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Debut single off Sean Nicholas Savage's "Bermuda Waterfall" (May 13th, 2014)
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Naturally
the pink sun came up and i started to cry
five billion year old fire in my eyes
she kisses the sea goodbye like you and i
but now take a look at my world
of all the boys and the girls, you’re the friend
i keep running through my memories to find again
and you come naturally to me
someone so beautiful coming so easily
five billion zombies roaming the street
i can’t touch them, they can’t reach out and touch me
and you know sacrifices must be made to get high
so i’m taking my time
i’d like to tell you the truth, that i need you to come tonight
but i wont even try
you come naturally to me
and both the pleasure and the pain had a hand in it
and all the bodies and the souls understand it

Bermuda Waterfall

Naturally

Sean Nicholas Savage - Naturally

Heartless is from Sean Nicholas Savage's "Bermuda Waterfall" (May 13th, 2014)
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Heartless
remember when you used to send me butterflies
across your ocean eyes?
seduce the kingdom with your breasts?
back in the jungle i was always heartless
and fearless though my body was slashed
by the hands of the teeth of love
i couldn’t hide under clouds of blood
in lipstick, in dress, i knew i’d become
heartless
don’t ask me why i’m singing here
in the kitchen mirror
entertaining him?
the child who conquered the palace
then cut me open and left me here
heartless
i blame your beauty
my obsessive jungle pride
for the final slide
the same boy who once had 
sweet dreams of wings
beautiful things that left me heartless


Heartless

Sean Nicholas Savage - Heartless

Empire is from Sean Nicholas Savage's "Bermuda Waterfall" (May 13th, 2014)
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Empire
we held each other in the empire of hate
then dragged through dreams
our bodies set ablaze
become two ghosts of sunday film
like sister and brother
kissing myself, holding myself
as if you were somebody else
in the empire of my soul
from an empire long, long ago
beacons of passion in the empire of doom
fell like a nuke into my black pupil
i know i’m unbelievable
to those i can’t relate to
and if i ever did with you
could i escape the unfullfilled doom
having a laugh behind my back
in the empire of my heart?
as the empire falls apart?
through the stained glass i see fire
in the empire


Empire

Sean Nicholas Savage - Empire

Written, arranged and produced by Puro Instinct. 

Well I know I don't know how to feel
and I know I don't know what is real
and I know I don't know what to say
cuz no matter what I say to you you're gonna run away

Every time I see you pull the 6 of swords
it trips a cord
I love you more
Every time I see you pull the 6 of swords
it trips a cord
I love you more

and I know I don't know what is real
and I know I don't know how to feel
and I know I don't know what is right
but I know if I could talk to you baby you would spend the night

Every time I see you pull the 6 of swords
it trips a cord
I love you more
Every time I see you pull the 6 of swords
it trips a cord
I love you more

VI Of $word$ (demo)

Double Talk

Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Double Talk

From Sean Nicholas Savage's "Other Death"
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Release Date: September 18th, 2015

Other Death

Sean Nicholas Savage - Suburban Nights

Taken from the album, Peace or Love, out 5th August. 

Pre-order limited edition blue suede shoes coloured vinyl -  http://smarturl.it/DavidWestLP 
iTunes -  http://smarturl.it/DavidWest.iTunes 

Biog
“angels of light have your souls in a vice / we want to be free / we want to be loved / we want to be kissed from heaven above” - David West, Dream on Dreamer
                
When Tough Love first began putting out records, one of the guiding motivations was to release music that sounds like the music David West makes. We didn’t know it at the time, because we hadn’t yet heard of him. It’s funny how the very thing you’re looking for falls into your lap. If you don’t already know of David, and the various guises he performs under, then I’m a little envious, for you have a lot to discover for the first time. On 5th August, Tough Love will release Peace or Love, the second album to be issued under his own name. That can be either your starting point, or your continuation down a road.

The facts: Peace or Love is the follow-up to USA/Australia-based musical artist David West's 2015 cassette release, Drop Out Of Collage. Peace or Love is a collection of songs stemming from wild and free bedroom four-track cassette recordings and personal hard drive sample raiding, with contributions from various musical friends in Perth, Western Australia and SF/LA, California. West draws inspiration from free-thinking artists of the past and present on this polyphonic platter, from soft indie strumming and free soundscapes, to disco and soul-pop. West currently plays in the guitar pop band Rat Columns, synth-pop project Liberation and post-punk trio Rank/Xerox, and has been in varied acts such as Lace Curtain, Burning Sensation, Total Control and Whalehammer.

