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[Weekly Mix] 2019.07 (4)

p*dis sampler 2019.09

native cat

rock funk disco world Electro

Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py3_6bSxWfY
Paroles et musique : Jean-Jacques Debout
Version originale chantée par Chantal Goya (1966)
Arrangements/Production : Antoine Graugnard

Tu M'as Trop Menti (Chantal Goya - Cover)

Ultraviolence

Pretty When You Cry

Composé, écrit et produit par Peter Pan Pan
Avec Marie-Charlotte Toucan
Masterisé par Adrien Pallot

Peuple Pollock :
Là au bord du vide
Là au bord du vide oui je t’aime encore

Pluie de corps, sous terre ou dans le ciel,
Au milieu la foule a peur et se sent pousser des ailes,
Peuple Pollock se réunit dans le froid et fait bloc,
Les tâches se superposent déjà les marchands l’adoptent.

Un amant, un toit plus une bière,
Quelque part la carotte flotte comme une bouteille à la mer. 
Les madeleines n’évoquent plus rien que des fiacres et des valses.
Le confort reste maître et la nostalgie s’emballe.

Là au bord du vide ...  ENCORE

Souviens-toi cet arbre et sa lumière,
Une ligne rouge à traverser de nuit en temps de guerre
Mère Océan s’évapore, nous ne faisons pas le poids,
Je crois t’apercevoir masquée mais ce n’est qu’une Loi.

Occupés à compter les malades,
Les justiciers sont la peste et ne croient plus aux miracles,
Ils en oublient de voir les tâches se mélanger sur la toile.
Guérir est un mot vain si l’amour n’est qu’une fable.

Viens dans mon refuge
Viens dans mon refuge car je t’aime oui je t’aime encore

Peuple Pollock (demo)

For more:

Bandcamp: www.bandcalledsis.bandcamp.com
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/64PJgAvLS…cbR2-bHN9Xiv0Uvg
iTunes: geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/eupho…mt=1&app=music
Official site: www.sisisaband.com

Gene by Sis

you can buy the track on www.jokulllogi.bandcamp.com or download it here on soundcloud for free

Satoru Nakata

One with the homie Lungfulls off his new tape, Lunula. It's available on Spotify and here: https://lovemade.bandcamp.com/album/lunula

Lunula

Lungfulls & The Deli - Winter Walks

from Arcs album out May 31 2019 on Native Cat 

for more:

http://www.redsteppes.com
http://redsteppes.bandcamp.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6kp2p4a8ASCXHZFiYhOkPu?si=8UY2l6FCSaWJDpPUBCc_EA
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/leonine/1448478443?i=1448478444&mt=1&app=music

Leonine by red steppes

In the heyday of low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers who needed a soundtrack for their commercial entertainments could reach for a selection of library music: LPs of stock recordings whose contents fit any mood required.
 
Unusual Sounds is a deep dive into a musical universe that has, until now, been accessible only to producers and record collectors; a celebration of this strange industry and an examination of its unique place at the nexus of art and commerce.
 
The perfect companion to the David Hollander curated book Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music (out now on Anthology Editions), these 20 tracks, encapsulate the niche and fascinating subculture of library music. Genres were spliced, conventions dispensed with, and oftentimes hybrid music of astonishing complexity was produced. Elements of rock, jazz, soul, even twentieth-century avant-garde composition were all utilized, and no stone was left unturned. As a result, some of the best library music defies all categorization, reflecting the individualistic quirks and artistry of the various musicians who made it.

Unusual Sounds

Stringtronics - Tropicola

Taken ©Chris Wiggs 04.10.18
Artwork ©Chris Wiggs 04.10.18
Remixed and remastered 12.03.19
Taken
V1
Watching the faces as people pass by
Where is my love, where is my love?
Millions of people their hopes in the air
Where is my love, where is my love?

Chorus
How hard can it be, finding 
One heart that is free, and it’s
Just looking to me, as if
All Love has been taken

V2
I can remember the thrill of it all
Where is my love, where is my love?
The sound of her voice as she’s calling my name
Where is my love, where is my love?

Chorus
How hard can it be, finding 
One heart that is free, and it’s
Just looking to me, as if
All Love has been taken


M8
Millions of faces, the people pass by
Where is my love, where is my love?
Of all the people, it had to be her
Where is my love, where is my love?

