LOVES001: Conquering Animal Sound / Debutant – Split Single
Gerry Loves Records is a brand new label based in Edinburgh, releasing vinyl and download singles by their favourite up and coming artists. Their first release is a split single from Conquering Animal Sound and Debutant, released on 5th April 2010.
At Gerry Loves Records we love the intimate feel you get of an artist and their music through vinyl pressings. To us there is nothing quite like buying vinyl – unwrapping it when you get home, carefully taking it out of the sleeve, delicately laying it on your turntable and placing the needle on the record before waiting for that first hiss.
To celebrate our love of all things vinyl and encourage listeners to embrace it, the vinyl version of the single includes not only a free download of both tracks but also a second exclusive track from each artist. These extra bonus tracks are only available to download with the vinyl purchase.
Listen and buy the Conquering Animal Sound / Debutant Split 7″
To launch the label and the single, a mini tour is planned for the beginning of April:
Thu 1st April 2010, 10pm – Dirty Hearts Club @ Snafu, Aberdeen
Debutant + Conquering Animal Sound with support from Admiral Fallow
Tickets on the door
Fri 2nd April 2010, 7pm – The Roxy Room, Edinburgh
Conquering Animal Sound + Debutant with support from Wounded Knee
Tickets
Sat 3rd April 2010 – Classic Grand 2, Glasgow
Conquering Animal Sound + Debutant with support from The Seventeenth Century and F*X G*T D**TA
Tickets
About the artists:
Debutant
Debutant is one man, a guitar and a voice. Although he writes and sings songs, he’s certainly not a singer-songwriter in the traditional sense. Think dreamy pop songs augmented by textured atmospheric soundscapes. Or something like that. Having plied his trade in bands, Phillip began writing songs and compositions that didn’t suit the style of the bands he was in. So he purchased a loop pedal and figured he’d do it all himself. He played his first set in April 2008 and has since played with artists such as Glissando, Meursault, Immanu El, Ballboy, Over the Wall, Copy Haho, David Grubbs, Viking Moses, The Pictish Trail, Vessels, Found, The Xcerts and Hugh Cornwell.
Debutant loops and layers guitars, creating shimmering atmospheres over which he adds delicate, breathless and dreamy vocals. The songs are deceptively simple yet affecting. Having relocated to Edinburgh in 2009, 2010 will see Debutant release a full-length album. “Debutant’s music ignores genres altogether, sounding something like what would happen if Mark Kozelek and Kevin Shields had an afternoon, a spare room and a multitude of ideas. Definitely worth checking out live” – isthismusic?
“This is beautiful; four basic home-made lo-fi bedroom recordings – delicate, basic, fractured, dreamy, creamy and very simple. Uncluttered and turning the lo-fi option and the basic equipment on to a warm positive vibrant less is so much more piece of beauty. Four dreamy textured lo-fi pieces/songs” – Organ Magazine: Demo of the Week
“Nostalgic sounds of comfort echo in the best track on this EP of demos, ‘Solitude’: stunning. The smooth composition drains all worries away, landscapes and the sky become your comforting friends. Yes the guy possesses the voice to do that, comfort you.” – Crumbs in the Butter
Conquering Animal Sound
Conquering Animal Sound on MySpace
Conquering Animal Sound is made up of Anneke Kampman and James Scott. A musical project in it’s infancy but one that is filled with much promise and potential. Already making great waves within the musical community of Edinburgh their live show is something of awe-inspiring greatness, creating loops, beats and samples out of anything and everything with Anneke’s sumptuous vocal’s carrying the sounds to what seems like a new world. A debut album is in the works – set to be released via Gizeh Records/Mini50 later in the year. Big things are predicted for the band in 2010.
“Meticulously built up vocal, laptop and electric guitar loops that evolve into spookily charming minimalist incantations.” – The List
“Kampman’s gorgeous intone floats telepathically into the tapestry of guitar and loops created by Scott. Recalling the minimalistic dalliances of Scandinavian progressives Múm, CAS are quite unlike anything you’ll hear in Scotland today” – The Scotsman
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