Name: Kiran Leonard - Could She Still Draw Back? by moshi moshi music
Duration: 4 min 22 s
Description: Could She Still Draw Back? is from Kiran Leonard's new album 'Derevaun Seraun' out on Moshi Moshi Records on 15th September: http://shop.moshimoshimusic.com/DerevaunSeraun

Taken from the new album 'Shackles' Gift' due Monday 26th January on Bella Union

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Zun Zun Egui - I Want You To Know

The first single to be taken from the forthcoming album, Upper Hell, released worldwide on Howie B's HB Recordings label on April 27th.

Album Release: ‘Upper Hell’
Release Date: 27th April 2015
Label: HB Recordings

“ timeless,organic and quite simply beautiful “ – Norman Records - 10/10

“ an enlightening, everlasting album” – The List - 5/5

“a quiet, emotional power” – The Scotsman - 4/5

“Deliriously inventive” – Clash Magazine 

'Album of the Month’ – Monorail Records

“…Ela Orleans is a revelation. Both utterly timeless and of the moment…” Rough Trade 

“She is Moondogmatic in her intransigent commitment to producing compositions of subtlety and incongruent beauty. These are polysemous confections which make you feel that you are listening to pop music for the first time again” – Time Out NY

‘Upper Hell’ is the sixth album to be released by pop noir collagist Ela Orleans. Produced by Howie B, it’s due out on 27th April 2015 and will be released on his new label, HB Recordings. Howie was introduced to Ela’s music by his sister and was so wowed that he offered to produce an album for her. She is also the first artist signing to HB Recordings.

Inspired by Dante’s ‘Inferno’, ‘Upper Hell’ is an intriguing, cerebral body of work that sees Orleans push her pastoral pop roots into more cinematic terrain, experimenting with carefully considered sound art segments and complex electronic textures.

Ela has been flirting with the dance aesthetic for a while under another moniker TRACT so Howie’s offer to produce this album allowed her to explore that further with this album.

Orleans is a Polish musician now based in Glasgow. She was a member of the genre defying Glasgow band Hassle Hound, has played with various luminaries of the New York experimental and noise scenes and is a composer for the screen and theatre.

During her career this hugely prolific artist has released five solo albums and collaborated on several more. Her 2012 album ‘Tumult in Clouds’ won the Mercury alternative the Dead Albatross Prize in 2013 and her work has won her admirers in The Pastels, David Lynch, Thurston Moore and Ian Rankin.



Ela Orleans - The Sky and the Ghost

We are pleased to announce that we will release 'Magnetic Seasons', the new album from MUGSTAR on 4th March.

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Mugstar - Flemish Weave

Written and composed by Maud Nadal. 
Produced by Maud Nadal and Maxime Le Guil at Studio Plus 30, Paris.
Drums recorded by Arno Van Colen and Axel Concato. 
Mixed by Angy Laperdrix at Solaris Studio, Paris. 
Mastered by Rémi Salvador at Climax.

Maud Nadal: vocals, guitars, keyboards. 
Axel Concato: bass, keyboards. 
François Desmoulins: drums.

BUY Du Pouvoir EP:
https://halomaud.bandcamp.com/releases

À La Fin

A brand new track from Kiran Leonard who releases his new album 'Derevaun Seraun' on Moshi Moshi Records on 15th September: http://shop.moshimoshimusic.com/DerevaunSeraun

Follow him on Spotify for his latest tracks: http://smarturl.it/KiranLeonardSpotify

“DEREVAUN SERAUN” is a piece I wrote a couple years back in five movements for voice, piano and string trio. Each movement is written about a different piece of literature, exploring the value I see in each work and the impression it has made on me, and there is nothing more to it than that. The pleasure of books – of good verse and stories and ideas – is a very simple thing, and I felt that some lofty unifying theme for the entire piece would be a betrayal of that belief. I think that when a work resonates with you it is an instinctive response to something. You can be taught to understand a challenging book, but not to feel affection for it; I think a lot of conversation around art, especially around literature, sometimes forgets this. In my experience, the art I like the most, irrespective of its 'difficulty', is the art I can advocate most directly and plainly, and about which I can say: “I read this piece and now I do not read or think in the same way that I did before”, or: “This is a story that I could not explain to someone; I do not understand it word-for-word, yet I feel like innately I understand the whole, and that the whole spoke to me”. This is a piece about five books that I like and why I like them." - Kiran Leonard

Derevaun Seraun

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Could She Still Draw Back? is from Kiran Leonard's new album 'Derevaun Seraun' out on Moshi Moshi Records on 15th September: http://shop.moshimoshimusic.com/DerevaunSeraun

Kiran Leonard - Could She Still Draw Back?

