THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING - NEW ALBUM OUT NOW

Australian instrumentalists This is Your Captain Speaking launched their second album ‘Eternal Return’ in their home town of Melbourne in November 2008. The follow up to their acclaimed 2005 debut ‘Storyboard’, ‘Eternal Return’ has garnered some nice comments from around the world:
 
“Perhaps the most important record of the year. Do not miss it. 9/10.”
- The Silent Ballet (US)
 
“Breathtaking beauty.”
- Now Like Photographs (US)
 
“Some of the prettiest music you'll hear all year.”
- Textura (Canada)
 
“Beautifully crafted, a blissful masterpiece.”
- The Organ Magazine (UK)

This is Your Captain Speaking have already achieved a great deal through word-of-mouth and music that speaks for itself. Without any record label in Australia, the band has seen two sold-out pressings of their debut, a signing to UK label Resonant Records (Do Make Say Think) and a 7-week tour of Europe. In 2007 the band also wrote the original score for animated film ‘The Astronomer’, which was nominated for an AFI, Australia’s most prestigious film award.
 

‘Eternal Return’ was released on This is Your Captain Speaking’s own label in November 2008 and is available at

Missing Link http://missinglink.net.au (Australia)

Polyester Records http://www.polyesterrecords.com (Melbourne)

Linus Records http://www.linusrecords.jp (Japan)

Oxide Tones http://www.oxide-tones.com (Germany)

Digital licensing is through Diogenes Music (London) with the album available for download from iTunes, Amazon etc or directly from here :

http://diogenes.greedbag.com/this-is-your-captain-speakin

GET IT!

The bands website is now situated at : www.myspace.com/tiycs


A MESSAGE FROM RESONANT OCTOBER 1ST 2008

Howdy...

You've probably heard by now, and if not you may well have figured it yourselves.

Around the turn of the year, the two of us - Andy and Andy - had a lengthy session of soul-searching, and decided that it might be time to take a break. A long break. Maybe a permanent one.

Reason? 

Well, a couple of business dealings towards the end of last year tipped us over the edge it's fair to say, but were by no means solely responsible for our decision.

We've never made a living from the label but that never bothered us while we were enjoying it - but when it became more aggro than was rewarding it wasn't difficult.

That said, we're massively proud of our back catalogue, right up to the last release (Our Sleepless Forest), and we've had a terrific time doing it.

Lastly, your interest and support has been invaluable.

So, to conclude, to all our friends, bands, customers and those who've given us valuable support and guidance over the years, a BIG thank you one and all.

Andy and Andy

PS: 

Our mailorder sales will continue unaffected via chunky records. To order any resonant releases from us just use the discography & shop link above as before. Shops will also still carry them and distributors will still handle stock until it runs dry.

 

OUR SLEEPLESS FOREST REVIEW IN WIRE MAGAZINE

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& KRUGER MAGAZINE / OSF REVIEW & FUNNY RANT

It was a weary and woe-begotten heart that cradled the news a few months back that one of the UK's most criminally under-rated record labels, Resonant Records, was going to call it a day.

Reasons? You want reasons?

Well how about those schmucks buying coffee-table post-rock like Sigur Ros and Explosions in the Sky in their droves when they could have had an entire roster of goodness thanks to this label, clogging up their I-Pod like too much cocaine packed into your face of a Friday night: wrong but OH SO RIGHT.

Their loss. Keep playing it safe, yeh, see you sycophants back slapping each other at All Tomorrows Parties, convincing yourselves that Fuck Buttons are actually good, hanging on to every word Plan B magazine writes. Suckers. I mean, who are these idiots? They are the equivalent of the kind of soulless shits that buy Coldplay, Athlete and Hoosiers records and go to V Festival. There's millions of 'em with their shit eating grins and full, contented, bellies but none of them are your friends, right?

So if you're gonna go, go in style: and this Resonant do with aplomb. Our Sleepless Forest's self-titled album is the kind of uber-heavy, digitally refracted, space-rock one keeps reading about but never hears, most bands claiming the aforementioned title coming on like a fifth rate Spaceman 3. And what with that dopey drip, Jason Pierce, inflicting another album of pretentious tosh upon an already blighted world, we don't that, right?

Josh Rothberger, Karl Jawara and Sam Purcell are three young friends from London whose art feels so utterly in love with the emotional gravitas and limitless palate of sound. This isn't the type of 'noise' beloved of cunts in skinny jeans, American Apparel hoodies and just-so beards, rather Our Sleepless Forest re-define 'noise' as some kind of gut wrenching, breath stealing, synapses soothing and/or shattering harbinger of transcendental wonder.

Seriously, if you aren't weeping by the end of the majestic reverse-piano symphony that is Afraid of You, check your pulse. You might well be dead. (source)


OUT NOW ON RESONANT

Artist : OUR SLEEPLESS FOREST
Title : Our Sleepless Forest
Cat# RESCD028  click here for more info
Label : Resonant
Barcode # 0666017179629
Release Date : OUT NOW!

