In 2002, we released our first album, Turn On the Bright Lights. We had waited close to five years for the opportunity to record an album. Needless to say this was a memorable moment for us. We never had any expectations for how the album would be received. We just wanted to present our music as an album to anyone who would be open to hearing it. It was incredible to finally tour and see people react to these songs. We never could have imagined that the album would have reached so many people throughout the world.
We spent a good deal of time this past year digging through our archives and asking others to dig through theirs in the hopes of uncovering some forgotten material. The result of our hunting and gathering has yielded this Tenth Anniversary Edition of Turn On the Bright Lights. We wanted to do something special for the fans who have always supported us. We wanted to do something special for the best fans in the world. We hope you enjoy it.
Boy & The Echo Choir est la formule en groupe du projet solo Boy, créé en 2005 par Caroline Gabard. Après 2 albums cd-r sortis chez My Little Cab Records (Boy’s Booken 2005 etNorfolk Motelen 2007), Boy s’est entourée de musiciens rencontrés ça et là en France et en Belgique. En 2009, c’est le label bruxellois Humpty Dumpty Records (Françoiz Breut, K-Branding, V.O, Mièle…) qui offre à Boy & The Echo Choir une distribution au Bénélux pour son troisième albumAnd Night Arrives In One Gigantic Step. The Echo Choir est alors constitué de Tazio (du duo Tazio & Boy), Thomas Van Cottom (Venus, Soy Un Caballo), Sebastian Muller-Thür (Aetherlone), Grégory Aliot, Aurélie Muller (Melon Galia, Soy Un Caballo, V.O) et Delphine Coutant.
En 2010, l’album sort en France sur le label Le Son Du Maquis, distribué par Harmonia Mundi. Le groupe est alors parrainé par les SMAC Le Vip de Saint Nazaire et l’Olympic de Nantes, puis sélectionné par la Fédurok pour son dispositif d’aide à la diffusion “78 Tours”.Entre 2010 et 2011, le groupe enchaîne plus d’une cinquantaine de dates en France et en Belgique, parmi lesquelles des premières parties au Chabada (Angers), La Péniche Excelsior (Allonnes), L’Olympic (Nantes) ou le Centre Barbara Fleury Goutte d’Or (Paris).2012 sera l’année de l’enregistrement du quatrième album, It All Shines, sorti en janvier 2013 sur le fidèle label My Little Cab Records (Tazio & Boy, The Missing Season, My Name Is Nobody, Chapi Chapo & Les Petites Musiques de Pluie…) et distribué en France par La Baleine.Ce nouvel opus a été écrit, joué et enregistré entre Nantes et Bruxelles par Caroline Gabard (voix, guitares, claviers, percussions, machines…), Rachel Langlais (choeurs, claviers, accordéon, scie musicale, machines…) et Thomas Van Cottom (guitare, vibraphone, batterie, percussions, machines…).Parmi les invités, citons également le duo rennais The Missing Season (voix et arrangements sur Impossible Heart), Mickaël Mottet (Angil) et The Hiddentracks (voix et arrangements de cuivres et de cordes sur Take Oh Take), Tazio, et Vincent Dupas de My Name Is Nobody et Fordamage (guitare sur The Organs)A l’occasion de cette sortie de disque, le groupe rejoint le catalogue de La Route du Rock Booking pour la diffusion.
"Weloveyouwinona" is a new, but already sensational band from Moscow. Band leader, vocalist Ivan Malezhik, son of the honored artist of Russia Vyacheslav Malezhik, unlike his father sings songs in English only. According to many, a group is distinguished by unusual for russian artists authentic "foreign" manner of performance combined with a very bright and powerful portrayal on the scene. Guys do not hide their ambitions and openly talk about their orientations to the west. The Band has already made one video, and is ready to shoot next, and soon to release a new single. The plans of the team record a full album in the U.S. http://weloveyouwinona.com/ http://www.facebook.com/weloveyouwinona
Stephen Burch is an English songwriter currently based in Germany. He began making music whilst living on a remote farm in rural Ireland - using acoustic guitars, the family's piano, brooms and chains. His lyrical, narrative songs bear the influence of the fields of County Cork and the old streets of Berlin. Images of persecution abound, songs of urgent travel and a search for home - the unifying theme is that of grave drama within 'The Great Park'. Stephen has played over 150 concerts each year for the past several years - touring Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Denmark and the UK. He has released over 12 albums on the DIY label Woodland Recordings, a compilation through the German label Timezone, has provided music for several films and his songs have been covered on releases by Liz Green, The Sons of Noel And Adrian, Thirty Pounds of Bone and others. He likes rooms with echo, train journeys, trams and girls on bicycles. http://www.thegreatpark.co.uk/ http://thegreatpark.tumblr.com/ http://twitter.com/thegreatpark www.facebook.com/thegreatpark
The Black Keysis an Americanrockband formed inAkron, Ohioin 2001. The group consists ofDan Auerbach(guitar, vocals) andPatrick Carney(drums). Originally friends from their childhood, Auerbach and Carney founded the group after dropping out of college. They began as anindependentact, known for theirlo-fi, self-produced albums recorded in basements, as well as their rawblues rocksound. The duo eventually emerged as one of the most populargarage rockartists during a second wave of the genre's revival in the 2000s.
