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Horrible Present - Damaged Droplets (Welcome Back Sailors remix)

Wolther Goes Stranger - "Sometimes" (Welcome Back Sailors remix)

http://www.wwnbb.net/2011/08/a-classic-education-hey-there-stranger/
http://www.aclassiceducation.com/

We Were Never Being Boring Collective and Lefse Records team up to bring you the vinyl version of A Classic Education‘s Hey There Stranger.  Originally released at the end of 2010 in digital and cd format, this EP is the bands first bold announcement to the world. As webzine The Line Of Best Fit puts it “you’re unlikely to find a more polished introduction to a band than Hey There Stranger- if a debut album can carry even half the substance, melodies and brains of this first work, it’ll come close to being a modern day, you guessed it, classic.”The EP is now expanded to include 5 remixes of artists loved by A Classic Education. Exclusive to this release are Banjo Or Freakout‘s minimal idm-warped take on Terrible Day, Visions Of Trees‘ spazz-electro-palm party I Lost Time, Crimea X and their cosmic kraut version of Devilish Coast Sway, Welcome Back Sailors gives the french touch to Gone To Sea while Death In Plains goes with the “destroys all barriers” approach.
“The brightness of their wonderful songs is hard to contain on any terrestrial plane”. – Altered Zones
“Classic is right. Songs so sturdy you’d swear you’ve heard ‘em before. You haven’t, but you will.” – SPIN
“I Lost Time feels like an epic single painstakingly assembled from discarded piles of sonic rubble. Truly impressive stuff.” – My Old Kentucky Blog

 We Were Never Being Boring Collective e Lefse Records uniscono le forze per portarvi il vinile di Hey There Stranger dei nostri A Classic Education. Uscito alla fine del 2010 in Cd e digitale, questo EP è la prima impressionante presentazione della band al mondo. The Line Of Best Fit ne dice “improbabile trovare una più efficace introduzione ad una band che questo Hey There Stranger. Se un album di debutto potesse trasmettere anche la metà della sostanza, melodie e affinatezza, di questa prima opera, si arriverebbe vicini a defininirlo appunto, un classico dei nostri giorni”. Nel vinile, l’EP si allarga ad includere 5 remix di artisti amati da A Classic Education. In esclusiva su questo album troviamo la versione minimal-distorta di  Banjo Or Freakout per Terrible Day, Visions Of Trees  rivisitano I Lost Time in versione electro-party, Crimea X trasforma Devilish Coast Sway con un buon cosmic kraut, Welcome Back Sailors donano un tocco francese a Gone To Sea mentre Death In Plains la reinterpreta alla “distruggiamo tutte le barriere”.
“La brillantezza delle loro magnifiche canzoni è difficile da contenere in alcun piano terrestre”. – Altered Zones
“Classic è giusto. Canzoni così forti che giureresti averle già sentite. E invece è la prima volta, ma non l’ultima ” – SPIN
“I Lost Time sembra un singolo epico scrupolosamente assemblato da cumuli di macerie sonore. Materiale davvero impressionante.” – My Old Kentucky Blog

A Classic Education - Gone To Sea (Welcome Back Sailors remix)

Casa Del Mirto - Deep In Your Mind (Welcome Back Sailors Reprise)

Welcome Back Sailors


The Sailors are back, after a gusty voyage, their suitcases full of experiences and music in their ears.
Welcome Back Sailors are relatively young as a band but old friends in life and they maybe share music and interests from even before knowing each other.
Transparent and The Fader noticed them after just one song on the web. From that moment a continuous talking is following the band.
From the Po Valley the blastoff to reach anyone who likes warm and colourfull songs.

“When we thought of Tourismo as the title for our album, we realized that that was it! We started thinking about all the shows played after our first album came out; all the people we met, the dinners, toasts, situations--Tourismo was the perfect description for all that. It sounded good to put together the words “tour” and “tourism” (turismo in Italian): it describes movement, curiosity, relax, and at the same time it shows what we like the most: playing our music everywhere”.

Three years after their debut, Welcome Back Sailors are back with a new album: eleven songs described by the band itself as purely pop; but these are for sure the most felt and immediate songs that the Italian duo (made up of members Alesio & Danilo) have ever written.

“These tracks slowly came to life during various sessions in our studio. The final track list is a selection of the ones that are balanced enough to give the record uniformity and define Tourismo’s identity. While “Yes/Sun” (our first record) was instinctively recorded and mixed entirely by the two of us, for this second album we had the precious help of Andrea “Suri” Suriani at Alpha Dept Studio in Bologna, Italy”.

It seems like Welcome Back Sailors’ classic synthetic sounds had found a new homogeneous wave. The main difference comparing this sophomore album to their debut is in the rhythmic choice, now more elaborated and less linear.  But it’s the unique way Welcome Back Sailors manage to make their synthesizers play so visceral that still represents the band’s most striking feature, combining pop with soul and funk.

“We can somehow say that our approach hasn’t changed; our songs are not pre-prepared, but instead they are a mix of more parts that share the same vision. Everything starts from a sound and the emotions that that single sound evokes, then we start thinking about what would happen adding more, and more. The whole thing is well represented by the cover: us in our own metaphoric universe of experiences, feelings, music, passion, and whatever surrounds us”.

