Latest EP Tender Wilderness available now on Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify

Toronto alt/pop singer Novie independently released her debut EP ‘Whatcha Doin’ Baby? in 2010.  The EP received support on college and community radio in Canada as well as being featured on blogs in the US, South America and Australia. 'I Won't Go,' a track from her debut EP, was remixed by Nik Kozub of alt/electro band 'Shout Out Out Out Out.'  The animated music video for the track 'Funk 3 (Get Next To You)' was featured on the Vimeo homepage.  After her EP, Novie went on to self release 3 more singles: ‘Gonna Getcha’ (2011), ‘Kites’ (2011) and ‘Got My Feet Down’ (2012).  In 2014 she was featured on the single 'Crush (Pale Moon Version)’ from Toronto collective Black Night Satellite and Citizen Sound’s ‘Morning Sun Dub’, a reworked cover of Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros’ song ‘Tony Adams’.  Her single ‘Sunrise (Say When)’ was released in 2015 and selected for the Spotify playlist.  Her new EP Tender Wilderness was released at the end of September 2016.  Novie's music has been featured on a number of shows including ABC's 'Switched at Birth', The CW's 'Star-Crossed', CBS’ ‘Extant', Freeform's 'Famous in Love' & ABC's 'The Fosters'.

Film/TV composer and former guitarist with Aztec Camera, Terry Hall (and co writer), The Smiths, Alison Moyet, Roddy Frame, Morrissey, The Colourfield, The Adult Net, Black Grape, Buzzcocks/FOC, The Bluebells, The Blue Orchids, Robert Lloyd (The Nightingales), Deadly Avenger, Red Venom, Edwyn Collins & Paul Quinn, Craig Leon, Cassell Webb, Denise Van Outen, Vinny Peculiar, The Family Foundation, Honey Couture, Craig Davies, Sophisticated Savage, Doris Decker, Marc Carroll and more..

COMPOSED MUSIC FOR FILM & TV C.V.-

Currently working on :-

FINdonesia (Documentary in production).
Album for Pacifica/Riptide Music.

FILM :

R/Evolution (Feature/Documentary with Forest Whitaker and Richard Olivier)
Britains Biggest Storm (ITV1)
The Real Fawlty Towers (Anglia Television)
Kissing Buba (Anglia Television)
A Swinging Murder (Redback Films/Channel 4)
Inside The Smiths (Film/DVD, Original Music/Score)
Almost Perfect (Short, Plato Films)


DRAMA :

Big Smoke (Drama, Yorkshire Television)
The Lakes (Drama, BBC1 - End credits song with Terry Hall)
Capturing Mary (Stephen Poliakoff Drama, song 'Hey Mary' with Dan Mulhern)
Nationwide Pride (Drama short, Wordley Productions)

DOCUMENTARY :

Four Weddings And An Execution (Documentary, Channel 4)
Insurance Fraud (Documentary, Granada Television)
Small Planes (Documentary, Granada Television/A&E USA)
Robert Durst 'Millionaire Murderer' (Documentary, Granada Television/A&E USA)
The Anatomy Of September 11th (Documentary, Granada Television/A&E USA)
Wilderness Therapy (Documentary, Granada Television/A&E USA)
Alternative Medicine (Documentary, Granada Television/A&E USA)
Two Young Americans (Documentary, Granada Television)
Macintyre Undercover 'Dentists' (Documentary, Channel 5)
Worlds Greatest Conspiracy Theories (Documentary, Channel 5)
Dispatches 'The Diana Conspiracy' (Documentary, Channel 4)
Dispatches 'What Hutton Won't Tell You' (Documentary, Channel 4)
Beaulieu Abbey (Documentary, Lucid Partnership)
Science and Consciousness (Documentary, Lucis Trust)
Why Is There So Much Rubbish on TV (Documentary, Channel 4)
Multiple Mums (15 part series, Discovery Channel)
The Smiths 'The Queen Is Dead' Classic Albums (Original/Incidental Music,Prism Films)
The Sharks Of The Forgotten Islands (In development)

ENTERTAINMENT/CURRENT AFFAIRS :

