Mr Sebastian Roachford , Nel Catchpole , Nick Webb , Joanne Leigh Gibson ,Mr Simon Tong , Mr Paul May , Ms Sophie Braithwaite , Mr TIm Harries , Mr Leo Abrahams , Mr Simon Richie
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Today I am taking pleasure in ....... Lift to experience- Down came the angles , Two lone sordsmen , Duke Garwood , Kate Bush ( army dreamers in particular ) , Karen Dalton , XL choral works conducted by Anthony Pitts , Mathew Barney , Pattie Smith , Hilde Guard von Bingen , Chris is weird , Siouxise & The Banshees , Nina Nastasia-Blackened Air.....
Notes on Love by Petra Jean Phillipson is NOT for AIRHEADS. She cannot be viewed as an aspiring pop idol. This would totally underestimate her creativity and accomplishment as an artist and performer. Records this honest and affecting are rare, but records which ensnare you from the start and leave you craving more, as this one does, are rarer still. Make no mistake NOTES ON LOVE is a dark and bewitching album from a major new British talent.
Notes on Love. Is this 33 year olds debut solo album. This accomplished work is a natural development for Petra Jean Phillipson, who, as a strong contemporary singer/songwriter has cut her teeth with the likes of David Holmes, The Beta Band, and Marianne Faithful. Shes paid her dues live and ridden the Camden circuit time and again. No stage school preening for this woman.
She purrs like Billie Holiday back from the grave. NME
Each track has been scored purely to evoke the haunting emotion of her lyrics. Without clichés or unnecessary padding she explores the nature of love.
Quote Be near silence sings to me been lone too long without a tiny glimpse of he..
You get the idea things havent always gone her way. She makes you wanna cry, she makes you wanna sing. Her expression in the recordings, are simple sparse and very beautiful. UNCUT MAGAZINE****
Being pulled from pillar to post as a child, she never felt as though she belonged anywhere but she finds stillness within music. A moving home of sorts: wherever her body takes her, her mind follows, chews round what she sees, then spits out an idea in a song. Australia, Bath, New York, LA, France have not failed her completely. Now she rests in between France & London.
Rumour has it she spent 8 years making this record. True. In her obsessive perfectionist way she has worked, reworked and pushed the sounds to the edge only to find herself. She has swapped studios and producers like they were soiled underwear. Discarding a so thought final version of the record made with Head & Rob Ellis. So Shes played and replayed everything until she was satisfied. Momentarily. When asked why the album took so long she replies, it never had the weight I was looking for. Now it has.
Needless to say Petra Jean Phillipson recorded, co produced & mixed the record, alongside Simon Tongs sultry guitar licks and Paul May ticklings on the drums. She also created the artwork, costumes and collaborated with James Griffiths on the video. She suggests if she doesnt get her ideas out of her head, something uncomfortable happens to her?
What I wanted the music to reflect was a hybrid of blues, rock, alternative country, jazz & a little punk rock middle finger intimacy.
She confesses adoration for: Karen Dalton, Cat Power, Howie Gelb, , Hildegard Von Bingen ,Bjork, Nick Cave, Calexico, Mathew Barney, Pattie Smith, The be good Tanyas, Vaughan Williams, Bill Evans and Aretha Franklin to name a few.
The rawness of her lyrics gives full range to her extraordinary singing ability, which, as she puts it, is an attempt at something honest. She is definitely a thinking persons artist with far too much street credibility with her strong jazz blues roots to be relegated to background music at dinner parties.
The last thing I want is this record to be ineffective. I want to pull people all over the place emotionally.
Bursting with ideas, Petra Jean Phillipson is working on her next album as she recovers from her European tour. Downtime consists of scoring the music for and acting in an independent Sci-Fi film, collating photographs for a personal show, and producing the debut LP for Simon Tong (her long time collaborator & Gorillaz guitarist). As she gathers her new material she plays in a local club accompanied only by her pallor guitar to silence the non-listeners.
She wrings time for her thoughts and extracts droplets; these moisten our tongues in the DARK shadow of our times.
