Sounds amazing, hope the neighbours are liking it too! :)

May 2023 Discoveries.

Many people simply want to hear and enjoy some great new music without having to waste time searching for hours. These Musical Discoveries collections aim to fulfil those needs. At least, we hope so! :)

This playlist is a compilation of the favourite musical discoveries of the Wud Records team from everything they heard at SoundCloud during May 2023.

Tracks have been arranged according to the number of plays at the precise moment of publishing, starting with the fewest. Tracks that are early in playlists tend to receive more plays than later tracks, and we feel that the ones with fewer plays need the best chance of exposure.

This playlist is extremely eclectic, so if the track you are playing isn't quite doing it for you, try the next one. It will probably be completely different.

If you enjoyed listening to something here, please give it a like and a repost. Follow the artist. Give them a shoutout on social media. Check out some of their other tracks. Buy something from them and your support will help them to keep going. Doing any of this will help raise their profile. At the very least you might make their day. :)

Sharing is very, very important !!

Sharing is a massive help for independent artists. They don’t have big corporations and mainstream media saturating every channel with their product. Every independent share counts.

Giving something a ‘like’ is nice, but sharing exposes the artist to your followers. This means that anybody in your community can see and click on what you shared. They can potentially enjoy it as well. It enables somebody new to discover the artist and become their newest fan. You create the chance for that to happen.

If you happen to be on this playlist, please share, and give us a shoutout on your social media feeds - because if we spot it, it gives us another opportunity to repost you and big you up. Please listen to as many tracks by the other great bands as you can - at least the one before yours, yours, and the one after yours to hear how you stack up - and... enjoy!

See also:
* this playlist at Wud Records: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/musical-discoveries/may-2023-musical-discoveries
* all Musical Discoveries compilations: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/musical-discoveries/
* news about this playlist: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/wud-records-may-2023-musical-discoveries
* find us here: https://linktr.ee/wudrecords

Downloads help us! :)

May 2023 Discoveries

Various Tones

Stumbling And Falling

A Thousand Tears (Human Version) ft. Denny Lloyd

BRITISH ART ROCK ARTIST GRICE UNVEILS SINGLE ‘Saviour’
FROM HIS NEW ALBUM POLARCHORAL via hungersleep records
Saviour - Single Release date: 7th October 2022
POLARCHORAL - Album Release date: 4th November 2022

“Charged with Pop sensibility and Art Rock energy”

GRICE returns with ‘Saviour’ the lead single from his 5th album POLARCHORAL where he presents his unique brand of sonic alchemy through a powerful, intricate and emotionally challenging song. 

Powerful and defiant,’Saviour’ is a sonic satellite launched into the darkness - a beacon of hope - a search for unity and healing in a fractured and polarised world.

GRICE online:
Website: www.gricemusic.co.uk 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/gricemusic
Twitter:  www.twitter.com/gricemusic/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/gricemusic
Youtube: www.youtube.com/gricemusic
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/gricemusic
Bandcamp: https://grice.bandcamp.com 
Burning Shed: https://burningshed.com/artists/grice_artists 
Plastic Head: https://www.plastichead.com/artist/grice 

'Saviour’ features GRICE on vocals, guitars and bass, award winning drummer Robert Brian (Goldfrapp, Peter Gabriel, Siouxsie Sioux), legendary pedal steel guitarist B J Cole (Elton John, Marc Bolan, Scott Walker), the technical virtuosity of Al Swainger on bass pedals, Eliza Carew (cello) and violinist Steve Bingham (No-Man, Judy Dyble). 
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Grice Peters (GRICE) is a British musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer from South London. He has released 4 full length albums, EPs and remixes on his label hungersleep records.
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Polarchoral

Saviour

GRICE - SAVIOUR

'Damage Done' taken from the new album POLARCHORAL by art rock artist GRICE
‘A sonic satellite is launched into the darkness’ 
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GRICE presents his unique brand of sonic alchemy through a deeply personal set of powerful, intricate and emotionally challenging songs. The album explores the bi-polarity of personal relationships and ideologies, the attraction and division of people and the confusion, conflict and hurt prevalent in our times.

