Following the release of the Department of Works Signs & Signals work, I proposed doing a remix version to the esteemed artists that had previously collaborated on the two Ensemble de Cadavres Equis albums.

You are now presented with the opportunity to hear these. Like the preceding EDCE works, this is a strange journey that has been left very much as the artists presented. It takes a path through dub, noise, poetry performance, glitch, free jazz and musique concrète.

Revisiting the original album we step back into a backrooms half space full of long abandoned number stations, ancient sunken land masses, overly sexualised AI companions and magick workings on interstellar objects.

The longer pieces are bridged by electronica intervals made by Izzyhereyet. Clocking in at around 70 minutes in all, due to limitations on Bandcamp and to reflect the presentation in cassette format, the work is offered in Side A & Side B mix-tape format. Contributing artists are shown in the credits below.

Whilst some more thorough investigation is needed to confirm this, I believe this is the 20th long form piece or project that falls under the Glove of Bones or associated heteronym. The GoB in approaching its 10th year of activity, being conjured into existence over a long weekend visiting Winchester and Stone Henge for a 50th birthday escape. Over that period and with the assistance of many excellent collaborators we have made some surprising, original and above all hugely enjoyable explorations in outsider music.

Special mention must be made of my most frequent collaborator Cousin Silas, who appears wraith like in this part of the project, the Captain of the Submarine; the very Reverend Rob Mellor, and my personal nepo-baby Izzyhereyet, who was a sapling 10yr old with a Djembe when the GoB was kicked into life but now wields trees.

Thank you to all and I hope you enjoy the mix tape. Future GoB workings are under no pressure consideration

Ever onwards and upwards good friends and “Illegitimi Non Carborundum”.