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
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
LOVES ARE LIKE EMPIRES
(LOOM)
Released July 07 Buy CD Download
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.
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
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.
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.
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. :)
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.
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.
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