'Scenes from the Back Bedroom Window' Cdr OUT SOON

Get ready get ready, there's a new Declining Winter record in town. Scenes from the Back Bedroom Window is a cdr containing four tracks due very very soon on Secret Furry Hole. Heres what I had to say about it in conversation with the label

"with 'scenes from the back bedroom window' i was trying to make something a little more minimal with long stretched out notes. i wanted the whole thing to sound a little like it was underwater. it was recorded in the depths of winter with snowstorms so bad i had to walk six miles to get to work. i hope some of that feeling of detachment and isolation comes across in the music."

Brave Timbers 'For Every Day You Lost' OUT NOW

Ach I've been really busy recently moving house so am slow on the news uptake. Anyway this fantastic album by our violinist Sarah Kemp is now out. Please go to Norman Records to get your copy with bonus CD featuring The Declining Winter, Fieldhead, Gareth S Brown and Epic 45 remixes. And just look what Fluid Radio had to say about it

Brave Timbers podcast

Our very own violionist extraordinaire Sarah Kemp takes part in a Second Language podcast in advance of her wonderful Brave Timbers album 'For Every Day You Lost'. It contains a chat plus beautiful live versions of some songs off the album.

Download here.

Her headlining show with Gareth S Brown and Memory Drawings in Leeds was an absolute stunner. The album is absolutely beautiful and initial bonus copies come with a remix CD with a mix by......The Declining Winter.

Keep checking back to the Second Language site for release dates, purchase details etc

The Green Kingdom 'Prismatic'

This is the latest release on Home Assembly Music. A fine record label from Saltaire, Bradford who have released two of our records in the past. Initial copies come with a bonus CD featuring mixes from The Declining Winter, Fieldhead, Northerner, The Boats, Inch Time, BVDub, Part Timer and more. You'll need to order swiftly to get the special edition as these things are becoming increasingly popular with each release and the other ones have now mostly sold out.

You can listen to soundclips on the Home Assembly site

http://www.homeassemblymusic.com/listen.php

GIG ALERT: Brave Timbers, Gareth S Brown, Memory Drawings

an intimate evening of music and film featuring several current Declining Winter folk....

brave timbers

solo project from sarah kemp (lanterns on the lake, fieldhead, last harbour, the declining winter). violin, piano, tenor guitar and other acoustic instruments meet to produce beautifully mournful pastoral music inspired by rachel’s, dirty three, ‘the straight story’ soundtrack.
http://www.myspace.com/bravetimbers

gareth s brown

beautifully crafted songs and immense compositional skill. think philip glass, terry riley, michael nyman, max richter, yann tiersen and aphex twin. "music for entwined" 10″ due autumn on misplaced music.
http://garethsbrown.wordpress.com/

memory drawings

one off performance from anglo american collaboration between morocco based dulcimer player joel hanson and members of the declining winter. hammered dulcimer, acoustic guitars and violins combine to produce evocative, drifting pastoral instrumental pieces.
http://www.memorydrawings.blogspot.com/

plus films, projections and other incidental music.

saturday september 4th

admission £4/£3

Cardigan Arms, Leeds

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Memory Drawings

anglo american collaboration between morocco based dulcimer player joel hanson and members of the declining winter. hammered dulcimer, acoustic guitars and violins combine to produce evocative, drifting pastoral instrumental pieces.

one off performance leeds cardigan arms 04 sep 2010

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Upcoming........

It doesn't stop....oh no. Upcoming for the rest of 2010..........

"Scenes from the Back Bedroom Window" limited 3" CDr on Secret Furry Hole due early autumn

Remix on bonus CD with initial copies of The Green Kingdom "Prismatic" due September on Home Assembly Music

Remix on bonus CD with Brave Timbers "For Every Day You Lost" due autumn on Second Language

Remix on Team Forest CD on Aerotone due soon

T-shirts sold out at source

....except for the leftovers found in my cupboard. about 5 of em - various shapes sizes and colours. email if interested.

North American Distribution

Literally tens of you have asked about availability of our releases in North America. I am pleased to announce that we now have North American Distribution through the fantastic Coming Home Records

In addition our Home Assembly Music releases should soon be available through Experimedia

Fieldhead - Riser 10" EP - OUT JULY

Our (now) Vancouver based guitarist Paul Elam has a new release out next month under his Fieldhead moniker. Its a wonderfully grainy exploration of how dusty lo fi electronics can be married with eerie vocals to create something akin to if Aphex Twin had got hold of the vocalist of Mum and tortured her in an underground chamber. It features the vocals of our very own violinist Elaine Reynolds amongst others and well worth getting hold of especially for the first 50 which come with an exclusive screen print from Gizeh Records.