dCABB & josef motley - the laughing cough

it is with great joy that jamesphoney & jamesreindeer can announce their joint-guest-featuring on the new album from english weird-rap stalwart josef motley alongside his cohort dCABB entitled 'the laughing cough'.





thirteen tracks of densely-layered kaleidoscopic-psychedelic-strangeness, also featuring the likes of AOSR, tenchoo, yasson, mr ostritch, abe normal and torin glock & the owl taylor experience...

idiot mouth european tour



at long last... it's tour time again!

stayed tuned for more details...



keep safe . be well

james p honey

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views from the psychedelik deathcab - the album

it is with soaring hearts that we can gladly announce the release of the long-awaited collaborative effort from lmntl819 & reindeer, entitled 'views from the psychedelik deathcab', out now on the mighty milled pavement records. available as a beautifully-packaged digipack cd with artwork by michael rea, as well as digital download; the album is now officially upon us...

two-and-a-half years in the making, featuring contributions from jamie romain on cello, jenny blackbird on violin and michael rea on guitar, as well as vocal appearances from babel fishh, the beastmaster, edison, evak1, filkoe176, jamesphoney, mildew, swordplay and wormhole. with scorching lmntl819 production throughout and some of the darkest prose reindeer has yet commited to tape, the psychedelik deathcab is truly an album of epic proportions...

do please click on the image to order direct from milled pavement, or head over to milledpavement.com for more information...

for uk listeners, the album will initially be available exclusively through rough trade records, and also made available for order from their website asap...

thank you . keep safe

jamesphoney

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oskar ohlson - handful of crumbs - brand new ep!!!

it is with great excitement that we are able to announce the release of the brand new oskar ohlson ep, entitled 'handful of crumbs', and out right this moment on the impossibly awesome knertz label in the form of a beautiful hand-crafted cd release...

naturally, anyone who heard 'honk, bang, whistle and crash' will attest to the fact that it was the kind of release you really don't want to have to follow-up... but captain oskar has truly gone a full leap further and assembled an ep which screams further staggering quality from beginning to end.

with contributions from bizzart, jamesphoney, jamesreindeer, les trucs and filkoe, all of whom appear at the height of their game, and once again featuring beautiful instrumental intro and outro pieces, the ep is a fantastic voyage back into the world of oskars staggering invention.

do click on the image, or head over to knertz.de to place your order, quick-sharp!

keep safe . be well

jamesphoney

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album review at the spider hill

jamesphoney & jamesreindeer are delighted to annouce a most-favourable review of their debut collaborative album effort rough tongue surfaces at the splendid spider hill music review site. please do take a few moments to peruse the lines herein:


An
admission. While listening through to this record in iTunes, your
reviewer didn’t notice that he had the shuffle function turned on.
When, instead of track two, a track from Flying Lotus’ excellent Los Angeles came on, it took fully three minutes to realise my mistake. All of which is in effect high praise for jamesphoney & jamesreindeer, whose debut album whizzes through territory marked ‘Anticon’ and ‘Warp’ with as much poise and assuredness as anyone out there at the moment.

In fact, Anticon
is so clearly a point of reference, with the chatterbox repetition of
abstract lyrical motifs riding on top of all sorts of electronic
undulations that you can’t help but expect one of their prolific
voices-for-hire like Boom Bip
to rock up and throw in a guest verse. Not that he needs to - the
delivery is sharp and incisive throughout, and imaginatively laid askew
on top of the beats, even bringing to mind Def Jux maestros Company Flow in places. The two takes on the title track are dead ringers for something like Sage Francis,
while the quasi-industrial soundscaping of ‘Atomic Test Site’ is as
close as they come to the real hip hop boundary-pushers. While most of
the record is great, I can’t help feeling they’re keeping themselves
reined in within the safety of a set of defined influences, when
there’s clearly enough talent and potential here to do something quite
unlike anyone else.

