Fulborn Teversham, Nalle, Need New Body, Bablicon, Chandeliers, Pop-Off Tuesday, Mass Shivers, Big Eyes, George, Daniel Johnston, Scatter, Freeze Puppy, Farina, Oddfellows Casino, Now, Zukanican, Volcano the Bear, a.P.A.t.T., Dragon or Emperor, Marshmallow Coast, Butchy Fuego, The Doozer, Hassle Hound, The Go! Team, Phosphene & Friends, The Evolution Control Committee, 100 Pets, Mittens on Strings, Roy Moller, and many more besides
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quirky genius, bent tunefulness, noisy playfulness, jazz turmoil, inventive retro-futurism and downright emotional heart-on-sleeve belief, hope and passion
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Within the bright lights of Cambridge, The Doozermakes his home. The city informs the music. The music informs the city. 'Great Explorers' is the culmination of 2 weeks of intense recording, and a good few months of refining and mixing. You’ll find global sounds for homeland pleasures, touching upon our savage civilisation, streetwalkers and wavers, and the oldest carvers. With the tone being of paramount importance, the record was recorded to tape with analogue reverb all the way, assisted by the adhoc creation of spring and reverb chambers. It’s a three-dimensional world with coloured pictorial sound spaces. Look out for the aluminium dome.
"The Doozer makes angular bedroom psych-pop from guitar, keyboards and drum machines. He insists that he 'builds' music, and it's an apposite word. Sheet Music has a lovely constructed precision underlying its surface awkwardness, with a gift for finding chords or sour melodic twists that initially sound wrong, but turn out right. His counter-intuitive logic and oblique associations put him in a lineage connecting The Incredible String Band, Kevin Ayres and Billy Childish, but most of all another Cambridge alumnus, Syd Barrett. The Doozer has a voice of his own, though, and the quavers and quirks of songs like 'Dogwalking' and 'Burn the Tape' lodge themselves in the brain with strange persistence"
[Sam Davies, The Wire]
"The Doozer furrows a path somewhere between the profressive folk styling of Animal Collective and the
wide-eyed wonder of early Badly Drawn Boy. Weirdness levels are ramped up to eleven - not least due to some initially jarring
chord sequences - and pastoral psychedelia reigns in a not unlovely debut"
[James Skinner, Plan B]
‘Warm Room’ is the fourth album from The Big Eyes Family Players, after ‘Do The Musiking’ (Pickled Egg 2006), Donkeysongs (Rusted Rail 2008) and ‘Folk Songs’ - by James Yorkston & The Big Eyes Family Players (Domino 2009). The album was conceived initially as an ‘ode’ to folk music. Those perhaps expecting an album of string-led polkas and klezmer-styled pieces may be a little surprised.
On this occasion, the Players have yet again taken another shape. As ever, led by captain James Green (vocals, guitar, piano, harmonium, cello, percussion, shahi baja, loops, organ, harp, zither), the album features Ellie Bond on violin, Gemma Green on harmonium, Chris Boyd on drums and Heather Ditch on vocals.
Rather than necessarily being an album of folk material, ‘Warm Room’ is an attempt to dissect the genre, albeit through the Big Eyes filter and focuses in on those individual elements. There are ‘songs’, in the form of the traditional pieces (the despairing ‘False True Love’) and original numbers (the dream-story ‘White Bones’ and bloody Spanish lament ‘Rojo’), but elsewhere the focus is on texture, the landscape and the mood of the traditional folk form, and is reflected in pieces such as the love-song-raga ‘A Lick and A Promise’, the pastoral ecstasy of ‘Galapagos’, the chaotic skip of ‘The Great Pin Dance’ and closer ‘Song for Newborough Warren’ (inspired by the great sand dunes of the nature reserve on Anglesey, Wales).
