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Music Box - The Cinematic Orchestra

Message To Bears - Departures - 09 Find Our Way Home

Released 1st December 2014 on Mono Records.
Music by Mark Broughton, Matt Hardy and Ben Helm.
Lyrics by Mark Broughton.
Produced by Mick Ross.
Recorded by Mark Broughton and Mick Ross.
Mixed by Mick Ross.
Mastered by John Davis, Metropolis.
Artwork by Jonathan Hamilton.
℗ and © Tessera Skies 2014.

Buy the ‘Droplet’ split vinyl here: www.monoproduction.co.uk

Buy the ‘Droplet’ split digital release on iTunes here: http://bit.ly/1H50hY6

Lyrics:

Lies begin as white
Beginnings wrought from rust

It was man of desire
Perspired a salty greed
Lit fire for fun

Tiny voice in a sea of uncountable voices
One droplet in all of the ocean
Spluttered words fall like rain, we are soaked to the bone
Mucky droplets we've taken for our very own

I am not all beast
Cavorting without thought or speech

Remember when you speak for me
Oh I'm tired of being pleased so easily

And how we'll look back in amazement at every scrap and scrape we're fighting now
Oh we'll laugh all night remembering the risible ideas we used to have
We'll wash away the empty words, our hopes writ large, "Don't sell me to myself!"
What is the ocean?

Droplet

A Song For A Dying Planet

Cover and tribute to one of my favorite Brian Eno compositions.

Always Returning (Brian Eno Tribute)

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of my album "Eingya" here is a free 7-song EP from songs written around the time of it's release (2004-2006). 

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Helios - Vainglory

You can PRE-ORDER this release on Ltd. Vinyl or Digital Download via Erased Tapes:
http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP039

And the CD edition from our Japanese friends at Cote Labo:
http://www.cotelabo.com/discography.html



Nils Oliver Frahm + Peter Ray Broderick = Oliveray.

Being musical companions and label mates for years, it was just a matter of time until modern contemporaries Peter Broderick and Nils Frahm would start their first standalone project together.

Oliveray was born in their shared home city of Berlin and will see its debut release Wonders – a nice little collection of eight musical pieces – available on Vinyl/Digital via Erased Tapes and on CD via Japanese friends Cote Labo from December 12th, 2011.


Say hello to Oliveray!
Blog post by Peter Broderick:

I am super excited to announce the debut release from a project very dear to me!
Oliveray consists of me, Peter Ray Broderick, and one of my greatest friends in the world, the incredible musician / producer Nils Oliver Frahm. We’ve been collaborating in many ways these past couple years and traveling a lot together. Now finally we have arrived with our first truly 50/50 collaboration effort entitled Wonders.
It all started when I was asked to create a cover version for my great friends Efterklang. I asked Nils if he’d like to work with me on the project. So one day we got together in his studio and ran through the song (Harmonics) a couple times and then laid it down to tape in the most relaxed way possible – me playing the guitar and singing and him on the piano… We were both really happy and inspired with how easy and fun this process was. We thought you could hear and feel that relaxed atmosphere in the song.
So when our Japanese friends Cote Labo asked us to prepare some kind of release for our Japan tour, me and Nils set aside a couple days to record some music in a similar manner. Without much preconception we just set up the mics and started recording, with an aim to create a short album of half instrumentals, half vocal-based songs. We ran through a few fresh musical ideas that each of us had, improvising along with each other, sometimes just improvising entirely. And before we new it we had a nice little collection of eight intimate pieces of music.
The first official output of what will hopefully be a lifelong collaboration, Wonders feels really special to me. Here comes Oliveray!


TRACK LISTING: 01. Growing Waterwings 02. The Book She Wrote And In The Time 03. Piano In The Pond! 04. Harmonics 05. Hiding Hydiration 06. You Don't Love 07. Just Resign 08. Dreamer


OFFICIAL WEBSITES:   
      
PETERBRODERICK.NET
NILSFRAHM.DE
ERASEDTAPES.COM     

Wonders

Oliveray - Harmonics

Mark Bradshaw - Negative Capability

Erased Tapes rounds off a jubilant year of tenth anniversary celebrations with a very special release, 1+1=X, a set of exclusive music from every artist on the label. Featuring never before heard tracks from Nils Frahm, Kiasmos and A Winged Victory For The Sullen, 1+1=X sees Erased Tapes artists come together to make an album as a collective. Sharing the same space, instruments and each others’ capabilities during a residency at Vox-Ton studio in Berlin, they recorded 20 songs to mark the label's 10-year history. The 3-LP box set, produced by label curator Robert Raths, is released on Record Store Day, April 21st 2018.

“I suppose finding words and meaning to describe this release would be next to impossible. It was a real joy to go back to our humble beginnings, to have the freedom to create art only for ourselves was truly sublime” — Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie of A Winged Victory For The Sullen

“It was important to create something communal and reflective of our time, to capture something of value using traditional recording techniques, experimenting and reacting to each other in real time, sharing the same space,” says Raths.

