You might of noticed that there have been changes to the labels website and all. Yes we are in the process of improving and updating things here at Parallax Sounds. This means the website is currently under construction and we aim to make the website a more pleasurable experience and a better place to look at.
PARALLAX SOUNDS (NEWS)
Phantom have had a great year in 2009 what with their Great Pretender music video getting shown in all 400 Topshop stores in the U.K! It seems that they not only invented a new music genre "Gloomgaze" but may of started gloomgaze fashion aswell? Phantom also appeared on Cherry Red TV and have had great reviews, among them ofcourse was "single of the month" and "15th best single of 2009" in Artrocker magazine. The duo are now working on their next release which will be their debut album.
Sjofn lives in a log cabin in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska where she writes, sings, and records her unique magical folk songs. Sjofn is noted for making raw, lo-fi, melancholic, and often quirky little songs. Sjofn's voice is beautiful along with her excellent acoustic guitar skills. The music is enchanting and soothing to the soul and just you wait until you hear the clarinet, you be thinking that the clarinet have never sounded so good! Sjofn's music is original sounding but you can hear the likes of Nina Nastasia and Mazzy Star in there somewhere.
Her band, Mountain Mission, features Sjofn (vocals, guitar, banjo, ukulele), Paul Monserrat (clarinet, tin whistle, banjo, vocals), and Leif Ericson (fiddle, guitar, mandolin, and various sounds). Wash-tub bass player Christina Brown is also a frequent guest player.
Sjofn is pronounced: Shoa-fen
Leif is pronounced: Layf
Sjofn will be releasing a special album called "Secret" on digipack cd / download via Parallax Sounds and will be widely available worldwide in about March 2010.
Russian trio 2muchachos delights us all with a special debut album due out towards the end of March 2010 titled Formanta. The album features the old vintage 70's russian synthesizer "formanta" with it's lovely warmth sounds. The album is heavily influenced by icelandic music and yes you can hear artists like "Mum". Musically the album is very chilled out and gentle and is the sort of album you listen to whilst relaxing in front of an open fire or in candlelight. It's a great album to drift away to or escape from the noisey rat race. Formanta album is a ambient, electronic, urban folk album and you can hear bits of Mum and Ulrich Schnauss along with Radiohead's - Kid A and Portishead - Third albums. Formanta album will be available to buy on CD and to download. If your going to buy this album make sure you buy the limited edition version as they are very special and rare and only 50 copies are available.
Parallax Sounds artists get radio play on John Peel Radio - Dandellion and Global Soundtracks
If your a fan of John Peel, you might know that there are 2 radio stations dedicated to him in playing the best alternative music, the first one is Dandelion Radio and the other Global Soundtracks. Some of the artists from Parallax Sounds have been played on them!
Bye Bye Violet Tapes - Colours had radio play on Mark Whitby's show on Dandelion Radio back in March 2009.
Bagpipe Whiskey - Tobias and special live halloween session on Tom Ravenscroft (John Peel's son) show on Global Soundtracks:
http://www.globalsoundtracks.com/show/09-november-2009/
Bagpipe Whiskey - I Am Stupid track had radio play on Mark Whitby's show on Dandelion Radio back in December 2009.
93MillionMilesFromTheSun - July Sky track is now being played daily through the whole month of January 2010 on the Mark Whitby show on Dandelion Radio: http://www.dandelionradio.com
This is just the beginning! More to come!
Here's some nostalgia for you! Parallax Sounds music label was in session for the first time on Phonic FM Radio on the Peter Harris show on Tuesday 21st October 2008 and it was a great success! We had thousands of listeners from all over the world and hundreds of emails too! A big thank you to Phonic FM Radio, Peter Harris (Radio Presenter), Tony (Myspace and links provider) and ofcourse everyone who listened in to the radio show! You can now download the Parallax Sounds radio session for free! It is in 2 parts. ENJOY!!!
Foreign Cinema are working hard on their new debut album and it could be released by late summer. There are also discussions about a 7 inch single release just before the album. In the mean time the "Non-Synchronous Sound EP is available to buy on cd and download - the cd-r version has a bonus track which is available direct from the Parallax Sounds website.