After signing with indie labelAlive, the group released its debut album, The Big Come Up (2002), which earned them a new deal with Fat Possum Records. Over the next decade, the Black Keys built an underground fanbase through extensive touring of small clubs, frequent album releases and music festival appearances, and extensive licensing of their songs. Their third album, Rubber Factory (2004), received critical acclaim and boosted the band's profile, eventually leading to a record deal with major label Nonesuch Records in 2006. After self-producing and recording their first four records in makeshift studios, the duo completed Attack & Release (2008) in a professional studio and hired producer Danger Mouse, a frequent collaborator with the band. The group's commercial breakthrough came in 2010 with Brothers, which along with its popular single "Tighten Up", won three Grammy Awards. Their 2011 follow-upEl Camino received strong reviews and peaked at number two on the Billboard200 chart, leading to the first arena concert tour of the band's career, the El Camino Tour. The album and its hit single "Lonely Boy" won three Grammy Awards.
I Giardini di Mirò sono un gruppo musicale rock italiano, provenienti dalla cittadina di Cavriago in provincia di Reggio Emilia. La formazione comprende Jukka Reverberi, Corrado Nuccini, Luca Di Mira e Mirko Venturelli, Emanuele http://www.giardinidimiro.com/ http://www.facebook.com/giardinidimiro/info
NEUMAN is a post-rock band from Murcia, Spain known for its pianos, guitars and vocals that merge into a single instrument with a very strong emotional and impressionistic component..
With a touch of melancholy, their extended melodies always acquired more weight than the voice. The voice, warm and sensitive runs through a frame of emotions that are transmitted by a descriptive language that moves you on every note, every minute
Everything started back in 1998 when the band leader, Paco Roman, after leaving La Fabrica de la Luz, spent all his time recording over 150 songs at the studio. In December 2010 he meets Fernando Lillo (pianist), and they begin to give shape to his compositions. The final form of Neuman get outlined with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Raul Frutos. The three together have released two studio albums: Plastic Heaven (2010) and The Family Plot (2012)
Their music has been included in a tv spot and as Sound Track on the short film Esquizofrenia. They compose, record and film their music and own videos.
Turtle Giant is a musical project formed in 2009 in São Paulo, Brazil and currently based in Macau (China). It consists of members António Conceição, Beto Ritchie and Frederico Ritchie.
Will Clapson, Oli Chapman, Joel Blake, Samantha Jean Scuffham and Warren Woodcraft: 5 piece band from Essex, writing songs about happiness and the worl
Lemoine is also a neofolk musician, going by the stage name Woodkid On March 28, 2011, Woodkid released his first EPIron EP, and on March 18, 2013, he released his first album titled The Golden Age.
Rebekka Karijordis aNorwegianborn,Stockholm,Sweden-based musician and composer. After creating music for over 30 films, Karijord recordedThe Noble Art of Letting Goreleased to the UK and Europe. Afterwards, she went on tours to Scandinavia and Europe. There were also song placements onBBCandABC Television, and the world touring nouveau cirqueCirkus CirkörperformanceWear it Like a Crownbeing based upon Rebekkas song of the same title.
Recording at Gig Studio in Stockholm live during 8 days of December 2011, the album now known as We Become Ourselves was transcribed to tape.
