Rendlesham, by A Farewell To Hexes

Rendlesham

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12" Vinyl LP in reverse board sleeve with numbered insert (250 copies)
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Brand new black vinyl LP in reverse board sleeve. Limited edition of 250 with hand numbered insert.

A Farewell to Hexes is one of a number of pseudonym / pside projects of Adam Leonard who has quietly – and noisily – tinkered at the edges of eccentric English folk, electronic music, and more recently garage art-rock with Invaderband, issuing a plethora of original music to critical acclaim via highly regarded boutique labels such as The Great Pop Supplement, Northwestern Recordings, Tectona Grandis, Polytechnic Youth, Castles In Space, Bibliotapes and TDO Cassettes and attaining a ‘Northern Ireland Music Prize’ nomination in the process.

The “Rendlesham” LP is an incredible record of often eerie, Radiophonic workshop-esque electronics and the story behind it is equally momentous. The events across two nights December 25 & 26 1980 in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, have gone down in history; nowadays often dubbed the UK’s most famous UFO incident or “Britain’s Roswell”.

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1.	Lights Over Woodbridge 02:23	buy track
2.	East Gate Expedition 03:15	buy track
3.	What Is That? 02:09	buy track
4.	Circling The Mechanical Object 03:26	buy track
5.	In Receipt Of Zeros And Ones 04:18	buy track
6.	Orford Ness At Dawn 03:39	buy track
7.	The Halt Tape In Colour 18:48	buy track
8.	Aftermath 04:21	buy track

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RENDLESHAM is an electronic instrumental album soundtracking arguably Britain's most remarkable UFO event. Side 1 soundtracks the bizarre Christmas/Boxing Day case (which includes Sergeant Jim Penniston encountering and receiving a binary code from a "craft of unknown origin"), and Side 2 brings to life the curious events witnessed by Lt. Colonel Charles Halt and his team in the forest in the early hours of 28th December 1980, incorporating original micro-cassette recordings (‘The Halt Tape’) captured at the time. The album ends with ‘Aftermath’, featuring the voice of Attorney Patrick Frascogna speaking at a 2011 U.S. court hearing attempting to gain access to Penniston & colleague John Burroughs medical records - both airmen suffered life-threatening ailments after coming into contact with the “craft” in 1980.

The music on the album is intentionally redolent of British underground electronic music at the time of the Rendlesham Forest incident. For best results this album should be listened to in the dark with eyes closed. You will enter the forest.

Originally released on tape by TDO Cassettes (TDO 042), August 2021
Reissued on vinyl by Polytechnic Youth (PY160), July 2022

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released July 25, 2022

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Adam Leonard Londonderry, UK

Adam Leonard has quietly – and noisily – tinkered at the edges of eccentric English folk, electronic music, and garage artrock (with Invaderband), issuing a plethora of original music to critical acclaim via highly regarded boutique labels such as The Great Pop Supplement, Northwestern Recordings, Tectona Grandis, Polytechnic Youth, Castles In Space, Bibliotapes and TDO Cassettes. ... more

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