A Question of Sport - Super Saturday (Series, BBC1- 1014)
A Question Of Sport (BBC1, Music arranger 2010- present)
A Question Of Sport Christmas Special (BBC1-2012)
A Question Of Sport Extra Time (BBC1-2012)
Make Me Rich (15 part series, ITV)
Six Talk (Chat Show, Granada Television)
Naked Parents - Hidden Lives (Channel 5)
Outtake TV (BBC1 series, 2010-)
EastEnders: Greatest Cliffhangers (BBC3)
EastEnders: 100 Top Moments (BBC3)
EastEnders: The Greatest Weddings (BBC3)
Eastenders: The Live Aftermath (BBC3)
EastEnders: Greatest Exits (BBC3)
Natural History-Wild Media Foundation (LPS Creative Media)
The Magic Fun Show (LPS Creative Media)
Protege (BBC, in production) 
Real Story 'Drugs In Football' (Current Affairs, BBC1)

MUSIC USED IN TELEVISION & ADVERTISING :

The Apprentice, Sky Movies 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Commercials, Saturday Night Live, Piers Morgan's Life Stories, Criminal Minds (Sky Living), The Oprah Winfrey Show, That Mitchell & Webb Look, This Morning, Homes Under The Hammer, Escape To The Country, Wife Swap, Sky Cinema 1&2, GMTV, Anglia, ITV Channel Islands, Sky One Commercials, London Carlton, Meridien, Grampian, Scotland STV, Yorkshire, Central, HTV, West Country, Ulster, Cartoon Network Commercials, CBBC, GMTV Classic Gold Radio, VH1, five commercials, Granada Men & Motors, Classic Gold Gem, Hallmark Commercials, Coast 96.3 FM, Plymouth Sound Radio, Mercury 102.7 FM, Radio Scotland, Beacon 97.2. Connect 97.2. Derby Ram FM, 107.2 Wire FM, FlyFlot Shoes, The Secret Millionaire, Made In Galicea (Spain) Ray Mears Country Tracks, Priceless Antique Roadshow, LighterlIfe Commercial and much more..

COMPOSED FOR TV ADVERTISING:

Ford 
Sega Games
Monster Hires  
World Goodwill
Big Weekends 
Barclays 
Anya Hindmarch 
Danone 
Standard Chartered Bank 
The Elephant Hotel 
East Kent NHS

LIBRARY MUSIC:

Various- Library Music for KPM/EMI
Various- Felt Music Library
Pacifica Music Library/Riptide Music




This is not the final mix of the album! The audibility of some parts will be adjusted and clean vocals will be added at the end of "Shimmering Tides/Wilderness Life" but this mix fairly gives you an impression of how the record will sound like!

All songs have been recorded by Dominic Paraskevopoulos at the Level3Entertainment Studio in March 2012!

The album artwork will be done by Victor Soldeus from Sweden who has recently worked for us. All his artworks can be seen on his blog http://murderofmen.blogspot.de

You can listen to our previous releases via www.sundowning.bandcamp.com

Thank you very much for your interest in our music!

One Bird Records is a brand-new label bringing back the notion that singles are for keeps. With each digital release comes a piece of specially commissioned art, inspired by the single - be it a screenprint, hand-crafted notebook or something else.

One Bird brings a tangibility back to the ever-present digital download, and make the single precious once again – and we can’t think of a better way. We hope you love our acts as much as we do. 

There’re no patterns, no pigeon-holing; we work with the bands we love, because we want to share that with you. Treat OBR as the label holding your hands through the wilderness, to the sparkling light at the end.

