Be Wise

BE WISE

Record of the Week on Radio Stradbroke, really chuffed. Thank you Richard Pierce Saunderson.
Full track here
https://soundcloud.com/helefonix-midlifemix/helefonix-ft-ian-mcmillan-teaching-darkness-how-to-fly

Full video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d9xnNLKaeY

Download the track/pre order the CD here https://helefonix.bandcamp.com/album/natures-grace

Record of the Week - How to Fly introduced by Richard Pierce on Radio Stradbroke

Lovely evocative conversation between two awesome broadcasters Cambridge 105 presenter Leigh Chambers and BBC Radio 3's Ian McMillan. How the track came about, his love of blending genres and mediums, how Ian felt about the results his views on community radio, being obsessed with sounds and how his reading has changed. 

If you like the track it's available here to stream https://open.spotify.com/album/3yohybB4ZGDpkZ0yud1R4M

or if you prefer CD's, pre order the EP it will be on, Nature's Grace and get the track immediately to download https://helefonix.bandcamp.com/album/natures-grace

All info here: https://www.helefonix.co.uk/

Leigh Chambers interviews Ian McMillan about How To Fly collab with Helefonix

An instrumental, arpeggiated dance track inspired by both very distant and local light emitting objects. An underlying wave moves through the track replicating the transmission of light. The music panning is very fluid and of course, a thumping 4 to the floor bass line (best listened with headphones).

Nebula Among Us

A world wide collaboration!
We hope you enjoy this original track which has been augmented by forty voices from around the globe. Extremely grateful to everyone who responded to my call to arms, to help me with this first 'proper' vocal track I've written and now released. This track is being released in aid of charity - Help Musicians. 
It is out on 17th December 2021. www.helefonix.co.uk 

Thanks to the contributors, not just the chorus vocals but additional embellishments, sent in unasked, by My Girl The River, Emily Zuzik and Verity White. Which you can hear throughout the track. There's also some lush cello thanks to Nanette from Juliet and Nanette. Some beats from Frankie and Riki Abi. And voices sharing season felicitations from all around the world - China, Australia, USA, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Austria, France. 

Thanks also to Jackie Weaver and Ian McMillan who agreed to collaborate on another track with me! It's been an honour to create this track and I am humbled to have everyone's voices on it. It sounds SO much better now!!!

Thanks to 
Emily Zuzik, LA, USA
Alan Neilson
Neil March
Demiurgo (Italy)
Sarah McQuaid 
Blokeacola (China)
Frankie and Riki Abi (Turkey)
Ditsea Yella
Jon Ogara

Verity White
With Sun
The Brothers Burn
Serious Child
Alex Elbro
Amongst the Pigeons
Jackie Weaver
My Girl The River
Kid Apollo

The West View
Found Object
Keeley (Dublin, Ireland)
Juliet and Nanette
Kay Burden from Platronic (Germany)
Soricah
Trevas
Felix Tigersonic

Echoes of Aphelion (Spain)
PulrR Music (Germany)
Fishing 4 Compliments
Michael Donoghue (Jersey)
Minnie Birch
Joe Rose
Warteraum (Austria)
Delowusu
Morning’s Thief
Caboan (Denmark)
Chris West (Australia)
Ian McMillan


Please donate to Help Musicians (benevolent fund)charity by buying the download!
https://helefonix.bandcamp.com/track/were-gonna-have-some-fun

Helefonix and the Harmonix - We're Gonna Have Some Fun

A doc I made for Resonance FM for their MoreWomxn November 2021 Residency.

I interviewed eleven gender non-conforming or trans people about things that bring them joy. You’ll hear: queer parenthood; chosen names; tattooing as trans freedom; performance + gender euphoria; moments of intimacy between lovers and friends, and more. 

If any part of this scrappy doc speaks to you, then it is for you. I hope that everyone finds some queer joy in it.

Contributions from illustrator and artist Laurie Gibbs, activist and writer Kestral Gaian, actor and performer Maddison Bulleyment, poet and playwright Joelle Taylor, self-proclaimed Dad CJ Rivers (plus baby Micah!), audio producer Arlie Adlington, tattoo artist Rat(@doughyrats on insta), violinist Aliayta-Foon Dancoes, arts producer Ruby Dixon, audio producer Daisy Grant(and their girlfriend who is also called Daisy lol), radio presenter Carrie Morrison, musician Sarah McCabe, psychotherapist Hannah Graham and their partner George, composer Rob Reid Allan, composer Alex Tay, and performance artist Eden Clark. 

