James Hoffman Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/james-hoffman/ New and independent music Mon, 03 Aug 2015 08:45:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/varioussmallflames.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-finalwhite-e1490809629909-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 James Hoffman Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/james-hoffman/ 32 32 88787050 Other Songs Music Co. – The Songs Are All We Have https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2015/07/26/other-songs-music-co-the-songs-are-all-we-have/ Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:50:28 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=5489 Other Songs Music Co. is a folk label based in Hamilton, Ontario. It’s their fifth birthday, and to celebrate the half-decade milestone, they have decided to release a compilation album of rarities and b-sides. The album, The Songs Are All We Have, is the centrepiece of a summer-long campaign that has the dual aim of celebrating the past and looking forward to the future. The label say that the funds raised from sales of the compilation will “help us do more. […]

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]]> Other Songs Music Co. is a folk label based in Hamilton, Ontario. It’s their fifth birthday, and to celebrate the half-decade milestone, they have decided to release a compilation album of rarities and b-sides. The album, The Songs Are All We Have, is the centrepiece of a summer-long campaign that has the dual aim of celebrating the past and looking forward to the future. The label say that the funds raised from sales of the compilation will “help us do more. More records, more shows, more songs“, so it really is a win-win situation. Buy some good music now and fund even more good music down the line.

The album contains twenty tracks from all your favourite Other Songs Music Co. artists – in no particular order: Timid, The Brave, James Hoffman, Ruby Randall, The Good Hunters, JP Haynie, Best Wishes, Nabi, Benjamin, Matt Paxton and label leader Scott Orr. There are b-sides, demos, live recordings, remixes and previously unreleased tracks. Check out two of my current favourites below:

 

The digital album is available alongside a smorgasbord of extras, from guitar picks and buttons to custom records and lifetime discount coupons. It’s essentially a Kickstarter campaign run through Bandcamp, which is great news for all of you (us) nerdy Bandcamp collectors. Head to the Other Songs Music Co. Bandcamp page to order.

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]]> 5489 Best of 2011 Free Music (E-K) https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2012/01/04/best-of-2011-free-music-e-k/ Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:41:00 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=695 Our latest installment of free musical goodness. Again, please don’t treat ‘name your own price’ as a synonym for ‘free’ (as I suppose I have). A few dollars/pounds would be welcome I’m sure. Eric & Magill – All Those I Know (Actually released 31st Dec 2010. Forgive me). (RIYL: “Folktronica”, Crescendos, Dirty Projectors)   The Fierce & The Dead – If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe (RIYL = Post-Rock, Progressive)   First Nations – Black Beach (RIYL = […]

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]]> Our latest installment of free musical goodness. Again, please don’t treat ‘name your own price’ as a synonym for ‘free’ (as I suppose I have). A few dollars/pounds would be welcome I’m sure.

Eric & Magill – All Those I Know (Actually released 31st Dec 2010. Forgive me).

(RIYL: “Folktronica”, Crescendos, Dirty Projectors)

 

The Fierce & The Dead – If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe

(RIYL = Post-Rock, Progressive)

 

First Nations – Black Beach

(RIYL = Folk Rock, Meursault)

 

Flashing Red Lights – Faster Horses

(RIYL = Indie Pop, Electronic)

 

Foxes in Fiction – Hospital District/Static Cults 7”

(RIYL = Ambient, Dream Pop, Experimental)

 

Frederik Teige – Elevate

(RIYL = Folk Pop)

 

Geotic – Bless the Self

(RIYL = Baths, Experimental, Ambient)

 

Glass Vaults – Into Clear EP

(RIYL = Ambient, Shoegaze, Dreaming)

 

HAPPY TRENDY – Die Young

(RIYL = Bedroom Pop, Lo-Fi, Electronic)

 

Headaches – Spooky Mulder

(RIYL = Electronic, Experimental, Aliens)

 

In Euphoric Company – People You Remember, People You Forget

(RIYL = Indie Rock, Broken Social Scene, Local Natives)

 

In Lieu – Fuck Crz

(RIYL = Post-Rock, Sigur Ros, Owen)

 

James Hoffman – Mill City

(RIYL = Acoustic, Folk, M. Ward)

 

Jeremy Lee Given – Arapaima

(RIYL = Indie Pop, “Bro-Fi”, Large Fish)

 

Jessica Jalbert – Paris Green (Single)

(RIYL = Melancholia, Dream Pop, Mirah)

 

John Statz – The Budapest Sessions

(RIYL = Americana, Alt-Country)

 

Kalle Mattson –Anchors 

(RIYL = Indie Pop, Folk, Canada)

 

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