Aldous Harding - Stop Your Tears

Slow & Steady - Always On My Mind (Chris Staples)

Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell

A Little Lost

The Magic Lantern, the musical moniker of Jamie Doe, is set to release his latest single Holding Hands on 30th October 2017 via Hectic Eclectic Records. 

The single opens with a defiant cry of hope, the lyrics “I’m searching…”, ringing out alone before two saxophones enter, freely weaving around the vocal, at once harmonising and echoing it. This texture builds as a third saxophone joins creating a rich brass warmth through which Doe’s voice glides, effortlessly leaping between the declamatory and the intimate. The  band enter with an infectious groove, and we are introduced to the songs’ key metaphor of a flood and the need for creative destruction - “One day, when all this is washed away, some will remain, full of hope in the pouring rain”. The track resolves with the triumph of hope over doubt.

Holding Hands was written during a moment of desperation, Jamie having travelled half way across the world only to run out of road.  Strung out and alone, he found himself writing this song for the true love he hoped to meet, as much an act of faith in their existence as a beacon to guide himself home.  Originally written for voice and guitar, it was after hearing Bjork’s ‘Anchor Song’ late one night that Jamie decided to arrange the song for saxophone trio. The timbre of the brass, the groove of the band, The Bad Plus style piano solo – it is an arrangement that brings together some of Jamie’s key influences which he describes as “the lyrical directness of folk, the harmonic openness and improvisational freedom of jazz and the craft of great songwriting. It’s a good example of how much more confident I have become as an arranger”. 

Born in Australia, before moving to the UK at 12, Jamie began performing as The Magic Lantern while studying philosophy in Bristol where he met and performed alongside friends This Is The Kit, Rozi Plain and Rachael Dadd. Moving to London in 2007, Jamie expanded The Magic Lantern into a quintet of friends and together they evolved a transporting sound, inspired by the immediacy of Jamie’s lyrics and lilting melodies and a shared love of improvised music. A debut album with the quintet was released in 2011 before Jamie returned to his solo roots with an intimate second album in 2014. The Magic Lantern has received praise from numerous publications including The Guardian, Acoustic Magazine and Folk Radio UK as well as BBC 6Music’s Lauren Laverne, Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and BBC Radio 2’s Mark Radcliffe and Bob Harris among others. His third album, To The Islands from which Holding Hands is taken, sees The Magic Lantern return with a new ensemble drawn from London’s thriving jazz scene, exploring memory and hope in a world of near constant uncertainty. 

With Holding Hands, The Magic Lantern is ready to introduce further listeners to his bittersweet, beautiful sound. 

Holding Hands is out on 30th October 2017 via Hectic Eclectic Records.

Holding Hands

Frazey Ford ( Be Good Tanyas) solo debut, "Obadiah" 
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Frazey Ford - If You Gonna Go

A little sneak peek of a forthcoming remix for Mario & Vidis - our friends from Lithuania! Their original is of course a cover version of Bon Iver. Enjoy - best with headphones!

Mario & Vidis "Re:Stacks (âme remix snippet)"

I always wanted to do a cover of this song, because I feel a part of me, it tells a story, and tells my story.
I loved this tune from the first moment, and I decided, even if I'm not a singer at all, and even if my tone of voice is inadequate to hold a song so thick and meaningful, to try to sing it, to get out what I feel in having it in my head. 
Thanks for listening, and sign up if you like it!
Ah Jacob, if you will ever listen it or just read this, marry me.

Ho sempre voluto eseguire una cover di questo brano, perchè lo sento una parte di me, racconta una storia, e racconta la mia storia.
L'ho amata dal primo momento, e ho deciso, anche se non sono per niente un cantante, e anche se il mio tono di voce è inadeguato a reggere un brano di così tanto spessore e significato, di provare a cantarla, per tirar fuori quello che provo nell'averla in testa.
Grazie per l'ascolto, e iscrivetevi se vi piace!
Ah Jacob, se dovessi ascoltare o solo leggere questo, sposami.

Lyrics:
In the real early morning
With the sun slowly rising
I was walking out slowly
Wandering free
When out in the distance
Over the valley
I saw an old friend
Waiting for me
Waiting for me

She was a young girl
She was an old soul
As fair as the ocean
Timeless and free
She was my mother
She was my daughter
She was my lover
She was everything
An old friend could be

I said, "It's been such a long time
Since we have spoken
There's so much to say to you
I want you to know
I wish you could tell me
All that you've seen here
But we haven't got long now
For soon, you'll be fading
And soon, I must go"

[Bridge: Instrumental]
I know the way home

She said "You are a soldier
You are a father
You are a wise man
You are a friend
You were my first love
I won't forget you
I'm walking beside you
I was here when you started
I'll be here till the end"

And now it's the evening
There's a moon slowly rising (ooh, ooh)
There isn't much more that
I wanted to know, wanted to know
And I am alone now
She isn't beside me no more
But I feel no sorrow
I'd come tomorrow
I'll be on my way home
I'll be on my way home

In The Real Early Morning

In The Real Early Morning - Jacob Collier (Cover by Claudio Palana)

El Invento

Brooklyn-based independent record label
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Incapable of repetition, going by unobserved, terrestrial existence, has no love life

Slow & Steady - Always On My Mind (Chris Staples)

B.C.