Absolutely stunning debut album of ambient electronic space rock from a
frighteningly young three-piece from South London - their first full
release, having had an early version of album track 'The Tinderbox' included
on the Type Records 'Free The Future' compilation.

Having met at school, Sam Purcell, Josh Rothberger and Karl Jawara started
experimenting with various musical instruments and sounds using software and
basic recording equipment, inspired by the music they were into and with the
aim of creating their own wall of sound. After 14 months they emerged with
something they were sufficiently happy with to allow it to be heard by
others, and ultimately that brings us to the present day - an eight-track,
45-minute debut that is comparable to any in this field in recent times.

Our Sleepless Forest's music is multi-layered, complex and dense, yet
dedication and attention are rewarded as the intricate slow-build melodies
are revealed beneath the feedback, crackle and hiss. Reminiscent at times of
the likes of Loscil or even Radiohead's more out-there moments but on the
whole avoiding the predictable comparisons associated with music of this
genre, this is an album that simply has to be heard.

Press to follow; opening track 'Nomads' was played by Mary Anne Hobbs a
couple of months back, and influential Manchester-based website Angry Ape
have lined up an interview with the band.

CD Tracklisting :

1. Nomads (on our myspace site : www.myspace.com/resonantrecordings)
2. The Tinderbox
3. Doors In Limbo (on our myspace site : www.myspace.com/resonantrecordings)
4. White Bird
5. Aircastles
6. Afraid of You
7. The Clarion
8. Haze

Visit their myspace site for more info : www.myspace.com/oursleeplessforest

Reviews :

"Beautiful ambient electronica from a London trio who've spent 14 months creating their debut album after meeting at school. It's hard to get the mix of seemingly tranquil, pastoral electronica which has jagged Brothers Grimm terrors creeping up on you. But, for 45 minutes, the trio negotiate the divide perfectly. Darkly gorgeous, they're as good a British instrumental band as we've had in years." 8/10 Planet Sound / Teletext


"Having first come to public attention via the Type Records compilation 'Free The Future', South London trio Our Sleepless Forest have prepared a full-length for Resonant, home of the chilliest post-rock sounds around. This lot make an especially ambient variant of that particular genre though, setting their tuneful guitar runs amongst a backdrop of various outdoorsy sounds, as on 'The Tinderbox', which is fleshed out with sounds from echoing spaces and tweeting birds. None of this sounds particularly fresh or original on paper, but Our Sleepless Forest pull it off with more of dreamlike finesse than most. Expanding their sound further, 'Doors In Limbo' moves into a glacially slow orchestral mode - almost like a Stars Of The Lid composition. Fragments of percussion creep into the clouds of hiss and echo on 'White Bird' and 'Nomads', sounding not dissimilar from the tranced-out drones of Kranky's White Rainbow. All the echo and cloaked sounds clear up a little by the time 'The Clarion' comes around. You can make out a full band in there, making like early Sigur Ros performing in some shaded cavern somewhere at the heart of a forest. It functions as a bit of a payoff for all the swirling, amorphous potential stirred up elsewhere on the album, which taken as a whole is a pretty terrific first outing." Boomkat.com


"Having declared Southeast London troupe Our Sleepless Forest as ‘one’s to watch’ some months ago during a review of Type Records 'Free The Future' compilation, it’s a tad surprising to see their long-awaited debut full-length release crop up on the much-loved Resonant Label. Stranger still, is Resonant’s decision to go with one of Britain’s most promising up and coming acts, just before the label embarks on an “indefinite hiatus”.

That being said, this three-piece, comprising Sam Purcell, Josh Rothberger and Karl Jawara, fit in perfectly with their new found home’s love of melodic music with experimental tendencies. Billed as Ambient Electronic Space Rock, such ambiguity doesn’t even begin to describe the sound of the Sleepless Forest. Their music is alive, bursting with a seemingly endless supply of layers. Melodies that spiral out of control skywards only to be anchored by swirling mantra-like vocals (at times eerily reminiscent of the little blonde girl in 'Poltergeist') and huge plumes of monolithic, reverbed haze.

Brimming with a hermetic radiance, Our Sleepless tap into the heart-warming naïve charm that has served other prodigious talents such as Khonnor and Our Brother the Native so well. The mix of hand-woven experimental pop with skewed pyschedelia, campfire forest folk and transistor crackle space-rock, though, points towards a mature approach to songwriting and composition. 'The Clarion' is awe-inspiring, with its sweeping, shape-shifting guitar and swirling sonic sound effects, recalling such acts as shoegaze/post-rock forefathers Bark Psychosis. 'Aircastles' is magical too as reams of melodic mystery blend with nocturnal insect life and a tempered dissonance.

