News

6 March 2010

Well, this is official: our debut album will be out on My First Sonny Weissmuller Recordings (dist. Konkurrent) on March 29th. Which will make it an early Spring album after all. To celebrate this, we got a new website design, we hope you like it.

This has been a long journey, and it feels good to finally reach this moment. And because it's not over yet, because it's never over, we'll embark on the next album ride very soon, with more songs and tales being woven as we speak.

 

07 February 2010

If you have followed our myspace blog (which tends to be more frequently updated than these pages..) during the last coupled of months, you've been able to watch the final steps of our first album's recording process.

To sum things up, "Color Map of the Southern Sky" will be released by the always tasteful My First Sonny Weissmuller in the Benelux, and distributed there (and exported elsewhere) by Konkurrent. Depending on CD production fate, the album should be in our hands end february. Bear with us a little bit longer, for you won't regret it.

The tracklist has evolved during along the way to make room for january songs and fall band recordings . Here it is:

More news when the CD will be in our hands. Watch the proverbial space and fare thee well.

 

11 October 2009

Would you believe it, people ? The (ten) tracks for our debut album are mixed (and since most of them are of the "less is more" species, the mastering is as good as done...). To mark this, and the arrival of Fall on the low lands, there's a new preview track on our myspace page.

 

30 June 2009

There's now a radio portrait of Praise the Twilight Sparrow and (sort of) sister band Templo Diez, with interview and live session extracts, which has been put together by Berry Kamer for his show Dwars on Radio 6 (VPRO). And it's very much a Dutch radio, but the interview is in English (tainted with some seriously heavy Southern French accent...).

 

05 March 2009

We had a blast last tuesday while recording a session for Berry Kamer's always excellent Dwars radio show (Dutch VPRO radio 6). Sound was very good. Sandwiches were very good. Espresso was very good (and that's quite a miracle in Amsterdam...). And most importantly, the mood and the people were very good.

You can listen for the result on the Dwars Radio 6 website !

 

02 February 2009

Shaking a bit of the snow from our coats and getting into talkative mode for once: we've got a recording session coming up for the always excellent Dwars show on the Dutch radio VPRO (check www.vpro.nl/programma/dwars/). We'll record the session on march 3rd and it should be broadcast not too long after that.

Furthermore, the recordings are progressing slowly (because new songs keep flowing) but surely (they sound good!), so apologies for the time spent, but it won't be in vain. We hope.

 

21 march 2008

Dark days, dark clouds, heavy as lead. Snow showers on a spring day. The full moon hiding behind thick clouds when it would have been more than welcome on our skins and in our eyes (and then the full moon strong enough to turn the night sky into a gothic painting). Minds wandering thousand leagues away and back. Thousand days away and back. Fights, 11:11, trains rushing in the Amsterdam dusk, cold, dreams that carve shadows under our eyes. They’re cutting trees in my street (but plant some more a couple of blocks away). Last night, a rainstorm turning people into mad drones.

But there’s music, as always. And soul and heart and warmth, for those who seek.

Our debut album will be called "color map of the southern skies" and we wanted to share that with you. (and yes indeed, surprisingly for those who follow our sibling bands Templo Diez and White Sands, this is no town name!). The number of tracks is not set yet (there’s unfortunately enough material for a double album ; or fortunately, depending on how you look at it... We’ll see what happens in the end).

We wish you a great Spring, a great full moon, and many tales and feats. May this find you well.

 

30 november 2007

Because winter is getting closer, we couldn't leave you like this in the cold. Therefore, we posted 2 new demo MP3s on our myspace page . "Cienega" and "Fall #1", from our forthcoming debut album.

We hope they'll find you well, and will warm up your heart. Feel free to let us know what you think of them, we'd love to hear from you, you know it.

 

25 september 2007

No Reeperbahn this year unfortunately, but we were treated with a great ZXZW gig last sunday. Thanks infinitely to the wonderful audience and the organization. We're now on the road to recordings ; lots of sunsets in perspective, and autumn as a background...

 

03 august 2007

We've been shortlisted by the German festival Reeperbahn (september 2007). Waiting for a confirmation, with all our fingers crossed. More about that (hopefully) in the coming weeks... Back home, the ZXZW festival in Tilburg has scheduled us to play on september 23rd in a synagogue. Expect plenty of atmosphere, it will be a great gig (and a great festival, don't miss it!).

Recordings are going well. We're taking our time, as always... that's the trees' fault, you know...

And last but not least, Thomas Dodd (akaIimage shifter) has taken some terrific pictures from us during one of our Atlanta shows, back in March, and gave them his beautiful and eerie signature touch (I don't dare to use the word 'processing', it's so much more like a painting). Thank you so much Thomas!

 

12 may 2007

Several news coming our (and your !) way: first of all, we'll play the most excellent ZXZW festival in Tilburg, Netherlands on 23rd september. Furthermore, a flurry of positive reviews, namely in this month's Soundcheck magazine (reviewing our SXSW performance, as well as giving us a much coveted spot in their 'label alert' section!!), plus a review of our untitled promo EP on the US-based webzine racketscan and in the Dutch mag Speaker. We're busy building up a Press section on the site where you'll be able to read all that prose very soon.

Oh yeah, and we keep dreaming of Arizona...

 

24 march 2007

We're back from a terrific US tour filled with great gigs and enthusiastic response from the audience. Special thanks to Brad, Bart, Delphine (and the SA indie gang), Bill, Patrick, Allen, Jennifer, Scott, everyone at MPshows, and all the ones I forget while I'm typing this - this whole trip will fuel our minds for the years to come. To everybody who attended the shows, we can't thank you enough for your kindness and we hope to see you again very soon. Now it's time to have a decent rest and start to think about recordings when we wake up... oh yeah, and day jobs :-)