New songs uploaded. http://www.myspace.com/girafferunning

1. Comic Strip - with Rebecca Collins

2. The Fever Hospital - with Miriam Ingram

3. Feline In Full Effect - with Agata (Melt Banana)

4. I Reach For Pictures - with Hugh Holmes

5. Infidel Gastro

6. Chewing On Eggshells

Enjoy x

DAEMIEN FROST

'Spirito Di Daemo'

LEARN TO LOVE

The band name may scream dodgy power metal and the title may scream dodgy Italian power metal, but the truth be told, Ireland's Daemien Frost were purveyors of a unique brand of confusing and skittish, skronkified, math rock angularity. Were because 'Spirito Di Daemo' is the band's posthumous release featuring - we're assuming - the last four songs the drums, guitar and two bass instrumental outfit wrote, a re-mastered version of their first album, 'Corpus Daemo' and a DVD loaded with documentary, live footage, and promo video content. Daemien Frost mirror their strange din - a sound that'll make one think of a twisted and warped Battles, Don Caballero, Gooloo or Othrelm - with equally off-beat embossed cardboard packaging held together with rivets. And hey, when you have music this left of everything, why not throw in a red and gold fold-out poster that looks like it'd be better suited hanging in a faux-Mexican restaurant downtown? In Daemien Frost's world, this sort of thing somehow makes perfect sense.

8/10 - Kevin Stewart-Panko

Phantom FM - Access All Areas - Wednesday 23rd April 

Hag will be on Edel's show on Wednesday 23rd April talking about the new Daemien Frost CD+DVD "Spirito Di Daemo". Tune in between 10:00 and 12:00 CET. http://www.phantom.ie/

The station steams live from their website for all our fans in Mexico... you know who you are.

The Frost 

Daemien Frost’s "Spirito Di Daemo" went on sale today online through the LearnToLove website. It will hit Irish record shops on May 1st and rest of the world from May 29th.

Press Release:

NEW DAEMIEN FROST CD/DVD "Spirito Di Daemo"

RELEASE DATE: MAY 2008

Following the addition of a second bass player, a 3-week tour of Europe in Spring 2003, the recording of a new EP, appearances at 2005’s Indie Rocket (Pescara, IT) and Hot Viruz (Ancona, IT) festivals AND the ultimate yet not-so-timely demise of Daemien Frost itself, Learn To Love & Red F Records release Daemien Frost’s posthumous "Spirito Di Daemo" CD + DVD in May 2008. The release features a CD containing 4 new recordings and their seminal  1^st CD, "Corpus Daemo", re-mastered. The DVD contains a 30 minute documentary on Daemien Frost, 3 live-action and 2 animated music videos. DVD ’extras’ include live footage and a video from Giraffe Running (Hag & Greg’s other band).

The 4 new tracks featured on ’Spirito Di Daemo’ mark a deeper descent into the musical mineshaft which revealed it’s secrets to Daemien Frost when making their first LP, ’Corpus Daemo’. This time, the arrangements are brighter, heavier, triple-distilled and aged for 5 years in brilliant white jewel-encrusted caskets for your listening pleasure.

The band’s documentary, "Living On The Ledge", tracks the band’s progress through forming, recording and releasing their own records, touring and their ultimate demise. Fleeting insights into the individuals private lives, dreams and dreads abound. The band’s own dark and poignant way of dealing with the news of the outbreak of the war in Iraq in 2003 is masterfully star-crossed with frequent gleeful outbursts at the wonderful situations their DIY ethic has landed them in. The 5 music videos included on the DVD belie the band’s own irreverence for the norm, a quality Daemien Frost always insisted upon when choosing collaborators to work with. Live footage from Dublin, France & Italy rounds out the ’Spirito Di Daemo’ experience leaving the viewer feeling anxious... almost responsible. Like the chilling recollection of a moral obligation shirked, and long since forgotten.

The cover packaging was designed by Matthew Bolger (The Redneck Manifesto) and was hand-printed at Dexterity Press in Chicago by Jeff Mueller (The Shipping News, June Of ’44).

Where to buy our Records: You can buy our records direct from us through our online shop. Shops in Dublin which stock our records include Road Records (Fade St., Dublin 2), Tower Records (Wicklow St., Dublin 2), City Discs (Temple Bar, Dublin 2) & SpinDizzy (George’s St. Arcade, Dublin 2). Our records are distributed in Ireland by Cavallero through RMG-Chart and rest of Europe by Cargo UK.

