Pre-order link - http://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-world

Tyler Evans, Jay Pluck, and myself are Ed Askew Band, btw.

Love this! That banjo is great, along with the rest.

This recording sounds infinity better than the other Ed Askew recordings...just saying...!\

A special DiS premiere. Sharon Van Etten has also told us about how she ended up working eith Mr Askew http://drownedinsound.com/news/4146775-i-saw-him-open-up-for-bill-callahan-and-it-destroyed-me-sharon-van-etten-on-ed-askew-new-track-premiere

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Ed Askew
‘For The World’ out on Tin Angel Records
16th September 2013

•	“one of acid-folk's farthest-out relics” Pitchfork

•	“timelessly bittersweet” Popmatters

•	“an overpowering sense of awe and mystery” Paste Magazine

•	Features performances from Sharon Van Etten, Marc Ribot (Tom Waits & Elvis Costello), The Black Swans and Mary Lattimore (Meg Baird, Thurston Moore)

On 16th September Ed Askew will be releasing his latest record ‘For The World’ on Tin Angel Records. Anyone who loves ‘outsider’ folk legends from Tom Rapp to Roy Harper or Gary Higgins to Peter Grudzien knows the name of the legendary bard Ed Askew.

Filled with Askew’s trademark baroque odes the album builds up to an unrelenting crescendo of harp flourishes and harmonica. Askew’s charismatic warbling vibrato vocals, at times, are reminiscent of both Simon Finn and David Bowie. ‘For The World’ continues to offer an insight into his life although it is notably less heartbreaking than it’s predecessors. These charming songs of love and escapism capture both the spirit of Askew along with the hearts of musicians (and fans) who have been with him for decades.

Ed Askew recently toured the US for the first time 2011, as a result of the tour it was decided that Jerry DeCicca of the Black Swans and producer of the final recordings of Larry Jon Wilson (Drag City/ 1965 Records), would assist Ed in making his first non-solo album.

Down the street from the Cotton Club, they spent a week in a West Harlem warehouse that September. Ed Askew was joined by Jay Pluck, two members of The Black Swans' Tyler Evans (banjo, tiple, electric guitar-- and now a permanent member of Ed's entourage), Canaan Faulkner (bass) and Eve Searls (backing vocals), along with Mary Lattimore (Meg Baird, Thurston Moore) on harp.

Later down the road, electric guitar was added by fellow outsider Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and backing vocals on 3 songs by super fan Sharon Van Etten. The results of those sessions were to become the album ‘For The World’.

Ed Askew is a painter and singer-songwriter who lives in New York City. Born in Stamford, Connecticut, he moved to New Haven to study painting at Yale Art School in 1963.

After graduating from art school in 1966, Askew was called up for the draft. Not feeling particularly enthusiastic about going to war at age 26 (the Navy tried to convince him that he should apply for officer training!), he looked for a teaching job and found work at a private prep school in Connecticut. It was while teaching he started making songs; he also acquired his Martin Tiple (a 10 string lute-like instrument originally from Columbia) at this time. "I must have written 25 songs that semester; all of the material on Unicorn and possibly some stuff on Little Eyes."

He then recorded his second album for ESP, Little Eyes, but it sat in the vaults for almost 40 years until it saw a limited release in 2007.

The singer-songwriter moved to New York for a few months in 1967 where he met Bernard Stolman of ESP Disk' (Pearls Before Swine, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler), who offered him a contract. That year Ed's first album was released, Ask the Unicorn (on Parlophone in the UK) and it quickly disappeared into folk-psych obscurity.

In support of the limited vinyl/ digital re-release of the 80's era cassette tape Imperfiction, Ed was accompanied on piano by Jay Pluck and travelled with tour mates, The Black Swans.

