Pale Coast

Porcelain

From Sean Nicholas Savage's "Other Death"
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Release Date: September 18th, 2015

Other Death

Sean Nicholas Savage - Suburban Nights

A ring without an end

Off the forthcoming album Venus On Edge, Daps Records 2016
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Tunnel Vision

Artist: Au.Ra 
Track: Applause 
Album: Cultivations 
Label: felte
Release Date: June 30, 2017

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Cultivations

Au.Ra - Applause

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Chic promenade

Perhapsy is the solo project of musician/graphic-artist Derek Barber, guitarist and songwriter of Bay Area-based groups Curls (Christopher Owens of Girls), Bells Atlas, and contributor to Astronauts, etc. and Madeline Kenney.

Although Perhapsy began as an instrumental post-rock band during Barber’s formative college years as a Jazz Studies major at the University of Michigan, upon graduation, everything changed. While on tour, Barber — diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder — endured an extended hospitalization in 2009. The experience left a lasting impression on him. Eventually, he emerged with a newfound musical confidence. This new desire to write songs about his struggles with mental illness, the day-to-day complex emotions of life, and the weight of his past religious overcoming would eventually find voice on the 2016 sophomore album Me Tie Dough-ty Walker. A marked transformation in stylistic direction, its songs focused not only around Barber’s dynamic guitar playing, but his distinctive and personal vocal stylings and songwriting.


Continuing to battle the everyday stigma surrounding mental illness, pondering extended periods of his life in psychiatric institutions, and a candid desire to bring real-life emotions to a song’s surface, Perhapsy released The — an EP off Oakland labels Copper Mouth Records and Wave Dweller — in 2017. Gaining notoriety around the Bay Area for his inimitable guitar contributions to high-profile bands, Perhapsy became additionally highlighted in local and online press for engaging live performances and an emerging talent as a visual artist. 

Kingdom Starlight Bliss — the new and third full-length album by Perhapsy — is an invitation into the ever-lush, layered, melodic, dissonant, and deeply personal musical world of Barber. Throughout KSB, musical storms rage and subside. Lyrics shift from fleeting thoughts of blissful meditation to detailed accounts of one’s past and pain.

Opening track “William Timothy” recounts the memory and personal story of the death of Barber’s father at age 13.  It’s with this deep candidness and dream-like qualities the listener is greeted into the complex world of bliss and sorrow. "The Curse (Is Getting Worse)" is a Heatmiser-esque banger with a propulsive drum and chord pattern inversely paired with pleading soft vocals. “Neverending Story” — a title jestingly yet affectionately taken from the 1984 beloved film — is a song more to do with romantic nostalgia than fantasy. “34th & West” shares the deep joy, passion, and risk of moving-in with a loved one. “Dying Arts” playfully yet sincerely questions the fear of pursuing Art and Music as profession. Closing track “Light” sets the stage for the spark a lover can bring into one’s life despite the change of the seasons. It isn’t until hidden track — an altogether rubato-beautiful and unconventional guitar-duet snippet of the Jazz standard “All the Things You Are” — is the full range of emotions and styles of the album felt. Here, we find Barber at the height of his abilities in musicianship, songwriting, but most importantly, candid and heartfelt expression.

Kingdom Starlight Bliss will be available November 23rd on 12” transparent cyan vinyl (with 24" lyric poster insert) via Long Beach label Porch Party Records.

Neverending Story

The Cool Greenhouse - The Sticks

All clear

IDIOT GLEE "Life without Jazz"

LP 12' (Atelier Ciseaux/ BureauBureau)
Limited to 350 copies/ Solid White vinyl
Out February 26th. 

Side A
Vibrato
Pinkwood
Pipes

Side B
Life without Jazz
Little Berlin

Artwork : Robert Beatty
Cd/ digit available via Hop Hop

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A revolt of darkened windows. The corners of your mouth remind me of those few words casually abandoned. Our bodies are carried by a river of soft, melancholy colors. Without a sound.

After a first album, Paddywhack, released in 2011 on the English label Moshi Moshi Records (Hot Chip, Au Revoir Simone, Egyptian Hip Hop, etc.) and an international tour, James Friley is back with a new EP, Life Without Jazz. Troubled by the compositions of Fleetwood Mac, Roxy Music and Scott Walker, this young, classically trained pianist from Lexington, Kentucky evokes the moments that bring us together - the ones we'd like to make last forever. Knees bump up against nostalgia, the frequencies of the saxophone resonate all the way to the bone. Five ballads, oscillating between home-made pop and careful songwriting, shine bright to the sound of that very particular crooning voice.

Our memories have disappeared behind the mirage. Because we've got everything left to live. Soundless, but not without music. Not without this music.

The album artwork is by artist and musician Robert Beatty (Hair Police, Three Legged Race...). He has also worked with bands such as Peaking Lights, Real Estate, and Wire magazine.

This record is being released in collaboration with the new label Bureaubureau. The CD version is available through the American label Hop Hop.


Neverending Story

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