current live line-up:
gemma the merry woodpecker (vox, good stuff) and
lewis 'the tit' shaw (good stuff, vox)
previous lovely live help from caroline ross (the tells, rothko, delicate awol) and laurence collyer (the diamond family archive, king james).
Influences
contact:woodpeckerwooliams@googlemail.com
Sounds Like
'DIVING DOWN' RELEASED ON AUTUMN FERMENT RECORDS 20.08.09:
buy here: http://www.normanrecords.com/records/109996
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'FLEDGLING' RELEASED ON A BEARD OF SNAILS, DENMARK. 50 HANDMADE COPIES. APRIL 2009.
http://www.bsbta.com/abeardofsnails/releases.html
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Home- and hand-made release, limited edition of 50 hexagonal cd-packages 'Mill&Moss'. A single track 14 minute orracular composition inspired by the honeybee, featuring clarinet, harmonium and shruti drone layers, oneiric vocals and kora. Inlay:
---------------Press reviews for Diving Down:
-------------------------------------------------------------------'There’s a feel of living on a pagan Scottish island and getting the urge to burn a Christian policeman in a ritualistic sacrifice, there’s obscure instrumentation in the way the BBC Radiophonic Workshop pioneers would be proud, and there’s a haunting beauty that melts your heart and invites you in to sit on soft furnishings and drink the best warm mug of mead you’ve ever tasted.' -Bearded Magazine.
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'A beautifully impressive collection of songs from an emerging songwriting talent with a great voice.' -Norman Records.
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'the album’s clockwork rhythms, plucked strings, chimes, whistles &
whirs echo the domesticity that bjork was trying to express with ‘vespertine’ & gemma’s high tremulous vocals –
equal parts joanna newsom & kate bush – do a high wire act atop these gossamer songs. it is a very confident
record that successfully bridges the ever decreasing gap between experimental, genre splitting modernity &
solid, old time folk lore. recommended'- Resident Records.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'This wonderfully arranged (with a professional sonic quality) privately recorded album has all the charms you can imagine from a psychfolk related artist, including the colourful dreamy fantasy state the songs are in.' - Psych -Van Het Folk.
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“charming and original”- Tom Robinson BBC radio6 music.
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“utterly brilliant”- Paul Moxham, BBC radio Devon.
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'definitely bonkers in a lovingly endearing sort of way'- AmericanaUK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Darkness, foreboding, earthbound wandering and airy mists -they are all here" -Folkwords
The first Willkommen Records event at Coachwerks in Brighton. Located just off Lewes Road, on Hollingdean Terrace, this is a beautifully converted industrial space and now an inspiring and spacious venue (plus they have a very cheap bar!)
Noiserv is the name given for Portugeuse musical mastermind, David Santos. Compared to Juana Molina, David Thomas Broughton and Jose Gonzalez, he creates a hypnotising and emotionally engaging atmosphere, looping the sounds of the room, xylophone, guitar, melodica, harmonica and keyboards.
Woodpecker Wooliams is a charming one woman experimentalist. With an extraordinary bag of tricks, employing vocals, kora, celtic harp, clarinet, harmonium, glockenspiels and whistles, she conjures bewitching freeform lo-fi chants and sings folk songs of mystery and secrecy.
Redwood Red is Cathy Cardin. She is the feminine touch to Willkommen favourites Sons of Noel and Adrian and Laish Quartet. With her grounded and pure vocal delivery, she interweaves a unique fingerpicking guitar style with double bass and flute. This is a rare live outing for Redwood Red and one not to be missed.
Tickets available from Resident (01273 606312) or online here:
Thanks Gemma, glad you like it. Been listening to your album loads since the UC gig - really love it. Its very beautiful. Will be in touch soon with some music for you, or maybe a plan or perhaps just an email - we shall see....
hey gemma good luck for the union chapel show that is probably starting within the hour or something. i don't think they have an internet cafe in there though so you'll probably read this after. i am looking forward to our show at the basement x
Whalebone Polly is a duo made up of Kate Staples of This is the Kit and Rachael Dadd of The Hand and their music has much in common with those groups - rippling banjos, warm harmonies and odd percussive interludes.
Rozi Plain has played with Francois and the Atlas Mountains and has had records released by the Fence Collective. Her songs are sumptuous and charming.
Rowan Coupland amassed a mini-choir for his last Willkommen show at the Sanctuary - who knows what he’s got in store for us next?
Tickets from Resident (01273 606312) or online here:
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
Hello, it was nice to meet you too, and obviously to see you play. I see you've got some brighton gigs lined up, so i'll make sure i can make it to at least one of them x
Hej! Nice of you to request my friendship! As you might know, I have a review of your recent album coming up. It will happen, just don't know when. But soon enough. I hope. Well, I'll let you know when something happens! Thanks again, both for nice music, and the request!
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