Through your ears you will hear:
Andy Mort - Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Percussion, Programming, Glockenspiel and stuff
Ben Munday - Guitar, Bass, Stylophone
Luke Roberts - Drums
Jon Mort - Keys and Computers
Jono Munday - Bass, high pitched vocal sounds
Kat Hattersley - Cello
Through your eyes you will see:
The artwork of Sarah Jones
The photography of:
Dave Shearn
Daniel Francis
Josh Gibson Vito Santoro Ana Laya Matt Maldre Michael Roseingrave Johnny Blough Mikael Colville-Anderson Mark Houtzager
These people all contributed to the new album with their photography. They are all amazing.
Sounds Like
a fresh spring morning
a warm summer afternoon
a crisp autumn dusk
a clear winter night
Andy Mort has played in bands since he was smaller than he is now, starting behind the drums as a schoolboy in Leamington Spa. Between 2002 and 2005 he fronted Aphron, a five piece experimental pop rock outfit, before different priorities and circumstances took them their separate ways. However, in 2004 he took seven months after leaving school to write and produce The Final Scene, which was a collection of thoughts and sounds in addition to the Aphron project, which was reaching its inevitable close. Atlum Schema was born and June 2005 saw the first live outing, which comprised of Andy, a guitar, piano and a loop box.
Ever since, apart from writing an EP and completing a degree, he has been travelling between bedrooms, kitchens, garages and hallways playing live and working on the follow up. The self-titled 11-track album has taken three years of evolution and reworking. At points Andy was forced to stop and use his imagination in order to raise the necessary funds to carry on recording and now release the LP on his own label. It is a spectacular piece of work inspired by the Wild West and a fascination with human interaction, influence and submission. He is a genre miscreant, but if post-pop indie with a dark electronic underbelly were a thing, it might be a fitting way to describe the sounds that Andy has developed.
After working completely alone on the debut album, the follow up is supported by much more organic foundations as Andy enlisted the help of others with, among other things extra drums, guitars and cellos. He recorded and produced it all himself between Warwick and Southampton, living through four different houses before eventually letting it all go, handing the songs over to be mixed and mastered by John Rivers. It was the beginning of the end of an era. To fund the mixing process, during the summer of 2008 Andy undertook a challenge to write, record and distribute a new song every week for five months for anyone who signed up through the one-off payment that entitled them to receive all twenty tracks. It has been his innovative and creative drive that has led people to follow and eagerly anticipate whatever he might come up with next.
'Andy’s daring and innovative approach to creating and releasing modern music has proved him and his alter-ego Atlum Schema to be a bright beacon in the depths of British music today – watch out.' Olivia Jaremi - Bearded Magazine
'This is the sort of album that is either going to disappear without trace and be picked up on in 20 years time as a lost classic or it might just make its way onto this year’s Mercury Prize list. Either way give it a listen now. You will be intrigued and impressed.' New Sound Wales
'Atlum Schema may well be the best talent you don't yet know.' Banquet Records
we played with you at hamptons a while back and i thought you were great. I just got an emial from Iain from stiff promotions about a song writers competiton, we cant enter as we are a band but thought id pass this on to you. Hope alls well with you. catch you soon
Hey man, sorry for the THIRD comment, but I thought you might want some immediate feedback, though bear in mind I don't have track 6 or 7 :( But yeah, so far Hold On and Warning Light are my favourite tracks, Warning Light's vocals are absolutely stellar, and I love the end part. I need to listen to everything a bit more cus I've only really heard most of them once now and haven't heard the last 2 yet haha. But yeah sounding great so far, great production too, sounds very full!!
For fucks sake, my iTunes has done this before, I've bought it and then iTunes fucking died when it was buying it so now for some reason it only says I've purchased 9 of the 11 tracks and I can't download track 6 or track 7 without having to buy them again! Can you send me them or something? My iTunes is ridiculous.
But on a lighter and much less angry note, I've heard the first 2 tracks and it's sounding great!
Hi Atlum, just thought I'd let you know I got a video coming up online shortly that I did with Camp America. We recorded it on the roof of the Athlete tour bus. Watch this space! J0N
Hey man! Hows it going? I've finished my new and first 'proper' album (cus it's the first one I'm really proud of, spent alot of time on, think is pretty good, etc. haha). It's up for free download, the link's on my page but if you're too lazy then it's www.sendspace.com/file/jxcfoi
It's annoying, I really wanna be able to sell it as a digital download online, but there's no easy/good/cheap way of doing it. But anyway, I thought I'd tell you and if you could have a listen and tell me what you think! They've all been remixed and sound really professional I reckon :D Oh and by the way I couldn't pre order your album because the credit card didn't work on it :( I'll try again soon though.
Long time no speak! Truckstop is STILL a lifestopping+take a listen track!
This is your reminder nudge to post me the finished album - hey you told me to do it last year!
Han@ICRfm 120 Princes St. Ipswich Suffolk IP1 1RS
..respect to you for working so hard on the new collection of tunes...I'm loving the snifter album tracks you little teaser :D
My show will finally be off air late summer whilst I take a well deserved break and remind myself what a saturday morning sleep in feels like after 2 years :)
So sweetie, add your latest to my lastest playlists over the summer..and watch this space next spring time x Han x
hahah that was great man. I think the song's video really should just be you getting changed! Anyway, just having a listen to the Album in a nutshell, this Friday I'm probably gonna preorder it. Just the 7 pound version though, sorry, don't have enough money for the theme park! Cool idea though, very original. I'm currently on my way to finishing my new album, soo much better than anything I've done before. It's acoustic stuff, in the vain of Bon Iver style stuff. I guess you've heard some of the tracks already on my myspace. Anyway I'll let you know when it's done, I might be selling this one haha. Just wondering how many tracks the album has?
Thanks alot! And I'll try and spread the word but hardly anyone even knows about me so it might be hard haha. You'll go in my top friends though.
we,re hosting a month of monday night gigs at the Vibe bar Brick Lane. "Breaking out the old Routine" start the week like you mean it, and tell it whos boss with a party on monday night with Tom Mansi and the Icebreakers we,ll be playing each week with lots of lovely friends guests supporting and headlining each week with us tucked in the middle somewhere playing lots of new stuff and some oldies too.
Wow cheers man! Well I'd like to be able to charge money but I don't think any of my albums have been completely consistently good enough to be sold properly yet, plus it's all a big hassle. With my new one (2 tracks from it completed already, Kings In The Back Row and Vows up on my page) I'm really pleased with it so far so maybe I'll sell that one.
Fans of Atlum Schema can now buy tickets for his Portsmouth show supporting Kerry Leatham on Monday 11th May here or direct from Atlum Schema although numbers are limited.
Thanks for adding me to your circle of friends Your music is very nice is exactly my taste. I wish you much success and also fun with your projects All the Best for You !!! Greetings from Germany Orientchill
Firstly thanks alot for liking and listening to my music. Secondly, awesome cover of Atoms For Peace, a really good arrangement of it cus it's a hard song to cover and you did a great job. Cus it was so good it prompted me to listen to your own music and it sounds really good, good luck with it and make sure you tell me when you have an album available.
good work with the new album coming out, i'll look forward to hearing it, hope the launch goes cool! i'm kinda starting from scratch in a way up here in london town; just moved into a flat in waterloo and been job hunting (anything to start of with). i want to be doing more music things up here, so the plan is to see if i can do some straight up hip hop performances with my mate steve and hit some open mics/ slam poetry clubs, then after i build some links i'd like to form my own band to do some full on 'tommy eye' performances! gonna be a lot of hard slogging me thinks!
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