Due out soon is an EP by Anthony Reynolds entitled "Bees Dream Of Flowers And Your Summer's Meadow Breath" that features Vashti Bunyan and Charlotte Greig. Available only as a 7" in a picture sleeve with a lyric insert and limited to only 500 copies or as a download with a different tracklisting, this EP is a companion piece to Anthony's album "British Ballads" that came out late last year.

The version of "Just So You Know" (from "British Ballads") that appears on the EP is sung by Vashti Bunyan and has been re-worked by Anthony together with Anthony Whiting (who has produced M.I.A. and Animal Collective amongst others).

"Like The Sun Feeds From Flowers" was co-written with Charlotte Greig especially for this release. Charlotte is perhaps more well known as a distinctive interpreter of traditional song (and curated the compilation of Lal Waterson's songs called "Early Bird" for Honest Jon's Records) but has released several albums of her own material too.

The third song on the vinyl is a demo of a song that was initially included on the album demos provided to Hungry Hill but Anthony chose not to pursue recording it at the album sessions. Shame. Perhaps we'll see an album of those demos released one day?

The two songs that will only be available digitally via itunes were outtakes from the actual album sessions. "Now It Begins" was a personal favourite of Hungry Hill honcho Boots but Anthony has his reservations whilst "Girls With Glasses" was one Anthony supported and Boots did not. As neither could entirely agreed upon it was decided to remove them both from the final tracklisting (together with a feisty track called "Get Me To My Mind On Time" but that is another story!).

The tracklistings to both formats are shown below and the 7" is available to order via Paypal or cheque (made payable to "Spinney") exclusively from the Spinney site for £4 plus postage ; packing.

7" tracklisting:

Just So You Know (featuring Vashti Bunyan)
It Isn't So
Like The Sun Feeds From Flowers (featuring Charlotte Greig)

itunes download tracklisting:

Just So You Know (featuring Vashti Bunyan)
Like The Sun Feeds From Flowers (featuring Charlotte Greig)
Now It Begins
Girls With Glasses

December 10th will see the release of Anthony Reynolds' album "British Ballads".

After several albums with the bands Jack and Jacques, this is Anthony's debut solo record. It was produced by Julian Simmons and features contributions from Vashti Bunyan, John Howard, the author Colin Wilson, Dot Allison and Simon Raymonde. Lyrically the songs on the album reflect Anthony's removal from the city (London) to the country (rural Staffordshire).

You can order it from this website for £8.50 plus postage and packing.

Whilst Barry Dransfield, one of England's finest fiddlers and interpreters of traditional song, was packing up to leave these fair shores to reside in Brittany, France, he came across some copies of two albums which he did not want to lug over on the ferry with him. Spinney duly dispatched a courier to pick up the stock and can now offer them for sale exclusively via this website.

The first of these albums was released in 1996 on Rhiannon. Entitled "Wings Of A Sphinx" it was Barry's last album before taking a decade away from recording. Featuring versions of "Byker Hill", "Gypsy Davey" and "Sheebeg And Sheemore" it is a splendid piece of work.

Barry's next foray into recording was made at his home studio. "Unruly" utilised traditional and classical music to great effect resulting in a folk/classical hybrid that brooks no rivals.

Both albums are available for £6 each plus postage ; packing or £10 for both plus postage and packing.

Additionally both albums will soon be available from iTunes together with "Bowin' And Scrapin" (released on Topic in 1978) and "Be Your Own Man" (released on Rhiannon in 1994) which will only be available digitally.

The debut album by Jack "Pioneer Soundtracks" will be re-issued by Spinney in an expanded form on 3rd March 2007. Just over ten years after its original release, the album, named as one of the albums of 1996 by much of the music press, has been augmented by another disc of sixteen tracks incorporating single versions, b-sides, demos and live material from a Paris concert recorded at the Cigale in November of the same year. Together with revamped artwork and a sixteen page booklet, this is a lovingly curated release.

We're delighted to announce that the forthcoming release of the long-delayed compilation of early material from Artery entitled “Afterwards – Recordings From 1979-1983”.

Jarvis Cocker of Pulp had this to say of the band “Once I’d seen Artery that was it. I knew what I wanted to do. I’d never seen anything like that before and I probably haven’t seen it since really. There was the whole intensity of it and that idea that anything could happen,” on the effect of seeing Artery perform for the first time in 1980.

Artery are one of the most unsung of all the Sheffield bands to emerge from the post-punk era. At that time the city was a hotbed of creative activity, with the punk movement having broken down the barriers, leaving room for new and original ideas. Artery were certainly original - unique even - the evidence of which is amply displayed on this compilation of some of the band’s finest moments.

They were to become one of the most important bands on the Sheffield scene for the best part of a decade.

John Peel was a fan of the band and invited them to record two sessions for his Radio 1 show. So impressed were the band by the results they achieved at Maida Vale that some of the tracks were included in the mini-album Oceans and are included here.

Compiled by Simon Hinkler from the band (and later of The Mission), this album includes all the early singles Mother Moon, Unbalanced, Cars In Motion ; The Clown, most of the Oceans mini-album and the excellent and never-previously released INPUT Studios demos. Please do not confuse this album with the recent Cherry Red release “Into The Garden” which was not sanctioned by the band and, confusingly, seemed to have been originally entitled “Afterwards – A Collection”.

Available as a strictly limited edition utilizing the themes of the original artwork of the singles and mini-album, this is the introduction to one of the UK’s most innovative and intense groups of the past twenty years.