Adrian Breakspear - recent work

"For the Boy Who Moved Away" is from EDJ's forthcoming self-titled debut.

Out 8/5/2014 through Easy Sound Recording Company (www.easysound.co)

Of the new record, Eric says:

In January of 2014 I decided to sit down and write an album’s worth of songs all over the course of a few weeks, which is something I had never done before.

Some were done at home during an unseasonably cold Portland winter, some in Boonville, California (a town in the wine-and-weed producing part of Mendocino County where they also have their own language,’Boontling’), and some in Joshua Tree, a place where people have always sought inspiration.

It had always taken a long time for me to write songs – and when one would finally come to me I’d put some broad concepts down on paper, find a nice melody, and then let the listener decide what they might be hearing.

Well, these new songs all mean something, from my life and from my brain. Even the lines that may be somewhat enigmatic or metaphorical sounding to you directly correlate to my life, and maybe yours, too.

The puzzle of existence on “Minor Miracles.” Rebuilding a life in “West County Girl” and “Lose It All, All the Time.” A quite literal story in “For The Boy Who Moved Away” about moving away from L.A. to an uncertain future, the San Gabriel Mountains engulfed in flames in our rearview.

And that’s to name but a few.

These are not the “happy” songs that I’ve come to be associated with – no fully major chords, and lots of suspended chords and major sevenths to make things kind of emotionally ambiguous. There was no stylistic dogma in making this record, and I was ready to fold in every type of music I was into at the moment – Joni Mitchell, new age, early 80′s McCartney, Another Green World, film scores, Talk Talk, British folk, and modern stuff that’s got me excited.

I had a bunch of my favorite people come and join me on this. Sam Cohen, Brian Kantor, and Josh Kaufman (all of Yellowbirds and a million other bands) made up the backbone of the band in the early part of the tracking. And then there were appearances by people from all the different chapters of my musical life – Andy Cabic from Vetiver and Tim Rutili from Califone dropped by to add stuff. James Mercer from The Shins sang some gorgeous high harmonies, and Nathan Larson of Shudder to Think (also my sometime film score collaborator) laid down some drone-y guitar vibes. And of course Thom Monahan, my usual studio co-conspirator, was there to make everything
come together.

These are simple stories, some about losses, a few about disappointment and regret, but also of hope and perseverance. I hope you like these melancholy grooves and existential make-out songs. These all mean something to me, I hope they will to you, too.

- Eric D. Johnson

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EDJ - For The Boy Who Moved Away

Fourth single from my upcoming debut album, "Daydreamer" (Out: 05/09/14). 

'Red & Blue' available with the iTunes preorder of the album: https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/daydreamer/id903299075

Composed, Arranged, Produced, Recorded, Mixed, Written & all instruments played by Darren Hart.

Copyright © Darren Hart, 2014. All Rights Reserved.

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Harts - Red & Blue

Off the debut EP "Sipping Tea To Make Music To Sip Tea To", out 3rd October on CD/Digital on Stop Start.

Produced and mixed by Adrian Breakspear at Sony Studios, Darlinghurst.
Mastered by Leon Zervos at Studios 301, Alexandria.

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IYES -  Glow

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Written and Produced by IYES
Mixed by Adrian Breakspear, Sony Studios, Sydney, Aus.
Mastered by Streaky, Metropolis Music, London, UK.

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Glow

The lead single from our upcoming full-length album!

Diamonds

Produced and mixed by Adrian Breakspear at Sony Studios, Darlinghurst.
Mastered by Leon Zervos at Studios 301, Alexandria.

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High-tails - "Information"

Self confidence is more beautiful than anything you will ever see in a magazine. When I look in the mirror I see a winner. I see you. 

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First Place, Pt. 1

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Hope Downs

Bellarine

Effluxion

Set a Course

Good to Sea double Down

Undersea

Drift Dive

Download this from http://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/beaches-she-beats

From second album She Beats, out on Chapter Music 3 May 2013.

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Beaches - Distance

ARCHITECTURE LECTURE

‘A Distance’, from our forthcoming EP ‘The Sea’ (out October 14th on our label New World), is about people's fraught attempts at communicating with each other – how it seems we are always reduced to some sort of echo or projection of ourselves in someone else's brain.  Propelled by Moroder-style arpeggios and swimming in bongos and mellotron strings, it is also a disco banger that shouldn't be out of place on any dance floor.

A Distance

Engineer/Producer/Mixer, originally from London, now based in Sydney.

Launched in April 22,2010 by Andy Bryan, Stephen Wade and Rob Giovannoni, Stop Start is a Sydney based Independent Label / Touring Company with a roster of both International and Local acts.

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