An Introduction to Bill Ryder-Jones

Buy/Stream the album here: https://orcd.co/onceagainchildren

Gather together beneath the sun as we journey through the rhythmic sands of time, Paul Hillery, an esteemed collector and vinyl hunter, presents his follow-up to the highly acclaimed ‘We Are The Children Of The Sun‘. Andrew Male of MOJO Magazine calls the album “One of the most emotionally uplifting and hazily beautiful compilations of recent years.”

“Once Again We Are The Children Of The Sun” is a shimmering collection of rare finds, reminding us that we have more to connect us than to divide us. The music encompasses a broad range of sounds, starting in Cajun country with Will & James Ragar, their handmade acoustic guitars allowing for soaring vocals. Along with many of the tracks featured on this compilation, “As the Day Grows Tired” is reissued on vinyl for the first time.

Experience the previously unreleased cover of “Milk and Honey” featuring Kat Barnard and Greg Foat, a versatile mainstay of the UK jazz scene. Discover the first-ever vinyl release of “Kayenta Crossing” by William Eaton Ensemble, capturing the austere presence of Monument Valley. Immerse yourself in Wendy Grace’s jazz-folk masterpiece “More Than Hope” and the acoustic ambience of “Golden Hour” by Aria Rostami.

Paul Hillery and BBE present a compilation of styles and genres, fusing together to make private press wants accessible as a springboard for further listening pleasures. “Once Again We Are the Children of the Sun” is an eclectic selection mixing styles, year and tempo, painstakingly gathered and presented with a great deal of love.

Wendy Grace - More Than Hope

The Blendells – La la la la la
L.C. Cooke – Gonna Have A Good Time
Maurice & Mac - You Left the Water Running 
Tammy Lynn – Mojo Hannah
Ivan – Real Wild Child
Troy Shondell - Girl After Girl
Buck Owens – Before You Go
Skeeter Davis – End of the World
Little Peggy March - I Will Follow Him
Johnny Cymbal – Teenage Heaven
The Rays - Silhouettes
The Ovations – I Believe I’ll Go Back Home

Recent Songs #28 :: I Believe I’ll Go Back Home

Roberto Carlos - Quero Me Casar Contigo
Nancy Sit – Hanky Panky
Drew - Like My Baby
Jimmy Hunt – Annabelle
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Teenager in Love
Desmond Dekker – Tips Of My Fingers
Karlo Metikos - Koliko Dugo
Chris Smither – Friend of the Devil
Dave Van Ronk – Another Time and Place
Nina Simone – Balm in Gilead

Recent Songs #29 :: Another Time And Place

"BLAH BLAH BLAH" by ill peach (Release Date: May 23, 2023)
Listen Now: https://hardlyart.xyz/illpeach-blahblahblah

ill peach: 
Bandcamp: https://illpeach.bandcamp.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/illpeach__
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/illpeach__
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/illpeachmypeach
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/79E3M2o4FRthRViQXaCWDt?si=3VNs6PrMTw2SqL41tajlnQ
On Tour: https://www.hardlyart.com/pages/on-tour/ill-peach

Hardly Art: https://www.hardlyart.com
MiniMart: https://www.hardlyart.com/shop
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hardlyart
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hardlyart
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hardlyart
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/hardlyartrecords
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/hardlyartrecords

BLAH BLAH BLAH

ill peach - BLAH BLAH BLAH

The Mirettes - To Love Somebody
The Esquires - Kathe Mera Pou
Eva - Les Enchaines
Los Apson - Si Es Que Cambias 
Dick & Dee Dee – Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind
The Kinks - Young And Innocent Days
Moby Grape – I Am Not Willing
Harry Nilsson – Cuddly Toy (demo)
Ivor Cutler – Uneventful Day
Mary Mccaslin – You Keep Me Hangin On 
Saint-Preux – L’ivresse Des Profondeur

Recent Songs #32 :: Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind

The lost Belgian blueprint of Brussels based jazz fusion and how free form Franco-Flemish punk put Zeuhl school in the Classroom via to the conception of COS.

Emerging from behind the same clouds that kept formative Belgian progressive jazz records like Brussels Art Quintet and Kiosk’s Mona Call in tangible obscurity, these impossibly rare early Euro jazz recordings shed a new ray of light on the intricate foundations of the scene that elevated COS, Marc Moulin, Placebo, Marc Hollander and Telex to Zen master status, while also capturing one of Europe’s best female vocal artists in the midst of her wide eyed and uninhibited prime.

