{"title":"David Boulter","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"st-annes","title":"St Anne's","description":"\u003cp\u003eClay Pipe is pleased to welcome back the Tinderstick’s keyboard player David Boulter to the label. Since his \u003ci\u003eYarmouth\u003c\/i\u003e LP in 2020, and the spoken word-based \u003ci\u003eLovers Walk\u003c\/i\u003e the following year, Boulter has concentrated on his soundtrack work. He has produced scores for documentary maker Volkan Üce’s Displaced – and Tinnitus, a visually striking film by Brazilian director Gregorio Graziosi. He has also released a series of lathe-cuts featuring his soundtrack work, and the Factory Mini CD and Twelve Bells for Libuše flexi-disc single on Clay Pipe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSt Ann’s, is a tribute to the council estate, on the edge of Nottingham city centre that defined Boulter’s formative years: “I was born in the old St Ann’s. Famously documented in the late 60s as some of the poorest social housing in England. Crumbling, cramped, and full of damp. We had a shared toilet in the backyard and no bathroom, some of the houses were without hot water, it was freezing cold in winter. Everything seemed black and white.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the late 1960s, St. Ann's, like many other city centre areas, had become run down and was earmarked by the council for slum clearance. 340 acres were bulldozed and 30,000 people including David's family were compulsorily uprooted. In 1970 the Victorian streets were replaced with a Radburn-style estate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We moved to the new St Ann’s when I was six. There were two indoor toilets! A bathroom with a shiny white ceramic bath that you could fill whenever you wanted. Central heating, and a small garden at the front and back of the house. We had our own shed, and a cherry blossom tree just over the fence. Everything came into colour.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSubtle use of guitar, double bass, vibraphone, tenor recorder and field recordings conjure up the old streets of cobble and slate, damp brickwork and grey skies, juxtaposing the newer post-1960s world of pebble dash and green grass, fresh air and a brighter future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clay Pipe","offers":[{"title":"Purple LP","offer_id":50380130976075,"sku":"2211811","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50380131172683,"sku":"2197464","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/unnamed_9a61e485_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726208671"},{"product_id":"whitby","title":"Whitby","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Boulter\u003c\/strong\u003e, best known as a long-time member of Tindersticks, returns to Clay Pipe Music with \u003cem\u003eWhitby\u003c\/em\u003e - an evocative mini album inspired by the stark beauty and unsettling calm of England’s North Yorkshire coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnlike the familiar seaside towns of his youth - Great Yarmouth, Scarborough, Filey - Whitby held no particular memories for Boulter until he visited with his family in the summer of 2024. \"I’m constantly inspired by my surroundings, or memories of them,\" he says. \"Sat on an almost deserted beach, halfway between Whitby and Sandsend, it really hit me. The absolute beauty - and how alien it seemed. It was quite a stormy day: grey skies coming in off the North Sea, sun breaking through. The way the light hit the rocks, scattered across the beach; the waves crashing. Walking up to the ruined Abbey at sunset, again almost deserted. I imagined human life disappeared.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat sense of stillness and natural drama became the emotional core of the album. \"At a time when it seems we are pushing our planet to the edge, and the wars we rage continue, I felt such calm and connection to the landscape - and how simple beauty can be. The whale bones on the hill reminded me how we always take so much. But we can change.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs with much of his work, Boulter began composing in response to these experiences. On \u003cem\u003eWhitby\u003c\/em\u003e, the music takes on a more organic quality than his previous releases. While he initially made field recordings of the environment, he later chose to reinterpret them musically - using instrumentation to evoke the atmosphere of the coast: sitting on the beach, walking up by the Abbey, tracing the path of the old Cinder Track railway line. The result is a quietly powerful musical meditation on history, landscape, and the enduring presence of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clay Pipe","offers":[{"title":"10\" - Yellow","offer_id":52490793582923,"sku":"R9445-0644","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":52490793615691,"sku":"R9445-4332","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000x2000bb_bedaa938-0ace-4934-9db6-b99aac843230.jpg?v=1750709406"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/david-boulter.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}