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You've got kind eyes They shut so well at night Shut tight   This time I haven't dreamed I only seem to lie Wide-eyed  And when I leave I can forget if you need  Waiting for the sun To shine on what I've done Done  And I hope what happened here Isn't a stain on your year My dear  And when I leave I can forget if it puts you at ease  I would like to keep The way in which you sleep With me  But when I leave I can forget if you need

Our Voices Shook Hands The Other Day

Armellodie Records is proud to present Dunfermline’s Dan Lyth and the Euphrates with their new album, Benthic Lines, released as a Deluxe book (that’s right, we said book!) with CD and/or download on Monday 12th May 2014.

Dan Lyth was born in the Middle East but has lived most of his life in Dunfermline, Fife. A sound designer by day, Lyth began work on Benthic Lines some five years ago, his intention to record an album entirely outdoors. On rooftops and rowing boats, in forests and high streets, mountains and quarries, ruined churches and beaches, car parks and peat bogs. Anywhere really, as long as it was outside!

Having first had the idea while on a trip to Sierra Leone, Lyth quickly realised that it's one thing to daydream of such a plan whilst in the tropics and quite another to actually attempt it back at home in Scotland. 

“I think some part of me took perverse pleasure in the thought of having to undergo some real physical exertion to make this record. I have also always been drawn to creative work that has taken a considerable amount of effort, and recording an album outdoors whilst living in Scotland with its devious climate seemed to fit the bill.”

In an age when it seems anyone can produce an album in their bedroom, Benthic Lines attempts to re-explore the relationship between music and the environment in which it is created. What happens to a recording when you have no control over the surroundings? What anomalies and accidents may occur? And would it be possible to weave together the unpredictable sounds of these environments with more traditional performances to create a cohesive whole?

As Lyth’s fondness of field recording has grown more ambitious, so too has his talent as a songwriter. Album opener ‘All My Love’ is testament to this, merging the mythological with the reality of the uncertainties that are brought when becoming a father for the first time. The vivid imagery of ‘Four Creatures’, written from the perspective of someone living in Syria, draws upon Islamic and Christian eschatological imagery to startling effect.

The influence of Steve Reich is worth noting, from the repetitive female vocal sounds on ‘Standing Start’ to the cyclic piano and accordion patterns of ‘Super Nature’ and ‘Earth Broke Its Vow’, Lyth is the first to admit of his affection for Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians. 

“A big chunk of inspiration came from Steve Reich’s work and one of the main aims of the album in terms of the arrangements was to try and make music that sounds electronic or programmed but is actually all live acoustic instruments.” says Lyth. 

Benthic Lines are the deep sea communication cables through which the world is now connected, and communication is a recurring theme throughout the record ("the cables installed along ocean floors is where we had lived too long for sure" sings Lyth on ‘How It Happened’). How our constant use of communication technology can affect our thought processes and relationships (“We shot some video, scenes that would not be shown, think what you will but the devil’s in the pixels on my phone”, sings Lyth on ‘Four Creatures’).   With recording having taken place in locations as far afield as Morocco, Australia, Turkey and Uganda, Dan is also exploring the lines of human connection and lines of ancestry.

Designed with love by graphic artist Sarah Lyth, the album arrives in a beautifully bound 60-page book and includes photos from the array of recording locations. Cover art from celebrated New York artist Matthew Cusick and an accompanying short story, Already Here, by talented Fifer Craig Rennie complete the desirable artefact that is Benthic Lines. So what has Lyth got to say for himself now that his affair with the great outdoors is almost over.

“After travelling, listening, recording and being constantly surprised over the course of the five years and four continents that I’ve made Benthic Lines, what will really stay with me is not only all the wonderful sounds we heard but also the many inquisitive, open-minded and generous people we met along the way. But it wasn’t all romantic. It’s quite hard work transporting a drum kit to a remote derelict church or dragging a piano out of a small flat. There were broken mic stands, bleeding fingers and failing batteries. And there was rain, a lot of rain.”


DAN LYTH & THE EUPHRATES - All My Love

Somewhere To Go

Owl & Mouse - Don't Read The Classics

Sophie Jamieson - Stain

'Go Try' is taken from Wilsen's new four track 'Magnolia' EP.

The ‘Magnolia’ EP will be released on the 19th of May and will coincide with the trio’s debut London show at The Slaughtered Lamb on the 6th May.

28th April - Nottingham, Bodega* 
30th April - London, Dingwalls*
 1st May - Bristol, The Fleece*

6th May - London, Slaughtered Lamb (headline show) Tickets: http://www.communionmusic.co.uk/live

7th May - London, St John on Bethnal Green (solo show, supporting Broken Twin)  
8th May - Unification Church, Brighton (Great Escape) 
 9th May - Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar, Brighton (Great Escape)

*supporting Matthew & The Atlas.

Tracklisting for the ‘Magnolia’ EP: ‘Magnolia’, ‘Go Try’, ‘Sea To Sea’ & ‘Emperor’

For more information on Wilsen visit:

 www.facebook.com/wilsenmusic 
www.twitter.com/wilsenmusic

Wilsen - "Go Try"

From the Inside

Rae's debut album 'Unguarded' is out now!
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Available on iTunes

Under The Shadows

Seabear - Cold Summer

Pre-order the physical EP here: http://bit.ly/LearnToKiss
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Learn To Kiss

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Free download: http://www.thewildhoneypie.com/otherlives/

Other Lives - No Trouble (Buzzsession)

Single taken from Dan Michaelson's new album Sudden Fiction. Released November 7th 2011 on Edition/s Recordings.

BREAKING FALLS

"Down at the bottom of bank street
There's a house, stands up all by itself
With nothing to lean on

You'll find nobody home
cept the leaves the rain the dirt the howling wind
sings a restless song

Stuck in the heart of your homeland
Is a knife, you cannot help but twist
Though you don't know it yet

And right in the eye of the hurricane
There you stood you wept you brought out something pure
and there you buried it
(For anyone to find)

Restless , endless, nameless, deathless, voiceless, deathless, restless restless

Back in the garden of england
They say deep in these hills there is a crown
Which will bloom when it is needed

And though they all think you're unstable
You keep telling everyone the ravens have left the tower
Did you finally lose your patience

Restless , endless, nameless, deathless, voiceless, deathless, restless restless
All these old buildings make us feel like children

Wooden Arms - Restless

JBM - Winter Ghosts

Julia Stone's new solo album 'By The Horns' available May 29th, 2012. PRE-ORDER the new album NOW at: www.itunes.com/juliastone

Visit Julia Stone online:

http://www.juliastonemusic.com/
http://www.facebook.com/JuliaStoneOfficial
http://www.myspace.com/juliastonemusic
http://www.twitter.com/juliastonemusic
http://juliastoneofficial.tumblr.com/

Julia Stone - The Line That Ties Me

Xenia Kriisin - Firearms

Xenia Kriisin - Vocals, Zither, bass pedal
Johan Hjalmarsson - Drums
Karin Verbaan - Vocals
Lina Larsson - Vocals
Hannah Shermis - Vocals
Maja Jerneborg - Vocals

Music/lyrics by Xenia Kriisin
Produced/mixed by Johan Hjalmarsson
Mastered by Hans Olsson

Single Release date 25th of April 2013
Label: Luxury

Xenia Kriisin - Firearms

Luv Luv Luv Records.

Gabriel Bruce single 'Cars Not Leaving' here: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/cars-no…ngle/id596343392
and the album ‘Love In Arms' here: http://bit.ly/13Xq0ja
out May 6th.




Sophie Jamieson - Stain

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