MAKE NO MISTAKE SHE MEANS EVERY WORD
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One Day
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Into My Arms
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Independent Woman
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Cradle Of Your Smile
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The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show returns to the airwaves on Resonance 104.4 FM this Saturday 5th September between noon and 1.30pm. Today's broadcast is in conjunction with PESTIVAL * With contributions from the Mosquito expert Dr. James Logan, an essay from the author Tim Burrows (on the subject of insects in rock and pop), plus live music from the London based alt/art duo Plug, who will debut new insect related material especially written for Hello GoodBye.
* PESTIVAL is a festival celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect. Pestival 2009 runs from 3rd-6th September @ The Southbank Centre and is jam-packed with insect-inspired talks and debates, as well as comedy, music, walks, workshops, installations and experiments. For further information, please visit: http://pestival.org
Tune in and turn on. Episode 18 features the long awaited return of Ben Folke Thomas, from his hidden island lair to continue his evil plans to take over the world, an interview with, performance by, exclusive album track play, and give away, by noir-folkists 'Juniper Leaf', and many more goodly musical gifts to be bestowed upon you dear listener by the noble Lantern Players.
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Tune in to episode 12 of the Lantern Society Radio Hour, featuring the creme de la creme of the capital's most comely crooners. Stunning live performances beautifully captured for your listening pleasure, at London's Finest Folk Club, The Lantern Society.
And, why not join us for the next Lantern Society - Thursday 18th June.
The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Rd, London. EC1R 3BL
TORTUGA BAR - STORM EP (VIERSIEBEN RECORDS/FINETUNES) OUT NOW!
This online EP release (5 Tracks & Artwork) is not just an appetizer for the album which follows on June 26 - among the album versions of "Storm" (feat. Evan Dando) and "Feel the Love" it contains a remix of "Storm", made by labelmates Monocular, the track "Cavallo Pazzo (Song For Mondo Fumatore To Sing)" feat. Werner Kureinski, former member of Aheads and "Do It Right", a nice version of the Daniel Johnston song performed by Tortuga Bar and Navel.
Es ist seit Tag eins Fakt , dass ich Dir nachwein.. Ich sitz die ganze Nacht allein vor einem Glas Wein Ich wollt doch stark sein - doch shit ich werd schon wieder schwach Ich weiss noch nichtmal ob es hilft , dass ich hier Lieder mach
Hörst Du mein Herz schlagen ? Es muss den Schmerz tragen. Es würd..Dir gern was sagen und Dir deinen Wert verraten Es will deinen Namen laut singen in jeder Melodie Doch mein Auge weint , weil es nichts an deiner Stelle sieht
Deine Lücke schliesst nie , das ist mir bewusst doch ich verfalle immer wieder tiefer in das gleiche Muster obwohl icvh keine Lust hab , werd..ich jeden Morgen wach Du fehlst und es quält mich stetig die enorme Last
Mich macht die Sorge schwach , dass ich Dich nie wieder seh.. Dass die Zeit ohne Dich und ohne Licht hier nie vergeht Mir tun die Füße weh - kann ich deine Flügel nehm.. Wie soll ich die Probleme in meim..Leben überstehen ?
Willst Du wissen , wie der Text weiter geht ? Dann schau doch in mein erstes Musikvideo rein :)
Schreib mir wenn Du Zeit und Lust hast , was du davon hälst :)
Hello petra jean phillipson. This is our first headline London show for a very long time, to celebrate finishing our new album which will be out later this year. So come on down and have a good time with us.
...and of course don't forget London's Finest Folk Club, The next Lantern Society - Thursday 7th May at the Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Rd, EC1R 3BL. Neartest tube Farringdon.
Hello petra jean phillipson. The new episode of The Lantern Society Radio Hour is now on the air. As recorded at London's Finest Folk Club on 16th april 2009. Click the banner below to subscribe for free at iTunes, or simply use the player to tune in.
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And do come along to the next installment of the Lantern Society at The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Rd, on Thursday 7th May.
Upcoming shows: 15-17 May - Wood Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire. BUY TICKETS
18th May - Spectacle Records Presents: Your New Favourite Bands at Catch Bar, 22 Kingsland Road. Shoreditch, London. HEADLINE SHOW.
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