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Taken from album Santa Cruz Gold. (Out Dec. 10 2021 on LP/CD) https://bbislandmusic.com/shop/herman-dune-santa-cruz-gold-colored-vinyl-cd-nuggets

FRPJK1800100  written by David Ivar Herman Düne 
(c)&(p) 2021, BB*ISLAND under exclusive license from Yaya Tova/Santa Cruz Records

Santa Cruz Gold

Herman Dune 01 - Life On The Run

song from Toby Goodshank album "Truth Jump Fall" (LP/CD. Jan 21st 2022)

: : lyrics : : 
Baby I feel like I just got cut in half
Today
No way
But you told me that this pain is good
And necessary
To grow
And you left me to do math
It took
Me days
But you told me this was just a phase
Okay, okay, we’re great

I feel I’m losing my soul
My eyes are vacant and cold
And I’ve been dreaming so long
That I’ve lost sight of my goals
And now I’m split in two
And twisted down the middle

There’s something very, very deep inside you that’s been begging you to let me know
That the stormy cloud that’s hovering above me’s growing out of control
Control
Oh oh oh oh oh

Falling heart
It cracks
And breaks
And tomorrow is a sinister flake
When it comes too late
Throw both of my halves away

Sometimes it seems
That these invertebrate schemes
Are both the ends and the means
To this unspeakable, unholy scene
Taking one to know one now
Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Baby I feel like I just got cut in half
Baby I feel like I just got cut in half
Baby I feel like I just got cut in half

: : :

written by Toby Goodshank

Toby Goodshank: Voice, acc. guitar 
Jack Dishel : all other instruments

Produced, arranged, engineered and mixed by Jack Dishel at The Overlook, NYC
Remastered by Kramer from original master by Sarah Register


(c)&(p) 2011, 2022 .BB*ISLAND, under exclusive license from Toby Goodshank

Truth Jump Fall

Baby I Feell Like I Just Got Cut In Half

Toby Goodshank - Baby I Feel Like I Just Got Cut In Half

taken off the album "Songs From A Stolen Guitar" (2022)

https://bbislandmusic.com/shop/simon-joyner-songs-from-a-stolen-guitar-vinyl-cd

Simon Joyner - Live In The Moment

First THE BURNING HELL Single from upcoming album "Garbage Island" (Summer 2022, BB*ISLAND)
see video by Graeme Patterson: https://youtu.be/2hXxz5YQSCA
Shop link 7"vinyl + comic: https://bbislandmusic.com/shop/the-burning-hell-bird-queen-of-garbage-island-7inch-vinyl-plus-comic

Its first single showcases songwriter Mathias Kom’s typically irreverent, surrealist lyricism (and more Waterworld references than a Kevin Costner fan convention), over a musical landscape provided by bandmates Ariel Sharratt, Jake Nicoll, and Darren Browne, which combines a Tom Tom Club-style groove with an ASMR breakdown featuring office supplies and - fittingly - plenty of actual garbage. The accompanying video was created by the award-winning New Brunswick multi-media artist Graeme Patterson, and the single itself is being released also in the physical world on a limited edition 7” record with an accompanying comic book written for the project by the French graphic novelist and illustrator Emmanuel Moynot.

> > The Burning Hell TOURDATES November 2021 (UK/DE)
https://bbislandmusic.com/tour-dates/2021/8/28/live-the-burning-hell-november-2021


> > LYRICS:
I dream in oily fluorescent swirls, I speak in plastic
My wardrobe is nylon and PVC, my band is elastic
It’s hard to find decent drumsticks but we’ve got bird bones and bits of buckets
And my drummer can hit she can really raise a ruckus
What’s this crystalline crunching beneath my feet?
It’s just hundreds of fragile skulls of penguins and parakeets
Some died miles away and flotsamed here some expired through violence
And when I say violence I mean I am the Bird Queen of Garbage Island

What’s up with the duck with the plastic quack?
35 North 135 West
Who’s the little girl with the map on her back?
42 North 155 West
Ask the macaque, ask the leatherback: 
Polyethylene feathers and a high-vis vest
I am the Bird Queen of Garbage Island

Gannets and gulls, petrels, puffins and pelicans,
Make me a temple of nets and fish skeletons
Next take the buoys, bottles, dongles and ping pong balls
Build a wall all along the horizon and ten times as tall 
I lost an eye to an albatross with mischief in his heart
But I replaced it with this ball-bearing painted to look the part
I’m a leader with a singular vision, or if you prefer, a cyclops tyrant
All hail the Bird Queen of Garbage Island

What’s up with the duck with the plastic quack?
35 North 135 West
Who’s the little girl with the map on her back?
42 North 155 West
Ask the macaque, ask the leatherback: 
Polyethylene feathers and a high-vis vest
I am the Bird Queen of Garbage Island

…
Ariel Sharratt: drums, packing tape, vocals / Mathias Kom: guitar, tin can, vocals / Jake Nicoll: triangle, Scotch tape, typewriter, synths / Darren Browne: electric bass 
...
written by Mathias Kom
(c)&(p) 2021, BB*ISLAND

contact: info@bbisland.de
https://bbislandmusic.com/

http://www.facebook.com/theburninghell
https://www.instagram.com/theburninghellband/
https://twitter.com/theburninghell

Bird Queen Of Garbage Island

Bird Queen Of Garbage Island (7" vinyl)

The Burning Hell - Bird Queen Of Garbage Island

Song from "Santa Cruz Gold Nuggets", a ltd bonus album to the BB*Island release of Herman Dune - Santa Cruz Gold (Dec 10 2021)
https://bbislandmusic.com/shop/herman-dune-santa-cruz-gold-colored-vinyl-cd-nuggets

