Ribbons of Rust, by Mark Vernon

Ribbons of Rust

by Mark Vernon

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$7 USD or more
Subscription

Subscribe now to receive all the new music Flaming Pines creates, including 19 back-catalog releases, delivered instantly to you via the Bandcamp app for iOS and Android. Learn more.

Subscribe Now $6.50 USD/month or more
Full Digital Discography

136

releases

Get all 136 Flaming Pines releases available on Bandcamp and save 50%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Soundwalkscapes, Opticks, The Colour of Water, Metal, Svalbard Soundtracks, Ginestra, Homework, Bells, and 128 more. , and , .
Excludes subscriber-only releases.

Purchasable with gift card

$415 USD or more (50% OFF)
Limited edition pro printed and dubbed tape
Cassette + Digital Album
A beautiful J card tape, with coloured cassette.

Includes unlimited streaming of Ribbons of Rust via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out

1.	Nocturnal Congregation 02:51	buy track
2.	An Insoluble Rock 06:45	buy track
3.	Only The Shell Can Tell 05:51	buy track
4.	Unseaworthy Vessels 03:31	buy track
5.	Peel Back The Layers 04:18	buy track
6.	Marghemite Bay (Core Memory) 01:45	buy track
7.	Accelerated Aquaculture 04:40	buy track
8.	Buffer Zone 00:23	buy track
9.	The Lost Resort 09:20	buy track
10.	Abrasive Pillow 01:39	buy track
11.	A Tale In Reverse 15:54	buy track

about

This album focuses on a derelict and abandoned holiday resort at Laem Thian bay on the east coast of the island of Koh Tao in Thailand. The resort is situated in a small cove that is only accessible on foot via an overgrown path and a walk of several miles - a journey very few tourists bother to make. It is clear at first sight that the fading white building has been vacated for some time. The concrete structure opens out onto a small sandy beach that would have provided an idyllic holiday setting at one time. A number of palm-thatched holiday cottages with dilapidated roofs slide down the hillside. There are signs of vandalism; graffiti decorates the walls, the remains of camp fires, broken glass and other detritus litter the floors - but remnants of the previous occupants also remain. Children’s toys, kitchenware, hand written notes, menus, mattresses, a plastic telephone and four cassette tapes - rusty, caked in sand, weather damaged and corroded by the humid salty sea air.

There is a haunting quality to the location that left a deep impression on me. The sense of isolation and abandonment it engendered was in stark contrast to the rest of the island, and indeed the rest of Thailand as I experienced it. This feeling stayed with me and in some way it permeated the rest of my stay in the country. It is that feeling that I wanted to convey through this work.
Mark Vernon.
------------------
Mark Vernon is a Glasgow-based artist whose work exists on the fringes of sound art, music and broadcasting. At the core of his practice lies a fascination with the intimacy of the radio voice, environmental sound, obsolete media and the re-appropriation of found recordings. He incorporates these diverse elements into radiophonic compositions for broadcast, fixed media and live performances. His solo and collaborative music projects have been published through labels including Kye, Staalplaat, Ultra Eczema, Entr’acte, 3Leaves, Staubgold and Gagarin Records, as well as a series of small CDR and LP editions on his own meagre resource imprint. Along with Barry Burns Mark produces the Radiophrenia 24 hour radio festival.

credits

released June 26, 2019

All recordings made or found in Thailand between February and March 2016.

Location photographs by Tian Miller.

Cassette documentation by David Fulford.

Developed during the Hospitalfield Summer Residency 2017. Made with support from the PRS Foundation’s Open Fund and Sound and Music’s Francis Chagrin Award.

Special thanks to Tian Miller, Barry Burns, Ian Middleton and Kate Carr.

license

about

Flaming Pines London, UK

“Flaming Pines is itself a topography of hidden global sounds." The Wire.

We are a label focused on field recording, sound art and experimental ambient music.

contact / help

Contact Flaming Pines

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Ribbons of Rust, you may also like:

The Actress
by Vanessa Rossetto

supported by 10 fans who also own “Ribbons of Rust”

This goes crazy. Never heard something like this. What an experience and definitely opened and inspired my creative eyes, ears, body, and soul abstractshine
go to album
self-care
by Vanessa Rossetto

supported by 9 fans who also own “Ribbons of Rust”
go to album
Paper Gestures
by Mark Vernon

supported by 9 fans who also own “Ribbons of Rust”
go to album
A Call to Arms
by Visionist

Visionist showcases vocals for the first time on his Mute debut, featuring collabs with members of Circuit des Yeux, Black Midi and more. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 5, 2021
go to album
Home Recordings 2018 - 2021
by Yara Asmar

Lebanese multi-instrumentalist deconstructs classical tropes through an eccentric array of instruments, including disassembled toy pianos. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 22, 2022
go to album
SAD GODS presents "Singing for Survival - a Compilation for Project Onward"
by Various Artists

A stellar compilation featuring shoegaze and indie favorites like Drowse, Midwife, and Mount Eerie benefitting Project Onward in Chicago. Bandcamp New & Notable May 11, 2023
go to album
The Tower (The City)
by Vanessa Rossetto/Lionel Marchetti

supported by 9 fans who also own “Ribbons of Rust”

this is so wonderful. the sounds of a plenty tiny morsels of human past present and future(s), documented and sewn one unto the other into a babel's cloak. avery
go to album