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Indie/Folk

Alternative and Indie Music

Dark Matter And Toxic Fumes

Message to Bears

The Paper Kites - St Clarity

♛LuQuS / Nollores - Silence♛

Never Expire

Never Expire (Oliver Tank Remix)

Darkest Place (Oceaán Remix)

Taken from new album 'Maps' https://messagetobears.bandcamp.com/album/maps

'Maps is the third LP from multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander, the man behind Message to Bears. 

Following on from the success of Folding Leaves, Jerome has created something that encapsulates the folksy ambience of previous releases whilst adding an electronic dimension. Building layer upon layer, songs evolve with a fragile intensity. Vocal melodies are draped over string and guitar arrangements and end up soaring over them, at the same time lending a hook instantly recognisable as Message To Bears and blending harmoniously with the arrangement. 

The overall result of Maps is something that is both startling and familiar. You are drawn in, given a map if you will, and invited on a musical journey that nods to Message to Bears' past but also leads to the future.'

Order from www.messagetobears.com

I Know You Love To Fall

From the album Folding Leaves

https://messagetobears.bandcamp.com/album/folding-leaves

Wake Me

Debut full-length, originally released on CD limited to 500 copies, Now only available on 180g Vinyl and digital downloads.

Running Through Woodland

Purchase "Montana" on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/montana-single/id799641047

Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

Purchase "Awake": http://shop.iso50.com/collections/awake

formats:
CD/LP/DIGITAL

artwork by:
ISO50

For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

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TWITTER - www.twitter.com/iso50 
FB - www.facebook.com/tychomusic 
YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/user/iso50 
INSTAGRAM - @iso50

Montana

From the "Atlas: Land" EP by Sleeping At Last

North

Novo Amor - Woodgate, NY (Full EP)
Brilliance Records. Download & Limited 12" Vinyls

ITunes: tinyurl.com/olvvour
Vinyl: tinyurl.com/pxtadye 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/novoamorsongs
Spotify: tinyurl.com/pkfanxv

LYRICS:
V1
Heal your frays, just to know you'll wear them thin again.
Peel off the name, that i gave and I knew you wore within.
Forget our nave, the summer spent within.
Chorus:
For all that its worth now you were worth it in the end,
For all off your worth I would lapse and fall again,
For all that its worth I would have loved you until the end,
But i'm cold in your heart and you're branded into mine.
V2
Bruise the hope, our endeavour would ever see the light,
choose your own, i'll face the world knowing that you've grown,
and i'll leave your curls and move past alone. 
Chorus
For all that its worth now you were worth it in the end,
For all off your worth I would lapse and fall again,
For all that its worth I would have loved you until the end,
But i'm cold in your heart and you're branded into mine.


Cold

Tempo de Pipa

Mimicking Birds - Burning Stars

Drone-laden folktronica for the nouveau hibernation

See the full photo-intraview - http://anegativenarrative.com/interviews/message-to-bears

Message To Bears - Autumn (worriedaboutsatan Remix)

Preview from new 'Moments EP' - http://messagetobears.com/album/moments-ep

J.R Alexander - Memories

Now available at the http://soundcloud.com/auxiliarylabel Surus store - http://bit.ly/Sea_of_Trees_Pre_Order

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Taken from our release on http://soundcloud.com/auxiliarylabel

AUXCD003 - Kiyoko - Sea Of Trees

CD / Digital - June 18th (Surus) / June 25th (everywhere else)

http://www.surus.co.uk/auxiliary

Buy now at the Auxiliary Surus store

Kiyoko - Dulcimer

Lana Del Rey - Born to Die (Cover by Eli Lieb)

Open Up

So Easy

Take Everything is the new album from Rivers & Robots, released 20th July 2012. You can listen to it with your ears!

You Saved My Soul

Sound In Silence is very pleased to welcome J.R Alexander (aka Message To Bears) with his new Moments EP.

Being already well known under the moniker of Message To Bears, the multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander has released so far two albums, one EP and one split album, all of them on the recently closed Dead Pilot Records.

This time he releases his new EP under a different alias, choosing for the first time to use his real name as the new tracks take a more electronic direction.
Moments EP is slightly less ambient and more beat based than his previous releases, while some of its tracks could have easily been released under the name of Message To Bears.

On Moments EP, J.R Alexander demonstrates a progression in his discography, creating five excellent tracks of beautiful soundscapes, using layers of electronics, warm synths, ethereal samples, gorgeous acoustic guitars, glockenspiel, piano and viola.
The finishing touch on the great sound of Moments EP was applied by the carefully done mastering of George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave).

This is a limited edition of 300 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert printed on nice fabric paper.

Available from www.messagetobears.com

J.R Alexander - I'm Glad

A beautiful remix from multi-instrumentalist, Jerome Alexander, AKA Message To Bears (http://messagetobears.com/)

The Light (Message to Bears Remix)

Sound In Silence is very pleased to welcome J.R Alexander (aka Message To Bears) with his new Moments EP.

Being already well known under the moniker of Message To Bears, the multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander has released so far two albums, one EP and one split album, all of them on the recently closed Dead Pilot Records.

This time he releases his new EP under a different alias, choosing for the first time to use his real name as the new tracks take a more electronic direction.
Moments EP is slightly less ambient and more beat based than his previous releases, while some of its tracks could have easily been released under the name of Message To Bears.

On Moments EP, J.R Alexander demonstrates a progression in his discography, creating five excellent tracks of beautiful soundscapes, using layers of electronics, warm synths, ethereal samples, gorgeous acoustic guitars, glockenspiel, piano and viola.
The finishing touch on the great sound of Moments EP was applied by the carefully done mastering of George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave).

This is a limited edition of 300 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert printed on nice fabric paper.

Available from www.messagetobears.com

Freaky as freak version of Ordinary Suns by Message to Bears.

Ordinary Suns - Message to Bears Remix

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