Chorus
How hard can it be, finding 
One heart that is free, and it’s
Just looking to me, as if
All Love has been taken

Taken

https://dominiquelebars1.bandcamp.com/track/dernier-p-age
https://www.instagram.com/dominique_le_bars/

....................
Bagagé de toute certitudes, convictions, projets d'avenir 
Mariage, bagnole, progénitude: Devenir parent c' t' un peu mourir
Responsabiltés, boulot : Jamais assez, toujours plus loin  
Au grand bal des démagos ne pas lâcher, pas lâcher, c'est certain
 
Amour, santé, fric et mental: T'es au meilleur sur tous les fronts 
Tu peux pisser dans les étoiles, tu peux mépriser tout ces cons 
La route est belle le ciel est clair, oiseaux limpides sur la plage 
Records à corps et queue à l'air, direction le prochain péage..
...............
Version intégrale ici: dominiquelebars1.bandcamp.com/track/dernier-p-age

Dernier péage ( Extrait )

https://dominiquelebars1.bandcamp.com/track/punky-stories
https://www.instagram.com/dominique_le_bars/

PUNKY STORIES

......J'part en croisade chez les géants avec ma sulfateuse à mots 
J' braquerai l' premier qu'est pas vivant, moi j' veux faire du rock et du vélo 

La relève sait plus s'révolter, la faute à toute leurs distractions 
Supprime tout leurs les écrans connectés, ils auront la niaque: 
De vrais p'tits lions 
En attendant les v'la troupeau, prédateurs devenus la proie, 
le loup s'est transformé en agneau et l'agneau snapchat sur insta  
Docilisés pour l'abattoir, génération image tenue en laisse 
A l'autre bout en lunettes noires, l'industrie de masse promène sa jeunesse..
Punky stories

Dominique Le Bars    
 10/2018

Version intégrale ici :https://dominiquelebars1.bandcamp.com/track/punky-stories

Punky Stories ( Extrait )

Full-length album by John Vanderslice
Out on Native Cat Recordings 4/2/19

For more:
www.johnvanderslice.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2GOfAZEwmCpwPhX7kjMJYN?si=mUT8so72QrGtjPpndULlgg

Will Call by John Vanderslice

From the full-length album The Cedars by John Vanderslice
Out on Native Cat Recordings 4/5/19
Pre-order digital or vinyl:
https://native-cat-recordings.lnk.to/vanderslicethecedarsso

For more:
www.johnvanderslice.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2GOfAZEwmCpwPhX7kjMJYN?si=mUT8so72QrGtjPpndULlgg

Pre-order

I'll Wait For You - John Vanderslice

Empty Promises

Eye for an Eye © Chris Wiggs 15.01.19
Artwork © Chris Wiggs 22.01.19
 
V1
Eye for an eye, the healer said
No one’s walking out of here until 
The day you pay your debt
A lie for a lie, must do instead
With the aching in our bones 
And sun beats on our head

Ch1
Many’s the day, I just fly away
To a place that’s soft and green
And so cool that I could scream
Many’s the day, hope just dies away
We didn’t know it’s wrong
What we were doing all along

V2
The way out’s to pay, it’s hard for some
‘Cause we signed away our times
For some cheap and easy fun
So, by and bye, it’s on your head
There’s no getting out of here
And the days are full of dread.

V3
Man I could cry, a sky turned red
Not talking ‘bout the past 
But life gone lost instead
How many ways, a fool’s regret
Never’s when the time to grieve
And I’m still living yet

Eye For An Eye

Here’s an alternative version of “Winter Trees”—not a re-mix, a whole new recording. I was messing around with guitar effects pedals, and fell into this slow, spooky version of “Winter Trees” that I liked, so kept going with it. All the effects are through guitar effect pedals (Zoom G3n and Zoom A3) plus amp effects. Recorded to a Zoom R8 recorder (no synths, no loops, no DAW).

Guitars used: Two acoustic (Taylor 114e and Michael Kelly J91 Jumbo) and two electric (Gretsch 5622T and Guild S60), plus Fender Jaguar SS bass.

Winter Trees
Words & music by Timothy Walsh...

Winter Trees GHOST version

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Winter Trees GHOST Version

From The Mystery Lights' sophomore Wick Records release, Too Much Tension!

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The Mystery Lights - I'm So Tired (of Living In The City)

The bold name “nAbi” is both the Hebrew and Arab word for “prophet”, immediately hinting at this project's wild intentions. 

