New Release...coming soon

This November will see the release of some new music and sound in the form of:
Station Wagon Interior Perspective (A Requiem for John Fahey).

 This is my first full-band recording since 'Robert Stillman's Horses', and features an ensemble called the Archaic Future Players, comprised of Jeremy Udden (c-melody saxophone), Kenny Warren (trumpet), Dave Noyes (trombone), Ben Stapp (tuba), and me on Fender Rhodes and drums.

The 20-minute, four-movement suite was originally composed for a concert at The Stone (NYC) in January, 2010 as part of a program there curated by Matana Roberts. The music was inspired by a black and white photo of Fahey behind the wheel of his station wagon, and the music is an attempt to reach out musically to that wild, heroic, bearded wise-man that I'll never get to meet.

The recording was begun at Vanity Sound in Brooklyn, NY by Tyler Wood (Glass Ghost, Joan as Policewoman), and then given  the full 'treatment' over the course of the next year.

"Station Wagon Interior Perspective" will be released in a limited edition of 100 vinyl 10-inch EP's by Apohadion Records, with hand-screened album artwork. Download and hand-screened gatefold CD ecopack versions will be released by Archaic Future recordings, with bonus tracks 'Requiem for JF" and "NR Rag".

Buy CD and downloads now at the Archaic Future Web-store!!
Buy Vinyl 10 inch record from Apohadion Records !!

Here's a few tracks:


Part I: Waltz by R M Stillman Part III: Stomp by R M Stillman Epilogue for JF (CD/download only) by R M Stillman

Canterbury Eye and Ear

MACHINE'S SONG OUT

'MACHINE'S SONG' is officially out now on OIB records, and available in shops, itunes, amazon, and through the OIB webstore. 
Click Here to listen, and Here for info

Recent press for 'Machine's Song':


"Composer Robert Stillman's sublime latest transmission sets wordless one-man band pieces conjuring a quaint Americana against mechanical collages...Like drifting off in a saloon bar reverie and waking up beside a locomotive engine.
 (★ ★ ★ ★ ) -MOJO


"Stillman takes over-familiar totems of Americana asks you to hear them afresh." THE OBSERVER


"Machine's Song is a creaky, uncanny music that creates an impressionistic 
picture of old America" - UNCUT


"Messy results can often arise from mingling the homely familiariarity of tradition with anarchic, free thought of modern composition, but Stillman's latest work is a storming success in this respect" ROCK A ROLLA


"Listening to Robert Stillman's extraordinary Machine's Song is akin to stepping inside some half remembered dreamworld inhabited by fairground organs, player pianos and other antique musical automata." - SHINDIG'S HAPPENING MAGAZINE


"It’s beautiful music that engages both the emotions and the intellect, and seems to exist at least partly in the shadows of memory, which is, perhaps, a bit part of what makes it such a rousing delight." - THE HURST REVIEW

April 5th 2011 at The Tank

'Station Wagon Interior Perspective (Requiem John Fahey) - Part II
Kenny Warren (tpt) Jeremy Udden (c mel) Dave Noyes (tbn) Ben Stapp (tba) Mike Johnson (dr)
Thanks to 'NY Dave' Sheinkopf for filming

Machine's Song

New Release!
I'm very glad to announce the upcoming release of the album 'Machine's Song' on One Inch Badge Records. Please click HERE to listen to tracks, and HERE for info about the record. 

The official release is next Monday the 11th July (shops, online, amazon/itunes). However, the One Inch Badge Web Store is taking pre-orders NOW. The first 35 orders will receive the CD packaged in a LIMITED EDITION letterpress printed poster, designed and printed by Anna Fewster and Alan Brignull. This is the numbered, original artwork of which the retail-version is a replica. See below for images. 

Click HERE to order. 

MONO at KOKO

I'll be supporting MONO + the Holy Ground Orchestra at Koko in London this Tuesday June 7

Uncut Magazine

Some early critical fanfare for the soon-to-be-released (June 13) 'Machine's Song' album,  in John Mulvey's 'Wild Mercury Sound' column for UNCUT Magazine. (Click on image to enlarge)