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Here is the full length visuals from our tour with DJ Format this year, interspersed with a bit of footage from shows. The audio is from our Paris, Aberdeen, Vienna, Brighton and London shows.
Thanks to everyone who came along. It was a blast!
New Simonsound 7” coming early next year.
Here is a video for our collaborative single with DJ Format, ‘Battle of the Planets’. You can get the single on the new DJ Format LP, ‘Statement of Intent’.
We’ve added quite a few new shows to our current tour so hope to see you there. This weekend we are in Wrexham, Cardiff and Southampton.
May 4th - Le Zoo, Geneva
May 5th - Le Romandie - Lausanne
May 18th - Band on the Wall - Manchester
May 19th - The Yellow Rooms - Newton Abbot
May 24th - The Cluny - Newcastle
May 25th - The Shipping Forecast - Liverpool
May 26th - The Faversham - Leeds
June 15th - WTF @ Le Nouveau Casino - Paris
August 16th - The Tunnels - Aberdeen
August 17th - The Annexe Liquid Rooms - Edinburgh
August 18th - Koko - London
Some pictures from our first 4 shows with DJ Format in Brighton, London, Birmingham and Norwich. Thanks to all at the venues and to everyone who came along and danced. Next stop Bristol.
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DJ Format’s LP is out today. Double vinyl, CD and digital download. Get physical copies here and downloads here. Aside from the obvious listening experience, we also suggest you buy the vinyl so you can fully enjoy the stunning artwork by Mr.Krum.
See earlier post for details on our joint live shows kicking off in Brighton on the 2nd of March.
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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.
Here is the stunning artwork by Luke Insect for our new single.
Laura J Martin & The Simonsound
A. Spy - Laura J Martin (The Simonsound remix)
B. Inside Your Bones - The Simonsound featuring Laura J Martin
Available towards the end of April on Battered Ornament Records - Limited numbered 7” Vinyl and digital download.
Tomorrow (March 8th) is International Women’s day so I thought it worth reminding you of the Tone Generation episode dedicated to celebrating the lesser known female electronic composer’s working in the ’50s and ’60s.
The Tone Generation, originally made as a 10 part series for London`s Resonance FM, has expanded beyond its initial coverage of early electronic music around the world, and continues with a new topic in each subsequent program. Still using his record and cd collection as source material, Ian Helliwell has explored electronics in jazz and dance, and looked in detail at Expo 58, the RCA Synthesizer and electronic music authors. Women in Electronics, is the 19th show and the electronic music tracks all come from a selection of female composers who worked with tape or analogue synthesizers. Featuring Else Marie Pade, Jean Ichelberger-Ivey, Pril Smiley, Daria Semegen, Ludmilla Frajt, Laurie Spiegel and Lily Greenham. To listen to the podcast series go here.
The latest episode of The Tone Generation, is now available here. Focusing on music composed on the legendary Buchla range of electronic music boxes, Ian Helliwell plays and discusses tracks by Morton Subotnick, Ernst Krenek, Michael Czajkowski, Warner Jepson, Bulent Arel and Arthur Krieger.
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Looking forward to playing at the launch of Form & Order at The Nest in Dalston, London towards the end of March. We’ll be performing a new song live for the first time too!
‘Form & Order: A new showcase exploring the innovative strains of live electronic music. Debuting this month, we focus on the versatility of the female voice with an eclectic foray into female fronted electronics.
Introducing the immersive analogue neo-pysch of The Simonsound with Laura D Martin, the crystalline prog-poptronica of Cornelia, and the moody slo-mo harmonic noise of the epic Snowghosts.’
In related news we bid farewell to Debbie Clare who is heading off to Vietnam to teach. So whilst we lose her beautiful voice, witty banter and pre show games, they gain a strange but intelligent brain. Come back soon Debbie!
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The latest episode of the ongoing electronic music history series The Tone Generation, is now available here. Focusing on music composed on the legendary Buchla range of electronic music boxes, Ian Helliwell plays and discusses tracks by Morton Subotnick, Ernst Krenek, Michael Czajkowski, Warner Jepson, Bulent Arel and Arthur Krieger.
For those that delight in the old fashioned wireless transmissions, London’s Resonance FM will be broadcasting programme’s 19, 20 and 21 starting on February 23rd at 5pm then the next 2 Wednesday’s following that.
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