Mixing up all sorts of everything since the year dot.

Feel free to contact me about using the tracks or session work! nualaphonan@gmail.com

Leonie Evans (Rae) & Ríoghnach Connolly (HoneyFeet)

please download/donate to owldolls.bandcamp.com

Our debut album 'Fast Dance On A Nail' can be purchased here: zooforyou.bandcamp.com


'The Jester',  a record by Alabaster DePlume and Daniel Inzani.

“Truth is often the jester”

Ten join pianist Daniel Inzani (The Mandibles, Count Bobo and the Bullion) and poet/singer/saxophonist Alabaster dePlume (Honeyfeet, Liz Green) in creating a wash of fugues, invocations and tunes. 

Employing unusual and cut-throat practices, analogue equipment was used to capture the creative expressions and communications of the 12-piece ensemble, live. Spontaneity, sincerity, and humour taking stubborn precedence, the characters of all involved have formed this delightful, unique and deeply moving piece of work. 

Theatrical spoken-word and song joining chorus, horns, strings, piano and percussion, this release is a rich and frighteningly varied gem for Debt Records of Manchester (Bridie Jackson and the Arbour, Walk, Louis Barabbas and the Bedlam 6, Honeyfeet)

The ensemble is comprised Dartington graduates and legends of the local scene, members of Count Bobo and the Bullion, the Mandibles (“evocative, idiosyncratic and even slightly absurd – Venue Magazine”) and Bert Miller and the Animal Folk. It features Sheelanagig’s Aaron Catlow, alongside the cellos of Beth Horton, Pepino’s Jessica Macdonald, Moulettes’ Hannah Miller, and a feast of creative performers from far and wide. 

As part of the project, a large collection of artists are producing images in response to the material, that will be presented online, and physically at the launch in Bristol. A crowd-funding campaign is being set up, to make the bold and uncommon move of paying the artists. 
Support the campaign here: www.pledgemusic.com/projects/thejesterproject

The record will be available on CD, Vinyl and download, on the 8th July, and will be accompanied by the following concerts, in celebration:

12th July 3MT Manchester
13th July 3MT Manchester
14th July Kazimir Liverpool
20th July Folk House Bristol



Vocal and guitar duo Ríoghnach Connolly and Ellis Davies have for the past 4 years astounded audiences with the work of their band, the rumbustious Manchester-based Honeyfeet (honeyfeet.org). However,  for years alongside this they have garnered praise for their duo work. Rooted in Irish folk, and blues, Ríoghnach and Ellis have graced stages in Ireland, England, Wales, Spain and throughout Eastern Europe, mesmerising music lovers with Ríoghnach's un-paralleled vocal prowess ("conspicuous greatness" - Mike Butler, City Life), along with Ellis' dexterous fret work. 

Their limited edition debut CD, "Black Lung EP", featuring the talents of Joe Bardwell, Matt Owens and John Ellis is available now by contacting the email address below.

For booking enquiries contact:

rioghnachandellis@gmail.com    

We are an independent record label and artist collective based in Deal, Kent [UK].

MANIFESTO:-

Smugglers Records was founded in the midst of the UK’s worst recession since the second world war. As the fat cats scattered and buckled under the weight of their own greed, and the music industry seemed to die a quick and solitary death. At the back of a small pub by the sea, as the rolling winds argued ferociously outside and someone fumbled around on a violin, Smugglers was borne to the clink of ale glasses and the promise of a new way of doing things.

Smugglers Records is not a business, nor does it want to get rich. We are free from the trappings of profit margins and this gives us the power to take risks with the music we release. Sustainability for smugglers records is about ecology, not economics.

We have no executives, or managers. We have no self congratulating Audits or reviews. We do not release music in an attempt to accumulate profits. We attempt to release music that is honest and powerful, that attempts even for a moment, to make us all feel a little less alone on this planet. We release music for the same reason that we have sung, banged on drums and tuned tortoise guts since first people climbed down from the trees.

We run various nights and parties across the UK. We release music and distribute it digitally and physically across the country. We work together, as a collective, to get things done and to keep the ball rolling and we are always looking for people to join us on our journey. Capitalism is dying, you can read it in the free newspapers while you make your way to work. You can watch it on the televisions and you can see it for yourself in the borded up shop fronts on the highstreet. If we are going to survive, we must devise new ways of moving forward. The music industry is in it’s final hours, but music itself will never die, in fact it’s only just getting started.

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