Various - Woolly Jumpers EP#1 - Laetitia Sadier / Castanets / Peter Broderick / Double U

Wool Recordings is happy and proud to present a new serie of EP's with artists we cherish and we feel very close to .  This Ep is also an introduction to our first compilation coming out in October with special guests like Le Volume Courbe, Speck Mountain, Sarabeth Tucek... . We start this story with Laetitia Sadier. She's well known as the Stereolab singer.Her magic and poetic touch has installed Stereolab as one of the essentials band of the 90's . She's coming back with a solo album for Drag City soon and she gave us a demo version of a song called "Statues". This is what she writes about this song.  "Statues (Can bend)", was written in just a few moments. One of those songs that flow out and that need little work. The tittle was inspired by the greek poet George Seferis. Loosely based around the journeying idea of a stone heart that brakes too easily because it is hard; it is hard because it never really confronted itself to reality, as it always had lived in its protected environment, and hardened instead of learning flexibility through experiencing a good measure of suffering.  This is the acoustic version of a song that will feature in an orchestrated  form -Richard Swift on prepared piano and Yukki Matthews on bass-, on Laetitia Sadier's new album "The Trip", due to be released on Drag City in september 2010.    Castanets is for us one of the most interesting folk/anti-folk phenomenon. Incredibly dark, deep, beautiful, Blues often unclassical without any nostalgia with a very intense voice. Raymond Esposa (Castanets Leader)  gave us a demo song unreleased . With 5 albums on the label Asmathic Kitty, Ray  dropped a pop record last year keeping it proper with one foot in a shimmering puddle of strangeness and experimentation.This is Castanets.  Peter Broderick is a multi talented musician  born in 1987, was raised in Oregon where he grew up with a family of musicians. At age 7, he started on the violin, and into he's teenage years he collected and enjoyed playing a variety of instruments. He went on to join many bands (Horse Feathers, Norfolk & Western, Loch Lomond) in Portland, and became a regular session musician at various studios.  In 2007 he was invited to move to Denmark and join the band Efterklang. Since then, he has toured around the world and released a wide variety of solo recordings, from simple folk music to solo piano and ambient drones. His future plans involve more traveling and concerts, working more in the film and dance scoring world, as well as many experiments and explorations with other art forms, including photography, video, and writing.  Double u is Frank Rabeyrolles 's project.Born in South of France he released 5 albums and also a side project called Franklin. His new album is absolutely gorgeous, lo-fi dreampop gem. At times it sounds like Beach House if they’d grown up listening to nothing but Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream, at others a more whimsical Yo La Tengo, or Atlas Sound gone folktronica (do people still use that word?).

Tracklisting:

Side A)  Laetitia Sadier: "Statues"  Castanets: "Little pretty eyes"  Side B) Peter Broderick: "Man on the bridge" Double u: "Breathing the wind"    

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