<b>Taken from new album 'Maps' https://messagetobears.bandcamp.com/album/maps</b>

<i>'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.'</i>

Order from www.messagetobears.com

I Know You Love To Fall

"Cardinal" is now available via iTunes! Check it out here - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cardinal-ep/id969469298


High & Low

From Husky's upcoming release of "Ruckers Hill", available June 2 in North America.

For more info visit us at www.nevadomusic.com and www.huskysongs.com

Husky - Mirror

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

New single from Message To Bears.

Released on Lost Birds 14th February 2025.

Half Light

Fernando Moresi-Haberman is a guitarist based in Barcelona, though he was born and raised in Buenos Aires. His discovery and subsequent immersion in the works of John Fahey, Robbie Basho, and William Tyler led him to begin working on his first EP titled Estudios (Études). 
These songs were birthed out of his desire to create a language-free space in which spontaneous sounds and formal elements of composition combine and take precedent over the spoken, or sung, word. Unrelenting in his recording habits, he grabs everything in one take, a method which sometimes drives him mad but has yielded this recording, which he sincerely hopes you will enjoy.

For more from Haberman check out the links below

@haberman-1
haberman.bandcamp.com 
www.facebook.com/habermanmusic

Haberman - Vida-muerte-vida De Un Mirlo

INDOME’s debut album ”Permission To Feel” drops on August 15th via Kommerz Records.

FOLLOW INDOME
Instagram: https://instagram.com/indome_candra/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1pwl71m2TVwrWmOMDpBLBw
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/artist/indome/1613928550
TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@indome143

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Bandcamp: https://kommerzrecords.bandcamp.com
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Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/profile/kommerzrecords

MORE INFO:

For young Berlin artist INDOME, seeking the stage spotlight whilst fostering a loving community around her is a transformative practice to emancipate from trauma and grief. What might seem contradictory – striving for independence against being emotionally available to her peers – goes hand in hand for INDOME.

Her debut album “Permission To Feel” is the emotionally striking testament of a talented, warm hearted girl with Southeast Asian roots, who grows up to be a woman in the south of Germany and Berlin. In the midst of the turmoil that is coming of age she had to deal with losing her Indonesian father. To process the loss and deal with new questions about identity, she eventually found solace in writing about it. Her album “permission to feel” explores the power of vulnerability: “I wanted to create a space where all emotions are allowed to be felt—whether positive or negative.”

Tracks like “Shame Ya” and “Permission To Feel” deal with shame, emotional repression, and the struggle for self-acceptance. “Island Girl” pays tribute to her Indonesian roots and her father with original field recordings from Bali, while “I’ll Be Alright” offers a light-hearted celebration of friendship and resilience.

Written and mostly produced by INDOME herself, the 10-track album blends intimate R&B vocals with contemporary electronic sound spheres, like Drum’n’Bass and Jungle. While taking the creative lead, INDOME collaborated with a talented cast of friends, many of them creatives from her hometown Freiburg who moved to Berlin alongside her. She wrote “I Choose You” together with her band collective kitch. Band member and experimental jazz artist Calida Ray plays piano on multiple songs. The band’s drummer, Leevi Lamadé alias LOUSELV, co-produced “Blurred Out Path” alongside JOHN PLAYER, another of her hometown affiliates. Just like Euro Chan who mixed the album with INDOME and produced three songs with his Berlin buddy Hazy030.

As part of a young, vibrant creative community in Berlin, INDOME created a visual campaign created in close collaboration with young creative duo Laís Yukie de Souza Takano and Joe Huth alias MEANT2B\ONFILM. The visuals tackle themes like addiction, eating disorders, queer expression, and self-empowerment—amplifying INDOME’s mission to create space for emotional truth and human connection.

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U Are the Sun

I don't want to live the same day over and over. I feel trapped in the human form. I want to experience everything life has to offer.

I want it all

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)

High Tide version of Not Going Back To The Harbour. Recorded exclusively for Rough Trade as part of the hand-packaged EP given away with each copy of the album that they sold.

Not Going Back To The Harbour (High Tide Version)

Lotte Kestner - Lula Boat

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