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Release Date Friday 31st October 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Hannah Peel’s third album, originally released in September 2017, is a
seven-movement odyssey composed for analogue synthesizers and traditional 29-piece
colliery brass band.
Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, which is being re-issued on 31 October, 2025 via
Real World Records, explores one person's journey to outer space, by recounting the
story of an unknown, elderly, pioneering, electronic musical stargazer and her lifelong
dream to leave her terraced home in the mining town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, to
see Cassiopeia for herself.
The brass band and rhythm section – ‘Tubular Brass’ - features the top UK championship
brass band players who were recorded live on location in The Barnsley Civic Theatre
with Peter Gabriel’s Real World studio team. These recordings were then expertly
combined with Peel’s detailed, analogue synth layered production to create a wholly
unique, collaborative sound; a first of its kind both live and on record.
The re-issue comes with updated artwork by original designer, Grammy award winning,
Jonathan Barnbrook (David Bowie collaborator on albums ‘Blackstar’ and ‘The Next Day’)
and remastered audio on Berry-coloured vinyl.
During her teenage years in Yorkshire, Peel played trombone in brass bands: marching
at weekends and wearing ‘dickie bows’ at competitions and so naturally the ‘brass’ sound
has become very much a part of her creative DNA. This love has recently come full circle
once again, as Peel is the presenter of the series ‘Brass Banding with Hannah Peel’ for
BBC Radio 3.
Mary Casio explores two very different worlds – the power of the brass band players
combined with the sub-bass impact and air resonating force of the synths but Peel also
creates a very human and intimate, at times fragile sounding record through her
collection of ‘breathing’ vintage electronics, found sounds, the nuances of the individual
brass instruments and the subtle ambience of her voice combining with the real and raw
breathing, shuffling and ‘spit’ of the players themselves.
1. Goodbye Earth
2. Sunrise Through The Dusty Nebula
3. Deep Space Cluster
4. Andromeda M31
5. Life Is On The Horizon
6. Archid Orange Dwarf
7. The Planet Of Passed Souls
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