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$20.00
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RELEASE DATE: 8/8/2025
Newcastle-based electronic artist Bartholomew returns with Subterranea, his most personal and cinematic release to date. Arriving on Lunar Module, a new CD imprint from Castles in Space, the album delves deep into emotional terrain -- fusing generative electronics, orchestral flourishes, and raw sonic textures into a poignant meditation on instability and resilience. Following 2023's Moorbound -- a love letter to the Newcastle Town Moor -- Subterranea marks a turning inward. While Moorbound found grounding in the natural world, this new record confronts internal architecture: the disquiet of mental health struggles, personal upheaval, and the ever-shifting nature of equilibrium. Across nine tracks, Bartholomew -- real name Chris Bartholomew -- draws on his background in theatrical composition (Barbican, National Theatre Studio), marrying cinematic storytelling with a palette that recalls the emotional resonance of Hans Zimmer, the granular textures of Tim Hecker, and the stark minimalism of Ben Frost. The result is a body of work that's as vulnerable as it is technically accomplished. The seeds of Subterranea were planted after a shared bill at Newcastle's Cumberland Arms with Gordon Chapman-Fox (Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan). Impressed by the raw demo material, Chapman-Fox brought the project to Lunar Module, a label whose mission -- charting inner worlds and emotional topographies -- was an ideal fit.
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To launch the new Lunar Module imprint from Castles In Space, Gordon Chapman-Fox presents an album of cinematic ambient music, stepping away from his usual analogue synthesizer tones. "I wanted to stretch my legs and create something more long form, organic and immersive than my Warrington-Runcorn persona" says Gordon. "I hope the title speaks for itself. This is ambient music, but it's not background music. This is very much for the foreground. To be played loudly and to lose yourself in this world of sound." The four tracks on offer present a different side to Gordon's skills -- the tracks are stripped of the usual soaring melodies and arpeggios of Warrington-Runcorn, but maintain the oppressive melancholy through tones and textures. "There's quite substantial use of orchestral sound libraries on this" says Gordon. "I wanted to hear the sound of a bow scraping across a cello or the breath of a choir. Not having either an orchestra or choir to hand, sample libraries had to fill the gap."
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$18.00
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RELEASE DATE: 7/11/2025
An Aesthetic: Experiments in Tape is the second release on Lunar Module, the CD imprint from Castles in Space. Hawksmoor is James McKeown, a solo electronic artist from Bristol with a fascination with the sounds and sensibilities of '70s/'80s German electronic groups -- think early Cluster, Harmonia, Can, Neu!, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Michael Rother -- and the melodic hauntological modular synth aesthetic of hauntology -- Ghost Box, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Focus Group et al. He first created Hawksmoor as an imaginary hauntological soundtrack, inspired by the six Hawksmoor churches in London. Using strictly modular synths, electronic drum rhythms, and guitars, Hawksmoor has created an electronic landscaped music world that is both new and old, immediately identifiable and yet utterly unique.
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