On the 'FEAR' record I am joined by my MOSES friends Gav Fawcett (drums) & Katy Dent (violin... and she also sings for the first time). The astonishingly brilliant harp is played by Tom Moth who also records as Lunamoth. Katy's fella Alex Abbey came along to the studio one day and played the glockenspiel for us all to enjoy.
On the finally complete 'Clangers' record 'Then I woke up and it was all a dream' the fabulous improvistaional bassoon of Fiona Troon, the gorgeous flute of Claire Cobley, the crazy saw of Caspar Cronk and the double bass of Colin Smith join me, Tom, Gav & Katy and it is sounding exceptionally brilliant indeed. We where additionally joined by Miss Carolyn Mark, Sophie Traves, Sam Brown & Grandmaster Gareth from Misty's Big Adventure - a huge honour to have them on board
On the 'Today's lucky winners' EP Tom, Gav & I where notably joined by lovely & talented Joe Peet on double bass, violin, mandolin & probably some other things. He's properly in the band now.
Also LIVE we have so far been joined by Lorna Johns on Oboe, Simon Elms of trumpet, Becky Dixon on Cello, Helen Evans on violin, Sophie Traves singing, Col Smith on sax/flute/melodica/bass, Katalin Duschanek on violin, Nick Richards on trombone, and we're always looking out for new musicians so if you're keen message me....
Influences
In my own head the people who have actually infulenced me are:
Kristin Hersh
Tanya Donelly
Nina Simone
The Pixies
Neutral Milk Hotel
Talk Talk
Jane Siberry
Mary Margraet O'Hara
and Vernon Elliott (he wrote the music for all the 70's kids 'Smallfilms' animated programmes - The Clangers, Ivor the engine. Bloody brilliant)
Sounds Like
The few solo reviews I've had have so far mentioned
Nick Drake
Antony & The Johnsons
Rufus Wainwright
Jonna Newsom (nowt like her mind you, it's a harp thing)
Devendra Banhart
and Patrick Wolf
The second album is ready to BUY now! 'Then I woke up and it was all a dream' is just totally perfect. Beautiful songs with harp and bassoon and flute and saw and glockenspiel re-creating the atmosphere of lovely, spooky, childrens tv themes of yesteryear. Get it for £5 + p&p HERE
Guests include Grandmaster Gareth from Misty's Big Adventure Sophie Traves and the rest of my excellent Moses gang,
Candian boozy chanteuse Miss Carolyn Mark
future pop stars Callum Sinclair and Michael Richardson
My live fiddle-ing accomplice Joe Peet BK13 from space poppers Plakka
and the one, the only, the goddess Sam Brown
Inspired by Vernon Elliott's music from Oliver Postgate's Smallfilms classics ('Clangers' in particular), the album is available NOW for £5 + p&p HERE on itunes and in the smaller record shops. You have to get one, it's just really, really lovely.
Or taste the dark side...!
My haunting lo-fi album 'FEAR' is also available now from me HERE
and on itunes in a few weeks and in a few indie record shops in a bit. It's mucho melancholy, please buy one.
You can see a bit of my slightly 'merry' performance of the title track HERE
PLUS My classy new EP 'Today's lucky winners' is still available
You can hear the songs or buy it digitally (& please do, organic, one man cottage industrys that we are)
HERE
There is a run of limited edition CD's of this EP too if folks want, just message me if you are not big on downloads & I'll sort it out
If you are into your LAST FM you can find us on there too: LAST FM
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LIVE gigs are a bit special, from intimate to uplifting. People say good things about my odd songs and my singing. I'm there (obviously) almost always with Tom The Harp and often Gav The Drums and Joe The Fiddle but each gig is unique with different guest musicians and a different set of songs.
'FEAR' was recorded when I was really in the studio making '...all a dream'. We where waiting around for a bassoon player (obviously) and thought we'd demo the NEXT album - turns out the songs really suited an 'unadorned' approach and sounded great so I left them as they where. Hope you agree they work well as bare bones little oddities. 'Then I woke up and it was all a dream' was recorded in short bursts over a year to get the best possible people for every track, the musicians and singers are all superb - and delightful people too - and engineer John Winfield made the whole thing sound as spontanious and fresh as if it where all live. I truly love it.
