Ewan: Music, Sampling Things, The Occassional Wonky bit of Turntable, Tape & Scissors.
Influences
Domino, Warp, Leaf, Found sounds, City-Slang, Kevin Shields, Kanye West, Steve Reich, Joe Meek, Phil Spector, White Noise, Silver Apples, Martin Denny, Nino Rota, Nina Simone, Quincy Jones, Quincy ME, Smokey Robinson, Aphex Twin, Curtis Mayfield, Ninja-Tune, KLF, Steely Dan, Marshall Jefferson, Prince Paul, Morr Music, Brian Eno, Roger Linn, Flaming Lips, Avalanches, Caribou, David Byrne, Go Team!, Talking Heads, XTC, Delia Derbyshire, David Axelrod, United States of America, Caribou, Prefuse 73, Tape Beatles, Blue Note, Hot Chip, Four Tet, Curtis Mayfield (yes that's twice), Delasoul, Sebastian Tellier, Cut Chemist, Paul's Boutique, Royal Trux, Tony Hatch?, Peter Thomas, Hanne Hukkelberg, Cascading Strings, French House Music, Pretty Purdie, Gram Parsons, Casio Sk-1, Street Sounds Records, Stockhausen, Susumu Yokota, Tunng, Psapp, Wagon Christ, Vibert, Schneider TM, Harry Nilsson, Yello, Art of Noise, Valentines, ESG, Cocteaus.
The Sights, Sounds & Charity Shops Of Yorkshire especially Scarborough and The Holderness beWilderness.....
Early Tracks are available from the rather ace Kipper Records:
Mind Blowingly Good.........Manchester Music Review Album of the Week.
And Radio 1 DIY Label of the Week, I Can Count Record's Vol.2 compilation:
The high points are high: the lackadaisical charm of ‘Bring Me Loves Unwanted Arrow’ by Coney Island Sound reminds you of why you need to book that holiday you’ve needed for a long, long time...........3 Bar Fire Review.
Sounds like i've been listening to a lot of:
Tunng apparently, The Avalanches, a bit of Loveless era My Bloody Valentine, Moondog, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Battles, Animal Collective,The Books, Hot Chip, Four Tet, Prefuse 73, Caribou, Psapp, Jamie Lidell, Bibio, Minotaur Shock, Efterklang, Why?, Notwist, Brian Eno, Fennesz, Mum, Seabear, Beirut, Hawk & A Hacksaw, Silver Apples, Delia Derbyshire, White Noise, Cornelius, Go Team......
And the sounds of the Yorkshire Coastline.
Coney Island Sound
"Introducing Mr.Kellogg"
Debut single released September 22nd
Available on ltd 7" vinyl / download
Customers in the UK:
Customers in the USA and Canada:
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Alaska in Winter
"Remixes"
6 track EP, Including Coney Island Sound Remix, released October 6th
Available on ltd 12" vinyl [includes free mp3] / download
Thanks to to everyone who has made the debut 7" a great success, a handful of copies are still available from Regular Beat and Rough Trade:
Rough Trade Shops:
Or possibly on the wall in Probe Records in Liverpool:
Arigato to the Escalator Records Shop, the wonderful Jetset Records in Tokyo & Kyoto, Flake Records in Osaka and Arch Records in Nagoya. You've all been been very kind!
There'll hopefully be another physical release by Easter but until then downloads are available from:
i-tunes, amazon.com, Napster, Vigin France, E Music, Limewire, Meteli.net....
Coney Island Sound is a new project started by Ewan that mixes found sounds and field recordings with a variety of acoustic and vintage instruments. Accordions and Harps rub shoulders with Casios and Kaoss Pads whilst 808 kicks underpin percussive sounds from found beach items and purchases from local hardware and thrift stores.
Less experimental musical endeavours with his previous group Olympic Lifts, produced a number of well received releases on Bungalow Records Berlin, Escalator & Syft Records in Japan. His music has more recently appeared on the group's follow up album and other ex Olympian Mark's Butternut project (both Rimeout Japan). During this time they played and dj'd extensively across Europe with the electronic acts including Royksopp, Notwist, Mina, Four-Tet, Lo-Fidelity Allstars, Hip Hop acts Ugly Duckling and Cool Herc plus occasional stadium rock bands along the way.
The debut single "Introducing Mr.Kellogg" was released on September 22nd backed with the soft drink sampling "The Lemonade Song". This is the first release on the Radio 1 DIY Label of the Week Regular Beat Recording Company. Based in Liverpool its releases have been championed by the likes of John Peel, Steve Lamaq & Huw Stephens along the way and have most recently included Alaska in Winter and Marianne Dissard.
To date both sides of the single have picked up radio plays on BBC6, BBC Radio 2, XFM, BBC Northern Ireland, British Forces Radio, Resonance FM and College Radio in Canada....Live sessions to come in the new year when I get my act together......so to speak.
An album is on the way and may well include all or none of: table hockey percussion, electronic sea shanties, arrangements of music from Night of the Hunter and perhaps the odd dvelopment of a Ruth Etting song.
A remix of Alaska in Winter's "Balkan Lowrider Anthem" recently appeared on the Remixes 12". Remixes past for Escalator Japan, Skint and I Can Count Records amongst others, more remix projects on the Horizon for 2009.
To date tracks "Nautical by Nature" and "Bring My Love's Unwanted Arrow" have received lovely reviews as part of Kipper Records' "Catch of the Day Vol.3" and I Can Count Records' "I Can Count Vol.2". Both of these will appear in new improved three-dimensional Stereophonic sound on the forthcoming album:
Kind Words From Manchester Music about the single:
from Tasty Fanzine!
and on the Jetset records Blog:
A handful of 7"s are still available from Regular Beat and Rough Trade. Downloads available at iTunes and amazon.com.
Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
Yo Coney Island Soundasaurus. I just found out that we're related...and as a special family only present we've made a new song for you called "End of Days" (start doing backflips now). It's an epic instrumental opus to the moment when our ancient Dino relatives saw a large fiery object plummeting towards them. Please come to our page, give it a listen and let us know if it makes you feel like something catastrophic is gonna happen. If the song upsets you too much we will be holding several s support groups (read: comcerts) in the near future. Check our page for locations, dates and times.
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