Name: Pulling The Strings by Michael Baker Music in ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 253
Duration: 4 min
Description: Taken from the Album 'Dust & Bone' - https://open.spotify.com/album/5kR8aPYluKnYLrfiQJPYEB

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Volume 70 is a new recording by Berlin based sound artist, writer, and filmmaker Florence. She is a frequent contributor to NTS’s Sounds On Screen series and holds a monthly feature on MUBI’s Notebook where she dives deep into the music used by certain filmmakers in their soundtracks (Greg Arakki, Kelly Reichardt, Satoshi Kon, etc.) and focuses on certain OST composers / era’s of movies (Wendy Carlos, Giallo, New Hollywood etc). Her contributions to both of the aforementioned series alongside her one off mixes have been a big source of discovery and enjoyment, so it’s an honor to share this mix of hers which distills many style’s / feelings / tempos into a dreamy hour and a half session.

https://soundcloud.com/florencesa

Motion Cast Vol. 70: Florence

Mixed by https://soundcloud.com/tolerance

Overwerk - Daybreak 
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Madeon - Icarus
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Joe Garston - Top Of The World 
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Urban Contact - Starburst 
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Mord Fustang - Taito 
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Draft - Phryday
 smarturl.it/DraftPhryday

Kaskade - Atmosphere (Menic Remix) 
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Speaker of the House - Sun Dial 
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Astronaut - Apollo 
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Teqq vs Alive & Kicking - Mistake (Insan3Lik3 Remix)
 smarturl.it/MistakeFreeDL

Modulation - World Summit
 smarturl.it/WorldSummit

Deorrro - Five Hours
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SirensCeol - Islands 
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Zedd - Find You (feat. Matthew Koma & Miriam Bryant) 
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Feed Me - Grand Theft Ecstasy
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Porter Robinson - Language
 smarturl.it/PR-Language

Savant - Survive 
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Joe Garson - Adventures In Suburbia
 smarturl.it/JG-Adventures

Bastille - Pompeii (Audien remix)
 smarturl.it/Bastille-AudienRMX

Dabin - Ghost Hack
 smarturl.it/Dabin-GhostHack

Sheepy on Spotify
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'Summer Chords Pt. 2' (Electro House Mix)

Michael Baker "Leaving It All" from the E.P. "Keys to the Kingdom" released on KTTK records on April 27th 2015
http://www.michaelbakerofficial.com 

'Emotion Pictures' taken from the 'Keys to the Kingdom' E.P. - 

Out now on Itunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/keys-to-the-kingdom-ep/id980662084 

Pre-order you signed vinyl of the E.P. -
http://www.recordstore.co.uk/recordstore/recordstore/Keys-To-The-Kingdom-EP-Signed/4FG10000000

Management & Bookings: jeff@bighugmanagement.com
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/michaelbakermusic
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/michael-baker-music
Twitter : https://twitter.com/MichaelBakerMB
Instagram : http://instagram.com/michaelbakermusic
http://www.michaelbakerofficial.com 

Leaving It All

Released 1st Sept 2017 on Regent Street Records

'YEAH YEAH YEAH' lyrics:

Oh, when my hands are tied
I feel living dead
When I’m by your side
Get on my knees
Pray for the end
For dreams for drugs for sex & love
The death of all your friends

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Try find a way
Just nod your head
Do what you're told
Do what they said
Get on your knees
Pray for the end
For dreams for drugs for sex & love
The death of all your friends

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Pray to your god above
For the untimely demise of everyone you love
Pray to your god above
For dreams for drugs for sex and love
Pray to your god above
For the violent demise of everyone you love
Pray to your god above
For dreams for drugs for sex & love

Yeah Yeah Yeah

SPOTIFY

ORENT - Wasted (ft. Mila)

Siv Jakobsen - Not Alone
The third single from the upcoming debut album The Nordic Mellow, out August 25th 2017.

Label: The Nordic Mellow
Release-date: July 14th 2017.
ISRC: 

Management/contact: Glenn Larsen - glenn@indianer.nu

Written by Siv Jakobsen
Produced by Matt Ingram at Urchin Studios in Hackney, London, UK
Mixed and engineered by Dan Cox
Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering in London, UK

Arranged by Siv Jakobsen and Matt Ingram
Voice and guitars: Siv Jakobsen
Drums, keys: Matt Ingram
Guitaron: Nick Pini

c & p 2017 The Nordic Mellow / Siv Jakobsen

Photo and graphic design by Jørgen Nordby (jorgenordby.com)

www.sivmusic.com

Not Alone

Next To Me

Rabbit Holes was written surrounded by nature, by the open widow of a rundown Cornish farm house after a period of listening to a lot of The Tallest Man on Earth. 

