False Walls
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Music label, based in Faversham, UK.
https://www.falsewalls.co.uk
May Spring Last a Lifetime by Tom Challenger & Evan Parker The album has received an 'indispensable' rating by Paris-Move: "the recording is both an exploration of sound and an extraordinary example of musical listening at its highest level" Album launch show: CAFE OTO, LONDON 21 JULY
9 days ago
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CRACKED GLAZE by Matthew Wright CD / digital New review in Electronic Sound magazine: "An absorbing, startling work."
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10 days ago
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May Spring Last a Lifetime by Tom Challenger & Evan Parker The album has received an 'indispensable' rating from Paris-Move: " ... stands among the most compelling duo recordings in contemporary improvised music." Album launch show: CAFE OTO, LONDON 21 JULY
11 days ago
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CRACKED GLAZE by Matthew Wright CD / digital Listening event next week -- Orpheus Instituut (Pyramid Hall / Koetshuis) Korte Meer 20a, 9000 Ghent, Belgium 16 June, 18:00
19 days ago
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CRACKED GLAZE by Matthew Wright CD / digital The new album is featured in a 3,500-word essay / interview with Matthew Wright -- by Bill Shoemaker in Point of Departure.
20 days ago
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CRACKED GLAZE by Matthew Wright CD/digital featured in The Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp By Peter Margasak "Composer Matthew Wright’s conceptual rigor on Cracked Glaze runs deep ... a work of elegant design that balances gliding, reflection with exquisitely etched conflict."
22 days ago
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The three new False Walls CDs: - Kenny Wheeler Sextet - Matthew Wright, with Sofia Jernberg, Ensemble Klang and Spheric Totemic - Evan Parker & Tom Challenger All 6 panel gatefold packages with booklets and CD sleeves, all designed by David Caines.
28 days ago
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CAFE OTO, LONDON: TUESDAY 21 JULY 2026, 7.30PM ALBUM LAUNCH SHOW for TOM CHALLENGER & EVAN PARKER'S "MAY SPRING LAST A LIFETIME" With HANNAH MARSHALL (solo)
30 days ago
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CRACKED GLAZE by Matthew Wright CD / digital " ... Matthew Wright’s captivating and structurally ingenious Cracked Glaze, all subtle interventions and carefully-judged excursions ... manages to be both elegant and spontaneous." BBC Music Magazine, 5 stars
about 1 month ago
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WHAT WAS: Kenny Wheeler Sextet CD/digital "an exceptional offering ... Recorded in 1995 but recently released, this session represents the British jazz of the period at a creative high, its personnel reading like a who's who of the period. Essential." -- BBC Music Magazine, 5 stars
about 1 month ago
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Two 5-star reviews in BBC Music Magazine for False Walls' new releases by Kenny Wheeler Sextet and Matt Wright. Very grateful to the magazine and critic Roger Thomas.
about 1 month ago
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ANNOUNCED TODAY: May Spring Last a Lifetime by Tom Challenger & Evan Parker CD / digital The first duo release from improvising tenor saxophonists Tom Challenger and Evan Parker. 6-panel gatefold sleeve, 20 page CD booklet and CD sleeve
about 1 month ago
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OUT TODAY: CRACKED GLAZE by Matthew Wright performed by Sofia Jernberg, Ensemble Klang & Spheric Totemic "The imaginative, elegant performance of this composition ... cements Cracked Glaze's deeply immersive effect." - Percorsi Musicali 6-panel sleeve, 20 page booklet & CD sleeve.
about 2 months ago
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WHAT WAS: Kenny Wheeler Sextet CD/digital "Wheeler’s style remains as refined as it is confident ... beautiful and moving" Jazz Mania "an album that sees the light after 30 years and not before time, Kenny perhaps at the peak of his later and smoother era" Freq Photos: Caroline Forbes
about 2 months ago
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Malt Lick Nursery
about 2 months ago
Matthew Wright introduces his new project Cracked Glaze, including a Q&A and an immersive playback of the album, released in May on CD/digital by False Walls
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Cracked Glaze was performed by vocalist Sofia Jernberg, Ensemble Klang and Wright's Spheric Totemic
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WHAT WAS by Kenny Wheeler Sextet CD/digital "It’s all first-class" Richard Williams / The Blue Moment "Captures Wheeler at a creative peak" Jazzwise, 4 stars "An important release from a great master and his colleagues" Salt Peanuts
about 2 months ago
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CRACKED GLAZE by Matthew Wright performed by Sofia Jernberg, Ensemble Klang & Spheric Totemic CD / digital on False Walls Cracked Glaze feature and interview with Matthew Wright on New Music Show, BBC Radio 3, Saturday 2nd May, starts 54:54: search on BBC Sounds
about 2 months ago
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False Walls BANDCAMP FRIDAY: 20% OFF EVERYTHING USE CODE: MAYDAY Boxsets: Andrew Poppy (4 CDs and book) Evan Parker (4 CDs and book) Single CDs: Including new releases by Kenny Wheeler Sextet and Matthew Wright, and the label's back catalogue
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CRACKED GLAZE by Matthew Wright performed by Sofia Jernberg, Ensemble Klang & Spheric Totemic CD/digital on False Walls BANDCAMP FRIDAY: 20% OFF USE CODE: MAYDAY The album is being featured, including an interview with Matthew, on Radio 3’s New Music Show tomorrow (Saturday).
