This is lovely, need to catch your live show soon

This really lyrical and well made. Love the instrumentation and your voice.

poetry, well set in scene by the musical arrangement that corresponds to the story's sentiment told. :)

I can't stop listening to this recently. Beautiful work.

'Nadir' written and recorded by @stormthepalace (https://stormthepalace.bandcamp.com)
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Remix and artwork by @wouwouandthewormling (https://www.wouwouandthewormling.com)
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Mastered by @acre-recordings (https://acrerecordings.bandcamp.com/music)

Nadir (Wou-Wou Remix)

Sophie Dodds - words, melody, acoustic guitar, bass and vocals 
Reuben Taylor - piano, harpsichord, string arrangement and production
Gordon Webster - drums
Jon Bews - violin
Charles Dodds - oboe

Recorded in Edinburgh in March 2014 at Chamber Studio (with thanks to Graeme Young) and Reuben Taylor's house.

Image © Gonacas


Walk me through the park
and I’ll point out the shining signals from your past
Walk me to the door
Because I’ve drawn every constellation that I know
Walk me through this dark
For all I have are ancient fables I brought back
From holidays abroad
And things I think of when I’m restless or I’m bored

Here’s my tiny map of Earth
Please come this far but go no further
This experiment is over now

All that we know 
Are childhood stories and the things we learned by wrote
Galaxies unfold
As we hold fast to facts as children we are told

Here’s my tiny map of Earth
Please come this far but go no further
This experiment is over now

This much we agree
The world holds many things
But stars and such are out of reach
If only like copernicus
We could rearrange ourselves
And build a new universe

Our love is now 
A pulsar star beating discreetly in the dark
This much we have gleaned 
From popular science on
Prime time TV

Let us not be a black hole
Down which our life and light must pour
This experiment could be much more 


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Sophie Dodds : Vocals, Lyrics

Soheil Peyghambari : Composer, Electronics, Woodwinds 


Sassan Bakhsheshi: Mix, Mastering 

Lyrics:


I live where mud meets river 
Silt green, cloven feet 

A maid of rarest beauty
Old crone, monstrous mein

The water weighs me down
Like the love I hold for this heard of cattle
Pile of stones

To them I have rooted my oath
Lonely vigil, reeds for bones

The gloaming brings my weary wail
To the darkling hills I sing my tale

Sing the day that I caught sight
Of a glistening bird all crowned with light

How'd you come here? I enquired
Said he tracked the fading light 

How d'you come to this brown isle?
Flying from a monstrous tide

Born aloft by his contempt
For those who'd steal my golden eggs 

Come to earth and sit by me
Enjoy the moss-grown shiv'ring peace

Doubt creeps in and rots my core

Alas I can't, the bird he said
For to land would surely mean my death 

Or the rain would change me from roc to rook
And then who would strain their necks to look

Absence makes the heart mythologise 


Absence Makes The Heart Mythologise

Released 25th July on Killing Moon Records.

Available on:
- iTunes: geni.us/NapoleonApple
- Spotify: geni.us/NapoleonSpotify

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Napoleon

Open collab with Wou-Wou & The Wormling 
https://soundcloud.com/wouwouopencollab/sets/glass-open-collab
The Wormling : Drums/Bass/Piano
exner               : sounds/some vocals/synth and mixing

Glass

glass (open collab with Wou-Wou & The Wormling)

Taken from the forthcoming album, 'The Audio Bin II', coming 27/02/17.

'Prelude' features audio kindly donated by @couch-king-presents, @falloon, @fatpockets, @stormthepalace and @zeroplusplacebo.

Arranged, produced and mastered by @wouwouandthewormling.

Bandcamp

Prelude

Vocals and track title taken from @augenmerk's open collaboration: http://bit.ly/2rQgXjn

Music and production by - Wou-Wou & The Wormling

These Days (feat. Augenmerk)

Lyrics written and performed by @angelakerfoot

Music, production and artwork by Wou-Wou & The Wormling

Featuring drum samples from SampleSwap: http://bit.ly/2eZ8Mur

Desert Graves (feat. Ang Kerfoot)

Calico Flex (Preview)

Raising funds in aid of Edinburgh Community Food* 

Snow, Stars and Public Transport (the remixes) is the fruit of a long-standing collaboration between two Edinburgh-based musicians: Sophie Dodds, frontwoman and songwriter of the baroque pop band Storm the Palace, and C Mantle, stalwart of dark and complex electronic music and founder of the label Acre Recordings. In May 2017, Storm the Palace released their debut LP Snow, Stars and Public Transport (dubbed by Scotland on Sunday as ‘one of the best albums’ of that year). The album was mastered by C Mantle and he and Sophie decided that the next logical step was to create a remix version on [RT1] Acre Recordings, featuring artists from the Acre fold. 

