Showing posts with label Andy Bell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andy Bell. Show all posts

Noel Gallagher And Zak Starkey On Working Together On Domino Bones (Gets Dangerous)

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A number of quotes from The Times interview with Mantra Of The Cosmos (Noel Gallagher was on holiday but spoke via the phone!)

“About three or four years ago, me and Shaun wrote a tune for some project that never really went anywhere,” Noel Gallagher says about how Domino Bones (Gets Dangerous) emerged from one big cosmic shambles. “I did the backing track, Shaun did the melody and the words, and Bez did the dancing. Many moons passed and in a galaxy far, far away, the Mantra was born.”

Gallagher seems to be getting into the spirit of it. “Brother Zak became a magnetic force and the music was drawn to him,” he adds. “The celestial call was sent. I was compelled to answer.”

“You don’t think the words will make sense, but when you go back through them you have a song,” Starkey says. Or, as Gallagher describes Ryder’s approach, “It’s Dylan, Dali, Ginsberg and a bit of cosmic jibber-jabber. Add in Bez, who dances on the tunes like Zak plays the drums and Andy Bell plays all things stringed, and you have it.”

“Ryder and Bez say they’re up for more, but there’s a problem: the Oasis reunion. Gallagher is going to be extremely busy from June onward, as might be former Oasis members Bell and Starkey. Will they be joining?

“Better to be ambiguous, isn’t it?” replies Starkey, which is not a no. 

Then I look around to see Ryder balancing a packet of pickled onion Monster Munch on his head.

Andy Bell 'Pinball Wanderer' Limited Magenta Vinyl & Signed Print

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Release date: 28 February, 2025

Ride guitarist and songwriter Andy Bell’s third solo album pinball wanderer is an otherworldly collection of intergalactic wizardry that mixes psychedelic melodies, Can-via-The Stone Roses grooves and Arthur Russell-style experimental textures.

With guest appearances from Dot Allison and Neu! legend Michael Rother on a cover of The Passions’ peerless post-punk classic ‘I’m In Love With A German Film Star’, it is perfect for both deep-listening headphones moments and cutting across the coolest, most understated dancefloors.

The loose-limbed rhythm tracks were the starting point and were laid down with the help of Andy’s old Oasis bandmate Gem Archer. The rest followed after an intense all-night session last summer, with the completed album being delivered the following morning. It’s Andy’s finest work to date; a quintessential nighttime record where you can slip through the gaps in the notes and revel in the moment.

Tracklisting:

Panic Attack
I’m In Love…
Madder Lake Deep
Apple Green UFO
Pinball Wanderer
Music Concrete
The Notes You Never Hear
Space Station Mantra

Check out the limited edition bundle here.

Video & Pictures: Mantra Of The Cosmos In Liverpool

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Below are a number of videos and pictures of Mantra Of The Cosmos at The Cavern Club in Liverpool yesterday.

Andy Bell Announces His Third Solo Album ‘Pinball Wanderer’

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Ride guitarist and songwriter Andy Bell’s third solo album pinball wanderer is an otherworldly collection of intergalactic wizardry that mixes psychedelic melodies, Can-via-The Stone Roses grooves and Arthur Russell-style experimental textures.

With guest appearances from Dot Allison and Neu! legend Michael Rother on a cover of The Passions’ peerless post-punk classic ‘I’m In Love With A German Film Star’, it is perfect for both deep-listening headphones moments and cutting across the coolest, most understated dancefloors.

The loose-limbed rhythm tracks were the starting point and were laid down with the help of Andy’s old Oasis bandmate Gem Archer. The rest followed after an intense all-night session last summer, with the completed album being delivered the following morning. It’s Andy’s finest work to date; a quintessential nighttime record where you can slip through the gaps in the notes and revel in the moment.

Tracklist:
Panic Attack
I'm In Love...
Madder Lake Deep
Apple Green UFO
Pinball Wanderer
Music Concrete
The Notes You Never Hear
Space Station Mantra

The first single from the new album is called 'I'm In Love...' and features Dot Allison and Michael Rother. 

A limited edition 12" is available from here, various versions of the album are available from here.

RIDE Confirm European Tour Dates

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RIDE are touring in Europe next April & May, tickets are on sale now and available from here.

22nd April - Paris, France - Le Trianon
23rd April - Lille, France - L'Aeronef
24th April - Utrecht, Netherlands - Tivoliredenburg
26th April - Gothenburg, Sweden - Pustervik
29th April - Oslo, Norway - Rockerfeller
30th April - Copenhagen, Denmark - DR Koncerthuset

2nd May - Warsaw, Poland - Proxima
3rd May - Prague, Czech Republic - Lucerna Music Bar
4th May - Berlin, Germany - Metropol
6th May - Vienna, Austria - Wuk
8th May - Munich, Germany - Muffathalle
9th May - Cologne, Germany - Kantine
10th May - Hamburg, Germany - Fabrik

Mantra Of The Cosmos Live In Liverpool

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Mantra Of The Cosmos will be playing two shows at The Cavern Club in Liverpool on Sunday 19th January 2025.

The band features Zak Starkey, Andy Bell, Shaun Ryder and Bez.

Tickets for the afternoon show can be found here and the evening show here.

