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Released: Jan 31, 2011
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General Info

  • Genre: Alternative / Folk / Pop

    Location London, London and South East, Un

    Profile Views: 183644

    Last Login: 1/30/2012

    Member Since 11/7/2007

    Record Label Static Caravan

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Debut album released 31st January 2011 on Static Caravan. Hannah Peel’s debut album, Broken Wave, is set to kick 2011 off with style. A lovelorn spun tale of falling in love, rejection and life’s trivia, it’s a breathtaking release in which Peel channels her melancholy and aspirations into cantering ditties destined for much greater things than the intimate atmosphere they evoke. From playing fiddle with her dad in Ireland to her time as part of a multi-media band in Liverpool, the genesis of Peel confounds expectations of the ’typical’ artist. Indeed, Peel is a multi-instrumentalist playing practically everything on the record, drawing particular inspiration from her Irish upbringing but with a unique twist on her own Yorkshire roots (especially evident in her use of brass band). Amazing when you consider she started writing songs after simply “working on a theatre show that needed songs and I had to sing them myself.” After the discovery of a supposedly ephemeral music box, a device she subsequently used to cover a quartet of eighties classics on debut EP Rebox (and uses on the album itself), an epiphany occurred: “after doing the covers, I thought, well I could do this myself…” And so she has, and Broken Wave teems with the effervescence of life. Bringing Tunng’s Mike Lyndsay in on production duties, after Static Caravan suggested him as the perfect counterpoint to her off kilter and plaintive solipsism, Peel explains, “We worked together on one track and it was just incredible the music we created in one day. Mike, straight away, sensed the nature of my songs: the melancholic lyrics and melody, the not so traditional song structures.” It’s easy to see his sonic imprint on Broken Wave, giving the tracks a sound of hopefulness and excitement amongst the sadness, be it the lilting flourishes and perverse atmospherics of traditionally Irish titled ‘Cailin Deas Cruite Na Mbo’ (meaning literally, the pretty maid who milks the cow), to the pattering rhythms and burnished brass of ’You Call This Your Home’, to which Lyndsay also contributes vocals. Recorded in Mike and Benge’s studio (the semi legendary Playstudios - home to one of the largest collections of analogue synths in the country) in Shoreditch, the album took only three weeks to record and mix, with Nitin Sawhney composing strings for two tracks. A raft of Hannah’s friends and past accomplices complete the picture; amongst them trumpet player Lizzie Jones, whom Hannah met during her time touring with The Unthanks, and Michael O’Shaughnessy, Head of illustration at the Liverpool Art School, best known for Elbow’s ‘Leaders of the Freeworld’ album artwork. Despite the synergetic nature of her work, this is Hannah’s album. Her voice at times bewitching, at times laconic, always full of fortitude and as influenced by the still life gaze of Edward Hopper as the arrangements of Nick Drake, Tom Waits, or the expansive pop of her heroes Sandy Denny, Judee Sill and Joni Mitchell. Ask her for details and you’ll get only fragments of the vision: “New horizons…discovering your first love, leaving, missing and longing.” with the sea as metaphor, powerful and delicate, signifying parting and travelling somewhere both old and new. Her words loaded with pathos, finally, listen, submerge yourself fully, and discover a sound as timeless as the tides themselves.

  • Members

    For gigs / information, Contact management: Colin Wallace +44(0)7711299478 colinwallace61@googlemail.com

  • Influences

    Tom Waits, Gene Clark, Colin Bluntstone, Judee Sill, Steve Reich, Arthur Russell, Debussy, Alberto Iglesias, Moondog, Brian Eno, John Cage, Cinematic Orchestra, Wayne Shorter, Mahler, Chopin, Pj Harvey, The Frames, Bjork, Sufjan Stevens, Kate Bush.

  • Sounds Like

    Wonky Folk Pop

Stream

  1. Hannah Peel

    lots of big meetings today....firstly going to our labels office to talk about the release of @magneticgonorth record.

