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You Are a Memory (Preview from 'Maps')

All This Time
by The Kids and the Cosmos & Message To Bears

STREAM/BUY: https://lnk.to/zZByTk

New single in collaboration between longtime friends, The Kids and the Cosmos & Message To Bears, also known as HIN. Connecting between Texas and Bristol.

lyrics:

fall right in
fallen sunlight
mistaking signs
for all this time

I fall right In
a calling tide
comes right in
now we all rise
and stumbling bright eyes
fallen in the cold
a stumble that I like
fallen in the cold
walking in the snow

I fall right In
a calling tide
comes right in
now we all rise
and stumbling bright eyes
fallen in the cold
a stumble that I like
fallen in the cold
walking in the snow

fall right in
fallen sunlight
mistaking signs
for all this time

Music by Justin Lee Radford
Vocals and lyrics by Jerome Alexander
Artwork by Kate Weinberg
Mastered by Guy Davie

All This Time - The Kids and the Cosmos & Message To Bears

Taken from new album 'Maps' https://messagetobears.bandcamp.com/album/maps

'Maps is the third LP from multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander, the man behind Message to Bears. 

Following on from the success of Folding Leaves, Jerome has created something that encapsulates the folksy ambience of previous releases whilst adding an electronic dimension. Building layer upon layer, songs evolve with a fragile intensity. Vocal melodies are draped over string and guitar arrangements and end up soaring over them, at the same time lending a hook instantly recognisable as Message To Bears and blending harmoniously with the arrangement. 

The overall result of Maps is something that is both startling and familiar. You are drawn in, given a map if you will, and invited on a musical journey that nods to Message to Bears' past but also leads to the future.'

Order from www.messagetobears.com

I Know You Love To Fall

From the album Folding Leaves

https://messagetobears.bandcamp.com/album/folding-leaves

Wake Me

Debut full-length, originally released on CD limited to 500 copies, Now only available on 180g Vinyl and digital downloads.

Running Through Woodland

At The Top Of This Hill

New single from Message To Bears.

Released on Lost Birds 14th February 2025.

Half Light

Open Lungs written, produced, performed and mixed by Jerome Alexander in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Trombone by Dave Huntriss
Strings by David Grubb
Artwork by Daniel Gregory
Mastered by Guy Davies

Open Lungs

Written, produced and mixed by Jerome Alexander in Bristol, United Kingdom.

Violin: Sabrina Tabby
Trombone: Dave Huntriss
Pedal Steel Guitar: Hamilton Belk

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Disquiet

My new single River Calls.

This is the final single before the new album Tired Eyes, Waking Hearts is released 18th July.

Please enjoy this beautiful animated video created by Anna Chocholi https://youtu.be/XOJUH8TnrSw?si=qs2Qk-J9JyalqfyY

I can't wait for you to hear the new album, the limited edition vinyl is still available to pre-order:
https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/326462

Single artwork provided by Daniel Gregory

Strings by David Grubby
Pedal steel guitar by Hamilton Belk

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River Calls

Really quick cover. Kinda messy and I might have changed some lyrics but here it is. Lovely song.

Lyrics:

Chained to the wall of our room
Yeah you chained me like a dog in our room
I thought that's how it was
I thought that we were fine
Then the day was night
You were high, you were high
While I was doomed
And dying for
With no life,
With no light.

Tied to my bed,
I was younger then, I had nothing to spend
But time on you
But it made me love,
It made me love,
It made me love more

Do what you said, the words she said - left out
Over sky where I'll soon fly
And she took the time
To believe in, to believe in
What she said...

But it made me love,
But it made me love,
But it made me love more 

Love More (Sharon Van Etten Cover)

My interpretation of the beautiful song by Phosphorescent. 

Lyrics:

mama there's wolves in the house
mama they won't let me out
mama they're mating at night
mama they wont make nice

they're pacing and glowing bright
their faces all snowy and white
bury their paws in the stone
make for my heart as their home

they tumble and fight
and they're beautiful
on the hilltops at night
they are beautiful

blazing with light
is the whitest and the tallest and the biggest one
she's muscled and fine
when she runs

they're tearing up holes in the house
they're tearing their claws in the ground
they're staring with blood in their mouths
mama they won't let me out

they tumble and fight
and they're beautiful
on the hilltops at night
they are beautiful

blazing with light
is the whitest and the tallest and the biggest one
all muscled and fine
when she runs

mama there's wolves in the house
mama i tried to put them out
and mama i know you're too wise
to wait till those wolves make nice	

Wolves (Phosphorescent Cover) feat. Gemma Alexander

BRAND NEW VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kkeLYKR5wY&feature=youtu.be

Taken from forthcoming album 'Carved From Tides' 
Preorder available - www.messagetobears.com

Press contact - jeff.schofield@typepr.com

'On Message To Bears’ fourth LP Carved From Tides Jerome Alexander throws all caution to the wind and delivers an experience emotive enough to tug at every fibre in a heartstring. Released on 1st July, Carved From Tides sees Jerome eschew the arbitrary boundaries that have been erected between synthetic music and music made on more traditional instruments. Lead single ‘I’ll Lead You There’ is exemplary. Starting with a gloomy acoustic arpeggio that wouldn’t be out of place in the hands of Elliott Smith or Nick Drake, its folky textures are soon penetrated by a thudding beat over which collaborator https://soundcloud.com/will_samson lends his tender reverberating vocals. The heart-wrenching mood of the arrangement lends it a depth of feeling that characterises the whole LP.'

