LIKE ALCHEMY EP (Fife Kills: Records, 2008) SOLD OUT:
Limited copies at Avalanche, Edinburgh and Rough Trade East, London
The new release, recorded live with minimal overdubs in one evening in Stockbridge Church in Edinburgh in autumn 2008. Strictly limited to 250 copies in hand stamped and numbered recycled packaging through Fife Kills: records. Creaks and drones of the double bass, musical saw, cello, autoharp, glockenspiel, harmonium and baritone uke on four songs:
1) Like Alchemy
2) Paper Ships
3) A Red Heron
4) The Wicker Basket
TIPPING IN EP (Fife Kills: Records 2007): SOLD OUT
Debut EP recorded in a portacabin in Dalkeith in autumn 2007(like a lowbudget Bon Iver then...) 100 numbered copies:
1) Tipping In
2) A Wooden Rose
3) The Acid Test
TILLY002 'Flameless Electric Heat' by Various Artists: An international cassette compilation documenting DIY musicians from France, England, the U.S., Canada and Scotland.
We're on a new tape compilation out February 2009 from Mathilde Records. A fundraiser of sorts for future 7 inch releases (an RSJ/Great Bear split due autumn 2009). Available from www.mathilderecs.com. This is the blurb:
Hearts thumping in your pocket. This is a limited "very good" release for £3 ppd to the UK, and featuring almost entirely exclusive material from:
The Hailstones - A Trip to the Acropolis // Francois - In Bed // Rob St John - A Red Heron // Vase - Apple, Table, Penny (First Version) // Your Heart Breaks - Holding On // Tissø Lake - In the Falls // Waterboatmen - Challenge 37: Poppy Hop // The Great Bear - Love and Death Song // Lightening Tree Singers feat. members of Waterboatmen, LAKE and T.L. // Owl Eyes - What the Body Remembers // Library Band - How Do You Play Upside-down C? // Tek Paste - Clogs on Handlebars.
The Skinny magazine just named us one of the top 10 acts to watch in 2009, alongside such crackers as Meursault, Over The Wall, Sky Larkin and We Were Promised Jetpacks. Chuffed is an understatement:
"The hushed reverence of Rob St John is a sound to behold. The Edinburgh based troubadour’s cerebral tones and stupefying sense of atmosphere is always breathtaking, and at best the purpose of adjoining strum and voice as one. Tingling neck-hairs with his slow-handed brilliance, St John’s knack for a tune is similar to local luminary James Yorkston, but there’s enough autumnal despair in his finger-plucked trinkets to suggest Messrs Drake and Buckley have had a hand in developing his wispy, evocative laments. Either way, Rob St John’s a remarkable, uncut diamond soon to be dug up."
We've been listening to last.fm at our house recently. In a moment of ego inspired curiosity I put my own name in to see what related artists would come up. Apart from a load of my mates bands you came up so I checked out your myspace too, the wonders of the internet hey! Beautiful musicc on your page,
Saturday 11th April 7pm SNEAKY PETE'S 73 Cowgate Edinburgh
PAPER PLANES myspace.com/glasgowpaperplanes ". . . dance inducing and occasionally air-punching, surf-tinged, indie-pop. . . .disco rhythms and sonic riffs to make teeth grind plus singer Jen's raw yet engaging vocals enrapturing the entire audience . . . guitar based indie/ artrock tinged with a dark surf feel that effortlessly crosses over the boundaries of post-punk. "
THE FOUNDLING WHEEL www.myspace.com/thefoundlingwheel The Foundling Wheel builds noise-saturated, melodic mountains of programmed polyrhythms and bitcrushed distortion . . . "braiding chromatic sheets of singeing electro-bending between frayed laces of gleaming melody." . . . "Experimental mental music for robots to have sex to"