Herman Dune - When The Heart Gets Heavy

The time it takes to carve out a space To settle your place And put down the broom
To fill your plate
To ponder a face, every day Reflect and consume
When you left me You entered the past A still photograph Dissolved in the gloom Now let nature win Put dirt on the skin
I have been loved by you
In dreams we train
And learn to explain
The body remembers every inch of the womb I'm focusing Observe everything
Like a pimple of salt on the tip of my shoe
Now let nature win Put dirt on the skin I have been loved by you
And everything matters The ripples don't abate And everything shatters But the pieces relate
It's the only thing real that I've ever known I've been at sea for far too long Accepting your help
Along with myself
Brings me relief
A cooling stone
So let nature win
Put dirt on the skin
I have been loved by you

Harmonie Fields - 05 - Vientre

Aurora is a song off the debut album Drink From The Bowl by Harmonie Fields 

Harmonie Fields is the Berlin-based duo project of Argentinian multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer Andrés Barlesi and singer-songwriter Richie Setford from New Zealand.

https://harmoniefields.bandcamp.com/album/drink-from-the-bowl
https://bbislandmusic.com/shop/harmonie-fields-drink-from-the-bowl-vinyl-cd-andres-barlesi-richie-setford

 : : AURORA : : 
Listen to the snowfall 
Every soft regret
A blanket over turned fields 
Forgiving as we tread
Our weight
The marks of time
The imprints we leave here
Follow the horses
No reins
Just torches in the sky 
The river suggests an ending 
I guess I'll empty In death
Aurora lights
Our weight
The marks of time
The imprints we leave here 
On the steps of eternity 
We can see our lives reflected
Listen to the snowfall

Drink From A Bowl

Aurora

Harmonie Fields - Aurora

from the album "Miller Time" by Toby Goodshank & Mathias Kom
(Oct. 2022, BB*ISLAND, BBI0461/2/3)

Toby Goodshank: vocals, acoustic guitar, shaker
Mathias Kom: vocals, ukulele, tambourine, ominchord
Frankie Sunswept: bass
Leslie Graves: vocals
Kimberly Haven: vocals


original song written by Roger Miller, published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

(p)&(c) 2022 BB*ISLAND

Miller Time

My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died

from the album "Miller Time" by Toby Goodshank & Mathias Kom
(Oct. 2022, BB*ISLAND, BBI0461/2/3)

Mathias Kom: rheem, synth, birds
Toby Goodshank: vocals, acoustic guitar

original song written by Roger Miller, published by Sony Atv Music 

(p)&(c) 2022 BB*ISLAND

Walking In The Sunshine

A first single to a forthcoming album of the same name, which will be out in fall 2023. 

In 2020 Ella Ronen began researching producers. The first two songs that moved her to check their credits, made by different artists in different years, led to one person: Sam Cohen. Her research was done. Several months later, Cohen received an email from her. The subject line was "producing an album", and it contained a first song for that future album. Cohen tells that although Ronen forgot to attach the recording file, the lyrics were enough for him to know - he wanted to make this album.

That song was 'The Girl with no Skin'.


Have you heard the story of the girl with no skin? 
She was born right here in town. A bloody mess of thoughts and feelings / The midwife dropped her almost-body down

The doctor said she has to stay for observation (And secretly hoped he’ll get to name the strange affliction)

And she thought: “I have no skin, who can tell / Where I end / And where I begin

They covered her in seaweed to protect her from the world / Kept her as hidden as a mouse. Children walked just a little faster when they passed by her house

They tried to sew on cow and human and pig skins / But none of them fit.

She whispered: “I have no skin, who can tell / Where I end / And where I begin

One day she scratched her cover off and walked into the square / Naked in the sun / Everyone stared / They half-expected her to melt / But she just laughed and said:

I have no skin, who can tell where I end and 
where I begin
Just look and you’ll see 
I am everything
And everything is me.

I have no skin, 
who can tell 
Where I end and 
Where
I 
begin

- - -
https://www.instagram.com/ellaronen/
https://orcd.co/ellaronensingle1

The Girl With No Skin (Single)

The Girl With No Skin

Bandcamp

Ella Ronen - The Girl With No Skin

"Is What It Is" by SHE KEEPS BEES is the first single taken from their new album "Eight Houses", out now in Europe through BB*ISLAND (on LP / CD / DL)

"Is What It Is" written by Jessica Larrabee, performed by She Keeps Bees. 
Guest appearance Sharon Van Etten.
Produced and recorded by Nicolas Vernhes at Red Book Studio

album at iTunes (EU): http://snip.ftpromo.net/eighthouses

She Keeps Bees is a duo from Brooklyn, NY, consisting of singer guitarist Jessica Larrabee and drummer/producer Andy LaPlant. They have self-recorded and released music made at home since 2006. Their debut album, Minisink Hotel, was described by NYC’s Other Music as “the best album you’ve never heard." Nests, their second full-length, was admired by the Guardian as “sparse, soulful and defiantly retro.” Their third LP, Dig On, was praised by the BBC as "an album of fire, spirit, and sweat."

Their new album "Eight Houses"  finds She Keeps Bees working with an outside producer, Nicolas Vernhes (Wye Oak, Deerhunter, The War On Drugs, Dirty Projectors, Lia Ices a.o.) for the first time and enlisting guest musicians including Sharon Van Etten and Adam Schatz.

She Keeps Bees have created a beautifully timeless and haunting album. Eight Houses revels in the raw power of subtlety, silence and space, coloring Jessica Larrabee's compositions with lean piano lines, hazy horns and warm organ rolls.