Between August 2016 and 2017, each artist arrived with a new composition or an improvisation to record at Vox-Ton. Run with much love and care by Italian engineer Francesco Donadello – who has worked on many Erased Tapes recordings before including A Winged Victory For The Sullen, Michael Price and Lubomyr Melnyk – it is one of the few studios left where it’s still possible to record fully analogue, isolated from the city noise and in a room that can fit a large ensemble. Reflective of the communal spirit, 1+1=X is the result of an ambitious undertaking; to create a singular record as a collective, not just a compilation of songs, that celebrates the benefits of community over individuality and improvisation over rigorous planning.

“As much as Erased Tapes probably wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the digital age, we should also remind ourselves of what we are capable of without it,” adds Raths. “1+1=X is a testament of what can be achieved when we work together as a collective, which is more than the sum of what we can achieve as individuals.”

The majority of songs on this album feature contributions from multiple performers. It is also no coincidence that the album opens with ‘Brutal Moderna’ by Qasim Naqvi (Dawn of Midi) and A Winged Victory For The Sullen’s ‘Long May It Sustain’, which were both recorded on the day the U.S. election results came in.

“Qasim asked me to read the news headlines with a stutter over the top of his piece. It was an oddly beautiful experience which brought all of us together on a day when spirits were otherwise a bit low,” says Peter Broderick. “I thought this residency was a wonderful idea. In fact I would have loved to be there for more of it. I made some amazing new friends, some stronger bonds with old friends and some wonderful pieces of music that I’m honoured to be a part of. Robert has often described Erased Tapes as a family, and perhaps above all else this was just his earnest effort to bring the family together. I hope we’ll have some reunions in years to come!”

Designed in collaboration with Torsten Posselt at FELD, the 3-LP set is accompanied by a book of photographs documenting the recording process. It is housed in a bespoke, hand-assembled white box — with a recessed X — that slides open to one side, and is limited to 1000 copies worldwide.

1+1=X

Long May It Sustain

Buy 3LP/2CD/DL

A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Long May It Sustain

The first album from the latest installment of the Penguin Cafe with Simon Jeffes' son, Arthur. Limited print-run.

“Penguin Cafe continues to occupy a unique place in music: nothing else has ever sounded quite like it. Eccentric, charming, accommodating, surprising, seductive, warm, reliable, modest and unforgettable: it's a true friend” ∼ Brian Eno, February 2010

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra were a uniquely innovative, exploratory set of musicians who enjoyed a cherished period from 1972 to 1997, and continue to hold a special place in many hearts. Their inception was as original, imaginative and idiosyncratic as the music they created…

During the summer of 1972 the English composer Simon Jeffes had a dream, experienced during a severe bout of food poisoning in the South of France
"I was laying in bed delirious, sort of hallucinating for about 24 hours. I had this one vision in my mind of a place that was like a modern hotel, with all these rooms made of concrete. There was an electronic eye which scanned everything. In one room you had a couple that were making love, but lovelessly. In another room there was somebody just looking at himself in the mirror, just obsessed with himself. In another room there was a musician with a bank of synthesizers, wearing headphones, and there was no sound.
This was a very terrible, bleak place. Everybody was taken up with self-interested activity which kept them looped in on themselves. It wasn't like they were prisoners, they were all active, but only within themselves. And that kept them from being a problem or a threat to the cold order represented by the eye.
Next day when I felt better, I went to the beach. As I sat there a poem came to me. It began ‘I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe. I will tell you things at random.’”
The music of the Penguin Cafe, Simon broadly regarded as "a very big yes to the survival of the heart in a time when the heart is under attack from the forces of coldness, darkness and repression." When forced to describe it more precisely, he called his music "imaginary folklore" and "modern semi-acoustic chamber music." He very much liked the comment of a Japanese girl who attended a Penguin concert in Japan and who said afterwards that the music sounded strange, because it was as if she'd heard it a long time ago.

To realize this somewhat fevered dream, Simon utilized many different instruments and orchestrations including elements of African, Venezuelan, Brazilian, Classical & Minimalist music, using a variety of instruments from strings, pianos, harmoniums, slide guitars, cuatros, kalimbas, experimental sound loops, mathematical notations and more.

The last official Penguin Cafe Orchestra release was Concert Program recorded 1995, a document of the touring set they were playing at the time...

Sadly in 1997 Jeffes passed away, marking the closure of that period of Penguin Cafe’s history. However, in 2007, to mark ten years since Simon's death, his son Arthur Jeffes, re-assembled the original musicians to perform a last run of concerts, spanning three nights at London’s Union Chapel, in tribute to both his father and the music that he created. The reception to these concerts was an affirmation that the music held a vibrant life of its own and subsequently Arthur felt that it was appropriate to embark on a more extensive revisiting….

Commissioning a fresh set of musicians ranging from luminaries from The Royal College of Music to notable performers and members from bands such as Suede, Gorillaz, Delakota and Razorlight, the newly envisioned incarnation of the Penguin Cafe undertook a series of performances under the name Music from the Penguin Cafe.

The first of these would be invitation from The Teenage Cancer Trust to perform at The Royal Albert Hall, to be filmed for a future charitable release.

