The album is out NOW!
16 songs. Streamable where you stream.
Downloadable most places you can download HOWEVER – BandCamp is best for download- it’s cheaper to you there and has secret extras….
If you’re old-school like me you can buy a CD of the full album, or a vinyl of selected tracks, form ElasticStage.
Album #3 from Violet’s Gone is now available to pre-order!
Releases fully on August 7th 2026
| Digital Download + Digital Booklets http://violetsgone.bandcamp.com | CD and Vinyl Formats ElasticStage |
*Digital formats are available elsewhere (Apple, Amazon etc.) but I strongly recommend purchase from BandCamp because…it’s cheaper to you there, and you will receive not only a higher quality file (if you choose) but you will also receive an extra song (shhhhh! It’s a secret!), but you will also receive the full colour artwork booklet and covers for the album in PDF format too. And also for the selfish reason that I receive a fairer share of the sale value, meaning Violet’s Gone IV can happen in the near future!
**Physical formats are provided by ElasticStage.com on a made-to-order basis. Made-to-order means it can take up to a month for products to be produced and shipped. Shipping is calculated by the manufacturer and will come up on the checkout page (typically between £6-8 for UK shipping on vinyl)
***Vinyl format…I love vinyl records, so it was important to me that this release had a vinyl option. However, I’m not rich enough to gamble on investing in a full pressing run. The current press-to-order service doesn’t allow for a double album length – as such you will see on ElasticStage that there is a Part I (with booklet) and Part II (without booklet), ordering one or the other does work but you’ll only get half the experience. I appreciate it is expensive but I opted for the most economic vinyl packaging option they offer – and I have to say, it looks gorgoeous!
**** Finally! If ordering a physical format; I can provide a download code for BandCamp if you contact me at violetsgone@yahoo.com with proof of purchase of either format from ElasticStage.
Violet’s Gone is due to make a debut performance as a group!
We’re playing a mostly acoustic thing in the corner of the shopfloor of HMV Northampton.
August 8th 2026
1PM
Save the date.
Chris will be singing and making noises with an acoustic guitar and drum machine.
Jon Stolber (of A Knife Ballet) will be playing electric guitar
Scott Humphries (of The Coping Mechanism) will be playing bass guitar.
Today sees the release of new music from Cloud Helices.
After a silent 2025 this project returns with an hour of ambient, minimalist…stuff.
I hope you enjoy!
Stream/download from BandCamp
| 1. | gripped by a sudden sleep 04:30 |
| 2. | the heart must pause to breathe 03:21 |
| 3. | his ink ran to a single word 03:33 |
| 4. | a scarlet thread of love 04:13 |
| 5. | I look at the hand you held 03:49 |
| 6. | the night thy charms to hide 04:30 |
| 7. | the sailing and the failing stars 03:35 |
| 8. | nothing where i now arrive is shining 03:06 |
| 9. | like sad eclipses 02:59 |
| 10. | faint moonbeams on dark stairs 03:55 |
| 11. | on these spindrift pages 04:14 |
| 12. | not backward as in doubt 03:51 |
| 13. | the shadow and the nightmare sound 06:33 |
| 14. | mild colourless people 03:41 |
| 15. | once more we saw the stars 04:58 |
‘Occam’ is the new EP of classical music from
Available to stream/download from today over at the Bandcamp site
A new orchestral work composed by Chris Fordham and released under The Silent Committee moniker.
The 1st track, Occam II, is a complete movement of music centred primarily around piano and viola but also features a wider orchestral pallette than on previous works, introducing percussive and wind elements into the mixture.
As with Chris’s previous orchestral release, restrictions of access/funding to musicians means the majority of instrumentation is midi based, excluding some live elements of viola, piano and bowed bass played by Chris himself.
Occam III is an experiment in orchestral ambience – long drawn notes that interweave and create moments of peace and discomfort in equal measure.