:::LIVE IN EUROPE April/May 2015::::
24.04.15 BE-Bruxelles, Homeplugged
25.04.15 GER-Offenbach/., Hafen 2
26.04.15 GER-Berlin, Roter Salon
28.04.15 GER-Jena, Glashaus
29.04.15 CH-Basel, Parterre
30.04.15 CH-Lausanne,Le Romandie
01.05.15 CH-St.Gallen, Palace
02.05.15 BE-Arlon,Les Aralunaires
03.05.15 BE-Brügge, Cactus Club
04.05.15 FR-Llle, La Péniche
05.05.15 FR-Paris, Espace B
06.05.15 FR-Nantes, Stereolux
08.05.15 ES-Madrid, Siroco
09.05.15 ES-Barcelona, Sala Apolo
12.05.15 FR-Figeac, La Chapelle de Figeac
13.05.15 FR-Macon, Cave a Musique
15.05.15 UK-London, Bush Hall
16.05.15 NL-Amsterdam, London Calling
17.05.15 BE-Hasselt, Muziekodrom
18.05.15 NL-Utrecht, Ekko
19.05.15 GER-Leipzig, UT Connewitz
20.05.15 GER-Regensburg, Alte Mälze
21.05.15 GER-Freiburg, Great Räng Teng Teng
22.05.15 GER-Dortmund, "Way Back When"-festival
23.05.15 GER-Beverungen, Orange Blossom Special Festival
24.05.15 GER-Hamburg, Knust "About Songs Festival"
see all European tour dates for November/December 2014 
http://www.bandsintown.com/SheKeepsBees
see all European tour dates for November/December 2014 
http://www.bandsintown.com/SheKeepsBees

Vinyl / CD pre-order  eg. at
Rough Trade UK
http://roughtrade.com/albums/85304
Piccadilly Records LP and CD
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/SheKeepsBees-EightHouses-Bb*Island-98135.html
or in Germany 
https://www.flight13.com/details/111069/she-keeps-bees-eight-houses
http://www.finestvinyl.de/de/item/74243/vinyl.20.html
in Benelux
http://www.konkurrent.nl/winkel/produkt/she_keeps_bees_eight_houses_4260064999610/


shekeepsbees.com/
www.facebook.com/shekeepsbees
www.bbisland.de

She Keeps Bees - Is What It Is

Earthquake taken off the album "Step Into The Earthquake" (2017, BB*ISLAND in Europe, Shrimper in the US)
https://bbislandmusic.com/shop/simon-joyner-step-into-the-earthquake-double-vinyl-cd

https://bbislandmusic.com/shop/simon-joyner-step-into-the-earthquake-double-vinyl-cd

Simon Joyner - Earthquake

Dec. 2016 She Keeps Bees Live in Europe http://bbislandmusic.com/tour-dates/2016/8/27/live-she-keeps-bees-nest-release-tour
Second single taken from their latest album "Eight Houses"
out now in Europe through BB*Island (Sep. 2014)
album at iTunes (EU): http://snip.ftpromo.net/eighthouses
at Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2AUvPthYH4uULxnuKYPpqy
Vinyl / CD order at
http://bbislandmusic.com/shop/she-keeps-bees-eight-houses

"Owl" written by Jessica Larrabee, performed by She Keeps Bees. Produced and recorded by Nicolas Vernhes at Red Book Studio

She Keeps Bees is a duo from Brooklyn, NY, consisting of singer guitarist Jessica Larrabee and drummer/producer Andy LaPlant. They have self-recorded and released music made at home since 2006. Their debut album, Minisink Hotel, was described by NYC’s Other Music as “the best album you’ve never heard." Nests, their second full-length, was admired by the Guardian as “sparse, soulful and defiantly retro.” Their third LP, Dig On, was praised by the BBC as "an album of fire, spirit, and sweat."

Their new album "Eight Houses"  finds She Keeps Bees working with an outside producer, Nicolas Vernhes (Wye Oak, Deerhunter, The War On Drugs, Dirty Projectors, Lia Ices a.o.) for the first time and enlisting guest musicians including Sharon Van Etten and Adam Schatz.

She Keeps Bees have created a beautifully timeless and haunting album. Eight Houses revels in the raw power of subtlety, silence and space, coloring Jessica Larrabee's compositions with lean piano lines, hazy horns and warm organ rolls.

Vinyl / CD order  at
http://bbislandmusic.com/shop/she-keeps-bees-eight-houses
or at
Rough Trade UK
http://roughtrade.com/albums/85304
Piccadilly Records LP and CD
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/SheKeepsBees-EightHouses-Bb*Island-98135.html
or in Germany 
https://www.flight13.com/details/111069/she-keeps-bees-eight-houses
http://www.finestvinyl.de/de/item/74243/vinyl.20.html
in Benelux
http://www.konkurrent.nl/winkel/produkt/she_keeps_bees_eight_houses_4260064999610/


shekeepsbees.com/
www.facebook.com/shekeepsbees
http://bbislandmusic.com

Eight Houses

She Keeps Bees - Owl

song taken from the  album "Eight Houses" (LP / CD / DL)
released through BB*Island in Europe
(and through Future Gods in America)
"Radiance" written by Jessica Larrabee, performed by She Keeps Bees.
Produced and recorded by Nicolas Vernhes at Red Book Studio

album at Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/1eTCF4h3YSDlKn5YDqWFyX?si=jr1-T56QSt-RqRi9oKZ9DQ
album at iTunes (EU): http://snip.ftpromo.net/eighthouses

She Keeps Bees is a duo from Brooklyn, NY, consisting of singer guitarist Jessica Larrabee and drummer/producer Andy LaPlant. They have self-recorded and released music made at home since 2006. Their debut album, Minisink Hotel, was described by NYC’s Other Music as “the best album you’ve never heard." Nests, their second full-length, was admired by the Guardian as “sparse, soulful and defiantly retro.” Their third LP, Dig On, was praised by the BBC as "an album of fire, spirit, and sweat."

