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Cat and Bird Split 7″
The Cat and Bird 7″ is a very limited edition split between us and the late Break Mission Kills. This collaboration, however, is more of a marriage than a split, with each of our band’s derelict post-pop aesthetic supporting the other’s. The entire run is limited to 100 copies, though the record (and bonus tracks) can be downloaded for free at www.catandbird.info. We were thrilled to work with Peter King, who has been cutting his distinctive transparent records for over 20 years in his rural Ashburton workshop. King has worked with hundreds of bands, from local unknowns to international acts such as The Beastie Boys, Pavement, and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Building each lathe-cutting device out of rough-and-tumble electronics and washing machine parts, King’s polycarbonate discs are almost artisanal, individualized works of lo-fi art. The Cat and Bird 7″ is the most recent part of a frantic and frenzied year for us, following the release of 2007’s A Maze and Amazement LP and three music videos, the completion of a national album release tour, an acoustic South Island tour, and festival appearances at Camp A Low Hum and Southern Amp. The next year promises even more projects, including the release of a new album at the end of 2008, a few boutique shows in Japan, and a relocation to the United States around the turn of the year, followed by extensive tours up and down America. To purchase the lathe cut in New Zealand, just visit my Trade Me listings page, where I always have a copy up for grabs at a mere 10,- NZD. If you want to order the record from oversees, just hang tight a wee bit longer, as we’re currently setting up a little paypal shop, which will make it a lot easier and safer for us to trade together. Last but not least, for more information on the Cat and Bird Split, including free downloads of all tracks, just visit www.catandbird.info.
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Free Remix Package: Darkwave = MC Squared
Would you like to have the opportunity to create a remix of one of our songs and have us share it with others through our website? We promise to post every remix you send us! In fact, after you’re fully satisfied with your own creation, you can even opt to give us permission to release it in some capacity in the future, either as a CD, a free downloadable remix album, as bounes tracks on a USB stick - anything’s possible. However, all these things aside, your number one priority should just be to have a hassle-free and fun time experimenting with music you enjoy and are curious about! This remix package includes everything from samples and loops, to the full vocal and instrument tracks as used on the recording. All samples, loops and tracks are 16 bit, 44.100 kHz, and 107bpm. If and when you’ve downloaded the files, please let us know how your remix is coming along, and be sure to share the results with us and everyone else. Have fun! Get your free remix package here:
The Darkwave Remix Package by The Enright House is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 New Zealand License (full legal code). Based on the song Darkwave Equals MC Squared by The Enright House.
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New video: Scattering the sun like gunshot
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A day out in the woods
I spent a wonderful day out in our woods and fields yesterday. It’s extremely cold right now, but heartening. The sun is out almost every morning, and I feel very much at home in the vast expanse of the American mid-west. It feels like a lifetime has gone by since I recorded this little idea:
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Lowell, Indiana: A note from home
It’s true, I never thought the time would come, but I am now of an age where I belong to “those of a certain generation”. I guess I always thought that life would just make an exception for me, moving just a bit more slowly maybe, a bit more gently, protecting me, rather lovingly, a bit more kindly. Life, instead, has moved too quickly for my taste - and with more indifference, I might add. The many years have congealed into a single web, thin, and barely wide enough to cover my tracks. I am so grateful to be home. I am so grateful to be home. So grateful… MP3 Download: Theme and Variation 1 (192kb @ 2.5mb)
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“It’s a Sonic Summer”: a free mp3 Compilation
Under The Radar brings you: “It’s a Sonic Summer” - a free mp3 compilation of innovative New Zealand music. Check out the full track-listing featuring all these amazing New Zealand artists:
Visit Under The Radar’s download page to get your free compilation [33mb zip file]. And if you’re on the other side of the world, where currently it’s not at all summery, don’t fret, just think of it as a winter compilation. It’ll help keep you warm next to the open fire.
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“Driving”: A song by Misfit Mod and The Enright House
Ever heard of Misfit Mod? Well you will. Count on it. Period. Misfit Mod is my friend Sarah’s musical outlet, and honestly? everytime I listen to her music I get rediculously jeleous. Why? Because each and everyone of her songs is an earth-shattering revelation on just how much sonic and emotional depth can still be achieved within the bounds of popular music. Anyhow, before Sarah moved to England a few months ago in order to start her music career, we actually spent a few hours one quiet night creating a song together, called “Driving”. I can’t remember who did what, but the two of us were knee-deep in synths, samplers and feedbacking guitars for most of the evening. And, after eventually taking turns at kicking each other out of the apartment, we both recorded a vocal line without the other person being allowed to hear it. In the end, we had two independent vocal lines, which, to our utter suprise, even worked well enough together to layer them over the top of each other at the end of the song. Download the full 192 bit mp3:
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Podcast 1
To download the podcast rather than stream it, just right-click this link and save. I’ve been meaning to create podcasts about songs and their production for quite some time now, but just haven’t been able to find the time to make any inroads into those plans… that is, until today. I’m still trying to figure out how best to go about these, as I fully intend to complete one short podcast about each of the songs on A Maze and Amazement. This first attempt is a roughly 9 minute podcast and is all about “We Might As Well Have Stayed Young”. Hope you enjoy it, and be sure to keep an eye out for more of these in the future. Finally, you can download the full song as a 320 bit MP3 file
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Stillness, poetry and music
Mary is generally very good at living. She is highly intelligent, well-educated, and enviably successful at making sound and moral decisions in her life. She also happens to be a poet with a marvelous knack for transforming the familiar and forgotten into something odd, gentle and worth remembering:
Somewhere Between Here and There At dusk, when tide is low, the silver water turns dull
Songs of ours where Mary’s poetry can be heard: An old piece of mine called One Of Many Dinner Conversations [mp3 6.3MB], and two songs off of the new album, A Maze and Amazement, called Solitaire [video on cliptip] and Remember The Stillness. Remember The Stillness
I can’t rememember the precise moment when I started paying more attention to the combination of spoken word and music, but suffice it to say it’s been a few years now, and my interest in it continues to intensify. Here are three marvelous examples from the classical world:
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Exerpt from Knee 5 by Philip Glass (from his opera “Einstein On The Beach”):