Name: Sweet Honey Pie by CHINOOK & Co.
Duration: 3 min 21 s
Description: Cheerful trumpet improvising on a Reggae beat

a great sound to end off this evening's listening. Really well put together and performed....bet it is amazing live. Thank you

Love your sound, vocals, the whole production. Great!

Stanley Brinks is joined by The Wave Pictures for their third album together; their first since 2010’s ‘Another One Just Like That’.

Recorded entirely live in the studio, without headphones or overdubs, and with a good deal of improvisation, ‘Gin’ is a modern-sounding, in a way avant-garde, old school recording of text-driven songs. The Wave Pictures didn't get a chance to learn the songs before the session, Stan having forgotten to put a stamp on the demo tape he'd sent them from Berlin.

To anyone familiar with Stanley Brinks' huge discography - more than 100 albums - ‘Gin’ might sound considerably more raw and less sophisticated than some of his previous recordings. However this body of work remains rich in jazzy sounds and original structures, the songs looser and full of playfulness, the lyrics encapsulating their essence.

It goes without saying that Gin - the drink - was the inspiration for the album; while writing, and while recording. 

‘Gin’ was recorded at Soup Studio, London, by Simon Trought and Giles Barrett, one sunny day in May 2013. A few months before, when Stan was at the studio playing guitar and sax on The Wave Pictures' ‘City Forgiveness’, they recorded one of his songs - ‘Maybe I Will See You Again’, now the B-side of the ‘Orange Juice’ 45 - just for fun. Giles Barrett, who was engineering, suggested a whole album, and he made it happen.

Stanley Brinks began performing officially as André Herman Düne in 1999, sharing lead vocals, guitar playing and songwriting with his brother David in the band Herman Düne for  a number of years. They released several albums and toured extensively in UK, gaining and owing a lot to great support from John Peel. He has used many monikers for various side-projects, but since leaving Herman Düne in 2006, he has been known solely as Stanley Brinks.
Born in Paris, Stan has been living between New York, San Francisco, Malta and Berlin for about a decade, always on the move. He has recorded more than 100 albums, collaborated with the New York Antifolk scene on several occasions, recorded and toured with traditional Norwegian musicians, and played a lot with The Wave Pictures.  

The Wave Pictures are David Tattersall, Franic Rozycki and Jonny “Huddersfield” Helm. Formed in 1998 when Franic and David lived in a village called Wymeswold, the band played with several drummers until Jonny became a permanent member in 2003 replacing Hugh J Noble. In the beginning the band learned to play together by covering Jonathan Richman songs but soon David was writing lots of original material. 
They have since released five studio albums to critical acclaim and played numerous sessions on BBC 6 Music, Radio 1 and Xfm. The interest generated by these recordings has enabled The Wave Pictures to play shows all over the world with artists including Jeffrey Lewis, Darren Hayman, Stanley Brinks, Freschard and Herman Dune.

From the dusky romantic feel of opener ‘One Minute Of Darkness’ to the love song, encompassing nautical metaphors, which is the last track ‘Not To Kiss You’, the album takes in the night, love & passion, Krishna, the modern way of life, exploration and moving on; all echoed brilliantly in the rich and varied musical interweave - by turns a jam, a calypso, some indie rock, a groovy mantra, a little voodoo rhythm and some good old regular country.

All topped off with the Stanley Brinks endearing signature command of naïvely rhymed,
overenunciated English. He touches the language in a way which really, no native speaker could get away with.
‘Gin’ is quite simply a beautiful, though-provoking,  uncomplicated album.

Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures - Blues About Krishna's Latest Avatar

Cheerful trumpet improvising on a Reggae beat

Sweet Honey Pie

“They craft bittersweet indie pop” Neon Filler
“twee pop in the best possible way – jolly, carefree and full of character” Shout4Music
“each and every song they write is a rampant musical pleasure – they could force a smile on the sourest face” Bearded Magazine

Love Record Breaker is a transitionary record for Burlington, Vermont’s The Smittens. 
They’ve grown to a 6 piece with the incorporation of New York soap maker Missy Bly, who having made a guest appearance on their previous LP, Believe Me, contributes the title track here and appears throughout the 8 tracks on vocals, providing a melodically fuller sound. It’s also the last record from The Smittens to feature Dana Kaplan’s vocals pre-transition and pre-testosterone, prior to his new voice and new vocal arrangements.

This is the most forward album from The Smittens so far: sluts, whores, dead pets, not wanting to live and a rather explicit discussion of indie politics all feature as part of this record. It includes a cover of US folk duo Indigo Girls’ Closer To Fine, a homage to their queer forebears as well as their geeky pasts; The Smittens describe the original as an “80s lesbian campfire anthem”.

The title track, Love Record Breaker, was written as a response to a friend’s cold hearted Conquistadorian conquests around town, from the perspective of someone who had been through his conveyor belt of gal pals. “I wanted to convey the anger and frustration that happens in that situation, but keeping a sense of dignity despite feeling like a slut in a long line of ‘sluts’ in waiting”.

