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Shulamith out October 22nd, head over to thisispolica.com for Shulamith cover art and album lyrics.
Remix by Doc McKinney, 2013.

Tiff

Tiff (Doc McKinney remix)

Houses 'Soak It Up' of the album All Night released on Lefse Records, 2010. 
Buy the album here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/all-night/id394247561

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Houses - Soak It Up

Pre-order About Face LP, out Fri 8th Aug (Pieater)
12” Vinyl & CD 
US - http://flythelightrecords.bandcamp.com
Aus/Row - http://musicyourdadsmake.bandcamp.com/album/about-face
Digital
https://itunes.apple.com/album/about-face/id882631659

#1 Dads (formerly Dads) is the solo moniker of Tom Iansek, the front man for acclaimed alt-pop band Big Scary. The project is a way for Iansek to remain creative between Big Scary album cycles and touring, and to find a place for songs that would remain homeless outside of his more well-known outfit.

About Face has been built over the past two years. Songs about mundanity, songs about desire, songs about loss… themes sung about for centuries, and delivered in a restrained and humble manner on this new LP.
The most notable development from 2011’s Man Of Leisure is a new foray into collaboration, a taste for which Iansek developed while working with external musicians on Big Scary's Not Art, and skill which he honed through his work as a producer for other artists. In his words, co-writing was “a way to lighten the burden of writing/recording/mixing/producing an album by myself”. Indeed, once the riffs for So Soldier and Return To were written, Iansek’s mind took him to Ainslie Wills’ and Tom Snowden’s voices respectively, rather than his own. 

1. My Rush
2. So Soldier (feat. Ainslie Wills)
3. Camberwell
4. Return To (feat. Tom Snowdon)
5. Nominal
6. For Randy Robinson and Cassidy
7. Blood Pt. 2
8. God Can Promise (with Airling)
9. Homeward Found

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#1 Dads - Return To (feat. Tom Snowdon) | (About Face LP | 2014)

Released 3rd July 2015. Buy here: https://itunes.apple.com/album/id993037636

Produced by LANKS + Ross Beaton
Mixed and mastered by Andrei Eremin
Artwork by Will Devereux

LANKS - Beach Houses

Funk My Mind

Taken from ‘Music for the Motion Picture Victoria’ – released by Erased Tapes on June 15th, 2015
ORDER LP/CD/Digital here:
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ABOUT:

Nils Frahm has always said that he’s just waiting for something real special when being asked if he would ever score the music for a film. And that’s exactly what German director Sebastian Schipper presented to him with his one-take feature ‘Victoria’. Filmed in Berlin, Victoria’s plot sees a runaway party girl, who's asked by three friendly men to join them as they hit the town, but their wild night of partying suddenly turns into a bank robbery as the music changes from techno to subdued piano sounds.

For the recording session at Studio P4 in Berlin, Frahm enlisted the help of long-time collaborator and cellist Anne Müller, violist Viktor Orri Árnason and ambient artist Erik K. Skodvin of Deaf Center on guitar.

‘Victoria’ won the Berlinale Film Festival prize for Best Cinematography and has also received seven nominations including Best Soundtrack for the Deutscher Filmpreis – Germany’s highest movie award, and will be released in cinemas across Germany on June 11th with plans to release it in the UK and other countries soon. 

More info: nilsfrahm.com · erasedtapes.com

Music for the Motion Picture Victoria

Them

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Stream @ Spotify: bit.ly/1M8cGym
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In Fall 2013, Katy Morley stepped into a machine with a box of old instruments and a pair of borrowed headphones. In Spring 2015, Morly came out. The four tracks on Morly’s debut EP, In Defense of My Muse, are lo- fi explorations into the transient space  between joy and melancholy, major and minor, rhythm and flow. Informed by her choral background, a penchant for minimalism and a love of dance, they offer a poignant glimpse into her strange and beautiful world.
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Cascine on FB: http://bit.ly/1QTpyHQ

Morly - And Sooner Than We Know It...

Emma Louise 'Underflow' Little DragonRemix

UNITED CRUSHERS, out March 4, 2016 / Pre-order Now!