Welcome to the supermodernity of Post-Neo-Close Lobsters. This site is an avenue for the uncontainable desire to create new sounds, new sounds built on 'ancient' foundations and set free old sounds built on new precepts. The music here is cumulative and quite useless, the target is beautiful and splendid output. The title Post-Neo-Close Lobsters is inclusive of the term kunstwerk and is an amalgamation partly in honour of German techno minimalism which reawakened the soul, and partly simply a means for the expression of artwork. It is music conceptualised, organised and produced for the fuck of it. That is, it is necessary in every way imaginable. Music as the melody of life. Kunstwerk as life time lines. The CLS is as in CLOSE LOBSTERS, the KUNSTWERK is as in 'Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit'; 'the work of art in the age of technological reproduction'.   CLOSE LOBSTERS KUNSTWERK is effectively, if only really very much partially, Post-Neo-CLOSE LOBSTERS.  POST-NEO-CLOSE LOBSTERS.  The 'legendary' CLOSE LOBSTERS are the font and well from which this movement springs and moves. CLOSE LOBSTERS are an independent pop punk rock group who made little ripples in the pool of sound towards the middle-to-end of the 1980s and into the 1990s. CLOSE LOBSTERS KUNSTWERK is the extension of the CLOSE LOBSTERS into the 21st century and an appropriate vehicle for various types of rythmic mumbo-jumbo. It is a reawakening of the desire and need to create. After high and low plains drifting in the wilderness for stretched time, the right time is nigh and it is mere spooky coincidence that the current economic shakedown has rendered world markets precariously on the very edge of the precipice - just as they were left back in the 90s, and as they are generally prone. As ever, au naturelle, naturlich. Up Up Up, Down Down Down as the song 'Head Above Water' is wont to tell. The 90s were supposed to make the 60s look like the 50s but didn't. Its all the same in the underground. We look into the abyss and allegedly this is where we find our character, and then when we do we are haunted by the past. It has been said that the traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living. It has been said. In this sense, CLOSE LOBSTERS are past, present and future tense.  A new spectre is haunting Europe. Of late there has been a simultaneous coalescence of events which suggest/trigger something about moments and decades in time. Chains of flashing images. Time is not linear but cyclical and terribly terribly strange. It is an expression of our collective imagination. In this vein, we give vent to the accelerating juggernaut of CLOSE LOBSTERS KUNSTWERK, attempting to capture, if only for a fleeting moment, the spirit of a world turned on its head....the Re-MYSTIFICATION of the very nature of things, a world where the great many are condemned to live-in-quiet-desperation and the rest get twitchy and repetitive and loose. CLOSE LOBSTERS is an endeavour to reflect the revolutionary potential of the underground house music insurrection as it intersects with the spirit of punk rock - as an anti-hierarchical pro-autonomy kill-your-idols type social musical movement. Underground not mainstream - not superstar in the formal sense of this mainstream but in the Warhol manner. Upstream and downstream. Not literally but artistically.  Anti Disco Mafia as they might say in Eivissa and Anti-sterile POP as we have always said. CLOSE LOBSTERS KUNSTWERK is a work-in-progress. Whatever progress might be. Everything here is. The tracks/mixes above appear in latest but never final form. They are restless - given to anxiety. Twitchy. All works and all theorizing are partial. A tune is COSMIC WAR.  It is more than a mere sabre-rattle.  It is the site of the existential struggle. It attempts to soundtrack the struggle within each human heart between the angels of darkness and the demons of light and vice-versa. It is MELANCHOLY SOUL. The POP REBETALISM Mix is a hallelujah-ode to the modern artistic freaks of Athens Greece who have revitalised Rebetika in modern form. Rebetalism as magic realism. There are silent Hellenic voices in there. The original version, the DEEP HOUSE Mix is a live studio recording from the depths and midsts of time, June 1991. It stands here as the original Deep House Mix. The SUPERMODERNITY mix was frankensteined in February 2009. It is way too long. There once was a track called 'Ripples in a Pool' but it aged before our very eyes and the sword of damocles fell squarely on its head. Its days were numbered in any case. It was built in late 2008 and shuddered to collapse in July 2009. The monuments of this modernity are crumbling before they are even completely built. Such is the fevered reality of the 21st century. These are all tracks developed by CLOSE LOBSTERS KUNSTWERK.  