Fur vs Charlemagne at Cafe Oto

I'm curating a Charlemagne Palestine residency at Cafe Oto. Charlemagne played at my installment of Transmissions Festival in Ravenna and enchanted all. So the good work continues! Day one (June 14th) will open with a unique collaboration between Steve Noble and The Bohman Brothers and will conclude with a solo performance by Charlemagne. Day two (June 15th) will open with a rare appearance from L'ocelle Mare (Thomas Bonvalet formerly of Cheval De Frise) and the finale will be the debut performance of a new collaboration between Charlemagne and Grumbling Fur. Hope you can make it! But tickets here.

Join the facebook event page here.

Fur Power!

We, Grumbling Fur, are releasing our second full length album 'Glynnaestra' through Thrill Jockey records on July 22nd. Here's the bumph...
  
Daniel O’Sullivan of Ulver and Guapo and Alexander Tucker (Imbogodom) have announced that they'll be joining forces again as Grumbling Fur for a new album of psychedelic sonic explorations, Glynnaestra. The duo "have crafted an avant-pop album assembled as one would a collage," reads the text accompanying the album's release. "This structural foundation is built up via an eclectic array of instruments, both acoustic and modified, to pulsating electronic sounds. ... As their history attests, this is a group unbound from the restrictions of traditionalism and unafraid to shed the pretence of pure abstraction. There's a tradition of subterranean Englishness at play, harking back to This Heat's Deceit and Eno's Another Green World. In their first fully realised album as a duo, the process and texture ripple with a kind of electro-gnosis. Glynnaestra herself (an archaic goddess divined by Tucker and O'Sullivan) presides over the record, transcendent and sphinx like: an apt muse for an album of such lovely and powerful music." 

We're also featured in Serena Korda's film 'The Transmitters' currently showing at Camden Arts Centre as part of her new solo show 'Aping The Beast'. More details here. We're performing live third eye soundtracks to coincide with three ritual dance pieces around a 15ft green latex dinosaur puppet.

Some dates for your diaries...

27.03.13 - Camden Arts Centre, London
17.04.13 - Camden Arts Centre, London
27.04.13 - St. Pauls Church, Birmingham w/ Barn Owl and Ex Easter Island Head
04.05.13 - Camden Arts Centre, London
08.06.13 - The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool

We'll be playing some European dates in September which will be announced shortly.

On Paper

Transmissions VI line up confirmed

Thu14 – Teatro Rasi h20
Strange Attractor talk with Mark Pilkington - Crystal Voyagers: A Journey Through The New Age
Charlemagne Palestine
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Lichens)

Fri15 - Galleria Mirada h17
WIRE Q&A (Frances Morgan talks to Charlemagne Palestine)
Exhibition Opening (including works by DOS, Alexander Tucker, Daniel Higgs, Charlemagne Palestine, Mark Titchner, Serena Korda, Ian Johnstone, Cathy Ward, Simon Fowler, David C W Briggs, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Raymond Salvatore Harmon)

Fri15 - Almagià h20
Æthenor (DOS, Stephen O'Malley, Kristoffer Rygg, Steve Noble)
Stian Westerhus & Sidsel Endresen
Godblesscomputers - aftershow

Sat16 - Bronson h20
Julie's Haircut
Grumbling Fur (DOS & Alexander Tucker)
Daniel Higgs
Pharaoh Overlord (feat. Charles Hayward)

Sun17 - Almagià h18
Strange Attractor - From the Akashic Jukebox: Magic and Music in Britain, 1888-1978
Charles Hayward (solo)
Mothlite & Mr. Todd (Ian Johnstone)
Phil Minton's Feral Choir

Happy birthday to the child of the Godhead

And to all the reincarnated December children.

Something to sleep is still.

TRANSMISSIONS VI

Very proud to announce that I've been asked to curate next years installment of Transmissions Festival in Ravenna, Italy. Continuing on from Stephen O'Malley's fine work this year I'll be looking at Transcendence as the overarching motif and hope to aid all in attendance to disappear as effectively as possible. Om supreme!

Mothlions moving

Mothlite - Dark Age European Tour Trailer from Kscope on Vimeo.

Galagu!

Another collaboration with London based fine artist Serena Korda, for this one I composed psychedelic choral music for a seventy piece children's choir. The CD comes housed in a 20 page booklet. I'll have copies with me on the Mothlite tour. Distribution details to come.

Listen here.

Mothlite European Toudates Incoming

More dates to come.

Me talk

Misquoted here and there but the phone line was fuzzy.

