Lovelace

© 2014 Francia Jazzline Orchestra
℗ 2014 Francia Jazzline Orchestra
digital release: November 15, 2014 by EFFE Production Music

Life (the album)

Love project

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Love project (LIfe album)

I'VE HEARD THERE'S A PLACE YOU GO

Supercry

Everything Will Be Fine

Shearwater on Sub Pop - http://www.subpop.com/artists/shearwater

Animal Joy

You as You Were

Shearwater - You as You Were

ununiform

When We Die (feat. Martina Topley-Bird)

Nottingham-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Thomas William Hill returns to Village Green with Grains of Space, his second album for the label following 2017’s multi-textured Asylum For Eve. It will be released on 12-inch vinyl, CD and digitally on May 17th 2019.

Grains of Space started life as a series of minimal loops, recorded using a viola da gamba – a stringed instrument most popular in the Renaissance and Baroque eras – and a loop pedal. Using the negative space within each loop as the primary drive for composing, Thomas began a process of ‘joining the dots’, allowing the silence to dictate the next layer, informing the length, pitch and timbre of notes.

Between the overlap and juxtaposition of multiple layers, Thomas began to see melodies and rhythms emerging from relatively erratic elements:

“I began to see these loops - and recorded music in general - as a kind of fixed perspective that could be exploited. In isolation, a single layer may be no more than one or two notes punctuating four bars of silence, but when laid over multiple variations on that theme, disparate notes start to dance with each other and new connections take form, like constellations or deconstructed sentences.”

Using those recordings as the foundation, Thomas began incorporating a wide variety of other instruments into his palette, including bowed metallophones, gongs, Tibetan singing bowls, African kalimbas and metal tongue drums, as well as drum machines and analogue synthesisers.

From the tense, opening drones of ‘Carriages’ to sparser, more lyrical works such as ‘Curvature’ and ‘Refract’, Thomas again demonstrates profound compositional insight, crafting highly poignant moments rich with harmony and texture. Complementing this, a more developed sense of pulse and rhythm characterises much of the album, such as the propulsive undertow of ‘Willow’ and the tactile, modernist polyrhythms of ‘Furnace’ and ‘Tongue’.

www.villagegreenrecordings.co.uk

Grains of Space

Thomas William Hill - Furnace

Lhasa Live in Reykjavik

De Cara a la Pared (Live)

Hoping 'Searching for Sugarman' wins the best documentary at the Oscars soon !! 

"Thanks for your time..And you can thank me for mine..And after that's said..Forget it."
Rodriguez

JANE S. PIDDY

Now you sit there thinking feeling insecure 
The mocking court gesture claims there is no proven cure 
Go back to your chamber, your eyes upon the wall
'Cos you got no one to listen, you got no one to call

And you think I'm curious
Drifting, drowning in a purple sea of doubt 
You wanna hear she loves you
but the words don't fit the mouth 
You're a loser, a rebel, a cause without
But don't think me callous

Dancing Rosemary, disappearing sister Ruth 
It's just your yellow appetite
that has you choking on the truth 
You gave in, you gave out, outlived your dreams of youth 

And I can't get jealous
So go on, you'll continue with your nose so open wide 
Knocking on that door that says "Hurry come inside"
But don't bother to buy insurance 'cos you've already died 

And you can't be serious
I saw my reflection in my father's final tears 
The wind was slowly melting, San Francisco disappears 
Acid heads, unmade beds, and you Woodward world queers
I know you're lonely
I know you're lonely
I know you're lonely...

Spoken:
Thanks for your time
And you can thank me for mine 
And after that's said
Forget it

"Jane S Piddy" Sixto Rodriguez cover

We're not the best, but we're pretty good.