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From the album Daughter of Everything, out February 25, 2014 on Merge Records.


Daughter of Everything

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Vertical Scratchers "These Plains"

When the needle hits the grooves of We Are the Star People, listeners instantly drift away to a celestial arena where endless stacks of amplifiers drench and bathe them in sonic overdrive bliss. The doors of the cosmos stretch open upon a spiritual haven where Tony Iommi and Ace Frehley freely trade guitar licks with Marc Bolan and George Harrison. Majestic, timeless and epic—Turn Me On Dead Man conjures the fantastic-ness of the nebulas with power-chords so heavy and melodies so sweet.  While the band frolics in a lysergic glam rock playground, their songs touch on things much deeper and more surreal. Does the title track refer to native Americans invaded by outsiders or is it a play on the Hollywood star mentality? The mighty “Dreamchild” is a pure pop song of redemption; “Deep Space Pollen” is space rock at its finest with druggy vocals yearning to understand the UFO / alien abduction phenomenon. “Let Them Eat Flowers” is psychedelic perfection, and “Heart of the Deaf,” the most traditional tune on the album, provides a free tarot reading with every play. We Are the Star People encompasses what analog is all about—an album born for the LP format, a document for the ages that needs to be held in one’s hand. Recorded on two-inch tape like a record should be, turn it up loud, burn out and head into space at warp speed. Is it the ’70s? Is this the ’90s? No man, it’s now!

Turn Me On Dead Man - Dreamchild

From the Lost Colony 12-inch, out April 29, 2014 on Merge Records.
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Lost Colony

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William Tyler "Whole New Dude"

Timber Timbre shares an alternate version of "Curtains?!" from 'Hot Dreams', featuring the haunting vocals of Fiver, solo project of Toronto singer-songwriter Simone Schmidt, also known for fronting The Highest Order. Timber Timbre offers some insight on the gestation of "Curtains?!", which Schmidt co-wrote with the band, ahead of Fiver's supporting slot on the upcoming Timber Timbre US tour. Details below.

""Curtains?!" is nearest to a rock song that the band has ever recorded up to date. When we were creating the bed tracks, we thought we were doing something in the world of German kraut rock band Can, but Graham Lessard, our sound engineer, made the reference to Lalo Schifrin's soundtrack for Dirty Harry. Simone Schmidt of Fiver composed the lyrics about a man's fallen career and his double life exposed."

Timber Timbre US tour dates:

4/25 - Brooklyn NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg*
4/27 - Washington DC - Rock and Roll Hotel*
4/29 - Carrboro NC - Cat's Cradle*
5/1 - Atlanta GA - Terminal West
5/2 - Nashville TN - Exit / In*
5/3 - Louisville KY - Zanzabar*
5/4 - Newport KY - Southgate House Revival*
5/5 - St. Louis MO - Off Broadway Nightclub*
5/7 - Iowa City IA - The Mill*
5/8 - Minneapolis MN - The Varsity*
5/9 - Madison WI - Memorial Union Terrace*
5/10 - Chicago IL - Empty Bottle*
5/23 - Toronto ON - Massey Hall
6/3 - Los Angeles CA - The Troubadour
6/5 - San Francisco CA - The Independent
6/7 - Portland OR - Mississippi Studios
6/8 - Seattle WA - The Crocodile
6/10 - Vancouver BC - Commodore Ballroom
6/12 - Edmonton AB - Starlite Room
6/13 - Calgary AB - The Republik
6/14 - Saskatoon SK - Broadway Theatre
6/16 - Winnipeg MB - Union Hall

* w/ Fiver

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Timber Timbre feat. Fiver - Curtains?!

Select tracks from Timber Timbre's Creep On Creepin' On

Release Date: April 5, 2011

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Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On

Hospitality - Going Out

First single from the new Woods album, City Sun Eater In The River Of Light, out April 8, 2016.

