The Listening Centre: David Pritchard Nocturnal Earthworm Stew

 I ended up last week receiving my order from Return To Analog Records in Montréal, who are an awesome record shop who reissues sometimes out of print and hard to find bands. I ended up buying the Coil CD called Astral Disaster Sessions, and thought to pick up one of my favourite Nash The Slash albums And You Thought You Were Normal. I have it on vinyl, but wanted a CD copy to play in my car, and besides you can never have enough copies of Nash's music in many formats.  

Little Nash

Big Nash

My other Nash The Slash albums.
Yeah, you could say I'm a bit of a fan.

So on Return To Analog, I saw the artist David Pritchard listed in relation to Mr. Slash. I thought that the name sounded very familiar to me, but couldn't think why. I threw caution to the wind, saw he was an experimental artist, (one of my favourite genres of music) and get it. 

So later in the day as I was at work, just doing some monotonous task, which is kind of great because it lets your mind wander as you go automatic in your actions to get the job done, that I thought, wait! Didn't David Pritchard work with Nash? 

The CD soon arrived, surprisingly very quickly! Within days of ordering my little haul. 

First off, this whole album is amazing. It's experimental like David using things like scissors and a coffee jar for example, as instruments. To then tracks that were just great synthy ambient goodness to drift you away. Then came the section that was the a-ha moment. His Earthworm Stew was a project with Nash The Slash, and Martin Deller. 

    

The rest of the CD booklet has a great story of how he met Nash, and their collaboration. That part filled me with a bitter sweet feeling, as you could tell that it was written by someone who is reminiscing about the friend that has passed on. The world lost a huge talent when Nash The Slash passed. 

So if you are a fan of experimental, and dreamy synthy ambient, you may want to check out this CD. 

You can get it right here from Return To Analog, or David Pritchard's Bandcamp. 

Happy listening, and hope you enjoy discovering, or re-discovering this awesome artist. 

~Nadette