“A masterpiece!” [Peter Brewis, Field Music]
Three years in the making and clocking in at a more-ishly bite-sized 23 minutes, the title of ‘Animation’ fits in more ways than one. Early impressions suggest an almost cartoon energy to
Freeze Puppy's world and the hyper real, often poignantly flawed characters who inhabit it through Tom’s smart and concise wordplay (guest narrators include lovelorn drink drivers, imaginary friends, abject loners and serial gamblers amongst other skewed societal misshapes...). Yet listen on, and it goes further: as songwriter, producer and lyricist, Wilson works like the consummate stop-frame animator - hunched over his songs like they were tiny audio figurines, chiselling out their strange, fleeting little lifetimes over a series of acutely poised movements, drawing breath from them through colours, textures and melodies that, given half a chance, will pitch camp in your subconscious for what may prove to be decades. At once audaciously complex and eminently digestible, ‘Animation’ is pop created within limits, existing in joyous disregard of them. The very best kind.
“Now are producing some of the best-but-as-yet-un-noticed art-pop in the country” [Artrocker.com]
"Pursuing their offbeat, off-kilter and occasionally off-the-wall mashup of lo-fidelity experimental pop music and uptempo kosmik grooves at the fringes of undergound and overground success,
Now continue to demonstrate the tireless heart of their being is something close to an unsung national treasure. Just like NOW's ever-changing live shows, the gumbo of influences and references which permeate 'Ooodipooomn' suffuse it with an almost naïve joy in its own existence. Adventurous and elliptical more than merely eccentric, 'Ooodipooomn' revolves around the core NOW trio and a parade of guests, buzzing vibrantly through sensational moments where shuddering analogue synth boogie morphs into avant skronk'n'roll before throttling back into hypnotic cello, somnolent beat loops and droning surrender. The six minute trance-inducing motorway chug of 'Hiway Code' seems more like a whole roadtrip thanks to its the sheer busyness, while the spacious sprawl of “Yellow Tent T-shirt” and the brazen churn of 'Ethnik Snack' both coalesce into wildly divergent epics, remoulding the model of jam-band ethnopsychedelia along the way" [Richard Fontenoy, Plan B]
'The Stumbling Block' is Zukanican's, second album and third release on Pickled Egg. Recorded in 2007-8 at The Kif in Liverpool the 8 track album mirrors the band’s live performances perhaps more than their other releases. The album was recorded and mixed by Zukanican and studio trickery has been kept to a minimum; what you hear 'is was'.
Here's what Rockerilla said of their last album: "Among the many influences declared by the last generation of rock musicians, no one is quoted as preposterously as Sun Ra, who inherited a record that was Stockhausen's own in the 70’s. This preamble is to say that the joyful Zukanican commune is conversely the legitimate daughter of the bandleader from Saturn, with their rhythmic exuberance, the tone colours of the woodwind, the spacey and ancestral essence of their music. Add to this a little subterranean Can-school kraut pulse, a tip of jazz-rock with early '70s Miles Davis' harmonies and the enthusiasm of some bantering psyche-heads, and you'll get a hint of the lifeblood flowing through the grooves".
'The Stumbling Block' is available now from Pickled Egg.
Pickled Egg Records are pleased to announce the release of ‘The Absence of Birds’, a four song EP by Oddfellows Casino, combined with a short film by Brighton-based film maker Toby Amies, which features an original soundtrack by Oddfellows Casino. ‘The Absence of Birds’ showcases four new David Bramwell compositions, exhibiting lush orchestral arrangements with a nod towards late-period Talk Talk, and featuring Oddfellows’ usual eclectic array of guests, including Stereolab's Simon Johns on bass, Giant Leap guitarist and composer Andrew Philips on guitar and percussion, Clearlake's Jason Pegg on organ, and Bevis Frond guitarist Paul Simmons on bass and guitar.
The CD comes complete with a twenty minute film 'The Ballad of Oddfellow', which stars Drako Oho Zarhazar - former Salvador Dali model, actor in films by Andy Warhol and Derek Jarman, and the recent subject of a Radio 4 documentary, ‘The Man Whose Mind Exploded.' This sepia-tinted curio follows the demise of legendary Victorian freakshow host, Ambrose Oddfellow, as drink, tragedy and the advent of picture-houses force him to host phoney seances for the gullible aristocracy of Brighton. But who knows what can happen when dabbling with the forces of darkness... The cast also includes Michael Attree (former world moustache championship holder), Dave Mounfield (portly comedian and nice chap) and the legendary Heidi Heels. The film features an original soundtrack of Oddfellows Casino songs, and was directed by filmmaker and MTV/ Lonely Planet host Toby Amies.
