Ends Of Me

A tennis ball in a sock against the garage door
means your sister’s going to leave you alone for a change.

Phew.

Your dad’s watching cricket in a roomful of smoke,
curtains tight against the sun and you’re not allowed in either 
but what you don’t know is that it’s because he’s hung over. 
All you know is he’s scary.

Your mum’s singing Tammy Wynette in the kitchen 
but something in her voice and the song 
is telling you not to go in there just yet. 

There’s a rattle of a magpie; 
you don’t know it’s a magpie, 
it’s just a bird you don’t even really hear.

Holding Space dust in your mouth makes your tongue go sore 
but you do it because you don’t want anyone to know it’s there. 
Pour some more.

You hold on tight to the rough hips of the tree
because you’re balancing on an orange and red striped beach ball.
You admire your toes: you look like a circus girl. 

It’s Saturday and the sun’s gotta burst soon 
and skin cancer hasn’t been invented yet.
You’ve got six whole weeks 
before you have to go back:
you’ll be in the circus by then.  

You might marry Mickey Dolenz.
Or Pete Duel. 
You’ve already got the hat.

Space Dust

Don't Wanna Be Alone

Still

Sai Ram

Cover of Gozer Goodspeed's: Gambler's Last Day

Might be a little different from the original...

https://soundcloud.com/gozer-goodspeed/gamblers-last-day-1

The Gozerian (Gambler's Last Day cover version)

Here Come The Freaks - Out - 1.10.21 from all good online retailers.

But available NOW for supporters as a Bandcamp exclusive,
You can purchase the single and see Jonny Drop's ace video for it too https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/track/here-come-the-freaks

Website - https://www.johnnocasson.co.uk/

Cover art and video by Jonny Drop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS3PE84WIxM
Jonny sites
https://www.instagram.com/jonnydrops/
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Hackney born and Colchester based he returns with a cheeky new single Here Come The Freaks. 

Written, recorded and self-produced by Johnno in the middle of recording a new Snippet album, this song just didn't seem comfortable being sat between two tracks on an album, so it busted out in its own right. 

Here Come The Freaks is in celebration of the picked upon, the bullied and the under-appreciated members of society.

Former caretaker, London Underground railman and relationship manager Johnno Casson aka Snippet started out writing songs at 15 in his bedroom on a Hackney council estate with a tennis racket for a guitar and a soap-on-a-rope microphone.

Johnno juggled being in a band with holding down a normal job (playing a packed Astoria at night and washing out s**t stained lifts in the morning).

Johnno played for Adrian Sherwood’s (On-U-Sound) 5-a-side football team (silky smooth striker), gloriously beating The Sun’s newspaper’s team at a championship for charity at Arsenal’s old Highbury stadium and for the last 12 years he has been perfecting his coleslaw making skills whilst getting M.E and becoming a well-respected figurehead on the British D.I.Y./Wonky Pop scene by making excellent songs that may come from the borders and margins, but kiss you in the sweet spot as good as more mainstream songs do. 

Oh and Johnno has recorded and toured extensively with all sorts of bands including as lead singer with Deep Joy who were born out of the early 90’s London acid house/club scene - via Shoom nightclub and being named as Danny
Rampling’s favourite band, working with David Harrow and Andrew Weatherall who produced and remixed their debut single on Brainiak Records - onto the early years of trip-hop on James Lavelle’s Mo ‘Wax label and being championed by Gilles Peterson on Kiss FM. 

They dented the charts in New York, Tokyo and London and also worked
with the aforementioned legendary On-U-Sound label founder and producer Adrian Sherwood on their Ray Hayden produced material.

For the last 12 years Johnno has been releasing independent music under his own name, as Snippet, Old Tramp and Walken400, creating a unique catalogue of recordings and performances and has been named by Tom Robinson as the most played BBC Introducing artist ever on his BBC 6 Music show. 

He also the founder/producer of the Warm and Toasty Club, an innovative  and award winning club that uses delightful live events to make older folk feel cherished and less lonely. Of late the club has kept people connected throughout lockdown with 70 online chat shows with fun features and live singing guests (called Online Memory Afternoons), a monthly Warm and Toasty Newsletter and a daily telephone befriending service to help keep loneliness and isolation at bay and keep people connected.

“I feel about Snippet much like John Peel felt about The Fall - Snippet: A National Indie treasure”
– Tom Robinson

“An East End Brian Wilson on a budget” Americana UK

“Pop genius” – Louder Than War

Web http://johnnocasson.co.uk/
Twitter @Snippetcuts
Instagram @snippetcuts

Here Come The Freaks

Taken from Seimbang/Balance, a 5-part journey through field recordings and music, made from sounds recorded in threatened wild places in the UK and Indonesia. A collaboration between Hilang Child, Ninda Felina and Prabumi.

Harmony (with Prabumi and Ninda Felina)

Ophen

"Chapadmalal originariamente fue un territorio habitado por pampas y tehuelches, pueblos indígenas atraídos por la riqueza natural y el hermoso paisaje marítimo. Fueron los primeros en asentarse en este lugar de la mano del cacique Yampilco. Chapadmalal tiene una extensión de 650 hectáreas en el partido de general Pueyrredón y la unidad se ubica en el kilómetro 34,5 de la ruta provincial interbalnearia"

Esta grabación fue realizada un 5  de noviembre a las 15:34:40 en el Arroyo Chapadmalal (Río Chapadmalal) el cual cuenta con una gran variedad de especies dentro de un ecosistema costero el cuál compone de una serie de tipos operativos que permiten realizar un análisis pormenorizado y completo del mismo. 

Entre ellos pueden mencionarse playas, arroyos, médanos, marismas, humedales y aguas costeras. Las playas se definen como formaciones sedimentarias sujetas a una dinámica muy reactiva que se encuentran condicionadas por la presencia humana e infraestructuras turísticas (Barragán y Chica, 2013). Son particularmente importantes para la protección contra tormentas, control de la erosión, turismo y recreación, captación y purificación del agua, mantenimiento de la biodiversidad y provisión de materias primas, entre otras. Las principales presiones o impulsores de cambio sobre el ecosistema playa se derivan de impactos del cambio climático (aumento del nivel del mar, incremento de precipitaciones y evaporación, intensidad y frecuencia de tormentas), del incremento de construcciones como defensas o infraestructura turística y de la contaminación por desechos (residuos sólidos, aguas residuales), entre otros (Marshall et al., 2014).

Sapo Común (Rhinella Arenarum)Río Chapadmalal - Argentina

De-Activated

Tiny Dyno are the rarest of acts. They blend the art of immaculate pop with the warm glow of sugar spun indie. Emily Gardiner and Tom Kuras came together through the Bristol music scene, finding connection through a love of the infectious tones of indie pop. They began eagerly writing all the songs they never heard on the radio.

It’s a sound they’ve been tweaking, perfecting. In less than a year they’ve refined and re-sculpted their love of electronic pop and 70’s rock gloss around their need to produce something crucial. What comes out is a sound that flows up through the decades to make singles that feel close to timeless.

Likened to Saint Etienne, Goldfrapp and La Roux, Tiny Dyno seem to exude a missing link, creating a warm yet spellbinding sound that you didn’t know you needed.

Still

Tiny Dyno

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