Their new album "Eight Houses"  finds She Keeps Bees working with an outside producer, Nicolas Vernhes (Wye Oak, Deerhunter, The War On Drugs, Dirty Projectors, Lia Ices a.o.) for the first time and enlisting guest musicians including Sharon Van Etten and Adam Schatz.

She Keeps Bees have created a beautifully timeless and haunting album. Eight Houses revels in the raw power of subtlety, silence and space, coloring Jessica Larrabee's compositions with lean piano lines, hazy horns and warm organ rolls.

:::LIVE IN EUROPE April/May 2015::::
24.04.15 BE-Bruxelles, Homeplugged
25.04.15 GER-Offenbach/., Hafen 2
26.04.15 GER-Berlin, Roter Salon
28.04.15 GER-Jena, Glashaus
29.04.15 CH-Basel, Parterre
30.04.15 CH-Lausanne,Le Romandie
01.05.15 CH-St.Gallen, Palace
02.05.15 BE-Arlon,Les Aralunaires
03.05.15 BE-Brügge, Cactus Club
04.05.15 FR-Llle, La Péniche
05.05.15 FR-Paris, Espace B
06.05.15 FR-Nantes, Stereolux
08.05.15 ES-Madrid, Siroco
09.05.15 ES-Barcelona, Sala Apolo
12.05.15 FR-Figeac, La Chapelle de Figeac
13.05.15 FR-Macon, Cave a Musique
15.05.15 UK-London, Bush Hall
16.05.15 NL-Amsterdam, London Calling
17.05.15 BE-Hasselt, Muziekodrom
18.05.15 NL-Utrecht, Ekko
19.05.15 GER-Leipzig, UT Connewitz
20.05.15 GER-Regensburg, Alte Mälze
21.05.15 GER-Freiburg, Great Räng Teng Teng
22.05.15 GER-Dortmund, "Way Back When"-festival
23.05.15 GER-Beverungen, Orange Blossom Special Festival
24.05.15 GER-Hamburg, Knust "About Songs Festival"
see all European tour dates for November/December 2014 
http://www.bandsintown.com/SheKeepsBees

Vinyl / CD pre-order  eg. at
Rough Trade UK
http://roughtrade.com/albums/85304
Piccadilly Records LP and CD
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/SheKeepsBees-EightHouses-Bb*Island-98135.html
or in Germany 
https://www.flight13.com/details/111069/she-keeps-bees-eight-houses
http://www.finestvinyl.de/de/item/74243/vinyl.20.html
in Benelux
http://www.konkurrent.nl/winkel/produkt/she_keeps_bees_eight_houses_4260064999610/


shekeepsbees.com/
www.facebook.com/shekeepsbees
www.bbisland.de

She Keeps Bees - Radiance

3rd single off Ella Ronen's upcoming album "The Girl With No Skin".
Single release 26.Jan. 2024. Album 08.March, pre-order: https://orcd.co/ellaronenalbum

Ella Ronen is an extraordinary storyteller with the warmest voice in the world. This duet, sung and recorded together with the musician and her producer Sam Cohen, is about a couple who sing about the feeling when both sides want to be close to each other - but how can this succeed when we are all so busy performing roles, as men and as women?
«The space between two people might as well be galaxies, and oh, I know this to be true. But I'll shine a light, a sign of life, and try to get to you, because in all this space and nothingness - What else is there left to do?»
A tender, loving song about seemingly insurmountable boundaries in everyday togetherness.

https://www.instagram.com/ellaronen

Ella Ronen - I Just Want To See You (feat. Sam Cohen)

song off Ella Ronen's upcoming album "The Girl With No Skin", Album 08.March, pre-order: orcd.co/ellaronenalbum

Fuck cute / I’m tired of cute / Cute has never served me.
It’s too high of a rent to pay / For the little place I get / It’s too high of a risk to take / That at some point I’ll forget

Fuck pretty / I’m tired of pretty / Pretty never served me
It’s too high of a rent to pay / For the little place I get / It’s too high of a risk to take / That at some point I’ll forget

I’ll keep shedding these layers / Day by day / Night by night / I’ll keep shedding these layers / Until all that’s left of me / is / Light

You are an animal born to run its whole life, in endless fields and deserts, under an ink black, starry sky. You were not made to compete in little dirt circles someone drew for you. You will make your way by running it.

Fuck sorry / I’m tired of sorry / Sorry never served me / Fuck perfect / I’m tired of perfect / Perfect never served me.

https://www.instagram.com/ellaronen

grab on bandcamp

Ella Ronen - Fuck Cute

song from forthcoming album "Coyote Butterfly"

Simon Joyner - I'm Taking You With Me

song from forthcoming album "Coyote Butterfly" (Nov.22.2024, BB*ISLAND)

Simon Joyner - The Silver Birch

THE BURNING HELL have been writing party anthems about the apocalypse since before the apocalypse arrived at the party.