Recording-wise, it’s also rough around the
edges throughout - the mix is a bit uneven and muddy in places, and the
beats not as crisp and decisive as they need to be. For the most part,
that’s not a problem, and actually does the most to lend a chimeric, cLOUDDEAD-esque quality to some of the recording, but when they go into for Dalek-style
huge washes of synth, it clouds the sound rather than giving it the
distinct kick it needs. These slight reservations aside, Rough Tongue Surfaces
is a first-rate bit of inquisitive, sharp UK hip hop that’s easily the
match of anything else on the scene. Let’s just hope the next record
takes them even further.

please do be sure to wander over to thespiderhill.com for more music related word treats

releases now available from rough trade records

it is with great gladness we might announce that the below releases are now available from the legendary rough trade records of london, england. it would indeed be a great honour should any of you wish to wander over to their site and place an order... international orders welcome! or, should you be a resident of sunny london, do head to their brick lane store to make a purchase in person!

jamesphoney - hugely overrated by a tiny few

jamesphoney & jamesreindeer - rough tongue surfaces

estetik - estetik

please click on the album thumbnails to take you to the relevant pages on their site. or alternatively, do have a gentle wander over to roughtrade.com to peruse the extent of their fine wares generally...

thank you . keep warm

jamesphoney

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album review at snowdrop music

we are honoured to announce that the 'rough tongue surfaces' album has received a wonderfully complimentary review, and a great honour as being the first album to be featured on the brand new music blog snowdrop music, written and curated by vincent van cutten based in paris, france. please do take a moment to read his kindly lines herein:



Rough tongue surface is born froma triple collaboration. The two english rappers James and James(jamesphoney jamesreindeer) and a swedish producer who made the music,whose name is joel simeus. And it's such a wonderful collaboration.

Thetwo James both have voices full of personality but totally different.Reindeer flow is quite nasal and sounds agressive like, when Phoneyones sounds quite much more peacful and relaxed, but not lessconvinced. The sound of Simeus are quite dark, and you can easilyconcieved the whole album as a trip in some kind of chlostrophobiacarea. The only picture of the really nice package of the cd is a smallimpression of plane, landing or almost crashing on the bottom of thealbum. Some might say that the general impression of the album is adark trip of people in a plane which is in a compromised situation.Some might see it in a more organic way, related to the name of thealbum, and might see it as an interior trip inside rough organs. Thedrum machines of Simeus are quite often distorted, and increase thisimpression of rough. The changes from one track to the other are oftenfilled with radio voices and waves, which bring a nice feeling ofdreamy impressions, interrupted by the voices of james and james, thatlead you from dreamy sad songs to half awake way of concieving musiccomposing .

It might be kind of a drugged trip too, the terms"ascent" and "descent" would fit with that, but it would be reductiveto consider this album as an album for weedsmokers, though weed smokerswill definitely enter in this trip without problems and woulddefinitely enjoy it.

One of the track is apart from this dreamystate, and it s produced by nimrodsaarpreme. We could say it's the moredirect song, the one your ears will remember the more easily, possiblythe more accessible. Let's call it the awake song of the record. It'scalled dh.106, and on this track, the two james released this veryinnovative sing of basing a rap song on a leonard cohen loop. I guessonly typical openminded english rapper could bring us to the idea thatleonard cohen and hip hop can fit together.





needless to say, we are wonderfully glad at such praise, but also would highly recommend you wander over to snowdrop music, and bookmark it for your convenience, as it shall surely be featuring some of the most interesting reviews on all types of cutting-edge music in the weeks, months and years ahead...

and on a personal note, might we make known that vincent is also an incredibly talented musician and performer in his own right. both jamesphoney and jamesreindeer are huge, undying fans of his work and would keenly encourage you to wander over to his myspace page to have a listen.

so, pertinent links for your attention would be:

www.snowdropmusic.blogspot.com

www.myspace.com/billvancutten


keep safe . be well

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