The End Of The Line

Taken from Neu Balance "Rubber Sole", out on cassette and digitally 6 January 2015.

Mastering by Jonathan Scherk

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Rubber Sole

Neu Balance - Guu Yuu

Marching Church, the onetime solo project and now bona fide big band formed by singer Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, has followed its leader’s muse everywhere from their early days of 4-track lo-fi tapes, to Sam Cooke-tinged soul on This World is Not Enough, to outré free jazz on their most recent Coming Down 12". For Telling It Like It Is, Rønnenfelt and his bandmates have foregone much of their past proclivity for wild stylistic swings in favor of thematically unified, complicated, but fundamentally cohesive song arrangements; the studio itself at times acting as an auxiliary band member. The result is the most focused vision of Marching Church yet, but one that has lost none of its swagger, and none of its power to enthrall. 

“We have here one world united under the sparks of one enormous disco ball hanging over us like the moon,” Rønnenfelt elaborates. “In one fleeting moment in the light of its mirrored surface we see human endurance, in the next we see doom.” The light and shade he finds in this worldview permeate the songs on Telling It Like It Is. 

Rønnenfelt describes the new work “an album which raises multiple flags,” and “the sound of individualism stuck in the center of the modern world, swimming with and against the current.” This never ending push-pull is eloquently stated in lead single “Heart of Life,” wherein Rønnenfelt sings, “my delusions vaguely resemble paradise,” and “Inner City Pigeon,” in which he surveys society from an avian perch and decides he’s “never coming down." This restlessness again is spotlessly reflected in youth anthem, “Up For Days." 

The band in 2016 comprises Rønnenfelt and his frequent collaborator and Iceage bandmate Johan S. Weith (on electric viola and guitar here), Lower’s rhythm section of Kristian Emdal and Anton Rothstein, trumpet player Jakob Emil Lamdahl, and Hand of Dust’s Bo Høyer Hansen. Augmenting these sessions are Maaike Van der Linde and Thora Sveinsdottir of the Stargaze Orchestra on flute and strings, and Sonja La Bianca of Choir of Young Believers on saxophone. The obvious chemistry among these players, coordinated with overall production by Escho’s  Nis Bysted, makes this the most cultivated  Marching Church album to date, unveiling the full spectrum of capabilities and musical dexterity of each player.  Telling It Like It Is taps into a debauched lunacy that teeters equally on the verge of exhaustion, and the charged sensuality rooted in our loins that keep us going. 

Telling It Like It Is

Let It Come Down

Purl & Deflektion / Celestial Bodies [ETNL25] 

The third installment to emerge from the creative mindmeld of Ludvig Cimbrelius (Purl) and Olle Hallqvist (Deflektion)

Celestial Bodies

Purl & Deflektion - Moon [clip] / from new album 'Celestial Bodies'

Arabesque (tomonari nozaki /2018)

Track 1 from The Cradle 'Bag Of Holding' [NNA114]
Available July 20th, 2018 on Vinyl & Digital formats.
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Bag Of Holding

The Cradle "Sweet Dreams"

Neptunalia

Various ‎– Neptunalia (Excerpt 1)

Track taken from the upcoming album 'Replicas' by Gideon Wolf...

...

Constructed over 2 years this album has been slowly pieced together, reshaped, scraped, re-written and made again before becoming the album you are listening to now.

Replicas’ is a dark journey into a past, present and future that is personal, and reflective of wider concerns shaping this island(s) we live on.

At points angry and born out of frustration and angst for the times we are living in, this album goes back to my roots; a council flat in South East London, freedom, degradation, concrete, community, rich, poor, the melting pot of cultures, music, and people.

As cultural lines have been drawn in a different way through gentrification, a poverty divide similar to those of the 80’s and the b word, I have found myself struggling to accept my own place as a working class composer, father and human.

This album I suppose you could say is a meditation on the urban sprawl I grew up in, getting older, and my place in a community that feels like it has lost its way. - GW

...

Music - Gideon Wolf
Mastering - James Plotkin
Design - Daniel crossley
Alex Taylor - Violin, Electronics
Gabi ‘Moog’ Matzeu – Moog, Juno, SH101
Steph Patten – Cello
Yoon-Ji Kim – Violin
My family (also in no particular order) Rachel, Reuben, Neath and our latest addition Nova.

...

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Replicas

Gideon Wolf - Profit

“A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.”

As with most things in life there is a backstory to how this single came into being. Earlier this year Craig and I invited Kira Kira to contribute an album to our new label Letra Rec, and to our combined delight she agreed! A plan was hatched and we expected to hear results early 2019, and promptly got on with our other activities.

Early December I received and email from Kira Kira with an mp3 and the seed of an idea, to release a single “A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love” in celebration of the winter solstice, the forthcoming holy season and Kira Kira’s birthday. After a few back and forth mails the idea had begun to take root and things were in motion. I would remix the track as an exclusive digital b-side, and in the spirit of the season we would donate all proceeds to UNICEF’s Yemen appeal (https://www.unicef.org.uk/donate/yemen/). 

It has been a mad rush to the finishing line getting all the bits together but with hearts full of hope we are pleased to release into the world “A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love”.  We would also like to send a big hug to our friends at Boomkat for hosting this yuletide release. - Andrew Hargreaves (TLO)

.......

I came across these words in “A Course in Miracles,” one of the greater canons of contemporary spiritual literature originally published by The Foundation for Inner Peace in 1976. When I read this for the first time: “A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love,” something changed in me. It felt amazing, just reading these words, so I underlined them. And then I wrote them up on a piece of paper and taped it to my wall. Can it be that a bouquet of words has presence? Spirit, even? Being fearful is a pain, it truly is. I’d like to be in love, not fear, so I began to witness these kinds of shifts. To consciously, actively transform fear to love by being present with it and singing is such a primal, effective way to do that.

I’ve practiced Yoga and meditation avidly for about 10 years now and so I am well familiar with the practice of using mantras as medicine for the mind and spirit. But finding words outside the traditional arsenal of healing mantras that resonate with me personally was something else and has taken things to a new level. 

I hope this one can be of service to others as well. - Kira Kira

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A Miracle Is A Shift In Perception From Fear To Love

KIRA KIRA - A Miracle Is A Shift In Perception From Fear To Love (TLO RMX)

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Luciano Cilio "Interludio" da Dell'Universo Assente

River Without Banks

Field of Reeds

Thanya Iyer - "I Just Lay Down My Head"

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Kinlaw - Blindspot

Kinlaw - Permissions

New single from Mandy, Indiana out now on Fire Talk

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Nike of Samothrace

Mandy, Indiana - Nike Of Samothrace

From the album Carter Tanton, available May 7, 2021 on Western Vinyl.
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Written and recorded by Carter Tanton.  Mixed by John Agnello.

Lyrics:
the black boys on mopeds
well, now they ride dirt bikes
whip ‘em east over north ave.
in the middle of the night
they don’t give a damn who’s in the graveyard
wanna pick at the wound
steep angles on the back wheels
they make street lamps swoon
steep angles on the back wheels
under a waning moon
black-eyed susans
don’t last long
however they form round Booth’s headstone
I need a good once over
of those who confide in me
“the whole goddamn mess was over the economy, man”
the black boys on mopeds
well now they’ve mastered dirt bikes
whip ‘em east over north ave
& wake me up in the night
I don’t give a damn who’s in the graveyard
wanna pick at the wound
steep angles on the back wheels
make street lamps swoon
steep angles on the back wheels
serenade John Booth

Field of Reeds

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