Garden Invicta

An album by M-Corp Released 2026-04-21 Tracks: 1. Step This Way 2. View At Dover 3. Longacres 4. Train to Margate 5. Folkestone Playpark 6. CanterburyTom 7. WoodchurchMayes 8. Sandwich 9. Outlet 10. East Meets West 11. HytheÁrni 12. Simon Kelly 13. Going West AVAILABLE ON CD VIA ELASTICSTAGE: elasticstage.com/m-corp/releases/garden-invicta-album The following is an approved statement from the Executive Committee Board Office Chain Department of M-Corp, timestamped January 30, 2026, very early in the morning: Rejoice! There is a new finished album of work from your trusted M-Corp. Well, sort of. They say that all art is never finished, only abandoned. There are two possibilities to consider here: A) what we do is not art, and so can be considered finished, and B) as a corporation, we have no problem or guilty conscience over possibly abandoning things and releasing them before they're ready and safe and other such trivial matters. Anyway, let us not get bogged down in politics. Here at the M-Corporation, we have focused in on one of our initial objectives from when we were founded back on September 12th 2017 - to artificially cultivate a kind of jazzy electronic music from the aura of the Kentish countryside. This new collection of sounds delves a bit deeper into that local history. See, we have realised that such things as villages and countrysides and clean air likely don't have much of a future for all sorts of reasons, so here we are, as it were, bottling the feeling of walking/driving through various parts of the official 'Garden of England', as it were, so that future generations stuck in post-nuclear ghettos may enjoy the cosiness of village life in all its preserved beauty. Sort of. As it were. We also realised that the idea of humans playing music and using it as a medium to communicate feelings, however small and ambivalent, will also soon become extinct. Normally, we don't care too much about that, generating our sounds with a plethora of synthesis, quantization and various other clinical and scientific formulae. But because our workers were looking at us sadly, and because we are a sharing and caring kind of corp, on this occasion we have let them out of their padded cells and given them access to a keyboard/melodica/trumpet/Stylophone, which they have played a bit. Just this once, don't you worry. We are told by test listeners that it adds things like 'feeling' and 'groove' to the overall work. In short - if you need an escape from the traumas and stresses of the world, but the usual ambient wallpaper doesn't quite do it... then why not visit our Garden. You can be at peace here, if you can remember what that was like.