  2. Hannah Peel

    'Unwound' live session in Vigo, Spain..The sea, pink sky and warmth...NOT cold! http://t.co/zwmPpqk4 @Zinqin @coconutpro @BlueRosesLaura

  3. Hannah Peel

    After 2 hard weeks preparing for new @magneticgonorth record and writing my own solo one too...back in Leeds (not london) for a night out..

  4. Hannah Peel

    Me too...not long now RT @Arti_Sharma28 @Hanpeel can't wait for the @magneticgonorth album! X

  5. Hannah Peel

    Perfect. Good cardi too RT @thememoryband Today's song: Etta James "Something's Gotta Hold On Me" http://t.co/abUyevIv

Comments

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  • sugarsecure

    I have such a beautiful record of your last minute of your show at Gebäude 9 ... Perfect :) Yes this is an understatement.

    3 months ago
  • Hector Holloway

    Hi Hannah, I hope your week is good. I hope you will be on BBC Radio 2 again soon xxx 

    3 months ago
  • The Jasmine Fetish

    Thank you, Hannah Peel! I truly enjoy listening to your singing! I imagine you would sound just as wonderful on a full album a capella as you do with musical accompaniment! We make music, too! Perhaps you will be adventurous or curious enough to listen! ;)   

    4 months ago
  • Bright Window

    its friday and we´ve got some sun. We hope you feel like we do - speeding into the weekend!  

    4 months ago
  • LUCKY [Bob]

    Hi Hannah---Hope you are having a NICE Easter Afternoon  :) 

    9 months ago
  • Mark Winpenny

    Hi Hannah,

    Great show at The Lexington last week - really enjoyed the whole evening. I've put a few photos from your set up on my site and they can been found -->here<--.


    Cheers - Mark

    10 months ago
  • Me and My Friends

    Aye aye twas a lovely evening all round I felt - as before, we bow down... xxx

    10 months ago
  • Bright Light Syndrome

    Hey love your sound. Couldn't make your gig at Oporto at the weekend...you back in Leeds anytime soon? Check out my music if you have the chance :)

    10 months ago
  • Alejandro Sanguinetti

    the band sounds amazing!!!!! I can't wait to see u again with Erland and the Carnival at Hare and Hounds.

    10 months ago
  • LUCKY [Bob]

    Hi Hannah--Nice to meet you and being your friend :)

    11 months ago
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The Debut Album 'The Broken Wave' is out now!

"...the arrival of a genuine creative force in British folk music" * * * * 8/10 Drowned in Sound

"Vibrant folk-pop with a stunning voice to savour" * * * * Uncut

"Inventively arranged, sweet without being cloying, there's just the right hint of weirdness and mystery lurking beneath the fragile folk pop surface... in a word, charming." * * * * Q

"delightfully arranged folk-pop... it brims with inventive keyboards, brass and strings" * * * * Mojo

"From trad Irish ballads to Steve Reich by way of Judee Sill and Ennio Morricone... it's a hard-to-pigeonhole opus which slaloms mellifluously between senstive folk reveries, Tom Waits-like, junkshop hymnals and lavish chamber-pop essays"

MOJO One to Watch 2011

Sunday Independent 2011 One to Watch

Irish Times 2011 One to Watch

Narc 2011 One to Watch



For gigs / information contact:

Paul Buck CODA Booking agency: paul@codaagency.com



NEW 7" LIMITED EDITION SINGLE!

Already featured on Radio BBC 1 and 6...
Produced by Mike Lindsay (Tunng)
This special 400 edition release from Static Caravan, is just a taster for the forthcoming album (out early 2011)

Van 222
A Side 'You call this your Home'
B Side 'Song for the Sea'

 Limited Edition 7

To BUY...

Visit Rough Trade

Visit Picadilly Records

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LIMITED EDITION 7" VINYL NOW SOLD OUT!!
Thank you to all who bought it!


REBOX is still available to buy on itunes Hannah Peel - Rebox - EP

New 7 Vinyl EP release artwork

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Tra Mhor EP....NOW SOLD OUT!!

Tra Mhor EP

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