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Released: Sep 21, 2011
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  • Genre: Experimental / Folk / Post punk

    Location London, London and South East, Un

    Profile Views: 60189

    Last Login: 9/7/2011

    Member Since 7/20/2005

    Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmxpdHRsZXNwYXJ0YS5jb20=

    Record Label Grey Gallery Records - Self Release - Fire Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    ..Little Sparta.., the band, is the concept of writer and producer Alan Boyd; as a band they have released albums independently and on Fire Records while also having produced songs for film & television. The most recent projects include an LP with a poet, a collaboration with Sally Timms of the Mekons and music for the National Film Board of Canada. .. The band's sound brings to mind artists such as the Dirty Three, The Rachels and Ennio Morricone. The influences range from American country-blues to avant-garde minimalist composers; post-rock to kraut-rock; Bach to the Beatles. The instrumentation includes guitar, violin, harmonium, drums, mandolin and glockenspiel The core members of the band are Alan, Susie Honeyman & Scott Skinner. .. ..Discography:.... The Adventures of Prince Achmed EP: Self Release 2008.. Chamber Music, A James Joyce Compilation (With Gerry Mitchell) LP: Fire Records 2008.. Little Sparta & Sally Timms (Single): Grey Gallery Records 2008.. The Ragged Garden (w/ Gerry Mitchell) LP: Fire Records 2008.. Feasting On My Heart (w/ Gerry Mitchell) 7" – Various Production remix: Fire Records 2007.. Feasting On My Heart (w/ Gerry Mitchell) 10": Fire Records 2006.. Scalpel Slice (With Gerry Mitchell) EP: Fire Records 2005.. Dead to the World CDR: Self Release 2004.. .. ..SELECTION OF REVIEWS.... The Adventures of Prince Achmed: .. "... a perfect marriage of music and film. Rather than trying to distract the crowd with complicated, changing music Little Sparta instead worked with simple motifs, building up these threads into a rising crescendo during key scenes in the film. The effect was a little like watching the tide rise and fall, a slow, subtle feeling that held the audience's ..attention.".. Latitude Festival Reviews 2007 .. Ragged Garden LP, Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta: .. Released February 2008 on Fire Records.. "The Ragged Garden weaves a hypnotic, beautifully dramatised tapestry of post-rock textures, string-led romanticism and Mitchell's absorbing spoken texts.".. boomkat .. Feasting On My Heart 10", Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta:.. Released August 2006 on Fire Records as Keep Mother G &H.. "…a beautiful melancholy piece of blackened future folk. Intermittently revealing a torn, twisted soul full of pain and anger, this is not music for the faint hearted, what with it's stained teeth and bloodshot eyes. Brilliant stuff!" .. Norman Records (Leeds): Single of the Week (October 3rd 2006) .. Scalpel Slice EP, Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta:.. Released February 2005 on Fire Records.. "Little Sparta weaves some of the most powerful, moving pieces of music…" .. Gigwise .. ..Carts of Darkness.... Now you can watch the entire film by Murray Siple online. Little Sparta contributes three tracks to this incredible documentary of life on the streets in Vancouver. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

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    ..Itunes Links:.. ..Click on the image .. ...... ..The Adventures of Prince Achmed .. ...... ..Grey Gallery Records 001 ..with Sally Timms .. ........The Black Label Sessions ..with Mike Patrick .. ...... ...... ..Fire Records Releases ..with Gerry Mitchell

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