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GLISSANDO
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Leeds
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   GLISSANDO: General Info
Member Since4/8/2005
Band Websitewww.slowsecret.com
Band Members
Elly May Irving
Richard Knox

The Fleeting Glimpse Ensemble:
Sophie Barnes
Rich Blakey
Angharad Cooper
Thom Corah
Paul Elam
Pete Flinton
Sophie Green
Al Hay
Tim Hay
Shorn Keld
Michael Love
Dave Martin
Tom Morris
Lauren Smith
Adam Tinsley
Paul Tinsley
Chris Woolford

Sounds LikeCONTACTS:

BAND:
rich@slowsecret.com
BOOKING:
rich@sleepsoundagency.com
LABEL:
contact@gizehrecords.com
PRESS:
rich@sleepsoundagency.com

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NEW GLISSANDO SHIRTS NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE GIZEH RECORDS ONLINE STORE
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GZH25 'Strangers Ever Felt'
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'Bucharest: A Portrait' DVD
A film by Sarah Evans, music by Glissando
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GZH18 'Live CDr - 13/5/08 Leeds'
Limited to 100 copies
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GZH17 'With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea'
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Brand new album and without doubt Glissando's best
work to date, a 70 minute journey through beautiful,
haunting melodies and soundscapes.
Featuring members of iLiKETRAiNS, Her Name is Calla,
Held By Hands, The Rosie Taylor Project and Immune.

Tracklisting:
1. We Are Depleting
2. With a Kiss and a Tear
3. Floods
4. White Silence and the Fragile Reality
5. Goodbye Red Rose! This Was Not For You
6. Like Everything You See
7. Always the Storm
8. Grekken
9. Our Flags Wave and Our Arms Are Around Another's Shoulders

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LOVES ARE LIKE EMPIRES
(LOOM)
Released July 07
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Released on Gizeh's CDr label
Loom: 'Loves Are Like Empires' is a
collection of recordings from 2002 -
2007. Features some previously
released material, some of which
were ultra limited editions and
some unreleased songs.


Tracklisting:
1. ...and Before We Knew It Had Happened At All, It Was Over
2. What the Exultant Heart Calls Good
3. Into Sleep to Create a Flame
4. A Whisper of the Eye
5. A Fleeting Glimpse
6. Love Or No Love

Needless to say the packaging is again awesome.

"Quite simply - essential"
(Losing Today)

"This is music as art, and
all the better for it" 10/10
(Die Shellsuit, Die)

"This duo are quite simply one
of the most engaging things
I've heard for a few months!"
(Norman Records)

"a truly mind bogglingly
engrossing experience"
(Subba-Cultcha)


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TOUR SPLIT WITH THE EXPLOITS OF ELAINE
LOOM2 (Sold Out)
1 track from each band - ours is an
8 minute eerie drone soundscape
called 'A Whisper of the Eye'...
alongside an improv Exploits track
called 'Stomach/Pleasure/Golden Sleep'

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WHAT THE EXULTANT HEART CALLS GOOD
LOOM1 (Sold Out)
1 track 16mins, ltd edition of 50
hand packaged/numbered by Glissando.

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LOVE OR NO LOVE
GIZEH6 (Sold Out)
1 track, improvised live recording
with 30 Day Hex, ltd edition of 200
hand packaged by Glissando.

Record LabelGizeh Records / LOOM Records
Type of LabelIndie


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Some press for 'With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea':

"Press releases rarely get it right (One Night Only are "Britain's hottest new band" apparently) but the advice accompanying Leeds duo Glissando's second outing that it "should be listened to at night" couldn't be closer to the truth. Highlight 'Floods' for example, a 14 minute ambient epic of dark piano keys, haunting strings and resonating chants, is no summer jam. It does, however, have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquility 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 7/10

"This record completely took me over for the whole 70 minutes. I was hanging on every chord waiting for their next move."
Comfort Comes 9/10

"Low meets Mogwai, only with fragments of Regina Spektor at her most restrained. Exceptional."
RockFood 5/5

"the more sedate moments culled from Set Fire to Flames back catalogue are an underlying influence as are both the measured and mercurial montages cast into the public eye by early career Sigur Ros and Godspeed You Black Emperor".
Losing Today

"an album full of grace and beauty and one that is easy to recommend".
Blues Bunny - album of the month 5/5

"It's sad and it's beautiful and it cracks your heart like a rock"
Sandman Magazine

"The shiver of loneliness, so close to oblivion in the passion for another is old, true and made chilling all over again. Ultimately, pain, blindness and death are offered. And, as so often before, they seem unreasonably comforting."
Whisperin and Hollerin 7/10

"By turns achingly beautiful and curiously powerful, it’s very much an album to be savoured, allowing its quiet pleasures to envelop you, rather than expecting it to give up all its secrets in one go."
Audioscribbler

"a very moving record"
Leonards Lair

"an ethereal piece of work perhaps best suited for nighttime listening."
Subba Cultcha

"Their refusal to stick to one style, their excellent compositional poise and most importantly their passion – every ounce of heart and soul has been poured into this release. Their deliberate sound is rather fitting, given the fact that their name is derived from an Italian musical term describing a slow-shifting musical pitch. They allow their music to progress in such a low-key manner that when they do explode, the pay-offs are just that extra bit heart-warming."
Angry Ape

"I often struggle to comprehend how reviewers can mark an album with a “perfect” score, as music is a notoriously subjective medium, and cannot be perfect to all. But I can’t really pick holes in what’s on offer here – if you like instrumental music, or any bands from the (still horribly-titled) post-rock genre then you are going to fall in love with this effort."
Sonic Dice

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If you want to add us to your list of friends please feel free but at least take the time to figure out if it is at all worth while to us or you to do so and only if you are genuinely interested in what we do. Please don't do that god damn multi-adding shit just to bump up your ego.