Parallax Sounds welcomes The Gaa Gaa's to join the labels artist roster. The Gaa Gaa's are hotly tipped for best newcomer of 2010 and will be releasing some music on the label this year sometime. The Gaa Gaa's are a great band to see live aswell and they will be touring alot during 2010 around the U.K and certain parts of Europe.
New releases to expect in the upcoming future: 2 MUCHACHOS, BAGPIPE WHISKEY, BRIAN ELLIS, FOREIGN CINEMA, HITOMI UENO, MAELSTROM, MIN-Y-LLAN, MЯTNA, PART TIME DRUNKS, PHANTOM, PORTAL, SJOFN, THE GAA GAA'S!!!
PORTAL will be re-releasing his first album "Begin With A Name". The album was originally available through The Whisper Foundation label, but the label is no longer available due to changes. Parallax Sounds will be releasing this great lost album in the upcoming future! If you like great atmospheric, intelligent electronica with hints of Boards of Canada in sound, you really should check out this album out! Feel free to check his other album "An Uninsured Flood" (PS02) which is a stunning 2 cd album of great quality electronica works, available to buy from the release/shop page.
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Top 75 Albums of 2009! / Top 10 tracks from Parallax Sounds!
Category: Music
What a weird year it's been! 2009 the year of Swine Flu, President Obama, Michael Jackson's death... Anyway, better late than never! Here is my Top 75 albums of 2009 and a Top 10 best tracks from Parallax Sounds of 2009! Enjoy!
TOP 75 ALBUMS OF 2009!!!
75) Remano Eszildn - R-Tracks (Planet Mu)
74) Sunn 0))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
73) Wild Beasts - Two Dancers (Domino)
72) Sunset Wings - Covering For Solace
71) The Gentlemen Losers - Dustland
70) The Very Best - Warm Heart Of Africa
69) The Witch and the Robot - On Safari
68) The Yellow Moon Band - Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World
67) Neils Children - X.Enc
66) Mark Templeton - Acre Loss
65) Orb - Baghdad Batteries
64) Clark - Totems Flare (Warp)
63) Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps
62) Araya - Whilst We Try (Benbecula)
61) Point 7 - What? (Toytronic)
60) Christ - Distance Lends Enchantment To The View (Benbecula)
59) Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
58) Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship
57) The Fauns - The Fauns
56) Susumu Yokota - Mother
55) Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
54) Nocow - Hopaji (Parallax Sounds)
53) Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian (Warp)
52) Sam and the Plants - The Eft
51) Lamp Of The Universe - Acid Mantra
50) The Time and Space Machine - Volume 2
49) IJO - Selektida (Sutemos)
48) Clue To Kalo - Lilly Perdida (Mush)
47) Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)
46) Ochre - Like Dust Of The Balance (Benbecula)
45) Syntaks - Ylajali
44) White Rainbow - New Clouds
43) The Mummers - Tale To Tell
42) Andrew Bird - Useless Creatures
41) Goodbye Ivan - The K Syndrome
40) Gong - 2032
39) Plum - Different Skin (Benbecula)
38) Jah Wobble and the Chinese Dub Orchestra - Chinese Dub
37) Tyondai Braxton - Central Market (Warp)
36) Astra - The Weirding
35) Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
34) Milieu - Colortone
33) Miou Miou - Electronique/Miou Mixes
32) Bibio - Vignetting The Compost (Mush)
31) Tim Exile - Listening Tree (Warp)
30) Wisp - The Shimmering Hour (Rephlex)
29) Plaid - Heaven's Door
28) Little Dragon - Machine Dreams
27) Lone - Ecstacy and Friends
26) Asobi Seksu - Hush
25) Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (4AD)
24) Atlas Sound - Logos (Kranky)
23) Universal Studios Florida - Ocean Sunbirds
22) A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
21) Fredricson - Misc
20) Fever Ray - Fever Ray
19) St. Vincent - Actor (4AD)
18) Daniel Land and the Modern Painters - Love Songs For The Chemical Generation
17) The Flowers Of Hell - Come Hell Or High Water (Benbecula)
16) Maps - Turning The Mind
15) Nuearz - Saturation Point (Skam)
14) Oneohtrix Point Never -Rifts
13) Muse - The Resistance
12) The Big Pink - A Brief History Of Love (4AD)
11) David Sylvian - Manafon
10) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (Warp)
09) The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
08) Vuk - The Plains
07) Goodnight And I Wish - A Ruffled Mind Makes A Restless Pillow
06) 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - 93MillionMilesFromTheSun (Parallax Sounds)
05) Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
04) Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age (Warp)
03) Hudson Mohawke - Butter (Warp)
02) The Horrors - Primary Colours (XL Recordings)
01) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (Domino)
TOP 10 TRACKS FROM PARALLAX SOUNDS OF 2009!
