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Video: Open Recording Session at Manchester Central Library

Open Recording Sessions, Richard Barry, Snowapple, T.E. Yates, The Bedlam Six

As part of Manchester After Hours 2015, we held an Open Recording Session in the Henry Watson Music Room of the Central Library. The session featured a specially formed label supergroup drawn from artists and bands on the label roster, including Richard Barry, Tom Cleghorn, Fanny de Ruiter, Felix Hagan, Fran Lydiatt and T. E. Yates. The song was written by Louis Barabbas and Felix Hagan to mark the 90th anniversary of the publication of Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs Dalloway”.

The video was made by Marta Niemyjska and edited by Matilda Smith.

You can also read a behind the scenes blog about the collaboration.

Snowapple’s “Illusion” Now on General Release

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Snowapple's Illusion albumThe new album by Snowapple is on general release today, available from all the usual digital retailers plus selected high street shops.

Drawing on uncommonly disparate musical backgrounds, the members of Snowapple form a remarkable ensemble, with the three central voices by turns merging into majestic harmonies and peeling off severally into moving solo peregrinations. Singing as one, there are awe-­inspiring depths and heights to their sound, with wide-eyed audiences identifying strains of jazz, gypsy/punk, traditional folk and even opera. This giddy leapfrogging between genres, combined with the wide range of instruments they play, effectuates an incomparable sound.

Like 2013’s eponymous debut LP, “Illusion” has strains of the modern fairytale about it – enchanting, alluring and beguiling… with a few perilous twists along the way.

At once effortless and adroit, Snowapple’s consummate hypnotic folk­-pop remains at the album’s heart, though this time there is room for a little experimentation, incorporating influences of electronica, contemporary jazz, Krautrock and classical music.

To create “Illusion”, Snowapple worked with a number of different producers, including Chris Hamilton (Kate Nash), Roald van Oosten (Martin Crimp), Biff Roxby (The Bedlam Six, Liz Green, Honeyfeet), Daniel Schaub (Jack Beauregard, Casper) and Joeri Saal (Spinvis, Paul Weller). The result is a bewitching folky electro­pop album of sophisticated compositions and no small quota of surprises.

Head to the band’s official website to see if they are touring near you.

New Video for Snowapple’s “Small Stone”

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Here’s the new music video from Snowapple. “Small Stone” is the second single from their upcoming album “Illusion” (out on 2nd February 2015)

CREDITS:

Music & lyrics: Thomas Bensdorp
Produced by Daniel Schaub
Vocals by: Fanny, Una and Laurien
Video: Andres Fouché Valbuena
Male actor: Barnaby Savage
Female actors: Una, Laurien and Laura
Thanks to: Deborah, Chovan, Nieves and Kasteel Baexem

Snowapple’s UK Tour

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Snowapple UK tourSnowapple will be on tour promoting their second album, “Illusion”, throughout February, with an official UK launch party at Manchester’s Castle Hotel on Thursday 12th February.

UK dates are as follows:

Friday 6th February – Slaughtered Lamb, London
Saturday 7th February – The Ranelagh, Brighton
Sunday 8th February – The Old Bookshop, Bristol
Tuesday 10th February – Bicycle Shop, Norwich
Wednesday 11th February – The Musician, Leicester
Thursday 12th February – The Castle Hotel, Manchester
Saturday 14th February – The Adelphi, Hull
Sunday 15th February – Greystones, Sheffield