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From Postcard to Music

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Art Kitchen Exhibition — Tuscaloosa, Alabama (2012) In February 2012, a recycled mail‑art postcard by This Window was exhibited at The Alabama Art Kitchen , an artist‑run collective based at 2626 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, Alabama . The piece originally served as promotional artwork for the 2009 digital release Cassette Culture , and features a photograph of Marni De Much , drummer on the limited‑edition Morgue Studio Demos CDR. The Alabama Art Kitchen operated throughout the early 2010s as a volunteer‑driven space offering studios, workshops, exhibitions, and community arts events. Although the physical venue is no longer active in its original form, many of the artists involved continue to contribute to Tuscaloosa’s independent creative scene through pop‑up shows and collaborative projects that grew out of the collective. Recycled Artwork and the Extractivism Series The postcard exhibited in Alabama was later reused as the visual anchor for the Extractivism series on Bandcamp —...
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Still in a World Top 100 chart

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A Veteran of the Underground, Still Breaking Ground For decades, This Window has operated far from the mainstream — born in the cassette‑culture underground, shaped by DIY production, and defined by a stubborn refusal to conform. The project has cycled through eras of post‑industrial noise, minimal synth, darkwave atmospherics, and lo‑fi experimentation, always prioritising texture, mood, and emotional undercurrents over commercial polish. That history matters here. Because today’s chart success isn’t a fluke — it’s the culmination of years spent cultivating a sound that resists trends yet somehow outlasts them. This Is War by This Window Discover the world of This Window on Bandcamp — free, paid, or name‑your‑price. Dive into decades of experimental sound: from cassette‑culture fragments to sculpted digital pieces. Try the Hopeless compilations for free, explore singles like Lay Back , or support the project directly with albums such as This Is War . Start listening: https://thiswi...
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Track inspired by Wistman's Wood

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This Killing Thing (Live) and the ecological context of Wistman’s Wood The lyrics for this track were inspired by a visit to Wistman’s Wood in the late 1970s. Even back then, its environmental and cultural importance was well recognised, as it’s one of the most significant remaining fragments of Britain’s Atlantic temperate rainforest . Although small in extent, the wood represents a rare continuity of pre‑Neolithic forest ecology and provides a useful framework for understanding the track’s atmosphere, instability, and sense of impending destruction. This track is in many ways about man's impact on the environment - 'This killing thing inside this machine' -   we are, in fact, the killing thing. Where pitted stone becomes knotted oak... This Killing Thing (Live) captures This Window at their most unfiltered: a moment where chaos isn’t just present, it’s the entire accidental aesthetic. The mix is still being wrangled, the sound engineer is fighting a losing battle...
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Extraction - reviews

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Extraction 1989 – This Window A review: "Extraction 1989 is one of those releases that reminds you exactly why the UK’s cassette‑culture underground mattered. It’s not nostalgia; it’s the shock of hearing a project at the moment its language crystallises. This Window’s 1989 tape—now reissued from the original master—captures a shift from raw DIY abrasion toward something more atmospheric, more deliberate, and more quietly unsettling." Extraction — originally released by EE Tapes (ET06) in 1989 — returns here as a digital transfer from the original master tape . The material itself has a strangely archaeological quality: fragments literally gathered from the studio floor, lengths of ¼” tape spliced together , threaded through whatever machines were at hand, and mixed in a semi‑random, instinctive manner. Some of these sounds reach even further back, with source elements dating to 1978 . This download is sourced from the original master. Downloads Extraction pt.1 has bee...
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This is Art - You've got mail

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Playing Live and Mail Art This Window played an active and long‑running role in the international Mail Art scene from the 1980s through to 2000, using postal exchange as both a creative method and a distribution network. The project circulated handmade artworks, recycled postcards, cassette releases, and collaborative pieces through the same global postal routes that defined Mail Art’s DIY ethos. These exchanges connected This Window with artists and small labels across Europe and the USA, forming a parallel channel to the cassette‑culture networks that also carried the project’s music. This involvement wasn’t only postal: in 1990, This Window was invited to perform at the 3rd Mail‑Art Festival in Sint‑Niklaas, Belgium — a hybrid event combining a Mail Art exhibition, live music, and radio broadcast, placing the project directly within the movement’s multimedia experimentation. Peter Bright’s own Mail Art practice continued into the 1990s and beyond, with recycled postcard works later...
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Hopeless: An Open Door

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Another FREE Album From This Window Hopeless: An Open Door Into the Restless World of This Window For more than four decades, This Window has existed as one of the UK’s most quietly persistent experimental projects—an evolving framework rather than a fixed band, a place where sound, image and idea are treated as interchangeable materials. From early cassette‑culture experiments in 1980 to the digital releases of the present day, the project has remained fiercely independent, guided by a DIY ethos and a refusal to settle into any single method or aesthetic. As the Bandcamp page puts it, This Window is “less a band than a creative framework… a shifting, anarchic platform for sound, image, and idea.” Download Free The Hopeless series on Bandcamp takes that long, unruly history and turns it into something generous: a set of free digital compilations designed as open doors—entry points for new listeners and reflective spaces for long‑time followers. Each volume gathers material from acr...
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From Hymn to Modern Soundscape

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There is a persistent human impulse to claim a flag or banner as proof of belonging — to hold it aloft as if symbolism alone could settle questions of identity, purpose or ownership. Yet the weight of such emblems comes from those who carried them before us: people who walked, fought, endured, or simply held a line so that a place, a culture or a way of life might continue. In that sense, a banner is never really “owned” by the present moment. It is inherited, weathered by history, a responsibility that is always heavier than it first appears. Procession With Cross and Banners — Track Notes Track title: Procession With Cross and Banners Source: Adaptation of Onward, Christian Soldiers First appearance: Jig‑Saw Man CDr (M4TR 005) Credits: From Extractivism 2 . Track originally released 2007. Extractivism 2 by This Window This piece takes the familiar Victorian hymn and bends it through a modern, more unsettled frame. The forward‑m...
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