Two mates got together to put on bands they think are ace. Hardly rocket science.
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You can check out the photos Paul has taken of (nearly) all of the previous Forest of Sounds here. The quality varies wildly, but hey. That's what you get for taking photos whilst drunk.
The next one...
Saturday November 7th @ The Royal Park Cellars, 39 Queens Road, Leeds, LS6 1NY.
Doors 8.00pm, price £4 advance / £5 on the door. Tickets available from We Got Tickets.
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Jasper TX
Jasper TX is the musical moniker of Sweden’s Dag Rosenqvist. Using electric and acoustic guitar, piano, pump organ, melodica, glockenspiel, voice and various other instruments as a foundation for his compositions, Dag has managed to create his own musical universe. Elements of post rock, drone, improvisation, noise and lo-fi aesthetics mix with a melodic pop sensibility that results in something quite unique.
Dag grew up in a strictly religious town in southern Sweden and from an early age he used music as a way to escape from mundane small town life. Initially just a means to preserve ideas, Dag began to record songs onto a 4-track portable cassette recorder and Jasper TX was born. After eventually realising that he could do something more with the recordings he slowly began to refine both his musical ideas and his recording skills.
"Jasper TX proves that the grandest of gestures are best realised through the most personal of compositions. Stunning." - Boomkat
P Jørgensen
P Jørgensen is a sound artist and composer for both ensemble and film currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. His second album entitled “To” is released on Low Point on September 14th. Exploring the relationship between composition and chance, Jørgensen created the music for this release by drawing upon a palette of acoustic instrumentation and field recordings which were then transformed via computer processing into luminous textures, crystalline tones and vibrant ambient drones.
"...a recording which lends itself equally to rational-analytical dissection and simple immersion. an elegant lulling music of low attack and deferred decay." - Furthernoise
Fieldhead
Fieldhead is P. Elam (a resident of Leeds, UK). He produces ambient/electronic music that delights in tape hiss, geography, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a full time member of The Declining Winter and a part time member of Glissando's Fleeting Glimpse Ensemble. He is assisted by S. Kemp (on violin).
”Swathes of ambient sounds, emanating from near darkness - a perfect aural anaesthetic." - Whisperin' and Hollerin'
The Home Current (DJ set)
The Home Current is the recording name of Danish musician Martin Holm. When not engaged with his Static Caravan act Iris To Hypnos, Martin is currently working on his debut solo album set to be released in early 2010 on new label Second Language. Further, Iris To Hypnos and Fieldhead have a split EP out on Static Caravan this autumn. Following a mini-tour with Fieldhead in Copenhagen and Malmø, The Home Current will give a vinyl only ambient DJ set.
The one after that...
Saturday November 28th @ The Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, Leeds, LS1 6HW.
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The Declining Winter
When the brothers Adams allowed Hood an extended sabbatical it was always going to be interesting to see how far their musical paths would diverge from their unmistakable blueprint. Now temporarily freed from the pressures and expectations of the Hood environment, Richard Adams has breathed an audible sigh of relief into his new project, The Declining Winter. After releasing their debut album 'Goodbye Minnesota' to rave reviews, touring the UK with ambient legends Stars of the Lid and making their debut European appearance at the Tanned Tin festival in Spain in November 2008, their second album, 'Haunt the Upper Hallways', was released on Home Assembly Music in July.
“With Goodbye Minnesota, Adams extends [Hood's] late-period move into gentle electronica, warping and glitching minimal folk-pop melodies played on bedroom guitars and drums. Goodbye Minnesota is autumnal and graceful, its quietly resigned tenor gesturing toward emotional troubles that remain just out of focus.” - UNCUT
"It's a familiarly stark, rustic sound-world, full of tumbling beats and sweeping, harmonised violins, yet in this context it takes on an altogether poppier discourse. 'Haunt The Upper Hallways' is full of colour and lyricsim, yet it's also packing a punch thanks to the hip-hop-in-a-barn quality of the drums." - BOOMKAT
Songs of Green Pheasant
Songs Of Green Pheasant is the solo project of Duncan Sumpner, a 30-year-old artist / teacher from Oughtibridge in Sheffield. He produces wintry, organically reverb soaked music that delights in nostalgia and memory, and bypasses much of modern (alt) folk in favour an uneven lineage of singer/songwriters and dreampop imagineers that would include Butterfly Child, Talk Talk / Mark Hollis, Simon and Garfunkel, Flying Saucer Attack, Jewelled Antler Collective, Richard Youngs, and Galaxie 500.
