Wednesday 24 June 2020

Forthcoming Ocean in a Bottle releases

Hi Guys;

Some major news of not one but two Ocean in a Bottle forthcoming releases on Off Records:



Firstly, Re imaging the Solar System is eight tracks, one for each planet of the Solar System from Mercury all the way to Neptune with his crushing synths inter-balanced with harsh feedback to design to take the listener a journey past each Planet.

Due out on Off Records - Mid November 2020.







Secondly, vocalising the Solar System - Ocean in a Bottle for the first time has worked with eight different vocalists to produce working again taking the listener into space on a very different journey indeed.

Due out on Off Records - 04 December 2020. 

https://stilll-off.bandcamp.com/

















Sunday 21 June 2020

Latest News

Since my last post, I have kept doing articles for the Sunday Tribune, these articles can be found here:

https://www.thesundaytribune.com/2020/06/21/changes-in-approach-from-publishers-during-lockdown-1-fly-on-the-wall-press/

(A Chat with Fly on the Wall Press)

https://www.thesundaytribune.com/2020/06/12/searching-for-different-clues-with-heather-burnside/

(A Chat with thriller writer Heather Burnside)

https://www.thesundaytribune.com/2020/06/07/no-laughing-around-a-chat-with-ilaria-passeri/

(A Chat with Ilaria Passeri – Comic / Storyteller)

https://www.thesundaytribune.com/2020/05/31/ghost-of-a-chance/

(A Chat with Amanda Steel – Podcast / Author and Copyrighter)

https://www.thesundaytribune.com/2020/05/24/the-rise-of-viral-literature/

(The rise of Viral Literature - my first article if case you missed it)

All been well, there will be enough for articles to come out for the next few weeks at least with the Sunday Tribune, so keep your eyes open on https://www.thesundaytribune.com/ and if anybody is interested in me doing a feature on them on how the Virus has affected their writing, let me know by email please. 

Also Ocean in a Bottle did the second in it’s isolation series Isolation Volume 2 - (Into the White Arcades) Understanding Silence and this can be downloaded from 

https://oceaninabottle.bandcamp.com/album/isolation-volume-2-into-the-white-arcades-understanding-silence

The third part will follow at the start of July, but as a bit of fun I’ve also done a track recorded live during a horrific storm near where I live the a few days called ‘Running from the Storm’ which has the usual synths but tons of live field recordings during it.

https://oceaninabottle.bandcamp.com/album/running-from-the-storm

Lastly, on the poetry front, for the last issue of Printed Words as a magazine (sad news I know) two new poems of mine have appeared ‘As the Poems begins to change’ and ‘After the poem has changed’. See here for more details

https://www.amandasteelwriter.com/440793822?fbclid=IwAR3MU4Ymq_MisACg2dQbJLGWTquf04TTIAwjfD_0_9ofhFgO3jX_5sSBtvM

I have also had three mini poems published in the third issue of Poets Unlimited ‘At the Edge of Autumn’, ‘The Person worked here for a long time’ and ‘Change in direction. See here for more details

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B089G751GV/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1

Lastly, a few of you know I have been a member of the poetry group ‘Stockport Write Out Loud’ for some years now and despite the group not been able to meet up for a while now at Stockport Art Gallery, we have contained to meet up regularly via Zoom and have produced a book between us called 8 Weeks of Lockdown.

More about this can be read here:

https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=103441

and the book can be bought here

https://www.lulu.com/en/gb/shop/john-keane/8-weeks-of-lockdown/paperback/product-ddq89g.html

My poems published in this book were “Forgotten Exhibition, After Isolation, Easing out of imagination, Temporary Freedom and a reprint of my five mini poems published at Stockport College – New Start, Mother, Love on Display, Spring Dawn and Cordial Welcome’

Lastly, Carolyn Crossley has published one of my poems as a guest on her blog 'The Trees;
See here for more details 

https://backfromdarknesstolight.com/2020/06/21/guest-poets-andyn-poet/