Epic45 is : Ben Holton and Rob Glover.
Also involved over the years when playing live and recording:
Paul Manasseh,
Matt Kelly,
Antony Harding,
Simon Scott,
Scott Massey,
Chris Soden,
Richard Butler,
Mike Rowley,
Mark Oldfield,
Oli Grocott,
Hiromi Hasegawa,
Mayumi Hasegawa,
Naruki Kurokawa,
Becca Stubbs,
Dan Thompson,
Doug Oates,
Pascal Asselin
and Stuart Banks.
Influences
late summer, lonely farmsteads, holidays in wales, saturday mornings as a child,
love lost, love found, childhood tapes, fields, photography, polaroids, fresh
winter mornings, mysterious / inspiring walks, friends, smells that trigger memories,
clear night skies, waiting for summer, summer, Virginia Astley, slides,
July Skies, john peel, hope, not learning the guitar properly, redundant technology, 70s/80s schools
programmes, woodland, early autumn, vss 200, awkward englishness, random filenames, train
journeys, the emptiness of modern life.
We're planning a tour of Europe (specifically France, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands) in October 09. If you're interested in organising a show, please contact our booker Paul on paul@sleepsoundagency.com
News on the forthcoming CD EP and 7" single will appear on our website this week. Keep checking http://www.epic45.com for updates.
Below are a couple of new videos that we hope you will enjoy. More videos soon.
SUMMER'S FIRST BREATH (video) - Produced by K House Media
IN ALL THE EMPTY HOUSES (video) - Produced by Eric Heath
ENGLAND FALLEN OVER (video) - Produced by Paul Banks
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All Epic45 releases can be purchased from the following fine establishments.
http://www.makeminemusic.co.uk
also...
http://www.boomkat.com (Boomkat)
http://www.boomkat.com/artist.cfm?a=9309 (Boomkat digital distribution of MMM releases)
http://www.normanrecords.com (Norman Records mail order)
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May Your Heart Be The Map - ALBUM PRESS
"The best English Summer record ever" (WORD magazine)
"One of the most gorgeous albums you’ll hear in a long time" (Drowned In Sound)
"Beguiling and Beautiful" (NME)
"You'll feel like you've been hearing MYHBTM in your head all your life, and were waiting for someone to record it" (Stewart Lee - The Sunday Times)
"Gorgeous stuff - highly recommended" (Boomkat)
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Epic45 remix 12" featuring Bracken and Bibio
coming July 2008 on Wayside and Woodland Recordings, Staffordshire.
Ben, I meant every word. I've just ordered your England Fallen Down EP, as I found myself coming back to that track in particular over and over. :-) Best, Mark.
England Fallen Over is absolutely wonderful. A mesmerisingly simple repetitive melody, but endlessly listenable to (in the same way Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve is), with an intriguing vocal delivery that reminded me of early OMD (high praise, as I love OMD). The song feels like a beautiful hybrid of the best elements of the likes of The Orb, Groove Armada and OMD. The video for the song is also superb, and reflects the hypnotic simplicity of the song. Looking to buy this and whatever album it's on! Very pleased I found Epic45 while looking for new sounds on MySpace. Great to see a band that also has a strong visual sense of what it wants to say - your stills and moving images are excellent, haunting stuff that perhaps evokes shared childhood memories. Can't praise highly enough. :-)
Hi guys, really enjoyed your set. Epic's the fckin word innit! Will keep an eye on your dates and see you again in the near future. Gotta consider big bird and his place in the geneology - he certainly doesn't seem carry the same dna as, say, a Gonzo... Take care gents Dom Cinema
"Also hugely enjoyable, highly original AND psychically useful is the
music of Australian duo The Scrapes, whose fiery epic guitar and
abandoned Mithraic fiddle pieces evoke images of lost Keltic lands
inundated by the oceans, lost Iberian & Armorican sea peoples and
lost times from beyond the beyond." Julian Cope
Thanks for sharing space with me.I do hope you get the chance to enjoy the blog archives which are full of great video and fun short film. Liquid Metropolis
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