As the brainchild of the two Tel-Aviv music producers ORI ROUSSO and MATAN SPENSER, “nAbi” simmers scorching electro-bass and hip-hop jams with arrangements and instrumentation from the group's Middle Eastern and Mediterranean heritage.

Their own particular combo of traditional Jewish Yemenite sounds and club beats has a long legacy in dance history; from Coldcut's cheekily uncredited sample of Ofra Haza in the benchmark remix of Eric B And Rakim's "Paid In Full”, to the more recent record-breaking results of A-WA updating the Yemenite sound all the way to the top of the charts all over the Middle East.

Ori and Matan who have been working together since 8 years, have made an effort to reach out to the talented hotpot of artists in their field by collaborating with local artists rather than sampling older music. This is evident on their first single “Sam Sam”, which includes the Yemenite musician Ariel Nahum. Musical community is a big theme of their project: "We come from a middle eastern country that is soaked in the cultures of the people who live here, who originally came from Arabic countries and at the same time this is a place that is heavily connected and influenced by western culture and we believe that expressing this combination through our music is the best way for us to express our identity”.

“Sam Sam” is a definitive taste of the direction “nAbi” is heading, tipping their hat to the lush mixes of their influences: “conceptually, “Flying Lotus” is the artist who inspired us the most. He connects all kinds of styles into an eclectic experience and we also create music that relates directly to the place we live in”. We have heard the production finesse of Ori previously in his work as the co-producer and co-writer of fellow City Slang labelmate and partner Noga Erez.

A final, unique addition to their methods – the use of a fictional character as the vehicle to drive home their politics inside of the music. Two languages, Arabic-Yemenite and Hebrew are used to set up a realistic aural geography of where their desert beats come from. The character who sings in Hebrew is the imagined protagonist Yonatan - the antithesis of a local macho man, the opposite of the “alpha male” who delivers humorous skits and sermons on respecting women. On the other hand, the Arabic texts are traditional, centuries-old folk songs that pass from generation to generation. 

“nAbi” joins the high ranks of bands that provide pan-middle-eastern club bangers that are both conscious and wild.

Sam Sam (featuring Ariel Nahum)

Flute, congas, bass, drums, guitar and clavinet; this unconventional arrangement of instruments intertwine to form the debut album by Badge Époque Ensemble - a group of creative improvisers assembled to perform new, largely instrumental compositions by Maximilian ‘Twig’ Turnbull (formerly Slim Twig).

Badge employs an eclectic cast of characters from the Toronto underground music scene, whose combined experience would take pages to spell out. It includes stints accompanying songwriters Andy Shauf and Marker Starling, outfitting heavies Blood Ceremony and Biblical, and respective careers spent gigging Django-jazz and the classical cannon. Badge’s distinctive sound arises from the diversity of these musical exploits, creating a palpable chemistry well captured on the live-tracked songs that form the group’s self-titled debut.

Part of this crucial chemistry can be attributed to the fact that four of the six players in the Ensemble have been at the core of the live, U.S. Girls band, a group that has scorched stages internationally over the past year and was hailed by Paste magazine as the best live band of 2018. Since 2015, when Turnbull released his final record as Slim Twig for DFA, he has largely concentrated his efforts as a producer and writer on the U.S. Girls project, together with making contributions to the theatrical rock outfit, Darlene Shrugg and the psychedelic jazz-funk collective, The Cosmic Range. Badge’s set of songs is yet another 180-degree turn for an increasingly collective-minded bandleader, who is singularly disdainful of any genre orthodoxy.

The record is a collection of densely packed grooves, arranged by committee. Dank set pieces culminate in album standout, ‘Undressed In Solitude’, which features the otherworldly r ’n b of guest vocalist, James Baley. Over 11 simmering minutes, the track defies the contemporary fixations of automated music to convincingly combine sensual and cerebral textures. While it may call to mind an improbable collision.

