nice slide guitar! very pedal steel... great track. good recording and production. totally enjoyable!

Pre-order the album 'Aforger' out October 14th on LP/CD/DL here: http://phonofile.link/aforger

In a digital age where memories are mimicked by pixels and identity is as malleable as static, Douglas Dare’s new album Aforger questions the boundaries between reality and fiction. 

Inspired by recent events and revelations encountered in his life these songs depict Dare at his most vulnerable, whilst simultaneously reflecting our own obsession with reality and technology back at us.  

Aforger was mixed at the iconic Abbey Road Studios and produced by long-time collaborator Fabian Prynn. In the following conversation Douglas strips back the personal journeys and realisations which preceded its recording.

In a conversation with Douglas Dare on July 11th 2016:

The album title plays with the idea of a forger – someone creating imitations or copies, and reimagines them as the creator of something that’s no longer real. Prior to writing the record, I came out to my father and came out of a long relationship, both were hugely challenging for me and questioned my idea of identity and reality. These thoughts leaked out into the record and formed the core of Aforger. I was determined not to write a break-up album or repeat what I’d done before..

I grew up on quite an isolated farm in Dorset, surrounded by fields and not much besides. My mother taught piano from home and we didn’t have a computer, or the internet or mobile phones. In fact, my family still chooses not to use these things. It’s worlds apart from my life now in London where technology seems to dominate everything I do.

After finding out my boyfriend had been leading this double-life, I became obsessed with the question of what is real and George Orwell’s 1984 felt appropriate for me to re-read. Orwell explains this idea of reality control and Doublethink, and it struck a chord with me. The idea that truth can be steered or changed, and we might be able to believe two contradictory things at once. In my case, ignorance was my protection from the truth and ignorance really is bliss, until you’re no longer ignorant.

Binary talks about the idea that technology is allowing us to live on after we’re gone. A relative of mine whose parent passed away kept a picture of them on their phone as a background image. A friend saw this and asked ‘how can you have that there to constantly remind you of your loss?’ They replied, ‘no I have to, it shows me that they’re still here’. This resonated with me and I thought ‘okay, this is just an image to me but to them it’s more than a reminder or a reassurance, it’s a reality’. At the same time, I was finding myself haunted by the digital reminder of my ex-partner and wishing they would disappear. I had to realise that it’s all just pixels on a screen. 

I think New York can be thought of as this fabricated, magical place. I was there with my boyfriend after touring the U.S., but when I came back to London I discovered all these lies and began questioning everything. I even questioned whether New York actually happened or not. New York is a song that’s literally describing that very real feeling of not knowing who or what to believe any more – scary and magical at the same time. 

Lyrically I wanted to be as honest as possible. The album deals with so much dishonesty, so I felt the lyrics had to be the counterbalance. I was inspired by Björk’s album Vulnicura and how everything is almost awkward in its honesty. Like my first album, Aforger started as poetry, but I consciously tried to be less poetic. For instance, Oh Father is an example of complete unambiguity. It’s certainly the most personal song I’ve put out there, and the realisation that people may hear it makes me feel very vulnerable. That’s the most real feeling of all for me right now. 

Aforger

Oh Father

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Douglas Dare - Oh Father

LUWTEN - Pinball from the forthcoming self-titled album to be released 13 October 2017.

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Pinball

from 'The Death of Our Invention' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
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The Death of Our Invention

Birds of Passage - Without the World

image: The Rising of Lazarus, Chris Olfili, (2007)

lyrics: if I could, then I would
id flirt with boys again
id bat my eyes at them
id be myself again
not waiting for you,
wasting my time,
coz whats new
im thinking of you.

you're on my mind again
im listening to la femme
and almost every tune
makes me think of u
I wanna dance with u 
im in the mood
turn the volume up and groove

im feeling paralysed 
too scared to tell u the truth 
im feeling paralysed 
I just cant say I like u

and babe u piss me off
and I bitch about u
quite a lot
you drive me round the bend
and I dont see an an end

I choose to forget 
how dumb u can be 
and when u call
I come running 
as fast as can be

Paralysed

anecoica production rmx 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM2RD7fqA04

Deaf center - white lake (anecoica rmx)

Ebygum (demo)

We are taking preorders for https://soundcloud.com/memum’s second full length album “Confidence”.

Each order comes with an immediate download of the track “Aalto (feat. Erin Lang)” taken from the album.

OUT 08/JUN/2018 || Available as LP/CD/DL

PREORDER:
http://unperceivedrecords.com/memum-confidence-preorder

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LP|CD|DL

Memum - Aalto (feat. Erin Lang)

For his remix comp... submitted under my real name because It's not really prof purply.
DL here http://soundcloud.com/jeremymalvin/steve-reich-2x5-jeremy-malvin-remix

Steve Reich- 2x5 (Jeremy Malvin Remix)

Circles on Circles

Heathered Pearls remix for Solar Year "Lines" / The original version of "Lines" appears on the Waverly LP out June 25, 2013. Released on Ceremony in North America / Splendour in Europe

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Ebygum (demo)

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