Jesse Marchant, Jesse Marchant, who records under his initials, JBM, was born and raised in his family’s homes in the Adirondacks and Montreal. Classically trained on guitar from the age of 7, he had always written instrumental songs as a means of expression, but it wasn’t until recent years that he began writing lyrics, singing and recording. After a decision to withdraw, he retreated to his family’s home in the mountains, to live in seclusion and fully realize songs that he’d written while living in Los Angeles, in what he’s described as a somewhat strange and solitary three-year existence. After shaping and working an album’s worth of music, Jesse got in contact with Henry Hirsch who took instantly to the demos and the two, with a few visiting musicians, made the record in just two short weeks at Hirsch’s 19th Century church studio in Hudson, NY. It was released on Partisan Records on July 27th 2010. Not Even in July is the kind of record you have to live before you can write. The album is an exquisitely crafted and painfully human collection of songs that exhibit the measured persistence and spectral beauty of a breaking dawn. It feels as weathered and wise as an old home— alive, lived-in and loved. Like the family cabin in the Adirondacks where he writes, Not Even in July is Marchant’s safe and solitary haven— his place of emotional harborage. Not Even In July is a mostly acoustic venture, textured thoughtfully by Marchant’s atmospheric arrangements, lyrical purity and unaffected baritone— that is as grand in its haunting restraint as it is in its emotional vitality. “Years,” a lulling, finger-picked instrumental slips into “Cleo’s Song,” a ghostly reverie on loneliness and despair, while “Ambitions & War” targets Los Angeles, in a shuffling indictment of greed and inhumanity. “July on the Sound” crashes delicately and darkly through scenes of death, love and life; “From Me to You and You to Me” weaves a lazy, spiraling plea; and the resolute beat of “Friends For Fireworks” swings from the optimism and beauty of sunset to the dark finality of night. The album closes with “Red October” and its piano-drenched memories of a love lost, and “Swallowing Daggers”, a hopeless declaration of concern for a loved one gone off the rails. Not Even In July is an improbably stunning feat from a man who, until this point in his life, had never considered being a musician or playing his songs live until this year (he’s now shared the stage with St. Vincent, Elvis Perkins, Tallest Man on Earth). It plays out like a painstakingly elegant, yet brutally honest break-up letter written by Marchant and addressed to many: a lover, a dying friend, a piece of himself and a passing phase of life. But it’s also a love letter— to what comes next, and to finally coming home.JJesse Marchant, who records under his initials, JBM, was born and raised in his family’s homes in the Adirondacks and Montreal. Classically trained on guitar from the age of 7, he had always written instrumental songs as a means of expression, but it wasn’t until recent years that he began writing lyrics, singing and recording. After a decision to withdraw, he retreated to his family’s home in the mountains, to live in seclusion and fully realize songs that he’d written while living in Los Angeles, in what he’s described as a somewhat strange and solitary three-year existence. in his family’s homes in the Adirondacks and Montreal. Classically trained on guitar from the age of 7, he had always written instrumental songs as a means of expression, but it wasn’t until recent years that he began writing lyrics, singing and recording. After a decision to withdraw, he retreated to his family’s home in the mountains, to live in seclusion and fully realize songs that he’d written
Stu and Ben spent a few years gigging around Reading as a folky acoustic duo known as Quesada y Molino, before deciding to step it up a gear and form a full band. With the addition of Jen, Iain and James in late 2011, The Patient Wild was born. From the band's first gig at the Cellar Bar (Bracknell) in March 2012, to supporting The Outcast Band in Camberley and their two performances for the Oxjam Reading Takeover, it has been a great first year. 'So if you like songs about the ocean, ships, pirates and romance, check out ThePatientWild! It's a musical of historical erotica! Kinda...' PJ Carrington, Events Organiser '...You have a good sound...' UK LIve
Queens of the Stone Ageis an Americanrockband fromPalm Desert, California, United States, formed in 1996. The band's line-up includes founding memberJosh Homme(lead vocals, guitar), alongside longtime membersTroy Van Leeuwen(guitar,lap steel, backing vocals),Michael Shuman(bass guitar, backing vocals),Dean Fertita(keyboards, guitar, percussion, backing vocals) and recent additionJon Theodore(drums, percussion).
Formed after the dissolution of Homme's previous band, Kyuss,[3] Queens of the Stone Age developed a style of riff-oriented, heavy rock music. Their sound has since evolved to incorporate a variety of different styles and influences, including working with ZZ Topmember Billy Gibbons and steady contributor Mark Lanegan.
As Joe Bonamassa grows his reputation as one of the world’s greatest guitar players, he is also evolving into a charismatic blues‐rock star and singer‐songwriter of stylistic depth and emotional resonance. His ability to connect with live concert audiences is transformational. A child prodigy, Bonamassa was finessing Stevie Ray Vaughan licks when he was seven and by the time he was ten, had caught B.B. King’s ear. After first hearing him play, King said, “This kid's potential is unbelievable. He hasn't even begun to scratch the surface. He's one of a kind.” By age 12, Bonamassa was opening shows for the blues icon (something he also did recently as the opener on King’s 80th birthday tour), and went on to tour with venerable acts including Buddy Guy, Foreigner, Robert Cray, Stephen Stills, Joe Cocker and Gregg Allman.
Bonamassa’s recording career began in the early ’90s with Bloodlines, a hard‐charging rock‐blues group also featuring Robby Krieger’s son Waylon and Miles Davis’ son Erin. His 2000 solo debut, A New Day Yesterday, was produced by the legendary Tom Dowd; Bonamassa’s rendering of the title track, originally a Jethro Tull hit, was called, “a jaw‐dropping performance” by allmusic.com.