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Badge Époque Ensemble

Badge Époque Ensemble - Undressed In Solitude (ft James Baley)

from the album 'equivalents' available aug16

equivalents

loscil 'equivalent 7'

‘Mary Always’ from Khruangbin's ‘Hasta El Cielo’, out July 12th, 2019


Pre-order / Stream: https://khruangbin.ffm.to/hastaelcielo

Khruangbin - Mary Always

Written, recorded, and produced by Couch Prints
http://couchprintsband.com

Mixing/production: Billy Pavone
https://www.billypavone.com/

Single cover art artwork: Nick Jorgensen and Iain Mcdonald https://www.instagram.com/sk8er_4wheeldrive/
https://www.instagram.com/iain_mcdonald_/

Single cover art design: Jacob Truax
http://jacobtruax.info

Tell U

Next release on Modern Obscure Music is the 3th issue of our Ritual Rhythms series, this time the Various Artists is subtitled “Of the Obscure Mediterranean Souls” Original music by Jorge Velez, Marc Piñol, Pierre Rousseau, Studio EL, Pere Canovas Defled, Pye Corner Audio, Lorenzo Fortino, Cardopusher, Marcello Giordani DJ, Bianca Scout, Airaboi & Ginno Russo. Officially out 9th of August. PREORDER now available on Bandcamp.

The music compiled in "Ritual Rhythms (of the Obscure Mediterranean Souls)" moves between styles such as Abstract, Modern Classical, Experimental, Downtempo, and the Ambient. We must highlight the jazz nuances of pieces such as "Communal Luxury" and the ambient- psychedelics excursions of Pierre Rousseau in Silent Energy, a soundtrack mixed by Nicolas Chaix (I: CUBE) and conceived to be the soundtrack of one of the last parades by Japanese designer Issey Miyake.

Artwork by Julia Soler

Jorge Velez - Chalk Four

Stream everywhere : https://shanetyler.fanlink.to/clouds

Shane Tyler is a bassist, producer and multi instrumentalist devoted to the healing powers of groove based sonic attunement. A founding member and bassist of Gardens & Villa and Amo Amo, Shane Tyler lives in Los Angeles and Nevada City California with his beloved partner Lainey and their Maine Coon cat Harlow.

The song lyrics were inspired by visiting the Crystal Hermitage and being transformed by the power of the small cathedral modeled after the one built by Francis of Assisi. This timeless small cathedral had such a beautiful serenity inside I felt like I could spend an entire day in quiet rapture. The walls were adorned with spiritual guides I have come to know and love as they have followed me throughout my spiritual quest. Although one can feel whole and healthy visiting a place of worship by themselves, I felt a further connection sharing the day with my partner and was pleased to know that we can find our own spiritual path yet have it become magnified and even more wondrous when sharing with each other. 
All I've ever wanted for my music is to make people feel like they were in transcendent bliss, just like this day. Whether it's the bliss of a place of worship perched high above the forest line, or the glorious daze of the dingy dance floor. May it wash over you in peace.

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Shane Tyler - The Clouds Cleared The Way

REMO SEELAND - Hollow Body, LP

A1) Body Innovation (04:20)
A2) Hollow City (07:24) 
A3) Second Coming (04:29)
B1) Pulse Points Green (05:33)
B2) Whoosh Before Laya (08:19)
B3) Night Within (05:04)

Release date - Sept 13th 2019 
Catalogue nr. - HG1903
Format - Vinyl/digital

All music composed and played by Remo Seeland
Recorded in New York, Reykjavik and Zurich

Guests:
Steve Fors, trombone on “Second Coming”
Reinier van Houdt, e-bowed guitar on “Hollow City” and Rhodes organ on “Pulse Points Green”
Norman Westberg, guitars on “Body Innovation” and “Hollow City”

Digital mastering by Jeremy Cox
Vinyl mastering by Rob Viso
Mix and production by Roger Hofmann and Remo Seeland
Inlay Photo by Ralph Kuehne
Artwork and photo by Ruth Stofer

Promotion by Dense Promotion, ed@dense.de 
Distribution by Cargo Records and A-Musik
Released by Hallow Ground

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Remo Seeland’s “Hollow Body” is a suspenseful exploration of the interaction between sound environments and individual perception. It was sparked by an intense physical experience the Swiss artist had during a residency in New York City. “The subway became a sort of ‘atonal symphony’ for me, provoking a full-body experience with the rattling of the overcrowded, airless trains,” the Hallow Ground founder explains. “However, while the old subway is not exactly beloved by everyone, it also represented for me the melancholic meta-level of the moloch above it.” The album, his first under his given name, makes this disparity audible over six tracks in which the visceral and the personal become at once abstract and universal. 

