Groovers & Shakers

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ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 419

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 419 and tell us which tracks they liked best. Here, in alphabetical order, are our readers' top favourites. Our reviews are written by Fresh On The Net's Steve Harris - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves419

Fresh Faves: Batch 419

November 2021: The Alternative Music Playlist

Tracks

Collabs, Remixes & Bootlegs

Morphamish

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Morphamish+Texture - Echo Boomers

Experimental Folk collective Folkatron Sessions return with a mesmerising live arrangement of the classic Irish folk song Flower of Magherally. The new cut sees ambient electronica meet folk orthodoxy in a gorgeous, meditative rendition.

Watch the live video here:  youtu.be/VnTWBGzke2c

folkatronsessions.com

About Folkatron Sessions

Folkatron Sessions are a collective of 8 folk, jazz and electronic musicians from England, Ireland and France who bonded over a love of ‘genre-bending’ [Folk Radio UK] folk music. Their ‘unique soundscape’ [Songlines Mag] refracts trad folk through electronic, jazz, ambient, sound art and prog rock lenses.

They met in 2017 at an Upcycled Sounds experimental folk residency, spending an intense week arranging, performing and recording their debut EP Mais C’est Quoi Maman. Enthusiastic reviews from Folk Radio, Eliza Carthy and Ian Stephenson spurred them on to create their debut album Skiver in this same residency format.

In just 6 days they wrote and recorded a ‘pioneering’ [Songlines Mag] album. Its 2020 release on Upcycled Sounds Records saw Folkatron Sessions featured in Songlines Magazine, on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 2, 6 Music and Folk Radio UK.

Credits

From Home No More.

Arranged by Folkatron Sessions.
Performed by Folkatron Sessions.
Produced by Upcycled Sounds.
Edited and mixed by Upcycled Sounds.
Video by Ross Harrison.
Artwork by Upcycled Sounds.

Folkatron Sessions are:
Rémi Allain - double bass and vocals. Normandie, France.
Philippe Boudot - drums and percussion. Normandie, France.
Hannah Jacobs - piano, synth and vocals. Suffolk, England.
Nicholas O’Brien - sound design and clarinet. Paris, France.
Jack Ó hAonghusa - flute, bodhrán and vocals. Ballymore, Ireland.
Lauren Spiceley - fiddle and vocals from Oxford, England.
Martha Wiltshire - cello and vocals from Oxford, England.
Joe Woods - guitar and vocals. Suffolk, England.

Folkatron Sessions - Flower Of Magherally (live)

The 1st single from the album Lazybody (Last Night From Glasgow)

Written, arranged and performed by Annie Booth
Produced and mixed by Chris McCrory
Strings arrangement by Rhona Macfarlane
Recorded at Chem19, Blantyre and Green Door, Glasgow
Mastered by Samuel J. Smith

Vocals: Annie Booth
Piano: Juan Laforet
Bass: Jack Richardson
Drums: Gavin Lamont
Violins: Rhona Macfarlane 
Cello: Rachel Wilson 

℗&© 2021 Annie Booth

Cocoon

The Island (Edit)

Leeds artist elkyn returns with delicate new 'lonely folk' track ‘found the back of the tv remote’, released via Tambourine Machine Records.

A personal reflection on dealing with losing someone you care about and finding yourself with a lack of direction, the track follows up the recent singles ‘something’, ‘if only it was alright now’ and last year’s debut EP ‘beech’. It expands upon the soft, half-whispered sound of his previous releases, adding a sonic richness that brings his songwriting to the fore.

“I started writing tv remote after a break-up which left me not knowing what to do with myself," elkyn explains. "I wanted to juxtapose the pretty defeating moments next to the little wins even though they seem pretty small in comparison, like “wasted, alone. Found the back of the TV remote”. There’s a lot about regretting pushing the people away that have been good to me running through the song”.

Behind the moniker elkyn stands Leeds scintillating singer-songwriter Joseph Donnelly. Intricately plucked guitar riffs meet introspective lyricism as this “lonely folk” artist invites you inside his deepest thoughts and fears through beautiful storytelling.

The Yorkshire songwriter’s stirring sophomore release ‘if only it was alright now’ acted as an impressive bookend for the Beech era landing him a feature on Atwood Magazine’s ‘Artists to Watch for 2021’ citing him as “uniquely visceral and vulnerable”. The track also received appraisal from the likes of BBC Introducing, landed a spot on Spotify’s ‘Fresh Finds’ editorial playlist as well as being highlighted on an array of curated playlists. 

With elkyn’s ability to continue building such a strong presence in such a short amount of time, it comes as no surprise that the wordsmith’s most recent single ‘something’, released Feb 2021, has quickly become his greatest success yet with multiple editorial playlist placements and Radio X’s John Kennedy declaring the track “absolutely fantastic”.

In the shadows of the UK’s numerous lockdowns, elkyn resigned to the confinement of his bedroom walls to write, zoom and reflect before finally returning to Leeds Nave Studios to embark on his next chapter with producer Mark Gustafson, but this time instilled with a newly found confidence.

