Regal Worm “Use And Ornament”

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Quatermass Records
Release date: December 2, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. Zinc Ferment
2. Cherish That Rubber Rodent
3. The Mardi Gras Turned Ugly In Seconds
4. Apple Witch
5. Morning Sentinel
6. Confession From A Deep And Warm Hibernaculum
   i. Running, Hopping, Leaping
   ii. Nimbostratus
   iii. Sword Blades
   iv. Time And Circumstance (One Second Either Way)
7. Mud
8. 6:17PM — The Aunt Turns Into An Ant
   i. Crunch time. Tea waste. Flagstone desert
   ii. Narration #1
   iii. Six feet and under the table. Approaching terror
   iv. Beset by centipedes. The well-timed rescue
   v. Narration #2
   vi. Acceptance into the colony, on condition that eighteen score and ten aphids are ritually sacrificed. Refusal and escape.
   vii. Flagstone dessert (with cake crumbs). Ant alone.
   viii. Narration #3
   ix. My name is Silvius. Ant elopes. From ants to blackbirds and beyond.
   x. Each its hour
9. Klara Till Slutet (Main Title Theme)

Line-up: 
Jarrod Gosling (Henry Fool, I Monster, Skywatchers) - Mellotron M400, synthesizers, Hammond organs, Leslie speaker, jarlsberg organ, Rhodes piano, bass guitars, electric and acoustic guitars, drums, percussion, voice, bowed saw, glockenspiels, accordion, recorder, whistles, stylophone, mouth organ, home made stuff, direction, effects, stories
    With:
Mick Somerset-Ward: tenor, alto and soprano saxophones, alto and C flutes, whistles, bass clarinet, Jew’s harp, shruti box, Maestro effects unit, sleigh bells, voice, words on ‘Time And Circumstance (One Second Either Way)’ and ‘Narration’ tracks
Peter Rophone: voice
Kevin Pearce: voice
Louis Atkinson: tenor and soprano saxophones
Richard Bradley: EMS Synthi AKS, flexitone, vibraslap
Lucy Fawcett: trumpe.
Nick Gosling: electric guitar
Jack Helliwell: violin
Lucy Hope: voice
Graham McElearney: harps
Rebecca Allen: voice

Description/Reviews: 

This album is the culmination of months of fevered work in Jarrod Gosling’s (Henry Fool, I Monster, Skywatchers) "Pig View" studio beavering away on dangerous vintage machinery (including his prized Mellotron M400), to bring Prog Fans a highly detailed but accessible and colourful music, mixing prog, jazz, and folk genres with an anarchic post-­-punk strand and sensibility.

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