Andy Bell See My Friends 10" VinyL EP Yellow Colour 2021

Yellow Colour Vinyl

Tracklist:

1. The Commune (Pye Corner Audio Remix)
2. Plastic Bag (Pye Corner Audio Remix)
3. The Commune
4. Plastic Bag

“Each release in the series will be smaller in size than the last, so we start with a 12”, then a 10”, a 7” and CD,” says Andy of the concept, “so that was the reason for the name ‘Ever Decreasing Circles’, a figurative and fond nod to the ’80s Richard Briers sitcom. I like the idea that the EPs represent fainter and fainter echoes of The View From Halfway Down and, as such, can be visualised as water splashes reducing in size on a pond, much like the shots at the start of each episode of the sitcom! Pretentious, moi?”

“Martin [Jenkins, aka Pye Corner Audio] has been top of my list of people to work with ever since a monumental night at the Social, late 2019. It was Sonic Cathedral’s 15th birthday party and Pye Corner Audio was headlining, with bdrmm and myself playing live sets. It was a bit of a legendary night and, before it was over, Martin and I had agreed we would work together on something, sometime. I wasn’t sure he’d remember the conversation, but luckily he did.”

Martin agreed to remix an EP’s worth of songs from the album [which forms The Indica Gallery EP, credited to Andy Bell meets Pye Corner Audio uptown as an acknowledgement of their meeting in The Social], but then he contacted me to say he’d heard ‘The Commune’ and could he remix that as well? This is one of my favourites of the seven remixes he’s done. He ended up reworking both sides of my debut single, so they have now become their own release, along with the original single tracks remastered by Heba Kadry, as the See My Friends EP.

The two tracks from Andy Bell’s debut solo single reworked by Pye Corner Audio, with the original tracks remastered by Heba Kadry.