Glimmers of hope are scattered amongst elkyn’s familiar pulses of dark rumination as we’re enveloped in heartrending tales of youth, love and regret. elkyn is currently working on his debut album.

found the back of the tv remote

The new single from alt-folk duo Jacob & Drinkwater from their forthcoming album 'More Notes from the Field'
The album plays on themes of friendship and human connection. 
Find out more at JacobandDrinkwater.com

More Notes from the Field

The Nameless

The Nameless - Jacob & Drinkwater

https://youtu.be/5O2Wstez5N0

Gather round
the wishing tree
space givers and
stage divers...

Black cloud 
with silver lining
whatever your plan, 
there's no no fool proof timing

Plan B is  - Just in case
If all goes haywire, get back to base


I see what you're looking at
While winging the quarantine
Like a hermit in long gone days
pacing up & down this tiny space

Sip the wine, bind your time
just a walk could be a crime
Persistant we all must be
Until we're finally free

Plan B is  - a safety net
if things get hectic, hedge your bet

solo

Plan B is a great escape
Situation is not yet shipshape.

Masks and screens
Sprays & mace
When again
can we show our face?

Plain sailing (if all goes well)
No failing (but who can tell)

Plan B is  - Just in case

Plan B (just in case)

Gravity

On It Again (Radio Edit) - Jackal Trades & Morphamish

Eocene (Live at Roadburn Redux)

Written forty years ago,  this was a song that meant a lot to me (still does, albeit from a distance). I was going through a solitary time, friendships that had been part of my life were fading, I was spending far too much time in my room by myself, strumming chords, but circumstances did lead me to write this. It was a Friday night in November 1981, as I recall, and while the rest of the world was having fun, my choices were limited to the telly or the guitar. I came up with this, written in one go. Lyrically, it's one side of a conversation, between two people who were once close. It has what I have since discovered is a 'chain of fifths' in the chorus. It is a device beloved of Vivaldi, Bach and the Juliet Bravo theme, but I thought that I had discovered it and felt very pleased with myself. In terms of influence, I think it's principally informed by St Teresa's Choir's weekly contributions to Sunday Mass. It does have that churchy feel. What was I listening to around this time? Stephen Bishop via Art Garfunkel's Breakaway album, so there's an influence from that. The same Old Tears uses a similar lyrical perspective.
An acoustic demo of this exists from the mid-80s, with Julie Kilduff (Perfect Strangers) on vox and the song is a tone higher. I remember it being played as the last song on our interview session with Colin Riley on Radio Whiston, at the end of which, he artfully segued into Blondie's Fade Away and Radiate (now there is a song for you). 
I think I have finally got a reasonable recording of it and listening takes me back to that lonely Exeter Street bedroom and what a curious, unworldly twenty year old I was. There's an interesting irony in that when I was twenty, I wrote like a sixty year old and now that I've just turned sixty, it's a bit vice versa.

Well hey, how are you today
Me I'm doing fine
Haven't seen you lately
Guess it's hard to find the time
To look where I'm going 
Think what I'm gonna do
Some call it growing but you
Fade away, so far away
Like the sun on a cold December day
We change our hearts
We change our minds
We leave each other far behind
So how's business
Did you finally find what you were looking for
Oh is that right 
You're not searching anymore
Well I know this is a cruel world
You must wake up to reality
It's alright for you, but me
I'll fade away, so far away
Like the sun on a cold December day
We change our lives
We change our hearts
Turn aside and drift apart
So I'll see you later
Be sure now that you call
Or maybe not at all

Fade Away

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Ribbon

Taken from the album 'Ants From Up There', released 04 February 2022 on Ninja Tune: https://bcnr.lnk.to/afutSo

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Bread Song

Bunny Man

A Black Lantern Music release BLM054, download the whole ep for free here - http://www.blacklanternmusic.com/oneep.php?subid=54 

Low Slung NOW FREE DOWNLOAD BLM054-WHOLE EP DL LINK IN DESCRIPTION

Free Release as part of Ephedrina 100 (vol 2)

Download the whole compilation for free here > 
http://ephedrinanetlabel.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/eph100-aavv-excursio-numerus-centum-volume-2/

Masses of amazing electronica, techno and more

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/78f2ee'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Exciting Times - out now on Ephedrina. Free download

Speedbass 175 bpm, 44+breaks, fun squelchy bass wobs builds and switchups, fun funky and banging

Spacial Awareness

Spatial Awareness

Fat fun good vibes bit durty funky breaks and wob with daft samples

Free DL

Crazy Dream We're All Having - (watch vid on YT)

Lush melodic brassy breakbeat

Part of Polaroid Timewarp EP on Anywhen Music

Polaroid Timewarp

Anglepoise

https://soundcloud.com/morphamish

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Morphamish & Filthy Rich - OK Space Cadets (FREE DOWNLOAD)

@morphamish

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Morphamish - Afters (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Copernican Shift - Morphamish + Texture (when known as Double Helix)

Part of  4 track release of rocking weirdo techno bangers.