For your delectation, the mixes are offered in (some kind of) polychronic order. A few Close Lobsters tracks are also made available here. Steel Love awaits forlornly its 2009 makeover and sits in the corner sulking. In the context of the song, the vocals are now very moving. Tragically so. The sword of Damocles permanently hangs over the song - forever. RIP. Some say the COSMIC FIVE mumbo jumbo mix is the nearest yet. To what is not clear. It was shaped and let loose in March 2009. As indicated, some of the new experimental mixes are saved/taken/rescued from the smouldering embers of the original track Deep House version. The 'Deep House' in the title was a play on living in the depths/basement of a house during the house music explosion of the late 1980s and early 1990s. One night we went to a desert storm and never returned home sweet home so to speak. Shock and Awe before shock and awe in fact. These mixes are prominences on the surface of the sun - solar prominences even, manifestations of supermodernity. Certainly a new movement. Each epoch dreams the one to follow and in a similar vein the dreams of the new mixes were contained in the original. Phantasmagoria abounds! The 'lyric poem' of 'NANANA Deep House' goes something like this: 'My favourite ever stupid phrase is 'things will never be the same' its my favourite stupid phrase la na na na na na na na na na na na na Wrote in a rush from this day on, the spectre haunting Europe will be gone  - lived in deep house in those days  - saving up for some better days - history is about to be changed  - lived in deep house in those days. My favourite ever favourite phrase is 'things will never be the same' la na na na na na na na na na na na...' the chorus, if chorus is what it is, is on the prowl, seeking answers to the incessant movement of things where life never really happens but is gone - Abracadabra! We are living between what has been, what could be, and what should be. CLS KUNSTWERK should be and are remastered in the age of technological reproduction. Welcome to the supermodernity of all things CLS KUNSTWERK - Close Lobsters Kunstwerk. The 'legendary' CLOSE LOBSTERS are the font and well from which this movement springs. CLOSE LOBSTERS are a independent rock group who made little ripples in the pool of sound towards the middle-to-end of the 1980s and into the 1990s. Typically miscast and misunderstood, the majority of impressions of the group were very much wide of the mark. Some people are just plain lazy mentally. The fundamental attribution error. However, this is fine.  Contrary to popular representations they created a dust-up live. They toured relentlessly across the UK, Europe Central and the Mid-to-North-East North American continent releasing three albums and five singles (or something like that). Evading capture and categorisation are the hallmarks of the living. Keep on keepin on as the song goes. All manner of Close Lobsters materials remain available from the usual outlets, that sorta thing, y'know these sorta places - iTunes, Amazon, the WWW. Be picky! This site aims to provide the channel for the resurrection and re-enchantment of the spirit of CLOSE LOBSTERS in supermodern form; as an entity that lives and breathes and stretches and groans and haunts. As it was and is now intended to be.  For those interested in what was, a new singles collection of CLOSE LOBSTERS works was released by Fire Records of London on 05.10.09. It is entitled 'FOREVER, UNTIL VICTORY!' in honour of the songs and the group and of the late Ernesto 'Che' Guevara.  The story of the group is thus: There was once a storm of stones and sticks and half bricks and this barrage was to become a lodestar. The very perfect nature of things. If eternity is indeed the sea mingled with the sun as a young French poet once intimated then unrelenting group disorder defines the everyday and mundane in chains of flashing images. The singles collection was marshalled and brought together, collected if you will, and these disparate souls called songs then began to spontaneously form a chronological narrative/orderly queue. The cover design (see below) is exemplary and features Rebetalism as Salvador Dali. It is a visual representation of Rebetika in modern form. Rewinding to the present, a lot more things and stuff are planned for this new movement, including the unearthing, the cannabalizing, and the technologizing of fragments of old and dusty unreleased Close Lobsters materials so that these embers ignite IN movement and as CLOSE LOBSTERS Kunstwerk Marcavo Music Recordings 2009-2011-2015...and on and on and so on...