"Bottle of Chianti, Cheese and Charcuterie Board" is the first digital single from their upcoming album “Ghost Palace” and will be released Tue., Jan.07. 2025. It is an off-kilter synth and double-bass hip-shaker about the ways we reduce our lives to the fragments of bourgeois luxury that we can’t take with us when we go.

https://bbislandmusic.com/shop/the-burning-hell-ghost-palace-vinyl-cd

: : : 
Let’s have a baby, let’s watch a movie
The jets in the bathtub make it feel like a jacuzzi
At the farmer’s market, I ran into Jason
He introduced himself like we were friends but I couldn’t place him
 
At the bistro with the brick and the reclaimed floor
We’ll have a bottle of chianti, cheese and charcuterie board
 
I bought a houseboat after the divorce
Let my gym card lapse, stopped going to the golf course
I made a new friend at the marina there
She was into history and Renaissance fairs
 
She showed me her collection of authentic medieval swords
We had a bottle of chianti, cheese and charcuterie board
 
     	At the Buddhist book club in the sky
     	I met a long-haired former tennis pro and part-time Rabbi
     	“Back when I had eyes and skin,” he said, 
     	“I did so many different things - 
     	There wasn’t an anything once that I didn’t try”
 
The doctor whispered in my ear as she cut the umbilical cord
Start with a bottle of chianti, cheese and charcuterie board

Ghost Palace

The Burning Hell - Bottle of Chianti, Cheese and Charcuterie Board

song taken from the new album "Eight Houses" (LP / CD / DL)
released through BB*Island in Europe

"Radiance" written by Jessica Larrabee, performed by She Keeps Bees.
Produced and recorded by Nicolas Vernhes at Red Book Studio

album at iTunes: http://geni.us/2Oqy

She Keeps Bees is a duo from Brooklyn, NY, consisting of singer guitarist Jessica Larrabee and drummer/producer Andy LaPlant. They have self-recorded and released music made at home since 2006. Their debut album, Minisink Hotel, was described by NYC’s Other Music as “the best album you’ve never heard." Nests, their second full-length, was admired by the Guardian as “sparse, soulful and defiantly retro.” Their third LP, Dig On, was praised by the BBC as "an album of fire, spirit, and sweat."

Their new album "Eight Houses" finds She Keeps Bees working with an outside producer, Nicolas Vernhes (Wye Oak, Deerhunter, The War On Drugs, Dirty Projectors, Lia Ices a.o.) for the first time and enlisting guest musicians including Sharon Van Etten and Adam Schatz.

She Keeps Bees have created a beautifully timeless and haunting album. Eight Houses revels in the raw power of subtlety, silence and space, coloring Jessica Larrabee's compositions with lean piano lines, hazy horns and warm organ rolls.

:::LIVE IN EUROPE April/May 2015::::
24.04.15 BE-Bruxelles, Homeplugged
25.04.15 GER-Offenbach/., Hafen 2
26.04.15 GER-Berlin, Roter Salon
28.04.15 GER-Jena, Glashaus
29.04.15 CH-Basel, Parterre
30.04.15 CH-Lausanne,Le Romandie
01.05.15 CH-St.Gallen, Palace
02.05.15 BE-Arlon,Les Aralunaires
03.05.15 BE-Brügge, Cactus Club
04.05.15 FR-Llle, La Péniche
05.05.15 FR-Paris, Espace B
06.05.15 FR-Nantes, Stereolux
08.05.15 ES-Madrid, Siroco
09.05.15 ES-Barcelona, Sala Apolo
12.05.15 FR-Figeac, La Chapelle de Figeac
13.05.15 FR-Macon, Cave a Musique
15.05.15 UK-London, Bush Hall
16.05.15 NL-Amsterdam, London Calling
17.05.15 BE-Hasselt, Muziekodrom
18.05.15 NL-Utrecht, Ekko
19.05.15 GER-Leipzig, UT Connewitz
20.05.15 GER-Regensburg, Alte Mälze
21.05.15 GER-Freiburg, Great Räng Teng Teng
22.05.15 GER-Dortmund, "Way Back When"-festival
23.05.15 GER-Beverungen, Orange Blossom Special Festival
24.05.15 GER-Hamburg, Knust "About Songs Festival"
see all European tour dates for November/December 2014 
www.bandsintown.com/SheKeepsBees

Vinyl / CD buy eg. at
Rough Trade UK
roughtrade.com/albums/85304
Piccadilly Records LP and CD
www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/SheKeep…d-98135.html
or in Germany 
www.flight13.com/details/111069/s…ees-eight-houses
www.finestvinyl.de/de/item/74243/vinyl.20.html
in Benelux
www.konkurrent.nl/winkel/produkt/s…s_4260064999610/

shekeepsbees.com/
www.facebook.com/shekeepsbees
www.bbisland.de

8 Houses

She Keeps Bees - Breezy

taken from She Keeps Bees album "Eight Houses"
out now in Europe through BB*ISLAND (on LP / CD / DL)

> Greasy Grass
victory vision
seen them coming
country's birthing 
100 years
corporal custer
last in his class
took his eyeballs
died in greasy grass
take the red road back
took their horses
took their guns
took the black hills
carved his face in one
take the red road back

