Between 2016 and 2017 Colin Robinson released three albums by his one-man project Jumble Hole Clough with "music for imaginary puppet shows": This Salty Armada, Moth On A Staircase Window. Elmet By Moonlight. Maybe it was the release of his long-form compositions on Up the Wooden Hills to Heckmondwike to try his hand again on short instrumentals.
Volume 4 in the series is called From a Broom Cupboard in Marseille, and it features songs about man-made flooding (The Inundation of Dunwich), the Roman god of war as the speaker for a condition (Mars, the Harbinger of Diabetes) and brollies that won't work (Our umbrellas are made of flannel).
Robinson dug deep in his sack of rhythms and assorted titbits and used them as the springboard for short melodic excursions, with some "incidental music" quirks thrown in. He always finds a way to yank the listener out of his comfort zone. A Month of Sundays is quite relaxed, as it should be with a title like that, but there is also something lurking in the background that mean trouble. On the other hand, what's not to like about Imaginary gardens containing real frogs? Can such a thing actually exist? Thanks to an avant-garde musician from Hebden Bridge there is at least the possibility to conjure up the image of them leaping about.
From a Broom Cupboard in Marseille - music for imaginary puppet shows volume 4 is a self-released album. Buy it (pay-what-you-want) from his website.
Tracks:- Mars, the Harbinger of Diabetes
- Are we not running?
- Time passes swiftly in the nursery
- Slow Train to Arthington
- Does joining a Dog Community cure loneliness?
- A Month of Sundays
- A couple were living down there
- My Name is Pritty Jiggins
- The Inundation of Dunwich
- Imaginary gardens containing real frogs
- For Old Times' Sake
- Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon
- I slept in a broom cupboard in Marseille
- Our umbrellas are made of flannel
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