Graeme Miller & Steve Shill The Moomins Xmas Sleeve Edition

Imagine, if you will, a foreboding homemade electro-acoustic, new age, synth
driven, proto-techno, imaginary world music Portastudio soundtrack for a Polishmade animated fantasy based on a Finnish modern folk tale and created for
German and Austrian TV, composed in 1982 by two politically driven post-punk
theatre performers from a shared house in Leeds!
To even the most perspicacious and adventurous of alternative music fans the
genuine bloodline of this previously unreleased record already begins to sound
like an entire record collection in one sitting. It would be surprising if this project’s
ambitious and exotic credentials didn’t tick at least one box on your musical matrix
and without one drop of unnecessary nostalgic hyperbole this project already
sounds like the perfect fantasy record that you’ve never heard. Alternatively we
could just say The Moomins and, for many, things would instantly begin to make
perfect sense.
From the same social landscape as Gang Of Four, The Mekons and Impact
Theatre Co-operative - armed with a Wasp synthesiser, an ocarina and a cassette
of the Robinson Crusoe music taped off the TV, Graeme Miller and Steve Shill
used minimum means for maximum mayhem, instilling over 35 years of dreamlike
illusory fuzziness and freakiness into the memories of a generation of school age TV
addicts waiting for the next 5 minute fix of outernational fuzzy felt folklore. Collected
here, all in one place for the first time, Finders Keepers in close collaboration
with the original composers finally bring the original homemade micro-melodies
and reintroduce them to a musical landscape where fans of vintage electronics,
concrète tape effects, pocket percussion and domestic synths are finally ready to
be reunited with the magnetic music of Moominvalley.

A stricty limited edition (500 only) special winter wunderland edition of this
classic Finders Keepers release.

The crowning jewel in our dedicated issue series of the music from the cult
1983 television series. Available alongside a special limited edition fuzzy felt 7”
single.

The full sountrack release for the UK-specific cult animated series. Produced TRACKLIST with the full cooperation of the original artists.