The two founding members of Jack Adaptor, Mr Cordoba and Mr Frederick, have created a new thing of beauty – and it’s out now!

You can order the expanded, digital-download version of the new Jack Adaptor LP from I-Tunes for only 6.99.

iTunes Order link: I Saw A Ghost (Deluxe edition)

The expanded version is the regular 12 track album PLUS another whole LP’s worth of extra tracks! That makes 23 songs in total.

“I Saw A Ghost” is also available on 12-track CD in a beautiful card sleeve (by Anne Sorensen) from the Supple Pipe shop, priced at just 5.99 including postage and packing. Buy it here:

Here is a preview of two songs from the album, first a double-edged sword, then a fait accompli.

“South Beach Serenade”:

“Little Meanings”:

Fans of The Durutti Column, Bill Frisell, Brian Eno’s ambient work and connoisseurs of the Warp, Wyndham Hill and Leaf record labels will appreciate this diverse and yet very centred first collection from Cordoba.

An expectant father, realising that his world will never be the same again, awakes in the middle of the night to the sound of an unborn child crying.

Listen to: Tanzi Shuffle

Armed with no more than a Telecaster and an E-bow he attempts to recreate the sounds he heard that night in the small box room he has been allocated in the new cottage he and his wife have just moved into. As the week counts down to the birth, the music that emerges is “Paternity”, an album created from the impending doom/joy of fatherhood.

Listen to: The Ghost of the Roman Soldier

But while the record may deal with the deeply personal emotions surrounding the impending birth of a first child, it is resolutely unsentimental, even in its sweeter moments. There are elements of doom, remorse and doubt, but many of the 15 tracks resolve in a positive turn towards the future. In places glacial, in places industrial, in others quiet, pensive and reflective, this is a concise, eclectic and rewarding album of melody and skill.

“Paternity” has an atmosphere of contemplative winter clarity, yet it is also witty and engaging, using a deliberately limited range of sounds to draw a sketch of the mixed emotions which must accompany such a life-changing event as parenthood. Once the child arrives and time is no longer your own, how will the music survive? And where does it come from in the first place? The miracle of birth is not the only miracle. There is also the miracle of the creative process, and Cordoba is searching for the source of inspiration, as mysterious as that is. You can hear the urgency, the sheer need to record these scintillating pieces before constant supervision of a child replaced constant guitar-playing.

The guitar work is very much in Cordoba’s own unique style. It is not bluesy or folky, not even really jazzy, transcending all genres in the way of Richard Thompson or Robert Fripp. Yet it is also highly contemporary, and has a spirit common to the work of, say, Tom James Scott or James Blackshaw.

This is music which is sure of itself and its own direction, but also asks questions: What is beauty? What is yet to come? What will the world be like in our children’s time?

Check out these selections from the first SERIES, due for release later in 2012:

“Model 1″

“Model 2″

“Model 3″

At the time Cordoba and Frederick where inspired by the classic songwriting brilliance of Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Webb, Gram Parsons, Laura Nyro, Gene Clark, Townes Van Zant and everything Motown. All of these influences and more are reflected in a remarkable 13 song selection entitled “The Pure Grain Songbook Volume 1″ to be issued via Supple Pipe later this year.

For now, marvel at these former favourites

Listen to: Boom Strung

Post Italian progsters White Lightning make their Supple Pipe debut with this hard fought victory of a track

Listen to: Sisyphus Lives

More eccentric mayhem and control from White Lightning!

At http://t.co/EI13UtGO you can hear Christopher cordoba’s first mixtape, a country rock, soul, drone rock, prog, psychedelic, folk mix to gladden the heart. Prizes to anyone who can name all the tracks!