Released: December 23rd 2022

(This EPK was written retrospectively after the release)

Past Pastures Past is the spiritual successor to Pastoral Pyramids – I wanted to do another batch of tunes in the same vein as Pastoral Pyramids – kind of bucolic. Born of the countryside. As such, I’m very pleased with these tunes. I think I hit my mark. 😉 

Day’s End is the first tune to use samples from a set of recordings of old Lincolnshire dialect poetry written by Tennyson. There are plans to make good use of this in future releases…

With this release, I produced another gribbles homemade CD.
This little package came with a home burned and printed CD. The cover had die cut windows, stamped out by my own fair hand. Peeping though the windows are glimpses of pastoral scenes depicted on pages taken from the Ladybird book ‘The Farm’. Yes, I cut up a Ladybird book (I do actually feel a bit bad about that!). There were some other pastoral related bits and bobs in the package that I let the buyers discover…

I made 10 copies – they sold within 30 minutes of going on Bandcamp!

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EPK files

If you would like listen, review, or play these tracks on your show you can download wav/mp3s of the tracks from the link below. This link also contains other media such as cover images and logos.

Download Past Pastures Past EPK Files

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Brief Bio

“ [a] British electronic music wizard” – Spinditty

“Vangelis and Moby have an unusual relationship and @gribbles is created” – Uncle Les

gribbles is Graham Thorpe, an amateur musician from the UK.  He has been described as a “British electronic music wizard” – which makes him blush and laugh in equal measure.

Originally from Gainsborough in Lincolnshire, like many he was in a few bands in his youth, playing local gigs and getting a small following. Then, again like many, life took over and whilst still keeping his hand in, making music was put on the back burner.

He picked up music again in the late nineties with a big beat/found samples solo album that drew comparisons to Bentley Rhythm Ace, and into the 2000s doing Underworld inspired semi-improv live electronica as part of the duo Aztechnology. Aztechnology morphed into quiddity who produced music in a mix of styles from ambient, through to big thumpers – “Like Underwork and Fluke have a Warpy face-off”, as one person put it.

More recently, gribbles has been mainly working on solo projects with the odd collaboration, and has been putting out a mix of increasingly well received ambient, synthwave, electronica and EDM tunes.

Gribbles has been steadily gaining attention with music being included in two mainstream Playstation/PC games (Polybius and Moose Life) from the critically acclaimed independent software house, Llamasoft. 

His track Requiem topped the most played chart on SkyLab Radio in August 2020, and ‘I Was’ was chosen for inclusion on the Hippie Drive label’s debut compilation album.

His latest full album ‘Digressions’ was released in late 2022 on Werra Foxma’s SubClub

Plans for the immediate future are to continue releasing singles/EPs on Bandcamp while working on a couple of longer form projects.

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Current projects & distractions (Sept ’23)

• Creating some initial material incorporating recordings of old Lincolnshire Dialect poetry. Possibly an album, or to add individual tracks to other releases. I’m about half a dozen demos in… 😆 – Working Title: Lincolnshire Voices
• A hauntology project, inspires/based on my childhood growing up in Gainsborough. Not terribly original, but I think I need to get it out of my system 😉 . Working Title: The Past Is Another County
• A series of longer form, more ambient ramblings. The initial idea was to go DAWless for this, but I’m not sure I’m wired for that. Or I’ve just got *too* reliant on Ableton…. Toying with the idea of tying them together with a concept. Have one in mind, but just seeing if it’ll work… 😁
• I have a good backlog of demo tunes, so I may aim to do some sort of monthly release. It has been suggested I start a BandCamp subscription or resurrect my Patreon for this, but I’m not sure. Maybe…

None of the above have a firm timescale – I fit my music making in where I can. That said, if any labels are interested in anything, drop me a line – a potential release may help focus my attention… 😉

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Useful Links for gribbles:

Places I’m most often around in….
Bluesky – @grahamgribbles-co-uk
Bandcamp – gribbles.bandcamp.com
Mastodon – @ gr******@ma*********.uk (My antispam filter might obfuscate this – click to view!)
YouTube – @gribblesmusic

Streaming stuff…
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music | Amazon | Tidal

Other links:
Facebook – @gribblesmusic
https://flow.page/gribbles

Get in touch

The quickest way to get in touch is to email me on gr***********@gr******.uk
(The email address has been encoded to prevent me getting spammed to the hilt – but you can still send me an email by clicking on it)

You can also DM me on Twitter or Mastodon (links above) – I tend to check them daily.

If you do pop any of this tunes on a playlist or review them or use them wherever – please drop me line and let me know!

Discography

I’m aware that a lot of my old stuff will still be new to a lot of people. Of course, if you’re interested, you can have a shuffle round whatever is in your music player of choice, but for DJs/Bloggers/Vloggers etc I’ve also done a discography. I’m adding EPK pages to my back catalogue so you can use/review some older tunes if you feel so inclined and would like access to some resources for them.
Click here for the full (ish) gribbles discography

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