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i make music both alone and with other people using the name the slate pipe banjo draggers. have a listen, yes

powder cagers the second slate pipe banjo draggers album, now available as a free download for a while. the songs are mainly improvised around and built up from field recordings, found sounds, recorded incidents and jotted down notes. there are some loose ideas within the album which are based around eyesight, food, communication and personal incidents. some of the tracks have already been available elsewhere as downloads. comes as a zipfile with artwork

alpine sin balloon first track from seafo od recip es album. bass, toy keyboard, ableton live, a little singing. airplay on wfmu in new york

add hapter original track made by using earth hum and distortion pedal, inspiration for enlarged jack plug piece (see the video and images pages). recorded to 4 track tape. shortened version appears on resonance fm’s ‘flatpack antenna’ album

youdanish improvised from recording session using bass and toy record player

interview bbc radio 3’s mixing it program interview with andrew rowe about the slate pipe banjo draggers and the underground music scene in leeds

unambient-live live performance recorded at the primrose in leeds in 2005

fat slippery pigs field recordings, found sounds, samples, mumbling, slide guitar

the morning chocolate drowner vocals and guitar by tina rowe. inspired by a weekend in barcelona and two years in leeds. barcelona being good, leeds being bad