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It gives Lost Map Records great pleasure to announce the return of Irish alt-folk/electronica and field recordings maestro Seamus Fogarty with the release of the brand new EP Ducks and Drakes. The four track collection is the first new material by the London-based songwriter to come out since his critically lauded debut album God Damn You Mountain was given a full release on Lost Map in February 2014 (“startlingly good” ★★★★★ – The Skinny). It arrives on September 4, 2015 on super limited-edition 12” vinyl with self-designed screen-printed sleeves (250 copies only) and as iTunes download, and will be preceded by a number of Irish dates and appearances at various festivals including Cloudspotting in Lancashire, the Port Eliot Festival in Cornwall and Lost Map’s Howlin’ Fringe! in Penicuik. The mesmerising video for the EP's title track 'Ducks & Drakes' made by Drew Dir of Manual Cinema is available to view and share now.
 
Seamus Fogarty’s soul-stirring blend of alt-folk, country, blues and electronica – performed by Seamus himself on a variety of instruments against a background of fragmented recordings and found sounds, from broken household appliances to snippets of random conversations with friends and neighbours  – is like nothing else in contemporary music: an intriguingly uneasy handshake between the ancient and the modern. Where God Damn You Mountain – recently hailed by Mercury Prize-nominated artist Jon Hopkins as “a shambolic masterpiece” in an interview with Mojo – was recorded in a cottage in the West of Ireland where he grew up, the Ducks & Drakes EP took shape in his adopted home of London. “The album was kind of me looking back where as these tunes are more about where I am now and how I got here,” says Seamus. “I’m from the country but soon I’ll have spent most of my life living in cities. Fields and rivers have been replaced by parks, ponds and the tube but I don’t think I’ll ever fully adjust to city life, and that’s fine with me. That’s probably why I fill songs with samples of various friends and neighbours I grew up with, to remind myself of where I come from, who I’ve met and where I’ve been.”
 
Motivated by the self-imposed challenge of “making something that sounded bigger even though the space I had to record and mix them was much smaller than what I had previously,” the songs see Seamus use more electronics, bass and drum machines among other tools. Over a finger-picked acoustic guitar phrase and a gently warping electronic beat, the title track features such varied ornamentation as Seamus’s first ever attempt at playing saxophone on a record and the dying wheezy whirr of his old washing machine as it completes its farewell cycle. There are hints of Smog about ‘Holyhead’, a woozy sea shanty set to queasy piano and banjo charting strange encounters on the evocative ferry journey from Holyhead to Dublin. Lasting over ten minutes and taking up the entirety of the record’s B-side, ‘A Mile Beneath The Broken Heart of London Town’ is a kaleidoscopic reflection on “searching for somewhere to call home,” melding what began as three separate compositions into a single dreamy, beautiful, haunting whole.

Seamus Fogarty - 'Ducks & Drakes'

Abstract Turntablist, Sound Art and DJ Maria Chavez describes her musical beginnings, transitioning from full-time DJ gigs to sound art and the many sides of her current work.

Photo credit: "3 Layer Technique" from Maria's book, "Of Technique: Chance Procedures on Turntable." You may buy the book her: http://mariachavez.org/of-technique-chance-procedures-on-turntable/

Sound/Music:
Medici - Maria Chavez: https://soundcloud.com/maria-chavez/topography-of-sound-medici
Deep House Mix for Newtown Radio - Maria Chavez: https://soundcloud.com/maria-chavez/deep-mix-for-deep-on-newtown

Look out for bonus episode with Maria next week!!!

Maria Chavez

Recorded in South Korea, France and the UK and with collaborators from all of these places and beyond, including the likes of Aidan Moffat, Sam Amidon and Beth Orton, this is a giant, sprawling, mesmerising behemoth of an album.

It is also one without so much as ten seconds out of place.

Released by ourselves in collaboration with Paper Garden Records in New York and Noize Maker Records in France.

Buy on TRIPLE VINYL!

David Thomas Broughton - Words Of Art (feat. Aidan Moffat)

Improvising Trio

Saxophone - Verity Susman
Modular Synthesiser - Matthew Simms
Drums - Lucy Jamieson

Gig photo: Sylvain Deleu

Live at Wysing Festival 5th Sept 2015

Danny Green of Laish/We Come Alive speaks: 
I drew up a list of musical friends and heroes and asked each one to submit a cover song chosen by someone else on that list. I love hearing good covers, it is such an interesting process seeing how people approach performing and recording someone else's material. I also wanted be part of bringing together the musical community that surrounds and inspires me through running We Come Alive shows in London.

Original version of A Man to Call My Own: Dtb-1 – A-man-to-call-my-own

Initially around 20 songwriters and bands agreed to participate. As I write this, 15 tracks have been recorded and I absolutely love them! The collection is an incredibly enjoyable, surprising, varied set of songs and I would like to begin sharing them in instalments as they are worthy of taking time to savour. More tracks are due to appear soon, including recordings by Willy Mason, David Thomas Broughton and This is The Kit.
Please show your support by sharing these and checking out more material by the artists involved.

These great artists have already submitted tracks (clears throat)...

