Mark Harwood is a writer, publisher and musician recording as Astor. His works "encompass a wide variety of sources and techniques as a means of exploring audio that rubs shoulders with narrative, the visual and the hallucinogenic".

Astor 's previous releases include Alcor and Inland on Kye. He also runs Penultimate Press which has released Dennis Johnson’s November alongside four books by Graham Lambkin and records by Henning Christiansen, Jacques Brodier, Matthew P Hopkins and others.

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