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Hamewith

by A Happy Return
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    Each record cover is lovingly hand painted
    by the artist Aimée Henderson
    and is signed & stamped on the reverse.
    The record comes in a clear sleeve with gold label,
    along with insert and 'Music room' postcard.
    Edition of 300.

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Way Station 01:50
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Knotted 02:07
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Milk Song 02:09
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Diurnal Amor 03:04
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Umbel 02:37
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Feathers Be 01:43
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Buoyancy 02:47
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Bonfires 02:05
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Particles 01:55
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Fana Song 02:55
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Hamewith 02:19

about

Words by Jack Rollo
.........
As we arrive at Hamewith there is a fire ticking in the grate.
Mat has a record on, something gentle and scattered sounding.
Aimée is organising things in her painting studio where they have fixed up a bed for us. Agnes is at a friend’s house but coming back soon. Perched over the sea at East Neuk it is a low stone house, battered by the wind and warmed by the pale sunshine. But more than a place, it is a space, a feeling, an approach to living and collaborating, a whole world.
A world that also spins here, on this vinyl record.

While we drink tea by the fire the conversation turns to moments of revelation. The way out of yourself and towards everyone and everything else via making and doing on a small scale in a small place. This shift in scale and conception is important to keep In mind while listening. This is music born out of a sort of homemade ecstatic.

Guitars hum and chime. Unidentifiable electronics swoop and splutter. Cassette tapes reused a hundred times stop and start again.
Miniature constructions of time and music pile up on a desk by the window. Aimée paints each cover differently from the last in a labour of love and concentration. Agnes tries out her makeup collection on Mat. Outside the sea shifts and the sky shines.

All in all Hamewith is a home and a collection of music. A trial run just to show us what might be possible. A maquette for a different way of making, thinking and listening.

credits

released October 20, 2025

Music by Mathew Fowler.
Using guitars, violin bow, banjo, balalaika,
flutes, melodica, percussion, bells, toys, chimney brush,
foot pump, sticks, electric fan, radios, dictaphones,
pedals, MiniKorg 700S, casios and voice.

*Featuring Aimée Henderson and our daughter Agnes Bell.
+Made using a recording from the 2024
Pittenweem Arts Festival installation.

All recorded direct to cassette at home in Pittenweem,
the East Neuk of Fife. Kindly mixed by Derek O’Neill
and mastered by Amir Shoat.

Three hundred record covers hand painted by Aimée Henderson.

Love and thanks to Aimée & Agnes for the love & light,
my family, Martin Slattery, Dino Da Silva, Matt Hunt, Kevin Cormack,
Markus Acher, Cico, Saya and Ueno, Derek O’Neill, Kenny Anderson,
Keny Drew, Nick Bradley, Bjorn Lie, Stephen & Lucy at Futtle,
Charlotte Joko Beck, Krishnamurti, Emily Dickinson, William Blake,
Julian of Norwich and all that is for the gift of being.

©Fowler|Henderson|Bell
Spillage Fete Records 2025

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