Release Date: 30-October-2006

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Tracklist:

1. Pagan Days
2. From An Open Door
3. Post-Gate
4. "Snow Falling On a Town"
5. Mountains
6. Widescreen Western
7. Desert Turning Green
8. And From Slumber
9. Voices
10. Traces Of Orchestra (Missing)
11. Everytime
12. Where Green Roads Meet
13. Field Trip
14. When Even The Whiskey Won't Work

"Empty Bottle, Dusty Road" is the debut studio album from Brickwerk -
a Cheltenham based group consisting of Mike Ward, Kev Fox and Anna Dennis.

All three members are successful live and recording artists in their own right ,
Mike Ward as one half of John Peel show regulars Longstone, Kev Fox with three successful albums as 90 Degrees South and Anna Dennis as vocalist with Silverman.

Brickwerk have previously released an E.P. on Ochre Records and several tracks on compilations including the Mary Anne Hobbs favourite Infrasonic Waves.
They have performed a series of varied live shows and installations during the past decade, including one of the first ever live internet broadcasts from a floating hotel in the shadow of the embryonic Millennium Dome.

The album collects together 14 tracks and takes the listener through a series of songs, sonic experiments, vocal snippets and atmospheres that invoke the spirit of film soundtracks such as The Wicker Man and the fantastic visions of Postgate and Firmin's Small Films. Utilising found sounds such as wind blowing across Anglesea, ice cracking underfoot in Scarisbrick and water flowing through the cellars of the now demolished Cheltenham Brewery combined with a collection of synthesisers, homemade electronic devices, children's toys, car-boot plunder and more traditional rock and roll instruments.

The music hints at a variety of styles, electronica, folk, country, pop and experimental and is augmented by the ever haunting vocals of Anna Dennis.

Brickwerk Contact:

E-mail:
brickwerk@hotmail.co.uk
info@elbandito.co.uk

Web:
www.myspace.com/brickwerk
www.elbandito.co.uk

Brickwerk Biog:

Brickwerk are….

Mike Ward (Longstone)
Kevin Fox (90 degrees South)
Anna Dennis (Silverman)

Brickwerk, named after a song on the first Longstone album, came into being as an outlet for a series of musical ideas that Mike felt would not work for Longstone. These initial ideas required vocals and as Mike had recently been recording some acoustic demos for Anna she agreed to return the favour by recording some new parts and allowing her demos to be chopped up and treated with all manor of strange sounds.

At the same time Kev and Mike had been trawling car boot sales for any little gadgets that would make interesting electronic sounds (toys, robots, tape decks, Texas instruments, chord organs, etc.) They had also been involved in the Serpents project for Ochre records and had started collecting natural and found sounds on Mini Disc.

Once Brickwerk had started recording, these toys and sounds were also being incorporated and so Kev had naturally become part of the band. Over the next few months and years Brickwerk existed in two parallel forms, the recording unit of Mike, Anna and Kev and as live act for Mike and Kev to try out some unique experimental performances and installations. Brickwerk was always meant to be a fluid project and as such other musicians have joined in on recording and live events. These include Steve Moody (Silverman, Always Crashing in the Same Car), Chris Cundy (Grace & Delete, Longstone, Guillemots), Mike Cross (Longstone) and Sarah Brown who joined Brickwerk for the Furby/Speak & Spell orchestra experiment!

There was always going to be a Brickwerk album and work continued on and off for five years. Several Brickwerk recordings surfaced on compilations including the critically acclaimed Infrasonic Waves series on Ochre Records.

Ochre also released Brickwerk's debut E.P. as a 3 track 7" called Field Trip. Finally the three core members other projects were resting at the same time and the album was completed and a new live set is being developed around some of the album themes.