individually numbered edition of 15
professionally duplicated CD-R in hand-assembled packaging with slipcase
2nd edition pressed up in time for Haloween!
Includes unlimited streaming of Permission Fist
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Cassette + Digital Album
APHELION013-K7
individually numbered edition of 30
professionally duplicated cassette with onbody UV-LED printed artwork in library case and with double-sided fold-out inlay artwork on thick card
2nd edition pressed up in time for Haloween!
Includes unlimited streaming of Permission Fist
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
edition of 30
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Streaming + Download
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
individually numbered edition of 15
professionally duplicated CD-R in hand-assembled packaging with slipcase
Includes unlimited streaming of Permission Fist
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Limited Edition C-40 Cassette (Vintage Bronze)
Cassette + Digital Album
APHELION013-K7
individually numbered edition of 30
professionally duplicated cassette with onbody UV-LED printed artwork in library case and with double-sided fold-out inlay artwork on thick card
Includes unlimited streaming of Permission Fist
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Harpoon is a project of Tina Hitchens and Aron Ward that utilises drum machines and stomp boxes to full effect.
'Permission Fist' is their mighty new work for Aphelion Editions, a head-spinning vortex of lean, brutalist, interlocking composition and hyperkinetic rhythm study, honing years of live improvisation into a thrill-ride of texture and sound that feels equally at home on your headphones in a darkened room as it would coming to you via a robust PA in a sweaty basement venue (eg. precisely how and where we plan to release this beast).
REVIEWS:
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"Permission Fist is the result of a collaboration between Tina Hitchens and Aron Ward entitled Harpoon. Constructed mainly from drum machines and guitar effects pedals, it’s a pretty brutal and physical experience but a stimulating one!" NORMAN RECORDS
www.normanrecords.com/records/176780-harpoon-permission-fist
"Distortion-larded, acid-adjacent synths loop at an impasse, like a remote control car being repeatedly guided into a wall; on ‘Useless Third’ it sounds like it’s going to go completely to pieces before a thick seam of midrange and a brain-stabbing cowbell swoops in, and by the five-minute mark fists are pumping..." NOEL GARDNER, THE QUIETUS
thequietus.com/articles/26539-harrga-loft-hygiene-review-new-weird-britain
"...one notch up, perhaps, is the use of a drum machine (or two) and stomp boxes; distortion, pitch shifters, phasers, flangers or whatever else is available in this department of rainbow coloured apparatus. This sort of set-up I would think is at the core of the duo named Harpoon... ...their music works best if you allow it to have some volume... Very nice release altogether..." FRANS DE WAARD, VITAL WEEKLY 1188
www.vitalweekly.net/1188.html
"These tunes are full with energy, making me go loopy as my brain can’t even compute with how awesome it all sounds. It makes me shake my head from left to right and down and up, feeling every kick, every bouncy bounce grooving its way in like an yet to be discovered wild tribe that comes out of the bushes to show you how it is all done!" KAI NOBOKU, YEAH I KNOW IT SUCKS
yeahiknowitsucks.wordpress.com/2019/07/23/harpoon-permission-fist/
credits
released May 20, 2019
APHELION013
Music and artwork by Tina Hitchens & Aron Ward (Harpoon).
Released by Aphelion Editions.
A small and lovingly curated cassette & CD-R label based in Bristol, UK. Founded and run by Liam McConaghy since 2016 and
encompassing an ever-expanding array of sounds from the worlds of ambient, drone, noise, free-improv, mutant techno, musique concrète and beyond......more
The North Carolina singer and multi-instrumentalist translates the "story of lightness" into nine experimental ambient spirituals. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 8, 2021