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Floods - live @ The Union Chapel - London 20/12/08



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Niamh Starky

Niamh Starky



Nov 23 2009 9:26 AM

glissado, name a song, any song. x
www.lucieevans.com

Lucie Evans Photography



Nov 23 2009 9:26 AM

Hey There Rich,
Was nice to meet you on Saturday night, I was wondering if you and Elly were up for doing a photoshoot in the New Year? Be good to do something a bit avante-garde, if you have any ideas for creative direction then that'd be fantastic! Let me know what you think, hope you are well. Lucie x
Andy Ingamells

Andy Ingamells



Nov 16 2009 2:26 PM

thanks for the add etc.
SINAPSI

SINAPSI



Nov 16 2009 2:26 PM

thanks for add, compliment
Dave Olliffe

Dave Olliffe



Nov 9 2009 3:30 PM

your back home ?
see you in a couple of weeks maybe !

Vera Bremerton

Vera Bremerton



Oct 27 2009 4:55 PM

hey there, thank you for the add! good luck and rock on
subdominant
Abi Rhodes

Abirhodes zigzag wanderings



Oct 27 2009 4:55 PM

thanx 4 adding

you might like to explore

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where you can find 200+ varied record and gig reviews

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Room Tones

Room Tones



Oct 27 2009 4:55 PM

Thank you!

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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.
David

David



Oct 27 2009 4:55 PM

Saw you live in Cardiff on the 9th Oct. Shame there wasn't more people there, probably all at the Tom Jones gig. That just made it the more special for the lucky few of us who were there. Top gig. :)
vessels

vessels



Oct 27 2009 4:55 PM

2 Orchestra

2 Orchestra



Oct 18 2009 12:39 PM

Thanks a lot. Glad I could see you live in Paris
Little Red Rabbit

Little Red Rabbit



Oct 18 2009 12:39 PM

Spend the afternoon with Little Red Rabbit...

Tomorrow, Saturday 17th : Little Red Rabbit label at Manchester Night & Day : 12-4 : free!

LRR
at ITC 2009
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Out Of The Blue



Oct 14 2009 5:23 PM

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Hibernate recordings

Hibernate recordings



Oct 14 2009 5:22 PM

two new releases for October



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Simon James French: Anthem
worriedaboutsatan

worriedaboutsatan



Oct 5 2009 11:22 AM

new demo is IMMENSE. lovely vocal. Tom x
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Lovely Time - NO MORE APATHY compilations



Sep 22 2009 6:45 PM

Next up for Lovely Time, this incredible day!!!!!

September 26th LOVELYFEST 1pm-10pm @ The Subculture, Leeds
w/ a.P.A.t.T., HUMANFLY, BRIDES, LAVOTCHKIN, THE ERGON CAROUSEL, EXECUTIVE DISTRACTION TASKS, BETTY PARISO, HOT BONE, ANTARES, MAGNAPINNA

Tickets £7 (from Jumbo, Crash, Hellraiser, some of the bands or reserved through us) or £10 on the door. Free stuff and cheap drinks all day.
Paul Song Lyricist - 'Pocket Full of Songs'

Paul Song Lyricist - 'Pocket Full of Songs'



Sep 22 2009 2:01 PM

Cheers for the add Elly & Richard - I like your sounds, hope you like mine too:)!
Good luck & all the best from Paul:)!

Please Please You

Please Please You



Sep 14 2009 10:44 AM

Hello! Couple of tasty shows to tell thee about. Cheers, Joe.
K Records' ace indie popper Jeremy Jay returns to Leeds on Sunday to perform at The Library. He's doing a full hour slot with a new four piece band.
Fab support The Horn The Hunt and Stink Taps. Quid cheaper in advance. Tickets from We Got Tickets, Crash and Jumbo.

Also, Ohio noiseniks Times New Viking will be playing The Basement in York on Sept. 21st,  the day their great new album 'Born Again Revisited' is released on Matador. Support from Banjo Or Freakout and Missing Kids. Ticket purchase recommended for this, only a hundred of em.
Tickets from We Got Tickets, www.picturehouses.co.uk and Jumbo Records.
Room Tones

Room Tones



Sep 14 2009 10:44 AM

Thank you!

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Tickets £6 adv avaliable from (more on the door):

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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.

Shannon Wright

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Sep 14 2009 10:44 AM

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Aug 25 2009 9:58 AM

Hello!
We'll be on tour in sept w/ Soy un Caballo


Hope to see you around!


all the best


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n_ilk

n_ilk



Aug 25 2009 9:58 AM

n_ilk
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Aug 25 2009 9:57 AM

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