'Afraid of You' is a temporary hitch, utilizing a hackneyed reverse-loop effect, used by just about every other band on the planet at some time in their careers. Let’s be honest, such tracks are always more filler than killer, whether you are The Beatles, Stone Roses or, indeed, a young act from Putney. Perhaps the alarm bells should ring, why should OSF resort to such tactics so early on in the band’s lifespan? Such notions will be swept away, though, and forgotten about along with the brilliant white light that the ethereal 'Doors In Limbo' bathes everything in. The alluring 'White Bird', meanwhile, seals the deal conjuring images of some lost Aztec civilization, the half-Gregorian chanting adding to the mysterious nature of such a piece.

Though not without its glitches, make no mistake, this is a solid debut from Our Sleepless Forest, a concrete platform for them to project sounds and set the controls for the heart of the sun." Angryape.com


"Frankly, this is an utterly amazing debut album. Resonoant have released plenty of good stuff over the last few years, but this quite possibly ranks as my favourite so far. I don't want to go bandying superlatives around willy-nilly, but I find it hard to resist with this immense piece of work. Huge swathes of guitar sound with a lightly shoegazing feel coupled with some subtle electronic work in amongst it. It's almost like a combination of Televise and Stafraenn Hakon, but with a little Seefeel added in from time to time. Just an amazingly good album that's full of depth. If you like a spot of guitar music this is essential." Smallfish.co.uk


"The first track ‘Nomads’ appears on ‘The Wire’s’ ‘Wire Tapper 19’ compilation series with the April 290 issue. ‘Our Sleepless Forest’ album is a blend of electronica and ambient. It recalls me of Slowdive, The Durutti Column and Manual. The music is expansive with its twinkling guitars, soft synth waves and recordings. ‘Afraid of you’ has a baroque feeling and a wall of sound in the background like on ‘The Clarion’ where the sound is harsh and noisy. The beauty marks the whole album though." Loop.cl

many more to come ...

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Artist : PORT-ROYAL
Title : Flared Up - Port-Royal Remixed
Cat# RESCD027  click here for more info
Label : Resonant
Barcode # 0666017179520
Release Date : OUT NOW!

The much-delayed remix project finally surfaces, with a stellar line-up of remixers taking apart tracks from 'Flares', the much-loved debut album from the Italian post-space-rock quartet.

'Flared Up' follows last year's sophomore longplayer 'Afraid To Dance' and was put together between June 2005 and December 2006, with finishing touches and fine-tuning preparing it for a Spring 2008 release.

The album will be released in a limited edition one-off pressing of 1000 copies for the world.


CD Tracklisting :

1.  Mohn f/r port-royal (F.S. Blumm)
2.  Jeka (Fizzarum)
3.  Spetsnaz ( Stafraenn Hakon) (on our myspace site: www.myspace.com/resonantrecordings)
4.  Karola Bloch (Manual)
5.  Jeka (Judith Juillerat) (on our myspace site: www.myspace.com/resonantrecordings)
6.  Flares pt.2 (d_rradio)
7.  Flares pt.3 (Televise)
8.  Karola Bloch (Dialect)
9.  Spetsnaz (Skyphone)
10. Flares On The Water (Minamo)
11. Karola Bloch (OPN)
12. Stimmung (Ulrich Schnauss)

Reviews:

"You'll notice that "Flared Up" is a remix collection based not upon Port Royal's most recent album, last year's Afraid To Dance, but rather their debut full-length, Flares. This much-delayed project has been in the works since the summer of '05, so it'd be entirely reasonable to expect something pretty special as the end result. FS Blumm opens the album with what sounds like a brand new composition of his own, doodling eloquently through acoustic drones and tangled free-time harmony, only for post-Chiastic Slide IDM to become the order of the day thanks to Russian electronics heroes Fizzarum who do a fine job of hotwiring 'Jeka'. Predictably, the post-rock contingent sound like they're really in their element here, with Resonant mainstay Stafraenn Hakon weighing in with an icy swirl of guitar texture, sculpted into a melodic maelstrom. Elsewhere Manual quite predictably cranks up his digital effects pedals, soaking his source material in reverb and chorus. After a slew of perfectly respectable work by D_rradio, Judith Juillerat and Dialect, the latter half of the album proves to be especially fruitful, featuring fine turnouts from Rune Grammofon's Skyphone and 12k's Minamo, both of whom know a thing or two about drawing together acoustic and electronic elements into a logical whole. The last word is given to Ulrich Schnauss who forgoes beats altogether, in favour of sheer dream-pop and tuneful, Pop Ambient soundscaping." Boomkat.com

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SMALL SAILS IN NEW ABSOLUT VODKA ADVERT

That's right, we shit thee not. 'Somnambulist', the opening song on Small Sails excellent 'Similar Anniversaries' album (RESCD025) is being used as the soundtrack music to the very first ABSOLUT VODKA advert in the UK! And here it is ...

The advert starts airing May 10th

 

 

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