Australia has an underground music scene littered with more steaming wrecks than a ‘Mad Max’ flick. Thundering down that lonesome highway once more comes the musical muscle and finesse
of a band called flu-X. FRS2 is the follow-up release to their flagship 1999 release ‘FRSU’, an album likened by Drum Media in a review at the time as having the ‘playfulness and artistry of Can’.
Mostly shunned by Oz radio the first time around, flu-X remain proof positive that good music will prevail in an age of fickle listening trends and self-imploding ‘Top 100’ lists.
Now flu-X return to present what has been going on in the decade since they first stepped out of the musical wilderness. Bassy loops and torn guitars meld with vocal edge on politico savvy tracks like ‘The End’, ‘It’s Not About Us’ and the Cobainian stirrings of ‘Takin’ Down Their Names’. The mournful reaches of ‘Epitaph 011’ are offset by the guitar charged ‘Killcare’ and the threatening spoken word of ‘Like Evolution’, the gibberish of ‘Lars Crabbe’s Deleted Message’ posting a humourous note toward the end. On FRS2 fluX deliver their own take on the world, one that comes as from often unexpected quarters.
 
http://anathema.com.au

CD available at <a href="http://cdbaby.com/flux7">cdbaby.com/flux7</a>

Philipp Lenz aka Delenz approached first Heavy Metal and then Techno through his older brother. At a young age Lenz made his first experience with Roland-built MC 303 and 505. Upon turning 16 Philipp spent his weekends in Frankfurt’s notorious U60311 and Bingen’s classic Palazzo, finding inspiration from Johannes Heil, Sven Väth, Alter Ego, Plaid, Carl Craig, Richie Hawtin and Christian Morgenstern. He studied sound engineering and works as an award winning audio engineer in Frankfurt am Main/Germany.
Although Philipp gets enough time to play with high-end sound machines as a professional sound designer
of one of Frankfurt’s best sound engineering studios, he continues his musical explorations in his own Studio in Offenbachs Zollamt Studio.
The Taunus kid is not fixed on any specific kind of electronic musical genre. However, it has to be ‘straight’ and not without a certain hint of musical harmony, which is often provided by releases of:
Keinemusik, Running Back, Cocoon, Mule, Pampa, Barnhaus, Innervisions, Correspondant, Ninja Tune, Vakant, Kompakt, Connaisseur Recordings, Fryhide or Live at Robert Johnson.

Paint Club is a cutting-edge, sophisticated, and at times dirty wild, four-piece band from Cape Town, ZA. They perform happy music with great attitude and timing.
Uri fingers the banjo electric guitar, zorg, and Wessel strums the acoustic guitar. Wes beats the frantic rhythms of Africa (with his bare hands) while Dave caresses the bass (with his bear hands).
Paint Club enjoy outdoor activities such as Water-skiing, Mountaineering and Polo (with horses).
Paint Club entered a battle of the bands towards the end of 2013 and lost, but who cares? : (
They released their first single, 'Wilderness', which resulted in airplay and interviews on campus and online radio stations. 
Paint Club recently recorded their debut EP 'Johannesburg' it will be out in early 2014.
So fresh.

Twitter: @clubpaintclub


This is not another story of a band starting out on the road for glory, but one of a band already on the road doing what bands should do… And their story has already begun.

With tales of impending success including touring with the likes of the Pigeon Detectives, receiving national airtime across Radio 2, recording with Grammy Award winning Bob Clearmountain and signing their first record deal it seemed as if everything was about to happen… Yet with a turn of bad luck, what happened was they found themselves stranded at Heathrow airport, without money or jobs to return to and with a manager who had deserted them. Kindly before leaving though, he had amassed a trail of debt in their name. With a tarnished reputation, it seems Famous Villains was an obvious choice of name.

In spite of the financial and emotional fallout from their former band, “The Wallbirds,” Anthony Lindley (lead vocal/ rhythm guitar) and Chris Autey (drums) had no regrets and were not about to give up. In 2012, they got together with old school friend Neil Smith (lead guitar) and classically trained Tobin James (piano). Famous Villains were born and have been playing throughout their native Doncaster and South Yorkshire ever since.

Melding the raw and soulful melodies of Wilson Pickett with the edgier guitar driven music of bands like Jawbreaker, Famous Villains play energetic and harmony-laden rock. Remarkably they show no sign of past disappointment, instead just an up-beat infectious attitude evocative of The Beatles… Serious about music but unaffected by everything else.

2013 started off the way they intend it to end… On the road! Having just completed a tour of the north, they are happy to announce they will be appearing at Wilderness Festival this summer. In the meantime listen out for Spies on BBC Introducing Sheffield, Sine FM and keep an eye out for further shows on their facebook…

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