What started as a somewhat self-indulgent side-project organically blossomed into a collection of incredible and unusual remixes. The contributors were given one rule: only the original stems could be used. But this was not an easy ask given that they were all used to working with electronic sounds and most of the parts had been recorded live and contained bleed from the other instruments. However, they rose to the challenge. 

Solutions ranged from 6SISS’ transformation of the 6/8 ballad ‘On Snowing’ into a textured soundscape in 5/4, to Badrich’s taking of jangly pop song ‘La Lido’ at face value and immersing it in a pool of reverb. C Mantle brought his immaculate, techno-inspired approach to the track ‘Does It Have A Name?’, and The Wee Djs and Savier brought out the visceral sensuality of the tracks ‘Go Home’ and ‘House in the Clouds’. Eden Grey completely reconstructed the shanty-like ‘Cadillacs and Carousels’ into a gorgeous, Cocteau-Twins-esque, slow-groove anthem. 

Members of Storm the Palace also got involved. In fact, the project started life with Sam Wilkinson (aka Bozo)’s down-tempo, glitchy reworking of ‘DLR Dreaming’. Reuben Taylor jacked-up the album’s opener, ‘Moon Above Villiers Street’, to intense and mathematically mind-boggling proportions, and Sophie Dodds turned the lush strings of ‘Little Rituals’ into a jarring example of musique concrete. The band’s erstwhile collaborator Wou-Wou & The Wormling [RT2] contributed as well, with a Lynchian version of ‘Nadir’ that draws on the song’s sinister side. 

The contributors’ locations range from Portland, Oregon to Belgium. Yet despite this they have created a remarkably cohesive group of tracks that radically reinterpret the original album whilst remaining faithful to its snowy, shadowy atmosphere. 

Please support the artists. Links to their websites are on the individual track pages. 

*Edinburgh Community Food is a charity that tackles health inequalities in low-income and vulnerable communities through food and health development and promotion work, including cooking and nutrition courses, nutrition workshops, training days and health information sessions. Amongst other groups of service users they are currently working with women going through the criminal justice system, people experiencing homelessness or mental ill-health and also collect toiletries for local food banks and women's hostels. 
www.edinburghcommunityfood.org.uk 

ACRELP5 
credits
released February 21, 2018 

Words by Sophie Dodds 
Art & Design by Cat McLaughlin www.catcodes.co.uk 
Addional photography by Arnab Ghosal 
Mastered by C Mantle

Snow, Stars and Public Transport (the remixes)

Acre vs Storm the Palace - The Remixes (Charity Fundraiser - Out Now!)

noisy sketches from some kind of past

Album no. 3 'La Bête Blanche' out Nov 18th!

All releases available at stormthepalace.bandcamp.com

Contact: stormthepalaceband@gmail.com

"Gloriously funny in paces and unbearably sad in others, but it’s beautiful music all the way through."
Fighting Boredom

"A sonic tug-of-war that accurately represents the chaos of life."
Indientry

"Darkness, light, humour and sadness in equal measure."
Monolith Cocktail

"One of the best albums this year"
Scotland on Sunday

"Taking its cues from modern classical, left field folk, and stubborn indie songcraft, Storm The Palace vault over genre barriers without looking back."
Clash Music

"Compellingly memorable songs, both challenging and inviting"
Folk Radio

"Instead of inhabiting the world of numerous other bands, Storm the Palace invite you to stretch your listening experience and step into their world."
When You Motor Away

"inscrutable, exciting and unusual"
Guteshoerenistwichtig

"Perfect pop songs"
Whisperin' & Hollerin'

"Fascinating"
Ball of Wax

"A romanticism and a candor that smell of salt air and confront us with our nature"
Man On The Moon (trans. from the Portuguese)

Profile pic by Lucía Balsa-Prados
Banner pic by instagram.com/careyishbel

Charity fundraiser remix album - in conjunction with @acre-recordings - available from: acrerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/snow-stars-and-public-transport-the-remixes

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