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original 2009 cover of Barbara Lewis' "Hello Stranger" heard on my tape "Live Recordings". recorded live in my room with my loop pedal. I overdubbed one of the kbd parts I think 

Hello Stranger

"A hope that one day some may understand"

Screen Prints / Hum and Hiss

Release Date: March, 2014
Format: CD & LP
Label: Fastcut Records

Recorded on Yamaha MT120 / MT3X  4 track Cassette Portastudios and an Akai 1722II 2 track Reel to Reel Tape Recorder between 1997 and 2000 at Trafford General Hospital and Chorlton, Manchester. 

Remastered by Declan Meehan 2013

Interview 2013 with Screen Prints (Declan Meehan & Justin Hughes): http://fastcut.jp/sp/sp/

Screen Prints - Same Time Next Year (remastered)

Soundcloud: @annaofthenorth
Facebook: facebook.com/annaofthenorth
Twitter: twitter.com/anna_ofthenorth

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Anna of the North - Sway

Canción incluida en el Ep "Desencuentros" de Elsa de Alfonso y Los Prestigio, editado por CANADA Editorial (2014)
www.laeditorialdecanada.com

Elsa de Alfonso y Los Prestigio - Gardenias

New album out on Paper Bag Records on Feb 6th 2015, featuring collaborations with Young Galaxy, Sally Shapiro, Loney Dear and Brain Machine.

The Best Thing (with Sally Shapiro) [Electric Youth Cover]

On February 23 the Stockholm/Malmö based pop group Testbild! will release their new album 'Belka & Strelka' on Kalligrammofon. 

https://kalligrammofon.bandcamp.com/album/belka-strelka

Testbild! - Dogs in the Sky

Cut The With The Cake Knife was recorded by Rose McDowall in 1988/89 following the break up of her group Strawberry Switchblade. Produced with the aid of several musicians in several studios, the album features songs written for the fabled second Strawberry Switchblade album. More importantly perhaps it showcases the honest, direct and life-affirming songs of one of the greatest unsung songwriters of the modern pop era at a tumultuous time in her career.

Tibet opens the set and could be one of the best pop songs you’ve never heard. The innate sadness of the songs’ content – the loss of a friendship, impending sorrow – is heightened to heart-melting level by McDowall’s pop nous and melodic sensibility. Choruses and hooks are everywhere on Cake Knife, from the outsider take on stadium 80s pop in Wings Of Heaven to the spiraling, ecstatic So Vicious, a glorious anthem that highlights the human fragility in McDowall’s vocal performance, an instrument that has never lost the naïve purity it first exemplified in Strawberry Switchblade’s early 80s recordings. The centerpiece of the album, the title-track, is the greatest Switchblade pop chart hit that never was. Like the veiled melancholy of her former group’s hits, Cut With The Cake Knife hints at a darkness beneath the gloss, a darkness that saw McDowall delve into more esoteric territory with her subsequent recordings and collaborations. Cut With The Cake Knife serves as the bridge between the pop music McDowall had been making with her friends Jill Bryson, Lawrence from Felt and Primal Scream to what became a more extreme, deep sound informed by neo-folk and post industrial music.

Rose McDowall’s role in the canon has always been one of an outsider. Beginning in Glasgow’s East End in the avant proto-noise group The Poems, achieving fame briefly in the 80s and then disappearing into counter-cultural folklore, the emphasis in the internet-age has been skewed towards her image and cultural significance. Unseen to many, her solo work, her groups Sorrow and Spell and her collaborations with a whole host of underground luminaries have still touched lives. As McDowall elucidates: “They're real sad songs, about real life. I've had people come up to me to say I'd connected with them and helped them. I remember a gig in America when we made a whole room cry. It was bizarre. A couple at the front of the stage started crying and then these two boys beside and  suddenly everyone was crying. And I thought, "that's power."

