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SLA11: Lullaby for the Dead by @angehalliwell

Type: Album
Format: Digital / CD
Releasedate: July 8th 2022
Cat. number: SLA12

Ange Halliwell first touched the harp when he was 12 years old. From the verdant countryside of southwestern France, he composes music combining hypnotic arpeggios, sound layers and voices sometimes sung, spoken or shouted. Ange Halliwell's creations are intimately linked to nature. They feed on multiple influences: traditional music, lyricism, contemporary hyper pop... We can hear the sound of cicadas in his music, in his clips, we run alongside Pastou, his faithful companion and muse. In a total project, Ange Halliwell creates a musical and visual universe that is both luminous and melancholy.

With his new album "Lullaby for the dead", Ange explores different universes in which grief, creatures, hopes and contemplation are mixed. Through his electric harp and other elements such as the voice, the hurdy-gurdy or a tale, each piece is like a prayer, a tribute to these invisible worlds and these emotions that overwhelm us all at some point in our lives. "Fly, fly beautiful soul! The afterlife awaits you..."

Mixed & mastered by Lorenzo Targhetta
'Walk Away' produced by Milyma & Ange
'Harvest Moon' hurdy-gurdy played by Camecrude
Cover idea by Malibu
Thank you to Milena, Valentin, Ludovic, Paula, Marylou, Anaïs, Alex

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Ange Halliwell — 'Walk away' (Milyma)

"Me & You" releases June 2, 2023

‘Me & You’ is Betty Hammerschlag’s first Transatlantic venture. It’s made up of unwound and reconstituted pop fragments, spun out and stretched and remoulded to hypnotise. It captures the gloss and sentiment of mass-audience chart-toppers, pitch-perfect music calibrated for maximal emotional resonance, and refracts it to dazzling, intimate effect.

Opener ‘Boyfriend’ is pure pining, a swarm of stomach butterflies in flight. ‘Focusedd’ floats a breathy Bieber vocal shard over a circuitous Harry Styles acapella, made weightless by delicate synth caresses. It’s imperfect and warm, like reconstructed memories. The golden-pink haze of ‘You Know Wassup’ stands as the EP’s centrepiece, a swoon-inducing soft-focus heartstopper made to sigh to. These songs caress and pulse with new life, synthetic pop outputs rendered organic. Pure feeling.
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Production & Arrangement by Betty Hammerschlag
Artwork by Betty Hammerschlag
Words by Madjestic Kasual
Mastered by Ax Emblem f.k.a Cellvl

Me & You

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Freak Mode

Holy Ghost

The Light

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Book 1

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Format: Digital / CD
Release Date: 7th of October, 2024
Mastered by Wiry
Cover by Wiry
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House Garden

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Buy: https://bugbuspiano.bandcamp.com/album/passing-through-all-happy-dreams-like-hallways-2

‘Passing Through All Happy Dreams Like Hallways’ is an album by New York City-based artist Bug Bus Piano (@goodnightbed). It’s on TT.

It’s a world. A zone of elusive memories and insomniac fog. An album of murky mirages, slow-spiralling smoke plumes, gently bobbing streetlights viewed through bleary eyes during hours outside of time. Dream-to-mp3 conversion.

The spectral hypnagogia of ‘Blue And Purple Ribbons In The Hallways’ and ‘Tired’ haunt and soothe in equal measure, while the low-lidded vignettes of ‘Unlucky’ #1 through #6 conjure ghostly, stairwell-dwelling figures. Sleep paralysis angels. Whispering windows and shadows that sigh.

This is night music. ‘Open-Air Factory (Entering The Battlefield Version)’ is a mind playing tricks on itself, ‘All Clocks Stopped And The Dream Rewound’ is pure sleepwalking sugar. Songs that flicker and glow like candlelight, music about half-hallucinated conversations that might have meant everything or nothing at all. Blurry mnemonic outlines of encounters that feel significant, if you could only bring them to mind. There’s truth in dreams, but a weary head is hard to trust.

Per ‘Lucky’: “The path into the light seems dark. The path forward seems to go back. The direct path seems long. True power seems weak. True purity seems tarnished. True steadfastness seems changeable. True clarity seems obscure. The greatest art seems unsophisticated. The greatest love seems indifferent. The greatest wisdom seems childish.”

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Released on TT.

All music by Bug Bus Piano
Mastering: Robert Venning, aka DJ Pitch
Cover art: Bug Bus Piano, Josh Crumpler
Words: Madjestic Kasual
A&R: Madjestic Kasual

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