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Hywel Davies – Eponymous New Album Out January 14th on ASC Records
http://www.primafacie.ascrecords.com/
http://www.hyweldavies.co.uk/

‘Nothing in the classical canon quite prepares you for Hywel Davies… the album [Natural Language] contained an invigorating collage of material, both deliberately arranged and aleatoric.’ – Louise Gray, The Wire

Hywel Davies, a composer, sonic artist and installation artist, reveals his most significant preoccupations as a composer in new album ‘Hywel Davies’ – exploring the possibilities of ‘white-note’ music (non-chromatic diatonic music) and aleatoric music. A parallel creative life as a sonic installation artist and a concert music composer has resulted in captivatingly diverse works, presented gracefully in this release.

Combining...

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NILS BECH – LOOK INSIDE out January 14th on Fysisk Format

“ethereal, hauntingly beautiful” Dazed Digital
recently featured in TIME Magazine and NY Times

Meet the Norwegian musician and performing artist Nils Bech – an unusual and acutely talented gentleman who explores the tensions between art and dance, contemporary music and pop music. His way of making connections between musical genres and across different settings sets him apart as a truly original artist.

Look Inside is the title of his second album, an album featuring arrangements and performances that range from electronic producers Ost&Kjex to the contemporary classical composers Ole Henrik Moe and Julian Skar.
”I wanted to make an album that brought together genres that may feel opposite, but still feels very close to me” N...

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Shortly after the end of the celebrated “Heidenfest 2012” tour together with their label mates of WINTERSUN, restless Finnish folk metal pioneers KORPIKLAANI will soon be on the road again!

In January and February of 2013, the band will embark on an extensive headliner tour in order to bring both their classics as well as the enchanting tunes of their latest album “Manala” (out since August 6, 2012) onto the European stages. Support will come from Estonian fellow folk metallers METSATÖLL.

Every fan knows about KORPIKLAANI’s onstage brilliancy. Now the band grants exclusive insight into their activities behind the scenes – in the form of a highly entertaining backstage tour of the Heidenfest 2012 show at LKA Longhorn, Stuttgart, hosted by front man Jonne Järvelä!

Keep your h...

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Justin Sullivan, lead singer of the English band NEW MODEL ARMY, will be guest vocalist on the track ’The Windswept Mercy’ which will appear on the new SOILWORK double album, ’The Living Infinite’. Formed in 1980 in Bradford, England, New Model Army still have a very loyal fan-base and SOILWORK frontman Björn ’Speed’ Strid counts himself as one of them.

Sullivan shares the serendipitous back-story on how he met up with Sweden’s melodic metal maestros, SOILWORK:
”Some years ago, I met Björn somewhere in the deserts of the southwestern U.S. I expect we both had good reasons for being there – though things like reason get swallowed up in the strangeness of deserts...

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Girl Band are a four piece noise-rock band from Dublin, Ireland. There are no girls in the band.

They formed in late 2011 and “France 98” is their second release with Any Other City Records. Musically somewhere between Bleach-era Nirvana, mclusky, Jesus Lizard and even that incendiary first Idlewild demo in their teens, long before they started sounding like REM. This a band listening to the same bands as METZ have been listening to, but living a lot closer to home.

The EP is released on a limited run of 300 12″ handstamped, numbered records.

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To follow their (9/10 NME rated) debut album ‘Must We Find A Winner’ Klak Tik (comprised of Søren Bonke, Matthew Mitchinson & Jonathan Beyer), escaped the trappings of East London’s alternative coffee shops and vintage chic for a simple purer existence in the Welsh village of Penrhos. For a month Klak Tik drew inspiration from the cold January sea, set up a make shift recording studio deep under Parys Mountain and shouted high into the chapel’s rafters.

On November 26th, the band will release the first single to be taken from the new album, Reborn.
Principal Songwriter Søren Bonke had this to say about the inspiration for ‘Reborn’.

”I was travelling on the Piccadilly Line towards Ealing during rush hour one morning and I was looking at this man in a suit sitting across from...

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RICHARD THOMPSON – ELECTRIC
BRAND NEW ALBUM ARRIVES FEBRUARY 11th 2013
FULL UK TOUR IN FEBRUARY 2013

Declared by Rolling Stone as one of the Top 20 Guitarists Of All Time and considered one of the UK’s most outstanding songwriters, musician Richard Thompson returns with a brand new, guitar driven record titled ELECTRIC for Proper Records on Monday, February 11th. Richard’s Electric Trio will be taking to the road for a major UK tour on Wednesday February 20th and will tour the USA starting in March. Full tour details for the UK are below. Tickets are on sale in the UK starting 10am Friday, Nov. 9, 2012!

http://soundcloud.com/proper-music-distribution/richard-thompson-good-things

FULL TOUR INFORMATION

Wed 20 Feb CARDIFF St David’s Hall
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Thu 21 ...

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CHARLIE WINSTON – New Album ‘Running Still’ Out 28 January 2013 on Real World Records

UK press reaction to Charlie’s 2009 album, ‘Hobo’

“immaculately crafted” – Q
”If Chris Martin ditched Coldplay and took to the road with a more rootsy outfit, he might come up with something like Hobo” – Daily Express
“The Chaplin look complements a quirky, bluesy musical style” – The Telegraph
“A worthy contender for la petite sensation de 2010 in the UK” – The Guardian
“Charlie Winston is set to be very big indeed” – Record Collector
”Lyrically, vocally and musically compelling”….“Full flavoured, deep and rich in quality” – Maverick
“we predict great things for this album – and Charlie” – Stylist
“What took us so long to catch on?” – Star Magazine
“I...

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JAMES will be releasing their first ever box set on December 10th, 2012. Entitled The Gathering Sound, the box set covers the band’s career to date and includes all eleven studio albums on a unique j-shaped USB stick.

This strictly limited edition, deluxe 12”x12” box set contains:
– the 4GB USB stick (featuring all eleven studio albums plus the non-album “best of” tracks in hi fidelity FLAC format with access to 320 kbps MP3 files),
– three CDs (one CD of live rarities, one CD of studio rarities and one CD which combines the recent, critically-acclaimed The Morning After and The Night Before albums),
– a DVD of Come Home (featuring the show from the Manchester GMEX 92 on DVD for the first time),
– a heavy 12” 180gsm black vinyl featuring four previously unreleased demos from the...

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I briefly spoke to Merlin and Chrigel from Eluveitie shortly before they played the HMV Forum in London as part of their tour with Sabaton, and asked them about their albums and touring..

Festivalphoto: Your new album, Helvetios was released in February. How has it been going down with the fans?

Chrigel: It’s going down great, reactions have been extremely positive.

Festivalphoto: 6 months after Helvetios you released the early years. What made you decide to go back and re-record your first EP (Ven) and release it with a remastered version of Spirit, as the early years?

Chrigel: On one hand both havent been available for quite a while so it made sense to re-release them, and also we’re celebrating our tenth anniversary this year we wanted to do something special for the fans...