Artist: Agitated Radio Pilot
Title: at the first sign of frost
Catalogue Number: truenote001
Format: Handnumbered, handstamped cdr, with foam inserts.

Having spent over a decade making cassette only releases, at the first sign of frost marks the first cdr release by Irish musician david colohan in his Agitate Radio Pilot guise. Recorded in Ballymahon, a semi deserted village in Co. Longford, during 1997, At the first sign of frost was ARP's first full band recording. Recorded on a minimal budget, directly onto four track, each of the 17 tracks reverberate with a stark sadness and melancholic warmth, notably, "Cut Adrift(a way into out there) and "Our Hollow Sound." Having heard the recordings in 1998, 'Cut Adrift had such an effect on Shrimper label boss Denni Callaci that he wrote to ARP asking to release the entire album on his label. In typical fashion, the pilot freaked out and never contacted him again.
Sporadic gigs around Ireland have maintained ARP's musical momentum over the last few ears, including a memorable gig with the 4AD band The Mountain Goats, and a series of headline gigs in and around the West coast of Ireland.

While the pilot continues as a recording and performing entity, Colohan has over the last year branched out to record under a variety of different monikers, an a ange of labels…

Free improv collective Murmansk
Australiana band Holt -( 80 mile beach truenote006)
Psychedlic folk of UBS - (seasons of the sun, transits of the moon, deserted village)
Conventional folk of Magickal Folk of the Faraway Tree (deserted village)
Coil esque ruminations of Children of the Stones (deserted village)
Pop rock of Towns Park Foundry (deserted village)
Team Discovery Channel Pseudo Arcana NZ label release.

This cdr release, at the first sign of frost is the first release on the deadslackstring label and is a retrospective taster of the future sound of the label. A step backwards to guide you into the future. The cdr is limited to 100 copies, hand stamped and hand numbered, and each copy includes an individual foam insert tracklisting.