On top of touring, recording and overseeing the independent label J&R Adventures with his entrepreneurial partner and manager Roy Weisman, Bonamassa is an avid DJ currently manning the airwaves on Planet Rock radio with a weekly hour‐long program airing throughout the U.K. (he recently wrapped a two‐year stint on Sirius Satellite Radio). For seven years, Bonamassa has also been the foremost ambassador for the Memphisbased Blues Foundation’s Blues In The Schools program. While touring the U.S., he visits schools to promote the heritage of blues music to students nationwide and raise awareness for the award‐winning program.
I LIKE TRAINS are a hidden treasure. Haunting instrumentation and broken, world weary vocals portray a tender depiction of tragedy, past, present and future. Building the bricks of a productive creative partnership, over the past six years I LIKE TRAINS have perfected their craft. Their sullen heart felt songs wash across you like a sea of wondrous turmoil. I LIKE TRAINS have had their music featured on Hollywood film trailers, adverts and television, including an episode of cult series CSI:Miami. In October of 2007, the band released their debut LP, 'Elegies To Lessons Learnt' which contained a captivating collection of tracks documenting a series of historic downfalls and the mistakes we failed to learn from. The band are set to release their eagerly awaited second LP later this year. Whilst articulating the morose truths of life, the band provide a ray of light with their gentle flowing guitars, rich earthy vocals and glimmers of exultant choral euphoria that show hope within despair.
Tomorrow We Sail is a group of seven musicians based in Leeds/Sheffield. Formed in 2009 they have spent time developing and morphing their sound into what is now a vast landscape of reverb-soaked guitars, orchestral strings, piano/accordion and multi-layered vocals. Their influences are as far-ranging as folk, slowcore, neoclassicism, minimalism, ambience, and post-rock. Their sound has, at times, been described as 'glacial', 'ethereal' and 'epic' drawing comparisons with bands such as Sigur Ros, The Low Anthem, Elbow and Gregor Samsa.
After their self-released EP 'The Common Fire' in 2010, the band retreated back to their studio to work on their sound whilst undergoing line-up changes. WIth the line-up solidified, the band released their single 'The White Rose' in November 2011 followed by 'For Rosa' in May 2012.
October 2012 saw Tomorrow We Sail embark on their first tour of the UK & EU with a mix of headline and support slots with the likes of Caspian, Last Harbour and Ef. In the past they have supported Meursault, Umber, Vessels, To Kill A King, Spokes, worriedaboutsatan, Her Name is Calla and Master & the Mule.
Over the past few summers, Tomorrow We Sail took to the festival stages at Kendal Calling, Sheep Music, Landed, Tramlines & Galtres.They were approached to contribute some tracks to feature film 'Broken Roads' released in September 2012 in cinemas across the US.
Starting early 2013, the band will be concentrating on their debut album.
The band is noted for its multimedia approach, with its live performances including screens displaying a different film projection to each song. This visual element was introduced during the tour for the In Absentia album, when the band started to work with Danish photographer and filmmaker Lasse Hoile. This involvement created a distinctive image for the band.
After the release and touring in support of their tenth studio album, The Incident, the band became inactive as Wilson began to focus on his solo career. While they have not broken up, they also have no particular plans beyond "someday", with members all working on separate projects, and Wilson committing himself to his solo work through most of 2013.
The Twilight Sad are an indie rock band from Kilsyth, Scotland, comprising James Graham (vocals), Andy MacFarlane (guitar), and Mark Devine (drums). The band are currently signed to Fat Cat Records and have released three full-length albums, as well as several EPs and singles. Their 2007 debut album, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters, drew widespread acclaim from critics,who noted Graham's thick Scottish accent and MacFarlane's dense sonic walls of shoegazing guitar and wheezing accordion. The Twilight Sad's notoriously loud live performances have been described as "completely ear-splitting,"and the band toured for the album across Europe and the United States throughout 2007 and 2008. Sessions inspired by stripped-down and reworked live performances yielded the 2008 mini-album, Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did.
Their second album, Forget the Night Ahead, marked a shift in the band's direction; lyrically more personal and musically darker and more streamlined, it was released in 2009 to further acclaim.Recording sessions for the album also produced the mid-2010 release The Wrong Car, which followed the departure of founding bassist Craig Orzel in February 2010. The Twilight Sad's third album, No One Can Ever Know, was released in February 2012 and marked another stylistic shift, with the band citing industrial music andkrautrock influences for a darker, sparser sound.The band describes their sound as "folk with layers of noise,"and music critics have described the band as "perennially unhappy" and "a band that inject some real emotion and dynamic excitement into a comparatively standard template.
Girl's debut album, Album, was released in 2009 to critical acclaim. Their second studio album, 2011's Father, Son, Holy Ghost, was also released to critical acclaim. In July 2012, Owens announced that he was leaving the band and would continue to record as a solo artist.
