No - Sword by Empty House
No-Sword was recorded winter 2024/2025 on 24 trk tascam portastudio. The album features additional guitar from Paul Wiggin.
Paul was the original guitarist of Section 25. His skeletal guitarwork is dominant on the S25 classics ‘Always now’ and ‘The Key of Dreams’.
The theme of No-Sword is Dub. A kind of left-field flirtation with dub, rather than the classic roots sound of the 70s and 80s.
There’s a kind of eastern philosophy running through the titles, nods to old kung fu movies, Chinese literature, Buddhism, although there about as useful as a street map of the Gobi Desert.
Paul’s guitar ranges from fragile, fractured spindles of notes to sinewy snake like coils of delay. I provide guitar solos here and there, along with any other shit I could throw in.
Fred Laird
bass, drum programming, taishogoto, Wasp synth, piano, melodica, organ, rhythm and lead guitar.
Paul Wiggin – delay guitar, wah guitar, tampura and tabla programming.
JB Farage – drums on Journey to the West.
Produced and mixed by Fred Laird
Front cover art by Fred Laird
Back cover art by Louise Haworth.
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Tracklist
| 1. | White Lotus | 4:42 |
| 2. | Radiating | 6:38 |
| 3. | Journey to the West | 6:05 |
| 4. | Soul on Fire | 4:08 |
| 5. | Bamboo | 4:37 |
| 6. | No - Sword | 6:24 |
| 7. | Dana Prajna Paramita | 9:12 |
| 8. | Bamboo - Alan Gregson mix (bonus track) | 4:07 |
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empty house is the solo work of Fleetwood based musician Fred Laird. Formed in March 2021, empty house is a musical project that fuses electronics, dub, drone and ambient. Buddhism, Clouds, literature, Martial Arts, sleeping all play a part in the themes of Laird's compositions.