Feb. 14

Pre order the The Gloaming's debut album, out 20th January:

- <a href="http://smarturl.it/TheGloamingiTunes">iTunes</a> (inc. instant download of 'The Sailor's Bonnett')
- <a href="https://realworldrecords.com/release/621/the-gloaming/">Real World</a>
- <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Gloaming/dp/B00DGIBAT8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389267260&sr=8-1&keywords=the+gloaming">Amazon</a>

The Gloaming carves new paths connecting the rich Irish folk tradition and the New York contemporary music scene. From haunting sean-nós songs to rousing instrumental medleys, they make music that is both ancient and utterly new.

"The music of the Emerald Isle may have spread far and wide, but there is little that will be performed that sounds like The Gloaming." The New Yorker

The Gloaming - Sailor's Bonnet

from 'Odham's Standard' [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den191
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/origamibiro]

Origamibiro is a collaborative project consisting of three core members: musician, soundtrack composer and producer Tom Hill, visual artist and filmmaker The Joy Of Box, and multi-instrumentalist Andy Tytherleigh. Originally started as a solo project for Tom, Origamibiro has since evolved into an audio-visual collective, producing studio music, art objects, interactive installations and hauntingly original live audio-visual performances. Origamibiro like to create work with an array of unorthodox processes and contraptions, found objects, video feeds and multi instrumentalism. Their unique live performances involve treated books, typewriters, found celluloid, paper, eerie wildlife recordings, home movies, sellotape and bespoke visual contraptions. All of these things had been added, adapted, even destroyed as a way to generate images and audio that could evoke a feeling, a response, an understanding or perhaps a question from audiences.

2014 sees the re-release of Origamibiro's entire back catalogue - the albums ‘Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks’, ‘Shakkei’ and ‘Shakkei Remixed’ - through Denovali and also the release of their fourth studio album 'Odham's Standard'. Discussions concerning tone and theme took place much earlier in the writing process this time around and unbeknown to each other, both Tom and Jim were taking an interest in more supernatural aspects of audio and video material generation. Jim had begun to research into spirit photography, where images of deceased spirits are apparently imprinted onto photographic plates through the presence of a medium. Looking for an audio equivalent, Tom began looking into EVP or electronic voice phenomenon whereby hidden voices from deceased spirits appear to present themselves in audio recordings. What is fascinating about this process is not how legitimate the phenomenon actually is but how dependant it is on the decision or need of the viewer or listener to believe it is significant or even personal.

Interestingly, there have been many attempts over the years to debunk or disprove the validity of spirit photography and yet for every court case there are also a number of witnesses willing to passionately testify that not only is the phenomenon real but that it applied directly to them. Arthur Conan Doyle was the creator of the most famous detective in the world and, conversely, a staunch defendant of the validity of spirit photography. In his infamous treatise 'The Case For Spirit Photography' he is both naive and strangely prescient: “Victorian science would have left the world hard and clean and bare, like a landscape in the moon. (however) There is nothing scientifically impossible, so far as I can see, in some people seeing things that are invisible to others. One or two consequences are obvious, the experiences of children will be taken more seriously. Cameras will be forthcoming. These folk who appear to be our neighbours, with only some small difference of vibration to separate us, will become familiar.”


Odham's Standard

Origamibiro - Butterfly Jar

Stream the full 20 minute composition by Simon Pyke, based on the soundtrack to the 'Universal Everything & You - Drawing in Motion' exhibition at the Media Space in the Science Museum, London. Read more at http://bit.ly/1fyaAGK

'Universal Everything & You' is available as an 180g vinyl designed by Matt Pyke (of the Universal Everything design collective), featuring a screen print on one side and one of four prints from the exhibition. Previously exclusive to the Science Museum shop and bleep.com, the release is now available on general release from,

Bleep - http://smarturl.it/m30lck
Amazon - http://smarturl.it/cym8he
Juno - http://smarturl.it/kbxqmv
Boomkat - http://smarturl.it/n88u15

The album is also available digitally on,

iTunes - http://smarturl.it/t7uqe0
Spotify - http://smarturl.it/82r1e4
Deezer - http://smarturl.it/q3nt1q
Rdio - http://smarturl.it/tjumdf

Universal Everything & You

Learn more at warp.net

Universal Everything & You (WAP360)

"Philander" by Glen Hansard from the upcoming album 'Rhythm and Repose,' out June 19th!  Pre-order at http://www.anti.com/store

Rhythm And Repose

Philander

Glen Hansard - Philander

Blue - A stomach is burning  ( Igloo Sowarex 2008 )

Blue
Like a wave upon me
Blue
see my beauty inside
Let live the charm
Innocent Charm
My blue
Do you see me sailing
My blue
Do you hear me wailing
Let live the charm
Innocent Charm

Lyrics Melanie De Biasio
Music Pascal Mohy

Blue


Limited edition blue vinyl 7” (1000 copies only) exclusively for Record Store Day. Features two tracks from 2 remarkable concerts at Melbourne Recital Centre in November 2011 and The Barbican Centre, London in January 2010 celebrating the legacy of one of England’s most revered singer/songwriters, Nick Drake.

Melbourne duo, Luluc lend a potent melancholia to Drake’s ‘Things Behind The Sun’ (from his third and final 1972 album ‘Pink Moon’) whilst exclusive to this 7”, the highly acclaimed Irish singer Lisa Hannigan presents an evocative rendition of ‘At The Chime Of A City Clock’ (from his second, ‘Bryter Layter,’ 1970).

‘Things Behind The Sun’ is taken from the forthcoming album, ‘Way To Blue : The Songs Of Nick Drake’ (released 15th April 2013).
Luluc’s forthcoming album was produced by Aaron Dessner of The National.

Nick Drake is an unlikely romantic hero. In the 1970s he was a minor English singer and songwriter who peddled a lyrical brand of introspection that earned him a small but devoted following and few record sales. Dogged by depression and embittered by his lack of success, he died of an overdose in 1974, virtually unknown and unnoticed. He left an amazing legacy - a handful of recordings of his sparsely beautiful songs across just three albums, less than two hours of music. But over the ensuing decades, the enduring potency of these songs has ensured Drake's reputation as one of the UK's truly great musical talents.

Tracks: A) Luluc : Things Behind The Sun / AA) Lisa Hannigan : At The Chime Of A City Clock


Luluc - Things Behind The Sun (Nick Drake cover, live recording)

This was a session I worked in October with DM Stith (member of Sufjan Stevens touring band and Asthmatic Kitty label) and John-Mark Lapham (of The Earlies fame). EMA Studios at Houghton College equipment used: Avid Pro Tools HDX system, Grace, Amek Neve, Focurite Red Series preamps, AT 4050, Neumann KM 84, Avantone CK-1 microphones.

Feb. 14

Visto / Bien