Available to preorder from - https://messagetobears.bandcamp.com/

Carved From Tides

I'll Lead You There (feat. Will Samson)

Taken from forthcoming album 'Carved From Tides' 
Preorder available - www.messagetobears.com

Press contact - jeff.schofield@typepr.com

'On Message To Bears’ fourth LP Carved From Tides Jerome Alexander throws all caution to the wind and delivers an experience emotive enough to tug at every fibre in a heartstring. Released on 1 July, Carved From Tides sees Jerome eschew the arbitrary boundaries that have been erected between synthetic music and music made on more traditional instruments. Lead single ‘I’ll Lead You There’ is exemplary. Starting with a gloomy acoustic arpeggio that wouldn’t be out of place in the hands of Elliott Smith or Nick Drake, its folky textures are soon penetrated by a thudding beat over which collaborator Will Samson lends his tender reverberating vocals. The heart-wrenching mood of the arrangement lends it a depth of feeling that characterises the whole LP.'

'Jerome’s love of ambient music is highlighted in the opener ‘Never Be’. It’s a cinematic start to the album, replete with sweeping synths and strings. The muffled piano lends some rhythmic shape to its openness. It ends tempestuously, with thunderous bass raging against the dying synths as it refuses to go gently into the night.'

Of his mentality when creating Carved From Tides Jerome says:
"The album is supposed to reflect a transitional period in one's life, referencing change in circumstances, decisions, relationships with others and evolution as an individual, whether subtle or not, which thereby influences where you are now, and realising wherever you are now is ok, and that you are in a constant state of flux. When writing it, I was going through what felt like a very transitional period myself, and I guess this was my way of processing it."

'Composed, recorded and produced between both his home and studio in North-East London over the past year, Carved From Tides is Jerome’s most sophisticated work yet. The title refers to the capacity of something fluid and transitional to be able to affect and mould what appears to be solid and stable over time. It is through the fluidness of Jerome’s approach - in not pigeonholing instruments with expectations of what sort of music they should make - that Jerome achieves just this. The fluidity of music itself is the tide that he carves his masterwork from. And the success he achieves here is solid indeed.'

Spin/Float (feat. Gemma Alexander)

The immense @aswefallintostatic with a gorgeous remix of my track 'Never Be' from Carved From Tides.

http://tomadams.eu/
https://www.facebook.com/aswefallintostatic

Never Be (Tom Adams Remix)

Preview from new 'Moments EP' - http://messagetobears.com/album/moments-ep

J.R Alexander - Memories

Sound In Silence is very pleased to welcome J.R Alexander (aka Message To Bears) with his new Moments EP.

Being already well known under the moniker of Message To Bears, the multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander has released so far two albums, one EP and one split album, all of them on the recently closed Dead Pilot Records.

This time he releases his new EP under a different alias, choosing for the first time to use his real name as the new tracks take a more electronic direction.
Moments EP is slightly less ambient and more beat based than his previous releases, while some of its tracks could have easily been released under the name of Message To Bears.

On Moments EP, J.R Alexander demonstrates a progression in his discography, creating five excellent tracks of beautiful soundscapes, using layers of electronics, warm synths, ethereal samples, gorgeous acoustic guitars, glockenspiel, piano and viola.
The finishing touch on the great sound of Moments EP was applied by the carefully done mastering of George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave).

This is a limited edition of 300 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert printed on nice fabric paper.

Available from www.messagetobears.com

J.R Alexander - I'm Glad

Bon Iver - Holocene (Message To Bears Remix)

Sound In Silence is very pleased to welcome J.R Alexander (aka Message To Bears) with his new Moments EP.

Being already well known under the moniker of Message To Bears, the multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander has released so far two albums, one EP and one split album, all of them on the recently closed Dead Pilot Records.

This time he releases his new EP under a different alias, choosing for the first time to use his real name as the new tracks take a more electronic direction.
Moments EP is slightly less ambient and more beat based than his previous releases, while some of its tracks could have easily been released under the name of Message To Bears.

On Moments EP, J.R Alexander demonstrates a progression in his discography, creating five excellent tracks of beautiful soundscapes, using layers of electronics, warm synths, ethereal samples, gorgeous acoustic guitars, glockenspiel, piano and viola.
The finishing touch on the great sound of Moments EP was applied by the carefully done mastering of George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave).

This is a limited edition of 300 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert printed on nice fabric paper.

Available from www.messagetobears.com

After multiple contributions to each others' recordings over the years, two friends Jerome Alexander (Message To Bears) and Will Samson present a fully collaborative release, Together.

The six track album was created in just 8 days during late 2019 at Jerome's home studio in Bristol, UK. No songs were written prior to the recording sessions, allowing the music to be guided by spontaneity and intuition.

Released February 14, 2020

Stream: https://spoti.fi/2UPXFM8
DL: https://messagetobears.com/album/together

Album artwork by Benoît Pioulard.
Mastered by Taylor Deupree.

Together

Saola (with Will Samson)

Message To Bears is the alias of composer and multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander. 
Pre-order 'Maps' on limited edition white vinyl - https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/281831
All other enquiries - messagetobears@live.com

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