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OUT NOW: WHAT WAS by Kenny Wheeler Sextet CD / digital on False Walls BANDCAMP FRIDAY: 20% OFF USE CODE: MAYDAY "This previously unreleased recording from 1995 captures Wheeler at a creative peak." Jazzwise review, 4 stars
2 months ago
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OUT TODAY: WHAT WAS by Kenny Wheeler Sextet CD / digital The first release of a 1995 studio session. “… as vital and immediate as anything already in the extended canon of Kenny Wheeler.” - Paris-Move
kennywheelersextet.bandcamp.com/album/what-was
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What Was, by Kenny Wheeler Sextet
7 track album
https://kennywheelersextet.bandcamp.com/album/what-was
3 months ago
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New writing on the ARK blog: Richard Rees-Jones writes about Rook by Shearwater and Simon Tyler writes about Tabula Rasa by Arvo Pärt
www.falsewalls.co.uk/ark
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@shearwaterband.bsky.social
4 months ago
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Listen to Matthew Wright's CRACKED GLAZE on Such Music, Resonance FM
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/such-music-7-march-2026
CD / digital on False Walls
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Such Music - 7 March 2026
Hosted by Rihards Endriksons, journalist and artistic director of Latvia's Skaņu Mežs festival, Such Music is devoted to new works of free improvised music, either previously unheard or created specif...
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/such-music-7-march-2026
4 months ago
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WHAT WAS by Kenny Wheeler Sextet CD / digital on False Walls Read the sleeve notes by Nick Smart:
www.falsewalls.co.uk/2026/03/nick..
. 'Song for Someone: The Musical Life of Kenny Wheeler', by Nick Smart and Brian Shaw, is published by Equinox.
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False Walls — Nick Smart: sleeve notes for Kenny Wheeler Sextet
https://www.falsewalls.co.uk/2026/03/nick..
4 months ago
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Bandcamp Friday Plus: 30% off all False Walls releases today NEW RELEASES Kenny Wheeler Sextet: What Was Matthew Wright: Cracked Glaze BOXSETS Evan Parker Andrew Poppy & the full back catalogue
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Use code fw30 at checkout
4 months ago
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Richard Rees-Jones
4 months ago
I wrote a guest post for the
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website, an appreciation of
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Rook by Shearwater (2008) — False Walls
Richard Rees-Jones
https://www.falsewalls.co.uk/ark/rook-by-shearwater-2008/
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On the ARK blog, musicians, writers and others choose an album to write about. New post: Richard Rees-Jones writes about Rook by Shearwater (2008)
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WHAT WAS by Kenny Wheeler Sextet review at Paris-Move: " ... as vital and immediate as anything already in the extended canon of ... jazz master Kenny Wheeler."
www.paris-move.com/reviews/the-...
Stream:
kennywheelersextet.bandcamp.com/album/what-w...
Photo: Caroline Forbes
4 months ago
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Blue Nile, from WHAT WAS by Kenny Wheeler Sextet, on the always-eclectic Dark Train. 45 mins in:
www.mixcloud.com/katebosworth...
CD/digital, False Walls The first release of a 1995 session, produced by Evan Parker. Stream 3 tracks:
kennywheelersextet.bandcamp.com/album/what-w...
4 months ago
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New writing on the ARK blog, where musicians, writers and others choose an album to write about: Simon Tyler writes about Tabula Rasa by Arvo Pärt (1984)
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4 months ago
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New writing on the ARK blog, where musicians, writers and others choose an album to write about: Simon Tyler writes about Tabula Rasa by Arvo Pärt (1984)
www.falsewalls.co.uk/ark/
4 months ago
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New writing on the ARK blog, where musicians, writers and others choose an album to write about: Simon Tyler writes about Tabula Rasa by Arvo Pärt (1984)
www.falsewalls.co.uk/ark/
4 months ago
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Matthew Wright CRACKED GLAZE performed by: Sofia Jernberg Ensemble Klang Spheric Totemic New CD / digital, on False Walls From Nate Wooley’s sleeve notes: “… this whole recording is rare and wonderful.” Listen:
www.falsewalls.co.uk/release/crac...
