Name: Moonpools - Never Mind by Young and Aspiring in pop
Duration: 4 min 49 s
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01 Lights Over London

RELEASE DATE: FRIDAY 13th October 

A hop, skip and a jump down the rabbit hole into alternative singer-songwriter Phoebe Coco’s ecological EP to sing in the trees and dance on a moon-plane. 



‘Phoebe Coco has just the thing’
Tom Robinson- BBC 6 Music

Effortlessly compelling.
Adam Watson BBC Introducing Wales 


‘Feels like a dark fairytale…’
Sarah Gosling 
London artist and composer Phoebe Coco sets forth with a highly anticipated new EP release I Am Not a Machine this coming October the 13th, with a release show on the same date at Saint Pancras Old Church. 

Born in the rolling hills of The Bannue* and growing up in London, Phoebe Coco seeks living contradictions, the wilderness within the city; the forest within London’s walls. These themes are interwoven in her music, in lilting lyrics and layered landscapes of organic and electronic instrumentation, in a quest to marry the two worlds- the natural and the urban. 


Raised within a singing matriarchy of grandmothers, mothers and sisters, Phoebe Coco experienced live music from an early age. Songs were sung in all settings, from kitchen tables to bohemian parties. Now, on occasion, she invites her family on stage, who sing with her in ‘blood harmonies’- a phrase coined to describe the uncanny, specific and unusual sound of close relations singing together. These unique blood harmonies can be heard throughout the EP. 

As a community and ecological activist, environmental themes are at the foreground of I Am Not a Machine. Phoebe Coco’s writings and performances with trees have been aired by renowned nature author Robert Macfarlane on BBC 4’s Front Row. For the award-winning Urban Tree Festival, she created a project called Tree Song in which she composed, arranged and recorded a series of acapella, folk inspired songs to create a site-specific installation. Elements of this folk heritage are present in her single Machine: ‘ We are singing in a tree, connection fails, try again with your feet’. In an age of expansive development Phoebe Coco sought to “encourage us all to slow down, listen and reflect on how the old ways can meet the new.”


The EP was primarily recorded in Abbey Road and Tostada studios and was co-produced by Phoebe Coco and three times grammy award winning producer Eduardo De La Paz.
The music spans genres, in some places reminiscent of Bat for Lashes and other times Weyes Blood and Kate Bush. This translates live into a seven piece family band, featuring a selection of London's finest players in an amalgamation of complex vocal harmonies, rippling piano, soaring synthesisers, flute, saxophone, guitar and drums. Expect the full works from the full band on the Friday on the 13th October Launch Show. 

Nature also prevails in Phoebe Coco’s acclaimed debut album My White Horse & I (2020), which was championed by Tom Robinson and also achieved local, national and global radio play from BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 2.  She has played stages far and wide, from Shambala Festival to Iceland Airwaves to Sofar Sounds and is well known on the London music scene, with recent shows including well-loved music venues The Old Blue Last, The Sebrite and Peckham Audio. 



http://instagram.com/phoebe.coco/
http://twitter.com/phoebecoco
http://facebook.com/phoebecoco/
https://www.youtube.com/phoebecocomusic
https://phoebe-coco.bandcamp.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2eTeVjDnOBzKMTyyRgRfIv
https://music.apple.com/bw/artist/phoebe-coco/465121809

*The Brecon Beacons National Park will refer to itself as Bannau Brycheiniog – or informally as ‘the Bannau’ in reclaiming its Welsh name.

Machine

Composer: Sonophoria
Performer: Sonophoria 
Producer: Sonophoria

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Vestige

A clatter of frantic beats rides over a dark, rebellious undertow of harsh bass and protesting vocals.

Future Sings

Smartlink to first single, Sunflowers: https://lnk.to/EmilyMagpie-Sunflowers
SmartLink to album: https://lnk.to/ThereareOtherFormsofStrength
Smartlink to label, Def Pressé - https://linktr.ee/defpresse

With her unique ethereal and otherworldly style, artist and producer Emily Magpie delves deep into vulnerability as a form of power in her upcoming album ‘There Are Other Forms of Strength’, set for release April 19th 2024 with Def Pressé.

Emily Magpie is an artist, multi-instrumentalist and producer from Bristol creating dream pop delving into different dimensions. Her recent EP 'She' on Def Pressé has been championed by Deb Grant, Tom Ravenscroft, Nabihah Iqbal and Emily Pilbeam on BBC 6 Music.

Set for release in 2024 with Def Pressé, her lyrics take us on a journey of self-reflection into the subconscious in which she lays out her flaws and fears in a way which feels simultaneously dream-like and razor sharp. Her production mirrors this vulnerability in its raw, textured electronic and organic sounds which shape shift into a myriad of unique atmospheric alt-pop landscapes. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Anna Wise, Sylvan Esso and Anna B Savage as well as philosophy, literature and nature Magpie takes the listener on a journey that is both otherworldly and relatable.

Of the album Emily says, "There are archetypes akin to yin and yang in so many cultures- the feminine and masculine. I felt I'd been focused on the masculine, doing doing doing. I committed to spending more time in that internal, feminine, dreaming space which felt like a radical act for myself and within our society. There's so much I never valued or took the time to process within myself. I found this quiet, vulnerable strength. I wrote this album in the midst of that journey and as a kind of magic spell to lead me along that path."