"Greasy Grass" written by Jessica Larrabee, performed by She Keeps Bees. 
Produced and recorded by Nicolas Vernhes at Red Book Studio

album at iTunes (EU): http://snip.ftpromo.net/eighthouses

:::LIVE IN EUROPE April/May 2015::::
24.04.15 BE-Bruxelles, Homeplugged
25.04.15 GER-Offenbach/., Hafen 2
26.04.15 GER-Berlin, Roter Salon
28.04.15 GER-Jena, Glashaus
29.04.15 CH-Basel, Parterre
30.04.15 CH-Lausanne,Le Romandie
01.05.15 CH-St.Gallen, Palace
02.05.15 BE-Arlon,Les Aralunaires
03.05.15 BE-Brügge, Cactus Club
04.05.15 FR-Llle, La Péniche
05.05.15 FR-Paris, Espace B
06.05.15 FR-Nantes, Stereolux
08.05.15 ES-Madrid, Siroco
09.05.15 ES-Barcelona, Sala Apolo
12.05.15 FR-Figeac, La Chapelle de Figeac
13.05.15 FR-Macon, Cave a Musique
15.05.15 UK-London, Bush Hall
16.05.15 NL-Amsterdam, London Calling
17.05.15 BE-Hasselt, Muziekodrom
18.05.15 NL-Utrecht, Ekko
19.05.15 GER-Leipzig, UT Connewitz
20.05.15 GER-Regensburg, Alte Mälze
21.05.15 GER-Freiburg, Great Räng Teng Teng
22.05.15 GER-Dortmund, "Way Back When"-festival
23.05.15 GER-Beverungen, Orange Blossom Special Festival
24.05.15 GER-Hamburg, Knust "About Songs Festival"
see all European tour dates for November/December 2014 
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see all European tour dates for November/December 2014 
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Vinyl / CD buy eg. at
Rough Trade UK
http://roughtrade.com/albums/85304
Piccadilly Records LP and CD
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/SheKeepsBees-EightHouses-Bb*Island-98135.html
or in Germany 
https://www.flight13.com/details/111069/she-keeps-bees-eight-houses
http://www.finestvinyl.de/de/item/74243/vinyl.20.html
in Benelux
http://www.konkurrent.nl/winkel/produkt/she_keeps_bees_eight_houses_4260064999610/


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She Keeps Bees - Greasy Grass

taken off the forthcoming album "31 Seasons In The Minor Leagues"
to be released on BB*ISLAND Records on November 07. 2025.
Watch the video by Maurice Rieger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-P_1FadjuQ

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Swearing At Motorists - Eleven Hours

First single from the album 31 Seasons In The Minor Leagues
to be released on BB*ISLAND Records on 24 October 2025.
Watch the video by David da Cruz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIWW3oN8MXc

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31 Seasons In The Minor Leagues

Italian Wine

kaufen

Swearing At Motorists - Italian Wine

Brooklyn-based artists Leslie Graves and Toby Goodshank  have joined creative forces on their album Between Worlds (BB*ISLAND),  

Toby Goodshank (The Moldy Peaches, The Pizza Underground) of the OG New York Antifolk scene, is known for his precise and acrobatic vocals over nuanced acoustic guitar in songs that have been described as “a zesty thumb of the nose at domesticated bullshit.” (Myles Manley)

Leslie Graves (GOLD, Endless Arrows) is a performing songwriter and recording artist who takes folk subgenres into evocative and intriguing directions, including “sounding like something you could hear Donna Hayward dancing to at the Bang Bang Bar.” (Ronan Conroy, “Hidden In the Days” album review)  Her voice has been described as “darkwave-meets-folk” with comparisons to Lana Del Rey, Cat Powers, Mazzy Star and Julee Cruise.

Acoustic guitar and vocal harmonies make up the core of their music. a slightly psychedelic, at times dream pop-like folkrock. It just draws from a variety of folk and rock. You might hear hints of Sybil Baer, Judee Sill, REM, Linda Perhacs, and Jessica Pratt, but the intersection of Toby and Leslie is truly a place of its own, warm and enchanting, or perhaps a glimmer from the spaces in between worlds. 

Many instrumental threads are interwoven throughout with the invaluable skills of Jake Nicoll (The Burning Hell) who lovingly engineered and embellished the recordings. Ariel Sharrat of The Burning Hell assisted him and is also featured on saxophone or bass or on some songs here.   

Speaking to their process, Leslie writes, "Toby is great at composing song structures quickly. It was fun to feel into the emotion of the chords and write from there. The process was like chiseling away at a stone to reveal the sculpture underneath. I like when songs come like that - when it feels that they are teaching us as they are revealed." 


LESLIE GRAVES and TOBY GOODSHANK - Stay Long Enough

Brooklyn-based artists Leslie Graves and Toby Goodshank  have joined creative forces on their album Between Worlds (BB*ISLAND),  

Toby Goodshank (The Moldy Peaches, The Pizza Underground) of the OG New York Antifolk scene, is known for his precise and acrobatic vocals over nuanced acoustic guitar in songs that have been described as “a zesty thumb of the nose at domesticated bullshit.” (Myles Manley)

Leslie Graves (GOLD, Endless Arrows) is a performing songwriter and recording artist who takes folk subgenres into evocative and intriguing directions, including “sounding like something you could hear Donna Hayward dancing to at the Bang Bang Bar.” (Ronan Conroy, “Hidden In the Days” album review)  Her voice has been described as “darkwave-meets-folk” with comparisons to Lana Del Rey, Cat Powers, Mazzy Star and Julee Cruise.

Acoustic guitar and vocal harmonies make up the core of their music. a slightly psychedelic, at times dream pop-like folkrock. It just draws from a variety of folk and rock. You might hear hints of Sybil Baer, Judee Sill, REM, Linda Perhacs, and Jessica Pratt, but the intersection of Toby and Leslie is truly a place of its own, warm and enchanting, or perhaps a glimmer from the spaces in between worlds. 

Many instrumental threads are interwoven throughout with the invaluable skills of Jake Nicoll (The Burning Hell) who lovingly engineered and embellished the recordings. Ariel Sharrat of The Burning Hell assisted him and is also featured on saxophone or bass or on some songs here.   

