Just me, maybe one day a band will play these songs, but for know they are destined for low-bitrates and small speakers.
Influences
Robert Wyatt, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Syd Barrett, The Flaming Lips, Elliott Smith, The Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Stackridge, Os Mutantes, Brian Wilson, Tom Waits, Judee Sill, The Beatles, Wendy & Bonnie, Black Sabbath, The Soft Machine, David Bowie, Beck, Richard Thompson, Super Furry Animals, C.O.B, Big Star, Crosby Stills & Nash, Nick Drake, Cornelius, Scott Walker, Deerhoof, Mudhoney, Grandaddy, The Incredible String Band, Bridget St. John, Vashti Bunyan, Stravinsky, Love, Sain Records, The Pentangle, Meic Stevens, Jean Claude Vannier, Eric Dolphy, Weird War, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Idle Race, Belle & Sebastian, Captain Beefheart, Low, Chris Bell, Steve Reich (in the afternoon), Caetano Veloso, The Pink Fairies, Sonic Youth, Dennis Wilson, Euros Childs, Clinic, Kaleidoscope, Neu!, Godspeed, The Beta Band, The Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, Blue Cheer, The Beach Boys, Can, The Cure, Silver Mt. Zion, The Liars, Quasi, The Webb Brothers, Bob Dylan, B-Music, Kraftwerk, Royal Trux, Espers, Kevin Ayres, Shostakovich, Billy Nicholls, Morris On, Joy Division, Anne Briggs, Nick Cave, ELO, Paul Giovanni, Stephen Malkmus, The Jesus Lizard, Small Faces, Tunng, Linda Perhacs, The Pretty Things, Devendra Banhart, Heatmiser, Mercury Rev, Welsh Rare Beat, Television, Green Man Festival, Tropicalia, Robin Williamson, Saint Just, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Animal Collective, Nico...ooh, lots really, they all get in there somewhere.
Sounds Like
Brian Wilson in his sandbox...I wish...and...
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--The name ’Lord Edward Dark’ comes from a character in ’Dark Towers’, a Look & Read drama I became marginally obsessed by as a young child.
--All the songs have been recorded using one microphone in my bedroom...this is not a deliberate attempt for lo-fidelity, i actually don’t like listening to these songs as they fall well short of my hi-fi fantasies.
--I am also a member of ’The Weary Band’ and ’The Color of the Sun’ (see the first few top friends)
--I started writing as Lord Edward Dark in mid 2005, and from then until October 2006 I recorded four albums, ’Pale & Blue High Mountains’, ’SunSeaMoonStarSunMoonSeaFishStarFishCrown’, ’Brook Farm & Fruitlands’ and ’LED4’. 2007 was spent working on other projects so I’ve done no more recording for LED, but many songs and many, many more fragments of songs have been written in this time.
--More songs can be found at www.leafkickerrecords.co.uk, which was a label I was going to pursue, but lack of time/funds curtailed this folly.
yep! RNDM SLKTR presents fuckery witchcraft halloween disco friday 31st of october starts at 9.30 pm cover £3
The band "il Goblini" - by no means an average cover band. these guys perform the mighty songs of Goblin (Dario Argento's Films). They will most likely have a few other classic horror film songs as well - it is halloween after all!
DJs - old red (heavy RB,dirt rock,punk) lunchtime decision (shiny pop, postcore, blissm) aZa[RUMBOT] (bomkat, brooklyn,3step)
I had a dream last night. You played me your new album on vinyl. It was called Leafkicker. Side 4 was a mini album called Child. It was good stuff. I'd acquired some magical powers. I could think music into the air and it would bounce around at right angles. It was fantastic. Then I woke up. Halfway through editing this book. My soul is weakened. When it's done I shall record until my ears bleed. Let us indeed race, and not be slowed by the gash.
hi there we are the mega-rad bookends of this coming weekend! come see. x a
ahh the end of "summer" is nigh. it's that time of year when it's so hot you gotta either go up into the mountains and swim in the lakes or head to the beach and surf in the ocean - oh wait, i forgot i don't live in California anymore. we had no summer because we all live on an island in the north atlantic. so if you ain't doing GREEN MAN then you should really come to this. For Realz. the Phantom Paradise nite moves into Mother's Ruin for some friday fuckery on the 15th of August. Under the new title of Death DJ's RIch and Phil will freak you right the fuck out with choice psych, rock and horror film selections from Istanbul to Brecon to Rio. Consider this an Eastern Block Party. you know what i'm sayin? no? then come get educated. YES! then get in the ruin and shake those hips. the other me - [aZa]RUMBOT will be hosting this party and occasionally interrupting the flow with his own selections. please do come
we're on first so come early. we're gonna try something a little different than our last couple shows. the spectre folk are from brooklyn and are all spooky goodness. here is what boomkat say - yeah!
