Embers (single)

Track 2 of our single 'Parallel / Gulo Gulo 2'
https://soundcloud.com/flights-of-helios/sets/parallel-gulo-gulo-2

🙏Praise be to love, geometry and electromagnetism. The A-side's lusty harmonies sing of a secret rendezvous between a mathematician and a physicist. The B-side is a cut of guitar/tabla electronica from our 'Gulo Gulo' improv project.

Music and lyrics by Flights of Helios:
Drums - James Currie
Tabla - Chris Hills
Bass guitar, ukulele, programming - Philip Oakley
Keyboard - Harriet Butler
Electric guitar 1 - James 'Krazi' Maund
Electric guitar 2 - Andrew Warne
Violin - Sian Lloyd-Pratchett
Vocals - Chris Beard

Recording and mixing:
1) 'Parallel'
- Full band recordings: Richard Neuberg at https://strawhouseoxford.com
- Vocals, additional overdubs and mixing: Mike Bannard https://www.mikebannard.com at The Aviary Studio, Oxford
2) 'Gulo Gulo 2' - Philip Oakley

Mastering:
1) 'Parallel' - Tim Turan www.turanaudio.co.uk
2) 'Gulo Gulo 2' - Mike Bannard www.mikebannard.com

Artwork by Dominic Harker www.instagram.com/dominic.harker

(c) Flights of Helios 2021. All rights reserved

Gulo Gulo #2

Track 1 of our single 'Parallel / Gulo Gulo 2'
https://soundcloud.com/flights-of-helios/sets/parallel-gulo-gulo-2

🙏Praise be to love, geometry and electromagnetism. The A-side's lusty harmonies sing of a secret rendezvous between a mathematician and a physicist. The B-side is a cut of guitar/tabla electronica from our 'Gulo Gulo' improv project.

Music and lyrics by Flights of Helios:
Drums - James Currie
Tabla - Chris Hills
Bass guitar, ukulele, programming - Philip Oakley
Keyboard - Harriet Butler
Electric guitar 1 - James 'Krazi' Maund
Electric guitar 2 - Andrew Warne
Violin - Sian Lloyd-Pratchett
Vocals - Chris Beard

Recording and mixing:
1) 'Parallel'
- Full band recordings: Richard Neuberg at https://strawhouseoxford.com
- Vocals, additional overdubs and mixing: Mike Bannard https://www.mikebannard.com at The Aviary Studio, Oxford
2) 'Gulo Gulo 2' - Philip Oakley

Mastering:
1) 'Parallel' - Tim Turan www.turanaudio.co.uk
2) 'Gulo Gulo 2' - Mike Bannard www.mikebannard.com

Artwork by Dominic Harker www.instagram.com/dominic.harker

(c) Flights of Helios 2021. All rights reserved

Parallel

Star is the first track from our debut single. Will be available from flightsofhelios.bandcamp.com from 18th oct. We are also releasing a limited edition hand produced poster of art for the single with a unique download code for the two tracks plus exclusive remixes.

Spotify, iTunes etc

Star (single)

'Factory' is the second single by Flights of Helio. Played on BBC 6 Music (Steve Lamaqc, Gideon Coe), Radio X (John Kennedy) and Amazing Radio (Simon Raymonde - Bella Union/Cocteau Twins).

Live performance for BBC Introducing at Glastonbury Festival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKLXGeuWF3g&index=1&list=PLWdH1Vu71JbgqkjGuSQZvugai08to2XAx

Provocative video where we broke Foals' studio window https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqFSaAdA1Xk&list=PLWdH1Vu71JbhWFfhXm_jUK2WsWhf1-7xR&index=2

'Factory' is taken from Flights of Helios' debut album 'ENDINGS' released 19th Feb 2018: https://smarturl.it/5u3l36

'Factory' was inspired by the Alejandro González Iñárritu film 'Biutiful' starring Javier Bardem. Produced and mixed with Richard Neuberg at Strawhouse Studios, Oxfordshire. Mastered by Tim Turan. Artwork by Greg Orrom Swan.

Press for Flights of Helios:

"Fantastic ... worth keeping your ears peeled for."
– Drowned in Sound

“A brilliant melange of catchy vocal lines and droning, grunge fuzz a la F*ck Buttons. A thing of beauty.”*
- The Line of Best Fit (track premiere for ‘Factory' single)

"Flights of Helios are exceptional and odd, bringing evocative hints of Elysian 60’s pop like the Zombies as well as Irish lament to some serenely medicated Spiritualized passages." - Artrocker

Flights of Helios Bio - https://flightsofhelios.co.uk/info/

Factory (single)

Spotify, YouTube etc

'Succubus' is the third single by Flights of Helios.  Played on Radio X (John Kennedy) and Amazing Radio (Simon Raymonde - Bella Union/Cocteau Twins).

Video for the single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LxCJPr4Cyw&index=3&list=PLWdH1Vu71JbhWFfhXm_jUK2WsWhf1-7xR

'Succubus' is taken from Flights of Helios' debut album released 19th Feb 2018: https://smarturl.it/5u3l36

'Succubus' was inspired by folk myths from various traditions, and the kind of corrosive obsession that only leads to catastrophe. Produced and mixed with Richard Neuberg at Strawhouse Studios, Oxfordshire. Mastered by Tim Turan. Artwork generated by Ben Outram, formatted by Greg Orrom Swan.

