Issue 07 · Autumn 2026WF-007

Issue 07: The Sound of Rooms

A cellist seen from above, playing alone on a stairwell landing

32 pages · Edition of 500

Editor's letter

A note on rooms

Every record we press is made somewhere, and the somewhere always gets onto the tape. This issue is about that: a stairwell, a kitchen, a flat with the heating on.

We still print on a two-colour press above the plant and fold every copy by hand on Thursdays. Come and help, or at least read slowly.

Dee Okafor-Lind, editor

In this issue

Contents

04The stairwell sessionsLiner notes for Low Ceilings
07The rosterThree artists, three rooms
10The catalogueWF-001 to WF-008, Side A and Side B
12The pressing plantWhere Thursdays go
13Get the next issueBy post or by email

A concrete stairwell in a closed swimming baths, light falling from a high window

Feature · Low Ceilings, WF-007

The stairwell sessions

Four players, one closed swimming baths and the longest reverb in Leeds.

Liner notes · part one

We found the baths in March. Closed since 2011, the water long gone, the stairwell at the back still holding a sound like a held breath. The cello went on the third landing and the violins on the fifth.

Hana, who plays second violin, spent a morning at the roof hatch because she wanted to hear the room answer from above. Nobody wore headphones. If you listen on speakers, you can hear the door.

The empty main pool of a closed Victorian swimming baths, tiles peeling

Liner notes · part two

A room is the fifth member of the quartet, and the only one who never misses a rehearsal.
Ife Okoro, cello

Room: Stairwell B, Eastgate Baths
Reverb: RT60 2.8 s
Mics: 4, plus 1 on the roof
Takes: 11, heating off

Roster · 1 of 3

Four string players in coats, seated on concrete stairs in a closed swimming baths

Marl Quartet

String quartet · Leeds

Why record in a stairwell?

A stairwell tells you how long a note lasts, and nobody argues with a stairwell. We stopped fighting the room and tuned to it.

Roster · 2 of 3

A woman at an upright piano beside a cast-iron radiator, lit by a single lamp

Ines Haverford

Piano and voice · Glasgow

What did the heating have to do with it?

Radiators tick as they cool, in time with nothing at all. Track four is mostly me trying to play along with one.

Roster · 3 of 3

Two musicians at a kitchen table with a harmonium and a battered acoustic guitar

Dunmore & Ash

Guitar and harmonium · Whitby

Nothing since 2019?

We made something. We just haven't finished mixing it. It's in the kitchen, and the kitchen keeps being busy.

Catalogue · WF-001 to 004

Side A

WF-001Dunmore & AshQuiet Hours2019 · ed. 300Sold out
WF-002Tamsin WickFourth Floor Piano2021 · ed. 300Sold out
WF-003Ines HaverfordRooms with the Heating On2022 · ed. 500In stock
WF-004Penny Lowe TrioSlow Trains to Somewhere2023 · ed. 500In stock

A stack of hand-stitched zines tucked inside black record sleeves

Catalogue · WF-005 to 008

Side B

WF-005Okafor & ReevePaper Walls2024 · ed. 500In stock
WF-006Kit AldousTape Hymns2025 · ed. 500In stock
WF-007Marl QuartetLow Ceilings2026 · ed. 500In stock
WF-008Penny Lowe TrioNight Bus Lullabies2027 · ed. 500At the plant

WF-008 reaches subscribers first. Get the next issue →

The pressing plant

Where Thursdays go

A small two-colour printing press and a table of folded, unstitched zines

Pressed: 500 copies, 180 g black vinyl
Zine: 32 pages, stitched by hand
Mastered: Half speed, Odile Prentiss
On screen: 14 of the 32 pages

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Issue 08 is at the plant.

One email when it ships, and a zine through your door if you ask for one. We write rarely and we never share the list.

Slightly off-centre, on purpose.

wowflutter

Records & zines · Leeds · Est. 2019

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