The Coctails

"The West Wind" by Ryley Walker. 3 song 12" EP available now. Ryley's debut album will be released on Tompkins Square April 15th, 2014.

Ryley Walker is a 24 year-old singer/songwriter and guitarist from Chicago. His debut album will be released in April 2014 on Tompkins Square.

"With the charming swagger of jazz-folk troubadour Tim Buckley and the resonant, full picking style of Bert Jansch, "The West Wind" comes from Walker's first widely available release, a three-song 12". With acoustic guitar in hand and a voice like browned butter, Walker swings and sways in a lush string-and-piano arrangement right out of Buckley's Starsailor; it slowly picks up to a swirling gallop without bucking the rhythm." - NPR Music

Tour dates :

WITH WREKMEISTER HARMONIES :
03-08 Chicago - The Hideout
03-09 Kansas City, KS - FOKL
03-11 Dallas - Crown & Harp

03-13 Austin, TX (SXSW) - Stephen F's, Intercontinental - 10pm

03-17 Oxford, MS - Lamar Lounge
03-18 Little Rock, AR - Vino's Brew Pub
03-19 Louisville, KY - Dreamland
03-20 Lafayette, IN - Foam City


WITH CLOUD NOTHINGS :
04-10 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
04-11 Clinton, NY - Tolles Pavilion
04-12 Hamden, CT - The Space
04-13 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
04-14 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
04-16 Washington, DC - Black Cat
04-17 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
04-18 Athens, GA - Georgia Theatre
04-19 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade (Hell Stage)
04-21 Orlando, FL - The Social
04-22 Tampa, FL - Crowbar
04-23 Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder
04-24 New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
04-25 Houston, TX - Fitzgerald's

The West Wind by Ryley Walker

The Coctails - "Waiting For Godot". 
Performed live at the Human Observation Lab. Downtown KCMO on the Urban Frontier. c.1990.

The Coctails: Barry, Archer, John and Mark
Engineered and Recorded Live by Todd Nelson.

Archived at Hi-Sine Production. KCMO 8/2014.


Waiting For Godot - The Coctails - LiVe @ The LaB

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Silent Night - The Coctails

16 generous bands from around our lovely country have given a bit of their soul for this cassette only compilation which carries the sub-title of the Generator moto: Racket To Stardom! 

Below is a few words about each of the fine artists represented:

Balloon Guy - The standard by which all Generator bands are judged. Live rock from a radio broadcast on Radio K in Minneapolis. Taken off the AM airwaves.

Will Baum - The boy from LA gives us a little piece of his mind with the pondering song "Minor Question", which will give you all of life's major answers. Will's former band was Love Child and his current band is Nine Iron.

Cabin Boy - An anonymous tape we got in the mail with what sounds to be a young boy singing Pavement's "Here". Primitive at best. Awesome.

Cocaine Stiffing Triumph - Jerry from Gaunt does a beautiful song called "Girl" on acoustic guitar backed by free jazz style saxophone.

the Coctails - Out on the porch just letting it fly. The Coctails give us another of the high standard instrumental gems we've come to expect.

Bridget Cross - Formerly of Unrest and now in Air Miami, Bridget gets old world on us with a variation on a sea shanty about garlic. Listen real close and you can here the fan in the background proving it was recorded on a real hot day.

Gold Dust Twins - Two fancy New York lads add together samples and weirdness for a tale of graffiti painting. High tech. High fun.

Harold Rose Orchestra - A fantastic theme to an underground fanzine. Sounds like if Tom Waits wrote a song in 1935. With trumpet, trombone and all your other favorite horns.

Hot Date - Short lived Minneapolis noise commandos, taking a shot at some Chuck Berry inspired rock 'n' roll. And a shot at Cali.

Mountain Singers - Another Generator staple sing a silly pop song about a bar where the customers find stabbing each other to be normal behavior. This song is normal behavior for this band.

Polara - The hottest band in Minneapolis give us a demo from their debut album, a great pop song with textures to boot.

Princess Dragon-Mom - A heavy layering of god knows what. A serious challenge to your thought process. From Detroit, where else.

Puck - Now defunct Minneapolis pop-punk band with high energy and big beats.

Sabine - A wonder boy makes wonderful sounds for birds to sing along with. I think he's now a DCer, and always making more of this wonderfulness.

Smattering - Matt from Balloon Guy gives you a home recording of high order. "Tickets For The Talent Search" is supposed to sound like John Bonham on drums. Go figure.

Whisper Ants - From England? But with a mailing address in OKC? A stunning rendition of a classic song from Prince ala Purple Rain. Twistedly grand.

Coctails - Porch Song

A follow up/ prequel to a mix I recorded 2 years ago called "As The City Sleeps" (https://bit.ly/3ax7l5H). A collection of songs that have kept me company over this odd year and hopefully may keep you company during the late hours of the night, with some field recordings I took on my travels. Download link below the TL.

A love letter to getting new speakers after 16 years. 


Tracklist 

Yumiko Morioka - 潮風
Nina Simone - Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair [Live In New York/1964]
Nick Wales & Stereogamus - Learning Year
Kitchen Cynics - Beads Upon an Abacus
Fred Neil - Faretheewell (Fred's Tune)
Bill Withers - Make a Smile for me
Carlo Rustichelli - Erotycon
Car Culture - Club Soda ft. Dan Bodan
The Beach Boys - Surf's Up 1967 (Solo Version) 
Nancy Sinatra And Lee Hazlewood - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin’
Miriam Makeba - Quit It
>>> Excerpt from Interview with Miriam Makeba (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wONkMpbl7N8)
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You
Bastion - Molitva
Janet Jackson - Someday is Tonight 
Patrick Cowley - Mockingbird Dream 
Torch Song - Shine on me
Massive Attack - Protection ft. Tracey Thorn (The Eno Dub) 
>>>Excerpt from the Phantom Thread 
Jonny Greenwood - Never Cursed 
Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - Why do you Love me
10cc - I’m not in Love (Midland Dream Within a Dream Version)
Mary Lattimore  - Silver Ladders
Hamlet Gonashvili - Tsintskaro
Brian Eno  & Harold Budd - Lost in the Humming Air
>>> Excerpt from an Interview with Harvey Fierstein (https://youtu.be/osp1FN5-aVE)

Download - https://bit.ly/2N6xcbX

Silent Night - The Coctails

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