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Close Encounters of the Pennine Kind

by The Night Monitor

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1.
Window Area 03:18
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Adamski 2 02:54
4.
Night Shift 02:39
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Panda Stop 02:30
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Oz Factor 03:00
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Time Lapse 03:24
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Yosef 02:54
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Robots 02:13
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Black Dog 02:45
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about

28th November 1980. Todmorden, Yorkshire. Policeman Alan Godfrey encounters a mysterious metallic craft of unknown origin hovering above the road, stopping his ‘panda’ patrol car in its tracks. Later, under hypnosis, he describes being taken aboard the UFO where he meets a mysterious humanoid entity named ‘Yosef’, a group of eight small robots ("Ugh! Them are horrible!") and, perhaps most strangely, a folkloric black dog.

‘Close Encounters of the Pennine Kind’ is The Night Monitor’s musical evocation of one man’s strange and personal experience - a classic case in UK UFO lore, filtered via an early 1980s orchestrated synthesiser soundtrack.

Further reading:

'The Pennine UFO Mystery' by Jenny Randles (Granada 1983)
'Who or What Were They?' by Alan Godfrey (Oz Factor Books 2017)

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"Great music." Alan Godfrey

"... opening tracks “Window Area” and “Policeman’s Lot” launch into Unsolved Mysteries-style goosebump synth. Scrivin balances earnest intrigue and pulp histrionics, like Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World soundtracked by Kilgore Trout." Spenser Tomson - The Wire

"Neil's album is a collection of immaculate synth instrumentals that will delight fans of 1980s Doctor Who." Bob Fischer - Fortean Times

"It's hard not to imagine Blackpool's Neil Scrivin sitting with a Minimoog on his knee, watching old VHS recordings of 'Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World' on a never-ending loop... Scrivin is clearly in thrall to the Radiophonic Workshop scores of Messrs Kingsland, Limb and Howell from the 1980s, and the results are splendid. The opening track, 'Window Area', is a swirl of ominous synths, 'Yosef' a squelchy tribute to the biblical alien who apparently transported Godfrey onboard a hovering spacecraft, while 'Robots' is a crunchy homage to the UFO's eight mechanical crew members, keeping the ship aloft above the outskirts of Todmorden. Set the controls for the heart of Stoodley Pike, it's all splendidly spooky fayre." Bob Fischer - Electronic Sound

"This modular synth masterwork from The Night Monitor was inspired by Alan Godfrey’s alien abduction story." Bandcamp 'New and Notable'

"The Night Monitor aka Blackpool synthesist Neil Scrivin and head of the Fonolith Records mothership conjures up a hazy world of dark woods and bright sky lights. ‘Time Lapse’ is a panic of echoing bleeps with screeches of background wahs-wahs, ‘Oz Factor’ wouldn’t be out of place in ‘Stranger Things’, while ‘Adamski 2’ is like someone forced whatever they found at Roswell to do its own version of a slow, Balearic Ibiza-ready tune. It gets better on every listen, and will probably be one of my favourite records of the year." Fin Milligan - happeningagain.substack.com

credits

released March 3, 2023

Written, produced and performed by Neil Scrivin.
Artwork by Neil Scrivin.
Recorded 2019 - 2022.

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