I'm not sure I can top Efficient Space's own comment about this track "a gut-wrenching lament of the passing of the season as if it was the last on earth" as that perfectly sums up this beautiful track. The angelic vocal delivery by a young Dennis Harte is heartbreaking as is the gorgeous, warm bath of the music provided by the Left Banke. It captures both pain and loss but also a captivating sense of child-like wonder for the world.

re-me-dē | Session 06 - 24/04/22 | Andrew Sinclair

https://soundcloud.com/mrsinco

Tracklist:

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Leta
Harold Budd - Jane 16 (For Pale Saints)
Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Ornithologie
Meitei - Chōchin
Björk - Batabid
Jeff Majors - Baby Daughter
Kara-Lis Coverdale - Touch me & die
Miklós Perényi - György Ligeti: Sonata For Solo Cello: I. Dialogo
Jonny Nash & Ana Stamp - Clouds Passing By
Meredith Monk with Robert Een - Epic
Kiri Uu - Ilu Neil Kiigel / Pretty Girl On A Swing
Hajime Tachibana - Piano Pillows Going Abstract
Judy Collins - First Boy I Loved
Felt - Book Of Swords
Sara Costa - Clara Schumann: Vier Flüchtige Stücke, Op. 15: No 1 in F Major, Larghetto
Satoshi & Makoto - Closer
Matthewdavid’s Mindflight - Unfolding Atlantis
Celer - 4 Days
Rei Harakami - 1-Nichi

re-me-dē Session 06 - Andrew Sinclair

A North American road trip of coming of age garage soul mapped by @ivan41, Ghost Riders is Efficient Space’s latest narrative compilation, hovering in a liminal emotional ravine between moonlight melancholy, teenage heartache and unchecked, unrealised ambition. Across 17 open hearted ballads recorded 1965-1974, the 2LP collects and connects dots between British Invasion fanatics, child prodigies, the loners and the luckless, in a kind of trans-continental survey of those swept up in rock’n’roll mania and buoyed by local newspaper ads promising fame and gold records.

From the tangerine dreams of 8th grade all-girl combo The Mod 4 to the tri-state jukebox aspiring echoes of The Tempters, The Yardleys' poetic Farfisa vamp and lilting folk pop, and The Landlords’ weepy break up b-side blues, these are mostly one shots by dreamers whose experience was brief before being checked back to the reality of suburban normality and realistic career options. Hailing from the regional backwaters of Illinois, Arkansas, Nevada, Massachusetts, Ohio, Idaho, Texas and beyond, the licensed artists were scouted by way of local fire departments, spiritualist fellowships and animal welfare centres, often barely a stones throw from where their contributions were originally laid.

A barely teenage Dennis Harte's ‘Summer’s Over’ perhaps best taps the collection’s essence. A gut-wrenching lament of the passing of the season as if it was the last on earth. Flanked by players from The Left Banke, Harte, a now-piano tuner to the stars, is from the minor segment that found longevity in showbiz. Likewise with Michigan icon Lyn Nowicki who cast her ghostly voice over Beatles cover song chameleons The Common People and Jerry McGee, The Ventures member and conduit of Dr. John’s ‘Twilight Zone’.

Ghost Riders simmers with the scent of youthful summers, the pang of schoolyard romance, and the excitement (and disenchantment) of teenage naïveté, delivered via a deceptively simple and frequently wonky garage band set up. The vision of record collector and graphic designer Ivan Liechti, these eternal psych-folk howlers are further crystallised by Colin Young’s fastidious audio restoration, the original artwork of Elise Gagnebin-de Bons and an aptly penned foreword from Sonic Boom.

Out on 2LP/CD/Digital 14 October 2022

Dennis Harte - Summer's Over (ES022) OUT NOW

https://www.nts.live/shows/rahill/episodes/rahill-23rd-january-2023

Rahill 230123

Buy the cassette here: 
https://isenkram.bandcamp.com/album/n-arena-2007-2022

The first release on new Danish cassette and digital mixtape label isenkram aims to document the banging yet thoughtful music of N.Arena - the secret musical brainchild of Morten Bramsen - a Copenhagen visual development artist working in the videogame industry, utilizing his off duty hours passionately creating electronic music. Sometimes coarse - other times soothing, the programmed sequences, broken vocal samples and moody synth lines seem to devote themselves to the process - unfurling a slow and curious story perhaps best understood lost on the dancefloor and in the lonely search for your bicycle the morning after.
Underneath the stylistic surface of this woven collage of 25 unreleased tracks rumbles an ambition for something that most club music fail to do: Rather than selfishly dictating an entire emotional plot, the sound of N.Arena offers a stripped and understated frame for the dancing and buzzing around to be done by the real auteur - the listener. This might be the key instruction; to put yourself in the picture because on this journey the actual pay off evolves when you add your own personal drama and colorful sleaze
credits
released March 16, 2023

recorded + produced by Morten Bramsen
selected + edited by Kim Las
mastered by Joshua Stevenson
artwork by Bruce Approves

N. ARENA -  '2007 - 2012'

The Blackest Ever Black released singer-songwriter Carla Dal Forno stops by NTS' London studio once a month for an hour-long show featuring original productions side by side with old favourites and inspirations ranging from minimal synth to folk and dream pop...

https://www.nts.live/shows/carla-dal-forno/episodes/carla-dal-forno-1st-august-2023

Carla Dal Forno 010823

Breakfast, in Flo motion - served by Flo Dill, every Monday to Wednesday.

https://www.nts.live/shows/the-breakfast-show-flo/episodes/the-breakfast-show-flo-2nd-august-2023

The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Flo 020823

First thing on Fridays - Jack Rollo's here to take care of things.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-jack-rollo/episodes/early-bird-show-jack-rollo-22nd-september-2023

The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo & Farsta Kalle 220923

First thing on Fridays - Jack Rollo's here to take care of things.  
https://www.nts.live/shows/early-bird-show-jack-rollo/episodes/early-bird-show-jack-rollo-29th-september-2023

The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo & Mikel 290923

Summer supper 2022

Somewhere (first verse night demo)

INSTRUMENTAL

Label run by @noise-in-my-head

Distribution queries:

Australia | info@noiseinmyhead.com.au
Rest of the World | www.wordandsound.de

Dennis Harte - Summer's Over (ES022) OUT NOW

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