Bass Clef aka Ralph Cumbers’ September release schedule will include reissues of Bass Clef’s first two Blank Tapes albums. But first up is a two track digital single “Hard Lessons Hardly Learned”/“Holy Days Wholly Dazed”, released on 13 September by his new label Open Hand Real Flames. A week later he’s reissuing Bass Clef’s 2007 debut album A Smile Is A Curve That Straightens Most Things and 2009’s May The Bridges I Burn Light The Way via other label Magic + Dreams.

“I vividly and fondly recall Appleblim dropping “Clapton Deep” at FWD at Plastic People,” says Cumbers, recalling various responses to Bass Clef’s debut album. “Geiom played “Cannot Be Straightened” at DMZ. That tune had a strange life of it’s own – later vocalled by Durrty Goodz on his Axiom EP after he picked up a white label at Uptown Records.

“In a further bizarre twist, American Superstar DJ Bassnectar made a bootleg of the tune, combined with an MIA a cappella,” he continues. “I have watched the YouTube clip of it going down a storm at some huge American EDM festival with a weird feeling.”

The release schedule also includes Zamyatin Renumbered, a compilation of tracks from two 12"s remastered by Joe Caithness.

Cumbers has shared “Cannot Be Straightened” via Bandcamp.