“Highly polished and detailed and ultimately, enthralling. Magical and intoxicating. 4.5 glacial harmonics" - PROG ROGUE 
"Hypnotizing and spiritually medicating” - Thomas Szirmay

from Polarchoral, releases November 4, 2022 
Credits:

Grice: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano 
Robert Brian: Drums
Al Swainger: Bass

The album also has sonic contributions from Richard Barbieri (Japan, Porcupine Tree), Steve Jansen (Japan, Exit North) and Egyptian master percussionist Hossam Ramzy whose unique rhythms feature on the title track of the album.

Recorded at Sound Gallery Studios - additional tracking and mixing at Real World Studios & NAM studios.

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Grice Peters (GRICE) is a British musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer from South London. He has released 4 full length albums, EPs and remixes on hungersleep records.
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GRICE online:
Bandcamp: https://grice.bandcamp.com/
Website: www.gricemusic.co.uk 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/gricemusic
Twitter:  www.twitter.com/gricemusic/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/gricemusic
Youtube: www.youtube.com/gricemusic
https://hungersleeprecords.bandcamp.com/album/polarchoral

© 2022 GRICE

Damage Done

Purchase

Damage Done (Radio Edit)

Lapis Lazuli - from the new album POLARCHORAL by GRICE
Album Release date: 4th November 2022

Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist GRICE presents his unique brand of sonic alchemy in this lament. 
The track is a farewell, dedicated to a close friend who passed away last Saturday 5th November 2022. 

Grice: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, synths, samples, sonics. 
Lapis Lazuli features Steve Jansen (Japan, Exit North)on Ghost Pads, Bells and Lazurite sonics. 

Grice Peters (GRICE) is a British Art Rock musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer from South London.
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GRICE online:
Bandcamp: grice.bandcamp.com/
Website: www.gricemusic.co.uk 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/gricemusic
Twitter: www.twitter.com/gricemusic/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/gricemusic
Youtube: www.youtube.com/gricemusic
hungersleeprecords.bandcamp.com/album/polarchoral

© 2022 GRICE

POLARCHORAL

Lapis Lazuli

GRICE - Lapis Lazuli (Radio Edit)

From the album POLARCHORAL by GRICE
A song about musical brothers/siblings and 'blood harmonies' G
'We said some foolish things...'
Features B J Cole on Pedal steel Guitar (T-Rex, Elton John)

Credits:
Grice: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Hammond Organ. 
Robert Brian: Drums. 
BJ Cole: Pedal Steel Guitar. 
Al Swainger: Bass. 
Suzanne Barbieri: Backing Vocals.

Band of Brothers

BAND OF BROTHERS

Legend is a song for unity and justice - a call to end the killing around the world.
Dedicated to all who are suffering at the hands of warmongers or are suffering discrimination and abuse.
'Stop the killing'

‘Conflict divides but also unites, without division there is no life'. 
These are songs from the rain yet these are songs of hope, love and defiance. 

From the album Polarchoral by GRICE -  released November 4, 2022 
https://hungersleeprecords.bandcamp.com/album/polarchoral

Credits:
Grice: Vocals, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Synths
Robert Brian: Drums
Luca Calabrese: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
BJ Cole: Pedal Steel Guitar
Al Swainger: Double Bass

GRICE online:
Website: www.gricemusic.co.uk 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/gricemusic
Twitter: www.twitter.com/gricemusic/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/gricemusic
Youtube: www.youtube.com/gricemusic
Soundcloud: @gricemusic
Bandcamp: grice.bandcamp.com 
Burning Shed: burningshed.com/artists/grice_artists

Legend

Listen & download

GRICE - Legend - (Radio Edit)

RAINY DAY (RUFF instrumental)

Winter - from the new album POLARCHORAL by GRICE
Album Release date: 4th November 2022

As Winter descends...'look to the spring'
A song of renewal and hope - from the darkest hour just before the dawn.

