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2011 release. Precisely four decades since the original release of the 1971 LP Histoire De Melody Nelson, Serge Gainsbourg's most celebrated composer, arranger and composer Jean-Claude Vannier returns to the same artistic territory that has since come to represent his most iconic period and continually inspire almost five generations of experimental rock luminaries. Respected throughout France as a long running singer-songwriter and experimental composer in his own right, it has taken this inclusive forty-year period for his music to travel beyond his central European fanbase thanks to a growing community of vinyl archeologists and French pop and conceptual rock enthusiasts who have come to clearly recognize the recurring production credits to JCV as a seal of quality and approval while taking gambles on Parisian picture sleeve pop. This LP comprises a personnel of the legendary European session players that appeared on classic Vannier and Gainsbourg scores such as Cannabis, La Horse, Slogan, and Les Chemins de Katmandou, as well as Histoire De Melody Nelson itself, and his own mythical follow up LP, the truly bizarre 1973 avant-garde ballet L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches. The rhythm section line-up for the album comprises Pierre-Alain Dahan (drums), Dougie Wright (drums), Herbie Flowers (bass), Tony Bonfils (bass), Vic Flick (guitar), Denys Lable (guitar and banjo), and Marc Chantereau (percussion). Recorded partly in Paris and partly in the UK (not unlike the classic Gainsbourg LPs) the album Roses Rouge Sang ("Blood Red Roses") hears JCV taking care of vocal duties in his own unique style combining the macabre and the optimistic with ingenious world play and expert poetic use of the French language. Flourishing from initial rehearsal sessions for the first-ever live performance of Histoire De Melody Nelson, Roses Rouge Sang captures the authentic line-up just weeks after their initial reunion. With Roses Rouge Sang, JCV combines a lifetime of experience working with some of the best orchestras and pop rhythm sections in throughout the world with a return to his roots and his initial, radical ideas on how contemporary music could combine the two.
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Gruff Rhys presents the soundtrack for the film Set Fire To The Stars (2014). Although recorded around the same time as Gruff's last LP (2014's hugely acclaimed American Interior), Set Fire To The Stars paints a very different picture to that of the Welsh explorer John Evans. Equal parts cocktail jazz, hazy Americana and atomic age bop, it's a love letter to New York in all its hopeful, post war glory - a gorgeous diversion of a record to add to Gruff's increasingly brilliant solo catalogue. Gruff on Set Fire To The Stars: "This is an album of music written for a film directed by Andy Goddard concerning the poet Dylan Thomas's first week in the USA in 1950 and his uneven friendship with fellow poet - and agent of sorts - John Malcolm Brinnin. As the film is shot in black and white and set in the jazz age, I decided not to use any instruments unavailable in that era. I also kept the recordings as live takes. Beyond that - I didn't try and ape the style of that era in particular apart from the song 'Atom Bomb' which on screen, plays on a jukebox in a cafe and needed to be true to the year sonically and lyrically in some way. Playing the guitar, I formed a short lived 'Agro-Jazz' quartet (you got a problem with that?) called Video Loss with Chris Walmsley on drums, Jim Barr on double bass and Osian Gwynedd on piano. I wrote a bunch of songs and instrumentals. Some other bits were improvised to picture by Osian Gwynedd and myself. 'Chop Shop' features Video Loss on max Moon-Ra improvisational setting. Gruff ab Arwel arranged all the strings and Gavin Fitzjohn played and scored the brass. It was recorded and mixed at Toybox, Bristol by the incredible Ali Chant - apart from the strings which were recorded at Metropolis, London."
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LP version. Gruff Rhys presents the soundtrack for the film Set Fire To The Stars (2014). Although recorded around the same time as Gruff's last LP (2014's hugely acclaimed American Interior), Set Fire To The Stars paints a very different picture to that of the Welsh explorer John Evans. Equal parts cocktail jazz, hazy Americana and atomic age bop, it's a love letter to New York in all its hopeful, post war glory - a gorgeous diversion of a record to add to Gruff's increasingly brilliant solo catalogue. Gruff on Set Fire To The Stars: "This is an album of music written for a film directed by Andy Goddard concerning the poet Dylan Thomas's first week in the USA in 1950 and his uneven friendship with fellow poet - and agent of sorts - John Malcolm Brinnin. As the film is shot in black and white and set in the jazz age, I decided not to use any instruments unavailable in that era. I also kept the recordings as live takes. Beyond that - I didn't try and ape the style of that era in particular apart from the song 'Atom Bomb' which on screen, plays on a jukebox in a cafe and needed to be true to the year sonically and lyrically in some way. Playing the guitar, I formed a short lived 'Agro-Jazz' quartet (you got a problem with that?) called Video Loss with Chris Walmsley on drums, Jim Barr on double bass and Osian Gwynedd on piano. I wrote a bunch of songs and instrumentals. Some other bits were improvised to picture by Osian Gwynedd and myself. 'Chop Shop' features Video Loss on max Moon-Ra improvisational setting. Gruff ab Arwel arranged all the strings and Gavin Fitzjohn played and scored the brass. It was recorded and mixed at Toybox, Bristol by the incredible Ali Chant - apart from the strings which were recorded at Metropolis, London."
