DEBUT ALBUM Burning It Feels Like OUT NOW on Heavenly Recordings

Post Genre Music

“Equal parts R&B star and punk frontwoman” - Loud and Quiet

“Fran Lobo is the enigma that can’t be pinned down… With shades and recalls of Kate Bush, Alice Coltrane and Prince.” - Clash

“With a voice like Nina Simone on Plain Gold Ring and a theatrical ambition like Bjork.” - CRACK

Ive decided to keep putting up rough song ideas and see if anyone would like to sing or rap on them. The tracks are very short so im only after a small amount of vocals to see if you fit the song. Please download the tracks and send them back to me with your new vocals added. Feel free to loop sections if you need to Eg. verse, chorus if you feel they are not long enough. If I like your vocals i will be in contact with you and take it from there. My goal to have enough collaborations for an album.
Hope you have fun and I cant wait to hear your ideas.



NICE PLACE
Not just another indie band to rejoice about...this is the real thing.  After only playing a handfull of shows in London, Nice Place have already been causing quite a stir. Recently unveiling their video for future single "Recovering" - a contemplative, 3 minute outpouring that sounds like it could be huge, indie music lovers and bloggers alike are starting to pay attention. Echoing, reverb soaked guitars hark back to late 80s heroes such as Slowdive and Ride, although you'd be forgiven for thinking that U2's Edge was in town on some tracks, with Brett Anderson on guest vocal fronting a modern day The Laas.  But this is no supergroup, and Nice Place have songs that could go all the way. The band will release "Her Face" with SouthCoast Recordings in the Summer

Ice Cream Bear  - "Excellent sounds from Nice Place nodding to The Beatles, David Bowie, Radiohead and Suede."

Nice Place are playing Lost in the Manor @ The Finsbury, Friday 2nd Dec.

The next single "It's Pretend" will be released in the new year 2017!

Guitarist Joe Hodgson hails from the village of Ballymagorry in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. His music, shaped by his upbringing during The Troubles, mirrors the fierce rain and winds of the Emerald Isle. It is both sweeping and intense, boldly blending rock, blues, jazz, and Irish traditions into finely crafted instrumentals, which reveal a multi-facetted, emotive, and diverse performer. 

After many years playing and  recording with London based bands and touring throughout Europe, Joe returned to his birthplace in 2018. In 2020, he released his debut solo album “Apparitions” to wide critical acclaim. Guitar World called his playing “elite”. Prominent Canadian music journalist Steve Newton said he is “the best guitarist you’ve never heard of”. While ANR Factory described the album as "a modern-day masterpiece”.

In 2025, Hodgson is set to release his second solo album, “Fields Of Redemption”, which will be preceded by a series of singles. The first, a double A-side, comprising “The Grass Is Greener” and “Shapeshifting”, will be out on Friday, 28th March.

https://aloric.wixsite.com/aloric
contact: aloricband@gmail.com

Black Noise is the sound of two musical minds. Laurence René creating voices & Nick Kozuch deconstructing guitars & electronics. This is their exploration of the world, both personal and fantastical through cascading pop music that dwells within a dark (un)reality. At times optimistic, at times bleak,  this infectious honesty will resonate with other thinkers and listeners. 

Based on the outskirts of London, somewhere between the magnetic metropolis and rural Utopia. Laurence describes how this affects the outcome of Black Noise: “The city, the night-life, the diversity  are all things I soak up and embrace, at times in excess. This is where I feel at home. Living here most of my life I still find times where I’m in position of unknown and unexpected adventure. There is always something to inspire and always a new thrill to follow but like all things I need my time for reflection, away from the distractive buzz of the city, where I can collect my thoughts and put pen to paper, I find this is in my semi-rural retreat."

Inspired by film, philosophy, art, fashion, music of all shades & the experiences of being in a world that Laurence describes as “fucking itself”. Black Noise write dark pop music, where lyrics hint at themes of self destruction, apocalypse; the flaws of our race viewed with empathy or sarcasm. Black Noise is a silent sound. "We listened, fascinated at the thought of silence actually being sound; is silence actually a sound in itself? We begin with simplicity and nothingness and let rhythm and groove dictate the direction of sound. We were children of the '80s & 90's. Now we are older, fighting for survival in a very different world." This is Black Noise.

This duo may have only just arrived with Black Noise but this is by no means the start of their musical voyage. Nick and Laurence have honed and nurtured the idea of cult appeal in previous projects, graced airwaves and received media acclaim. Through major festivals, touring, radio sessions and video, the seeds of Black Noise have germinated and the true journey begins.

The collaboration of the duo is complemented live by other players on stage for an organic edge to the electrical frenzy of sound that is Black Noise. Sequenced loops, juxtaposed with the big beat of live drums, guitars skewered between knife edged synth lines, vocals left exposed, suddenly wrapped by lush harmonies to wash over open minds. The stage is set. Images still, then in violent movement. Vibrant colour to monochrome. Dark smoky room to frantic cities. Black Noise to assault your senses.

Laurence: "After years of creation within the music industry and my entire maturing process out in the open on public display I have arrived in a place that is uncomfortable and challenging. This is a place that is unsettling and hugely inspiring as a songwriter. I have learnt the importance of expression through a musical outlet and the unimportance of fame. Cut away the shit that surrounds all we do as musicians and reach the core and I find space, reflection and self healing. "


Currently secluded in their lair exploring art as sound and recording a collection of songs that encapsulate their very being. The first samples of the black noise sound have been made available online via….. just touching the surface of the kind of  work Black Noise has begun experimenting in. 
Open the door. 
Step inside Black Noise.


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