I started making music around 1991, recording into a Dictaphone or, “boom box”, as the Americans say. I released six cassettes in this way.
The recordings were mainly voice and acoustic guitar. I would describe them as shambolic and improvised; my guitar could have taken me to court for grievous bodily harm. Then in 1996 whilst on a day trip to the lovely and charming hamlet of Tiddlywink, I decided to purchase a four-track, and began to record music under the name Vase.
I chose the name Vase because porcelain is fragile and can be easily broken. My intention is to make music conveying a homemade sound with a melancholic tone, blending sparse acoustic and electronic structures with softly spoken vocals.
Over the years I have collaborated with George McKenzie (Headfall) and Matt and Sam Jones (Movietone /Crescent). They have added extra instrumentation, yet the songs still keep an understated, bare-bones atmosphere.
Stephen Lane
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Listen to Vase
(Light chop) taken from 'A distant green for a drier shade'
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The official video for Soft knees by Vase.
This song is on the By the river 7" vinyl ep.
Filmed by Stephen Lane.
You can watch more Vase videos at Vase's You Tube page
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Light chop (Listen) copyright control Stephen Lane 2011
The silver case
Thrice
Marion Jefferson
Prance jet horn
Ghostly furr
Wondrous and gaudy
Deckchair
See the sea
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Apple, table, penny (Listen) copyright control Stephen Lane 2008
Recalling to guide
Side B:
Crab apple
Soft knees
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Artist: Vase
Title: Thoroughly Beastly
Cat no: Vase 10
Format: CD-R
Released: 2008
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Tracklisting:
Bobsled
Quiet purple posture (first version)
Shadow, nature
A shooting star
"It can be hidden"
Out of the cocoon
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Belief and insecurity (Listen) copyright control Stephen Lane 2005
Twitchingly
O to be young
Irish heart
No reply
Hide my panama hat
Chameleon eyes
Towards the sky
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Artist: Vase
Title: A Campilation
Cat no: Vase 8
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Released: 2003
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Mao's dynasty
The king is dead
Stevie Wonder
I don't want wo be me
The final scene (Listen) copyright control Stephen Lane 1997-2003
The discovery
NYC
a
Alaska
Red = no red
Drenched in gel
Oak aged canopies (violin version)
When I lose my sight
Bit part
1994
Break dancing in my shell
After dark with the Minotaur
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Artist: Vase
Title: Teenage Moonlight
Cat no: Vase 7
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Released: 2002
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The Sphinx
Gentle waves, caress the boat
Light through windows
The shade is my buddy
Shapes in the light
Nocturnal locus
Under the orange tree
Bob
Fallen of the bobsleigh
Robotic feeling
Quiet purple posture
Wind in your hair
Alone on a saturday night (Listen) copyright control Stephen Lane 2002
A new state
A perverse prozac
A lost light
Slowly the night glows
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Artist: Vase
Title: No Cowbells
Cat no: Vase 6
Format: 7" Single
Released: 2000
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Tracklisting:
Side A:
No cowbells
Side B:
Oak aged canopies
No longer
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