“Beautiful, I feel like I’m underwater when I listen to this. Amazing artist”- Nabihah Iqbal, BBC 6 Music

Spending the last few years playing support for artists such as This Is The Kit and Let’s Eat Grandma, and everywhere from Green Man Festival and Boomtown Festival in the UK she returned in 2021 with a dynamic + exciting full band experience which have been playing sold out headline shows since, including Sebright Arms as well as Dot to Dot Festival and FOCUS Wales where the band were picked out as one of God is in the TV's festival highlights. Press highlights include The Line of Best Fit, Earmilk and Mahogany. 

Bastien Keb recently remixed a song from Emily’s ‘She’ EP, Down in the Deep, and it was release at the end of 2023. Emily will be supporting Bastien Keb at the Moth Club (30th March) and playing at The Great Escape 2024.  She will also be supporting Dizraeli on their UK tour throughout April and May.

Release Schedule
Feb 15 - Sunflowers
Feb 29 - White Heart Rabbit
March 14 - All the Lights
April 4 - What's Eating You
April 19 – There Are Other Forms of Strength

1. Emily Magpie - Sunflowers

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Moonpools - Never Mind

Single / No Return

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BIG big SKY - Sadist
Out December 2023
Watch the weird music video I made:
https://youtu.be/KBSYEkOeKbw?si=nizOCfgeD3dwQsbX

Recorded and Produced by me
Drums by Jack Gordon
Mastered by George Perks

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https://www.facebook.com/bigbigskymusic
https://bigbigsky.bandcamp.com

Sadist

PETALS

Scribbled Sunset

Weird Faith

Kiss The Wall

Redemption

My buddy sent me a message at 9:15am on November 26th, 2023. He told me to “write the great Musk album of our time.” Ok.  

I read that weird Walter Issacson book about him and listened to all the interviews for a week or two. The points of him that people have strong opinions about were almost immediately boring. Underneath was how hard it is for him to relate to and communicate with other people. You can have all the money in the world, but you can’t buy that, and it might be more unattainable with the more wealth and notoriety you obtain. That’s probably more human and universal than trying to go to Mars. 

His presence has always felt super visceral to the Bay Area. Even if he’s on the other side of the world warning the IMF about artificial intelligence and dog currency, the Tesla plant off the 880 in Fremont is a purposely monolithic reminder of his grand intentions. Its always been funny to me that the same governing body (Alameda County) that gives me reminders about parking tickets I didn’t pay, and taxes cans of Mountain Dew at the liquor store 100 feet from me, was preventing him from building a rocket to go to Mars during the pandemic. 

So whatever. I tried to write a bunch of stuff about him, but ended up writing about the same loneliness and lack of connection that everyone has experienced at some point in their lives. It’s the same loneliness that humanity might be leaning into as we go toward whatever the future is. I will release the songs that didn’t get used for this record on some Bandcamp Friday. They are mostly rewrites of “Little Deuce Coup” but with lyrics about electric cars and Eugenics. 

The cover art was drawn by Michael Rudolph. It’s a still from a video I saw of a lady hitting 10-G’s in an airplane. The topic of “freedom of speech” kept coming up in everything I read and listened to. The idea itself is intangible, but people talk about it like it has a clear structure and regulations. Like a mathematical theorem. Or a public pool. 

It reminded me of someone experiencing the punishing levels of gravity in a centrifuge. I kept thinking of some guy thumbing away on a cell phone behind protective glass, as a bookish engineer screams “Sir! He’s about to call The Pope a b*tch on Twitter!” Cut to some high ranking military official that looks like Sterling Hayden in “Dr. Strangelove” losing grip of the cigar in his mouth and muttering “oh my god…” 

That is the first time I’ve seen all of that written out, and I regret everything. I regret this entire record. 

Thanks for listening. 

Raj played drums. 
Ryan played stuff. 
Joel Robinow played piano on the second song.
Patrick Brown mastered it. 
Michael Rudolph drew the cover art. 

AI versions of Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey, Hank Williams Sr., Hank Williams Jr., Serena Williams, William F. Buckley, Will Smith, William Gibson, SpongeBob SquarePants, Elon Musk, Sonic the Hedgehog, Albert Einstein, Nina Hagen, Donald Fagen, John Wayne, Wayne Knight, Mickey Mouse, Donald Rumsfeld, Bart Simpson, James Baldwin, Alec Baldwin, Joe Biden, Joe Rogan, Hulk Hogan, Richard Nixon, Willie Dixon, Angela Merkel, Studs Terkel, Hatsune Miku, Shakira, 21 Savage, and Macho Man Randy Savage played singing on the last song.

I'm Honest (Most of the Time)

Dedicated to Rose Lubin and her family.

https://steinhardtfoundation.org/jewishprideaward/about-rose-lubin

Rose

Is it desparate conviction, or a last glimpse of mad hope? Will you challenge the gods and shatter the stars?



[Laine's (b)log: Now, for something slightly different! I know my songs in the past year have been mostly post-rock, but if you've been familiar with my older style (and you can check the older songs in my channel), I've done a bit of the sort of cinematic/orchestral stuff before. I took a break from doing that kind of thing since I wanted to focus on guitar for a bit, and so I explored the post-rock guitar stuff for quite awhile. Now that i'm somewhat more confident in my guitar playing, I attempted a bit of a hybrid orchestral/post-rock style with this song, with a sort of sci-fi motiff (maybe influenced a bit by those sci-fi RPGs like xenoblade chronicles). I know it's kind of a different vibe, but hope it worked out!]

Music by Laine Chinensy
Art by XINO: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/99399942

IN DEFIANCE OF THE SURGING SKY

play my <3

TALENT DISCOVERY & ARTIST DEVELOPMENT
alain@youngandaspiring.com
www.youngandaspiring.com

Play the Sax a bit. I really like to get up and dance.

Moonpools - Never Mind

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