Speaking to their process, Leslie writes, "Toby is great at composing song structures quickly. It was fun to feel into the emotion of the chords and write from there. The process was like chiseling away at a stone to reveal the sculpture underneath. I like when songs come like that - when it feels that they are teaching us as they are revealed." 

https://tobygoodshank.bandcamp.com/album/between-worlds

LESLIE GRAVES and TOBY GOODSHANK - The Natural Way

LESLIE GRAVES and TOBY GOODSHANK - Apple

Between Worlds

LESLIE GRAVES and TOBY GOODSHANK - Between Worlds

LESLIE GRAVES and TOBY GOODSHANK - Solid Ground

LESLIE GRAVES and TOBY GOODSHANK - Where Are We Going

LESLIE GRAVES and TOBY GOODSHANK - Baby Boy

LESLIE GRAVES and TOBY GOODSHANK - To Belong

Aha, But No a song off THE SOUND OF MONEY album "TWO: RHYME ON - an anagrammatic exorcism of the 70s" / release May, 23. 2025 through BB*ISLAND
Vinyl or CD: https://bbislandmusic.com/shop/the-sound-of-money-two-rhyme-on-vinyl-cd


Aha but no / Who would want this in his house? / I don’t know

Franziska Erdle: Percussion 
Claudia Kaiser: Vocals
Martin Lickleder: Strings 
Albert Pöschl: Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Tom Wu: Drums 

The song title “Aha But No” was made from the letters of the album title “Autobahn” by Kraftwerk
Released 1977, when: Computer pioneer Ken Olsen declares that “there is no reason why any individual should have a computer in his home”.

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Two: Rhyme On

THE SOUND OF MONEY - Aha, But No

on Vinyl (lim ed.) or CD: http://bbislandmusic.com/shop/burning-hell-ariel-mathias-hyperreal

> Fuck The Government, I Love You
--------------------------------------------------
We met at the New Years Party of my vegetarian friend.
I said I was studying English, I told you I was in a band
I asked what the band was called, I said it’s called The Burning Hell
I said I’ve never heard of you, I said that’s probably just as well

Just to make conversation I told you about a dream I had in which Jean Baudrillard was rapping with Public Enemy
Shouting “don’t believe the hyperreal” with Flava Flav and Chuck D
And I said I think we might have a lot in common then, possibly, 
Because I’m also a musician and also a student of hip-hoposophy

You mentioned you used to play the clarinet in high school in the early years of the millennium when you were young
And you said you’re hired, the pay is negligible, and the tour starts next month
You asked what I was working on, I said I’m writing an album of love songs
I laughed and said love songs are dumb, and I said oh yeah, wait til you hear these ones

Pass the wine, fuck the government, I love you
Three statements overheard at once in the crowded room
But I could not be sure which one had come from you
So I passed you the wine and said yes, fuck the government, I love you too.

Though neither of us are accomplished dancers we danced a little bit
My vegetarian friend was playing the hits of Will Smith, and we got jiggy with it
There on the dance floor, the living room dance floor, that’s when it happened
You stole my heart, I stole a kiss, we stole someone else’s gin by accident

At some point we got cornered by an amateur poet neither of us knew
Either he had no one else to talk to or just couldn’t pick up simple social cues
Step by step we backed away until we backed up all the way into the bathroom together
We told the poet that we always go together ‘cause that’s what happens when you’ve been dating forever

We stayed in there for ages hoping the amateur poet would go, it was awkward
We came out and found he’d discovered someone else to bother,
And suddenly it was midnight and auld lang syne time and countdowns and gratuitous public making out
And we started shouting because everyone else was shouting and isn’t it fun to shout?

(words/music: Mathias Kom)

the first little album by the Duo incarnation of The Burning Hell.
As seen live on many occasions, this is Singer/Guitarist Mathias Kom and his Partner Ariel Sharratt on Vocals and clarinet.
Inbetween touring in 2015 they've recorded a couple of duets, 8 new songs.
This short album, entitled Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom - „Don’t Believe The Hyperreal“  released in November 2015 through BB*Island in Europe and Headless Owl in Canada (as limited Vinyl, CD, digital).

http:/www.wearetheburninghell.com
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if you made it to the bottom of this info:
there's another version of this song available.
on the The Burning Hell album Public Library. see video here: https://bbislandmusic.com/shop/the-burning-hell-public-library

Don't Believe The Hyperreal

Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom - Fuck The Government, I Love You

"Release" Lyrics video: https://youtu.be/nwJz4_KWM-k
taken from NESTS album, first time on vinyl and release shows in Europe.

We are thrilled to announce the release of Nests album on vinyl through BB.Island and an accompanying release tour. There will be two vinyl versions coming up in December 02nd. Beside the regular vinyl album there is an exclusive limited edition, available only as a bundle with the ticket for selected release concerts in those cities and venues:

Dec.01. Cologne, Blue Shell
Dec.02. London, Moth Club
Dec.03. Paris, Pop Up Du Label
Dec.04. Münster, Gleis 22
Dec.05. Berlin, Grüner Salon
bundle tickets: https://www.musicglue.com/shekeepsbees/

buy vinyl: http://bbislandmusic.com/shop/she-keeps-bees-nests-vinyl
Nests at iTunes: http://geni.us/NestsITunes
Nests at Spotify: http://geni.us/NXabMvU

ABOUT
She Keeps Bees is a duo from Brooklyn, NY, consisting of singer guitarist Jessica Larrabee and drummer/producer Andy LaPlant.
They have self-recorded and released music made at home since 2006. Their debut album, Minisink Hotel, was described by NYC’s Other Music as “the best album you’ve never heard." Nests, their second full-length, was admired by the Guardian as “sparse, soulful and defiantly retro.” Their third LP, Dig On, was praised by the BBC as "an album of fire, spirit, and sweat."

