A man turns his back on demolition an epic journey 
Glenn O'Halloran with Blake Leyh guest Killer  Saxophone solo by Big tenor Joe 
recorded in Buckinghamshire and Harlem New york city .

CARLISLE

Petals Nails

Laura Brings The Rainstorm (Single Mix)

second single form the forth coming album Petals nails

Where Lovers Go - (Single Mix)

Arbeit macht frei. Work sets you free. This is what is written with all the unimaginable sarcasm possible at the entrance of the Auschwitz concentration camps that can be visited in Poland. This site makes us remember what Hitler was capable of. About at the same era, Stalin planned and exacerbated the Holodomor in Ukraine to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement. Some people estimate that 5 million people died during the Holodomor while 6 million people died during the Holocaust. Do we remember it? About a century later Mr.P is trying to do the same Holodomor, again, in Ukraine. Don’t we get it?  

“This is not a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is not a coincident. Those are historic facts”

Music & Production: Syrel 
Photography: Syrel   (Auschwitz as I visited on 2016)

Musical Note: This score was mostly made using a trio of Spitfire Audio (SA) LABS plugin “Cello Moods”, which is the Cello marvellously played by Alice Allen and to whom I should give all the credit for the cellos emotion in this music. I also used some instruments from SA TUNDRA library as well as 2 instances of SA BBCSO.

Remember (feat. Alice Allen on the Cello)

New album the  acclaimed DOGZEN ZENDOG
Album recorded in Milton Keynes UK New York USA Basel Switzerland  
During Summer Autumn Winter 2021
Enjoy

THE GREAT STONE

Track 14 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-firm-dark-orchestral-suite

While the Orange Barron was busy on leading the war in Mexikrenia, the congress of his country made an investigation in regards to the circumstances of his election. Indeed, during the presidential election certification day a riot in the parliament suspiciously made the count change in favour of the Orange Barron despite the fact that he claimed during the campaign the opposition party would do such that this election could be the biggest fraud of the history. Indeed, some people noticed that the One Rublar Bill back side had the official motto changed to “In Fraud We Trust”. It was found that the newly elected president (the Orange Barron ) cheated his way into his seat by limiting the access to mailed votes, polling offices and even by excluding people of different religion, race or political affinity. Moreover, he bribed senior officials in order to create more votes in his favor. NATO on the other side found the Orange Barron guilty of Crimes against Humanity after killing millions of people during the war in Mexikrenia. Even though he declared himself the dictator of his country, the population and the authorities brought him on trial. He is now languishing in the most sordid prison of his country for the remaining of his life with no possibility to any pardon.

NOTE: The Rublar is the currency of the Orange Barron country and “In Fraud We Trust” is his business doctrine, which by the way is the same doctrine as the Ascaridida Firm and the Tremendump Organization.

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

Music and Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (Mr.P pictured in Slovenia in 2004 and the jail pictured in France in 2018)

Musical Notes: Music influenced by Erik Satie (but less static), Frederic Chopin and mostly Ludwig Van Beethoven as if he had access to a 97 keys Bösendorfer Concert Grand 290 Imperial in 1801 when he composed the Piano Sonata No. 14. The chorus is inspired by the orchestration used by Thomas Newman in Wall-E and EVE "Define Dancing" scene.

The Firm

The Final Chapter

Track list: Cara Lee Coleman - Servant to your mind; Erie Choir - Other Guys; Detergente Liquido - Abulia Pop; P for Pepsine - Open Water; Systerpolskan - Kalasfolket; Adam Gundrum - Hey Whitney; Gator, The Alligator - Ya Ya Ya; Clash - Complete Control; Are you Called Atomic - E-Bomb; Myself a Living Torch - Zodiac Player; Modern Day Heroes - I want you; To Hell with Tradition - The Climb; Sunfields - Half Words; Vice Killer - Displeasure

Radio Show 12 - Music From The Outside

Hawker's Request is a song composed by Jon Woode for Lyrics by Robert Steven Hawker with the addition of a chorus by Jon Woode.

Written 6th Feb 2023
Recorded as a first take demo on the 21st Feb 2023

This song has been included in Del Osei-Owusu's  'Song Bird Session' at Islington Radio, Matt Hancock's BBC Introducing and Tom Brosseau's  'Great American Folk Show' in North Dakota, USA.

Hawker’s Request 

Sing from the chamber to the grave
Thus did the dead man say
A sound of melody I crave
Upon my burial-day
Bring forth some tuneful instruments
And let your voices rise
My spirit listened, as it went
To the music of the skies 

Chorus
Let’s sing a song for a passing 
One last song to lead us on
A Cornish song for our loved ones 
And to guide our spirits home

Sing sweetly while you travel on
And keep the funeral slow
The angels sing where I am gone
And you should sing below
Sing from the threshold to the porch
Until you hear the bell
And sing you loudly in the church
The Psalms I love so well

Chorus 

Then bear me gently to my grave
And as you pass along
Remember twas my wish to have
A pleasant funeral song
So earth to earth, and dust to dust
And though my flesh decay
My soul shall sing among the just
Until the Judgment-day Until the Judgment-day 

Chorus x2


Hawker's Request

Alex G “Salt”, taken from the brand new album “Beach Music”, coming October 9 on Domino.

"Beach Music" is available to pre-order now on limited edition deluxe colored vinyl with exclusive "Alex G Live at The Headroom" bootleg LP, limited edition cassette (Bandcamp exclusive), CD, and digital download.