Thanks to Katie Callin for giving me the hour and for being an all round queer babe. Resonance FM is a charitable, community radio station and didn't pay me for this work. If you enjoyed it maybe you would like to support my work by buying me a coffee here: https://ko-fi.com/brideyac

QUEER JOY: The MW Residency

Music Written & Performed by Esslemont
Lyrics Written By Jack Taylor
Vocals by Jack Taylor
Esslemont Sounds 2022

Taken from the EP 'The Sledge with You'
Available on Bandcamp

Brown Suits & Pale Blue Shirts

Temptation

JUNE 15, 2022 (SHOW #14) - ARTIST & TRACKLIST (IN ORDER PLAYED); Bandcamp Links Below


BLAKLIGHT -  Waiting (Solar Fake Remix) 
MAX PROJECT - Synthwave Portal
COOLMOWEE - I Will Follow You (House Remix) 
CASSETTER ft. MAXTHOR - Flashback 
HATIF - Pool 
THALREX - Atlantis
FORGOTTEN WORLD - io
BEDES - One Nine - 99
HEARTBEATHERO - (ARTIST SPOTLIGHT) - Starchild (Radio Edit)
HEARTBEATHERO - (ARTIST SPOTLIGHT) - The Sweetness of my Tears 
FUTURE ANALOG - Your Heart 
JONNY FALLOUT - Only One (Love Song) 
SUNSET COP - Artificial Paradise 
PATIENT82 - Ghost (ft. To See Beyond the Shadows)
ATLAS NEON  - Spartan 117 
DREW KNIGHT & STAR MADMAN - Keep Moving 
GHOST GEORGIE - Dead Memories (Goudzoeker Remix)
HELEFONIX - So Lost 
GALACTIC TAPES - Smallest Divide  

BANDCAMP LINKS ONLY (IF AVAILABLE):
https://atlasneon.bandcamp.com/track/spartan-117
https://starmadman.bandcamp.com/track/keep-moving
https://forgottenworld.bandcamp.com/track/io
https://futureanalog.bandcamp.com/track/your-heart
https://heartbeathero.bandcamp.com/track/star-child
https://heartbeathero.bandcamp.com/track/the-sweetness-of-my-tears
https://helefonix.bandcamp.com/track/so-lost
https://patient82.bandcamp.com/track/ghost-rmx-patient-82-to-see-beyond-the-shadows
https://blaklight.bandcamp.com/track/waiting-solar-fake-remix-2
https://purzynthrekords.bandcamp.com/track/max-project-synthwave-portal
https://townandtowersrecords.bandcamp.com/track/i-will-follow-you-house-remix
https://cassetter.bandcamp.com/album/flashback-feat-maxthor-single
https://hatif.bandcamp.com/track/pool
https://thalrex.bandcamp.com/track/atlantis
https://bedes.bandcamp.com/track/one-nine-99
https://retroreverbrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cybertherial-ii
https://purzynthrekords.bandcamp.com/track/artificial-paradise
https://galactictapes.bandcamp.com/track/smallest-divide

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SHOUT OUTS: 

1. THE 4TH SECTOR show WITH FORGED IN NEON’S ASHLEY ANITA/POPART AVE'S MICHAEL ANTHONY are planning a new show for the end of June. 

2. POPART AVE’S MICHAEL ANTHONY– THE BOTS next show is Saturday, June 18. 

3. COOLMOWEE has a new song release June 24, 2022 - a COVER VERSION of a SONG...

JUNE 15, 2022 - COOLMOWEE RDT SYNTHWAVE SHOW #14 w/ HeartBeatHero

This chord progression played by 2 Grand Piano's supported by a sparse Orchestral score is to date, the most accomplished piece of Classical Music I have written. Hampered at the time with a limited string section. I may revisit the melody and chords one day and write a piece to sing to.

• Satti •

OUT NOW!

https://www.clashmusic.com/news/jackie-weaver-supplies-the-vocal-for-this-new-electronic-track
http://open.spotify.com/album/1TbHCbNJEYiQKpvrz0Cg6p
‘You have no authority here Jackie Weaver, no authority at all’
An impromptu musical collaboration between three people ‘old enough to know better’ is about to be released into the fray! Do we have three unlikely pop stars in the making here? Stranger things have happened!
You’d have to have been on another planet over the last month to have avoided the hugely entertaining and in no small part, shocking, treatment of a female councillor at the hands of a resistant group in a certain Parish Council, south of Manchester.
Jackie Weaver became an overnight internet sensation when a young politics activist saw the video of the meeting  she was ‘troubleshooting’ and shared it online.
The calm, reasonable way in which Jackie handled the abuse was impressive and struck a few chords for people all over the world. While we’re used to hearing this kind of heckling in the House of Commons and on daytime chat shows, it was shocking to witness it in a rural parish setting.  Memes and video clips of the interactions gathered thousands of views and Jackie found herself in the midst of a media frenzy.
 
