Country Mile

Murmuration

First Mind

Cucurucu

Having already released 2 of the best albums of 2014 (Gin on Fika Recordings, and Boom Biddy Boom on wiaiwya) STANLEY BRINKS & FRESCHARD are releasing PIZZA ESPRESSO - an album of duets, and a collaboration between both labels – at the end of August.

PIZZA ESPRESSO is an album of love songs about drinking and drinking songs about love. Picture Emmylou and Gram relocated to Berlin with a guitar, a pennywhistle and a washboard and writing ten gorgeous duets to be sung on lazy summer evenings.

“if you have time, and nothing on your mind, why, i’m free, for you and me”

STANLEY BRINKS began performing officially as André Herman Düne in 1999, sharing lead vocals, guitar playing and songwriting with his brother David in the band Herman Düne for a number of years. They released several albums and toured extensively in UK, gaining and owing a lot to great support from John Peel. He has used many monikers for various side-projects, but since leaving Herman Düne in 2006, he has been known solely as Stanley Brinks.

Born in Paris, Stan has been living between New York, San Francisco, Malta and Berlin for about a decade, always on the move. He has recorded more than 100 albums, collaborated with the New York Antifolk scene on several occasions, recorded and toured with traditional Norwegian musicians, and played a lot with The Wave Pictures.

FRESCHARD grew up in a farm in French Burgundy. Aged 18 she moved to Paris, where she baked pies and cakes in a cafe. There, a local musician and regular customer called 

STANLEY BRINKS wrote a few songs for her to sing. Homeless in Paris, she saved up just enough money to get herself a ticket to New York. There she found an old electric guitar and started writing her own songs. In 2004 she moved to Berlin, where she recorded her first LP, "Alien Duck". Her second album, "Click Click", recorded in 2006, features electric guitar by STANLEY BRINKS. On her third album, she plays the drums herself. On her fourth “Shh...” she also plays the flute. For this year’s “Boom Biddy Boom” she also plays the washboard.

Stanley Brinks and Freschard will be touring the UK for 2 weeks in August (joined by The Wave Pictures as their backing band), including appearances at the Green Man Festival in Wales.

Stanley Brinks & Freschard - Take It Easy

Lobo Sato

Heyoon

Landshapes - Stay

Single released 18 April 2011.  Available now from http://moshimoshi.greedbag.com/buy/little-surprise-0/

Little Surprise

Produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Sparklehorse, Giant Sand, Eels etc) in early 2011, the album  finds the band moving away from the acoustic sounds of their first album to something heavier but just as subtle and beautiful. This new sound may surprise some fans - only one song on the album features acoustic guitar - but the dual vocals and tribal drums familiar from their debut are still present and more developed and breath-taking than ever before.


The band released their debut album Fossils and other Phantoms on Wichita Recordings in 2010. It won the band acclaim for its subtle but powerful song writing. The NME called them 'head-over-heels brilliant', The Guardian praised their 'thrilling' musicianship and awarded the album four stars. They toured tirelessly for the rest of 2010, playing runs around Europe with both Local Natives and The Archie Bronson Outfit and around North America with She Keeps Bees, a co-headline run with Sky Larkin and finally in support of Kate Nash. 


Acrobats

Parking Meter Blues

Written by Holly Perman Turnbull, aka Holly Holden.
Arranged by Holly Perman Turnbull, Frank Clarke, David Beauchamp.
Produced by Frank Clarke and David Beauchamp.
Mix engineer - Frank Clarke
Mastered by Nick Burchall at Audio Animals.

Holly Holden - vocals, guitar, clarinet, percussion
Frank Clarke - bass, alto saxophone
David Beauchamp - drums, percussion
Daniel Correa - keyboards
Will Roper - trumpet
Marcos Caballero - tuba

Tropical Soul

Mellow Drama

Dallas

Digital - http://smarturl.it/pelicans-we
CD/12" Vinyl: https://www.musicglue.com/cosmosheldrake/

Recorded by Cosmo Sheldrake. Mixed by alalal and mastered at The Exchange London.

Website - www.cosmosheldrake.com/
Facebook - www.facebook.com/cosmosheldrakemusic
Twitter - twitter.com/cosmosheldrake
YouTube - www.youtube.com/user/comsosheldrake

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Holly Holden is a singer and songwriter from London. Long-term musical links with Cuba and the wider Caribbean have left their mark on her sound. Her bilingual pop combines catchy, soulful melodies and foot-tapping, tropical beats.

Aside from her solo work Holly is also one half of Anglo-Cuban collaborative project X Planet. She has also toured as a vocalist with Mala in Cuba and Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit. 

Mellow Drama

Holly Holden

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