Download of the full EP includes high a resolution image of the full original artwork ‘Occam IV’
I hope you enjoy the sounds!
CFx
New music from The Silent Committee due to release on March 6th 2026!
14 minutes of new orchestral sound.
Available to stream/download from the Bandcamp March 6th 2026
Kismet Hardy were an excellent new folk group from the Northampton – Kettering area. They played a mix of traditional and original folk music and were regulars at acoustic evenings in the county and further afield. I was a big fan and would invite them to play my Folk In The Afternoon gigs at The Fishmarket Art Gallery and Nook Cafe. Having shared stages with them numerous times we got to discussing recording. Back around 2010 time my recording setup was minimal and lo-fi to an extreme! We recorded a 5 song EP in a mixture of my student room and various band members houses. The setup was an AXL mixer and a passive AKG microphone directly into a laptop headphone socket…how the recording sounds as good as it does is a mystery. For one thing, it’s the musicianship and songwriting that elevates this session.
My favourite of the songs we tracked was ‘May Song’, which fortunately still lives on an old SoundCloud account from when I was making a go of recording projects around Northampton. The song begins on a pair of Jon Delaney’ guitars before Kate Beresfords vocals lead in. After a verse the rhythm section of Rai Clews on cajon, and Kevin Ward on fretless bass power in alongside a flute solo. On this particular song I only contribute a backing vocal and the recording setup and mix. Elsewhere on the EP I would play violins and additional percussion.
I would love to hear more of this band again, their SoundCloud page is still active and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying revisiting their songs this evening. ‘Wasps Nest‘ was always a favourite: (I’d have made sure we recorded it if it had been written before our sessions).
The new album is entitled ‘One Day The Sadness Will End, But I Don’t Think Today Is The Day…’ and is due to be released on October 27th exclusively through the projects BandCamp.
See above the video for the lead single ‘City of Reflections’.
The single will be available to download for free on Friday October 6th and includes an extra non-album track!
The album will do all the usual TSC stuff – instruments played, sampled, broken and oddly arranged in a minimal, ambient fashion. It’s been a stop start few years in the making, but overall I’m happy with the result.
Subscribe to the blog here and/or follow @ 4DRecordings on instagram for more news on the album release as it happens.
Much love.
CFx
The Silent Committee EP, ‘Imperfect Machines’, makes it’s debut on streaming sites from today!
If you like it enough it is still available to download from Bandcamp for a very affordable price.
If you’re the streaming kind then Spotify, Apple, Tidal, YouTube etc. will see you right.
Also as with the other releases lately, you can dance to them on TikTok or soundtrack bizarre reels on Instagram.
Imperfect Machines was the last lengthy and fully conceived/planned release from the project back in 2019. It sought to be the acoustic album, utilising no synthesis or electronic instruments – heavily relying on upright piano, viola, voice and various string instruments. The acoustic were ultimately toyed with by effects pedals and laptop maniupation, but the acoustic sounds do still shine through.
Since the release of this EP the project has lay kind of dormant, releasing tunes for piano day and odd songs here and there.
But all that will change in October. Stay tuned!
CFx
As the title would suggest; the debut album from The Silent Committee, ‘The Missing’ is now available on a multitude of streaming services and storefronts!
If you feel like setting a TikTok or Instagram reel to these strange electronic/ambient tunes then they should be available on there too! (I’d love to see what they end up soundtracking)
This will be the remastered audio and extremely expanded version (more than twice the length of the original release).
A reminder that the Bandcamp page is still THE place to buy it from as it is the most affordable and is formatted in the way CF intended it to be seen. The bandcamp pages for each song also include write ups about the inspiration and instrumentation.
Hope you’re enjoy the recent run of [4D]Recordings releases and rereleases.
As a spoiler of sorts, there is at least one more definite NEW release coming later this year. Keep yer eyes peeled and hit the subscribe button for the newsletter or follow the Instagram.
CFx
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