Machine Translations "Parliament Of Spiders"

Lost Map are excited to welcome latest signings Bas Jan, the London experimental post-punk trio built around the remarkable and distinctive voice and songs of multi-instrumentalist and composer Serafina Steer. A brilliant, bonkers, shape-shifting song about the weird tedium of a text message spat (“Drop it? Why don’t you drop it!”), Argument – available to stream and share now – is the first single to be revealed from Bas Jan’s forthcoming debut album Yes I Jan, due early 2018. The track was produced by Leo Abrahams. Serafina is one of the latest winners of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Awards for Artists.

Bas Jan - 'Argument'

Steeple Remove - Oval Strii  (Laurent Garnier Remix)

Ditz rework a track from bdrmm’s debut album. This version is included on ‘The Bedroom Tapes’ EP, which is released on October 23. Pre-order here: http://smarturl.it/thebedroomtapes

Recorded by Alex Greaves at The Nave, Leeds
Remix and additional production by Ditz
Mastered by Carim Clasmann

bdrmm – If.... (Ditz Remix)

THE OSCILLATION/MUGSTAR/LISTENING MIRROR/BEN NASH 
"Travel Expop Series #2: Great Britain"
Limited edition of 300 copies on white vinyl 
Co-Release: Hands In The Dark / All Time Low
Release date: 6th August 2013

Label, orders: www.handsinthedarkrecords.com // www.alltimelowproductions.com

THE OSCILLATION - Kissing The Sun

Moshi Moshi Records started off as a hobby in 1998. Set up by three friends who had jobs working for major record labels. It was intended as a way of working with the bands that they loved but which didn’t fit in with the agenda of the day-job taskmasters. Early single releases from Zan Lyons, Kathryn Williams & Pedro and J Xaverre earned the label some plaudits. And sold a few records. Over the next five years Moshi Moshi slowly started to build a reputation for interesting, slightly leftfield, low-key releases. Then in 2004 things changed. For a start Moshi stopped being a hobby and became a fulltime job. Very soon after, Hot Chip and Bloc Party arrived and Moshi Moshi quickly became a name known to more than a few. Chart success followed with Yeti and The Rakes and higher-profile album releases from Architecture In Helsinki and Au Revoir Simone helped lift the label onto a new level. Then from 2006 onwards came artists such as Hot Club De Paris, Tilly And The Wall, The Wave Pictures, Slow Club, James Yuill, The Drums, Summer Camp, the list goes on.

In late 2006 the two remaining Moshi Moshi founders decided they wanted to get back to their one-off 7” release roots and the Moshi Moshi Singles Club was born. The intention was to try and release one 7” each month by a new up-and-coming artist. It would be limited to 1000 and only be available in a select group of indie stores. The artwork would be restricted to one colour and be designed by the bands themselves. Now some 40+ releases later the singles club’s roster makes an impressive list – (including) Kate Nash, Late of The Pier, Friendly Fires, Lykke Li, Florence and The Machine, Kindness, Dananananayckroyd. Disclosure. In 2011 Moshi Moshi expanded its remit by partnering up with some very talented young A&R folk to set up the imprints Tender Age, Not Even, Apricot and Dream Beach. Working under the Moshi Moshi umbrella these new labels have already yielded a clutch of exciting releases by artists from as far afield as Kenya and Seattle.

At the same time as running the record label Moshi Moshi Management has been quietly guiding the career of Metronomy and Slow Club as well as producers Ash Workman and Ollie Bayston. From 2012 this side of the business started to expand dramatically and now features a sizeable roster of emerging artists.

Looking back on the Moshi Moshi roster (particularly since the label ‘went fulltime’ in 2004) it’s a collection that bears comparison with any of its peers. For a label run by two people with no financial backing, it’s nothing short of an inspiration.

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