WOODS
CITY SUN EATER IN THE RIVER OF LIGHT
LABEL: WOODSIST
CD / LP / CS / DL
Street Date: April 8, 2016

"Woods have always been experts at distilling life epiphanies into compact chunks of psychedelic folk that exists just outside of any sort of tangible time or place. Maybe those epiphanies were buried under cassette manipulation or drum-and-drone freakouts, or maybe they were cloaked in Jeremy Earl’s lilting falsetto, but over the course of an impressive eight albums, Woods refined and drilled down their sound into City Sun Eater in the River of Light, their ninth LP and second recorded in a proper studio. It’s a dense record of rippling guitar, lush horns, and seductive, bustling anxiety about the state of the world. It’s still the Woods you recognize, only now they’re dabbling in zonked out Ethiopian jazz, pulling influence from the low key simmer of Brown Rice, and tapping into the weird dichotomy of making a home in a claustrophobic city that feels full of possibility even as it closes in on you. City Sun Eater in the River of Light is concise, powerful, anxious—barreling headlong into an uncertain, constantly shifting new world." -Sam Hockley-Smith


WOODS - SUN CITY CREEPS

"I Have Been To The Mountain" - by Kevin Morby off of 'Singing Saw,' out April 15th on Dead Oceans

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"I Have Been To The Mountain" - by Kevin Morby off of 'Singing Saw,' out April 5th on Dead Oceans

I Have Been To The Mountain

Kevin Morby - I Have Been To The Mountain

Quiet The Pilot- Stick Around Some

From the album Gentle Spirit by Jonathan Wilson.  Released on Bella Union 2011.

Desert Raven

Nick Waterhouse - Song For Winners

From the album MCII, out May 7 (US) and May 13 (Europe) on Merge Records.
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MCII

Mikal Cronin "Shout It Out"

(5) Forge Your Own Chains - D.R Hooker

Nice Swan Records are excited to announce they are joining forces with the team from RIP Records in launching the new monthly Nice Swan Introduces... series. The two labels have discovered and released debut tracks from some of the finest talent over the past few years including Sports Team, Pip Blom, FUR, Phobophobes, Peluché, Dark Bells (Haai)
& Black Manila (Mellah), Hotel Lux and many more. The series will introduce a new and exciting talent on a monthly basis – spanning genres – and present a stepping stone for acts yet to have any team around them.

The first in the new series comes from South London’s Jelly Cleaver, the latest musical sensation to emerge from the exciting Jazz scene of the capital. Her new track ‘Feeling Fine’ features rapper Shunaji, a graduate of Gilles Peterson’s
Future Bubblers, and Maddy Coombs, a rising saxophonist on the London Jazz Scene. It’s due for release April 28th via Nice Swan Introduces Series.

The self-taught multi-instrumentalist has been playing guitar ever since she was old enough to pick one up and with a wide range of musical influences including classical, soul, “world”, folk and experimental. Jelly’s sound has naturally headed into the musical freedom of jazz with hip-hop elements born from previous projects that included a punk band and an African drumming choir.

This is the second single from Jelly’s innovative new project Reimagined, following on from They Don’t Know released in
November 2019. For this mixtape she has produced tracks based off sampling her last critically acclaimed album The Dream Jazz Manifesto (played on BBC 1xtra, Rinse FM, Worldwide FM and others). Feeling Fine samples her tune
Angela, reimagining it as a chilled-out, old-school hip-hop track. Jelly, who recently won the Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award, has previously been called “the next artist to make an impact on the London Jazz Scene” by Supreme Standards
and been compared to Moses Boyd, Esperanza Spalding and Hiatus Kayote, but this mixtape sees a radical departure from her jazz/DIY roots and her first strong statement as a producer and beatmaker. The project has been funded by Help Musicians Do It Differently Fund, and the full mixtape is due for release in May 2020.

‘Feeling Fine’ is a woozy track about the good times, dreaming about summer days and being your best self.

Her two collaborators definitely share in this vibe. Having met as part of the house band for a jam session at Brainchild Festival several years back, Jelly and Vanessa Saul (artist name Shunaji) became good mates and frequent collaborators, with Jelly supporting Shunaji for her Blue Melon EP release and featuring on a track from her upcoming EP. Jelly knew Maddy Coombs though Tomorrow’s Warriors, the jazz education organisation credited by many for creating the current London jazz scene, with alumni including Ezra Collective, Moses Boyd, Shabaka Hutchings, Nerija and Nubya Garcia.

Feeling Fine

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Jelly Cleaver Ft Shunaji & Maddy Coombs - Feeling Fine

"Carolina" is from TEEN's EP of the same name.

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TEEN - Carolina

Pokey LaFarge and his band bring a focus and energy to the American Roots genre with infectious original material that sits at the crossroads of early jazz, country blues and western swing. With his effortless charisma and distinctive charm, Pokey has crafted a genre all his own--and one that extends well beyond the music alone. Summertime is the right time for Pokey's sun-blessed riverboat style, and we are proud to release this self-titled full length LP / CD produced by Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor. 

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William Tyler "Whole New Dude"

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