'an artist of rare refinement - an album of exquisite beauty' - PROG magazine

Grice: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, sonics.
Robert Brian: Drums. 
Al Swainger: Double Bass. 
Alan Burton: Jillian pipes
Luca Calabrese: Trumpet
Jack Lawrence: Autoharp

Grice Peters (GRICE) is a British Art Rock musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer from South London and currently based in the Southwest of England.

Website: www.gricemusic.co.uk 
Bandcamp: https://grice.bandcamp.com/album/polarchoral
Facebook: www.facebook.com/gricemusic
Twitter:  www.twitter.com/gricemusic/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/gricemusic
Youtube: www.youtube.com/gricemusic

Winter

Winter (Radio Edit)

An unfinished mix of a very special project from 2004, Glastonbury. I had the great good fortune, along with my dear friend Des Moore, to offer this accompaniment to Karma Sherpa Rinpoche and Ven. Khyentse Lama as they chanted this Tibetan practice.
Des Moore : guitars & arrangement, mantra
Jim Peters : keyboards & arrangement, mantra

Twelve Syllable Mantra of Guru Padmasambhava

From the debut album Icarus Girl by Siobhan McCrudden released in December 2018 on hungersleep records.

Noted as ‘One to watch’ by NewSoundWales, Siobhan McCrudden’s has been described as a singer who is gifted with one of the finest voices in contemporary UK folk music.

Raised in London to parents with Scottish and Irish roots, Cardiff-based singer songwriter McCrudden, crafts songs of intensity and sweetness, recounting personal stories whilst reflecting a vivid fascination with dark folk tales and superstitions.

Siobhan’s early performances found her on the coffee house circuit of New York. From these beginnings she went on to play larger gigs both in America and at home, performing at festivals and folk clubs. Her first single ‘The Mermaid in Your Glass’, was on the top 10 Fresh Favs on BBC Radio 6 Music - Fresh On The Net and was played on BBC Radio Wales (Bethan Elfyn, Adam Walton), Radio Cardiff, newsoundwales, The Folk Pilot, CuillinFM, PhonicFM, Lonely Oak Radio, Symfozone Radio and Spotify playlists Double J, Big Tune IMR, Sweater Weather and more..

Reviews:
‘Oh Little Red’ bleeds with tension and the wonderfully arranged strings push and pull every last drop of feeling out of the piece. Folk Radio UK

‘Absolutely beautiful, just stunning, the voice is something else’ Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales 

‘There is a clear debt in Siobhan's sound to early Joni Mitchell albums. There is also a definite familiarity with late sixties British folk bands such as Fairport Convention and Pentangle in her cultural hinterland’ From the Margins

‘I was blown away by her voice, her guitar playing ... She really is something special’ Bethan Elfyn, BBC Radio Wales

Live performances:
14th Feb at 'room at the top' in Penarth
2nd March at 'Roath Folk Festival' in Cardiff
5th April at St Johns Church, Canton Cardiff 'Icarus Girl album launch!!'
25th May at 'How the light gets in' festival in Hay on Wye ________________________________________________________________________Bandcamp: https:// siobhanmccrudden.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.facebook.com/siobhanmccruddenmusic/ https://twitter.com/McCruddenmusic
https://www.instagram.com/siobhan_mccrudden

Icarus Girl

Oh Little Red

SIOBHAN McCRUDDEN - Oh Little Red

GRACE from the new album 'one thousand birds' by GRICE 
released March 22, 2019 on hungersleep records.

Musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist GRICE hails from South London where he started his musical journey as drummer in a number of post punk bands.
His passion for songwriting and for producing and manipulating both analogue and digital sounds has led critics to describe his music as ‘a restless and challenging cocktail of electro - acoustic glitch, art-rock and avant-pop synthesis.’