This is also a record that has taken The Smittens back to their roots, completing the circle. Writing the track These Lips returned them to their collaborative and improvisational past, not as simple as it used to be with members now living in Philadelphia and New York. Growing from a jam about a lip infection preventing Dana from kissing his partner, The Smittens twisted and turned the meaning into something far saucier, implicating both the narrator and the listener.

Closing the album is a remix of These Days from Death Team’s Johen Rafael Tilli, a Swedish producer The Smittens met on a cruise ship in the Baltic Sea: “I wanted to create a sound that could combine Scandinavian queerness with Moog syntheziers, but at the same time breathe a sense of expectation”.

The album was recorded by The Smittens at Twee Valley Manor and mixed by Gary Olson (The Ladybug Transistor) at his Marlborough Farms Studio in Brooklyn, NY.

Love Record Breaker comes on 10” black vinyl in one of 6 different hand screenprinted sleeves, each hand numbered.

The Smittens are friends first and open-hearted indiepop revolutionaries after that. 
Max Andrucki, Dana Kaplan, Colin Clary, Missy Bly, Holly Chagnon and David Zacharis switch up instruments, song-writing, and singing to create catchy, harmony-driven twee ballads, pop anthems, and queer love songs. Always brilliantly lyrical, and often brazenly political.

The Smittens - Love Record Breaker

A rock song about how two friends met, then married. 

Chinook, Singer/Songwriter
Thorsten Kaiser, Guitar
Benjamin Hantke, Piano
Constantin Herzog, E-Bass
Tsimafei Birukou, Drums

Extraordinary Girl

Falling in love again and how it happens.

Chinook, Singer/Songwriter, Vocals, Piano
Thorsten Kaiser, Guitar
Constantin Herzog, E-Bass
Tsimafei Birukou, Drums


As Long

Alternative Folk Pop Ballad

Chinook, Singer/Songwriter, Vocals, Piano
Thorsten Kaiser, Guitar
Constantin Herzog, Bass
Tsimafei Birukou, Drums
Aroa Sorin, Violin
Nathan Bontrager, Cello

The Wait

Chinook's original arrangement of the old English Christmas Song, the Coventry Carol

CHINOOK - Coventry Carol Cover

St. James

This is Pi Ja Ma's first single.
Taken from 'Radio Girl EP' OUT NOW Worldwide!
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LYRICS
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Radio Girl
(Lyrics Axel Concato & Maud Nadal / Music Axel Concato / Arr. Pauline de Tarragon)

Everyone who wanna be a star
Soon or later
Lose your mind, forgetting who you are
It sounds unreal

Ah ah ah ah ah
Real
Ah ah ah ah ah

Never forget
Had I known I'd ever be a star
I would have chilled
Look at all the people in the bars
They all look thrilled

Ah ah ah ah ah
For real
Ah ah ah ah ah

Only needed to be someone that you're proud of
For real
Only wanted to sing a tune you would love
For real
I didn't want it like Prince
I didn't want to be The Beatles

I never thought I’d ever be a star
But now it's real
Need a stop before it goes too far
And disappear

Oh I just need a real friend
I’m done with all you green admirers
Who follow me just like a trend
And make me feel down down

To everyone who wanna be a star
It's like a deal
Do your best but forget who you are
Make it all clean

Oh I don't have real problems
I’m just a radio girl
And I know that I can't complain
I’d better calm down down

Only needed to be someone that you're proud of
For real
Only wanted to sing a tune you would love
For real
I didn't want it like Prince
I didn't want to be The Beatles

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CREDITS
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All vocals by Pauline de Tarragon.
All instruments by Axel Concato.

Composed and produced by Axel Concato.
Co-written with Maud Nadal.
Recorded by Axel Concato at home (Paris) and by Benedic Lamdin at The Fishmarket Studios (London).

Mixed by Maxime Le Guil at Miroir (Paris).
Mastered by Jean-Pierre Delbos at Murrayfield (Paris).

Artwork by LeBeb:
http://paulinedetarragon.tumblr.com/

A&R par Vincent Nayrolles (Bleepmachine).
Published by Bleepmachine & Wagram Publishing.

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Radio Girl EP

Radio Girl

A quick acoustic, live take of my new song The Other Side of You....this one will be going on the album.

The Other Side of You (live & acoustic)(One-Mic)

You say that this is the time, 
you say that you read it into the things, 
that you don't know if you will return, 
but then you do not ever leave... 
and you know that you will never change. 
(The evening wind - Il vento della sera)

Il Vento della Sera (The evening wind)

Chinook & Co. is  a multi-instrumental Indie Folk Pop collective from the Canadian Prairies. Honest lyric interwoven in SoulFolk Alternative DreamPop harmonies define the sound of Chinook.

Sweet Honey Pie

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