Based on field recordings from both urban and rural environments, “Hollow Body” aims to mirror another of Seeland’s psychosonic encounters. “In the highlands of Iceland, I noticed my pulse lowering and my breathing decelerating,” he says. “Just shortly after that, a single insect’s buzzing seemed so loud to me that I became even more aware of the silence surrounding me.” Silence, perception, order and the curious dialectics of the outside world and the inner workings of the human psyche are the central questions of “Hollow Body”.

Recorded in New York, Reykjavík and Zurich, “Hollow Body” draws extensively on field recordings and sees Seeland collaborating with Hallow Ground-affiliated artists Norman Westberg (Swans, guitar on “Body Innovation” and “Hollow City”) and Reinier van Houdt (Current 93, e-bowed guitar on “Hollow City” and Rhodes organ on “Pulse Points Green”), as well as the Swiss-based US-American musician Steve Fors (Deaf At Sea, trombone on “Second Coming”). The diversity of the source material is mirrored in the stylistic richness Seeland lays out with this LP. From the lush, bass-heavy drones of the opener “Body Innovation” to the downbeat-driven “Second Coming” and, finally, the haunting organ sounds of “Night Within”, “Hollow Body” forms a holistic entity that integrates idiosyncratic compositions into a coherent narrative.

“Hollow Body” was also conceptually inspired by Seeland’s research as a cultural scientist with a focus on Southeast Asian cultures, specifically the anomic tantric cults of India. It thus serves as a mediator between not only the individual experience of site-specific sounds and general ideas of sound production in and about space, but also between different compositional techniques ranging from drones to synthesized vocals and more primitive forms of ritualistic music. Its sonic abundancy is to be understood as a direct result of its underlying idea: at its most challenging, this record also makes the most coherent statements about the order of space, sound and their cryptic relationship with the human body.

Hollow Body

REMO SEELAND - Hollow City (feat. Reinier van Houdt and Norman Westberg) - HG1903

"Skin Game" is the first single from DIIV's forthcoming album, 'Deceiver', out October 4th, 2019.

Deceiver

DIIV // Skin Game

Released July 17, 2019
 
Recored and Mixed by Ben Andrewes 

Ead Wood : 
Ed Soles - Vocals, Guitar 

The Heights: 
Rob Fenner - Lead Guitar 
Michael Web - Bass 
Ben Andrewes - Drums 

Written by Ed Soles

Plum Cake

......
She never caught my eye 
Stonefaced while she passed by 
When she asked, Julian come dance 
I said, not a chance 

Gee im such a fool 
Thought I was way too cool 
Didnt mind 
When she gave me signs 
I said stand in line 

But now 
She is all I want 
What I need 
Falling hard 
All day and night 
All my life 
Falling hard 

Now she don’t look my way 
Thinks im a big cliché 
When I ask 
Honey come dance 
She´ll say not a chance 

Gee im such a fool 
Thought I was way too cool 
She dont mind 
When I give her signs 
She´ll say stand in line 

But now 
She is all I want 
What I need 
Falling hard 
All day and night 
All my life 
Falling hard

All I Want

Premiering on @selftitledmag

http://www.self-titledmag.com/2019/07/22/petra-aunis-album-injazero-records/


Pétra is a new collaborative music project from Brian Allen Simon (aka Anenon) and Chantal Chadwick.

The duo’s debut album ‘Aunis’, released 20th September via Injazero Records, incorporates electronic and acoustic instrumentation which draws the listener into dream-like soundscapes and blends ambient sounds, modern composition, and abstract vibrations.

Primarily written, performed, produced, and recorded on the volcanic island of Nisyros, Greece in late 2018, Pétra means ‘stone, rock’, and the name of the project was inspired by a chance encounter with the photography of Daniel Boudinet as well as the geological formations of Nisyros. With additional work on the album completed in Loire, France and Mexico City, Mexico, the music is a site-specific reaction to all locales and was arranged in a free-form variety of methods with an improvisational energy being the driving force.

Compositions such as the reverberating ‘Aunis’ rely on ethereal sounds and deep repetition while the fluid ‘Landes’ is a weightless moment of sonic beauty and emotional depth.

Elsewhere, the reactionary ‘Fuzz’ and the meditative, hazy sound explorations of ‘Obsidian’ are hauntingly beautiful, while ‘Tavel’ is reminiscent of the melodic repetition of minimalist pioneers like Steve Reich. 