Ed Askew will be touring the UK in October please check the websites below for updates.

www.tinangelrecords.co.uk 
edaskew.bandcamp.com/

Ed Askew - For The World (featuring Sharon Van Etten)

CHROMATICS / IN FILMS

Written by Catherine Anne Davies
Produced by Paul Draper & Catherine Anne Davies

THE ANCHORESS: CONFESSIONS OF A ROMANCE NOVELIST
Debut album released January 8th 2016 (Digital)January 15th 2016(Physical)
Label: Kscope

Preorder on iTunes:
http://smarturl.it/COARN_DIGITAL

Deluxe gatefold CD with 20 page booklet:
https://www.burningshed.com/store/kscope/

"D​avies is making music like nobody else at the moment." - NME

"W​ales's (much more explicitly feminist) answer to Lana Del Rey.​"  - Ann Powers, NPR

Revenge-pop? The prog Karen Carpenter? Barbra Streisand on acid? Bat For Lashes on a book-binge? Whatever way you choose to describe ‘Confessions of A Romance Novelist’, the debut album by The Anchoress, one thing’s for sure: it packs a punch. Did I say “punch”? On tracks like ‘P.S. Fuck You’ it’s more of a kick. In the balls. Of an ex. who most definitely sounds like they deserved it…
 
The album is due for release on January 8th 2016 via Kscope, home to Grammy nominated Steven Wilson, Mercury Prize nominees Sweet Billy Pilgrim, and British rock gods Anathema.  A brand new track ‘Popular’ is available now with pre-orders of the album.
 
Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, PhD and producer Catherine Anne Davies (aka The Anchoress) sums up the album’s overall concept as "deconstructing normative ideas of love and romance", with each song sung by a different character – “what you might call a musical ghost writing of sorts”. You can hear this distilled in the Prince-inspired feminist manifesto ‘One For Sorrow’ that questions the concept of marriage. There’s a different take on obsessional love in the album’s title track, where the album’s narrator ironically references her “bedroom shrine to Margaret Thatcher”. Meanwhile, 'You And Only You' - an anthemic ode to being better off alone - features the distinctive operatic indie-wail of Mansun's Paul Draper, who co-produced the album with Catherine.
 
Draper helped to capture the collection of songs on which Catherine played a variety of instruments, including piano, guitar, flute, omnichord, mellotron, wurlitzer, glockenspiel, and celeste, as well as multi-tracking up to 25 vocal harmonies on some of the songs. Yet, recording was interrupted by a series of events that threatened to derail the project completely, including Catherine injuring her hand so badly during a 48-hour recording session that she was told she might not play again and had to wear a metal cast for 6 months. She says: “This has been made on a wing and a prayer, lots of favours, one car crash, one death, one broken hand, and a lot of patience on so many parts. Stir in 3 jobs, 4 studios, 2 arrests, 3 pianos, 40 songs and 1 very patient engineer… and you get some way to understanding what a long road it has been.”
 
The album follows two sold-out singles, which were playlisted on both BBC 6Music and Xfm, and received plaudits across the globe, from America’s NPR, to Les Inrockuptibles in France, the NME, and influential websites like The Quietus and Line of Best Fit.
 
The Anchoress is currently on tour with Simple Minds, co-writing Paul Draper's debut solo album, and has begun working on her second album with Bernard Butler.
 
“Deft, engrossing lyrical work with some beautifully dark arrangements… an enthralling return” - CLASH
 
 "A strutting howl of a vocal and grit-edged guitar… a sprawl of dark southern gothic"  - THE QUIETUS

www.iamtheanchoress.com/
 
For more information:
National Press: Gillian@hallornothing.com
Online PR: louisa.worskett@caroline.com
Radio: fuzz.chaudhrey@caroline.com
Regional Press: Tom@hallornothing.com



Confessions Of A Romance Novelis

Confessions of a Romance Novelist

Taken from Kate Jackson's debut solo album, 'British Road Movies', out 20th May 2016 via Hoo Ha Records.
Pre order the album here:
on digital:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/british-road-movies/id1085394690?app=itunes&ls=1
on vinyl:
http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/101470
http://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Road-Movies-VINYL-Jackson/dp/B01BVYNKVO/
on CD:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Road-Movies-Kate-Jackson/dp/B01BVYNIVG/
https://www.katejackson.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/katejacksonandthewrongmoves
https://twitter.com/KateJacksonWM



Metropolis

Jane Third of Because Music talks at DICE Girls Music Day at Sonos Studio, London on March 12th. 

DICE Girls Music Day - Jane Third, Because Music

Welcome to the Podcart podcasts.

This week's very special guest is Kathryn Joseph! The Scottish Album Of The Year (SAY) Award winner chatted to Podcart chose a selection of her most-loved tracks past, present and future. 

You can buy Kathryn's award winning album via https://kathrynjoseph.bandcamp.com/album/bones-you-have-thrown-me-and-blood-ive-spilled

Please listen and enjoy and remember to check out the artists in more depth.

