The Simonsound

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3 December 2011 • reblog: patternandshape

3 December 2011

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passing-cloud:

Curtis, Grant, Emily, Jenny and Simon have organized the above event The Cosmic Snowball at The Blind Tiger Club in Brighton on 16th December - with a charity donation on the door in Support of The Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice and Samaritans! 

The Phyllis Tuckwell have been supporting me since my diagnosis in January 2010 and continue to do so every week. I actually don’t know what I’d do without them. SO, The Cosmic Snowball welcomes you in my favorite home of Brighton town!

3 December 2011 • reblog: passing-cloud

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A new mix for the Paris DJ’s website of ’60s and ’70s psychedelia and electronics, taken from DJ Format’s record collection and mixed and seasoned by DJ Format and The Simonsound. A perfect treat at this changin’ of the season time. Click on the picture to go and get it from Paris DJs.

15 October 2011 • dj format mix records psychedelia electronic vinyl

The always inspiring Stopping Off Place just posted these wonderful scans.

24 September 2011

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We now have a release date for the Laura J Martin & The Simonsound single on Battered Ornament Records. This limited edition 7” with sleeve by Luke Insect will be available from the 1st of August at all the usual outlets (and the Finders Keepers website)

UPDATE - 7” single now sold out at the Finders Keepers online store. Copies still available from Rough Trade, HMV, Jumbo Records (Leeds), Amazon etc etc.

Find a video here for the A side ‘Inside Your Bones’. The B side is a Simonsound remix of Laura J Martin’s song ‘Spy’.

It has been a long time coming and we are excited to finally get this one out. Here is the blurb…

Finders Keepers’ fitful pocket empire Battered Ornaments Records rears its head once again with another bespoke vinyl release featuring the unlikely but essential partnership of Liverpudlian chanteuse Laura J Martin and The Simonsound - a sonic partnership consisting of Simon James and Matt Ford (DJ Format).

Analogue synthesizers, tone generators, and reel to reel tape machines buzz and whirr amongst the roots of Laura J Martin’s homegrown supernatural siren song as folk traditions merge with The Simonsound’s science fiction fantasies for this hauntingly progressive/regressive experiment.

This strictly limited edition (500 only) vinyl release is the eighth release from Battered Ornaments Records, an independent label with a DIY asthetic producing lovingly made limited vinyl runs of off-kilter independent music housed in jaw dropping sleeves created by top artists and graphic designers.

11 July 2011 • luke insect battered ornaments

NYC Finds

9 June 2011 • New York books sleeves dvd expo worlds fair unisphere beast

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60 Seconds with…. The Simonsound. A quick interview over at the Spitalfields Festival blog. Our next gig, hosted by Nick Luscombe, is at the Spitalfields Festival on Wednesday the 22nd of June. Find out more here.

19 May 2011 • live music Spitalfields Music Festival Nick Luscombe Laura J martin

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Next gig coming up in May in Brighton at The Playgroup Popup (formerly Hectors House, which has/or is having a makeover).

The Simonsound present a 40-minute audiovisual performance that offers a window to the future as seen from the past.
Performing songs from their debut album ‘Reverse Engineering’, alongside new material, The Simonsound use analogue synthesisers, vintage FX and tape machines to channel the sounds of pioneering electronics and mood music of the ‘50s and ‘60s.

They are joined on stage by the dynamic and captivating Laura J Martin (vocals & flute) with whom they are releasing a single on Battered Ornament Records. Plus EXCLUSIVE new Simonsound/DJ Format collaboration and a Simonsound remix of new Tru Thoughts artist Beta Hector which is like a very strange dream. To my personal taste Beta Hector is possibly the best thing to come out on the Brighton label, so make sure you check his album out in August.

Back to the gig - Laura J Martin will be performing a solo set, and the half of the simonsound that has the best record collection will be playing some obscure pysche/library/electronics into the early hours.

In addition to the sound, a pre-recorded synchronized video projects moving and still images from the period. Mans conquest of space, new advances in technology and early computers are all represented alongside clips that show the fascination with ‘inner space’, or ‘the mind’, prevalent during this period.

29 April 2011 • may brighton space playgroup gig live laura j martin simonsound dj format beta hector

Photo’s from our Royal Festival Hall performance on Friday 8th April.

Pictures taken by Shin Inaba.

11 April 2011