Moon Ate The Dark Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/moon-ate-the-dark/ New and independent music Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:03:51 +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 Moon Ate The Dark Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/moon-ate-the-dark/ 32 32 88787050 WTD’s Advent Calendar – 11 – Moon Ate The Dark https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2012/12/11/wtds-advent-calendar-11-moon-ate-the-dark/ Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:47:36 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=479 Another release that we should have picked up/written up a while ago, Moon Ate The Dark is a collaborative effort from Welsh pianist Anna Rose Carter and Canadian émigré and producer Christopher Bailey. Their self titled debut was released in June on Berlin label Sonic Pieces (whose roster also includes Nils Frahm), and in their own words, is “a soundtrack to longing, memory and displacement”. While Miss Carter provides the emotional content via her exquisite piano textures, Bailey gives the […]

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]]> Another release that we should have picked up/written up a while ago, Moon Ate The Dark is a collaborative effort from Welsh pianist Anna Rose Carter and Canadian émigré and producer Christopher Bailey. Their self titled debut was released in June on Berlin label Sonic Pieces (whose roster also includes Nils Frahm), and in their own words, is “a soundtrack to longing, memory and displacement”. While Miss Carter provides the emotional content via her exquisite piano textures, Bailey gives the pieces a sense of space, adding subtle reverbs, loops and drones. But this is far more than mere ornamentation – by manipulating Carter’s piano work, he creates a feeling of distance and wistful melancholia that only intensifies the album’s themes of isolation and loss.

Listen to Bélles Jar below, and buy the LP in digital formats here.

Also check out some of Anna’s previous work here.

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]]> 479 Wake The Deaf’s Advent Calendar https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2012/11/28/wake-the-deafs-advent-calendar/ Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:51:00 +0000 http://www.wakethedeaf.co.uk/?p=491 Join us as we share 25 of our favourite new (at least to us) artists over the month of December, one per day. There’s no particular order or theme, just good music in the countdown to Christmas. 1st – Annie Dressner 2nd – Knots 3rd – Ljóst 4th – Fantasy Rainbow 5th – Timid, The Brave 6th – BLACK ZEROS 7th – Reuben Hollebon 8th – Sam Moss 9th – Portage 10th – Angel Olsen 11th – Moon Ate The Dark […]

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]]> Join us as we share 25 of our favourite new (at least to us) artists over the month of December, one per day. There’s no particular order or theme, just good music in the countdown to Christmas.

1st – Annie Dressner
2nd – Knots
3rd – Ljóst
4th – Fantasy Rainbow
5th – Timid, The Brave
6th – BLACK ZEROS
7th – Reuben Hollebon
8th – Sam Moss
9th – Portage
10th – Angel Olsen
11th – Moon Ate The Dark
12th – Challenger
13th – ScotDrakula
14th – Dusted
15th – Loraine
16th – Husky
17th – SNOWBEAST
18th – Mike Tod
19th – Stalwart Sons
20th – Old Ugly’s Christmas With Friends
21st – Nils Frahm’s Screws Reworked
22nd – The Holidays Don’t Have To Be So Rotten
23rd – The Tree Ring
CHRISTMAS EVE – Fred Woods

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