Virginia Wing - Grapefruit (Radio Edit)

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Headed back home
Spirited by reunion
Colours of Cedar
and an ardent arbour of knowing
eternal love slow

Though you might blow away
This could thicken like blood
I was not in your wet eye
Ever to fear over your hardened lines
came the spirit of the Avalon air
that would answer only your concept

I held sorrow in the blue bowl around your eye
I have too tried to still myself to a frame
and breathe continuous 
breathe continuously

And still comes over my lung
I plume in the Westerly wind
I have too run from
But I hunt for you now
Nothing like this is permanent
Cost you nothing
Handed on the plane so discrete from the bone
And I shiver from the cold
I'm limber but lessingly so
Time is not heavy enough

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This song pulled itself together from a series of thoughts that manifested over the course of a single journey back home to see my parents and extended family over the Easter holidays.    The drive is more or less entirely through vast expanses of beautiful rolling green country side and the weather, in England this year right now, is like all of the Summer's we've never had have gotten lost and turned up at this very moment in Spring.

I wanted to capture the feeling of presence I felt. The stillness and contentment. 

Life is a roller coaster of emotions generally. And eventually everything happens. We breeze through the highs often so embroiled in the joy of the moment that we never take a second to step back and say 'this is what it is all for.'    I wanted to capture the feelings of happiness I was feeling and slow them down to a long enough freeze frame that, on a gentle drive or lazy summer's evening, this song might give you just enough distance to think a soft 'thank you' to the Universe.

The song also deals a little with sorrow - without sorrow there is no happiness - and beauty is the blend of understanding those two factors work together to make each more significant. I can't remember where I heard it - but a phrase that always sticks with me is: "the depth of your sorrow is the well of your bliss."     I think it's beautiful to appreciate - through the sorrowful times - that you are carving a depth to your future happiness. A ravine that will flood with joy when the inevitable revolution of your emotions comes to pass.

This song is a drive through the rolling green - a meditation on thought - a prayer to the universe - an ode to family - and a thank you to the now.

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Angelo Badalamenti–Into The Night (Vocal by Julee Cruise)
Chromatics - Headlight's Glare
Still Corners - Midnight Drive
Johnny Jewel - Windswept
Jessie Ware - Running
Saint Etienne – Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi)
Cinnamon Chasers – Oleah
Night Drive - Rise And Fall
Celebrine & Alien Delon – Beauty Of The Rhythm
Ejecta - Jeremiah
Mana Island – Bounded
Depeche Mode – It's No Good
Moderat - A New Error
ZES - Bliss
Emika – Take Me For A Ride
Zola Blood - The Only Thing
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms (Anoraak Remix)
London Grammar - Big Picture
Fjordwalker – In The Light

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"My Mistake" is the first single off of MRCH's debut album, "Reactions." 

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by MRCH.
Vocals recorded by Dominic Armstrong & Catherine Vericolli at Fivethirteen Recording.
Mastered by Gentry Studer of Epicenter Mastering.

My Mistake

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Virginia Wing 
Release new album ‘Ecstatic Arrow’ 
Out June 8th 2018
Limited Edition deluxe blue LP inc 20-page zine and poster / standard LP / CD

Their favourite records are the perfect counterbalance of the considered and the superficial. Whether it’s Madonna, Talking Heads or Holger Czukay - we enjoy these artists in the background with friends or profoundly and alone. 

Virginia Wing both understand and embrace this concept fully as they return with Ecstatic Arrow, an album which finds them in a place of renewed strength, optimism and clarity.

Recorded in Switzerland, in the family home of longtime friend and collaborator Misha Hering within the domesticity and gentle routine of communal life, the album represents a world as predisposed to solemn introspection as it is to blithe conviviality. 

Ecstatic Arrow borrows from the heterogeneous terrain of The Flying Lizard’s Fourth Wall, the exuberant technology assisted pop of Yellow Magic Orchestra and the playful sophistication of Lizzy Mercier Descloux’s Press Colour, arriving at the evergreen intersection of pop music and conceptual art. 

The resolute opener of Be Released and album centre point The Female Genius pair resonant Fourth World instrumentation with sonorous, loping drum patterns. Elsewhere, the sentimental march of single The Second Shift plays out like an after-hours ballad re-imagined by Wally Badarou and For Every Window There’s a Curtain is coloured by the blue-lit haze of an Eventide warped tenor saxophone.

Three albums in, the voice of Alice Merida Richards is more compelling and expressive than ever. The glacial deadpan of previous records has given way to a more candid, self-possessed delivery, showing an appreciation for the humour and tragedy innate in the downtown Arcadia of Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley or even Lynn Goldsmith’s Will Powers. 

It’s with this voice that Richards outlines a simple ideality that fortifies the entirety of Ecstatic Arrow - inequality pervades, destructive behaviours are inherited and each subsequent generation has to reconcile the debts of its precursor - yet a space exists within ourselves and each other that houses a fact we must be reminded of - we have the ability to choose. Even in moments of frustration; the ascerbic eye-roll toward male entitlement, Glorious Idea or the world-weary Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day, there persists a joy for living that refuses to be confined.

A depiction of a group finally at ease with itself, Ecstatic Arrow is a tribute to the internal momentum that quietly guides us toward our destination. 

Live Dates:
9th March: UK, Salford, The White Hotel w/ Hookworms
17th March: UK, Glasgow, The Art School w/ Hookworms
18th March: UK, Newcastle, The Cluny w/ Hookworms
24th March: UK, London, Electric Brixton w/ Hookworms
25th March: UK, Sheffield, Picture House Social w/ Hookworms
6th May: UK, Salford, Sounds From The Other City w/ Xam Duo
25th August: UK, Totnes, Sea Change Festival

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"Arizona band dabbling in everything from 60s girl group pop to 80s shoegaze manage to create something very modern" - The Guardian

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