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"Twisted Nerve Mixed is the latest hi-speed mutant mixtape from B-musicologist Andy Votel using tracks exclusively selected from the vaults his own ferociously independent non-record label. A 40 track masala of T.N. D.I.Y classics, B-sides, rarities and remixes celebrating a decade of teenage garage jams, Mancunian psychsploitation, arkhestral communism and workshop pop, Twisted Nerve Mixed features Voice Of The Seven Woods, Samandtheplants, the first-ever release by Badly Drawn Boy, rare remixes from Cherrystones and Homelife and psyched-out side projects from Jane Weaver (Misty Dixon), Clearspot (Duophonic), Graham Massey (808 State) and CD debuts of vinyl-only cuts from label stalwarts Sirconical, Dakota Oak and many more lubricated in custom-built sound effects and dialogue -- Twisted Nerve's roster has never been so digestible! Accidentally conceived in 1998 when cut and paste graphic artist and obscure vinyl obsessive Andy Votel teamed up with screenprinter cum second-class songsmith, Damon Gough (Badly Drawn Boy) and converted their own 4-track compact cassettes into cut-price vinyl 45s, Twisted Nerve is now ten years old. Consistently jarring with the status quo, our thoroughly unreliable and schizophrenic release schedules fits like a fingerless glove on an octopus. Embracing the true nature of the independent record label with little regard to the impractical standards of the major music industry, Twisted Nerve has conspired to bring you the closest thing to a community run industry with our privately-pressed and handmade products. Support independent labels. Breaking boundaries before breaking even!"
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"The return of one of the most exciting acts that Twisted Nerve Records has ever had the pleasure of releasing records by. In a similar vein to 2003's Toolshed EP, by turns sinister, pulsating, throbbing, foreboding and uplifting, Toolshed's self-titled debut LPis like nothing you've ever heard before -- with knobs on. Call it Komiche-freakout-spacerock, call it avant-freejazz-opera, call it what you want, but one thing that it most certainly is not is music to have on in the background. This is music for the fully engaged only. Borne out a new outhouse backyard studio following the birth of his son, Graham Massey's Toolshed were formed as a houseband at Manchester's seminal club night of the same name some 6 years ago. Not merely content with having redefined dance music with 808 State, Graham Massey steers the good ship Toolshed into uncharted music territories. Comprising various members of Homelife along with a host of other musical mavericks, Toolshed grew into a psych-jazz-techno-orchestra, culminating at one point in a 28 piece big band performance commissioned for a three day workshop alongside Nitin Sawney at The Contact Theatre -- including a huge brass section culled from the Royal Northern College Of Music as well as a string quartet."
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"Started in 1998, the Toolshed project is the brainchild of Graham Massey of 808 State and Homelife fame. Sick of club nights that left him feeling short changed Massey decided to start a club night where you could bring your own instruments and join in with whatever records or live jams were taking place. He was soon joined by open minded guests and friends including Paddy Steer (Homelife), Dick Clark (Spaceheads), James Ford (Simian) and the amazing multi octave voice of Seaming To. Lazy observers will call it Jazz but it is in fact truly indescribable, infused with Massey's long long history stretching to the Factory signed Biting Tongues right through his techno days with 808 and speeding off into the future. Toolshed has been hailed as one of the most expansive and ambitious attempts to leave the planet."
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"Nice girls shouldn't do it, but here's one girl who did. Dreamy vocals, keyboard, guitar, piano, recorder, bells. Luma Lane wanders around these sounds, collecting them, making them her own. These are songs about adventures real and imagined. Experimental pop music, that is lo-fi and unusual. Nicegirls opens with the optimistic-but-sad electronic landscape of 'Sleepy Recorder' and finishes with the sad-after-the-storm 'Ships'. Nicegirls recalls the seductively dreamy quiet moments between sleeping and waking."
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"Signed in the summer of 1998 after the first A+R scouting mission by Badly Drawn Boy and Andy Votel for the fledgling Twisted Nerve, DOT are a band that defy the usual music convention. DOT have played in cinemas, churches, theatres, pubs and breweries. They have scored music for old films and for new films. Individually they have released records under their own auspices (Dave Tyack as himself, James Rutledge as Pedro, James Wright as himself) Their debut album, DOT comprises ten carefully selected tracks from their current repertoire. The airtight three piece manage to encompass rock, jazz, electronica, glitch, krautrock and folk into an album that measures in at the perfect LP length -- 45 minutes."
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"Hot on the heels of his universally acclaimed debut mini LP comes the second instalment of tracks culled from the wealth of bedroom recordings brought to Twisted Nerve last summer. "Manchester is currently buzzing with excitement over this 23 year old Salford wunderkind. If Jesus Christ appeared tomorrow in the Northern Quarter, all anyone would want to know is 'How good is Aidan Smith ? ' and Jesus would say 'He's f*ckin brilliant', because he is" -- NME . The seven tracks on this his second album, cover subjects as diverse as baked beans, jellyfish, rice crispies, nitwits, eskimos and gin. With a handful of genres thrown in too there's something for the balladeer (Dream Song 2), lounge freaks (Eskimo) Surf Guitar(Nitwit Jive) and classic singer songwriter (Eskimo)."