Chandeliers are a Chicago-based quartet that represent a phenomenon of unclassifiable modern music. Comprised of multi-instumentalists from Chicago's blossoming young avant-rock scene - group members Chris Kalis, Dan Jugle, Harry Brenner, and Scott McGaughey are also active members of Chicago groups Bronze, Michael Columbia, Icy Demons, Mandate and Killer Whales - they have created a unique, and live, electronic sound. Adopting the collective spirit of krautrock bands like Can and Faust, the Chandeliers function as a unified whole, with no dominant members. This approach gives the band a more intuitive and unpredictable approach to composing.
The sessions for The Thrush were overseen by Bablicon's Diminisher and Blue Hawaii at the Shape Shoppe and at Mahjongg's west-side studio in Chicago. Its nine songs feature guest musicians from Bablicon, Icy Demons, and Mahjongg, and includes 3 videos by filmmaker TJ Hellmuth. Believing that colour can exist in harmony with timbre, the Chandeliers pride themselves on their synaesthetic live performances: a non-stop high-energy show, augmented with dual projections of Brakhage-esqe visual rhythm.
Chandeliers bring the energy of a super-live party to their cerebral synth interplay. An obvious reference is Kraftwerk, but with influences ranging from Burmese and Arabic melody, to the sonically dirty rhythmic propulsion of Konono no.1, and the crunked-out psychedelic hip-hop of J-Dilla, Chandeliers always keep the listener on their toes. An album with the flow of a mix-tape, the Thrush is at home bangin' in your trunk or hypnotizing on your headphones.
The Doozer builds. He has previously built stone houses and wooden ships. He is currently building music. Raised around the Fenlands of Cambridgeshire, in the arse end of nowhere, the city drew closer and closer, the lights brighter and the time shorter. The city informs his music. His music informs the city. Songs evolve around watching and talking, buying and borrowing. Characters pass by, situations are imagined, colours are added and the resultant is a forming song.
His debut album, ‘Sheet Music’, was recorded mainly on Saturday mornings, bright and early. The songs weren’t complete until the recordings were complete. The spaces always changed. Instruments and voices were layered. Pop music was the aim; pop music isn’t quite the result. Pop music is The Doozer’s music, only filtered through all of the colours and sounds you’ve imagined when walking through the street or down your lane or when your batteries died.
Exploring similar landscapes to Frank Zappa - minus the virtuoso elements - Liverpool-based a.P.A.t.T. are a bewildering and completely original two to seven piece band, utilising all available genres to create a daft and beautiful music. 'Black and White Mass' sets a new standard in home entertainment, featuring some of a.P.A.t.T.'s most accessible compositions to date, whilst still retaining an element of surprise.
Some bands are just damned impossible to classify: a.P.A.t.T. are a (usually) 6-peice amalgamation of all that has come before & all that will slowly catch up in the end. Beyond genre defying: every instrument and style you can think of, mashed up together in jaw-dropping live performances. The experimental and chaotic beeps, buzzes and blips of a.P.A.t.T., (described on the BBC Merseyside website as sounding like Frank Zappa having a fist fight with Mighty Mouse) have steadily built up a growing army of admirers. They were featured on the promotional video for Liverpool's Capital of Culture bid, and have recently staged a multi-media installation called 'Quartet', featuring four films projected whilst the band performed inside. As if this wasn't enough, they even found time to compose the incidental music for the BBC Radio Merseyside alternative music show, PMS.
