Future Pilot A.K.A.

Secrets From The Clockhouse Future Pilot A.K.A.

Sushil K Dade has been captaining the good ship Future Pilot AKA since the mid 90s. Early singles were released on a variety of labels, but really started to make an impact with the release of We Shall Overcome 7" on The Creeping Bent Organisation in 1997. Secrets From The Clockhouse was originally released on Creeping Bent in 2006, it was the 4th full length album released by Future Pilot AKA. The album featured a list of collaborations that created a cinematic approach to the album, with Dade fulfilling roles as both producer, director and composer. Collaborators included Belle and Sebastian (Sarah Martin and Stuart Murdoch), Karine Polwart, The Go-Betweens (Robert Forster and Grant McLennan), Can (Damo Suzuki), and in particular a version of Sun Ra's 'Nuclear War', which featured an eclectic array of collaborators; Mike Watt, Thurston Moore, Davy Henderson, Kim Gordon, and literary polymath Alasdair Gray.