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Another offering to the Samhain world. With the success of the original Let The Horses Run cultivating BBC Introducing and Radio support in the UK, this remix was made to accompany as a b-side by North Yorkshire born artist 'Rainmaker'.

Artwork by Oscar Millar
Recorded by Warner Music UK
Produced by Richard Woodcraft
Remixed by Rainmaker

Let The Horses Run (Rainmaker Remix)

We've all been in a room with no way out. Wether it be in relationships or falling back into bad habits. This room is Luke's room and you have the key.

This is a single from my debut album ‘Who do you want to be, L.A.Byrne?’

‘Who do you want to be?’ - What a question. Throughout our lives it appears again and again. It is both a question we ask ourselves and one that is asked by others. Unfortunately, there is no simple answer and do we ever really know? In this debut album I have put forward this question to my best friend and vocalist Luke, L.A. Byrne.

Together, we explore Luke’s life over the past three years, with the pressure of turning 30, causing a mixture of angst, uncertainty, and a feeling of failure. With moving to Denmark pre-Brexit, he finds himself stuck in limbo, with a clouded sense of belonging and identity. We reflect on his relationships back home in Yorkshire and how they intertwine with his life and relationships here in Denmark.



In my home studio in Copenhagen’s northern district, Nørrebro, we spent 18 months mapping out this period of Luke’s life, listening to a mixture of Motown, House, hiphop and RnB - the record definitely nods to all these genres. We spent many nights in smokey Bodega’s, imagining what this record could be, and more often than not, the headaches from the night before shaped what the record became.

This is a multi-genre record that acknowledges music from both the past and today. Driven by the Korg minilogue synthesiser, soul samples and a TR-8 drum machine, I tried to encapsulate everything that has inspired us to make music. You could call it a modern interpretation of the past, with nostalgia echoing through the music, Luke’s life and my own.

So ‘Who do you want to be?’

The Room

After a year of profound creative challenges, artists across the UK have been forced to evaluate their craft. Swells is a collection of poems exploring the experiences of 5 poets in the depths of lockdown, set to a soundtrack of ambient soundscapes. Through meta-creative reflection, the poets use their art to recount moments of inspiration (or lack thereof) and wider visions of the arts sector during the year creativity became ‘non-essential’.

Swells features music production and sound design by Rainmaker (Ru Brooks) and original works by 5 poets from across the UK:

Creativity In Lockdown by Dauda Ladejobi
In This Year by Sophie Dumont
Butterflies In The Living Room by Stephen Lightbown
The Facilitator by Joanna Nissel
The Drought by C A Pacey

Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/swellstranscript

Swells was commissioned by Ru Brooks and funded by Arts Council England.

Swells: Reflections on Creativity Through Lockdown

The Rainmaker Remix of Samhain's second single - Inner City Fox

"Beyond the material plane of Samhain lies many other diverse and mysterious parallels. Rainmaker occupies one such domain and repurposes the matter of this world to his own end." 

Artwork by Oscar Millar
Published by Warner Music Group: W Songs

Inner City Fox (Rainmaker Remix)

Kool Kids

Eclectic Creams

First single from Shannon Lay's new record out September 2017.

"Debut release on Kevin Morby's new imprint with Woodsist Records. Shannon Lay's Living Water is an instant classic. Recorded by Emmet Kelly (Cairo Gang, Bonnie Prince Billy, Ty Segall) in his Los Angeles home studio, this is an album where you can hear the room reacting to the music taking shape around it. Shannon has a voice that transcends time and space. You can't tell if she's old or new, if she's sitting next to you, on a mountain top, or down in some canyon. Already her second LP to be released in 2017, Shannon is a prolific songwriter, one who lives and breaths melody and with guitar skills to boot. Despite it's 14 tracks, Living Water comes in well under 40 minutes, but like Pink Moon or Just Another Diamond Day before it, this is music so potent it exists outside the realms of time - but in a world specific only to itself and the new feelings it creates. 

Shannon has been dominating the local scene in Los Angeles over the past two years, leaving everyone who witnesses completely breathless. Having just finished a tour with Ty Segall, Shannon is set to support Kevin Morby on a national tour this fall."

Living Water

Shannon Lay  - The Moons Detriment

Time Waster (feat. Emily Bolton)

A collaboration track with uk artist BRN. A touch more pop then i'm used to, but still keeps a wonky touch,

Easy

GRACE GILLESPIE - For Nick Drake

You set your sights on some faraway shores
But it’s all there in your mind, you have all you need and more
And you left me in the basement learning finger-picked guitar
With Joni on the stereo and Bobby in my heart
 
And now I set my sails for a small whitewash house
And I suppose I’ll get to know what domestic life is all about
For I did not learn the poets but they’re burned into my bones
I’m ready for to meet them you can say I’m going home
 
So I howl for Allen Ginsberg
And I cry for Kerouac and Plathe
And for Dickenson and Angelou finally set free
And for Nick I will stand before the sea
Only silence for your sweetest tragedy
 
So I read from your back pages because I know the story well
Suspending my disbelief in your effervescent spells
And Neil on in the background, Alabama have you not learned?
And Peter Green my saviour, heavenly man of the world

So I howl for Allen Ginsberg
And I cry for Kerouac and Plathe
And for Dickenson and Angelou finally set free
And for Nick I will stand before the sea
Only silence for your sweetest tragedy
 
So I tried to live in lyric, I suppose a life like you
Gathering up words and trying to make them stand up tall and true
But poetry’s not dead, I saw her shiver in the draught
Nick I’m sorry they did not listen, you know it nearly broke my heart

© 2020 Kaleidoscope

For Nick Drake

"Strong and hypnotizing." - Wolf In A Suit

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