really nice piano playing, like your delicate touch both in playing and in composition, great ambient!

I am totally obsessed with this song. So beautiful.

My selections for April 2017. Hear the full playlist at http://www.birp.fm

BIRP! April 2017

Tip Of Your Tongue

Made from samples of Gem Club and Sea Oleena songs while on long car rides through Europe.

Shallow Weeks

Each Other

Westernmind is Jason Kollar 
Album: Lovely / Lonely
Available everywhere digitally 
Spotify page: https://spoti.fi/2EYKgKs
Apple Music page: https://apple.co/2BNvq5v

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You Were Right

Learning to see the beauty in a past relationship even if it means moving on.

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Listen on Spotify - http://spoti.fi/2m4lTBt

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New Life

I fell in love with Joy Electric over a decade ago. There was just something about buzzing, whirring synthesizers and melancholic melodies that did it for me. The few friends I’ve shared it with over the years never understood my devotion to what seems like esoteric electronic music, but Ronnie Martin’s saccharine synthpop taught me to take melody seriously.

Both prolific and obscure, Martin never settled on one sound; every album was an experiment with textures and timbres. One song, however, is for me the indubitable flagship of his singular songwriting. “The Boy Who Never Forgot” is at once hook-laden yet reserved, easygoing yet wistful—the type of configuration I aim for in every song I write. My cover of this gem serves as a tribute to the synthpop wizardry of Joy Electric. As you listen, I hope you feel just a little bit of that magic that inspired me as a teen.

- Daniel

The Boy Who Never Forgot (JOY ELECTRIC COVER)

For My Friend

Written, performed, and recorded by Tim Cheplick at Fancy Fish Studios except drums by Paul Provenzano.

This is Play

Quarter Century Girl

Mark Bradshaw - Negative Capability

Written, recorded, mixed and produced by Yulia Bizyukova at her home studio in London.
All instruments and vocals by Yulia Bizyukova except:
Drums by Manoela Alencastro, recorded and engineered by Rohan Budd at Press Play Studio, London.
Mastered by Andy ‘Hippy’ Baldwin at Metropolis Studios, London
Artwork by Yulia Bizyukova
© 2018 Everything by Electricity

Place To Call My Own

Arrivals & Departures

God Has Taken A Vacation

'Find Sound' is the debut record from Shards, a London based vocal group led by singer, composer and producer Kieran Brunt. Combining voices, synths and percussion, Find Sound is an astonishing exploration of the human voice; using the concepts of sound and light as simple metaphors for gaining understanding. The album’s pieces are intended to be miniature sonic paintings, with each adding to an overall picture of the emotional confusion of early adulthood: the uncertainty, the excitement, the terror and relief.

After collaborating with Terry Riley in 2016, Brunt was asked by the Barbican to form a choral group for Nils Frahm’s Possibly Colliding festival that summer. Following the success of the shows, Frahm invited Brunt to join him in Berlin to collaborate on choral arrangements for his recent album 'All Melody'. Shards have since gone on to collaborate with other notable artists, including Michael Price on his recent LP 'Tender Symmetry'.

Each of the singers in Shards brings a very distinctive musical personality to the group, something which Brunt was eager to emphasise on their debut record. Rather than aiming for a seamless blend or absolute precision when recording, the differences between voices has been intentionally highlighted — celebrating their unique textures and inviting the listener to hear their minutest details up-close.

"The group ended up consisting almost entirely of friends and friends-of-friends. I also tried my best to ask people who weren’t just singers, but who do have other projects and musical interests. As such, we have people in the group who are also composers, instrumentalists, folk musicians and teachers. It’s a vibrant mix, and I’m constantly discovering new things about them the more we make music together.” — Kieran Brunt

Shards is Kieran Brunt, Lucy Cronin, Sarah Latto, Bethany Horak-Hallett, Kate Huggett, Chris Huggon, Jack Lawrence-Jones, Rose Martin, Augustus Perkins Ray, Oli Martin-Smith, Josephine Stephenson and Héloïse Werner.

· pre-order 'Find Sound' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/FindSound

Find Sound

Summer Sickness

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Shards - Summer Sickness

Optica

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Shout Out Louds "Blue Ice"

Side A from Front Porch 7" available via Manic Pop! Records in April

Front Porch (7" Version)

We Already Exist

Jason Kollar - Artist & Touring Drummer
Nashville, TN
write and release music as Westernmind

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