At The Top Of This Hill

Official Video - https://youtu.be/OBdkA6RjCcY
https://www.fictonain.com   -  https://www.facebook.com/fictonian   
Lyrics:
I've been swallowing the words i'm pondering,
the nights are my days and i'm seeing the world as a melody,
and it's not fictional.

I've been colouring the thoughts i'm wondering,
the worlds on my walls and the pictures have poured out in front of me,
and it's not fictional. 

I'll paint you a boat then i'll push you along,
lets un-batten the hatches and jump out to join everyone. 

See that star, it isn't too far, 
If it's in your heart, lets make it be ours. 

Don't look back, it's only a memory,
and i've been told - to never feel old...

We'll ferry from island to island for free,
then we'll sing and we'll dance and we'll bury the book in the sea. 

See that star, it isn't too far,
If it's in you heart - lets make it be ours. 

Make it Be Ours

Shallows

If you buy our EP, housetrained unicorns will arrive at your front door! http://rebelkites.bandcamp.com/album/the-witnessing

Thanks to @seanxoleary and @indieshuffle on the premiere: http://www.indieshuffle.com/rebel-kites-atlas-sky-premiere/

Say hey: www.facebook.com/rebelkites

Credits:
Lyrics // Alex Story & Polly Jones 
Music // Alex Story
Arrangement // Rebel Kites
Produced and Engineered by Alex Story
Mixed by Ashley Krajewski
Additional Mixing by Alex Story
Additional Production by Iain Lowery
Mastered at Metropolis by John Davis
Artwork by Simon Fowler / Cataract Publishing

Alex Story - vocals, acoustic guitar, organs, additional electric guitars, additional percussion, plucked piano string
Polly Jones - vocals, violin
Marc Pradas Gene - electric guitar
Richard Blair - Harmonium, Pianos and Extra Percussion
Paul Tyan - Bass
Ed Broad - Drums
Gilo Cheney - Bowed bass
Fran Bury - violin
Iain Lowery - Additional Pianos

© Rebel Kites 2015
www.rebelkites.com

Get in touch:
E:: info@rebelkites.com


Atlas Sky

All I Wanted Was a Guitar (Fingerstyle instrumental)

North Swallow (EP)

Taken from forthcoming album 'Carved From Tides' 
Preorder available - www.messagetobears.com

Press contact - jeff.schofield@typepr.com

'On Message To Bears’ fourth LP Carved From Tides Jerome Alexander throws all caution to the wind and delivers an experience emotive enough to tug at every fibre in a heartstring. Released on 1 July, Carved From Tides sees Jerome eschew the arbitrary boundaries that have been erected between synthetic music and music made on more traditional instruments. Lead single ‘I’ll Lead You There’ is exemplary. Starting with a gloomy acoustic arpeggio that wouldn’t be out of place in the hands of Elliott Smith or Nick Drake, its folky textures are soon penetrated by a thudding beat over which collaborator Will Samson lends his tender reverberating vocals. The heart-wrenching mood of the arrangement lends it a depth of feeling that characterises the whole LP.'

'Jerome’s love of ambient music is highlighted in the opener ‘Never Be’. It’s a cinematic start to the album, replete with sweeping synths and strings. The muffled piano lends some rhythmic shape to its openness. It ends tempestuously, with thunderous bass raging against the dying synths as it refuses to go gently into the night.'

Of his mentality when creating Carved From Tides Jerome says:
"The album is supposed to reflect a transitional period in one's life, referencing change in circumstances, decisions, relationships with others and evolution as an individual, whether subtle or not, which thereby influences where you are now, and realising wherever you are now is ok, and that you are in a constant state of flux. When writing it, I was going through what felt like a very transitional period myself, and I guess this was my way of processing it."

'Composed, recorded and produced between both his home and studio in North-East London over the past year, Carved From Tides is Jerome’s most sophisticated work yet. The title refers to the capacity of something fluid and transitional to be able to affect and mould what appears to be solid and stable over time. It is through the fluidness of Jerome’s approach - in not pigeonholing instruments with expectations of what sort of music they should make - that Jerome achieves just this. The fluidity of music itself is the tide that he carves his masterwork from. And the success he achieves here is solid indeed.'

Spin/Float (feat. Gemma Alexander)

We are extremely excited to bring you an exclusive track from the upcoming Message To Bears album 'Carved From Tides'...

On Message To Bears’ fourth LP Carved From Tides Jerome Alexander throws all caution to the wind and delivers an experience emotive enough to tug at every fibre in a heartstring. Released on 1st July, Carved From Tides sees Jerome eschew the arbitrary boundaries that have been erected between synthetic music and music made on more traditional instruments. Lead single ‘I’ll Lead You There’ is exemplary. Starting with a gloomy acoustic arpeggio that wouldn’t be out of place in the hands of Elliott Smith or Nick Drake, its folk-like textures are soon penetrated by a thudding beat over which collaborator Will Samson lends his tender reverberating vocals. The heart-wrenching mood of the arrangement lends it a depth of feeling that characterises the whole LP. 

Jerome’s love of ambient music is highlighted in the opener ‘Never Be’. It’s a cinematic start to the album, replete with sweeping synths and strings. The muffled piano lends some rhythmic shape to its openness. It ends tempestuously, with thunderous bass raging against the dying synths as it refuses to go gently into the night. 

Read more here:

www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2016/06/message-to-bears-carved-from-tides

Pre-Order here:

www.messagetobears.com/album/carved-from-tides




Message To Bears - Blossom

The Fox & the Sparrow

Empty

Change Your Love

After multiple contributions to each others' recordings over the years, two friends Jerome Alexander (Message To Bears) and Will Samson present a fully collaborative release, Together.

The six track album was created in just 8 days during late 2019 at Jerome's home studio in Bristol, UK. No songs were written prior to the recording sessions, allowing the music to be guided by spontaneity and intuition.

Released February 14, 2020

Stream: https://spoti.fi/2UPXFM8
DL: https://messagetobears.com/album/together

Album artwork by Benoît Pioulard.
Mastered by Taylor Deupree.

Together

Saola (with Will Samson)

Message To Bears is the alias of composer and multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander. 
Pre-order 'Maps' on limited edition white vinyl - https://www.diggersfactory.com/vinyl/281831
All other enquiries - messagetobears@live.com