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March 2009 : Jasper Leyland’s fourth album, ‘Sediments’ will be released in March on the and/OAR sister label MOAR, as a free download. More info at the MOAR label website. March will also see the release of a remix compilation, ‘The Nights Keep Coming In’, featuring a Jasper Leyland re-working of the track ‘Hands swollen with grace’, from the recent collaborative album by the Dakota Suite and the cellist David Darling. Other artists contributing remixes to the project include Arve Henriksen, Tape, Loscil and Machinefabriek. The compilation will be released as a CD, limited to 300 copies, as well as a download available from Boomkat and similar outlets. More info at the releases page on the Dakota Suite website.

June 2008 : Jasper Leyland will be performing live at the Laban dance centre in London on Thursday 3rd July, alongside Alexander Wendt, Janek Schaefer and Douglas Benford. The event is entitled '108 Pieces Demolition' and is based around a multi-channel sound installation, building site and live performance set up by Alexander Wendt, investigating concepts of demolition and construction. The evening starts at 6.30pm. Directions to venue here and more information about the event here.

March 2008 : A new Jasper Leyland track entitled 'Worth Ash' appears on the new 'Little Things' compilation from the Tokyo based label Flau. The compilation is themed around small, everyday acoustics and the vivid moments of spring, and will also feature unreleased tracks by Hood, F.S. Blumm, Cokiyu, and The Boats, amongst many others.

February 2008 : The third Jasper Leyland album 'Wake' is out now on 12x50, the fifth volume in their 'Carbon' series. You can download a full track from it ('Taken') in the MP3s section, and the CD is available now from the shop page priced £8, including postage to anywhere in the world. This release was album of the week at Boomkat, and you can read their review (and others) in the press section.

November 2007 : 'Fieldstone' has now sold out, both from here and Benbecula. The only place worldwide you can still get this is Duotone in Japan, who still have a (very) few copies left. So if you want to get hold of this record then it may be worth contacting them.

Biography

Jasper Leyland is the alias of sound-explorer Jonathan Brewster, who currently resides in York (U.K.). His work combines melodic drone structures and subtly ebbing textures with playfully rhythmic acoustic manipulations and splashes of field recordings. Moving between a variety of instrumental sources such as zither, chimes, melodica, acoustic and electric guitars, and accordion, Brewster extracts fragments of sound before applying restrained digital processing, layers of field recordings, and other incidental aural flotsam, to craft organic compositions.

He released his debut EP, 'Capsize', in August 2005 on the Stray Dog Army imprint. This was followed by the release of an album, 'Margin', in May 2006. A second album, 'Fieldstone', was released on Benbecula Records in February 2007 as part of their ‘Minerals’ Series. A third full length, entitled 'Wake', followed a year later on London based label 12x50, the fifth volume of their 'Carbon' series. Jasper Leyland's latest release is the fourth album 'Sediments', made available as a free download on the and/OAR sister label MOAR in March 2009.

Discography

‘Capsize’ EP, Stray Dog Army MZL002 (August 2005)

‘Margin’, Stray Dog Army MZL004 (May 2006)

‘Fieldstone’, Benbecula Minerals Series BEN528 (February 2007)

'Wake', 12x50, Carbon Series Volume 5 (January 2008)

'Worth Ash', V / A 'Little Things', Flau (2008)

'Sediments’, MOAR (download), moar.p32 (March 2009)

‘Hands swollen with grace’ (remix), Dakota Suite and David Darling ‘The night keeps coming in’, Navigator’s Yard (March 2009)

MP3s

Taken (full track - download)

Caraway (full track - stream)

Margin (full track - download)