Music To Watch Seeds Grow By is a new series of releases curated by Ran$om Note’s Will and Tia. The concept, taking its inspiration from Music For Plants, Ali and Joe Clay’s Ran$om Note-hosted fortnightly pairing of a houseplant with an ambient track, puts together packages of seeds and sonics, issued on recycled cassette. The first volume, a set of serenades for Sweet Peas, has been hand-picked from the unreleased archives of brothers Mark and Clive Ives aka Woo.

For fans of Woo there are no shocks or surprises here. Their’s is a world of warm woozy, improvised organic electro-acoustics. Beatless, gently trippy, floats fashioned from rapid ringing ripples, charming chiming, computerised harmonies and field recorded birdsong / wildlife. Synthesised tones twist, softly, psychedelically. Banjo is balanced by Eno and Fripp-ery. Throughout cool clarinet adds trad-jazz touches. Like Acker Bilk exploring inner space. Earth Angels especially starts out as romantic reed serenade. Like a retro score for a neo noir Blade Runner getting his wounds bathed.

The longer tracks are linked by shorter interludes. Of strings and mandolins. Treated strumming and singing. Wild West flavoured guitar. Some Spanish-leaning picking. IDM-edged electronics. Yearning is echoed, multi-tracked, both jazz-y and new age-y. H2O Revisited puts theremin in with the assorted fretwork. The synergy shaping an almost funky strut, while big orchestration builds to an Ennio Morricone-esque finale.

Woo’s Sweet Peas is out now on Music To Watch Seeds Grow By.