Named after a road running through the Chicago suburbs, Rue Royale developed from Ruth and Brookln’s over-the-pond relationship. Influenced by Fleetwood Mac,
Nick Drake, Zero 7 and the northern UK soul of Elbow and The Doves, they began writing together and gradually developed the candle-lit Rue Royale sound,
honed through acoustic gigs and home-recorded demos.
Brookln and Ruth started performing together in March 2006, and have since gigged extensively, clocked up hours of radio play across the US, had two of their
tunes on MTV and amassed over 250,000 plays on myspace.
Both
featured tracks are taken from their beautifully packaged album released
in 2008. A really terrific album we recommend you seek it out.
Seadog is the project of Brighton-based musician Mark Nathan Benton and his revolving roster of musical friends. With Mark providing the song writing nucleus, the rest of the Seadog associates spin the musical ideas into fruition, fusing delicate acoustic lullabies with anthemic electric and acoustic textures. Each performer brings there own piece of imagination to the band, by experimenting with melody and sonic ambience.
There are some really strong songs beautifully arranged - folkish music at times
reminiscent of Byrds or similar - truly wonderful stuff. We hope to hear a lot more
from Mark & co.
Seadog are:
Mark Nathan Benton: Voice, guitars, dribs n' drabs
Abi Wade-Gledhill: Cello
Masaki Numajiri: Glockenspiel, Melodica, Bass, Radio and samples
Ryan Bollard: Drums and percussion.
Plus added instrumentation by random wanderers along the way
Cymbient were formed around the song-writing talents of Andy Fung (former drummer of John Peel favourites Derrero and incidentally band-mate of TO favourite
Pulco).
"Stuff Brian Wilson into a split screen camper van with some retro valve amps, a first edition stylophone, Beefheart’s ’Clear Spot’ on the stereo and head
for the welsh surf breaks"
Strikingly beautiful music with a touch of surf-psychedelia. We love it and if there was any justice in this world they'd be huge!
Cymbient are:
Andy Fung - Drums,Guitar and Lead Vocals
John Pullman - Bass Guitar
Andy Taylor - Lead Guitar and Drums
Ann Summerhayes - Stylophone and Harmonies
James Charlton - Guitar and Stylophone
Born and raised in Stockholm, Felix Wickman has just released his debut solo EP "Dry Hands". He's acheived a great sound on the EP: "I was working hard with my producer to create the sound that I wanted to find, and I´m very happy about the result." - we agree. Fresh original post-rock well worth getting to know. Felix is currently working on full length album and plans to tour.