Live Shows:

29.11.2019 - St Stephen's Church - Exeter
April 2020 - Fresh on The Net Live Festival - Jackson's Lane Arts Centre - London
7.6.2020 - Bath Fringe Festival - Chapel Arts Centre - Bath

Reviews:
'South Londoners’ sumptuously decorated 3rd album. His rich, plaintive voice, sometimes redolent of the late Mark Hollis, is backed by supremely evocative bass and string accompaniment with help from notable collaborators including former Japan and P-Tree man Richard Barbieri’ PROG magazine, April 2019

'GRICE ignites such passion throughout the entirety of this record, with a sense of vulnerability from the heartfelt lyrics notable on every track' - Exeter Uncovered Magazine

'One Thousand Birds marks out the further soaring trajectory of a unique art-rock talent’ - From the Margins

Music and lyrics by Grice 
Grice: vocals, acoustic guitar 
Andrew Fred Ehresmann: piano and electric piano 
Eliza Carew: cello

Produced and arranged by GRICE 
Recorded by Duncan Chave & GRICE at Sound Gallery Studios (UK) 
Additional recording by Stefano Quarta at Forward Studios (Rome) 
Mixed by Stefano Quarta at Forward Studios (Rome) 
Mastered by Carmine Simeone at Forward Studios (Rome) 
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Links:
www.gricemusic.co.uk
grice.bandcamp.com/album/one-thousand-birds
www.facebook.com/Gricemusic 
www.twitter.com/Gricemusic www.youtube.com/Gricemusic
www.instagram.com/GRICEmusic
www.youtube.com/gricemusic

The copyright in these sound recordings is owned by GRICE under exclusive licence to hungersleep productions 
www.hungersleepproductions.com

All rights of the owner of the recorded work reserved 
©2019 GRICE 
℗2019 GRICE

One Thousand Birds

GRACE

This time

Radio edit version of 'Highly Strung' from the album Propeller by GRICE - Remixed by Richard Barbieri (Japan, Porcupine Tree)

Highly Strung (Richard Barbieri remix)

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Yuri Pierini (Antares) @ Slack Studios

Produced by The Dick Dastardly's, SFA Records, Slack Records

Illustration by Marco Bacoli
Designed by Marco Bacoli & Gianmarco Paolucci

All songs written by The Dick Dastardly's except for Fucked Up Ronnie by DOA

ブラック魔王 - Burakku Demon King

Watch Me Go

Artrock musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer, GRICE from South London where he started his musical journey as drummer in a number of post punk bands. His music has been described as ‘a restless and challenging cocktail of electro-acoustic glitch, art-rock and avant-pop synthesis.’  His new album POLARCHORAL is released on 4th November. 

Stream/Buy/Download from:  https://grice.bandcamp.com/album/polarchoral - 

GRICE's innovative approach to sound production and his talent for songwriting have rewarded him recognition within progressive art rock circles resulting in successful collaborations with instrumental luminaries such as Raphael Ravenscroft (Pink Floyd, Vangelis/Blade Runner), Richard Barbieri (Japan, P-Tree), Steve Jansen (Japan, Exit North), Hossam Ramzy (Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin),  B J Cole and more.

GRICE was invited as a special guest on Tom Robinson’s Saturday night show on BBC Radio 6 Music where he was interviewed about his latest album (One Thousand Birds).

Album releases/Discography: 
Propeller (2012)
Alexandrine (2015)
Refractions EP (2016)
The Grey of Granite Stone  EP (2017)
All Angels (Live album, 2018)
One Thousand Birds (2019)
The Absent Forest (vol 1) (2020)
The Absent Forest (Vol. 2) (2020)
The Absent Forest (Vol. 3) (2020)
Propeller Inner Workings (2020)
one thousand birds symphony (2021)

‘GRICE makes music of exquisite beauty - gorgeously epic’  BBC Radio 6 Music (Tom Robinson)

'South Londoner's sumptuously decorated 3rd album. His rich, plaintive voice, sometimes redolent of the late Mark Hollis, is backed by supremely evocative bass and strings accompaniment and contributions from notable collaborators including former Japan and Porcupine Tree man Richard Barbieri’ - PROG magazine

'Grice can walk the line between organic and artificial with grace and creativity' - Pearshaped Magazine

'One Thousand Birds marks out the further soaring trajectory of a unique art-rock talent’ - From the Margins

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