NEXT....
The next abum (out 2008) will have more poppy songs - lots of which you might hear live if you come along to one of our excellent ever changing gigs -with loads of synths and brass and big gospelly backing vocals and a spacey feel. Then there'll be the intimate, string quartet album and then a glitchy electronic thing and then I'll probably stop and count my debts...
HISTORY....
Moses are an indie folk band - a bit like Badly drawn boy or I am kloot - I am one of the singers and songwriters along with my brother David Mosley
We've released 2 full length albums & various ep's on tiny High Barn records. They have been described thus; 'a folk mini masterpiece that raids the school music room' (NME) and 'such Beautiful arrangements, quite the musicians' (lovely Candian genius Jane Siberry) and 'given a sunny summers day this will totally fit the bill' (Q magazine) and 'Moses...moses...MOSES!' (Shane MacGowan). Everyone except me is playing at family life at the moment but we are sporadically writing the next album and gig very occasionally, our website is HERE
but in the mean time, it's all about the Dreams and the Winners and the Fear...
Paul- Even though we are booked up this year, we would love to have you next Feb. 09 or if someone drops out this year's dates. You music is really good. Tb
THIS THURSDAY!!!THIS THURSDAY!!! THIS THURSDAY!!! THIS THURSDAY!!!
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Join us for another Big City Redneck Presents! Another wonderful eruption, nay, ejaculation of good music at the Buffalo Bar this month!
What can I say? We won’t disappoint.
Buffalo Bar June 19th £6 on the door… 8.30pm till they kick us out…
Mama Shamone http://www. myspace. com/mamashamone “Put Mama Shamone on at any venue and they are likely to take the roof off, this was one of the best live shows I’ve seen in years - certainly one of the best in London. In my opinion these guys are destined for greatness, it felt like I was witnessing history being shaped-something was just so right about what they were doing up there.” Vibe Bar
We Yes You No www. myspace. com/weyesyouno “We Yes You No sing about the end of the world, the end of everything. But in an apocalypse that would sound like this I would buy god’s last EP” – Big City Redneck
Language http://www. myspace. com/languageuk “"The verbosity of funk, the poetic twang of intelligent pop. The bridge between Franz Ferdinand and Smashing Pumpkins perhaps" – Bugbear
Elo my lovely how ya doing? How did the gig go @ The Spice? I thought it was this bloody month i got dates totally bullsed up coz me sis was playing there on the 31st so my attention span was not on tip top form soz bout that!!! Keep On Keepin on! Love n Stuffin! LJ x
hey dude how ya been? ic yr playin the spice ...my sis played there not to long ago very nice venue! if yr not up 2 anything this fine friday Click Here To View Full Event Invite and RSVP
Paul, it is The Pop League' 1st Birthday! I thank you so much for your contribution to our alliance. Your talents are singular and original! Upward and Onward! Our second year will be even better! Thanks, Richard
After 18 months of songwriting thrills, spills, chilled drinks and temperamental strange beautiful mentalist Shelley like waif and stray musicians baring their warm hearted souls at weekly music night ’Myspace or Yours’. The folks from SONGWRITERS ANONYMOUS are kickstarting a monthly residency at The Vibe Live with a showcase for the acts they’ve nominated for this years Indy Music Awards.
So have yours when I look at them - it's a current Myspace band problem, as is not being able to look at non band profiles if you have a music profile. They need to fix it.
You need to fix your gig calendar to say Leonards EC1 instead of Dry Bar, mind, it moved AAAGES ago. :)
Good Day fine sir... Shame you missed my sis's gig it was fantastic,now I know how Karen must ave felt seein the moses bro's for the 1st time on stage(hey Karen & Dave)oh well honey next time!I'll put ya on guest list! :O) How was yr trip to barcelona? Did ya bring me back any tasty dishes to get my mouth round ooo misses!
Smoke Feathers have been invited to play at the INDY Music Awards media launch and short list announcement party on Wednesday April 2nd 7pm at the Rock Garden, Covent Garden, London.
It’s no guarantee that we have been shortlisted for the final, but we hope it is a good sign....
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