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WHAT WAS by Kenny Wheeler Sextet CD/digital release on False Walls April 17, 2026 The first release of a 1995 studio session, produced by Evan Parker. Stream three tracks:
kennywheelersextet.bandcamp.com/album/what-was
5 months ago
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New writing on the ARK blog, where musicians, writers and others choose an album to write about: David Sheppard (author of 'On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno') writes about 'Warm and Cool' by Tom Verlaine (1992).
www.falsewalls.co.uk/ark/warm-and...
7 months ago
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Updates from False Walls on Bandcamp Friday: The Heraclitean Two-Step, etc. by Evan Parker 4 CDs/book/slipcase Amazon review: "Everything about this item is beautiful"
evanparkerfw.bandcamp.com/album/the-he...
More releases:
falsewalls1.bandcamp.com/music%E2%81%A3
New releases TBA soon.
7 months ago
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New writing on the ARK blog, where musicians, writers and others choose an album to write about: David Sheppard (author of 'On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno') writes about 'Warm and Cool' by Tom Verlaine (1992).
www.falsewalls.co.uk/ark/warm-and...
7 months ago
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ASTRÏD & SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU, review: "Running Up That Hill transforms into an escalation of ether: Kate Bush's obsession rises here in a spectral, almost disembodied clarity." -- Solenopole
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Video / listen here:
falsewalls1.bandcamp.com/track/runnin...
9 months ago
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ASTRÏD & SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU, review: "Video Games [Lana del Ray] stretches like a slow-motion memory, a Polaroid that fades the more you look at it." -- Solenopole
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Video / listen here:
falsewalls1.bandcamp.com/track/video-...
9 months ago
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ASTRÏD & SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU, review: "Machine Gun becomes a shadowy pulse, martial and flickering, as if Portishead's voice were passing through a cloud of dust." -- Solenopole
solenopole.com/%E2%81%A3
Video / listen here:
falsewalls1.bandcamp.com/track/machin...
9 months ago
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new review: "Astrïd and Chauveau didn't cover these songs: they opened them ... That's the power of this album: it creates visions ... It is an atlas of sound ghosts, a map of possibilities, an invitation to listen differently." -- Solenopole review
solenopole.com
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9 months ago
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EtherREAL Webzine
10 months ago
This time, Sylvain Chauveau returns to the cover album with the band Astrid reimagining tracks by Kate Bush, Lana Del Rey, Portishead, or Nina Simone. Available on the label
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#albumcovers
www.etherreal.com/spip.php?art...
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Chronique disque - Astrïd & Sylvain Chauveau : Cover Songs Originally Sung by Women Singers
L'exercice de la reprise de chansons pop ou rock est une pratique très ancienne pour Sylvain Chauveau : Down To The Bone (relecture de morceaux de (…)
https://www.etherreal.com/spip.php?article7105
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Astrïd and Sylvain Chauveau new review "a fully convincing album" -- Ether REAL Stream:
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10 months ago
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NEW 16 MINUTE VIDEO: Astrïd and Sylvain Chauveau " ... a gloriously long ambient take on Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill ... Highly recommended. Release of the week."-- Random Jukebox, The Source FM Watch:
falsewalls1.bandcamp.com/track/runnin...
10 months ago
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Astrïd and Sylvain Chauveau Possible Musics: 8/10 rating Stream:
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10 months ago
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Astrïd & Sylvain Chauveau on Random Jukebox - 21 Aug
www.thesourcefm.co.uk/listen-again
"So good I had to play two tunes: Bang Bang and Video Games ... Bang Bang puts me in mind of David Sylvian ... Highly recommended -- release of the week." Stream:�
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10 months ago
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False Walls' blog: ARK musicians, writers and others choose an album to write about New posts: Evan Parker on John Coltrane Mark Brend on Ed Kuepper
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11 months ago
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New writing on the ARK blog: Evan Parker writes about John Coltrane: The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings. PLUS: 20% off False Walls releases via Bandcamp (including Evan Parker boxset): available until August 10. Use code: august
falsewalls1.bandcamp.com
11 months ago
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20% off all False Walls releases until August 10th NEW RELEASE Astrïd & Sylvain Chauveau "a singular style.” 8/10 rating -- Possible Musics plus many BOXSETS & ALBUMS
falsewalls1.bandcamp.com
Use code 'august' at checkout
11 months ago
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New writing at ARK, where musicians, writers and others choose an album to write about.
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writes about Electrical Storm by Ed Kuepper
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PLUS: 20% off False Walls releases via Bandcamp until Aug 10. Use code: august
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11 months ago
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