Digital Downloads: All of our digital downloads are MP3s encoded at 256kps. We also don’t use DRM so you can easily put them on your iPod, burn them to a CD & listen to them in your car. The shopping facility, including digital downloads, is fully integrated with PayPal.

http://www.LearnToLove.net/shop.htm

S’up homies

Sitting comfortably? Let me tell you a little story...

Many moons ago, on St. Stephen’s day 1999, myself and an old friend sat in Thomas Read’s pondering music and our relationship with it. Despite the fact that we weren’t real musicians, we felt miffed with and unrepresented by the local music scene at the time. Shit, the way we were giving out and moaning, you’d swear we actually had something to say. So we started a band...

Daemien Frost was born as a 2-piece and a small casio keyboard. We used to jam coins between the keys of the keyboards to get loops going. I’d generally start drumming and lay down some awesome phat beats and then Dave would drop various unusually shaped sheets of corrugated metal from heights of up to 50 meters on top of me and the keyboard. And so our sound was born...

Then Marocco Mark joined us on hi-bass.

We spent the first few years of our existence leaching off my own good nature/fortune and found ourselves supporting all manner of great bands I would happen to be putting on shows for Dublin. This lead to great press releases featuring lines like "Daemien Frost are blazing a trail through the Dublin independent music scene sharing stages with the likes of XXX and YYY, taking no prisoners and leaving a unearthly odour in their wake." Ah, I remember those lazy afternoons in work typing those things up, I felt like some kind of media manipulation genius. Maybe I still do.

We released some singles and an album (on a label run by me oddly enough) and played lots of gigs. We were really locked one night and came up with the idea of playing some gigs in Europe. So, I embarrassed my promoter counterparts in other cities in Italy and France into arranging some shows for us. [Greg (who I was playing with in Giraffe Running) joined us on lo-bass around this time]. We flew to Amsterdam, hired a van and some equipment and travelled around for 2 weeks. Like minstrels we were... Waking up in a new city every morning, being fed by strangely familiar people. Leaving a city late to arrive disrespectfully late in the next city only to be allowed play some noise we’d arranged on instruments we could barely play. Then we’d be fed and paid. Unbelieveable. The best time of my life to date. I don’t even have to think about it. I would spend my life doing this if I could.

Some time passed, we made some more recordings and finished our time together returning to our spiritual homeland Italy (not Limerick, despite Limerick being our actual spiritual homeland) to play 2 festivals in 2005. And that was that... until now.

[From this point onwards, you may notice a shift from the personal to the press release... ha ha, imagine an actual tense called ’press release’.... ha ha ha... "Hey are you speaking in the present reality or press release?" aaaaaaaa ha ha ha ha.]

On May 1st 2008, Learn To Love & Red F Records release Daemien Frost’s posthumous "Spirito Di Daemo" CD + DVD in Spring 2008. The release features a CD containing 4 new recordings and their seminal 1st CD, "Corpus Daemo", re-mastered. The DVD contains a 30 minute documentary on Daemien Frost, 3 live-action and 2 animated music videos. DVD ’extras’ include live footage and a video from Giraffe Running.

The 4 new tracks featured on ’Spirito Di Daemo’ mark a deeper descent into the musical mineshaft which revealed it’s secrets to Daemien Frost when making their first LP, ’Corpus Daemo’. This time, the arrangements are brighter, heavier, triple-distilled and aged for 5 years in brilliant white jewel-encrusted caskets for your listening pleasure. The band’s documentary, "Living On The Ledge", tracks the band’s progress through forming, recording and releasing their own records, touring and their ultimate demise. Fleeting insights into the individuals private lives, dreams and dreads abound. The band’s own dark and poignant way of dealing with the news of the outbreak of the war in Iraq in 2003 is masterfully star-crossed with frequent gleeful outbursts at the wonderful situations their DIY ethic has landed them in. The 5 music videos included on the DVD belie the band’s own irreverence for the norm, a quality Daemien Frost always insisted upon when choosing collaborators to work with. Live footage from Dublin, France & Italy rounds out the ’Spirito Di Daemo’ experience leaving the viewer feeling anxious... almost responsible. Like the chilling recollection of a moral obligation shirked, and long since forgotten.

The cover packaging was designed by Matthew Bolger (The Redneck Manifesto) and was hand-printed at Dexterity Press in Chicago by Jeff Mueller (The Shipping News, June Of ’44).

