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Post by Kee on Dec 29, 2022 20:49:16 GMT
Quite a good interview with Simon / Palmskin Productions here on MoWax days and post it
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Post by mrsirrus on Mar 8, 2023 13:03:28 GMT
I cannot believe I didn't know that a PA stopped Air from having Moon Safari being put out by the label. That is madness. I wonder if James got pissed when he found that out
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Post by jimmyjrg on Mar 10, 2023 9:55:36 GMT
I cannot believe I didn't know that a PA stopped Air from having Moon Safari being put out by the label. That is madness. I wonder if James got pissed when he found that out He's never mentioned it, but he must have found out as it's come up in interviews with Air a few times. I imagine he would be very pissed. |
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Post by masterblaster748 on Mar 10, 2023 16:01:21 GMT
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Post by Bester on Mar 10, 2023 18:02:01 GMT
But that PA was right: if they had signed, Moon Safari would have ended up like the Peshay album.
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Post by Mo'Matt on Mar 13, 2023 16:02:28 GMT
But that PA was right: if they had signed, Moon Safari would have ended up like the Peshay album. What makes you say that? Mo'Wax was still doing ok in 1998 so I think they'd have done a decent job of putting it out. But maybe less money for promo, who knows. But I don't know what went wrong with Peshay, that LP seems pretty close to being released on Mo'Wax. |
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Post by masterblaster748 on Aug 19, 2023 18:44:52 GMT
Palm Skin Productions – AKA versatile musician and producer Simon Richmond (whose CV includes Mo’ Wax, Depeche Mode, REM, Pulp, Neneh Cherry, and The Bays) – announces a new album ‘A Swarm In July’ a proverbial inspired record. ‘A Swarm In July' is a concept record that offers an alternative set of hacked proverbs to mirror the movement of the music and its path from ambience to rhythm, from harmony to noise, from its closed-in intimacies to its soaring expansions. The album looks at what happens when you choose to shift the crop - when you find the story within the story. As Simon eloquently puts it: “A proverb. A phrase. A saying. A Say-ing - the performance of that which has been said. A maxim. A truism. True-ism - the ideology or the myth of truth? Whose truth? Who puts you in the picture? What is the crop, the edit? When can you trust a truism in the world of deep fake? If every story is dependent on its beginning and end, how many stories are there, dormant, within the prescribed boundaries? Pre-Scribed - already written - typeset for us.” ‘A Swarm In July’ is a masterclass on how to frame and evolve stories and sound, created and recorded far and wide, while static and on the move. The title itself is taken from the proverbial bee-keepers saying, “A swarm in July is not worth a fly”, meaning that the later in the year it is, the less time there will be for bees to collect pollen from the flowers in blossom. Simon instead recontextualises this within the framework of the politically manufactured UK migrant crisis, dissecting the language used to dehumanise refugees: “When does a group become a swarm? When is a swarm valuable, and to whom? A swarm of bees to the beekeeper? A swarm of people to the forces of repression and hate?” Lead-single ‘Them That Help’, an orchestral, almost neo-classical, texturised soundscape featuring the transcendent viola of John Metcalfe (Duke Quartet/The Durutti Column), is taken from the false proverb “the Lord helps them that help themselves”, a phrase that originated in ancient Greece as “the Gods help those who help themselves” but has since been weaponised to accelerate neo-liberal agendas. Palm Skin Productions subverts the fictitious biblical reference, turning heresy into class critique: “Take a set of scales. At one end put the gold-plated pomp of high religion. The acquisition of wealth and people. The colonising forces that helped themselves to vast swathes of the world. At the other end of the scale are the carers, the helpers, the friends. The people. The heavyweights.” Elsewhere on the record, ‘Need Is A Friend’, partially recorded on headphones in Ralph Lawson’s (20/20 Vision label boss) front room in Leeds, hanging out before a gig, is a play on “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” Simon adds: “How often do we tell a story of obligation to make us feel better? Are these needs, or are they choices? Are these needs the friends we rely on as our alibis? With friends like needs, who needs enemies?”