Pre-order on iTunes: po.st/BeachMusicDL 
Pre-order on Dom Mart: po.st/BeachMusicDM 
Pre-order on Bandcamp: po.st/AGBandcamp

Alex G Tour Dates:

10/08 - New York, NY @ Baby's All Right
10/13 - Berlin, Germany @ Berghain Kantine
10/14 - Haldern, Germany @ Haldern Pop Bar
10/15 - Paris, France @ Le Pop Up du Label
10/16 - Rotterdam, Netherlands @ V11
10/17 - Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique Witloofbar 
10/19 - Manchester, UK @ Night & Day
10/20 - London, UK @ 100 Club
10/22 - Columbus, OH @ Strongwater #
10/23 - Buffalo, NY @ Waiting Room #
10/24 - Toronto, ON @ Not Dead Yet #
10/25 - Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme #
10/26 - Deklab, IL @ The House Cafe #
10/27 - Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club #
10/28 - Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop
10/29 - Nashville, TN @ The End #
10/30 - Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone Cafe $
11/01 - St. Louis, MO @ The Firebird $
11/02 - Kansas City, MO @ The Record Bar $ 
11/03 - Springfield, MO @ Outland Ballroom #
11/04 - Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th Street Collective #
11/05 - Dallas, TX @ The Door #
11/07 San Antonio, TX @ The Paper Tiger &
11/09 - Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s &
11/11 - Atlanta Purgatory @ The Masqurade &^
11/12 - Durham, NC @ Duke Coffeehouse &^
11/13 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar &^
11/14 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church &^

# w/ Title Fight
$ w/ Spencer Raddcliff
& w/ Girlpool
^ w/ Eskimeaux

Salt

Pre-Order

Alex G - Salt

Composition inspired by an underpass in Milton Keynes by Caroline Devine and Murray Lachlan Young for City of Things sound installation by Caroline Devine 2017.

Underpass - Caroline Devine & Murray Lachlan Young

Bin Sitar excerpt from Caroline Devine's sound installation Resonant Bodies on Nick Luscombe's Late Junction show, 16 July 2019. Resonant Bodies is a 4 channel sound installation for a case of 19th century classical Indian instruments in the South Asia Gallery of the V&A Museum. The Bin Sitar sample is of Ustad Bahauddin Dagar playing the actual restored instrument from within the case for the Darbar Musical Wonders of India project. Resonant Bodies was commissioned by V&A Research Institute for London Design Festival 2018.

Resonant Bodies CDevine on BBC Radio 3 LateJunction

About the new  album PETAL NAILS
The recording of Petals Nails began soon after the release of the 
critically acclaimed "Walking quickly standing still .

Walking quickly standing still opens with the track "Carlisle 
this track was the last track to be recorded for the album. unlike the rest of the album which was a collaboration between musicians Glenn O’Halloran and Blake Leyh "Carlisle was in fact a collaboration between Glenn and Blake with added instrumentation and vocals supplied by Glenn’s collaborators from the band Dancing counterparts with Howard Lewis playing guitar big tenor Joe O’Halloran saxophone and Brent O’Halloran vocals.

The recording sessions for Petals Nails came from the method used from the track Carlisle.
Glenn uses a technique which he “calls get it down no mucking about”
Two hours limit that’s two hours for the whole session including setting up so the musicians play for probably one hour
 the other method Glenn tries to employ is that the musicians do not hear the music beforehand so they play the first thing that hits them.
Glenn says the reason I work this way with people is  not to put the artists  under pressure but to show  confidents in them ,
to be able to contribute without the hassle of spending hours trying to get something down and ultimately failing in the original plan which is to collaborate rather than dictate and create something fresh daring and new with out the pondering . 
Early July 2021 recording sessions began with Glenn creating outlines and blueprints for songs.
For example Glenn would go to saxophone player Joes with his mobile setup spend 20 minutes drinking tea and talking about other things for example a last session we talked about the music used in early 60s films and the sax playing of John Dankworth and Tubby Hayes discussed the vibe of the silvery black-and-white movies and the mono sound. Then Joe put the headphones on Glenn press's record and lets you rip., all of the saxophone recorded on Petals Nails is first take
Glenn uses the exact same method when working with Howard Lewis guitarist. 
Brent worked on the vocal and choral arrangements keeping in mind the first thing that comes into your head.
Brent also added piano harmonica and some acoustic guitar on songs he felt needed it.
Classical violinist Sophie Knochelman collaborated from her home town  Basel Switzerland .
The UK Swiss recordings mixed and worked on in Blake Leyh’s studio in Harlem New York 
Blake adding cello and double bass.
The lyrics were created with almost similar approach unlike Walking quickly standing still which was based on characters 
Petals nails would an other worldly approach to lyrics Glenn used memories of dreams as springboards 
The one example Glenn gives is Laura (in the rainstorm) he  woke up from a dream where Howard Lewis was singing in a studio with his falsetto voice the line Laura is in a snowstorm Glenn wrote it down the following morning Glenn sang it into his dictaphone.
Laura ended up being a rainstorm and a metaphor for other things.
Though the album is not a concept album as such it was created as an album meaning when tracks were arranged and mixed with the knowledge of what track came before and goes after Dogzen Zendog hope people listen to the album from beginning to end.
The album is released May 27 on limited edition turquoise vinyl and CD as well as the usual streaming services on XENOTONE Imprint 
Artwork and photography by Astrid Baerndal.

CARLISLE

dogzen-zendog

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