NATURE AND ORGANISATION

Nature and Organisation biography
Nature and Organisation is the neofolk project of British composer and guitarist Michael Cashmore, formed in 1983. Its sound is defined by neoclassical acoustic folk paired with electronic industrial flourishes which set it apart from its contemporaries in the apocalyptic folk scene.

Nature and Organisation began as an experimental post-industrial unit, with noisy sound collages and tape loops owing more to the early works of Current 93, whose David Tibet Cashmore met in the mid-80s. This embryonic sound was documented in a handful of compilation tracks and a live performance, Third Terminal Position, independently released on cassette in 1986. In 1990, Cashmore joined Current 93, imbuing it with his unique, lush melodious compositional talent. Four years later, Cashmore released Nature and Organisation's most well-known and defining album, Beauty Reaps the Blood of Solitude, on Durtro records. The LP featured contributions from Tibet, as well as Douglas P. (of Death in June), Rose McDowall (of Strawberry Switchblade) and Steven Stapleton (of Nurse With Wound). An accompanying EP, A Dozen Summers Against the World, came out the same year.

Cashmore's sophomore LP, Death in a Snow Leopard Winter, was released in 1998. An instrumental and more neoclassical-oriented affair, dominated by piano and strings, Cashmore claimed he intended to add vocals and deemed the album unfinished. The project would enter dormancy sometime afterwards until a 2015 collection, Snow Leopard Messiah, was released by Trisol, compiling both LPs and the EP, along with a rare Jacques Brel interpretation. Nature and Organisation would record their first new material in nearly twenty years for the 2016 archival release Universal Death Stream, scoring a soundtrack to an unreleased film the band made in 1985. By this time, Cashmore's sound shifted dynamically yet again, incorporating more electronic and ambient post-rock influences. A 12 vinyl single, A Dozen Winters Against the World, was issued a year later, featuring remixed and rearranged versions of three old songs in the new style.

Nature and Organisation will appeal to listeners of Current 93, Sangre de Muerdago, Hautville, Forseti, Corde Oblique and Solanaceae.

------ bio and addition prepared and written by Gordy (BR) -------------