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New music: The working title of the latest Formication long player is 'Ghosts' and its going to be a beautiful, personal journey to the space within. We're creating elaborate and gorgeous packaging for it the likes of which the world has rarely seen. Careful though, there won't be many of these. Expect it by Xmas... When 'Ghosts' is available for pre-order (and when our wonderful upcoming online store is actually online) we'll mail out a link where you can see pictures and register your interest. Formication also have a track appearing on a Subvert Central 12" compilation (our vinyl debut) entitled 'Catastrophe in Blue', we're appearing alongside Peter Christopherson & Andrew Liles on a Lumberton Trading Company vinyl compilation due out sometime too. I know, links or stfme but I just don't know how. Formication Live! We are working with legendary Nottingham experimental music promoters High Society on a live spectacular. We're talking late February/early March and old cinemas and new churches are being currently walked around with fingers clicked/feet stamped in. Just, you know. To check. More details to follow. 'Agnosia' If you've not done it yet then go to www.darkwinter.com and get 'Agnosia'. It's been called a masterpiece, among other things. Yes, we write our own press. Aidan Baker Formication are talking with the uber-musician, Aidan Baker about a release and we are also planning a short UK tour with him in THE FALL. Thats Autumn-tyme to the rest of us. We're very excited and you should be too. The overall message here seems to be 'watch this space', so I'm going to leave you to your sweet breakfast. Our Lady Rosalita x www.theformicarium.com

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Welcome to December. As I type I'm in the process of posting new photos of a secret gig we played 16th Nov at Blueprint in Nottingham, England. The gig was tiny and gave us an opportunity to test out our new live setup - this was followed up with a recent session at Magnet Studios rehearsal rooms.

Formication - The Condemned Piano (Memory) Apart from some albums on the .net label Dark Winter the British formation Formication also has a few albums on their own webpage. Or technically, on the website Virb, one of the many social networking sites on the internet today. My introduction to Formication was their "Pieces For A Condemned Piano", which I liked very much. So, I was positively surprised to come across a "part two" on their website. The story goes that while cleaning out a hard drive these gentlemen came across two completely finished, and completely forgotten, compositions, which dated back to the recording session of abovementioned album. These have now been released as "The Condemned Piano (Memory)" and can be found on Formication's Virb page. Soundwise these two pieces are close to the hypnotic last track of the original album. Again we hear repetitive and unrecognisably warped samples of a piano. As Formication would have it, the instrument is speaking to us one more time through the veils of time. Admittedly, there is indeed something to the sound that suggests this, a sort of delayed echo, which grants a particular quality to the music. With just 25 minutes it's a short final chord. But, as far as I'm concerned, these are more than just leftovers from the cutting table. Recommended for all those who enjoyed the first album! Originally written in Dutch for the weblog of IkEcht (http://ikecht.web-log.nl), English translation by the author.

The Condemned Piano (Memory) In the autumn of 2005 we composed a meditative eulogy for a musical instrument we happened upon one evening whose condition filled us with sadness. A once treasured friend had been cast out to die and then set upon by elementals which were to destroy it utterly. We took what we could; a couple of delaminated keys, one felt hammer and 13 field recordings. These recordings became 'Pieces for a Condemned Piano' which we released as a free download, our debut on the Dark Winter net label in December that year. (still available to download free here: http://www.darkwinter.com/dw019.html) Two years later while scouring through old files in a vain effort to tidy up a tired hard drive I decided to play a couple of innocuous untitled tracks I'd stumbled upon. I was surprised to discover two completely finished arrangements from the 'Pieces for a Condemned Piano' samples gathered almost exactly two years previously. I played them to Alec he was as surprised as I that neither of us could remember them. (Ten days ago we revisited the spot where the piano once lay and in the dirt beneath a fence we found one white laminate from one of the piano keys. We left it there as a mark of respect.) Here then are those tracks, presented as 'The Condemned Piano (Memory)'. We thought we had heard all the piano had to give but this appeared to us as the melancholic ghost of a familiar distant echo - one last meditation on a life discarded sung to us from the past; a beautiful but final goodbye.