Spectre Folk is the solo moniker of Magik Markers' Pete Nolan, and in a form true to the scene this latest album is a hand made cdr, and guess what - it's super limited! Coming in a thin black plastic cd case (something akin to the cases you get DS games in, but thinner) this is a psychologically intense trip from the very beginning as delicately strummed guitars are led into a darkened wood and abandoned to allow the noise to abuse them rampantly. The second piece takes things down a notch with a fourteen minute jam that reminds me more of outsider rock from the 60s and 70s than anything else, but it's the other three tracks that really nail it for me with bubbling analogue synthesizer joining the guitar to create quite moving soundscapes. Awesome.
so yeah it's a monday night. we appreciate that you may be fragile after either being at green man or because you wrecked all weekend in brist-arrr. still would love it if you can make it. xoxo a
FRIDAY THE 20TH OF JUNE THE COLOR OF THE SUN DJ SET The Southbank Club Dean Lane
phil and i had such a rad time doing an OLO CAST a couple of weeks ago we've decided to take it to the streets (lane in this case). we're gonna be playing from 9 til 12. everyting under the sun that we can squeeze into 3 hours. come by on yr way out and say "hey!" x a
FRIDAY THE 27TH OF JUNE RNDM SLKTR >> ANYONE FOR TENNIS Mother's Ruin St Nicholas Street
Fancy Dress with guests Phantom Paradise (Start the Bus Residents) delivering anything from krautrock, French orch-pop, softcore soundtracks and synthed drone while i bookend the night with the guilty, obscure and irresistible.
Let me know when you are here again and I'll show you the best Gemüse Kebab ever! I'm living at Schlesisches Tor, maybe you've been around that place, too?? See you...
Forsooth Lord Edward! Thy songs are a merry ranting thing, the cloak of genius is a garment not untoward for thy shoolders! For real bro thy songs kick some major ass!
Only 2 days left to go out in proper rock star 27 year old flames. What do you fancy - massive drugs overdose, choking on vomit or drowning in swimming pool? Let me know if I can help. I guess you could always leave it til 40 and get shot before you make any more shit records. Or 45 and do a Freddie Mercury. Or just keep going like Macca and do the shittest jam ever by a once-great band. Just remember, 'John's in Heaven'.
TIM WEARY - WEARY BAND front man plays rare acoustic solo set before playing Japanese dates in November. Fine musician and songwriter. With support.
Followed by’ Department S’ - John The Mod and guests play Boogaloo, Northern Soul, Hammond Beats, Soundtracks, Lounge, Glam and anything GROOVES! www.myspace.com/gimmeshelterclubbristol
Takes place at Encore -10+11 Denmark St(Opposite Hippodrome stage door) Bristol 0117 9256683 9.30pm-2.00am. Entry £3.
Brian Wilson just broke into my house and started on about the mindless cruelty of the slow asphyxiation of Daddy Long-Legs effected by my not unreasonable routine of shutting the windows of an evening as the temperature drops. I pointed out that I indeed do feel a twinge of guilt and to some extent sadness as I survey the lifeless corpses of the aforementioned creepy crawlies scattered on my kitchen window sill of a morn, telling him that I sometimes go so far as to encourage the creatures to make their escape through the open window before I do finally close it and head off to a night's slumber. I said to him, "It's the light, Brian. They just can't help gravitating towards the light." He just shook his head and walked away, muttering something about Paul McCartney being a 'shit bass player with biscuit tin hands'.
Do you think there are any audio files for general download anywhere of youngsters crying? I need about one-and-a-half minutes worth, but can't perform said task on my cunting machine. And I don't want to do a Bob Ezrin and spook the local toddlers. Hope you're feeling all right.
Hi Lord Edward, Great music! Lo-Fidelity rules! Love "The Sun" and "I Wouldn't Like To..." makes me think of vaudeville or British dancehall. You must play somewhere!! Thanks for your comments. So glad you like the sound. :) Barbara
