Only Pipe Dreams in the Pipeline
Antony Harding, batterista degli Hefner, porta avanti da tempo un progetto a nome Ant. Qualche giorno fa ci ha spedito queste canzoni dalla sua casa in Svezia. Sono bellisime: Only Pipe Dreams in the Pipeline e’ un breve e delicato mini-mini-album folk strumentale pieno delle gioie della primavera. Scritto a lume di candela durante l’ Earth Hour e registrato a casa durante le feste di Pasqua, utilizzando solo strumenti acustici e costruito attorno al vecchio violino di sua suocera. E’ la colonna sonora della fine di un altro lungo inverno e della tanto attesa primavera. Tutte le canzoni sono state scritte e suonate da Antony Harding.
Antony Harding, Hefner’s former drummer, plays under the name of Ant. A few days ago he sent us these songs from his home in Sweden. We love them: Only Pipe Dreams in the Pipeline is a short and sweet mini-mini-album of folk instrumentals full of the joys of spring. Written by candlelight during Earth Hour, the album was recorded at home over the Easter weekend. Antony uses only acoustic instruments centered around his ex-mother-in-law’s old mandolin. It is the soundtrack to the end of another cold winter and the long awaited welcoming of spring. All music is written and performed by Antony Harding.
Here below the video for “Save Your Last Cup Of Tea For Me”
Save Your Last Cup Of Tea For Me from We Were Never Being Boring on Vimeo.
echopark – trees
From: ***@wwnbb.net
To: ***@gmail.com
Date: 15 April 2013 01:52
Subject: album di debutto Echopark
«Ho preso un volo per Londra, sono atterrato a Heathrow. Taxi fino al centro. Non credere a quello che dicono: gli ostelli sono brutti. Vado dritto a Whitechapel, dove abita Antonio Elia Forte. È di Lecce ma vive qui da anni. Suona roba elettronica e ho visto su facebook che si fa chiamare Echopark. Mette su il tè e mi mostra delle foto della sua Puglia mentre fuori piove. Dice che Lecce gli ricorda Echo Park, quella di Los Angeles, con gli skater, i surfisti, la scena delle band e il sole. Gli chiedo cosa c’è di quelle immagini dentro la sua musica. Mi risponde “la luce”. Gli chiedo se posso mettere su il suo disco mentre aspettiamo. Alza le spalle e sorride. C’è un demo con una scritta a pennarello rosso. Mi piacciono subito certi suoni un po’ Animal Collective un po’ Morr un po’ Postal Service, ma con il 100% di gioia in più. Cassa dritta, un paesaggio disteso e la testa che parte per le vacanze. Non è un caso che il primo singolo si chiami Teleportation. Non è un caso che in scaletta ci siano anche cose come Mountain, Raindrops, Waves. E poi il disco si intitola proprio Trees, e riesce a parlare di Natura attraverso dei synth. Però c’è qualcosa nei riverberi sovrapposti della sua voce, qualcosa di grandioso ma anche di molto vicino, non so come spiegarlo. Glielo chiedo. Mi risponde “la luce” e sorride ancora. Scherza, ma in qualche modo ha ragione: è un disco di elettronica registrato tutto in cameretta, ma alla fine puoi dirne quel che vuoi tranne che sia freddo. Al contrario. E più tardi, mentre usciamo, sulla moquette porpora delle scale, mi viene in mente la parola che cercavo: “radiosa”. Questa musica lo è, dalla prima all’ultima nota.»