10) Isles Of Kin - Oomingmak (Cover version of Cocteau Twins)
09) Nocow - How Many Yellow Leaves
08) Maelstrom - I Long To Be Free
07) Foreign Cinema - Lovers And Killers
06) Bagpipe Whiskey - I Am Stupid
05) 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - Darke Star
04) Foreign Cinema - At The Bottom Of The Deep Blue Sea
03) Phantom - Voodoo Romantic
02) 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - The Times We Have Are Now
01) 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - To The Sky (Cover version of Maps)
Congratulations 93MillionMilesFromTheSun! You made 6th best album of 2009 and number 1 best track from Parallax Sounds of 2009!
BAGPIPE WHISKEY IN SESSION FOR GLOBAL SOUNDTRACKS! Presented by: Tom Ravenscroft (John Peel's son)
After playing 'Horsebite' by Bagpipe Whiskey in GS018 we received a deluge of emails demanding more. Ever eager to please we tracked down Bagpipe Whiskey, also known as Ben, and he suggested there would be no better time to record him than Halloween and no spookier place to record than an old cinema in Fishguard, South West Wales. So that's what we did.
Thursday, November 05, 2009
The Gaa Gaa's interview and feature in German underground magazine "Fanzine Oh Fancy!"
Current mood: calm
Category: Music
Interview with - Fanzine Oh Fancy!
Gav was interviewed for a feature in German underground mag 'Fanzine Oh Fancy!' read his interview below...
01 At first, tell us something about your music - how did you develop your sound?
We started off playing a sound that was influenced mainly by blues music. Artist's such as Howlin Wolf, Buddy Guy and the more jazzy side of the post punk era ..for example bands like The Pop Group and Essential Logic. This worked for a while but then we discovered the more psychedelic side of 60's groups and the sheffield movement of the late 70's and early 80's and soon found a style that was more suited.
02 Who Are you influenced by?
Lot's of bands have inspired us from every era as far back as the 40's but to name a few - The Attack, Captain Beefheart, Pere Ubu, James Chance, Lydia Lunch, Artery, Ex-Models, Neils Children, Tiger Lillies and much much more!
03 You guys were based in Jersey- why the transition to Brighton?
Brighton is alot like Jersey, a seaside town with lots of character so I (Gavin) suppose that was one of the main reasons also It's close to London which is great cos we're really suited to that city. We never play in Brighton and we like it that way. It makes things alot more comfortable keeping our social life separate from our music.
04 Tell us something about your Liveshows.
We were alot more hectic early on. We've matured alot and the music has come along way from the raw sound we began with. There use to be just guitars and bin lids at the start and now we have blossomed into a more abrasive force.
05 Can you remember your first gig? How was it?
The first show was at a house party filled with drunk teenagers who just wanted to smash things up. We were the best band for that type of show in Jersey. It ended with the police showing up and our founder drummer being arrested for obstruction. The place was a write off at the end of the night = POW!!!
06 Do you have a favourite location/city or club to stay live on stage?
London is where our fanbase is so we play there quite regularly. Favourite venues would have to be The Victoria in Mile End as well as The Barfly in Camden. The sound is always amazing @ both venues!
07 Why the crazy bandname "The Gaa Gaa's" - any deeper acceptation?
My good friend Elvis J Healey gave me the name to begin with cos I was always a bit mental when I was younger. I use to spay fire extinguishers over bands @ gigs and get kicked out of venues and banned for life so he said once "that Gavin kid is so bloody GAA GAA, look at him go" and then eventually I got the band going and that was the ideal name.
