version. West Yorkshire's Dean McPhee releases his first full-length album consisting of four new tracks of his singular signature style of introspective, drifting instrumentals, masterfully-played eclectic electric guitar and efx meanderings. Quiet-time music; summer fields and winter fire-tending. Future dub folk from an olde English tradition that no one can quite put their finger on. Blast First Petite re-released his initial Brown Bear EP on CD in spring of 2010 to a growing press awareness of this young man's talents with Boomkat, Brainwashed and Foxy Digitalis giving him the big ears kudos and MOJO and Tom Ravenscroft firmly planting the McPhee flag as a talent to watch out for. A steady rivulet of live dates are planned with sympathetic souls old (Michael Chapman's Ecstatic Peace! tripping) and new (Richard Skelton psychogeographical séances with place).

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