"This diffuse, spectral approach leads Songs of Green Pheasant to vistas of astonishing beauty, particularly on "Wolves Amongst Snowmen", which gently opens out into a dazzling guitar panorama, or on the instrumental "Brody Jacket" which closes the album with a lyrical, yearning pulse of trumpet and submerged guitar." - PITCHFORK (7.3)
"If Sumpner is a mystery in some circles, Gyllyng Street may just add to the tale; it is a work of beauty and depth, deserving of consideration and concentration." - POP MATTERS
Lanterns on the Lake
Sparkly cinematic pop music from the North East of England. Lanterns on the Lake evoke the same pure feelings as the true stars of their related genres (Hope Sandoval, Low, Dirty Three) through beautifully dynamic, layered and brilliantly constructed songs.
"Luscious, swoonsome loveliness that tugs the heart strings." - NME
Michael Rossiter
Deftly fingerpicked folk loveliness from a local favourite. Michael can write a song, without doubt… but he matches this strength with his ability to perfectly execute traditional folk as well as his own material, and to sing from his heart and get the perfect tones from his guitar.
”…a stunning collection of traditional folk songs, with a few of his own compositions thrown in. Rossiter’s knowledge and ability to revitalise ancient songs with fresh arrangements is nought short of wonderful.” - LEEDS GUIDE
(By the way - the sublime illustrative genius that aesthetically signifies our events [the bloke who does our poster designs] can be found here.)
We have put a new song up for you, it’s only a rough demo which hasn’t really been mixed well and hasn’t been produced but it will give you a taster of what may come next in our next recording sessions which we are trying to set before Christmas.
Enjoy! It’s called 'Stop'. Please tell us what you think.
Tickets SELLING FAST! £7 adv avaliable from (more on the door): wegottickets.com seetickets.com Ticketline Picadilly Records
Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
DECAPANTE play hella loud noise rock and hail from Madrid,
SPAIN. Their tunes are ultra sludgy, super slow and riddled with demonic slabs
of riff madness! They create this almighty racket harnessing the power of two
bass’s and a big old drum sound. Sorta remind me of the early Ruins/Melvins/Big
Business with hints of Shellac for good measure.
COWTOWN are three handsome young chipmunks with a taste for
party tunes and library jumpers. Recently described as Rod, Jane and Freddy
mixed with Melt Banana. New album ‘Excellent Domestic Short hair’ out soon.
ORGONE ACCUMULATORS - GOOD ADVICE & WILHELM REICH AND ROLL double EP CDr Sultans of Swing Records no.15 £3ppd
Orgone Accumulators finally reach the physical realm. Sultans Of Swing Records have put both Orgone Accumulators 'virtual' EPs onto a nicely packaged CDr. 3 different kinds of handmade card/paper including one made out of recycled beer bottle labels and a printed CD showing the relationship between Sirius and the Dogon tribe and extraterrestrial communications.
It's 8 tracks of surf/techno themed around ancient astronauts although one of them is a cover of The Ventures version of Walk Don't Run. Think Man Or Astroman, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet or The Residents playing around an 808. For fans of outer space and the future and sci fi gubbins.
It's available for free download or streaming at http://www.orgoneaccumulators.co.uk or you can send £3 via paypal to sultansofswingrecords AT fastmail DOT fm to get this CDr version.
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
Hiya You'll be able to hear a radio mix of our new single 'What Katie Did' on Sherwoodradios unsigned show on this saturday night (13th Sept) The singles released on Oct 31st
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