Dick and Stewart: Original Soundtrack

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Dick and Stewart: Original Soundtrack LP
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The record is pressed on a single sided 12' inch LP utilising a new process of UV printing on the reverse side which is only available from a few manufacturers. Artwork designed by Richard Littler.
All CiS copies come with a postcard, 100 of which will be signed by Chris.

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	1.	Opening Titles 00:29
	2.	Too Many Teeth 01:23
	3.	The Ice Cream Van Rhapsody 00:39
	4.	Dick in Bed 00:40
	5.	Dick Transforms 00:27
	6.	The Chase 00:24
	7.	Green Fields 00:21
	8.	Everyone Likes To Watch 00:46
	9.	The Ending 00:44
	10.	Closing Titles 00:46
	11.	On The Streets 01:07
	12.	Opening Titles (alt.) 00:57
	13.	Watching Is Normal and Healthy 01:26
	14.	Who's That Man? 00:47
	15.	Running 00:42
	16.	Dick In Bed (alt. 1) 01:10
	17.	Something Nasty 00:47
	18.	Dreaming 01:33
	19.	Out With Dick 00:59
	20.	Dick in Bed (alt. 2) 01:04
	21.	Carpentry 00:32
	22.	Floating 00:35
	23.	The Chase (alt.) 00:30
	24.	With My Little Eye 02:18
	25.	BONUS: Too Many Teeth (alt.) 01:02
	26.	BONUS: The Ending (alt.) 01:01

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Dick and Stewart:

Dick and Stewart is a series of short animations set in either Britain’s dismal past or the Britain that’s soon to come. It's hard to tell nowadays, isn't it? Either way, just imagine what it would be like if childrens’ TV programmes were written by George Orwell or Franz Kafka. Or the government itself.

The stories follow the adventures of the eponymous Dick and an eyeball, which is all that’s left of his best friend, Stewart, following an accident. It’s written, animated and directed by Richard Littler (Scarfolk), produced by Andy Starke of Rook Films (A Field in England, Free Fire, In Fabric) and read by Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh).

While each episode addresses a different dystopian but topical subject, such as propaganda, civil defense, ‘fake news’, gaslighting and other forms of governmental corruption currently blighting western politics, the pilot episode, which is called ‘I Spy with my Little Eye’, concerns surveillance, an unsurprising theme given that, last year, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the UK government's bulk interception of data was against human rights.

Concretism:

Chris Sharp, the talent behind the Concretism project, takes inspiration from worlds exactly like those portrayed in Dick And Stewart. His last album, "For Concrete and Country" was a hugely successful distillation of our not too distant past/future world of nuclear threat and cold war paranoia, resulting in an album of unsettling electronics which perfectly invoked the pervasive cultural disquiet of intrusive surveillance, the red menace and the bomb. Fears which the recent drift of events confirm are still very much with us, remaining part of our societal DNA.

Having already established the working relationship with Richard Littler - Richard designed the adapted radome artwork for FCaC, Chris was the natural choice to provide the soundtrack for Dick and Stewart. Chris delivers his first soundtrack with relish, supplying a set of short, sharp electronic cues formed with his usual precision. Not a note is wasted as the woozy, unsettling themes of the films are effortlessly captured herein. It's fair to say that it's a piece of work that could not have been made by anyone else.

The record itself is pressed on a single sided 12' inch LP utilising a new process of UV printing on the reverse side which is only available from a select few manufacturers. The artwork as designed by Richard is incomparable and it all makes for an incredibly special and desirable album.

Chris has just completed his stunning and long awaited new LP and successor to "For Concrete and Country" which will be forthcoming on Castles in Space in early 2021. Meanwhile, a privileged trawl through his archives has resulted in "Concretism: Archive Volume One" a limited LP which will shortly be available to subscribers to the Castles in Space Subscription Library Service and features 9 tracks unavailable elsewhere and appearing on vinyl for the first time.

"The attention to detail, both in terms of music and as an artefact, is the sort of thing that should see you lot in an orderly queue"
Electronic Sound on "For Concrete and Country": Number 16: Best Albums of 2018.

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released October 16, 2020

All music written by and produced by Chris Sharp.
Mastered by Antony Ryan at RedRedPaw
℗2020 Chris Sharp ©2020 Chris Sharp
Graphics and design by Richard Littler

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