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HALLS - LOVE TO GIVE
OUT FEB 10th 2014

Pre-order on iTunes and get 'Forelsket' MP3 instantly - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/love-to-give/id768882884

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Halls - the solo project of 23 year old South London musician Sam Howard - released a debut album, ‘Ark’, in November 2012. 

A long twelve months later - after rapt reviews and a stint modelling for Hedi Slimane in Paris - Howard’s second album is here, and the changes are marked.

“This is an album about opening up. Ark is the cold album, closed-off, obscure and confusing.  I obscured lyrics and hid behind reverb and mumbling. For this album I wanted to reach out more. In some ways it is darker than Ark. I feel that I struggle to connect with a lot of people and I want to connect somehow. Love to Give is about opening up and becoming more of a human being.”

In his new work, Howard has replaced apprehension and doubt with a muted hope, and just as the sentiment has shifted, as too the compositions and arrangements have moved into the real world. Ark’s electronic templates have ceded to - as Howard says - “embrace the sound of human beings”, and the instrumental palate has widened: brass, tuned percussion, woodwinds, and organs now flesh out the tracks, with digital percussion only used for texture rather than structure. Much was recorded in a theatre in London’s Woolwich, with Howard’s vocals recorded naturally in the large main hall, and passing traffic and street noise can be heard faintly throughout the album.

Opening track ‘Love To Give’ builds from hymnal acoustic reverie to a wall-of-noise breakdown, before ending on a military brass finale; the seven minute centrepiece ‘Aria’ leads with a solo xylophone into interweaving Kraut percussion and strings lines; ‘Forelsket’ contains a freeform pitch-shifted saxophone, evoking Sun Ra alongside a Justin Vernon vocal line and symphonic swells; and closer ‘Body Eraser / Avalanche’ ends the album on a few minutes of haunting ambience.

The album is not a clean listen; lyrics and vocal melodies are still lost occasionally to the music, creating an hazy, sometimes impenetrable aura, and even the direct, sparser guitar-and-voice-tracks ‘Aside’ or ‘You Must Learn To Live Again’ rely on a heavy atmosphere rather than narrative. Instead of relying on clearer melodic control, what is more apparent is the growth in Howard’s compositions - his ability to breathe life in to sentiments of cold confusion and loss across dense, shifting arrangements.

‘Love To Give’ is a weighty, masterly executed album - a step away from anxiety towards light.

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Halls - Forelsket (from 'Love To Give', out Feb 2014 through No Pain In Pop)

Black English - the band from Echo Park, Los Angeles - began as a home recording project in July 2011. In a small house on Mohawk Street a group of friends gathered to explore music free from any agenda.

The outcome was a sound has instilled a collective desire that, for a brief moment, perhaps all within earshot might feel unified.

Black English's debut full length "El Prado" will be released February 18th on Arts & Crafts.

Watch the band perform the song live on Last Call with Carson Daly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsMuobsDyfw&list=UUgTCMkWIxUDqh9FndnmCU3g&feature=c4-overview

"...the band delivers an uplifting hymn to the spirit of human resilience, sounding like a more optimistic version of The National." - Consequence Of Sound

Hollywood's latest working-class hero, Bradley Hanan Carter makes perfect closing-time soundtracks – NME

As I poured over new bands for this year's SXSW, I don't think there was a song that haunted me more than "Stay With Me," by Echo Park's NO. – TIME

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Black English - Leave The Door Wide Open

From 'Underneath the Rainbow' out 3/18/14 via VICE Records

Black Lips-Boys In The Wood

A little  vinyl mix of some of the tunes that have influenced me over the years.. hope you enjoy x

1 Dave Grusin  - Friends & Strangers
2 Al Jarrean - Ague De Beber
3 War  - LA Sunshine
4 FBI - Talking about love
5 Grover Washington Jrn- little black samba
6 Richard Evans - Capricorn rising
7 Willie Hutch - California my way
8 Fania All Stars - foofer soofer
9 Switch  - reaching for tomorrow
10 The Blackbyrds - Flying high
11 Esther Phillips - We've got a good thing going
12. J.J Barnes  - Wishful Thinking.

Soul/ Jazz/ Latin selection  Jan 14

Flaws is the lead track off our new album Artificial Sweeteners to be released on Yep Roc Records

Live US/Canada dates 2014

08/28 Chicago IL @ Concord Music Hall
08/29 Pontiac MI @ The Pike Room
08/30 Toronto ON @ Lee’s Palace
08/31 Montreal QC @ La Vitrola
09/03 Boston MA @ Brighton Music Hall
09/04 Washington DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel
09/05 Philadelphia PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
09/06 Brooklyn NY @ Brooklyn Bowl

Artificial Sweeteners Tracklisting:

1. Flaws
2. Acid to my Alkaline
3. Rayleigh Scattering
4. Artificial Sweeteners
5. Little Stabs at Happiness
6. Tetrahydrofolic Acid
7. Daggers
8. Vagaries of Fashion
9. A Sea Ringed with Visions

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Artificial Sweeteners

Flaws

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Get the limited 7" here: http://www.variationmusic.com/product/bill-biggz-my-word-7

Bill Biggz is back to drop knowledge on his latest Hip Hop incarnation 'My Word'. With rugged beats from King Sub-7ero, clinical cuts from Vinyldigger, and an atmospheric remix from George Fields. The 7" also includes instrumental versions of both tracks.

Bill Biggz - My Word 7" (George Fields Remix)

Speedball Experience - Obscure Pop Jazz From Early 70's Italian Music Library 

S. Brugnolini - Polyphony

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