Night School’s issue of Cut With The Cake Knife includes unpublished photographs, extensive sleeve notes from Rose McDowall and 2 bonus tracks culled from the bootleg 7” “Don’t Fear The Reaper.”


ROSE MCDOWALL - Tibet (from Cut With The Cake Knife LSSN027)

From the upcoming CALIMEX MENTAL IMPLANT CORP. - EL SABER DEL ARPAVOR album on Nightwind records.

From Benny Cohen International Artist Agency Hollywood:
"Legowelt is back with an ultimate summer album on his own Nightwind Records brand. It carries on from last year's Los Alamos Motel release on PPU records and is perfect for "cruising boulevards, picnics, weight lifting, fitness training, swimming pool action, hazing out in the sun, late
nite computer programming, Star Trek convention visits and other cool hobbies."
Available on gold plated audio cassette in luxurious faux leather "vintage C64/ZXspectrum computer game" style cassette-box and on bandcamp later this month"

More info: http://www.nightwindrecords.org

Calimex Mental Implant Corp. - Paracruise Waffles

From forthcoming album "Movements of a Decade".
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Poise

Released on February 5th, 2016.

Digital: smarturl.it/istheisare
Physical: http://www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/is-the-is-are


DIIV // Dopamine

Wallflower - Dreamy Days

http://www.mediafire.com/?fa9rl9hg9kcq44i

Crystal Castles (II)

Suffocation

O.M.G!

Hold On ft. Amber Coffman

The Sea and Cake - Weekend

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

From BLVD001, Astrobrite "Crush" LP. Seminal cult lo-fi/noisepop/shoegaze. Reissued on vinyl by BLVD in 2011. 

Purchase the LP: http://blvdrecords.com/?page_id=9
Hear more on our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/blvdrcrds

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Astrobrite- Crasher

Young Friend

Purchase Vinyl: http://beko.bigcartel.com/product/the-bilinda-butchers-_-the-lover-s-suicide-7
Purchase CD: http://zoom-lens.org/cd.html

THE BILINDA BUTCHERS - THE LOVERS' SUICIDE! 
INSPIRED BY THE SHORT STORY "A STREET SINGER" BY LAFCADIO HEARN

With graying clouds hanging over me
Oh, I cannot, I cannot breathe
Your pale face behind bars, my heart sinks
Sold to this house for the use of men
Oh, your young heart, I wish I could mend
But instead, I'll pretend, I'll pretend

So close your eyes, close your eyes
'Cause in our dreams, in our dreams
In our dreams
Lovers' suicide

With last sen in pocket I turn to you
A painted rain dragon, the scent of bamboo
Sake drips from your lips when you say,
when you say our love is true
So where do we go? Where do we go?
Like a flower, I can't bloom in the snow
We can't hide, we can't grow

So close your eyes, close your eyes
'Cause in our dreams, in our dreams
In our dreams
Lovers' suicide

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AN EXCERPT FROM LAFCADIO HEARN'S "A STREET SINGER"

"In the first ward of Nichi-Hommachi,
in far famed Osaka
- O the sorrow of this tale of shinju!
"Tamayone, aged nineteen,
- to see her was to love her,
for Takejiro, the young workman.
"For the time of two lives they exchange mutual vows
- O the sorrow of loving a courtezan!
"On their arms they tattoo a Raindragon,
and the character 'Bamboo'
- thinking never of the troubles of life.....
"But he cannot pay the fifty-five yen for her freedom -
O the anguish of Takejiro's heart!
"Both then vow to pass away together,
since never in this world can they become husband and wife.
"Trusting to her comrades for incense and for flowers
- O the pity of their passing like dew!
"Tamoyone takes the wine-cup filled with water only,
in which those about to die pledge to each other....
"O the tumult of the lovers' suicide!
- o the pity of their lives thrown away!"

THE LOVERS' SUICIDE!

This is a bonus track of James Blake's new album "Overgrown" (Japanese Edition)

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