Convocations

Revelation II

This is the single and opening track from the various artists album BBC Late Junction Sessions: Unpopular Music, released by Gearbox Records on 8 July 2016.

Just a few days after appearing on Late Junction’s stage at the Latitude Festival in 2015, the genre-busting singer-songwriter Eska paid a visit to Studio 3 with Jesse and Louis Hackett, both members of the Anglo- Kenyan project Owiny Sigoma Band. This family outfit took the opportunity to explore the instruments available on the premises which include grand piano, vibraphone and the famous Maida Vale celeste, all of which provide the foundation for this playful arrangement of a Jesse Hackett composition. Listen out for some experimental backing vocals from Eska and Jesse’s baby girl Wonder, in her Maida Vale recording debut.

Eska, Jesse & Louis Hackett - Many People Of The Songbird

20th Century Folk Hymnal

"Ohio" is a single from La Palma's forthcoming second EP. We decided to release it early because it feels especially relevant in this uncertain moment of social distancing due to COVID-19. It is a song of reassurance in a time of transition and disconnection.

Ohio

A Covid Romance

The sun did shine so I stepped outside
For a little local bike ride to take my daily exercise
I went to see the sea sea sea to see what I could see see see
And all that I could see see see

Was your big brown eyes 
And beautiful thighs
What a nice surprise what a nice surprise
Big brown thighs and beautiful eyes
What a nice surprise!

I really really want to touch you
Even if the regulations say I’d be a fool to
I want to get close with you
I’m thinking that it could feel really cool to break a little rule (or two or three oh me oh my oh my oh me)

Oh the dilemmas of a Covid romance
When you really really don’t wanna keep a distance
It’s tough knowing exactly where you stand 
When it’s two metres apart
Oh the dilemmas of a Covid romance
When you really really don’t wanna keep your distance
It’s tough knowing exactly where you stand 
When it’s two metres apart 
Two metres one metre uh uh

And I make myself excited
Looks like I’ve been invited into your bubble
I can see that you’re more than an appetiser
Meet me at 8 with a mask and sanitiser
Ah ah ah 

OH the dilemmas of a Covid romance
When you really really don’t wanna keep a distance
It’s tough knowing exactly where you stand 
When it’s two metres apart
The thrilling secret of a covert romance
When you really wanna get into each other’s pants
It’s tough knowing exactly where you stand 
When it’s two metres apart
It’s hard to isolate my heart

This is a Covid romance
A Covid romance
Our love is contraband
Take off your gloves I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand

A Covid Romance

A mix I made on what would have been my father’s 80th birthday.  
Gabor Szabo, Andrew Hill, Grant Green, Takayanagi, Khruangbin, and many more.

mix for pop.wav

Quand l’un des co-fondateurs historiques du Souljazz Orchestra la joue solo, ça donne un projet au groove cinégénique et blindé de clins d'oeil hip-hop. À 72h de la sortie de son premier album baptisé "Les Paradis Artificiels", le Canadien Pierre Chrétien nous offre la primeur mondiale d’un titre entêtant à l’ambiance seventies.
https://www.le-grigri.com/blog/2020/9/28/premiere-cinephonic-eveil-de-la-cite

Cinephonic
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https://www.facebook.com/cinephonicmusic
http://www.marlowrecords.com

Le Grigri
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Les Paradis artificiels

Cinephonic - Éveil de la cité (Le Grigri Premiere)

Continuation

Rêves sonores, a collaboration between Montreal-based sound artists Nick Schofield and Stefan Christoff, presents their newest single and accompanying visual piece, Mondial. Anthemic in presentation and radical in conception, Mondial is the second single from the duo’s forthcoming album Crépuscule. The piece typifies Rêves sonores’ bricolage approach to composition and commitment to fine-tuned sound design.

Mondial stems from a 2015 saxophone warm up recorded in New York City on a cold February morning - clipped, sampled, looped, and pitched into a warm resonant mantra. Over the following years, Schofield would take the saxophone sequence to a number of editing sessions, later applying violin accompaniment in Montreal and additional synthesizers at Alberta’s Banff Centre. He obsessed over Mondial’s sound design, continually stepping in and out of details, revisiting and revising his work with great patience. As the song took shape, Schofield visualized grand imagery of Earth: blues and greens spinning and cascading into an endless sea of space. Over its development, Mondial began to assume a grand, otherworldly significance to Schofield.

“The song feels ‘worldwide,’ like my own anthem for the Earth.”

Unfortunately, much of Schofield’s meticulous editing work would later come crashing back to Earth before Mondial could be realized. In a sick twist of cosmic fate, the song’s audio session was accidentally deleted the night before he had planned to complete the mix. Schofield was able to salvage his efforts by re-tooling the remaining audio materials from the original session; however, both the composition and its composer had to accept that every work of art has its own unique orbit to follow upon its path to completion.

Schofield adopted this go-with-the-flow ethos in filming the music video for Mondial. Filmed at the Banff Centre, he challenged himself with executing, and spotlighting, his own interpretive dance - his first time attempting anything in this realm.

“I had to keep my drumsticks in hand to make me feel comfortable enough to move freely in front of the camera. In the end, the chopped dance gestures match the loops of the song, aligning the body movements with the musical arch. A dear friend, Max Farrell, then processed the video with a rig of analogue effects like feedback, delay and saturators. The analogue effects help the footage transcend, adding an aura of surreal imagination.”

Mondial is the second single from the forthcoming Rêves sonores album, Crépuscule, and is available across all digital platforms. Crépuscule will be released in April 2021 on digital and physical formats.

Crépuscule

Mondial

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YBZ032S2 / Rêves sonores - Mondial

TROUBLING TIMES
Written and Performed by Climbing Trees
Produced by Climbing Trees with Jethro Chaplin
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Jethro Chaplin at Mwnci Studios
Released 30.04.21 via Staylittle Music

https://ilikeclimbingtrees.bandcamp.com/track/troublingtimes

© & Ⓟ STAYLITTLE MUSIC 2021 • MADE IN WALES • SLM023

Troubling Times

you leave me tied onto the floor
i wonder what i came here for if you're not even listening and
you hold me pinned against the wall
oh god why did i fall in love with you

you stretch me out across the bed
i wish that you had fed me with some kind of knowledge 
on how to get out of this mess
i'm thinking about --
i'm thinking about you

cos all night, like a child
i stayed up to prove i can keep up with you

i take a dab of you and lick my finger
i've done it once before and i'd forgotten how it lingers
i'm lying on the floor and i can't pick my limbs up
i've done it once before
and i'd forgotten how it stings, i'd forgotten how it hurts
to be the only one in love

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Music and Lyrics - Francesca Brierley a.k.a. heka
Mix - Francesca Brierley a.k.a. heka
Master - Dan Duszynski at Dandysounds. Austin, TX.

A Covid Romance

Sue Denim

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