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First song of the upcoming album "The Paris Tapes" out on April 21st 2018!
Previously unreleased album, recorded in Paris in the 80s!

Robert Goerl - The Paris Tapes - Part 2

Unreleased work included on the "A Turn of Breath: Deluxe Edition" 2xLP
Available to pre-order now, available on June 29th, 2018
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R8 - Ian William Craig - "Heaviness Sketch in Winter" from A Turn of Breath 2xLP

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"Endless Night" is from the album 'Horse' out 10/16

About 'Horse' by Holy Motors

Holy Motors' new LP 'Horse,' which is due out on Wharf Cat on October 16th, finds the band acknowledging the Americana and rockabilly strands of their musical DNA without sacrificing any of the otherworldly mystique that keeps them from neatly conforming to the shoegaze and dreampop labels often applied to their music.  

From the album’s opening moments, songs like “Country Church,” with its major key and classic rhythm and blues guitarline, and “Midnight Cowboy,” which sounds like a lost Buddy Holly 45 played at 33 rpm, make it clear that Horse — even if it may not accomplish the impossible task of demystifying this band of ex-Soviet cowboys — will at least show you that there’s more to them than the near-impenetrable darkness of their work to date may suggest. Although tracks like “Trouble” and “Endless Night” gravitate toward the ethereal production and existential subject matter of prior releases, repeat listens reveal complex compositions and an empathy that is central to this eight-song album.  

As a whole, Horse stands as a warmer, more human counterpoint to 2018’s celestial Slow Sundown, and showcases Holy Motors as a hypnotic force that draws listeners in and leaves them wanting more. This effect, paired with their ability to write lyrics and music that resonate with a deeply relatable feeling of isolation, has resulted in an album built to connect with people from devoted shoegaze and western psychedelia fanatics to dreamer cowboys, driving through wide open country roads under the stars.

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Holy Motors - Endless Night (From the album 'Horse' out 10/16)

Texte et Musique : L'ordre d'Héloïse

Puisque tout passe, puisqu’on se lasse, survient l’angoisse… Puis le silence…
Perdre l’espace, perdre la trace, survient l’angoisse…  Puis on avance…
Trouver sa place, garder vivace, la peur vorace… Perdre sa chance…
Chercher un masque, voiler sa face, la peur tenace…  Perdre confiance…
Puisque tout part, fin de l’histoire, laisse sans espoir… Puis le silence…
Peindre tout en noir, vider l’armoire, bonheur si rare… Puis on avance…
Chaos de l’histoire, vide la mémoire, pas de hasard… Perdre sa chance…
Tombe dans le noir, plus de miroirs, pas même l’espoir… Perdre confiance…

Dis, puisque tout part d’ici, 
Rien ne va changer nos vies,
Aujourd’hui si on s’enfuit,
Est-ce qu’on se laisse un répit ?
Puisque tout part d’ici, 
Rien ne va changer nos vies,
Aujourd’hui ou l’infini,
Seul résonne l’oubli…

LA PIERRE QUI TOURNE

'In The Stone' is taken from Normil Hawaiians' new 7" out September 11th through Upset The Rhythm.

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When Upset The Rhythm released Normil Hawaiians’ lost album ‘Return Of The Ranters’ back in 2015, the band members got back in touch with each other after a 30 year break and starting playing music together again. Out of this the group played a launch show for the album and followed that up with more concerts, including an appearance at Supernormal, a residency at the Edinburgh Festival, gigs at Cafe OTO and supporting Richard Dawson in London too. They even recently toured Greece in support of having all three of their renowned exploratory post-punk albums finally back in print.

Throughout this time, Normil Hawaiians revisited their original songs for these live performances. However for a group always so interested in evolving their sound and seeking nuance, it comes as no surprise that they shirked the idea of a faithful retread of old material in favour of reimagining their songs. The group experimented by pushing their songs into new inventive dimensions, still progressive at heart, but now imbued with a cosmic uncanny. A cinematic, even pastoral approach that was always quietly present has come to the fore. The quaint weirdness of folk song, the humanity of communal practice and the group’s ecological mindedness have all found a place in Normil Hawaiians’ current sound world. With this conducive atmosphere brewing, the band’s first new songs in decades started to emerge.

Being far-flung across the UK, the Family Hawaii encamped to Tayinloan, a small village on the west coast of the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland with the intention of recording new music. They set up their own studio in an isolated, windswept house overlooking the sea and started the tape rolling. Noel Blanden from the band explains how the spirit of the location was such an inspiration to the group during this initial recording session: “Our time immersed in the place and the unique energy it generated in us allowed us to write ‘In The Stone’. It goes right back to our first album, this need to document experience before it passes over and eludes us. We were grabbing at the musical ether and letting it shape itself through the band.” From loose, improvised sessions and reflective periods of listening in Tayinloan, Normil Hawaiians captured the moment. ‘In The Stone’ is a motorik thrill of distorted guitars, locked rhythms and morphic resonance. Guy Smith is joined by Zinta Egle on vocals, skilfully sharing lyrics informed by Alan Garner and Nigel Kneale’s ideas around recurring events being linked to place and historical artefact;  a kind of residual haunting known as ‘Stone Tape’ theory. In keeping with the context of the song, sounds from several previous live recordings of the track were woven into its present being. Flipside ‘Where is Living?’ is a decidedly more delicate affair of questioning lyrics and eerie traces, droning strings and impressions smudged. This resultant 7” is a tantalising glimpse of Normil Hawaiians now, an echo from the past, an echo from the future.
 
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'In The Stone / Where Is Living?'

Normil Hawaiians - 'In The Stone' 7"

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