CD/LP: smarturl.it/PolicaUC_Preorder
iTunes: smarturl.it/Polica_UC

TOUR: thisispolica.com/tour.php

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The Knife 'Silent Shout'

Feat. Elle Olsun and the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra

From upcoming triple LP 'Phantasmagoria'

© 2017 Kan Wakan. All Rights Reserved

Pre-order the new album 'Phantasmagoria' here:
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/kanwakan

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Phantasmagoria Pt. 1

and so the feeling that we had I know
it was a feeling that is fleeting, no?
in my heart, in my dreams, in my eyes
I feel, you know, it was

said in the dreaming hour,
I wasn't feeling quite right

you never had a chance

in the dreaming hours
i feel my heart inside in my heart

here we are at last 
images so strange
they'll take your breathe away
oh yes the midnight hour is fleeting
when lashes start to beating
i take, i dream, i know, i do

you you you never had a chance 
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Written by Kan Wakan & Elle Olsun 
Produced, Arranged & Performed by Kan Wakan
Mixed by Ben Baptie
Mastered by Bruce Templeton 
Drums by Ian Chang 
Trumpet by Mike Rocha
Bass by Cooper Appelt
Single artwork by Penko Gelev

Phantasmagoria Pt. 1

Taken from "The Kissing Machine E.P." -  www.facebook.com/swimwearmusic


Easy High

September 20th marks the 30th birthday of Berlin pianist Nils Frahm, but also the day he has chosen to give his fans a special gift in the form of 9 songs he recorded with 9 fingers, entitled 'Screws'.

Nils experienced an unfortunate accident which saw him fall from his bunk bed located directly above his studio, which resulted in a broken thumb. But through inspiration from his fans and after a gentle walk and talk through the park with a close friend, he decided to deal with the situation in the only way he knew – playing his piano.

With four screws surgically placed inside his thumb, he started recording with his remaining 9 fingers, what later resulted in 9 intimate piano recordings.

Fans can download 'Screws' as mp3s or in full 24-bit 44.100 kHz audio quality here (http://screws.durtonstudio.com), and pre-order a Vinyl/CD edition from the Erased Tapes online store (http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP046), which will be released later this year.

'I am sitting in front of a sheet of paper. My right hand is bending over my left thumb. The first day I got out of my cast I could bend it by 15°. Now I am already at 50° and that makes me happy. Things are going uphill...

As you can imagine, it is really bad news for a pianist when he gets diagnosed with a broken thumb. That day I was sitting in the emergency room, feeling rather dizzy while thinking of a zillion shows coming up and all the people involved around it. I realised in that moment how busy things have become. It is hard to turn down interesting projects and opportunities, since I surely love my work. It actually never felt like work. Playing piano and playing it for wonderful people is the greatest joy I can imagine.

For a couple of days I felt like this all could be over. How pathetic. But hey – also feeling sorry for yourself has its place somewhere. All of a sudden I had so much time, an unexpected holiday. I cancelled most of my schedule and found myself being a little bored. Even though my doctor told me not to touch a piano for a while, I just couldn't resist. I started playing a silent song with 4 fingers on my left and the remaining 5 on my right hand. I set up one microphone and recorded another tune every other night before falling asleep.

The day I got rid of my cast I had recorded 9 little tunes. They have helped me feel less annoyed about my accident and reminded me that any good is something I can only achieve, when I am making the most out of what I've got.

Thank you all for listening!

With lots of love,

Nils


9FINGERS North American Tour 2012

09/16 New York (US) – West Park Presbyterian Church 
09/21 Boulder (US) – Cherryvale Studios
09/22 Colorado Springs (US) – The Mesa
09/23 Santa Fe (US) – O'Shaughnessy Performance Space @ Santa Fe Uni
09/24 San Fransisco (US) – private show (RSVP only)
09/29 Seattle (US) – Decibel Festival @ Broadway Performance Hall
09/30 Portland (US) – Classic Pianos
10/03 Mexico City (MX) – Mutek

ERASED TAPES 5th Anniversary Tour w/ Ólafur Arnalds & A Winged Victory For The Sullen

10/08 HAMBURG (DE) – Fliegende Bauten
10/09 PRAGUE (CZ) – Palac Akropolis
10/10 BUDAPEST (HU) – Trafo
10/11 MANNHEIM (DE) – Alte Feuerwache
10/13-14 BERLIN (DE) – Radialsystem
10/15 AMSTERDAM (NL) – Paradiso
10/16-17 LEUVEN (BE) – Stuk
10/18 LONDON (UK) – Hackney Empire
10/19-20 ISTANBUL (TR) – Salon IKSV

PREVIOUS PRESS:

'No. 42 Best Albums Of 2011' -The Guardian
'Felt is a transportative album, a balm for troubled minds.' BBC Music
'Frahm’s hyper-intimate recording technique for the album makes Felt a captivating listen' (9/10) DIS

★ ★ ★ ★ – Popmatters ★ ★ ★ ★ – Uncut ★ ★ ★ ★ – Clash ★ ★ ★ ★ – Mojo

OFFICIAL WEBSITES: screws.durtonstudio.com · facebook.com/nilsfrahm · twitter.com/nilsfrahm · erasedtapes.com

Screws

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a sexy song for a sexy time
with a sexy girl Maria letting her voice melt you
(This was a song made for Lacoste)
Recorded at Freezone studios in Copenhagen.


Next to you ft Maria

Bibio - À tout à l'heure

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