Expect plenty bass, breaks, funk, mutating synths and all that good party hearty stuff.

Download for free/pay what you can >>>> www.morphamish.bandcamp.com/

Check out the awesome video for Gumption Junction by Adventures In Light >>>> morphamish.com/videos

Release artwork by Gwen Uguen.

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/7f7f71'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

MORPHAMISH & FAULT LINES - Big Picture - EP free dl link in description

A stripped down tribal funky dnb remix of Dr Octagon classic Blue Flowers. 

Dr Octagon - Blue Flowers (Morphamish dnb bootleg) PM for download

A Black Lantern Music release BLM054, download the whole ep for free here - http://www.blacklanternmusic.com/oneep.php?subid=54 

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/eb2dc0'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Bottums Up BLM054 Video Link In 1st Comment

A Black Lantern Music release BLM054, download the whole ep for free here - http://www.blacklanternmusic.com/oneep.php?subid=54 

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/2012eb'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Get My Fix (Morphamish Mix) - Morphamish & Tekkerz BLM054 FREE DOWNLOAD

A remix of Get A Grip by the tremendous band Stanley Odd, you could call this one a bit electro swing I reckon. I'm very proud to have it included in their Remix 11 compilation squad - a super delux selection of quality remixes by tonnes of mind bogglingly talented producers available for much freeness from their bandcamp. http://stanleyodd.bandcamp.com/album/the-remix-xi.
Keep up to date with their many outlandish adventures here http://stanleyodd.bandcamp.com/music including the new ep The Pageant by Solareye (the band's rapper), Dunt and Harvey Kartel. Its fucking amazing.

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/fa68c2'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Stanley Odd - Get A Grip (Morphamish Remix) [part of The Remix XI compilation]

A warm sunshiney lazy skanking dubby reggae remix of a song that was originally a more introspective number when beautifully comprised of just lead vocal, harp and backing vocals (http://thebananasessions.bandcamp.com/track/whirlpool). 

Check out The Banana Sessions, an incredible tea/buckfast swilling techno loving folk band. A firm festival favorite around the country, they ignite everywhere they play with the total rocking jollies. They have tonnes of recorded material available through their website http://www.thebananasessions.co.uk/

This remix was a collaboration between myself and fellow Black Lantern artist Daddy Scrabble https://soundcloud.com/daddyscrabble, plus Dave from Volitantes https://soundcloud.com/volitantes and Christ (https://www.facebook.com/christhyperact).

The Banana Sessions - Whirlpool (Morphamish, Daddy Scrabble & Dave Volitantes Remix)

Spark by Morphamish

Out on 19 February 2021

Written and produced by Morphamish.
Visualiser by Morphamish.
Released on Anywhen Music

Download

Spark - Morphamish

Taken from the album "arco" by A.A. Williams. Order here: https://smarturl.it/aaw_arco

Control (arco version)

A.A. Williams - Control (arco version)

Techno|Bass|Breaks|Acid|Funk|Samba|
Jungle|Dnb|Tekno|Hardcore
Afrobeat|Ambient|Chillout|Dub|Downtempo
 
Club Anywhen dj/av livestreams on YCTR youtube 40+shows www.morphamish.com/#clubanywhen

Anywhen Music, Bunshin Records, Indicator Records, RIOT Radio Records, Crystal Distortion's Labrat Audio, Paradise Palms, Ephedrina, Abaga Records, Audiodacity, a quiet RIOT, Black Lantern Music, Crunk's Not Dead, Elberec, Traffic Cone Records, ETC, PBX, Zimp

Tracks|| Live Sets||  DJ Sets ||  Hybrid Sets

 
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Spring/Summer 25

March
Sun 2nd Alien Disko 360 camera showcase filming session, secret location
Sat 29th Girobabies 'Dreams Are Mental' album launch afterparty, Glasgow

April
Fri 11th Anything Goes, liveset, techno/jungle/tekno Edinburgh
Fri 25th-26th Fun In The Midlands (wi Luke Sanger, Trevor Wilkes, Jerome Hill & more), liveset, techno, some wildcards, Birmingham w/ Pencase
Sat 26th Eclectic Knockengorroch warm up night, dj set anything goes eclectico, Preston

May
Fri 23rd-Sun25th liveset techno/jungle/tekno, Knockengorroch, Maddies, Dumfries
Fri 31st dj set, techno/jungle/tekno, Milan

June
Fri 20th-22nd dj set anything goes eclectico, Wee Solar Fest, Arran 

July
Thurs 4th Dj set, Dr Normul's Album Launch, Glasgow
Sat 5th Techno Liveset, Beech Plateau, Kelburn, Largs
Sat 12th Dj set Faerie Glen Community Rave: Myths & Monsters, Edinburgh
Sat 26th Private Wedding, Marthrone

August
Fri 1st-3rd Vizfest Club Anywhen w/ Pencase