It's ten years since we released our visual album Field Studies, and to celebrate we've released a special audio edition of it with a bonus track. It's available as a download with a PDF artbook from Bandcamp, and you can stream it on many major streaming services.
Our first live album is now released. Endless Live documents the special performance celebrating the release of our album Endless earlier this year at Wonkystuff #17 in The Fulford Arms, York. The album is available as a pay what you want download from our Bandcamp Store.
Our second EP, Sono 2: Land of the Redolent is out now on Bandcamp. Available as a download and a limited edition cassette, its four tracks explore nostalgia, reverie and meditation on past experience. Side 2 of the limited edition features a rare aural manifestation by John North, the elusive third member of MF and gestalt audio-visual entity who sometimes appears in our work.
On Wednesday 1 May we are launching our album Endless with a special performance at Wonkystuff #17 at The Fulford Arms in York. Also performing are Collision Music, Marlo Eggplant and The Wonkystuff Band.
Our new looping album ENDLESS is out now on Bandcamp. Available as a download or limited edition CD with artist's book.
We are back. Two years in the making, Endless is a new album intended to be played on a loop. Exploring the theme of endlessness and infinity, it will be released in Autumn this year on digital download plus limited edition CD with artist's book.
The track in the trailer is Statuesque, released in partnership with our friends at Moron Labs for Net Label Day 2017
We are delighted to announce our new live show, Secret Islands. This audio-visual meditation on place and
solitude will take place at Splice Festival in London on Sunday 5 June 2016.
For full details see our Events page.
Our visual half Tom is guest VJ next week at SPHERE, London's best night for new live electronic music. Tickets and info are at spheremusicuk.com. SPHERE is hosted by Birthdays in Dalston, and next week's event is Wednesday 2 March.
Tom is screening the director's cut of his video for the Feeding Fingers track Where All of These Towns and Choices End at the Kino London film night at Electrowerkz in London on Monday 29 February. Entry is £5 on the door or £4 in advance from the Kino London website.
We are performing a live set at VJ London, Juno, Shoreditch High Street in London on Wednesday 5 August. The lineup also includes Fader, Ryo Ikeshiro and Mowgli.
Tom has created a video art triptych as part of Litha Efthymiou's short opera, Myisi. The show has two performances on Sunday 26 July at New Diorama Theatre, London, as part of Tete a Tete festival 2015.
More info and tickets
Our music video Test One (from our EP Sono) has a third screening, at Let The Film Do The Talking at Cafe Mode in Covent Garden, London - Thursday 4 October at 7pm. Allevents.in/London: Let The Film Do The Talking
We are performing on Saturday 4 October at OSHA, a one night event spread across four venues at Bournemouth Fringe. For more info see the Facebook page: Facebook: MF at OSHA
Underground music blog Raised By Gypsies have reviewed Sono, our recently released EP.
"Somewhere between ambient and In Utero".
RaisedByGypsies.com: Sono Review
Our new audio-only EP Sono is now available to buy on Bandcamp. Available as both a six track digital album (with 11-page PDF booklet), and limited edition cassette with a hand printed cover.
The cassette version includes a bonus track plus a live session on the B side.
Bandcamp: Sono
Four video art pieces from MF are screening this Wednesday at Visible Bits, Audible Bytes, an event exploring
the relationship between sound and image at Leicester's Phoenix Cinema Art Cafe Bar. We have contributed three AV tracks from
our album Field Studies, plus an exclusive showing of Test One, a music video from our forthcoming audio-only EP.
More info
We are excited to announce that we will be supporting US-European band Feeding Fingers on one of two UK dates as part of their "Occupant 2014" tour of Europe and the US, on Saturday 26 April in Salford, Manchester. Also playing are Nottingham's The Death Notes
Feeding Fingers have released four albums and amassed a considerable following throughout Europe and the US. We are very much looking forward to opening the evening for them.
Tickets and info
Tom has contributed three video art pieces to Parting, a performance devised and directed by composers Effy and Litha Efthymiou. Developed alongside clinical psychologist Dr. Vaughan Bell, the show explores the experience of psychosis from the point of view of those living with it.
Parting will be performed at Kings Place, London on Sunday 16 March. For more info and tickets click here.
We will be performing in the Cinema Tent curated by Whirlygig Cinema at the sold out In The Woods Festival 2013 on Saturday 31 August.
We are delighted to announce that the launch of our visual album Field Studies will take place on Saturday 17 August at Ventnor Fringe Festival on the Isle of Wight, with an hour-long AV performance.
The Fringe takes place throughout the town of Ventnor in the South of the Isle of Wight, showcasing established and emerging talent from various disciplines. Watch the Field Studies launch trailer and find out more from the festival's website at vfringe.co.uk
MF's Tom Brown is one of five video artists to perform alongside The Cabinet of Living Cinema in a groundbreaking event that fuses live music with moving image at Rich Mix, London.
More info and tickets: whirlygigcinema.com/events/making-tracks-12
Magnetic Foragers return to Kino London's Open-Mic Film Night this Wednesday after last month's screening of Questioner, taken from the upcoming visual album Field Studies. This month Kino are showing Mono Reel, another track from the album. See their website for more details.
We have released "Desk", a new free MP3 over on our Downloads page.
A recent rehearsal session. Collapsing buildings, moving light paintings, memories of suburban afternoons and a bleak but peaceful seashore complement noisy drones, guitar and autoharp, and abstracted loops reminiscent of church bells.
James Allard has released a free seven-track EP as Caves, his solo music project. Download it from record label Bassy Bass Productions.
Happy new year from Magnetic Foragers. We have updated the site with a new page, Other Work. Here you can view some other Magnetic Foragers releases you may have previously missed.
Audio from several of our rehearsal sessions can be found on our Soundcloud page. If you have a Soundcloud profile, subscribe to us for updates on there.
Our album is nearing completion, and the fourth fragment has been released. It can be viewed along with the others on the Field Studies page.
The music video directed and animated by Tom Brown for US/Germany band Feeding Fingers is now on Vimeo and Youtube.
Tom Brown on the music video:
Justin Curfman's Blog 31/05/11
James Allard (as Caves) has remixed the song "Shallows" by Jonathan Shipley.
Shallows (Remix) by Caves
The original can be found on Jonathan Shipley's blog: Assistant Blog 19/02/11
Mono Reel, the third fragment from our visual album is now online. Watch it on the Field Studies page.
The second in the series of fragments from our work in progress visual album Field Studies can be viewed on the Field Studies page.
Tom is to direct and animate a music video for Germany-based band Feeding Fingers. The song is titled My Imagined House, taken from the band's recently released third album Detach Me From My Head. Listen to it and read the full press release here:
http://justincurfman.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/new-feeding-fingers-music-video-in-production-in-london/
Our new website has launched. Have a look at About for more info on Magnetic Foragers, read about our upcoming visual album Field Studies and download a free MP3 of one of our tracks.
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