ENTITY REUNION: Alexander Tucker vs Mothlite

Seeing

Seeing In The Dark

Mothlite fans don't "do" timed comments. : (

W.A.M.A

I wrote a piece of music that was sung by 70 or so primary school children in Bristol. It's something I had been wanting to do for a while. Working with my friend Serena Korda seems to make dreams come true. Here's a documentary about what we did. GALAGU!


 
W.A.M.A. from Paul Gilbert on Vimeo.

Mothlite vs Bizarre Magazine

They won.

Transmission Alahandra

Grumbling Fur presents ALICE

Early words

DARK AGE IS UPON US!

Listen here.
Order here.

SITS

ZEBRAS

A free track from the forthcoming Dark Age.

DOS vs Stay+

I sing on the new single by Stay+. Total euphoric summer banger. Lyrics in reference to the daughter Wren.

Stay+ - Guardian (Radio Edit) by RAMP / PTN

DOS vs Duke Ellington

I've always enjoyed those youtube clips where a person has filmed themselves playing a version of one of their favourite songs. It's a strange and modern transmission. At their best these transmissions feel solitary and absent minded. One evening I found myself playing guitar alongside 'Portrait Of Mahalia Jackson' from Duke Ellington's New Orleans Suite. What a gift to give oneself. I didn't perform so well, but first thought, best thought. Youtube has a filter where you can give your videos a "1960's" look, so in the spirit of a hipstamatic world I pressed the apply button. God bless Duke Ellington and his intricate thought forms. I'm sure Mahalia Jackson was moved.

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Preorder Dark Age (if you wish)

Epic DOS Interview

Part one of a two part extensive interview in online at Avant-garde Metal.com

Something In The Sky

Something In The Sky by Mothlite

Dark Age In The Flesh

Getting very excited about this now. This will be out on matte laminate heavyweight stock gatefold, 180g vinyl and a digipack CD version with a 15 page booklet. Download comes with a severed dragon's tail.

Laid To Rest Vinyl Landing

Laid To Rest vinyl now available from Neuropa. This is music I wrote for a commission with my friend and collaborator Serena Korda. The record features amazing performances by Steve Noble (Æthenor), Alex Ward, Chlöe Herington (Chrome Hoof), The Medieval Baebes, Stephen O'Malley (Æthenor / Sunn O))) and Kristoffer Rygg (Ulver). This is mythical marching band music. Probably the closest thing to Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses that I've written for a while.

Laid To Rest: The Brick Keepers by Mothlite

Grumbling Fur Vinyl Landing

Comes in 180g clear and green vinyl. Download codes included. We'll be selling these at out show at The Servants Jazz Quarters in Dalston, 9th February. Or you can order them directly from Aurora Borealis.

Third Eye Band: Grumbling Fur

Little Boots - Shake (Miracle Remix)

Little Boots - Shake (Miracle Remix)

Choni The Circle Maker

Taster for the film Choni The Circle Maker. Soundtrack by yours truly.

Choni The Circle Maker - Taster from Adam B Daniels on Vimeo.

The Norwegian National Opera

In the flesh. Get it here.

GOOD LOVE Video

Miracle - Good Love from House Anxiety on Vimeo.

Good Love single launch

Guardian premieres new Miracle joint

Miracle at Nail The Cross

Tonight. Onstage 10.15...

New MIRACLE site

Enter ye.

The Underneath

The Underneath by Mothlite

Fur in the flesh

Alex and I will be performing two Grumbling Fur sets. One in London (September 23rd) at St. Mary's Church in Stoke Newington, and one in Brighton (October 12th) at the Komedia. We'll probably have copies of "Furrier" on vinyl by then.

Mothlite sign to Kscope

It's official. Dark Age due out early 2012.

Laid To Rest: The Procession

Please join us for the finale of LAID TO REST. A project by Serena Korda for the Wellcome Collection. Witness the procession and burial of 500 commemorative bricks containing people's dust. Follow Daniel O'Sullivan's mythical marching band, dancers and heavy horses as they travel from Wellcome Collection to Brunswick Square Gardens, Bloomsbury, where a layer of bricks will be ceremoniously buried.

There will be 300 limited edition commemorative publications, including the LAID TO REST soundtrack 12" vinyl, to give away. 

All music composed by Daniel O'Sullivan featuring The Medieval Baebes, Alex Ward, Steve Noble (Æthenor), Chloe Herington (Chrome Hoof), Matthew Parry, Francois Testory (Coil), Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))) & Kristoffer Rygg (Ulver).

Miracle vs Sup