Back
again for its 17th
anniversary(Barring a few gaps off course), DIH
and friends at Christmas are now after experimental, ambient, songs
(on any topic), poetry and music tracks on the theme of Christmas.
Back
now in it’s 17th year, as can be seen on
www.digitalvomit.com/dih-and-friends, DIH and friends have since 2002
been producing an annual series of anti Christmas songs for people
who really don’t like Christmas or have a very alternative
viewpoint of the season in question.
The
history of the project from Digital Vomit state ‘The origin behind
the infamous series of DIH with friends at Christmas began back in
2002 when for a one off joke as a side project from his more official
work in DIH, Andy N one year decided with the help of one or two
friends decided to do in his words ‘ A Christmas album for those
people who don’t really like Christmas’ where in the space of
half an hour (as was the original plan) – Andy and a few friends
would murder, cripple and take the piss out of as many songs as they
could.
However,
as is the nature of the beast with this sort of thing things
snowballed and by the time the second album came along, It had become
officially a DIH project where they would between the three of them
alongside with an ever-increasing cast play around with the myth of
the Christmas, which will often be funny and sad sometimes within the
same breath.
The
music contained within this series of albums are varied and can vary
from spoken word (sometimes with musical backing or experimental
backing), acoustic singer songwriter stuff to music that could appeal
to fans of Aphex Twin, hardcore, breakbeats, dub step, fans of the
spoken word, re-imagining of carols and classic songs, faithful
versions of Christmas carols and songs and generally people who like
their music to challenge and make them think.
For
reasons too long winded and boring to go into here, DIH took a break
from the Christmas albums in 2012 before starting up again in 2015.
Following
on from their 2015 comeback, we are now expecting submissions for our
2018 album, our fourth album since starting up again with anything
and everything encouraged from experimental, drones, ambient,
Christmas Carols, Poems, songs.. whatever takes your guardian
really..
Anything
is welcome by email to either myself aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk. (Andy N)
Me
and Keith can also be contacted viva Facebook for further questions
and the album will be released on Hicc Records
on bandcamp.com
Closing
date is 12th
December 2018.
