Salt Heart (special edition), by Darren j Holloway

Salt Heart (special edition)

by Darren j Holloway

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very limited edition C65 cassette - Grey case + OBI strip version
Cassette + Digital Album
Only 12 of these salty sea dogs made. English Channel Aqua frosted shell in beach pebble grey case (both made from recycled materials) with heavyweight card OBI strip, featuring original artwork by John Lymer.

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very limited edition C65 cassette - Aqua-Clear case + J-card version
Cassette + Digital Album
Again, only 12 of these made, this time they come in a traditional case / j-card combo.

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1.	The Dreamer's Haze 07:28	buy track
2.	Incorporea 05:52	buy track
3.	The Ebb 07:06	buy track
4.	To Save a Drowning Horse 04:13	buy track
5.	Saltheart 06:49	buy track
6.	Flyht 01:48	buy track
7.	Nomads 05:12	buy track
8.	Godhead 04:44	buy track
9.	3000 Miles 07:35	buy track
10.	Deltawave 03:17	buy track
11.	Resistance 02:26	buy track
12.	Palessuns 03:36	buy track

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The special edition cassette release of Salt Heart includes the full album on Side A plus the mini-album One Month (previously only available as a digital download) and three other previously unreleased tracks recorded during the sessions on Side B.

I hope you enjoy it.

Darren j Holloway, April 2021

"Darren j Holloway, aka SINNEN aka Damselfly returns, this time as himself; though given the shifting, amorphous nature of this release you have to wonder what he is actually revealing.

Holloway casts a musical net which captures elements of Silver Pyre, John T Gast, DC Pierre or Coil's more zoned-out moments.

The music has an ambivalent quality all of its own though; a brilliant aural nothingness that resembles walking through a fog. The vocals act as silhouettes, marsh lights to give you an indication of a horizon or something to aim at. Given tracks like 'The Ebb' and 'Saltheart' - maybe this is also a pre-configuring of digital-industrial music; that post-post everything sound reshaped for a new age of plough and scythe. They always did say the Fourth World War would be fought with sticks and stones...

The title of the opening track, 'The Dreamer's Haze', is a good marker for the listening experience as a whole; waves of atonal noise create an interzone that is as neutral or as threatening as you want to make it. There is drama, somewhere. Situationist music for no situation at all? Very possibly."

Richard James Foster (writer for The Quietus, The Wire, Drowned in Sound, Louder than War)

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released May 28, 2021

All music by Darren James Holloway (c) Damselfly Music 2020
Written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Darren @ Riverside Cottage Studio, Sussex, 2020

Artwork by John Lymer
Additional design by Darren

Darren would like to thank; Andy, David, Ash & Paul @ TQN-aut, Richard & Marcel @ Smikkelbaard, John Lymer @ LYMER

'To Save a Drowning Horse' was inspired by a conversation with Andy Wood

In memory of those who perished on The Mary Stanford lifeboat, Rye Harbour, East Sussex 15th November 1928.

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