MOUNT VERNON ARTS LAB 8211 The Sance At Hobs Lane (Reissue) 8211 LP 8211 Vinyl

LP – Heavy weight black vinyl with colour inner. \”The brainchild of composer Drew Mulholland, the project\’s title alone twitches and seethes with enough occult and pop cult references to set the senses reeling. Everything is darkly alive, and with VCS3 synthesizer, theremin and guitar he conjures up sinister whirring vibrations that seem to come from deep beneath the ground.\” – Ken Hollings, The Wire The next in an ongoing series of Ghost Box back catalogue re-issues, Sance at Hobs Lane is an overlooked classic of British electronics. Its sinister atmospherics are comprised of VCS3 synthesizer squalls, howling guitar, skronking sax, and oddly haunting keyboard and cello melodies. The album has a similar eccentric and disturbing atmosphere to the work of great mid-century British experimentalists like Desmond Leslie, Daphne Oram or Tristram Carey. Hobs Lane is the fictional tube station where the action of Nigel Kneales 1967 film, Quatermass and the Pit takes place. This movie sets the perfect tone as Mount Vernon Arts Lab plunges the listener into a world of abandoned underground stations, monochrome British science-fiction, eighteenth century secret societies and the footsore reveries of generations of flneurs; from Thomas De Quincey to Iain Sinclair. History:It was originally released as a limited CD in 2001 on Via Satellite, then by Ghost Box in 2007. It was cited by the labels founders Julian House & Jim Juppas a major influence on the creation of the label, and the identity it would go on to develop. The album became a cornerstone of the nebulous, but hugely influential cultural movement known as Hauntology (2004-2024). Mount Vernon Arts Lab is the lifelong, ever mutating, experimental art and music project of Glasgows Drew Mulholland. Sance was his fifth and possibly his most ambitious album, with a large number of talented artists co-writing and performing: John Balance (Coil) on Hobgoblins, Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) on The Mandrake Club, Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian) on The Black Drop, Barry 7 (Add N to X) on The Submariners Song and Adrian Utley (Portishead) on Warminster 4. Also taking part were saxophonist Raymond MacDonald and broadcaster and producer John Cavanagh. Tracklist: A1 The Fog DetonatorA2 HobgoblinsA3 Dashwood\’s ReverieA4 Sir Keith At LambethA5 The Submariner\’s SongA6 The Vauxhall Labyrinth B1 The Black DropB2 While London SleepsB3 The Mandrake ClubB4 Warminster 4B5 Percy Toplis