08 Can you tell us something about your forthcoming EP "Repulsion Seminar"?
The fourth coming EP is coming along really well. It's alot more thought out than anything else we've done. The first EP 'We Are All Pop Stars!' was thrown together really quickly and we lost some of the spikeyness that the songs captured in the live shows where-as with this new EP, the live sound really comes across and hits you hard on the first listen. We're looking forward to peoples reactions as we're being quoted as a potential band when I'd rather us be quoted as a great band. I think this EP will really put us higher up the ladder.
09 What's coming up for The Gaa Gaa's in 2010?
We've just signed to indie label Parallax Sounds whom we look to be releasing some singles with in the new year so we're very excited about that, also we have a show booked @ Alexandra Palace in March which will be the biggest venue we have played so far to the biggest crowd. We hope to catch a bit more attention amongst the industry in 2010 cos we feel we have alot more to offer than alot of the overrated stuff out there at the moment. Only time will tell ;)
10 And what are you hearing at the moment?
There's some really great bands coming out of citys in the south of england like Bristol and Bath with the likes of - Venus Bogardus and The Hysterical Injury also the ever great 'Disconcerts' from Chichester. We love finding new bands that are playing an exciting sound and they keep popping up which is nothing short of BRILL!!! x
Feature found here - http://www.ohfancy.de/Featured/The-Gaa-Gaas/
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THE GAA'S GAA
You play as the horror on your debut album, distort the keyboards so brutally like The epsilon and sounding so incredibly lo-fi, that more may well be almost impossible. The band name The Gaa Gaa's basically really says it all. Crazy, loony and not the least bit reluctant whip the last remnants of mutilated guitar riffs disoriented in swampy beat landscapes, driven by a constant and hardly changed in its initial form the basic rhythm. Also a bit of testing iCycler move in the Gaa Gaa's who have found themselves in the legendary club "Bomp" in Jersey for the first time together. Founded in late 2003 by frontman Gavin Tate, a singer-songwriter and guitarist. The rest of the Gaa Gaa's ask Peter Hass, Ali Cooper and Ashley Baker. With the success it has not subsequently lasted longer. Their ambitions were simply too special of wild escapades, jazz, punk, and the infliction versauter Blue deposits.
2007, Gaa Gaa's switched from Jersey to Brighton with new band members and new sounds. As sources of inspiration were the early art-punk from London with admixtures of Neils Children, EIOH, Theoretical Girl & Twisted Charm. However, you do not completely deviated from other paths and to retain your professed characteristics of jazz, which, especially in the play 'The One Eye'd Stranger 'was pushed to the forefront. A new addition was a darker sound from the 70 Sheffield movements with the modern no-wave bands such as particular genre as the ex-models, The Sick Lipstick & Numbers shaped. There then followed a lot of shows in the heart of London. They harvested a lot of credit and the final end product of the first EP and their second EP 'Repulsion Seminar' in December 2009 and more releases in 2010 on Parallax Sounds with more experimental excesses...>..>
At this time there was actually no longer be ignored if they are bored, the sounds of Gaa Gaa's by local radio stations and we immediately knew who you had to do the next few minutes. Of course, provides us with the band still far from over styles such as psychedelic, garage, post-goth, post punk and soft approaches of Free Jazz. In addition to these genres and similar bands, including some large to like The Cure, Buzzcocks, Neil's Children, and Ornette Coleman. My schedule is full, relevant music magazines already leading the Gaa Gaa's as the "Newcomer" in 2010 and in all probability will follow up to then also the first long-player of the quartet. Currently, there are the Gaa Gaa's the new EP 'We Are All Pop Stars', produced by Alistair Gavan into the transmission studios in Brighton, with the guest saxophonist Luke Georgiou by Twisted Charm.
Grab a FREE copy of Bagpipe Whiskey's debut release, "The Asparagus Puppy EP" from the Prana Series. Click on here to go to the page where you can download this awesome free release and at the same time check his new music video to the track "Men Bason". Enjoy!
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