The song follows the path of someone yearning to reach their love who has gone to a place that can't be followed. Although they both want to be together, the desperate efforts are seemingly in vein.

Rabbit Holes

Taken from the Album 'Dust & Bone' - https://open.spotify.com/album/5kR8aPYluKnYLrfiQJPYEB

Dust & Bone

Pulling The Strings

Some Kind

Taken from the Album Salt catch Michael Baker on tour
March 19th The Brunswick Brighton
http://bit.ly/39wJpfG
March 29th The Duke Whitstable
free admission
March 30th The Finsbury London 
http://bit.ly/3awkRUf
April 5th The Loft (Above The Kings) Portsmouth

BIOGRAPHY, by NME’s Andrew Trendell
“I lived in my van for two and a half years to pay for the making of my first record,” casually laughs singer-songwriter Michael Baker. “I moved into the van after a typical period of heartache. I had nowhere to go, but it was pretty good actually!” 

From this, you can gather a lot about the Anglo-French troubadour. Mainly, he takes nothing for granted and lives for his music.  

Spending his childhood near Brighton (where he went to the same school as Rag N’ Bone Man), Michael got his first guitar aged eight after seeing Oasis live and needing to learn ‘Wonderwall’. In his teens, the songs soon started to flow. It wasn’t long before the purity of his voice, the direct rawness of his writing and the sheer scope of his sound found him regular gigs and a devoted fanbase – one that only grew bigger and more in love with the release of his magnificent debut album Dust & Bone. 

A soaring collection of heart-wrenching indie-folk and cinematic sounds, Dust & Bone was recorded with Massive Attack collaborator Dan Brown, and was a staggering first showcase of Baker’s ambition and soulful style. “I’m really proud of the songwriting on that record,” he admits. “I was in such a bad place in my life when I made it, but it got such a great response from the people who heard it.”

Early sessions for Salt started when Baker hit the studio with Dan Brown and Oliver Baldwin, who had recently finished making Aldous Harding’s acclaimed album Party with PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish. While promising Michael says ‘’It felt like I needed more time to experiment than we had scheduled in.” So Baker headed back to record and produce the album with long-time friend Ed Martin. 

After discovering that his childhood home would be empty for a few weeks while his parents were in the process of moving away. He went in and stripped everything away, begged and borrowed all the equipment he needed, crammed the band in, drank a lot of wine, got a little stoned and naturally just flowed through the album – playing all day and all night. The recordings were so impressive, that Baldwin agreed to mix the record at Real World Studios and gave the songs a whole new dimension (as well as inviting Jack White’s pedal steel player Maggie Björklund to play on the album too). 
“I absolutely love artists like Cat Stevens and Bon Iver,” says Baker. Salt is a record that maps Baker’s journey through darkness and vulnerability to something a lot more hopeful. 
Among the key tracks that show Baker’s road to recovery, ‘Baby Books’ was inspired by being in close proximity to someone taking their own life – and totally changing the way he saw the world. Single ‘They Look Just Like They Know’ also deals with how “the mind can be a deadly place” and “feeling trapped in the prison of your own vision”. He’s looking for the sunrise on the horizon, too. Baker’s personal favourite ‘Claire’ celebrates the “the beauty of space in a relationship” and the escapist ecstasy of ‘One Good Damn’ has won over scores of new fans with its feel-good magnetism. 

Salt is a towering accomplishment that will win hearts with its adept handling of love, loss and hope, and there’s more to come. For now though, you’re about to get to know the real Michael Baker. “I feel like I have too much of a personal relationship with anyone who says they like my music,” concludes Baker. “I’ve been getting letters and messages from people saying that my songs have got them through a very hard time, and I don’t know how to reply to them other than as if I’d known them my whole life. That’s the way that I would do it. I hope that my music gives them as much as it’s given me.”

One God Damn

The sixth Notebook Soundtrack Mix is a musical celebration of all that was exciting, daring and unique from the forever influential New Hollywood era. For an introduction by mixer Florence Scott - Anderton (https://soundcloud.com/florencesa), as well as the full tracklist, https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/notebook-soundtrack-mix-6-the-new-hollywood-mixtape.

The Swimmer

Notebook Soundtrack Mix #6: The New Hollywood Mixtape

https://www.nts.live/shows/sounds-on-screen/episodes/sounds-on-screen-1st-february-2021

A grizzled, quietly powerful presence in innumerable cult films, Harry Dean Stanton was an exemplar of complicated American masculinity. A great artist that absorbed his own persona into each and every role he played, a brilliant musician and spiritual misfit loved by all. He had a tenderness and melancholy inside often overlooked (born into the depression, he saw incredible social change within American society and served in the navy way before Hollywood came knocking) The iconic roles are endless...

NTS Sounds on Screen: Harry Dean Stanton 280121

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