Ezra Furman
David Thomas Broughton
Laish
Left With Pictures 
Mouth 4 Rusty 
Chris Belson
Kristin McClement 
Rowan Coupland
Alabaster Deplume
Ellie Ford
The Magic Lantern 
Love V Fear
Office of Aurora

Also expecting tracks from: 
Willy Mason
This is The Kit 
Pat Dam Smyth
Chris T-T
Lail Arad
Nadine Khouri
Orlando Seale and The Swell
Nuala Honan
Scarlet Starlings 
Hot Feet
The Gentle Good 
and maybe a few more...

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy,

Danny Laish

Shevek and Emma Gatrill - A Man To Call My Own (by David Thomas Broughton)

From the album EARS released April 1st 2016 on Western Vinyl

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WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv145

Artist Page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith
Website http://kaitlynaureliasmith.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kaitlynaurelia/
Twitter https://twitter.com/kaitlynaurelia
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kaitlynaurelia/

TOUR DATES
April 	28 - Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge w/ Animal Collective
April 	29 - Austin, TX - Levitation
May 	01 - Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom w/ Animal Collective
May 	03 - St. Louis, MO - Pageant - St Louis, MO w/ Animal Collective
May 	04 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	06 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works w/ Animal Collective
May 	07 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre w/ Animal Collective
May 	08 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel w/ Animal Collective
May 	10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club w/ Animal Collective
May 	13 - Wilmington, DE - World Café Live at The Queen w/ Animal Collective
May 	14 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom - w/ Animal Collective

Listeners familiar with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith's previous album Euclid (an album that prompted Dazed to call her "…one of the most pioneering musicians in the world.") will no doubt notice her heavier use of vocals on her new album EARS.  On all but one song, her gently ecstatic swells of vocals emerge to soar over a dense jungle of synths and woodwinds.

After initially composing on a Buchla analog synth, she wrote arrangements for a woodwind quintet, added vocals, and further refined the pieces with granular synthesis techniques she developed in her sound design work (she contributed sound design to Panda Bear's "Boys Latin" video, and handled sound design and original compositions for Brasilia co-written by and starring Reggie Watts).   

Kinetic arpeggios of synths pulse, often buoying her graceful vocal mantras, while woodwinds breathe and flutter, emulating the wildlife Smith observed while growing up on the West Coast (she even studied recordings of slowed down bird calls prior to composing these pieces).   Though some of her gestures echo the musical tropes used by early minimalist composers, the world she creates on EARS is uniquely hypnotic and full of life, not unlike Miyzaki's film Nausicaä, which she cites as an inspiration.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "Existence In The Unfurling"

DJ yesyes's set for SCR, Recorded live on 15/02/2017.
 
*현장 녹음 상황에서의 문제로 인해 대부분의 트랙이 모노로 녹음되었습니다. 양해 부탁드립니다.

SCR Recordings

Introducing w/ DJ YesYes - 15/02/2017

「たんぽぽ便り」
作詞：テンテンコ
作曲：BIOMAN
スクラッチ協力：DISTEST

なんでもかんでも言いたいちゃん
巡り巡って君の街までやって来ます
南風乗っかって　青い草の香りが道しるべ
ほんとのこと聞きたいちゃん
海岸通りを走るよ　プラスチックの車で
潮風を運ぶ気流にまかせて　このままどこまでも

友達いっぱいできました　嫌いな人はいないかも
オオバコいっぱい生えてます　明日はもっと生えてるね

なんでもないもの買いたいちゃん
公園の隅にたんぽぽ咲いているんです
温かい空気　空に昇って明日は雨が降る

お土産いっぱい買いました　道端に石が落ちている
お金をいっぱい使います　明日はもっと使いたい

そっとそっと伝えたい
君のまわりにあるもの　ほら

ちっちゃなこと言いたいな
アスファルトの上歩く　黒い蟻の数
向かい風浴びて　白い雲追い越し街へ行こう
素敵なこともあるもんだ
今日から赤い星が君の上に光ります
夜風を感じて　麦畑の香り立ち込めてきたでしょ？

きっときっと分かるでしょ
君のそばにそれはある　ほら

お手紙いっぱい出しました　書けない字の代わりには
葉っぱをいっぱい入れました　明日はもっと伝えたい

たんぽぽ便り - テンテンコとBIOMAN

In The Kingdom Of Dreams is the debut solo album from Ian Felice, the lead singer and song-writer of The Felice Brothers. It will be released via Loose on 25th August 2017. The album was recorded in Ian's childhood home of Palenville NY, with his brother Simone Felice on production duties. The title track will be available to download from Friday 14th July.

UK TOUR NOVEMBER 2017

22 Nov – MANCHESTER, Night & Day
23 Nov – EDINBURGH, Voodoo Rooms
24 Nov – NEWCASTLE, Live Theatre
26 Nov – NOTTINGHAM, The Maze
27 Nov – LONDON, Borderline
28 Nov – BRISTOL, Thekla
29 Nov – BIRMINGHAM, Hare & Hounds
30 Nov – LEEDS, Brudenell

http://ianfelice.com

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david thomas broughton

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