Their latest album Eight Houses finds She Keeps Bees working with an outside producer, Nicolas Vernhes (Wye Oak, Deerhunter, The War On Drugs, Dirty Projectors, Lia Ices a.o.) for the first time.

"...Hitherto visceral New York duo discover and deploy the power of subtlety...In all, a fiery triumph" - MOJO, UK

Nests

She Keeps Bees - Release

2017 single / lim ed. 7" vinyl (BBI 0297)http://bbislandmusic.com/shop/she-keeps-bees-our-bodies-7inch-vinyl-limited
performed, recorded by She Keeps Bees, 
written by Jessica Larrabee

::: Our Bodies :::
Basic Right
we must defend
choose whether and when
without being demonized
cause what control
can we have with 
no control
her body knows
need no chaperone
mother crow
help us mother crone
crow out it’s not your choice
we dare to practice  
medicine 4000 years old
but what’s important now
is that I mind my body and you mind your own
underside
for those who can afford the right 
risk sickness, death or cast aside
to the hell with a woman's life
mother crow
help us mother crone
crow out it’s not your choice
lie to control me? 
we demand autonomy
your fear is sickness not hereditary 
let me liberate me
our bodies  our own
our bodies are our own
our own body  our own choice
don’t control me
we demand autonomy
your fear is sickness not hereditary
let me liberate me

Jessica Larrabee about the song:

"I wrote this song last year, during the election, as I watched my mother's fight become my own. It’s a response to the calls from various politicians to strip women’s healthcare rights away in many states.

While writing, I tried to evoke the voices of my ancestors to help me say: we will not be punished or denied healthcare, and we will not be silenced.

In the lyrics, “Mother Crow” represents watchfulness. They have been known to alert prey to hunters, warning dear and other birds of coming danger. In fairytales and myths, crows are the keepers of the narrative and speak to us directly. 

The song summons energy to break the cycle of control, calls on our ancestors and wise animal guides, to crow-out for all spirited, liberated women: “Our own body, our own choice.”

(c)&(p) 2017, BB*Island, under exclusive license from She Keeps Bees

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Our Bodies / Head Of Steak

Our Bodies

She Keeps Bees - Our Bodies

charity release for Earth Justice.
written and recorded during the first 100 days

: : Head Of Steak : :
It’s not a joke
he aims to knock us over
with his gall, his girth, his greed, his lawyers

lay it out, wrinkled suit, long ass tie
scotch tape on both sides
nowhere to hide

from the emperor with no clothes on
walking around, bare ass in a crown
head of steak, you deal in snake oil
poison our water for a fucking dollar

withdraw our energy
you can wither in your own deceit 
because the truth is the truth is the truth
we see right through you 
we see right through

the emperor with no clothes on
walking around, bare ass in a crown
head of steak, you deal in snake oil 
poison our Mother for a fucking dollar

fear has no power over us!!!!!!

ignore the emperor with no clothes on
demands a crowd, bare ass in a crown
head of steak you deal in dying oil 
poison our Mother for a fucking dollar 
dollar dollar a fucking dollar
: : : :
More info:
http://bbislandmusic.com/news/2017/6/2/head-of-steak-she-keeps-bees-thoughts-on-donald-trump
: : : : 
"Head Of Steak" written by Jessica Larrabee (ASCAP)
Produced by She Keeps Bees. Mastered by Heba Kadry. 

"Head Of Steak" will be available as digital single release (June 2nd 2017, BBI 0296) and as B-side of  7" VINYL SINGLE "Our Bodies" (Aug 07 2017, BBI 0297, lim.ed. of 300 copies) 
PRE-ORDER 7" vinyl: http://bbislandmusic.com/shop/she-keeps-bees-our-bodies-7inch-vinyl-limited

Both the limited edition vinyl as the digital release are charity for PLANNED PARENTHOOD (non-profit organization standing in globally for women's (and men’s) healthcare, rights and education) and for EARTH JUSTICE („because the earth needs a good lawyer“).100% of the profit will be donated to 2 organizations, whose work is so important these days. Earth Justice gonna receive the profits  from „Head Of Steak“ (also those from the income from digital streaming/downloads) and Planned Parenthood those for „Our Bodies“. 

(c)+(p) 2017 BB*Island, under exclusive license from She Keeps Bees

Head Of Steak

She Keeps Bees - Head Of Steak

"Coyote" Single release: March 1st  
The first single from forthcoming She Keeps Bees album, entitled Kinship.
 

: : : COYOTE : : :
I’d rather be a coyote
Katie Lee says
rivers deserve to be free
open mining 
in waterways, historic parks
lifeblood, the lungs of the Earth
stop short
no other spaceship like her
carved wooden birds adorn her 
swam in potholes and waterfalls
bathed in desert rose soft blush
stands her naked body
carved by sand, by wind, by dust
carved by rain, by rivers, by streams
flood the canyons
drown everything
ignore the rules of balance 
watch destruction of the sanctuaries 
wildflowers to circles to spirals from 50 AD 
gathering pine seeds
canyon glen curving 
flood the canyons
drown everything
ignore the rules of balance on Earth
watch destruction of the sanctuaries

written by Jessica Larrabee
c+p 2019 BB*Island, under exclusive license from She Keeps Bees

Jessica about the song: "I was so inspired when I happen to read the obituary of this lady Katie Lee in New York Times"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/obituaries/katie-lee-folk-singer-who-fought-to-protect-a-canyon-dies-at-98.html
Katie Lee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Lee_(singer)

She Keeps Bees "Kinship" is out May 10 2019 via BB*ISLAND (for Europe) and BA DA BING! (for North-America)

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She Keeps Bees - Coyote

from She Keeps Bees album "Kinship"
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