From: ***@wwnbb.net
To: ***@gmail.com
Date: 15 April 2013 01:52
Subject: Echopark’s debut album
«Took a charter flight on a DC-10 to London. Landed at Heathrow. Took a cab to the city center. Don’t let people lie to you: hostels are for the ugly. I go straight to Whitechapel: there lives Antonio Elia Forte. He’s from Lecce, down the heel of the Italian peninsula, but he’s lived here in London for years. Antonio plays electronic music and I noticed on facebook that his bandname is Echopark. Antonio turns on the boiler for some tea and shows me some pictures of Puglia, his home-region in Italy, while outside it’s pooring rain. He tells me that his home town Lecce reminds him of Echo Park, the Los Angeles neighborhood with surfers, bands and sun. I ask him what of that imaginary seeps in his music. He replies: “the light.” I ask if I can play his album while we hang out. He shrugs and smiles. I immediately like the sound, there’s a bit of Animal Collective, a little of Morr Music, and a bit of Postal Service, but 100% more joyous. A straight forward kick, a nice landscape and your head is on the best holiday ever! It is no coincidence that the first single is called Teleportation. It is no coincidence that in the songlist there are also titles like Mountain, Raindrops, Waves. And it is no coincidence that the album is titled Trees and it can talk about Nature through synthesizers. But there is something special in the overlapping reflections of his voice, something great but also very near, I don’t know how to explain it, so I ask. “The light” he replies, and then smiles again. He’s joking but I know that he’s right: this album was all conceived and recorded in Antonio’s bedroom in cold London, but there’s nothing cold about the sound! And I realize it when we finally go out from his place and I find the word I was looking for to describe Echopark’s music: radiant! From the first to the last song!.»
“Eleven slices of kaleidoscopic home-made pop” – The Line Of Best Fit
“Layered pop that sounds not unlike a kissing cousin to Youth Lagoon” – Under The Radar
“This is shit you should be buying” – The405
NEXT GIGS:
17.04.13 London @ The Monarch (Camden) w/Rina Sawayama [UK]
22.04.13 London @ The Old Blue Last (Shoreditch) w/V e e n, Celestial Trax + Club The Mammoth Djs [UK]
24.04.13 London @ The Birthdays (Dalston) w/Blackbird Blackbird [UK]
The Lucksmiths co-founder Mark Monnone has put in some long hours and some even longer miles to finally touch down at the debut Monnone Alone album Together At Last. Recorded by Ladybug Transistor’s Gary Olson at his Marlborough Farm studio in Brooklyn, Together At Last will be out May 24 on WWNBB and Lost & Lonesome.
‘The Business World’ is the album’s oldest track, tracing “its hobo steps back to a Portland kitchen in the mid-noughties, with friend Andrew ‘Hotdog’ Kaffer (of the sadly missed Kissing Book) freestyling a verse about living on food stamps over a two-chord riff plucked out by Monnone on a broken-down nylon-string.”
The clip was directed by Isobel Knowles (ex-Architecture in Helsinki) and filmed by Stu Mannion. Enjoy! (It’s awesome!)
We are less than a week away from Echopark‘s release and you still have your chance to pre-order the album here!
And while waiting for the hard copy of Trees, you can enjoy the full album streamed on The Line Of Best Fit!
Now start dancing, go out and hug the first person you see, come back and pre-order the CD!
Brothers in Law – Hard Times for Dreamers – cover artwork
Brothers in Law released their critically acclaimed first album in early 2013, “Hard Times for Dreamers”. After two month we are proud to announce a distribution deal with Audioglobe!
Details below:
Audioglobe: http://www.audioglobe.it/artist.php?iId=42483
Mondadori: http://www.inmondadori.it/musica/BROTHERS-IN-LAW/itp01420338/
Amazon [CD]: http://www.amazon.it/Hard-Times-Dreamers-Brothers-Law/dp/B00C3G1P58/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1365407000&sr=1-1
Amazon [VINILE]: http://www.amazon.it/Hard-Times-Dreamers-Brothers-Law/dp/B00C3G1PDK/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1365406992&sr=1-1
Don’t miss them live!
13.04.13 Savignano @ Sidro Club w/versailles [FB]
20.04.13 Milano @ Ligera w/Machweo [FB]
24.04.13 Pesaro @ Della Cira
30.04.13 Bologna @ Covo club w/Mac deMarco
17.05.13 Roma -Popfest @ Revolver Live Club [FB]
18.05.13 Cosenza @ Partyzan