Starting from a cupboard with a piano & a drumkit in it, Durham City, England, Suzy Mangion began her public music-making as one half of school boy-girl band George, in 1994. George released a number of acclaimed secret pop records on vinyl collector labels Earworm & Bad Jazz in the late 90s, and eventually released their debut album 'The Magic Lantern' on Pickled Egg Records in 2003. An EP, 'All Good Things', was released in Spain on Lejos Discos, and the 2005 George album, 'A Week of Kindness', was jointly released on both labels.
Suzy also appeared on the Piano Magic album 'Writers Without Homes' (4AD) – contributing vocals on two tracks, which have been described by many as the album's highlights - and has recorded two albums with Arbol - an eponymous debut (Indus Sonica), and 'Dreams Made of Paper' (Lejos Discos). Last year she made a guest appearance on the Big Eyes Family Players's album, 'Do The Musiking'. Suzy is also one half of The Winter Journey.
'The Other Side of the Mountain' is Suzy's first solo album, and was recorded between January and July 2006. Musically, it follows on very much from where George left off, hardly surprising, given that Suzy was responsible for writing and performing about 90% of their material.
Purchase these and all other releases from Pickled Egg
Leicester-based Pickled Egg Records is one of the most sharp-eyed, adventurous independent labels around, releasing some of the best music of any label, anywhere. Eclectic to a fault, and firmly out of step with current trends, since it's inception in 1998, it has dedicated itself to redressing the world’s musical balance in favour of quirky genius, bent tunefulness, noisy playfulness, jazz turmoil, inventive retro-futurism and downright emotional heart-on-sleeve belief, hope and passion. In a world in which the musical balance is already, irretrievably, weighted down on the side of corporate flatulence, labels like Pickled Egg are so a priori unnecessary, and yet so a posteriori essential.
The label's roster is genuine quality. Artists like Philadelphia's Need New Body, Chicago-based Bablicon, Pop-Off Tuesday from Osaka, and Leicester’s very own Volcano the Bear, have tapped rich musical mines, mixing jazz, avant rock surrealism, and a punk rock approach.
Selected releases...
Scatter 'Surprising Sing Stupendous Love' CD
Nalle 'By Chance Upon Waking' CD
Fulborn Teversham 'Count Herbert II' CD
aPAtT 'Black and White Mass' CD
Zukanican 'E5number' 10"
Zukanican 'Horse Republic' CD
Zukanican 'The Stumbling Block' CD
Mass Shivers 'Ecstatic Eyes Glow Glossy' CD
Chandeliers 'The Thrush' CD
Need New Body 'Where's Black Ben?' LP
Need New Body 'UFO' CD/LP
Need New Body 'Need New Body' CD/2xLP
Now 'Frisbee Hot Pot' CD
The Doozer 'Sheet Music' CD/LP
Daniel Johnston 'Rejected Unknown' CD
Hassle Hound 'Scaring the Grass in the Garden' 10"
The Go! Team 'Get it Together!' 7" EP
Dragon or Emperor 'Dragon or Emperor' CD
Suzy Mangion 'The Other Side of the Mountain' CD
George 'The Magic Lantern' CD
George 'A Week of Kindness' CD
Bablicon 'In a Different City' CD/LP
Bablicon 'Orange Tapered Moon' CD/LP
Bablicon 'A Flat Inside a Fog' CD/2xLP
A Hawk and a Hacksaw 7" (coming soon!)
Big Eyes Family Players 'Do the Musiking' CD
Big Eyes 'Love is Gone Mad' CD/LP
Big Eyes 'Clumsy Music' CD/LP
Big Eyes 'We Have No Need for Voices' CD
Big Eyes 'Big Eyes Songs' CD/10"
Pop-Off Tuesday 'Pop-Off Tuesday' CD/LP
Pop-Off Tuesday 'See My Ghost' CD/10"
Pop-Off Tuesday 'Pop Ahoy!' CD/LP
Butchy Fuego 'Butchy Fuego' CD
Volcano the Bear 'Yak Folks Y'Are' LP
Marshmallow Coast 'Seniors & Juniors' CD/LP
Marshmallow Coast 'Ride the Lightning' CD
100 Pets 'Easter Songs' LP
Oddfellows Casino 'Yellow Bellied Wonderland' CD/LP
Oddfellows 'Casino Winter Creatures' CD
Oddfellows 'The Absense of Birds' CD & Film
Farina 'Three People' CD/LP
Farina 'Allotments' CD
23rd November @ 13th Note, Glasgow with D Abraham Turner 24th November @ Kraak Gallery, Manchester with A Middle Sex - £4 26th November @ Tap, The Water Works, Southend with Lost Harbours - FREE 27th November @ Cafe Oto, London with Chora - £5
Here is the information regarding the last few CHOPS gigs of the year 2009! Some sweet treats! See you shaking it up at the front!
