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What's in the Black Briefcase?
5-4-3-2-1 who's gonna go first?

Black Briefcase

Life is like a movie, this is my movie and I write the soundtracks for it. Here is one called Solace. I find writing music is part of self-development and therapy for me. Time to reflect on current emotions and space to find comfort in those dark times.

Inspired by the likes of Hans Zimmer and Cinematic orchestra.

Solace

Produced by Leg Puppy 2.0
Co-Produced by Paris Alexander
Words & Vox MB aka Kerry Coburn
Mixed and mastered by Paris Alexander
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYjSAr9_uVM

Home

Painted Ladies

Headed North

Ruth

We're Getting Older by Ivor Game
Words and Music copyright 2024 Ivor Game
Released 17th May 2024

We're Getting Older

second hand living room

Here's one from the back catalogue!

[English below]
Mae fy mrawd a finnau wedi bod yn sgwennu caneuon gyda'n gilydd ers cyfnod hir rŵan. Dyma gân o'n "back-catalogue", wedi'i ysgrifennu nôl ym Metws-y-coed yng nghanol y 2010au, wn ni ddim pryd yn union. Roedd y gân yn poblogaedd iawn gyda'n gynulleidfaoedd ar y pryd (roedden ni'n berfformio o dan enw arall adeg yna). 

Buom ni'n recordio'r gân yn 2018 yn Rhydychen gyda'n ffrindiau, Nico a Jakes (sydd bellach yn berfformio o dan yr enw, Pecq, ewch i wrando arnyn nhw!), ond ni ryddhaom y gân oherwydd doeddwn ni ddim yn gigio lot gyda'r prosiect erbyn hynny, gan fod ni'n ddau yn bwy mewn dinasoedd gwahanol. 

Mae gennon ni prosiect newydd yn bellach, fel rydach chi wedi sylwi, felly, dyma chi'r gân "bwdl ldl lwm bwm bwm", o'r diwedd! Mwynhewch.

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My brother and I have been writing songs together for a while now. Here's one from our back catelogue. We came up with this little ditty while jamming on the piano in our family home in Betws-y-coed at somepoint towards the middle of the 2010s, not sure when exactly. It was a hit with audiences at the time (we performed under a different name back then).

We recorded the song in Oxford in 2018 with our friends Nico and Jakes (who now perform under the name Pecq, checl them out!), but then we ended up not releasing it, because we weren't gigging that much with that band at the time due to us living in different cities. 

Since then, as you've noticed, we started this new project! :D So, the time came to release the "bobl lobl lom bom bom" song at last! Enjoy :)

Music video: https://youtu.be/VCpibcH2lDs
Smart link: https://kycker.ffm.to/mylove

My love, my love
is bigger than your whole world. 
It grows, it grows
and conquers everything
My heart, my heart
is beating just for you,
And for your love
I would do anything
      
I can't help it, I'm in love with you 
You're the only thing I want to do

My heart, my heart,
is hotter than the brightest star
It grows it grows,
and burns up everything
Your eyes, your eyes,
they carry me oh so far
And for one look,
I would do anything

For    your eyes
For    your heart
For    your love   
        
I can't help it, I'm in love with you    
You're the only thing I want to do

My love is bigger and brighter than anything
My love will set you on fire and burn you up
My love is bigger and brighter than anything
You can imagine

My love is bigger and brighter than anything
My love will set you on fire and burn you up
My love is bigger and brighter than anything
You can imagine

Credits:
Siôn Rickard - lead vocals, ukelele, main composer
Liam Rickard - backing vocals, guitar, bass
Niko O'Brien - drums, e-guitar, production
Hannah Jakes - keys, production

Recorded & produced in Oxford by Upcycled Sounds

My Love

you and i
have this thing going on
you like to talk
i like to stare out of the window
but that's just how things are

you move side to side
like a space invader
always on the move
so they'll hit you later 
but that’s just how things are

slow it down
it's way too fast
i'll meet you at the aftermath

sometimes
everything's going wrong
you like to talk
and i like to stare out of the window
but that’s just how things are

do you ever wonder why
i can't look into your eyes
your coffee's getting cold
do you need me to remind you
that this is this how things are?

slow it down
it's way too fast
i'll meet you at the aftermath

you and i
we will be just fine

aftermath

Supported by Gilles Peterson - BBC/Worldwide FM, Chris Hawkins - BBC 6 Music, Jericho Keys - BBC Introducing & Grahame Park

This release serves as a prelude to an extensive release schedule by the band. It embodies a DIY recording project steeped in positive vibes, helmed by the renowned nu-jazz producer, Wai Wan. Whose fingerprints can be found all over releases on Chrysalis Records and Virgin Records.
 
Fat Generous have been making waves in their hometown playing alongside the likes of Fatboy Slim at the legendary New Adelphi Club, and around the UK Festival scene with Sister Sledge, Kamasi Washington & Kamaal Williams. Their raw onstage energy has also gained the stamp of approval from the godfather funk himself, George Clinton.

Shake Your Body Down

New Chester Road (Revisited) - Taken from the forthcoming album "Sunlight (Revisited)" - Buy Now at https://mistrust.bandcamp.com

New Chester Road Revisited takes the listener on a journey down the road of the same name, from Birkenhead via Port Sunlight. It's a metaphor about looking back on life and how things are no longer the same, but never really change.

I started playing the original version of New Chester Road (which was on my 2023 album "Sunlight") live at my gigs last year but wanted to try it with a more uptempo, electronic feel. Something a bit more in my Kraftwerk, OMD, and early Human League influenced style.

The beat I used in the new version reminded me of the one used in the song “The Quiet Men” by Ultravox in the John Foxx era (one of my favourite songs). I then ended up trying to replicate the stuttering bass line which sounds similar to the one performed by Chris Cross in The Quiet Men. When I heard that Chris had died, I felt that I wanted to pay my own tribute to him. Rather than do a cover version of an Ultravox song, this feels like a more personal thing to do and put out a song which is very much inspired by one of his classic bass lines and influential style.

New Chester Road (Revisited)

Ever since we released MetaGoth#1 back in 2022, we have been promising to create a MetaGoth#2. We are thrilled to tell you that we have at last done exactly that!

At a cracking 165bpm, MetaGoth#1 was a danceable track full of palpable tension, anger and defiance. As its name suggests, it was also a playful take on familiar gothic tropes and sounds, plus a lot of what came after those heady days in the early ‘80s, when the two of us helped, in our own small way, to bring this musical genre into being. 

Alone (MetaGoth#2) carries on in this same vein. It takes the same riffs and augmented samples that we used to create MetaGoth#1, but this time it broods along at an imperious 61bpm, and hosts a new set of fabulous percussion and vocals, referencing an altogether more melancholic and poetic facet from the postpunk scene. Complementing this are the lyrics, drawn from that most gothic of writers, Edgar Allan Poe. 

Why not have a listen to MetaGoth#1 after you have heard Alone (MetaGoth#2), and see how many shared samples and sounds you can spot!


From childhood's hour I have not been 
As others were - I have not seen 
As others saw - I could not bring 
My passions from a common spring. 
From the same source I have not taken 
My sorrow; I could not awaken 
My heart to joy at the same tone; 
And all I lov'd - I lov'd alone.
(from the poem, Alone, by Edgar Allan Poe)

Alone (MetaGoth#2)

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Gradients

It's A Feeling - Sigala, Trevor Daniel, 24kGoldn Remix

It's A Feeling (Remix)

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