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True Love

いのちの記憶 Inochi no Kioku - Kazumi Nikaido

Stormclouds - Cassilda's Song (Robert Chambers poem)

grouper 'call across rooms'

Christopher Casson - My Mother Said

The first single to be taken from the forthcoming album, Upper Hell, released worldwide on Howie B's HB Recordings label on April 27th.

Album Release: ‘Upper Hell’
Release Date: 27th April 2015
Label: HB Recordings

“ timeless,organic and quite simply beautiful “ – Norman Records - 10/10

“ an enlightening, everlasting album” – The List - 5/5

“a quiet, emotional power” – The Scotsman - 4/5

“Deliriously inventive” – Clash Magazine 

'Album of the Month’ – Monorail Records

“…Ela Orleans is a revelation. Both utterly timeless and of the moment…” Rough Trade 

“She is Moondogmatic in her intransigent commitment to producing compositions of subtlety and incongruent beauty. These are polysemous confections which make you feel that you are listening to pop music for the first time again” – Time Out NY

‘Upper Hell’ is the sixth album to be released by pop noir collagist Ela Orleans. Produced by Howie B, it’s due out on 27th April 2015 and will be released on his new label, HB Recordings. Howie was introduced to Ela’s music by his sister and was so wowed that he offered to produce an album for her. She is also the first artist signing to HB Recordings.

Inspired by Dante’s ‘Inferno’, ‘Upper Hell’ is an intriguing, cerebral body of work that sees Orleans push her pastoral pop roots into more cinematic terrain, experimenting with carefully considered sound art segments and complex electronic textures.

Ela has been flirting with the dance aesthetic for a while under another moniker TRACT so Howie’s offer to produce this album allowed her to explore that further with this album.

Orleans is a Polish musician now based in Glasgow. She was a member of the genre defying Glasgow band Hassle Hound, has played with various luminaries of the New York experimental and noise scenes and is a composer for the screen and theatre.

During her career this hugely prolific artist has released five solo albums and collaborated on several more. Her 2012 album ‘Tumult in Clouds’ won the Mercury alternative the Dead Albatross Prize in 2013 and her work has won her admirers in The Pastels, David Lynch, Thurston Moore and Ian Rankin.



Ela Orleans - The Sky and the Ghost

Fade Into You

Songs For Beginners

Better Days

William Fitzsimmons covers "Say Yes" for "Say Yes! A Tribute To Elliott Smith" out now on CD, LP, Cassette, and Digitally. Order today from American Laundromat Records, Amazon, iTunes and everywhere fine records are sold.

Say Yes! A Tribute to Elliott Smith

Say Yes (Elliott Smith Cover) by William Fitzsimmons

Edwin Mathis White (from the band Tonstartssbandht) creates a capella DIY gospel as Eola using loop stations and antiquated vocal processing effects pedals recorded to tape. On stage or on tape, Ed's performance is dang spiritual. Edwin currently lives and grew up in Downtown Orlando, Florida but has spent the past 11 years living mostly in NYC, and sometimes in Montreal & Baltimore. The album Dang drops Sept. 23rd with Leaving Records on Vinyl, Cassette, and Digital. Blessed be.

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Eola - How Far Am I From Canaan?

Arthur Lee Harper was an obscure artist from the US, proponent of "ambient chamber folk music". This track is taken from his 1967 folk rock album "Dreams and Images". This song has a distinctive late-night quaity being simple and rather delicate in style sung with unmatched yearning and sorrow. This album has a rather introspective loner folk-based music with a whimsical acoustic song of guitar and gently yearning vocals complemented by understated strings and woodwinds. Very reminiscent of sixties hippie folk pop music such as Sandy Denny, Joan Baez, & Tim Buckley

05 Open Up The Door- Arthur Lee Harper 1967

Kidnapping

Gaïa - Miser Lou

Cat Power - Dreams

Such Great Heights

The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band -  Will You Walk With Me 1967

Fly on Strange Wings

jade - fly on strange wings

Untitled # 1

New Self-Titled Album Available Now.

Download on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/esmzitunes

Lyrics:
I’ve seen better days, dripping down your face
We don’t have to talk, let’s dance
For all the times you felt alone, dreaming better
I see better, better days
Too dumb to say goodbye that's some cliché shit, make me wanna cry
Just know that every time I look in your eye, I see better, I see better, better days
 
Try to remember, that you can’t forget
Down with history, up with your head
For sweet tomorrow, she never fell from grace
We might still know sorrow but we got better days
 
I seen better ways, some won’t believe
But I don’t need much more than faith
For all the times you felt alone
Dreaming better, dreaming better, better ways
Too dumb to say goodbye, now that’s some give up shit, make me wanna cry
Just know that every time I look in your eye, I see better, I see better, better days
 
Try to remember, that you can’t forget
Down with history, up with your head
For sweet tomorrow, she never fell from grace
We might still know sorrow but we got better days
 
Better days.
Guess who's back in town.  

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"Villain" appears on This is Another Life, out now. 

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Case Studies - Villain (Featuring Marissa Nadler)

2013 marks the eighteenth anniversary of Suarasama, and the album “Timeline” is produced to commemorate such journey. “Timeline” itself, in this particular work, is a multifaceted word having several meanings. First, it reflects the playing of hemiola 12/8 and 7/8, and other hetero-poly metric rhythmic structures manifested in most parts of musical compositions. Second, the title track “Timeline” represents the journey of musical lutes through a new type of custom made lute instrument, saz-guitar, by way of interpreting the historical origin of plucked lute instruments of the world. This piece was created in a time during “Gaung: the 21st Century Music Education,” a global and holistic music clinic and discussion forum initiated by Sacred Bridge Foundation that took place in Bali, in 2009. Third, it projects “time” within “timelines” as a “remembrance” to Suarasama’s musical path within its 18 years of existence. The album was chose as one of the best album of 2014 (thus far) by Uncut Magaine London, UK.

(Note: 2nd musical theme was taken from a piece entitled "Silang Bertaut Bunyi", from the 1st music album of Suarasama "Fajar di Atas Awan", 1998)


Irwansyah Harahap : Saz-guitar, vocal chorus, percussion snare and cymbals (inserted)
Rithaony Hutajulu : Main vocal
Horas Panjaitan : African jembe, Minangkabau dol, vocal chorus
Muhammad Amin : Bronze "Udu" drum
Syainul Irwan : Indian sruti box, vocal chorus

Suarasama - Timeline

Been blogging, music sharing, etc. for a while now (see blog under this name) & DJing since 1982. I like all kinds of music.

Most of my playlists are not organized & just hold songs I'm interested in, many of which I haven't listened to yet. The "freeform current listening" playlist is as it says & will be updated regularly. Many of my reposts were unintentional, they were just random tracks I was trying to add to a playlist using my phone & I've got clumsy fingers.

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