1. Kathryn Joseph - 'The Mouth' (Hits The Fan Records) 
2. Glen Campbell - 'Wichita Lineman' (Capitol Records)
3. Jeff Buckley - 'Morning Theft' (Columbia) 
4. Low - 'Two-Step' (Kranky)
5. PJ Harvey - 'A Place Called Home' (Island) 
6. Taylor Swift - 'This Love' (Big Machine) 
7. Joanna Newsom - 'Go Long' (Drag City) 
8. Bossy Love - 'Body' 
9. HQFU - 'Poison' *exclusive* 
10. Kathryn Joseph - 'The Blood' (Hits The Fan Records)

www.podcart.co

The Kathryn Joseph Podcast

Taken from the album "Strangers" out on May 20th 2016.

Pre-order on iTunes -OR- Bandcamp & download "Janie in Love", "All the Colors of the Dark" and "Katie I Know" instantly:

iTunes: geni.us/MNstrangersiTunes
Bandcamp: marissanadler.bandcamp.com/

Website: www.marissanadler.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarissaNadlerMusic
Twitter: www.twitter.com/marissanadler
Instagram: www.instagram.com/marissa_nadler
on Sacred Bones: www.sacredbonesrecords.com/collections…issa-nadler
on Bella Union: bellaunion.com/artists/marissa-nadler/

Tour Dates: www.marissanadler.com/tourdates

May 18 – Brooklyn NY – Union Pool (SOLD OUT)
May 24 - Brighton, UK - Prince Albert ^ 
May 25 - London, UK - St John on Bethnal Green
May 26 - Manchester, UK - Soup Kitchen ^
May 27 - Glasgow, UK - Broadcast ^
 May 28 - Dublin, IE - Button Factory ^
May 29 - Cork, IE - Cyprus Avenue ^
May 31 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club ^
June 1 - Bristol, UK - The Louisiana
June 2 - Lille, FR - La Péniche
June 3 - Paris, FR - FGO-Barbara
June 4 - Brugge, BE - Cactus Muziekcentrum
June 5 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso ^
June 7 - Hamburg, DE - MS Stubnitz
June 8 - Copenhagen, DK - VEGA ^
June 9 - Berlin, DE - Roter Salon
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July 5 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir ^*
July 6 - Boise, ID - Neurolux ^*
July 8 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court ^*
July 9 - Denver, CO - Lost Lake Lounge ^*
July 10 - Omaha, NE - Reverb Lounge ^*
July 11 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry ^*
July 12 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle ^*
July 13 - Detroit, MI - El Club ^*
July 14 - Toronto, ON - Drake Hotel ^*
July 15 - Montreal, QC - La Sala Rossa ^*
July 16 - Hudson, NY - The Half Moon ^* 
July 19 - Boston, MA - Great Scott ^*
July 20 - Providence, RI - Aurora ^*
July 21 - NYC - Bowery Ballroom ^*
July 22 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's ^*
July 24 - Washington, D.C. - DC9 ^*
July 25 - Raleigh, NC - Cat's Cradle Back Room ^*
July 26 - Atlanta, GA - The EARL ^*
July 27 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa ^*
July 29 - Austin, TX - The Sidewinder ^*
July 30 - Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves ^*
August 1 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar ^*
August 2 - San Diego, CA - Casbah ^*
August 3 - Los Angeles, CA - Echo ^*
August 4 - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel ^*
August 5 - Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Library ^*
August 7 - Vancouver, BC - Cobalt ^*
August 8 - Seattle, WA - Barbosa ^*

^ with Wrekmeister Harmonies
* with Muscle and Marrow

Strangers

Katie I Know

Marissa Nadler - Katie I Know

Furnaces

Dionysus

In the first episode of Last of Your Kind, a podcast by musician, songwriter, producer and renaissance man Ed Harcourt, he chats to legendary gonzo artist Ralph Steadman - who recently did the cover to Harcourt's new album Furnaces. They chat about guns, Hunter S. Thompson, Trump, war, critters and more.

Last of Your Kind Podcast

#1: Ralph Steadman on gonzo, guns, Hunter S. Thompson, Trump, war, critters and more

In tribute to the truly wonderful and sadly departed Gene Wilder, here's my version of Pure Imagination. So many memories. Watching all his films on re-run for the next year. X

Ed Askew - For The World (featuring Sharon Van Etten)

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