ANGELA VALID - 'ANGELA VALID'

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• WIW007 - LP

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Announcing the eponymously titled 3 track LP from Angela Valid.... recorded in one live session, one afternoon in Autumn 2010, using guitars, drums, violin, sampler, thumb piano, trombone and a banjo. As a result of AV's improvised approach to recording, all three pieces have only been performed the once, and are proudly presented here on their 3rd release for London-based collective World in Winter Recordings. Taking in far too many influences to mention (previous reviews have made comparisons to Tortoise, This Heat & Ashtray Navigations to name but a few), AV conjure up a surprisingly atmospheric hogo... leading listeners on a cinematically inclined march over barren windswept vistas, obfuscating, clunksome, groove-dungeons and vast, humid sound deltas. The A side contains no edits. Side V was edited to fit the vinyl. There are no overdubs Previous releases by Angela Valid have aroused the following praise/suspicions: REVIEWS OF SPLIT 7" "...pulsing sideways into brightly lit hallways with noticeably druggy footsteps." THE WIRE (issue 263) "...pleasing instrumental post rocky piece with an improvised mantra ish feel to it. Lovely and well worth a punt! " Norman Records

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Plays on 6Music from Tom Ravenscroft.
REVIEWS FOR OUR EP "THIS BOOK'S ON FIRE"

(Angela Valid) manage to do something so effortless in their improvisations that it feels natural and never forced - it feels like the noise is there because it has to be." (BOOMKAT)
"At times it's like there's someone building something in the next room, or doing construction work upstairs, banging tools about. But at the same time there's constant jazzy rhythmics buried beneath it all as well. If you like this sort of stuff (we sure do) these four tracks are all very satisfying and leave us wanting to hear more..." AQUARIUS

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PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES - 'POISSON'

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• MIE008 - LP

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New Label to Forte...MIE Music is extremely proud to be reissuing on vinyl one of the finest gems in Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides astounding back catalogue. Poisson was originally released by Rayon Recs in a run of 50 cassettes in 2009, hardly seeing the light of day before it sold out so we're extremely happy to be releasing it in a run of 500 heavyweight LPs with striking artwork by the band. Droning and looping flute, scattering drums, cyclical patterns and inaudible mutterings. "Percussionist Pascal Nichols and flautist Kelly Jones have minted a profound new form of improvisation that carves spectral shapes from silence and creates free music with a spare orchestral beauty and deep psychedelic atmosphere." - David Keenan, The Wire

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VILLEMONTE, JOHN - 'PEOPLE LIKE YOU'

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• SSP012 - LP

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***A reissue of the 1976 People Like You album from JOHN VILLEMONTE. Originally pressed in an edition of 200 copies, People Like You features ten tracks of pastoral melodic folk/psych sound that's been called a cross between David Crosby's "If I Could Only Rember My Name" and Bread. Smooth but haunting and very nice indeed.

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MAGIC TRICK - 'GLAD BIRTH OF LOVE'

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• EMP013 - LP

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Empty Cellar records is proud to announce the latest full-length album by TIM COHEN (FRESH & ONLYS), The Glad Birth of Love. This is Tim Cohen's fourth album following his 2009 debut, The Two Sides of Tim Cohen (Empty Cellar), and two full-lengths (Laugh Tracks / Tim Cohen's Magic Trick) and one EP (Bad Blood) on New York's Captured Tracks label. Featuring guest appearances by JOHN DWYER (THEE OH SEES), GRACE COOPER (SANDWITCHES), DIEGO GONZALEZ (GONG, CITAY, JONAS REINHARDT, DRY SPELLS), JOE ROBERTS (BLACK FICTION), AMBER LAMPRECHT (RODRIGUEZ BAND), and STEVE PEACOCK, The Glad Birth of Love is the first Tim Cohen album to not directly bear his name, but the name of his band, MAGIC TRICK. Recorded in a tower at Tim Cohen's home this album marks a departure from his signature radio-ready song craft. The Glad Birth of Love is a 45 minute album composed of four epic long-form compositions saturated with Tim's uncanny pop sensibilities and vivid lyrical imagery. Transitioning seamlessly from sparse acoustic blues, to dense psychedelic bass & oud ragas, to lush layered vocal harmonies this album is a culmination of Tim's work to date. Fresh and Onlys tour after the End Of the Road...

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