. For ‘We Stand, Divided’, a take on “Together we stand, divided we fall”, Simon contextualises again through the prism of the toxic UK immigration debate, fuelled by the fires of the Brexit referendum: “So many are taught to fear difference, to harden community into a dividing wall, but our strength is in our beautiful variation. Puppets stand in homogenous herds, moulded to a single malleable unit. We stand in celebratory disarray.” ‘I Say Not As I’ harnesses the language of the great British playwright Harold Pinter, a personal hero to Simon: “He can make the most mundane phrase bristle with menace. Ordinary objects and actions become sinister in his hands, just as the forces of oppression and torture get portrayed within the familiarity of cliché and monotony.” Album closer ‘Far From The Tree’ is in memory of Simon’s father who passed away while he was making this record: “It was important for me to finish the record with a piece of music for him that also has something of him in it. I’m so glad the finished piece - ‘Far From The Tree’ - is something that I think adequately fills the space I had in my mind but also makes sense in terms of the rest of the record.” credits palmskinproductions.bandcamp.com/album/a-swarm-in-july |
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Post by masterblaster748 on Feb 22, 2024 20:47:04 GMT
DJ KRUSH New Album『再生 -Saisei-』 Now Available on Digital Platforms URLs : djkrush.lnk.to/saisei [ Track List ] 1. 玄視界 -Genshikai- 2. 想翔花 -Soushouka- 3. 遊暮 -Yugure- feat. D.O 4. 奇迷 -Kimei- 5. 闇幻影 -Yamigenei- 6. 憂望 -Yubou- 7. 志遠 -Shien- 8. 合流 -Gouryu- feat. 鎮座DOPENESS 9. 躍進路 -Yakushinro- 10. 命流響 -Meiryukyou- 11. 破魔矢 -Hamaya- feat. Jinmenusagi 12. 飛明舞 -Himeibu- 13. 凛撃 -Ringeki- Produced by DJ KRUSH Mixed & Mastered by yasu2000 at big turtle STUDIOS Artist & Cover Photos by cherry chill will. Art Direction & Designed by SENGO DJ KRUSH announces the release of his latest album 『再生 -Saisei-』. This album marks his first independent release in the past four years since his previous work, 『TRICKSTER』. During the pandemic, DJ KRUSH reflected upon himself, honed his skills, and overcame－this is his first album remarking his new chapter after his independence. ‘Saisei’ in Japanese holds multiple meanings: to ‘Play’ music and art, to ‘Rebirth’, ‘Reconstruction’ to make something rebirth, and ‘Renaissance’ to revive art… . In 2024, on this opportunity of his independence, DJ KRUSH commits to ‘saisei’ and by repeating his commitment to ‘saisei’, he breathes new life into his creation as he carves out the future. Featured artists (in alphabetical order: Jinmenusagi, Chinza Dopeness, D.O |
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Post by Bester on Mar 12, 2024 7:44:27 GMT
DJ KRUSH New Album『再生 -Saisei-』 Now Available on Digital Platforms URLs : djkrush.lnk.to/saisei [ Track List ] 1. 玄視界 -Genshikai- 2. 想翔花 -Soushouka- 3. 遊暮 -Yugure- feat. D.O 4. 奇迷 -Kimei- 5. 闇幻影 -Yamigenei- 6. 憂望 -Yubou- 7. 志遠 -Shien- 8. 合流 -Gouryu- feat. 鎮座DOPENESS 9. 躍進路 -Yakushinro- 10. 命流響 -Meiryukyou- 11. 破魔矢 -Hamaya- feat. Jinmenusagi 12. 飛明舞 -Himeibu- 13. 凛撃 -Ringeki- Produced by DJ KRUSH Mixed & Mastered by yasu2000 at big turtle STUDIOS Artist & Cover Photos by cherry chill will. Art Direction & Designed by SENGO DJ KRUSH announces the release of his latest album 『再生 -Saisei-』. This album marks his first independent release in the past four years since his previous work, 『TRICKSTER』. During the pandemic, DJ KRUSH reflected upon himself, honed his skills, and overcame－this is his first album remarking his new chapter after his independence. ‘Saisei’ in Japanese holds multiple meanings: to ‘Play’ music and art, to ‘Rebirth’, ‘Reconstruction’ to make something rebirth, and ‘Renaissance’ to revive art… . In 2024, on this opportunity of his independence, DJ KRUSH commits to ‘saisei’ and by repeating his commitment to ‘saisei’, he breathes new life into his creation as he carves out the future. Featured artists (in alphabetical order: Jinmenusagi, Chinza Dopeness, D.O What do you all think of this? I was a bit underwhelmed, TBH. |
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