Where to buy our Records: You can buy our records direct from us through our online shop. Shops in Dublin which stock our records include Road Records (Fade St., Dublin 2), Tower Records (Wicklow St., Dublin 2), City Discs (Temple Bar, Dublin 2) & SpinDizzy (George’s St. Arcade, Dublin 2). Our records are distributed in Ireland by Cavallero through RMG-Chart and rest of Europe by Cargo UK.

Digital Downloads: All of our digital downloads are MP3s encoded at 256kps. We also don’t use DRM so you can easily put them on your iPod, burn them to a CD & listen to them in your car. The shopping facility, including digital downloads, is fully integrated with PayPal. http://www.LearnToLove.net/shop.htm Our releases are also available through iTunes.

www.DaemienFrost.com for more info.

Hag x

16/10/07 – Learn To Love Records – Press Release.

Giraffe Running finds home in Austin, Texas.

Following the receipt of high praise in Europe for their debut album/collaboration, Giraffe Running has found a new home in Austin, Texas.

The Giraffe Running 2xCD (featuring Ian Williams (Battles), Max Tundra, Agata (Melt Banana), Luca T. Mai (Zu) to name but a few...) will be released in the US this coming February/March on the Australian Cattle God label based in Austin, Texas.

Hag, drummer & producer of the Giraffe Running project was quoted as saying "We are totally psyched about this for so many reasons... ACG is also the US home of our good friends The Redneck Manifesto... Austin is the home of one of our favourite bands ever, Brown Whornet! Austin is the home of our favourite Tex-Mex eatery Tamale House No.3 AND... Austin is the only city in the US we've ever actually played in... I think the venue was called 'Beerland'."

More real details soon...

In the meantime, check out ACG's amazing stable of bands including Attack Formation, Tia Carrera, The Snake Trap & GORCH FOCK to name but a few... www.australiancattlegod.com

Reviews of "Giraffe Running"

"For a field of endeavour supposedly populated by creative people, it's extremely rare to come across rock music that fundamentally breaks the rules - so it's all the more impressive on those exceptional occasions when you encounter something truely creative... Giraffe Running have taken the traditional linear musician/listener relationship and added a third party, whose role involves aspects of both. It's as close to 3D music as you can get."

Mark Hayes, Dublin Event Guide.

"...an album rich in idiosyncratic imagination, oddly charming dischordance and strangely realised beauty."

 Jim Carroll, The Irish Times.

"With such an impressive line-up featuring on the debut, expectations were high... and yet the album lived up to the hype."

IMRO's MQ Magazine. Review

"It's quite good."

John Lewis, UNCUT Magazine.

"Listening to them [Hag & Greg] playing, it's difficult not to find oneself amazed at the permutations possible with just these two world-weary instruments... CD-2 has no less than 15 permutations of the original scripts. Both CDs are bold and fruitful."

Richard Davis, ArtRcoker Magazine.

"Barrett and Hag's original recordings collide, continually retaining a sense that it is all going to fall apart at some point as tumbling military drums collide with crumbling bass like a wasp and bumblebee locked in a mid-air conflict. It's insistent ambition is inspired."

Samuel Strang, Drowned In Sound Webzine.

"The original five tracks are compelling but it's the second CD which features collaborations with Kila, Max Tundra, Miriam Ingram and Battles to name just a few that makes your ears perk up, detach themselves and run over to the stereo to turn up the volume."

Conor Creighton, Totally Dublin.

"Veering from angular diddly-aye to disjointed stoner skronk, wildly varying collaborators are rooted by the shared rhythm section, lending an unexpected coherence to the proceedings."

Mongrel Magazine, July 2007.

"Now this is rather different, rather intriguing, rather fine bendy pronky post-rock-ish instrumental music that really doesn't sound like anything or fit anywhere that obvious... The skeletons taken to a whole host of colourful places, dressed in different coloured flesh and out in all kinds of different directions. All rather intriguing, and yes it works in a rather rewarding and strangely beautifully fascinating subtle idiosyncratic set of ways, well worth checking out."

Organ Webzine, July 2007.

"Bouncing from experimental pop to punkish noise-pop, Giraffe Running show that musicians can be as avant-garde as they like so long as they remember to bring some tunes to the party."

Eamon De Paor, Metro.

"A brave idea, it has yielded impressive results."

Clare O'Reilly, HotPress Magazine.

I've uploaded 'Cocorico!' & 'Sexorsize' and re-mastered versions of 'Duck Gait Parade' & 'Slut Style' from the forthcoming CD/DVD "Spirito Di Daemo" coming out in Autumn 2007 on Learn To Love & Red-F Records.

Hag