Press for Flights of Helios:

"Fantastic ... worth keeping your ears peeled for."
– Drowned in Sound

“A brilliant melange of catchy vocal lines and droning, grunge fuzz a la F*ck Buttons. A thing of beauty.”*
- The Line of Best Fit (track premiere for 'Factory' single)

"Flights of Helios are exceptional and odd, bringing evocative hints of Elysian 60’s pop like the Zombies as well as Irish lament to some serenely medicated Spiritualized passages." - Artrocker

Bio/press release for debut album 'Endings' - flightsofhelios.co.uk/info/

Succubus (single)

Live versions of our AA-side single 'Magpie / Beast'. Recorded at the historic Oxford venue where Radiohead, Ride and Supergrass cut their teeth.

Beast (Live at Jericho Tavern)

Magpie (Live at Jericho Tavern)

From 'Endings' album released February 2018
Press: matt@pindroppublicity.com
Bookings: chris@flightsofhelios.co.uk
Composed and performed by Flights of Helios
Recorded at Strawhouse Studios with Richard Neuberg
Mastered by Tim Turan of Turan Audio

Funeral

Factory (Endings mix)

Recorded live by Pier Corona @ Church of Stanton St John. Mastered by Andrew Warne. Thanks to ARTISJUSTAWORD



Holes (Mercury Rev cover, live at Stanton St John church)

"Beast, all the same beast / All the same blood and bone / The same alone, the same alone"
Chosen by Don Letts for his BBC 6 Music Culture Clash Radio show 25/11/18 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000193d)

Chris Beard - vocals, Harriet Butler - synths, James Currie - drums,  Sian Lloyd-Pratchett - violin, James Maund - guitar, Phil Oakley - ukulele, Andrew Warne - guitar

"Part shoegaze swoon and shimmer, part post-rock abstraction and part elegant folksiness." Nightshift magazine (https://nightshiftmag.co.uk/2018/dec.pdf)

Music & lyrics (c) Flights of Helios 2018

Recorded and mixed at Shonk Studios, Oxford with Jimmy Hetherington

Mastered by Turan Audio

Artwork by George O’Shaughnessy

Magpie / Beast

Beast

"There's a heartbeat now coming in-between the words, it hammers down as the sky swallows the birds" 
Chosen by Steve Lamacq for his BBC 6 Music Recommends show 16/11/18 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00014rc)

Chris Beard - vocals, Harriet Butler - keyboard, James Currie - drums, Sian Lloyd-Pratchett - violin, James Maund - guitar, Phil Oakley - bass guitar, Andrew Warne - guitar

"An understatedly frenzied outpouring of guitar fuzz that the band themselves accurately link back to Echo & the Bunnymen’s 'The Cutter’." Nightshift magazine (https://nightshiftmag.co.uk/2018/dec.pdf)

Music & lyrics (c) Flights of Helios 2018

Recorded at Strawhouse Studios with Richard Neuberg 
Vocals recorded at The Aviary with Mike Bannard 
Mixed at The Aviary with Mike Bannard 

Mastered by Turan Audio 

Artwork by George O’Shaughnessy

Magpie

Oxford UK-based psychedelic folk rock collective Flights of Helios return with new single ‘Tree and Fly’.

// ‘Tree and Fly’ is a love song between a tree and a wasp... //

The tree is the giant African sycamore fig, and the tiny wasp is Agaonidae (ah-gon-ih-day). Their 60-million year relationship has sustained countless generations of local animals including ants, bats, birds, baboons, and elephants. The intricate mechanism connecting these species is a marvel of evolution, centred around the tree protecting and nurturing its miniature pollinators.

'Tree and Fly' follows Flights of Helios's 2018 double A-side single ‘Magpie / Beast’ which was selected for airplay by BBC 6 Music DJs Steve Lamacq and Don Letts, and full-length album ‘Endings’. Flights of Helios have performed at Glastonbury Festival for BBC Introducing, Wilderness and Truck.

Contact chris@flightsofhelios.co.uk

For more of the story behind the song, streaming links, press quotes, bio etc:
https://flightsofhelios.co.uk/tree-and-fly-epk/

'Tree and Fly' 2-song single with live version B-side:
https://soundcloud.com/flights-of-helios/sets/tree-and-fly-single

Tree and Fly

These two pieces were started before the 2020 COVID lockdown and completed remotely. We were glad to have something to keep us occupied, as were the filmmakers who made two excellent videos using the songs: 

https://youtu.be/BN35QjMKUB0 - 'I Feel' video by Roísín Anderson

https://youtu.be/KQ20QcTb5F8 - 'Five Years One Point' video by Bill Frizzell, featuring 'Gulo Gulo #1'

Arrangement, mixing, lyrics: Philip Hanaway-Oakley
Vocals: Chris Beard, Harriet Butler
Instruments: Flights of Helios

Mastering: Mike Bannard https://www.mikebannard.com
Artwork painted by Lee Riley https://www.instagram.com/lrleeriley/

Gulo Gulo #1

Videos, Spotify etc

I Feel

Possessed post-rock meets psychedelic folk, from Oxford UK. Debut album 'Endings' (2018) played on BBC 6 Music, Radio X, RTE RnaG. Shows at Glastonbury for BBC Introducing, Wilderness, Truck and Artrocker New Blood festivals. 

Endings album (Feb 2018) singles played by Steve Lamacq, Gideon Coe (BBC 6 Music), John Kennedy (Radio X), Simon Raymonde (Amazing Radio, Bella Union) and Cian Ó Cíobháin (RTE RnaG).
https://soundcloud.com/flights-of-helios/sets/endings

Magpie/Beast new single (Oct 2018) played by Steve Lamacq , Don Letts (BBC 6 Music).
https://soundcloud.com/flights-of-helios/sets/magpie-beast-single

Six person-plus ensemble of vocals, violin, synths, guitars, ukulele, flute and drums.

Join us on Facebook for video premieres and live streams.
YouTube for live videos and studio videos from 'Endings'.
Bandcamp for audio downloads and merch.

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