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Touch rereleasing 1983 cassette for archival release series

Touch has started a series rereleasing material from its own archive (which runs back to 1982). The first release will be Islands Inbetween, a 1983 cassette edition of gamelan and field recordings made in Java and Bali by Jon Wozencroft as Touch33. It will be released as a download and in a run of 500 vinyl, edited for this release by BJ Nilsen.

Following Islands Inbetween, Touch will release Drumming For Creation, a 1985 cassette release of drumming by The Bagamoyo Group, Dundun, Walo Shatan Gwari and others. Islands Inbetween will be released on 3 August. More details here.