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MOOMINS 7” Single (signed)
One of a pressing of 900 vinyl singles of the Main Theme of The Moomins; the 1982UK adaptation of the Moomins featuring the Film Polski animations. This re-issue of the electro-folk score for the series by Finders Keepers records has been released on vinyl CD and cassette with special collectable editions like this single which has a hand-stitched fuzzy-felt sleeve featuring orginal artwork from the series. The un-played copy of this sold-out edition of the single in mint condition is signed by artist and composer Graeme Miller and film and TV writer and director Steve Shill.
7” vinyl single in printed and stitched felt cover (190mm x 190mm)
Side A: The Moomins Main Theme, Side B: Midwinter Rites.
★★★★★
“Feels like a precious antique marvel conjured up from the deep within the depths of a wizard's workshop”
STARS SHINDIG
★★★★★
“A thing of Snork Maiden-ish beauty”
UNCUT
★★★★★
“A remarkably satisfying, hook-ridden sonic adventure”
RECORD COLLECTOR
★★★★★
“Will give anyone who saw the series as a child a Proustian rush”
THE OBSERVER
★★★★★
“Among the new age flutes and naive Casio keys on the is never-before-released soundtrack are dark wave baselines and paranoid vocal chants”
MIXMAG
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Graeme Miller is an artist, composer and performance-maker working internationally across a wide range of media from radio to gallery installation and is known for his sited, performative social works.
His practice emerged from UK performance of the 1980s as the co-founder of the influential theatre company Impact Theatre Co-operative. While continuing to make his own stage works that include A Girl Skipping (1990), he evolved a wide-ranging practice as an artist. He makes work that often responds to ideas about place and time, creating situational pieces that shift the attention in his audience. He also composes music and designs sound for theatre, dance, TV and film and is Associate Artist Tutor on the MA Performance Making Course at Goldsmiths University, London.
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