[Weekly Mix] 2021.10 (5)

From The New Heaven (Night School, November 2021)

Fine Place - It's Your House

LYRICS:

The cracked foundations showed
After they pressured washed the patio
The gin and tonics flowed
60:40 was the ratio
She was once again scarred
After he brought the second Jaguar
Not real but probably
Happening somewhere in the Home Counties
The Home Counties

As the sun is going down in a Middle English town
As the sun is going down in a Middle English town

The cracked foundations grow
After they’re forced to sell the second home (oh no!)
They know the neighbours know
If they say walls can talk then so can gnomes
They fired the gardening staff
And followed tips read in The Telegraph
Not real but honestly
This shit is normal in the Home Counties
The Home Counties

As the sun is going down in a Middle English town
As the sun is going down in a Middle English town
As the sun is going down in a Middle English town (In a Middle English town)
As the sun is going down in a Middle English!

As the sun is going down in a Middle English town (The Home Counties)
As the sun is going down in a Middle English town (The Home Counties)
As the sun is going down in a Middle English town (The Home Counties)
As the sun is going down in a Middle English

As the sun is going down in a Middle English town
As the sun is going down in a Middle English town

The Home Counties

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Anorak Patch - Delilah

The leading single from upcoming Pick a Piper EP 'Sea Steps' due out December 3rd via Tin Angel. 

‘Keep Your Head Up’ features skippy kick drums, woozy synth stabs and pads and a combination of drum machines and live percussion. Chopped up vocals whisk back and forth in the stereo spectrum and fade in and out of the mix entirely as the track progresses. Overall the message is one of encouragement, self worth and appreciation for those around us that lift us up and make our days not just tolerable but worth living.

Pick a Piper - Keep Your Head Up

Title track from Joseph Shabason's debut Aytche available August 25th from Western Vinyl

Pre-Order Aytche:
Bandcamp https://josephshabason.bandcamp.com
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/aytche/id1245245891?ls=1&app=itunes
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Joseph Shabason
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Saxophonist and composer Joseph Shabason’s debut Aytche builds a bridge off of the precipice his forbears established, skirting jazz, ambient, and even new age with the same deliberate genre-ambiguity that made their work so interesting.

Aytche is a document of exploration both inward and outward. Every step taken in sound-design mirrors a stride in emotionality, as Shabason employs a variety of effect pedals to coax rich moody textures from his instrument.  He explains, "I feel like robbing the sax of the ability to shred by effecting it and turning it into a dense chordal instrument really helps the instrument become something that it's not usually known for."  Aytche deals with themes of degenerative illness and assisted suicide with eloquence that instrumental music rarely achieves regarding any subject, much less such difficult ones.

Album highlight “Westmeath” approaches Aytche’s subject of inspiration head-on. Here, the album’s only verbalization appears in the form of an interview with a man discussing his father’s trauma and eventual suicide after surviving the holocaust.  Though we only hear a few obscured words and phrases from the interview, the impact is powerful.  For Shabason, whose grandparents survived the holocaust, this selection is anything but frivolous.

Aytche

Joseph Shabason - "Aytche"

Full article: https://i-d.vice.com/de_de/article/premiere-diana-what-you-get

DIANA’s synthie-Pop sound is reminiscent of the 70s and 80s. You can listen to “What You Get” – btw for being in love – from their upcoming album exclusively on i-D.

premiere: diana, what you get

spells

Street Lamps

kitchen session

Second single off of Pick a Piper's new record 'Sight'. Out Oct 18th via Tin Angel Records.

Artwork by Jason Evans
Written & recorded by Brad Weber
Flute by Rozalind MacPhail

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Pick a Piper - Keep Your Head Up

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