Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia (2025 Re-Issue)

This is a pre-order item and is expected 31st October 2025.

Hannah Peel’s third album, originally released in September 2017, is a seven-movement odyssey composed for analogue synthesizers and traditional 29-piece colliery brass band.   Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, which is being re-issued on 31 October, 2025 via Real World Records, explores one person's journey to outer space, by recounting the story of an unknown, elderly, pioneering, electronic musical stargazer and her lifelong dream to leave her terraced home in the mining town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, to see Cassiopeia for herself.   The brass band and rhythm section – ‘Tubular Brass’ - features the top UK championship brass band players who were recorded live on location in The Barnsley Civic Theatre with Peter Gabriel’s Real World studio team. These recordings were then expertly combined with Peel’s detailed, analogue synth layered production to create a wholly unique, collaborative sound; a first of its kind both live and on record. 

The re-issue comes with updated artwork by original designer, Grammy award winning, Jonathan Barnbrook (David Bowie collaborator on albums ‘Blackstar’ and ‘The Next Day’) and remastered audio on Berry-coloured vinyl. 

During her teenage years in Yorkshire, Peel played trombone in brass bands: marching at weekends and wearing ‘dickie bows’ at competitions and so naturally the ‘brass’ sound has become very much a part of her creative DNA. This love has recently come full circle once again, as Peel is the presenter of the series ‘Brass Banding with Hannah Peel’ for BBC Radio 3.

Mary Casio explores two very different worlds – the power of the brass band players combined with the sub-bass impact and air resonating force of the synths but Peel also creates a very human and intimate, at times fragile sounding record through her collection of ‘breathing’ vintage electronics, found sounds, the nuances of the individual brass instruments and the subtle ambience of her voice combining with the real and raw breathing, shuffling and ‘spit’ of the players themselves.

TRACKLISTING

A1. Goodbye Earth 
A2. Sunrise Through The Dusty Nebula
A3. Deep Space Cluster 
A4. Andromeda M31

B1. Life Is On The Horizon
B2. Archid Orange Dwarf
B3. The Planet Of Passed Souls

PRODUCT DETAILS

Artist:  Hannah Peel
Label:  Real World
Condition:  New 
Genre:  Electronic & House
Format:  Vinyl LP
Cat Number:  LPRW261
Released:  31st October 2025