Universe Arrangements’ serves as a statement of resolution and acceptance. Maintaining composure amidst the chaos, adventuring on despite the unknown, recognising that we may not be in control of everything; and so we might as well dance amongst the mystery, and take in the view while we’re there.

Single released on July the 31st

Universe Arrangements (Single Edit)

I teach in US higher education (in a STEM field) & am a hobbyist composer writing in a few different styles. I recommend headphones. All of my music is released under a Creative Commons Attribution/Noncommercial license.

My bandcamp page is getting out of date again, but some older albums there can be downloaded for free or for a name-your-own price donation.

If anyone wants to try performing any of this stuff on real instruments please send a message and I can provide scores. Not sure how playable some of it is for human musicians though.

Unsolicited messages asking me to listen to your latest song will lead to you being blocked unless if I know you well and we've interacted a lot.

My music is written without the use of AI.

Hope you enjoy and thanks for visiting!

‘Delighted that my music has had so many plays on BBC Radio 6 Music, & across the BBC, also in America, Canada and Europe, special thanks to Tom Robinson, Cerys Matthews and BBC Introducing! Humbled and proud at the response my songs have been getting. Thank you everyone for your support’.

Songs about sleeping fields, breathing trees & drunken bees. Recorded by a collective of soundcloud artists. Written in Yorkshire woods . Recorded in fields, garden's & bedrooms across Europe & America.

Purchase from iTunes here
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/jeanes/id384485866

Listen on Spotify here:
https://play.spotify.com/album/7HEwJWNxSIYQUimxlxjCna?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open

Purchase 'Sleeping Leaves EP' from Bandcamp here (including limited edition CD):
https://folkstockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jeanes-sleeping-leaves-ep

Words and music: Russell Jeanes,
Voices: Catherine Hershey, Emily Zornado, Léa Decan, Dougie Harley.
Additional guitar: Scott Fraser
Strings: Tom Sidebottom

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kind words ...
"Nobody out there sounds quite like Russ Jeanes – The taste of honey is almost tangible. Pure pastoral nectar from the heart of Northern England – accept no substitute”
Tom Robinson - BBC 6 Music

“Absolutely Mesmerising, beautiful”
Robert Macfarlane (Author of The Lost Words)

"it's gorgeous - when you first hear Simple Jayne, it immediately goes into your top 100 songs that you take with you forever”
Cerys Matthews - BBC 6 Music

The delicate, pure folk from the mysterious Russell Jeanes is spellbinding,
bewitching, beguiling and breathtakingly beautiful”
The Devil has the Best Tuna

"Imagine walking through the woods, taking a trip back to the 1960s with Andy Warhol & Velvet Underground”
Jericho Keys - BBC Radio

"Innocence and beauty finds its voice”
Johnno Casson

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Thanks to FOTN, Tom Robinson, Cerys Matthews, BBC6 Music, WFMU, Jericho Keys, Alan Raw, BBC Wales, and a myriad of wonderful radio shows across the planet for making it possible for the songs to be heard.

Powerfully uncool electronic pop grooves for sarcastic introverts.
Working the Recovery Chronic Depression/Anxiety
Trekkie 🖖

Alternative | Psychedelic | Dancey

From Bury UK, Signal Committee carve out their own sound somewhere between New Order, Radiohead and Arcade Fire.

Played on BBC6 Music once or twice, otherwise undiscovered.  

Don't read, listen...

Ploughing a furrow somewhere between Jazz, Post Rock and Trip Hop, we are making a Lynchian journey contemplating the Universe, our place in it, mortality, spirituality all that stuff. 
Released on April 28th 2022, Not My Will is the new single from Bledig from the album Universe Arrangements which will be released later this year.

Bledig have played supports
with Mammal Hands, Melt
Yourself Down and
Sleep Token.
They released their EP, Bruise
in early 2019 garnering
multiple plays on BBC 6 Music
and other specialist shows.

Contact bledig.band@gmail.com

Unashamedly pop with a strong message, Venn Smyth writes songs that dance around subjects and stories important to him. These include identity, queerness, community and finding your voice. He currently lives in London and alongside writing and performing, teaches and works with young people, including leading LGBTQ+ youth music projects.

He grew up in rural Central Scotland and found himself captivated by music and words from an early age. More interested in making up new tunes than learning the scales, he eventually knuckled down and went on to study Classical Music at Edinburgh Napier University, with saxophone and composition as his focus. However, song writing always stuck, and he found further inspiration in the eclectic worlds of Rufus Wainwright, Prince, Laura Marling and Erasure to name but a few. Having performed in various bands and releasing music under different guises over the years, this new work delivers a culmination of experience, introducing Venn Smyth at his most honest, playful and clear.

Welcome to my little musical garden of sounds, photos and ideas.

All the visual artwork here is made by me.

You can also visit my YouTube channel, where you can find much more of my music and audiovisual experiments:
https://youtu.be/GpVxuemyL4o

Thank you and happy existing to you all!