Dark Age Martial Arts, by Dune Castle

Dark Age Martial Arts

by Dune Castle

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iatd_13 A groovy mix of genres that sounds like it'd be the background music for the Most D&D Campaign Of All Time, love it :D Favorite track: Cathbad the Inspector.

thewilliamister this is groovy fun and relaxing all at the same time Favorite track: Cathbad the Inspector.

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Repress of Dune Castle's Debut LP Dark Age Martial Arts - Pressed on green vinyl at Program Records, Thornbury. Limited Edition of 200.

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Pressed in Thornbury, Melbourne, Australia by Program Records.

Artwork and cover design by Tom Ferson.

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1.	The Apprentice 01:56	buy track
2.	Into the Forest 03:18	buy track
3.	Cathbad the Inspector 03:57	buy track
4.	Fiddlers Green 03:06	buy track
5.	Black Adder 03:07	buy track
6.	Succulent Supper 03:13	buy track
7.	Western Assassin 02:18	buy track
8.	In the Gallery of the Sugar Wyrm 01:59	buy track
9.	Wise Fool 03:02	buy track
10.	Duel in the Throne Room 01:17	buy track
11.	The Rise of Merlin 02:45	buy track
12.	Delirium and Delight 02:51	buy track

about

Dune Castle Presents… Dark Ages Martial Arts, an acid western funk tale composed by Cantrips’ Patrick Ryan and performed by Dune Castle, a rotating cast of session players performing as the label’s house band.

The record marks the debut LP release under “Dune Castle”, a series of cinematic releases that build upon the tapestry of the Dune Castle universe. Each iteration focuses on telling a story from a different part of this world, collaborating with a range of artists to bring these tales to life.

Growing up in Hong Kong from the mid 90s to early 10s, Ryan developed a fascination with martial arts films and fantasy epics. Revisiting these stories and more inspired by them, this record is the soundtrack to the fictional film “Dark Age Martial Arts”; an epic journey portrayed through the lens of 70s Kung Fu films and fantasy comic book series The Sandman. Composed throughout Melbourne’s second lockdown, this record takes cues from cinema and the martial arts through it’s sonic exploration; break-heavy soul/funk, cinematic psychedelia, and spaghetti western soundtracks.

Tom Ferson brought the visual side of this story to life, with the cover art a 1m x 1m painting that features Ryan’s housemates as models for characters listed in the record’s track names.

Directed by Ryan, the record was learnt, arranged and recorded over the course of two days in the Dune Castle Throne Room – a garage studio in Thornbury. Heavy rain and a tin roof necessitated creativity in the recording process on the first day by engineer Henry Jenkins, but the troupe were blessed by sunshine on a balmy Sunday for the second. All tracks were recorded in the order you hear on the record. Henry mixed the record at his Collingwood studio.

credits

released April 8, 2022

Produced by Patrick Ryan
Engineered and Mixed by Henry Jenkins
Recorded live in the Dune Castle Throne Room, Thornbury, Melbourne, 2021
Mastered by Max Dowling

Patrick Ryan – Classical Guitar, Farfisa, Percussion
Hudson Whitlock – Drums
Eugene Stone-Marques – Electric Guitar
Jethro Curtin – Farfisa, Wurlitzer, Solina, Model D
Lachlan Stuckey – Bass (1-5)
Carl Lindeberg – Bass (6-12)
Sam Harvey – Persussion (1-10)
Kaough Baggett – Percussion (11-12)

Artwork by Tom Ferson

We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this music is made, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, and would like to pay respect to elders past, present and emerging.

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Dune Castle Records is an independent record label based in Melbourne, Australia.

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