Los Angeles native Brian Allen Simon, aka Anenon, is a multi-instrumentalist and producer who has received critical acclaim for his work from the likes of Pitchfork, The Wire, The Guardian, and more. 

Since his 2012 debut ‘Inner Hue’, Simon has continually and consistently proven his status as an innovator by co-curating an ambient music series at The Museum of Contemporary art in Los Angeles, and releasing critically acclaimed records such as 2016’s ‘Petrol’ and 2018’s ‘Tongue’. An officially sanctioned remix for Ryuichi Sakamoto in 2018 has only cemented this status further.

Chantal Chadwick is a musician, dancer, and founder of Assortment, an agency that supports artists working in photography, motion, and sound with an independent publishing branch for fine art books. 

Prior to founding Assortment, she was co-owner of a small gallery in New York City focusing on emerging contemporary artists. She has been quietly making music under the name Bed for close to a decade, but Pétra will be her first release. She is currently working between Mexico City and Los Angeles.

Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio.
Cover by Em Kei at Oddd Studio.

Pétra - Aunis

Erased Tapes present 'Handfuls of Night' — the highly anticipated follow-up to Penguin Cafe’s much applauded 2017 album 'The Imperfect Sea' — inspired by the Antarctic, Arthur Jeffes’ journey following in Scott’s footsteps and our penguin friends that reside there.

Using gut-stringed violins, viola, cello, bass, percussion, upright and grand pianos, synthesiser, harmonium and more, Arthur Jeffes and his cohorts have crafted a vivid series of panoramic sonic landscapes, that are as rich in cerebral poignancy as they are in emotional depth.

Handfuls of Night began life after Greenpeace commissioned Jeffes to write four pieces of music corresponding to four breeds of penguins, to help raise awareness for the endangered Antarctic seas . A fundraising evening at EartH in Hackney followed, where Penguin Cafe premiered the four songs named after their feathered counterparts to a sold out audience; the rousing contemporary folk inflected ‘Chinstrap’, the mournful and minimalistic ‘Adelie’, stoic and rhythmic ‘The Life of an Emperor’ and the wistful, string-laden ‘Gentoo Origin’.

“This record started with a core of pieces I wrote specifically about penguins in the Antarctic for a project with Greenpeace in autumn 2018. There are four native Antarctic penguin species – each with their own individual characteristics and natures. I carried on from there to envisage a whole anthropomorphised world, where these penguins had narratives and adventures that we soundtracked”, says Jeffes. But both the album and Penguin Cafe as a project have origins that reach further back:

“In 2005 I was asked to join an expedition re-creating Scott’s last Antarctic trip in 1911 for the BBC, using the same Edwardian equipment. I’m no explorer but I was keen, especially as there’s a family link – Scott was married to my great grandmother before she married my great grandfather. 

Antarctica by this stage being a protected environment, we swapped to the Arctic circle where we spent 3 months on the Greenland ice sheet, first dog-sledding and then man-hauling just short of 1000 km at 10,000 feet, across ice fields and glaciers. 

I had lots of time to ponder my life back home. It was then that I decided to get my Master of Music degree and focus on composing music, and also then that I realised that even in the most remote silent places, music can still be a huge part of one’s internal world and imagination.  Whilst on the expedition. I spent days playing things back in my head and also writing new things, which I would then try and write down at the end of the day.”

Handfuls of Night’s tones, textures and melodies evoke otherworldly expanses, which at different junctures are either foreboding, awe inspiring or peaceful. There’s subtly morphing rhythmic repetition throughout, somewhere between minimalism, krautrock and the piano-cascades of label peer Lubomyr Melnyk. Jeffes creates a kinetic, circling motion, which drives the album forward in the form of a musical trip that mirrors the physical journey it was inspired by.

Penguin Cafe was founded by Arthur Jeffes in 2009, after bringing together a talented and disparate group of musicians including members of Suede and Gorillaz, to perform his father Simon Jeffes’ legacy of world-renowned Penguin Cafe Orchestra music, ten years after his untimely death in 1997. A full biography is available here.
Handfuls of Night is out this autumn amid a string of UK live dates, before taking the album on a worldwide tour in 2020 with more dates to be announced.

· pre-order 'Handfuls of Sound' on LP/CD/DL: https://idol.lnk.to/HandfulsofNight