Hauschka has announced a US tour beginning May 28th in Los Angeles. He’ll be playing a few dates with virtuoso violinist Hilary Hahn, veteran of both the London Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Hauschka will be releasing two 12" records in the coming months that include remixes of his songs by
Dustin O'Halloran has confirmed he will perform a series of solo piano performances in Japan later this year.
Dates:
26 Sep - Musicasa, Tokyo, JP
29 Sep - Gugenheim House, Kobe , JP
30 Sep - Sonorium, Tokyo, JP
Max Richter has colloborated with the Royal Ballet's Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor to create a fascinating new chamber opera for the Linbury Studio Theatre. The piece is based on the bestselling novel Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives by David Eagleman and is directed by McGregor.
The result is an
We are excited to announce that FatCat's 'post-classical' imprint 130701 Records will be represented in live venues across Europe in May by Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hauschka and Dustin O'Halloran. Starting TONIGHT in Amsterdam, this stretch of dates also includes a triple headline bill at London's beautiful Barbican Hall
2 days ago
Our friends at Lick, in Brighton make delicious frozen yoghurt and love music. They invited Maps & Atlases along to do a session and grab some fro-yo, you can watch it online
Back in November of 2011 the guys from Moshcam.com went and filmed The Twilight Sad playing at The Borderline in London. It's now up on their site and you can watch 'At The Burnside' and 'Alphabet' as if you were in the room, from the comfort of your own home. Or anywhere you can get an internet connection in fact.
The artists below are currently on tour around the world...
We are thrilled to announce a very special podcast update for today - a start-to-finish live performance of Jóhann Jóhannsson's stunning Miners' Hymns LP featuring NYC's Wordless Music Orchestra. Presented by WYNC and Arts>World Financial Centre in January of this year, the performance saw a very rare combined screening of Bill Morrison's archive-footage documentary on the ill-fated mining communities of North East England, The Miners' Hymns and a live, large-scale brass ensemble arrangement of Jóhann's score of the same name - the same instrumentation with which the score was written and originally recorded.
New Featured artist on Demo Website
French electronic mastermind Niebroj has been selected as our latest featured artist on the demo website.
Check out his track 'Memory Lapse' on our player below or alternatively go to the newly launched and improved Demo Site where you can find out more about Bean Machine as well as listen to our latest favourite demos and extensive archive.
‘New World’ by Odonis Odonis. Taken from the album ‘Hollandaze’
Directed by: Cameron Tomsett (www.tomsett.com)
U.S. Girls performing ‘The Island Song’ live on 5th May, at Cafe Publik in Austria.
‘Dead City’ by The Twilight Sad. Taken from the album ‘No One Can Ever Know’.
Video by Nicola Collins
Video Clip for Misled Youth by PAWS
The title track from the Misled Youth EP on FatCat Records May 15th 2012
By Phillip Taylor
Except footage of Baby Phil, taken by Catherine Taylor circa 1992
You can download one track from all of our current bands & artists by clicking on the links below. These links will be updated regularly with our most current releases. Enjoy!
'Ledged Up' is taken from Odonis Odonis' brand new LP 'Hollandaze'
'Pacemaker' is a Breton track that will be on the forthcoming album 'Other People's Problems' Download this earlier version for free, which was recorded in the band's home-studio in London.
'Kill It In The Morning' is taken from The Twilight Sads' forthcoming LP ' No One Will Ever Know'
'Winter' is taken from Maps & Atlases' forthcoming album 'Beware & Be Grateful'. The song finds the band’s tight kinetic rhythms matched to catchy, asymmetrical pop.