If you were feeling particularly grand, you could say that David West has created his own ecology, or you could just say he’s a very busy man. I told David over email that Peace or Love feels like an album that was made specifically for me. His reply? “It is for YOU. And YOU. And YOU. And YOU…Peace or love is the same thing - you want to be free and you want to be loved....but you gotta choose one” This is music from the margins that deserves a place in the middle of anyone's heart. 

“it's peace or love baby / you said it before / that you want it all / it's peace or love, baby” - David West, Peace or Love 

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David West - Dream On Dreamer

Off "Mystery Cove", Monster Rally's new album.  Out on 11/11/16, available as a limited edition 12" here:
http://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/monster-rally-mystery-cove-12

When the beach party film revival arrives, Ted Feighan (aka Monster Rally) will be the Ennio Morricone of its resurgence. Mystery Cove, the forthcoming Monster Rally album, is a soundtrack to an imaginary movie both fit for the vaults of TMC and primed for a grindhouse exploitation flick screening. Mystery Cove contains a narrative arc of young lovers on an island getaway. As the grooves spin, Monster Rally reveals a cabalistic presence in the jungle that leads them on an adventure of surf competitions (“The Big Surf”), voodoo terror (“Tourismo”), and plenty of slushy cocktails (“After Hours”). The occult meets the salt-rimmed rum mix on Mystery Cove.

Since his Coral LP, Monster Rally has been an analog to the exotica forefathers. His reinvention of cocktail music via luau-loops and tchotchke breaks evokes a mondo vision of the subgenre. With Mystery Cove, the quiet village is not what it seems, and every resort comes at the cost of indigenous displacement. Beyond the florals and brightly feathered fauna is inferno in paradise.

Mystery Cove

Pelicans

Monster Rally - Pelicans

Album release April 2018

Alone in the world, we find ourselves. Inside ourselves, we find something to share with the world. 
The Essential John Moods, a solo album in all senses of the word, is what Jonathan Jarzyna of Fenster found in himself during a summer spent hiking along the Iberian coast, and he now wants to share it with you. A mini-guitar on his back and a copy of GarageBand on his phone allowed Jarzyna to record songs each evening as he arrived in a new town after a long day traveling by foot. (He did, admittedly, add live drum tracks and some additional instrumentation back in Berlin.) The album preserves this peripatetic feeling, each song relating to the next as one city or village relates to its neighbor, its unique situation contrasting with the shared architectural vernacular. Blipping instrumental interludes (“Trainride,” “Pontevedra,” “Coastal Way”) even capture the disordered, delirious feeling of transit hubs and the sleep-bleared mystery of waking on an unfamiliar road.
“I just came alive completely” are the first words Jarzyna murmurs on “New Spring,” invoking the spirit of the album. He speaks not of the liveliness of manic activity, but the heightened, tender sensitivity of presence. It’s a fullness of living captured by the transition from the lush, jangling groove of “The Weight” to the spacious contemplation of “Pawns.” The dreamy echo of the 60s’ and 70s’ soft rock and folk troubadours suffuses the album, and the organ-soaked “Where In The World” even has a psychedelic tinge. But the overall effect is quite contemporary, from the back-of-the-nightbus lounge funk of “Take It Home” (featuring an amazing turn from arch-crooner Sean Nicholas Savage) to the mournful cupboard jazz of “Almost Gone.” “Dark Wall”  sounds like a honkytonk ramble alongside a robot tentatively learning to play lap steel. “Leap of Love,” an early album highlight, passes over the listener in shimmering waves, a love song which remains a mystery even to its creator. 
In the meditation tape coda “Relax Your Foot,” Jarzyna selects the perfect sample to encapsulate The Essential John Moods’ hopeful receptivity: the late Professor Carl Sagan reminding us that “despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.”

The Essential John Moods

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John Moods - Leap Of Love

From their third album "Du bist so symmetrisch", out October 26th, 2018 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Klaus Johann Grobe "Discogedanken" (Trouble In Mind Records)

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For LRZ, Happily Depressed is a widely shared sentiment: "We live in a chaotic, uncertain and fuzzy world; difficult then to advance when our landmarks disappear."

"Happily Depressed" is a result of a creative burst. Locked in a studio in the basement of a Parisian building. So in a basement that you have to walk 1m30 before finding daylight.

Both delighted to practice a profession that he is so fond of and depressed at the thought of being reclusive eternally in a dark room, LRZ took hold of his bass and started shouting "I'm happily depressed. " An hour later, the structure of the piece, as you understand it, was over.

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LZR - Happily Depressed

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Arbutus is an artistic community based in Montréal, where punk ethos and pop music collide. Beginning as a DIY loft space, Arbutus Records developed to cultivate and promote the music associated with the space with a strong emphasis on friendship and collaboration.

Sean Nicholas Savage - Empire

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