Following this, over the next six months, Music from The Penguin Cafe appeared at various festivals, venues and Arts events over the summer of 2009, initiated by a debut at The Manchester Royal College of Music. This was to be followed by appearances at Port Eliot Literary Festival, Glastonbury, Bestival, The Big Chill, Womad, Edinburgh Arts Festival, the Snape Proms, and the arts festivals of Galway and Milan. Each performance was met with glowing receptions, and heart-warming reviews.

It was during this period that Arthur Jeffes had also began to incorporate his own new material, universally received as natural yet inspired extensions to his own father’s work, thus marking the beginning of a new episode in the Penguin Cafe's rich and turbulent history...

By the end of this run the band was newly invigorated, and the music now seasoned into a fresh, confident and redefined style. With this in mind, it was then decided to bolster the Royal Albert Hall filmed footage with a live studio recording of the set performed over the summer shows. These recordings book-ended this first chapter in the new band's history, mirroring the last record made by the original Penguin Cafe band.

On the 9th day, of the 9th month of 2009, at 9.00am, these 9 musicians walked in to Air Edel Studios and over the next 9 hours recorded 21 tracks live. So much for numerology….

The CD of tracks recorded that day have now been coupled with a DVD of the filmed recitals from The Royal Albert Hall, to be released as a single package under the title 'Music From The Penguin Cafe - Live at the Royal Albert Hall', with all proceeds from this release are going to The Teenage Cancer Trust.

Moreover as everyone involved in this project generously donated their time and talents for free, from performing, filming, editing, recording, mixing, artwork, mastering and manufacturing, when you pay £10 (plus vat, sadly) for the album, Teenage Cancer Trust receives £10.

ARTHUR JEFFES “We're immensely proud of the music on this record, the performances therein, and being able to donate it all to Teenage Cancer Trust. This whole process has proved to be the first steps on this new journey for the Penguin Cafe and 2010 will see both a new album and tour.”

Inspired by the both the process & reception of this endeavor and the events of the previous summer, it would seem that the doors to the Penguin Cafe have opened once more.

Perpetuum Mobile

ソフィア・コッポラ『マリー・アントワネット』以降、数々の映画のスコアを手がけてきた作曲家ダスティン・オハロランの最新サウンドトラックが待望のCD化！

絵画を描くように音楽を奏でる色彩豊かな作風で、ポスト・クラシカルというジャンルのなかでももっとも人気のあるピアニストのひとりであるダスティ ン・オハロラン。ソフィア・コッポラ監督の映画『マリー・アントワネット』のスコアで注目を集め、最近ではダコタ・ファニング主演の青春映画 『17歳のエンディングノート』(Now Is Good) など、数々の映画のスコアで引っ張りだこですが、本作は彼がスコアを手がけたハリウッド製作の新感覚インタラクティヴ・ソーシャル映画『The Beauty Inside』（2012年公開）のサウンドトラックです。

監督は新進気鋭のドレイク・ドレマスで、オハロランとは2011年のサンダンス映画祭グランプリ作品『今日、キミに会えたら』(Like Crazy) に続くコラボレーションです。さらにこのコンビは2013年のサンダンス映画祭出品作『Breathe In』の公開も控えています。

『The Beauty Inside』はFacebookでオーディションが行われ、オーディエンス自身が主人公を演じることができ、またFacebookのタイムライン上でス トーリーが展開されるという、ハリウッドで初となる新しい形のインタラクティヴ・ソーシャル映画。公開はYouTubeで行われ、先日、2013年のウェビー賞のドラマ部門を受賞しました。

このサウンドトラックでは、ピアノとストリングスに加え、シンセをうまく導入することで、メランコリアとぬくもりが同居するオハロラン本来の作風よりも明るく、すがすがしくも気品のあるサウンドが、毎朝目を覚ますたびに他人の容姿に変わってしまうという不思議な特徴を持った主人公の切ないラブストーリーに瑞々しさをもたらしています。

ミックスはエフタークラングなどの作品も手がける元ジャルディーニ・ディ・ミロのフランチェスコ・ドナデッロ。マスタリングはおなじみのニルス・フラームが担当。


＜プロフィール＞
1971年生まれ、ベルリン在住のアメリカ人ピアニスト／作曲家。インディー・ポップ・デュオDevicsの片割れでもあるマルチ・インス トゥルメンタリスト。ソフィア・コッポラ監督の映画『マリー・アントワネット』（2006年）に曲を提供したことで脚光を浴びた。さまざまなCM音楽や映 画のスコアをてがけたり、アーティストのプロデュース業も行う才人。2011年2月にはUKのFatCatのクラシック部門130701より、最新アルバム『Lumiere』をリリース。同年、Stars of the Lidのアダム・ウィルツィーとのユニットA Winged Victory for the Sullenのデビュー・アルバムをリリース。2012年9月に初の来日ツアーをおこなった。


＜収録曲全11曲＞
1. New Day                
2. Alex's Theme                      
3. Antiques
4. Lonely Hearts 
5. Not My Own
6. Museum Nights
7. Static Longing
8. Leah
9. Antiques And Heartbreak
10. Lost And Found
11. Home



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