Old Time Radio recorded a wonderful Christmas album. There's very little records like that out there... actually no other comes to my mind at the moment. The thing is - the band wrote all the songs themselves. For a guitar, voices, percussion and with humor (the album starts with "I hate Christmas"). Lovely artwork, wonderful, warm atmosphere, a little lo-fi sound and a lot of heart.



I had a chance to sing with them on "Christmas With You". You can listen to this and other songs on the Old Time Radio's myspace.


ho ho ho.
Old Time Radio "Sketches For Another Christmas Songbook" costs 6 euro and is available to buy directly from the band.
And in Poland also here: www.gusstaff.com, www.serpent.pl, www.merlin.pl

During my stay in Japan I had a great pleasure to work with Michiru - a wonderful young composer based in Tokyo. We played a show together, but we also worked on some songs which Michiru wrote and arranged and invited me to write lyrics for and sing. Now I am happy to announce that the fruits of this collaboration will see the light of the day on Michiru's first Album "World's End Village"!



"World's End Village" will be released on 5th of December in Japan and then in the rest of the world in 2010.

Tracklist :
1. World’s End Village/Rites of Beginning
2. Tin Soldier
3. The Thief -Nusubito-
4. Shrink
5. The Place Where We Will Be Reached
6. The Spinning Wheel
7. Lethe

You can listen to some of them on MICHIRU's MySpace.
http://www.myspace.com/michiru.jp

Singers :
Julia Marcell
Saho Terao
Ayu Okakita
Mariko Ostuka

The album is a beautiful musical journey, filled with Michiru's original songs with orchestral arrangements based around piano, strings, guitar and drums. It has been produced by Keiko Shinozaki.
The songs I wrote the lyrics for and sing are called "The Thief - Nusubito-" and "The Spinning Wheel". You can also hear me on "World’s End Village/Rites of Beginning".

Here's the live performance of "The Thief - Nusubito-" in Tokyo:


"The Spinning Wheel" live in Tokyo:

22.11 - SOPOT, Versalka
23.11 - WARSZAWA, TR Warszawa
24.11 - OLSZTYN, Bohema Jazz Club, +The Lollipops
05.12 - OLECKO, Festiwal Teatralny "Sztama"

Kolejne polskie koncerty na początku 2010.

"It Might Like You" od premierowego 16go października powolnym tempem trafiała na polskie półki sklepowe i podobno już wszędzie trafiła.
Polska wersja zawiera utwór bonusowy "Sixteen, Ten Years Later" a także teledysk "Night Of The Living Dead".

Tracklista:
1. Put Your Headphones On
2. Outer Space
3. The Story
4. Married To Life
5. Billy Elliot
6. Dancer
7. Side Effects Of Growing Up
8. Words Won't Save You
9. Carousel
10. Fear Of Flying
11. Night Of The Living Dead
12. Sixteen, Ten Years Later

Przez internet można zamówić np. tu, albo tu.

16.10.2009! :)

Update: The album is out now! You can get it in your local store, on Amazon.de or iTunes. We have a little situation with the title of the album in some online stores, but we're working on it. It's still the same album, however it might be called right now ;)

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"It Might Like You" is coming out on 12th June 2009 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and will be distributed by Rough Trade Distribution.

The album was funded by 657 people on Sellaband.com, produced by Moses Schneider and recorded live in Chez Cherie studio in Berlin.

Preorder @ amazon.de