Self described as “suicide pop”, their debut album “Oh Unhappy Bella” is the narrative of a boy and his sombre, twisted journey through love with a girl who never existed -- none of the dark bits removed. “Suicide pop isn’t a glorification of sadness or anything like that,” says Johnny Glass. “These things happen, we’ve all been through something horrible and this was our way of putting that into song through the vehicle of someone else’s story.” 

That story was Sidney’s (Kauffman): “I spent a whole summer doing menial work painting fences and out of that mind numbing abyss has come this whole project, the story, everything.” All the work has been done in the shadow of their redbrick dwelling in a little outbuilding they’ve recreated as an amateur studio. “It’s all we ever wanted, just a little room to play about in and make some tunes,” says Tommy Cowley. “Only this time we had a story and a concept”. 

Utilising the DIY ideals laid down by the punk generation before them, RA! have made a point of making this project an entirely self-made operation. Everything from producing, to mastering, to graphics has all been the work of a select coterie of friends and co-conspirators. And now they’re ready to share this less-than-gleeful project with the world, in the hope that - ironically - it might just put some smiles on people’s faces.

Raw acoustic melancholy, built on foundations of jazz, trip-hop and folk.
 
London-based singer-songwriter, Louise Coady, has been making music all her life. After years spent working with bands and producers, her latest project strips everything back. 
 
Citing inspiration from artists such as Elliott Smith, Feist, Fiona Apple, School of Seven Bells and Fink - her songs paint pictures of love, loss, smoke and haze.

'English Folk meets Americana. Beautiful stuff' - BBC Introducing

Coley Garratts songs are steeped in the rich musical traditions of his home, best exemplified by the early Folk superstars of Bert Jansch, John Martyn, Nick Drake and Richard Thompson to name just a few.  At the same time he draws much inspiration from the great Americana troubadours and balladeers such as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Ryan Adams and The Band.

He constantly wanders between these two vast musical landscapes mining for songs. Any gems he is lucky enough to find get washed and cut through his unique lyrical perspective which have been inspired by a deep love of Poetry, Philosophy and Mysticism (Pope, Shakespeare, Ted Hughes, Schopenhauer, Huxley and the Tao Te Ching to name just a handful) 

Over the years he has written hundreds of songs in a constant labour of love to perfect his craft and is currently in the process of recording and cataloguing as many of them as possible.
  
His self-titled debut EP released in May 2019 is a 5 song collection of some previous recordings as an Introduction. 

New videos are also available on YouTube.

Femme fronted four piece, Mayflys' quirky brand of dreamy cloud pop has been described as "the sound of long hot summers, ice cream, summer dresses and freshly mown grass".

With roots in differing genres their music blends jazz, rock, latin, funk and hip hop into something that’s fresh and unique. With new tracks and videos in the pipeline, festival appearances and a live BBC Radio 4 performance under their belt, Mayflys is a band that's moving.

For more information please visit www.mayflysmusic.com

I'm a freelance musician and composer based in London. Uploaded are examples of music I've made for TV and other projects in a variety of genres and styles.

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