Mandalay

chill

Ambient/Mood

If you like this hidden gem by a master then please tweet it, FB etc or re-stream on SC as I think there are many Cocteaus fans that will want to hear this.

A tweet recently from someone talking about the magnificent Cocteau Twins made me think of this remix that Robin Guthrie did for me and Nicola back when we were Mandalay. I thought I really should put this up on SC. Robin is a really lovely bloke and hanging out with him at the Cocteau's September Sound studios by the river Thames whilst he worked on this fantastic version of our song is something I will always remember with a kind of "did that really happen?" sort of feeling. We just kept thinking "it sounds like the Cocteau Twins - oh my god! Can we stay here please?"

Mandalay Flowers Bloom - Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) Version

Stunning Remix by The Variants
https://soundcloud.com/variants-music
https://soundcloud.com/nombe
Free Download

NoMbe - California Girls (Variants Remix)

A never released re-visioning of a Mandalay B-side that Nicola and I worked on in 2014 That was 13 years after Mandalay split (i think?) 
We thought about releasing new (and re-worked) Mandalay material and wrote a few tracks but it didn't go ahead.
I thought I'd let this one track out to roam free.....

Mandalay - Imploded (2014 version)

This weeks Sinfonia comes from the wonderful @tugce-kurtis . Inspired by the quote from Dylan Thomas and the feeling of eternal night that she experienced in Berlin she discoverd again the light that music can bring you and let it carry her through the german darkness.

Tuğçe on SC: http://bit.ly/2G8xjer
...         on FB: http://bit.ly/2rzRxL7

Cover by Iorie

Serafin Sinfoniae

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Serafin Sinfonia Op. 32 - Tuğçe Kurtiş - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Web: Bondi-live.com
Booking: booking(at)bondi-live.com

We are always waiting to have unique locations and concerts that give us the need to keep and share this memory with the rest of the world through a live-recording. On the 30th of December we had one of these experiences at one of the most beautiful clubs of the world in Brazil at the Warung Beach Club. So enjoy our set with almost unreleased tracks and feel free to spread the sound.

BONDI live @ Warung Beach Club - Brazil (30.12.17)

I found the recording of my Fusion Liveset! It was a beautiful Sunday sunny morning at the FKK Strand (German for nude beach). Thank you to the lovely Fernab Crew for inviting me! Its all new and unreleased tracks, but some of them will be out there soon. I am very happy to share them with you here via Bespoke Musik. I hope you like it ❤️
XXX Jacob

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CONNECT WITH JACOB GROENING:

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Jacob Groening somehow manages to infuse organic, gypsy, blues and soul with electronic elements ... or is it the other way around? Make up your own mind. The musician, sound engineer and Dj’s songs never sound the same. Things keep shifting and fusing but still there is this gentle touch to bring some variation to the composition, and let it be sweet and subtle, and let there be house… or tech house, or slow house, whatever you want to call it. Jacob Groening is all about the experiment.

His live-set and unique dj sets have been acclaimed in a variety of destinations and constantly send him on various trips abroad.

His professional but playful approach to music was picked up by labels such as Amselcom, Steyoyoke, Delicieuse Musique, Leveldva, and Voll Schon, as well as his own imprint, Kamai.

Take your time, close your eyes, relax and find solace in these psychedelic and hypnotic sounds.

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Bespoke Musik Radio 090 : Jacob Groening Live @ Fusion 2018 Fernab FKK Beach

Mandalay Enough Love (original version 96)

Unknown album (5/27/2020 9:08:28 PM)

Mandalay Sold Out

Unknown album (5/27/2020 10:52:58 PM)

Mandalay Blame It On The Sun

Unknown album (5/27/2020 11:01:01 PM)

Mandalay Flowers Bloom

Mandalay You Say

I wrote this for "Miss Universe" in my first season as Music Director...although it was written to accompany the Evening Gown Competition" - I wrote it as an homage to my father, Jack L Bahler, who had just passed. Sid Smith and I wrote the Lyric
It is sung by my nieces and my daughter Heather when she was all of 5 yrs:)

You Are My Star

PILL-OH - February Tale (VANISHING MIRROR, 2012)

ironomi - 空色 (sketch, 2010)

New solo album "wait : speak" just released on the wonderful Vent Sounds label.
http://www.vent-sounds.co.uk/vent-store/
https://saulfreeman.bandcamp.com

In the early 1990s I was half of the duo Thieves with the extraordinarily talented David McAlmont (who went on to have a couple of magnificent hits with Bernard Butler after he left Suede). We were signed to Virgin Records and found ourselves in the clutches of the inevitable advance-chasing dodgy managers and of course it all went hideously wrong before the release of our debut album. Years later when we could talk to one another without the interference of vested interests around us, we realised we really did like each other and had no idea why we allowed ourselves to be manipulated to such a degree. Youth, eh?

After Thieves I formed the duo Mandalay with Nicola Hitchcock. We released 3 albums for V2 records in the 1990s till we called it a day in 2001. We were lucky enough to work with such stellar talents and lovely people as Steve Jansen (yep, from Japan), Jon Hassell, Guy Sigsworth, Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) and the legendary Danny Thompson. Mandalay got lots of favourable attention from the music press and fellow artists and we got to play alongside people like Moby and Nitin Sawney. In the US we even sold a fair few albums and our songs featured on programmes like 6 Feet Under, CSI, La Femme Nikita etc. Madonna called us her favourite band of 2001 - that may have been the beginning of the end for us.

After Mandalay I went on to write music for TV, film and adverts before eventually drifting away from music for nearly 9 years. In 2013 I started making music again.

Mandalay - Imploded (2014 version)

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