Toupe - Peepers (live @ Talking Heads July 27 2007)

Two Taps- Live Studio Recording     

Recording/Mixing/Mastering Engineer: Tom Walsh (https://soundcloud.com/tomwalsh)
Assistant Engineer: Lucy Hicks


Two Taps - Biggs

Over The Hill

Recorded at Quay West Studios by Benjamin Marks

Candles In The Parlour

Gruff Rhys
Set Fire To The Stars
Twisted Nerve (TN093)

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Gruff Rhys presents the soundtrack to the film Set Fire To The Stars. The album is released on Finders Keepers on September 30th 2016.

Although recorded around the same time as Gruff’s last LP (2014’s hugely acclaimed American Interior), Set Fire To The Stars paints a very different picture to that of the Welsh explorer John Evans. Equal parts cocktail jazz, hazy Americana and Atomic Age bop, it’s a love letter to New York in all its hopeful, post war glory – a gorgeous diversion of a record to add to Gruff’s increasingly brilliant solo catalogue.

Gruff on Set Fire To The Stars:

“This is an album of music written for a film directed by Andy Goddard concerning the poet Dylan Thomas’s first week in the USA in 1950 and his uneven friendship with fellow poet - and agent of sorts - John Malcolm Brinnin. As the film is shot in black and white and set in the Jazz age, I decided not to use any instruments unavailable in that era. I also keep the recordings as live takes. Beyond that - I didn’t try and ape the style of that era in particular apart from the song Atom Bomb which on screen, plays on a jukebox in a cafe and needed to be true to the year sonically and lyrically in some way.

“Playing the guitar, I formed a short lived Agro-Jazz quartet (you got a problem with that?) called Video Loss with Chris Walmsley on drums, Jim Barr on double bass and Osian Gwynedd on piano. I wrote a bunch of songs and instrumentals. Some other bits were improvised to picture by Osian Gwynedd and myself. Chop Shop features Video Loss on max Moon-Ra improvisational setting.

Gruff ab Arwel arranged all the strings and Gavin Fitzjohn played and scored the brass. It was recorded and mixed at Toybox, Bristol by the incredible Ali Chant - apart from the strings which were recorded at Metropolis, London.”

Gruff Rhys is currently recording his next proper solo album – it is due for release in 2017.

www.finderskeepersrecords.com

Set Fire To The Stars

Gruff Rhys - Set Fire To The Stars

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Announcing The Surfing Magazines - a new garage rock group consisting of two-thirds of The Wave Pictures and one half of Slow Club who release their debut self-titled album on Moshi Moshi Records on 1st September: https://shop.moshimoshimusic.com/TheSurfingMagazines

Add it to your Spotify library at http://smarturl.it/TSMSpotify

The Surfing Magazines - Lines and Shadows

Here's a little taste of our new track 'Playing House'. 
Big up our band, Rory Clark and Gregory Burwell. 

Full single out May 19th...

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