The End Springs
The End Springs spins six-string patterns like spider webs, all quiet bossa-nova wanderings and neo-Fahey dusty landscapes, spruced with poignant sunrise/sunset delay and subtle sampled naturalism. Total tranquility base. (Not Not Fun Records)
The End Springs is my project of lo-fi recordings, mostly 1st takes & with everything left in. Musical power improvisations that capture the moment.
Check out the video of me playing guitar with the Viking Moses along the embankment in London.
It was recorded on the 29th July 2007. (I'm the one looking like he should be in the Magic Numbers!!!)
Discography
Volume I (cdr) (ES01)
Volume I (Ltd Ed cdr / 1st run) (ESL01)
Volume I (Ltd Ed cdr / 2nd run) (ESL02)
Peace Paws
(split cassette) (NNF040)
Volume II (cdr) (ES02)
The Return of Things Too Beautiful
(Ltd Ed cdr) (ESL03)
The Cold Dirt Diaries (3" cdr) (C.0.W.002)
Winds of Dust 1 (split cassette single) (WOD01)
There Lies The Electric Reasons (cdr) (RW024)
Synergy (cdr) (ttc 008)
The Twisted Featherx ep (3" cdr) (DWT18)
The Silent Meadow (cdr) (ABOS146)
Compilation Tracks
V/A: Vinyl Beards (BSBTA Vinyl & A Beard of Snails Records / Bsbtavinyl 6) Collaboration track (w/ A Man & A Guitar) - "Dusty Train".
Washed Shores (Compilation) - (Seafoam Records / Seafoam 002) My track - "Traveling with Golden Kites".
A Compilation (JK Tapes / JK1) My track - "Home End Springs".
Miscellaneous
Kevin Greenspon - "Cultural Geography of the United States" (Bridgetown Records / BTR-09) I contributed guitar to a
track called "Ghostride The 'Ssippi".
If We Were Moons (4-Way Split) (Tract Records / TR040) Features 4 beautiful songs (including a Songs:Ohia cover) by the Viking Moses
which feature me playing 2nd guitar.
LATEST MUSIC/RELEASES
"The Silent Meadow" - The End Springs (cdr) (ABOS146)
The man behind Dust Wind Tales bestows upon us three pieces of acoustic rural haze (in the maize.)
Six-stringed intimacy, folklore freakin', Olde English Countryside with hints of Appalachia.
Cover art by Brendon 'Viking Moses' Massei. (Edition of 60)
Released by A Beard of Snails
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"The Twisted Feathers ep" - The End Springs & George Thomas (3" cdr) (DWT18)
There comes a time when musicians search for new sounds and inspiration,
taking paths that lead to new horizons. The time came for these two artists.
Four beautiful collaborations feature on this cdr, each one twisting and
turning through the minds of the End Springs and George Thomas.
Good friends working together via the british postal service and
the feathered warriors of the sky.
White faced 3" cdr packaged in a clear pvc case together with
a cover featuring a feather from a british black and red chicken.
Includes a small insert. (Edition of 40)
Released by Dust Wind Tales
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"Synergy" by The End Springs - Tired Trails Collective (cdr) (ttc 008)
What a wonderful month for us at tired trails to be sharing yet another amazing cd with ya'll. This one came to us from across the swamp, after it was sent around the globe and back. This gorgeous minimal psych folk wonder began in the mighty fine hands of the brilliant improvisational guitar extraordinare The End Springs, who created skeletal tracks and then sent them to some of his best friends/favourite musicians for collaboration; Siddhi, Beggin' Your Pardon Miss Joan, The Child of a Creek & A Man and A Guitar. The result couldn't be more satisfying or soul seducing. There is an obvious unspoken connection between The End Springs and the other artists, as their musical union sounds like they've been playing together for years.
The album is lead with a solo End Springs track, bells ring in the beginning of repetitive slide guitar bits, shakers and a mist of desert drone, all dangling on the edge of familiarity and abandon. Each collaborating artist molds their given tracks in solemn but shining shapes like stars and smiles from the sun, light captured at its most delicate, delicious. Soft layers of voices, hi-hat tumblings and bass enrich the repetitive and ramblin' guitar plucked with that lazy winter impression. Sparse yet engaging, all signs point inward, towards the heart of everything. Another masterpiece from the mellow mind of the End Springs, this album is sure to captivate and entrance all three of your eyes (don't act like you don't know). This cdr comes packaged in either recycled brown leaf nepali lokta or recycled striped paper. Two inserts - one with hand-drawn album art (by Jess) & the other with track list, credits, info...
Released by Tired Trails Collective
Contact - endsprings@btinternet.com
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