Tiny Ruins

Tiny Ruins- Knights of the Road

From 'Haunts', an EP of older songs & B-sides, released February 2013.

Rolling Mill Blues - Peg Leg Howell cover

From our 'Haunts' EP released in early 2013.

Holes In My Pockets

From debut album 'Some Were Meant for Sea', released in 2011.

Running Through The Night

From debut album 'Some Were Meant for Sea', released May, 2011.

Adelphi Apartments

I think it all started a couple of months ago. It was a dear friend -Henry or Aubben I think- who pointed me towards the talent of a singer called Tiny Ruins. So I went over and listened to her songs, and watched how the rest of the evening turned into a blur. A couple of days later we both sent our cd's to the other side of the world, and her music conquered my house. Not a day has passed since the day I found the package in the mailbox without me listening to the record at least once. It is one of the most honest and beautiful records I have heard in a very long time. And it is part of me now.

Then last week, after having restlessly looked for the heart of a Saturday night and not having found it, I couldn't sleep. Sheets and blankets kicked around again. And words started coming to my mind, so after half an hour of battling my insomnia I got up and scribbled them down. The sun came up while I was playing the melody on the guitar, softly so as not to wake the neighbors through the open window. But the weird and wonderful part was that I did not hear myself sing it. It was Hollie's voice singing about roads to nowhere and restlessness. So I asked her if she'd consider singing the track, and she kindly accepted. For which I am so grateful. Because here it is now, a week and a bit later. A song that has travelled from Spain to New Zealand and back a couple of times. Hollie singing and playing cello, a gentle friend of hers playing the banjo. And me floating on the beauty they made.

Road to nowhere. We hope you like it. 

Road to Nowhere (w/ Tiny Ruins)

From 'Brightly Painted One', released May 2014.

Chainmail Maker

Straw Into Gold

Tiny Ruins - The Priest With Balloons (Live on Radiant)

Tiny Ruins - Dream Wave

Hurtling Through

Wandering Aengus

Tread Softly

Little Did I Know

King's County

Public Menace

Turn Around

A Singer of Songs lives in Barcelona while Tiny Ruins is from New Zealand. The two knew each other through their music, but had not met. This all changed in 2010, when they embarked on a small and noble tour of northern Spain. One hospital visit, one birthday cake, several piggy-back rides, a couple of tequilas and thousands of wrong turns later, and they’d recorded six songs during one week, in the room of a charming old apartment in Barcelona.

The result was the lovely EP 'Little Notes', which this track is taken from.

You can listen to / download / find out more over on HI54LOFI RECORDS: http://hi54lofirecords.com/littlenotes

Tiny Ruins

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