Jackie’s appeal lies largely in the WYSIWYG arena. For those under 50, to save you googling, that’s What You See Is What You Get! Ever authentic, Jackie is happy for everyone to see and hear ‘the real me’. Which is completely refreshing.
Imagine Helen’s surprise when the ‘woman of the moment’, Jackie Weaver, took the time to respond to a tweet.  Was this a spoof account perhaps? Or did it have someone else handling it? Surprising, it was neither of these. They started messaging. Helen had an idea. What about writing and producing a fun track with Jackie’s vocals articulating her ‘trade mark’ comments and somehow weaving in those of the male protagonists. Almost like a rap? Would that work? She’d never attempted anything like this before. But Jackie was game.
Within five days of talking about the concept, they had a finished track. Initially Helen had to find out what sort of music Jackie liked and what was important to her sonically so she could create an arrangement which Jackie would be happy to be featured on/associated with.  Helen also had to ascertain how the track might help support those issues close to Jackie’s heart and work out how they could incorporate that. You will no doubt hear this reference, about the campaign ‘Make A Change’, about half way through the track. Make A Change is about encouraging  greater diversity and more accurate representation in local councils. 
Once Jackie had approved the demo track, Helen’s husband, singer Joe Rose, was roped in to perform the remaining catchphrases.
One of the interesting things about this single is that everyone involved is ‘middle aged’. Jackie and Joe are both 62 and Helen Meissner is 54. Not the usual demographic for a new pop trio! “It’s not the sort of thing people our age usually embark on and that is half the fun” says Jackie.
Not one to let age stand in her way, Jackie Weaver gained her degree in Person Centred Counselling in 2017. Joe is better known locally as local accountant John Froggett and Helen didn’t start making music til she’d turned 54 last summer. None of them like conforming to stereotypes and collaborating on this track has been great fun, a smooth ride and a hugely positive experience.
Just goes to show what happens when an idea is acted upon, met with a favourable response, and delivered.
 
“Jackie Weaver’s Kicked Him Out”  by Helefonix (ft Jackie Weaver and Joe Rose)is being released on 15th March. It is a completely ‘home grown’ independent project without any involvement from the major record labels.
In a week independent artists Mogwai made the #1 spot in the album charts, is the scene set for another independent release to sail into the charts??

Jackie Weaver's Kicked Him Out

Pre Release Download

Jackie Weaver's Kicked Him Out - Helefonix ft Jackie Weaver and Joe Rose

Life is not about who you once were. It is about who you are now and who you have the potential to be.  About having fun. Throwing out the rule book! Thrilled to have been played on BBC radio 3 (Elizabeth Alker Saturday morning show) BBC 6 Music (Cerys Matthews and Tom Robinson, BBC Intro Channel Islands (a remix I did for Michael Donoghue) and featured in Fresh Faves from Fresh on The Net as well as on the super independent shows such as WorldWideFM thanks Nitin Sawhney, Anna Phoebe and Kayla Painter, Tim Willett's New Music Generator, Neil March's Trust The Doc show (who have both invited me to share my music at their events,) Andy Sharman's KYN Show, Amazing Radio, Rich James Electro Show, Chris West's The Tripwire, Slava and Trev's show, Russ Evans Electro show and more, many of whom play me week after week and have me as their opening or outgoing show tracks. I am so grateful. 
A collaboration with THE Jackie Weaver earlier in 2021 resulted in national TV, newspaper and radio coverage, which was huge fun.

I'm creating a range of music, from what could be viewed as classical for a modern era I guess? telling a story through notes rather than words. I also love a beat, prose and some simple phrase work (either my own voice, samples or spoken prose) and I love a bop!  so my genre is not really defined or fixed BUT people say they can tell it's my work. I've also been honoured to be asked to do remixes by a number of artists and these have been going down well.

I've written a very well received piece for the Featured Artists Coalition - Ageing and Raging: https://thefac.org/news-directory/fav-insights-by-helen-meissner

And an LA based magazine asked to interview me, which was pretty comprehensive!: https://shoutoutla.com/meet-helen-meissner-music-producer/

How did it all start?
A glitch in the matrix meant that Garageband ended up in my lap! (I have since moved to Logic)that's Lockdown for you!! never had any desire to write or produce before but love what's coming out in the mix and hope you do too.  
Supermassive black holes in my production knowledge of course. Happy to be guided by anyone who cares to get in touch!
It's a bit like having a baby without realising you were pregnant! There's plenty more where that came from, from other dance to more chill. The world is my oyster. (Boring bits, based in Herts, legend in my own lunchtime). Wrong side of 50, right side of life, left of centre, off of the strip. 

Old enough to know better, young enough not to care

Bring it on!!!

https://www.runninwithmyrhythm.com/2020/08/midlifemix.html?fbclid=IwAR0Ea41vTdcZ8EppwnX2BXqTIBEMW0l5f3s1osUp1wR0_fcbkn2A9C-a1Bc

Email : helefonix@gmail.com
Website : https://www.helefonix.co.uk/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/helefonix
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/helefonix/
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/7xXiGIzlyGqrl91hDNb66i

Jackie Weaver's Kicked Him Out - Helefonix ft Jackie Weaver and Joe Rose

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