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Charlie Bow Wow,
Left his body with the flowers.
His breath is in the air
And his face is in the clouds.

Charlie Bow wow is here,
He's everywhere.

Charlie Bow Wow
Left his footsteps in the meadows,
His face is in the clouds
And his breath is in the air.

Charlie's with me,
He walks in my memory.

Written by Django Jonas,
Percussion : Joelle Barker
All other instruments and production: Tom Livemore

'Charlie Bow Wow' by Django Jonas

At five - thirty,
A bird wakes me,
Before the cicadas begin,
I go to Attilia's.

I would like to drink coffee with you,
I will use your watering can.
Beautiful Grimaldi.

The road of peace,
I am walking.
The life I like
Is arriving.

Everything I need, you give.
Everything I dream, you make.
Blessed Grimaldi.

Words and music by Django Jonas,
Percussion : Joelle Barker,
All other instruments and production : Tom Livemore,
Artwork : Monica Di Rocco.

'Grimaldi' by Django Jonas

Listen carefully,
I'm ready for love.
I've crossed the mountains
And reached the sea.

Loving you is a pleasure 
And it's a prayer.
Loving you is living
With forever.

All the metaphors for love
Become true.
And all that's sent from above
Comes through you.

All that's gone before
Will be for us,
And all that's now and here
Will be our chorus.

Tell me it's your sea
When I leave the land.

Tell me it's your country
When I'm on the foreign sand.

When I'm lost in the city
Will you take my hand?
Tell me you believe
In the way I am.

Words and music by Django Jonas,
Percussion by Joelle Barker,
All other instruments and production Tom Livemore,
Photography : Harry Jonas.

'Ready For Love' by Django Jonas

A newly recorded, and newly mastered, version 'O Come O Come Emmanuel' is available to stream at http://smarturl.it/marika-hackman

It'll be released as part of her 'Wonderland' EP out 2 December 2016

This version was first released in 2015 for Coppafeel's Christmas compilation.

Marika Hackman - O' Come, O' Come, Emmanuel

Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation – Horse Dance

In an era in which ‘psychedelia’ can often mean merely a grab-bag of influences from which wah-wah pedals and two-note riffs are dispensed as signifiers and signposts into a realm of easy accessibility as opposed to gateways to another dimension, it can be a rarity to come across a band who are genuinely fixated on creating alternate realities for the listener. Yet this is exactly how Stockholm’s Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation view their incandescent art, and it’s this sensibility that’s led to the kaleidoscopic spendour of their debut full-length for Rocket Recordings, ‘Horse Dance’.

“It’s a continuum that flows beyond here and now, and psychedelic music seems to be a really powerful way to unveil those deeper oceans of being that are our true home.” reflects Josefin, who forms half the core of the band with Fredrik Joelson. The last twelve months have seem a dramatic rise to prominence for The Liberation (who take their band name from the Tibetan Book Of The Dead) with their EP ‘Diamond Waves’ leading to shows in their homeland with Goat and Les Big Byrd, a nomination for a Swedish Grammy as best newcomer, and rapturously received appearances at festivals like Roskilde.

These adventures have set the stage for a spectacular movement into the unknown from their earlier work. ‘Horse Dance’ is a razorsharp collection of ditties that marry dreamlike radiance with hypnotic rhythmic drive, set alight by a prismatic experimental glow. It inhabits a realm in which a propulsive ‘60s-tinged pop song like ‘Sunny Afternoon’ can be elevated skyward with krautrock-tinged repetition, dub echo and analogue curlicues alike, and one in which a Broadcast-style mantra like ‘You Have Arrived’ can tap into a psychic lineage that stretches all the way from The United States Of America to Portishead’s ‘Third’. Yet whilst ghosts of the like of Laika, Cat’s Eyes and The Creatures may lurk in the darker recesses of these songs, this is a band paying no homage to bygone glories.

The Liberation cite a myriad influences in both their philosophical stance and their aesthetic, from 12th century iconoclasts like Milarepa to 20th century sonic voyagers like Catherine Ribeiro, and from Kandinsky’s abstract expressions of synaesthesia to the avant-jazz of Moondog. Yet at all times their transcendental extrapolations are married to icy and enticing melodic flourishes, making for a revitalising clash between the chic and the transcendental, and a sound as biting as it is beatific. “I definitely think that the human need for altered states - to see oneself from a bigger perspective - is a deep fundamental need” Josefin elaborates. “We’ve been deprived of access to our full nature by a restrictive system where altered states may be the ultimate taboo.”

With ‘Horse Dance’, Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation step into a world where all such restrictions and taboos are null and void, and this journey is already proving quite the spectacle to behold.

‘Horse Dance’ is released on Ltd colour vinyl, CD and DL on 6th November 2015

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