From The New Heaven (Night School, November 2021)

Fine Place - It's Your House

From the album Retreat to Bliss available March 25, 2022 on Western Vinyl.  
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Since the release of his last album – 2017’s Finding Shore, a collaboration with Brian Eno – pianist and singer-songwriter Tom Rogerson’s life has undergone a number of dramatic transformations. While writing his new album Retreat to Bliss, Rogerson had a child, lost a parent, and received his own diagnosis of a rare form of blood cancer. The new decade brought him from Berlin to the Suffolk of his childhood, composing profound pieces of minimal songwriting in the church next to his parents’ home. 

Rogerson studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music under mentors like Harrison Birtwistle, and he made his live debut as an improvising pianist in 2002, before releasing an improvised record with Reid Anderson (Bad Plus) and Mike Lewis (Happy Apple, Bon Iver) in 2004. He formed the band Three Trapped Tigers in 2007, expertly blending elements of electronic, jazz and noise rock into a cohesive whole. The band earned a reputation for innovative live shows and went on to perform and collaborate with artists like Brian Eno, Deftones, and the Dillinger Escape Plan. It was working with Eno, another Suffolk native, that eventually led Rogerson back to his roots and back to a place where he could write Retreat to Bliss, his solo debut album.

“All my life, the piano has been my constant companion, my confessor, my best friend, and my worst enemy,”  Rogerson explains. “I’ve always written music on and for the piano, but it felt too personal, too private to release.”

Indeed, listening to Retreat to Bliss feels almost like eavesdropping, as though you’re crouched in the belfry of a Suffolk church, bearing witness to a form of musical bloodletting. For the first time in his noteworthy career, Rogerson has combined masterful piano playing and subtle electronics with the texture of his own voice, an attempt to express deeply private emotions that were difficult to articulate using instrumental music alone. 

“The last few years have brought some struggle, some joy, and a lot of change. My response has been to retreat to what I trust the most: the piano, my voice, and the landscape I grew up in. That’s how the album got its title, and how I came to be ready finally to release a solo record.”

The eleven tracks that make up Retreat to Bliss were recorded by Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, David Byrne, Grace Jones) over the course of just a few days, a process that emphasized spontaneity and the artist’s own commitment to improvisation. 

The opening track, “Descent”, begins with a series of spare notes suspended like icicles, an inhalation of breath audible in the void. The emotional piece builds in intensity until Rogerson’s masterful piano playing has completely taken over, conjuring sonic images of rainfall on glass. The piece blends seamlessly into the utterly gorgeous “Oath”, the first track to feature Rogerson’s earnest and unaffected vocals. The collection draws the listener in further with songs like the contemplative “Toumani”, inspired by the music of the Malian kora player of the same name, and the centrepiece “Chant”, in which Rogerson quietly pleads, “Please don’t leave me / in this perfect place.” The album finishes with the climactic “Retreat To” and the brief outro “Coda”, a revelatory diptych that unfolds like a confession, furious and mournful one moment and in the next, simply questioning.

Secular yet devotional, intensely personal yet profound, the experience of listening to Retreat to Bliss seems to evade characterization. It’s physical and emotional, a glimpse into the mind of an artist who has chosen exposure over withdrawal, who uses his command of the piano to chart an unflinching path forward, never looking back.

Tom Rogerson - "Oath"

Polaroids

From the album Sides, available September 2, 2022 on Western Vinyl.
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Lean Year - "The Trouble With Being Warm"

Second single from Alice Boman's "EP II"

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Over

From the album Labyrinth, available April 7, 2023 on Western Vinyl
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Labyrinth

Heather Woods Broderick - "Crashing Against The Sun"

Written & produced by Cloud Castle Lake
Recorded & mixed by Rían Trench at The Meadow
Mastered by Richard Dowling at WAV Mastering

Played by

Ross Chaney - drum kit
Rory O'Connor - bass guitar
Daniel McAuley - vocals, drum machines, synthesizer, percussion
Brendan Jenkinson - piano, guitar

With special thanks to Rían, Richard, Roscoe T, Ed & Fabian, and Scan.

Released on: 
16.03.15

Glacier

Little Wings - Explains
CD / LP / Digital
woodsist077
Street date: May 26, 2015 

"Kyle Field, professionally known as Little Wings, is a living legend. He is the modern embodiment of the traveling bard and the singing troubadour. Kyle's discography is vast and impressive, full of tunes that are plucked from the lexicon of great American songwriting. On his latest effort, EXPLAINS, he crafts melodies so haunting and familiar; it's as if he's not composing them at all. He is tapping into something greater, acting as a vessel for the collective unconscious that is folk music. 

This is an album that is immediately accessible and also unfolds slowly, revealing greater depth with each listen. Kyle's lyrics are direct yet poetic, funny yet sad. EXPLAINS is a fantastic record that celebrates the enduring spirit of a great artist. Its release on WOODSIST is all too fitting - a label whose very foundation seems based on lasting creative integrity." - Alex Bleeker


LITTLE WINGS - By Now

From "Tig" the new Netflix documentary out July 17

Words

Sharon Van Etten - "Words"

From new album "Syncope", out now on People Teeth.

Digital:  http://hyperurl.co/424fdr
CD release from Flau, Jan 27th, 2016:  http://www.flau.jp/releases/55.html
Vinyl Pre-Order:  https://peopleteeth.bandcamp.com

All Music Written and Performed by Nicholas Principe 
Alto Saxophone by Will Epstein (High Water, Nicolas Jaar)
"Fuzz" by Peter Silberman (The Antlers)
French Horn by Victor Nash (Point Juncture, WA)


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Recorded at DESTINATION: UNIVERSE! Portland, Oregon 
Engineered by Victor Nash 
Produced by Nicholas Principe 
Mixed by Victor Nash & Nicholas Principe 
Quality Control by Andrew Dunn 
Mastered by Jen Munson at Taloowa 
Photography and Artwork by Hana Tajima



Ordinary Pleasure

The title song from our upcoming 'Absence EP'.

Spotify: https://sptfy.com/18Lt

Absence

An independent record label based in Austin, TX.

Lean Year - "The Trouble With Being Warm"

Western Vinyl

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