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"Debut album from Misty Dixon. Iced To Mode features 11 songs displaying a reaction to a vast range of influences from All Saints to My Bloody Valentine. Misty Dixon's debut 'Milk Money' EP was compared to 'Palace spliced with Jane Birkin' -- NME. From eerie opener 'The Sea Is Not Far' through the luscious 'Are You Lost?' and forthcoming single 'You're So Cruel To My Heart' the first half of this album will seduce and entrance you. With a second half which includes a sublime cover of Prince's 'The Beautiful Ones', a tender song about Jane's cat Coco and a sleighbell fuelled ending with 'La Chanson De Noel'."
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Twisted Nerve is the Badly Drawn Boy's label. "Safety In Numbers sees Twisted Nerve re-acquainting itself with the label sampler format and introduces the boys and girls of the TN Class of 2003. Opens with DOT's 'Part Three', a drum heavy, exhilarating post-rock stomp that's been a live favorite for the last couple of years. The second track is by one of TN's newest signings Luma Lane. Sounding not unlike Julee Cruise taking a late-night stroll through Moominland, Luma Lane's music will charm and unnerve you in equal measures. Toolshed's 'NaNaNaNaNaaNaa' is like nothing you've ever heard before -- with knobs on. Call it Kosmiche-freakout-spacerock, call it avant-freejazz-opera, call it what you want, but one thing that it most certainly isn't is music to have on in the background. Sirconical's layered, distorted test tones, oblique melodicism and that magical but rare thing in electronic music - warmth - are all present and correct. Safety In Numbers ends somewhat appropriately with Misty Dixon's 'Outro'. Music to fall in and out of love to, the debut LP will see the dreamy chanteuses of Misty Dixon stretch their minimal pop paeans to epic proportions."
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Ltd edition 10" vinyl in TN wraparound sleeve.
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"Just 23 years of age and hailing from Salford, Aidan Smith has managed to soak up most of the best music of the 20th century and make something new that is completely his own. Aidan learned to play music in bands formed with his friends such as 'Rob Curry and the Tandoori Chickens' and 'Jack Spam and the Spamettes' which were based around the nucleus of 'The Egg Plant Trio' (comprising Aidan, Kev Rogers and Jack Jennings). Whilst at University he began to record on 4-track by himself and is now ready to compromise his anti-social personality and perform live."
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"On a similarly unfashionable concept album tip, Twisted Nerve's numbers have reached the mid life crisis inducing 40 and instead of doing the run of the mill-grass is always greener leave your wife for a young blonde bauble thing - Twisted Nerve ran away to the Zoo. A place of tender care called Twisted Nerve Zoo. To document Twisted Nerve's mid life crises, all the acts recorded songs about their favorite animals at the Zoo and we decided to collect them all together and give them to YOU. It's the soundtrack to the best animal related movies that haven't been made. Yet? Badly Drawn Boy contributes a brand new exclusive track, the oompah inspired 'Push Me Pull Me' which shows a return to his experimental roots on the label. There are Byrdsian harmonies (DOT with 'Horses'), extreme noise techno (Sirconical's 'Sloth') and Bubblegum garage (Misty Dixons .. 'Butterfly'). It's yet another fine example of Twisted Nerve's diversity, versatility and knack of producing compilations like no one else." Also includes: Andy Votel, Little Miss Trinitron, The Insect (Ian & Joe of Mum&Dad), Dave Tyack, Mariano, Cherrystones, Supreme Vagabond Craftsman.
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"The Story of Rip Van Winkle may seem incredible to many, but nevertheless I give it my full belief, for I know the vicinity of our old Dutch settlements to have been very subject to marvellous events and appearances...' In addition to his work on the debut albums by DOT and Misty Dixon, David Tyack follows his solo debut with an album based upon Rip Van Winkle, the short story by Washington Irving. Where Am Deister drew comparisons from Tortoise to Faust, Can and even Debussy, Rip Van Winkle takes its inspiration from a classic work of American fiction. Rip Van Winkle, an idle fellow from the Dutch settlements goes into the Catskill mountains, where he falls into a deep sleep. When he awakes, he finds that those he once knew have passed away, and that his country has undergone major political and social change."
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Twisted Never is the Badly Drawn Boy's label in the UK. "Wilkommen to the wonderful world of Am Deister, the debut LP from Twisted Nerve's multi faceted, multi instrumentalist, multi careered Dave Tyack. Inspired by his childhood memories of life in Bredenbeck, Germany and the nearby Deister Forest where he whiled away his days, the album is a beautiful collection of folk tinged melodies influenced by his love of Krautrock, cinematic soundscapes, and seminal blues. As usual, Dave plays all instruments on the album (11 in all) and for the first time he even treats us to some vocals. The 24 tracks are wonderfully formed, heartfelt and earthy and in typical Dave Tyack style they never outstay their welcome."
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