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Head Above The Water

Head Above the Water

If the Kremlin wanted to kill large numbers of people it should have done so with starvation sanctions and proxy militias like a civilized government.

Fashion has moved on since the early 2000s, you savages.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Civilized Nations Kill With Sanctions And Proxy Armies

Coyotes

Halfway to a Threeway - Jim O'Rourke

Galway-based singer/songwriter Brigid Mae Power released her fourth studio album Dream from the Deep Well on June 30. Here, she talks through the album track by track, as well as discussing her previous album Head Above the Water, released during the pandemic in 2020, the art of covering songs by the greats, and her album-making process.

Brigid Mae Power Irish tour dates:
October 5: Whelan's, Dublin
October 6: The Chapel at Griffith College, Cork
October 22: Roisin Dubh, Galway

Buy the album: https://brigidmaepower.bandcamp.com/album/dream-from-the-deep-well

TPOE 274 Brigid Mae Power

Kitty

Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement

Here (Remastered)

American composer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick talks about the legendary New York ditto Arthur Russell as he performs a number of Russell-songs with band at the first edition of Badesøen Festival.

Peter Broderick sings Arthur Russell is commissioned by Badesøen Festival and premiered July 29th 2017 at Badesøen Festival in Albertslund, Denmark.

The Lake at Badesøen Festival with Peter Broderick sings Arthur Russell

From Brigid Mae Power's forthcoming LP, The Two Worlds, out February 9, 2018

BUY her self-titled debut on CD/LP : 
http://www.tompkinssquare.com/brigid-mae-power.html

Don't Shut Me Up (Politely)

Oh The Sky

Tompkins Square is very proud to announce the signing of Welsh multi-instrumentalist, Gwenifer Raymond. Hailing from Cardiff and now residing in Brighton in the South of England, Raymond began playing guitar at the age of 8. 

Her debut album, You Never Were Much of a Dancer, is out on Tompkins Square in early 2018.

Sometimes There's Blood

Pre-order 'All Together Again' on LP/CD/DL: phonofile.link/all-together-again

There is no end to composer Peter Broderick’s creative output, and so we present to you his new album titled 'All Together Again' — available worldwide on November 17th 2017 via Erased Tapes.

Words from Peter, October 2017:

"Ever since I started releasing records in 2007 (10 years ago now!), people have contacted me periodically to ask if I’d be interested in making music to accompany their projects. Most of these projects have been things like films, dance pieces and theatre plays . . . but every so often I get the odd request for something a little different. Peter, would you write a song for my wedding? My one year anniversary? A ferry boat ride?

In early 2015 I was asked to perform 12 minutes of music during a runway show as part of New York Fashion Week. I agreed and began composing a 12-minute piece which I could perform on my own with a few different instruments and some looping pedals. I made a recording of the piece and sent it over to my contacts at the fashion show . . . but a few days before I was to fly out to New York, they wrote back and told me they actually just wanted me to play a few older songs that they were already familiar with. Feeling slightly disappointed, I shelved the other piece, giving it the title If I Were A Runway Model.

It is with great pleasure that I now present this piece in a collection of commissioned works spanning the last decade . . . it’s All Together Again. This group of oddball works does indeed include a couple pieces written for weddings (Our Future In Wedlock and The Walk), and a song someone asked me to write as a gift for his wife on their first year wedding anniversary (Emily). And indeed, there’s a 17-minute piece written to accompany a ferry boat ride in Istanbul (A Ride On The Bosphorus). A few of the pieces were written for films (Robbie’s Song, Atlantic and Seeing Things), and one for a kind of interactive installation (Unsung Heroes).

In my early days of recording, I took pride in playing all the different instruments myself and doing the recording myself as well. And then at some point I started branching out, working with other musicians and recording engineers. But this record is very dear to me in that it’s a return to that original approach . . . playing all the different instruments myself, working with my limits on each one, and my own limits in recording and mixing. I’ve always held a broad curiosity for all different instruments and all different styles of music, and if nothing else I hope this record will portray that curiosity, and my pure love for this thing we call music. Can you dig it?"

The cover art was made by Peter himself in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, by cutting and sticking different coloured paper fragments to depict the individuality of each track.

TRACK LISTING

1. If I Were A Runway Model
2. Robbie’s Song
3. A Ride On The Bosphorus
4. Emily
5. Our Future In Wedlock	
6. The Walk
7. Atlantic 
8. Seeing Things
9. Unsung Heroes

WEBSITE: www.peterbroderick.net

All Together Again

Peter Broderick - Robbie's Song

Master And Everyone

Wolf Among Wolves

Ireland's Brigid Mae Power sings Fred Neil's classic, The Dolphins.

Brigid Mae Power - The Dolphins (Fred Neil)

From Peter Broderick & Friends Play Arthur Russell, a loving tribute to the inimitable songwriter-composer-cellist-producer-multi-instrumentalist-one-of-a-kind-musical-mind. Featuring contributions from Brigid Mae Power, Ora Cogan, Hamilton Belk, members of Arthur Russell's family, and more. Out now on Pretty Purgatory. Cassettes, vinyl, and free download at prettypurgatory.bandcamp.com. Streaming everywhere music is found.

Peter Broderick & Friends Play Arthur Russell

That's Us/Wild Combination

Peter Broderick - That's Us/Wild Combination

Release date: August 7th, 2020
https://elparaisorecords.com/

Martin Rude (Sun River) & Jakob Skøtt (Causa Sui) team up for a genre-defying record that was recorded during an exceptional session on March 3rd 2020. Martin brought his Double Bass, Acoustic & Baritone guitar into the studio of Causa Sui, where Jakob's drums were already miked & prepped by soundwiz Jonas Munk, freshly tuned from the new Causa Sui recordings. The music they played ranges from sprawled out pre-fusion electric jazz to psychedelic folk ragas. After the sessions, the hours of free floating music was edited & dubbed by Jakob Skøtt into shorter cohesive segments, but maintaining the improvised vibe of these first takes. 

It is a record that pays homage to the great innovators of jazz: Miles & Trane (or perhaps more fittingly their peak-drummers: Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette & Elvin Jones), as well as Mingus at his fiercest or Sun Ra at his most exotic. Not merely a tribute, the album doubles down with guitar pickings ala John Fahey & Sandy Bull, as well as sparse layers of oddly-tempered mallet percussion and synthesizers. But perhaps the closest reference isn't something of a certain place in time, but rather a free flowing ethos of stoic proportions: letting happen what it may, turning the accidents and mistakes along the way into something vital.

Head Above the Water

Brigid Mae Power

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