Idiosyncratic, intrepid, psychedelic, scholastic? Affirmative. But not once do these recordings resemble pages of a dog-eared sketchbook. Expertly executed and recorded, this semester of progressive proto jazz fusion symposiums capture the group as they unveil the unique strain of experimental ‘Flower Music’ (a title worthy of a lost Don Cherry album?) that would imminently blossom into the trailblazing COS powerhouse. Listen closely and hear the sound of this outernational mutating quintet as they tear up the rule book and still graduate onto the International jazz rock scene with flying psychedelic colours. Fans of COS tracks such as Mein maschine ist schön and L’Idiot Léon will herein identify the foundations of Pascale Son’s early experimental, non-lyrical and onomatopoeic vocalisations which would earn the band favour amongst early Zeuhl aficionados, thus winning the group support slots with Magma and historically leading directly to the Classroom/COS overnight metamorphosis. These recordings capture that precise chink in time and the eureka moment where Daniel Schell’s experiments become a leading life force. Constantly forward-thinking with a don’t look back mantra, these recordings have remained nestled on old acetates and magnetic tape akin to similar lost Low Country albums such as Alain Pierre’s mythical L’enfant grandit synth opus and Placebo’s coveted Three Days In April TV recordings.

Never before released on vinyl, these tracks provide us with a sonic chalkboard of Daniel Schell’s ambitious musical equations, recalculated by precocious polymaths, then conveyed via Pascale Son’s inquisitive child-like vocal explorations. For those keen to learn the Histoire De Melody COS? The classroom door is open - prepare to be schooled!

lnk.to/Cclassroom

Classroom

Sur deux

Classroom - Sur deux

FKR063X
Andrzej Korzyński 
Third Part Of The Night

Released 29th September 2023

As one of the most triumphant and beguiling directorial debut features to emerge from the fruitful Polish New Wave, Andrzej Żuławski's 1971 film Third Part Of The Night not only earned the 30 year old filmmaker a place next to other radical Polish directors such as Polanski, Skolimowski and Has, but also galvanised a creative bond with long running collaborator and composer Andrzej Korzyński, providing fans of foreign abstract/suspense cinema with a potent creative fusion to match those of Polanki/Komeda, Fellini/Rota and Argento/Goblin, amongst others.

Quite simply one of the heaviest psych rock film soundtracks of all time Andrzej Korzyński's short and unreleased score matched the blueprint that adorned the drawing boards of conceptual French jazz orch rock composers like Jean-Claude Vannier, Francois De Roubaix and Alain Gourageur, creating a soundtrack that unknowingly begs comparison to Masahiko Sato’s Belladonna Of Sadness and Billy Green’s Stone. As one of the first progressive pop writers to come out of the vibrant (but carefully scrutinised) Polish beat scene with his bands Ricecar 64 and later Arp Life (and composing for national heroes such as Czeslaw Niemen, Niebiesko-Czarni and Test) Korzynski’s growing passion for conceptual rock and jazz music soon lead to instrumental composition and soundtrack scores.

His cinematic debuts scoring two consecutive transitional new wave films for Andrzej Wajda (in collaboration with the radical Polski pop groups Trubadurzy and Grupa ABC) also provided Korzynski with another significant cinematic muse in that of the stunning actress Malgorzata Braunek with whom they would both eventually achieve their finest performances under the direction of the ravenous first timer Żuławski. Third Part Of The Night (1971) perhaps epitomises that triangular on-screen unison in its vibrant youth and feeds it through a hallucinogenic mangle finding astonishing beauty (within a repulsive synopsis) against a bleak and shattered backdrop and accompanied by progressive, psychedelic orchestral rock music - elements which would intensify for all three creatives with the next film, Diabel, which was banned by the Polish government the following year until 1988.

Third Part Of The Night also marks the public unison of Żuławski and Braunek whose later private romantic relationship is said to form the basis for another defining Żuławski/Korzyński defining endeavour with the 1981 film Possession exactly a decade later, encapsulating a period that bequeaths a previously unopened vault of some of the composers finest and most inspired sonic adventures.

Third Part Of The Night

W instytucie

Andrzej Korzyński - W instytucie

This marks the inaugural release from MZ Worthy's newly established label, 'Love and Forgive.' This distinctive label is dedicated to showcasing the more profound and diverse facets of MZ Worthy's musical journey, offering a creative space for her to venture beyond her renowned tech house sound. 

Her debut release, titled 'Shattered Pieces,' is a profoundly introspective track that sees her stepping up to the microphone to bare her soul. Crafted during a pivotal period of personal transformation, the song delves deep into her emotional journey of self-discovery amidst the complexities of life. As she pieces together the fragments of the mirror she once shattered, she rediscovers the parts that truly reflect her authentic self.

I Know That It’s Like This (Baby)

Bill Ryder-Jones

Related tracks