We're also thinking hard about recording again, as well as concocting a new video excursion with our buddy David Lynch to follow up to our sunrise performance live on the now demolished Leeds International Swimming Pool.
Peace and love! x x x
Saturday 14 November @ Rock and Roll Circus, Leeds - Cops and Robbers benefit party! BILGE PUMP CHOPS CLUB
Saturday 28 November @ Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, £6 - Brew Records Present DJ SCOTCH EGG CHOPS NOPE Poster by Pete Murgatroyd
Thursday 3rd December Chinchilla and Room237 are rather happy to present... Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, 8pm doors, first band 8:15 prompt LIGHTNING BOLT a.P.A.T.t. ACTION BEAT CHOPS Tickets £7 (plus booking fee) Available from 2nd November from behind the bar at the Brudenell (50p booking fee fund-raiser for cops and robbers), Jumbo and Crash Records in Leeds, and wegottickets.com Poster by Jon Nash
Thursday 10th December - Upset The Rhythm @ The Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ - £9 LIGHTNING BOLT DRUM EYES CHOPS
TOYKULT plays British Music Week 2009 & we invite you to download our latest EP featuring tracks from our new album FREE @ 192kbps: http://www.toykult.com
Kneel Sir presents... ALASDAIR ROBERTS BENJAMIN WETHERILL AND THE TRUMPETS OF DEATH NICK JONAH DAVIS Friday 6th November Surface Gallery Southwell Road Nottingham £6
ORGONE ACCUMULATORS - GOOD ADVICE & WILHELM REICH AND ROLL double EP CDr Sultans of Swing Records no.15 £3ppd
Orgone Accumulators finally reach the physical realm. Sultans Of Swing Records have put both Orgone Accumulators 'virtual' EPs onto a nicely packaged CDr. 3 different kinds of handmade card/paper including one made out of recycled beer bottle labels and a printed CD showing the relationship between Sirius and the Dogon tribe and extraterrestrial communications.
It's 8 tracks of surf/techno themed around ancient astronauts although one of them is a cover of The Ventures version of Walk Don't Run. Think Man Or Astroman, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet or The Residents playing around an 808. For fans of outer space and the future and sci fi gubbins.
It's available for free download or streaming at http://www.orgoneaccumulators.co.uk or you can send £3 via paypal to sultansofswingrecords AT fastmail DOT fm to get this CDr version.
Take 4 of the best up-and-coming live bands – each a capable headliner in their own right (NO ropey filler acts or cover bands!) and intersperse with genre traversing, decade hopping recorded music ranging from Cutting Edge to Indie Classic Anthem to Guilty Pleasure from 9pm until late for only £4 and you have a SICK night out!
"STRAWHOUSES is all about that feeling that we're living blissfully unaware that we're on unsteady ground.
Their musical influences are diverse; from the melody kings of Radiohead, REM and U2, to the tribal beats of Killing Joke, to the darkest moments of Joy Division and The Smiths. "
"FAKE UNION is a project that strives to make thoughtful music. Making songs that are edgy and uncomfortable is what they are good at. So they keep doing it, with smiles on their faces and fists in the air!"
Turbinicarpus Records (Donetsk, Ukraine) proudly presents the double CD of experimental jazz performed by T.rans A.tlantic R.age.
T.rans A.tlantic R.age is an explosion of panic beyond control, unorthodox experiments in all the genres to breakthrough beyond style borders, an independent musician from US who now turned to jazz.