An exclusive vinyl of Domino Bones that features Noel Gallagher can only be purchased at these gigs.

Alliance' By GLOK / Timothy Clerkin Is Out Now

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Andy Bell recording under his electronic alter ego GLOK, and the producer and Insult to Injury label boss Timothy Clerkin have joined forces for Alliance, a brand new seven-track album released by Bytes on November 8. The collaboration finds Andy and Tim with their freak flags flying, working in a freewheeling environment where nothing was off limits, with influences ranging from Death in Vegas and Boards of Canada to James Holden and New Order.

They already knew there was chemistry — Andy and Tim were introduced by Bytes when the label suggested Tim as a participant for the Dissident Remixed album, which was put together in 2019. Tim delivered a killer rework of ‘Projected Sounds’, turning the Neu!-meets-Steve Reich original into a tripped-out, slo-mo acid house wonder; ‘Voodoo Ray’ for the shoegaze generation. They later met in person at the funeral of Andrew Weatherall (whose influence can be heard in every groove of the album) and kept in touch.

The catalyst for the album was Tim finding an old Les Paul in a case that hadn’t been touched for years. It was still in tune (albeit a rather odd tuning) and Tim posted a short film of himself playing it on Instagram. Andy was into what he heard “and said I should make it into a song,” Tim explains. “I asked if he’d like to do it as a collab and it snowballed from there.”

“We didn’t discuss much in the way of direction,” says Andy. “I was having quite a creative spell at the time, to me it felt like making music was keeping me sane but when I think back, it was actually making me more insane, just in a different way.”

“It was all done remotely,” Tim continues, “firing ideas back and forth between 2020 and 2021 while I was in Amsterdam and Andy in London. I think people will probably think that I did the synths and Andy did the guitars, but we actually played a pretty equal amount of both! That’s one of the reasons I love it, it’s a proper collaboration, where we both tried new things and nothing was off limits.”

“I handed control over to Tim for the production side,” Andy reveals. “My role was coming up with, and recording, musical ideas — and playing on his ideas. I’m not entirely sure who played what on what tracks, it all goes into the Clerkin blender and amazing music comes out!”

Amazing is an understatement. The woozy ‘Empyrean’, which combines the analogue-decayed production of Boards of Canada and the ethereal vocals of ‘Xtal’ from Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 with a fizzing behemoth of a synth line, is a fitting way to open the album as it was the first track they worked on together. “It’s basically a Timothy Clerkin remix of a demo I sent him,” Andy explains. “I can’t get enough of it. To me, it’s one of the best tracks I’ve ever been involved with since I started making music.”

Of ‘AmigA’, Andy says, “A few of the tracks led me into a kind of Pagan, pre-Christian headspace. ‘AmigA’ is kind of like an ancient prehistoric rave at a Stone Circle — I’m just gutted Tim took off all of my grunting noises!” This is proper head music, a thick swirl of pastoral acoustic guitars, Ghost Box-style vintage synths and angelic harmonies.

Tim got his friend Beth Jeans Houghton, aka Du Blonde, to provide vocals for ‘Nothing Ever’, which is a hit single in waiting. It’s a fuzzed-up, scuzzed-up, dazzling indie-dance banger, with Beth’s lip-curling vocal a perfect fit for Andy and Tim’s music.

There are echoes of Death in Vegas in tracks like ‘Scattered’ and ‘The Witching Hour’, where 1960s counter-culture rock mixes with psychedelic electronics. Fans of baggy will be at one with both of these tracks, where the sweat, throb and frenzy is reminiscent of live at the G-Mex-era Happy Mondays (circa-1990), with Weatherall and Oakenfold at the controls. Of the vocals on ‘Scattered’, Andy says: “I was just talking, I genuinely felt very scattered. I don’t know what to do when asked to provide vocals, I don’t see myself as a singer at all, so I thought I’d chat instead. It was very free and open, our freak flags were flying!”

And RIDE fans will be delighted as the future Balaeric classic ‘E-Theme’ opens with a guitar riff not a million miles away from ‘Vapour Trail’, underpinned by the laidback breakbeat that adorned many an indie-dance track in the early-90s, smeared rave synths and swooning vocals. It’s a moment of pure bliss and one for the 3am dancefloor.

The artwork is by the Nottingham-based illustrator Nick Taylor, with the geometric yet soulful cover image influenced by the record sleeves of the abstract artist Josef Albers, as well as Andy’s request that it should be “the opposite of AI”. 

The album is out now on various streaming sites and available in store.

GLOK/Timothy Clerkin 'Nothing Ever' Is Out Now

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Nothing Ever, featuring vocals from Beth Jean Houghton, is the second single to be taken from Alliance, the album by GLOK and Timothy Clerkin.

Alliance LP vinyl has sold out on Bandcamp, but you can still purchase it from indie shops.

Tickets For Ride's North American Tour Are On Sale Now

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Tickets can be purchased via the bands Official website www.thebandride.com.

Musta Always Been A Thing (Andy Bell GLOK Remix) Is Out Now

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Andy Bell has remixed 'Musta Always Been A Thing' by The Dandy Warhols listen to it below on Spotify.

GLOK is the electronic alter ego of Andy.

GLOK / Timothy Clerkin - Alliance

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RIDE’s Andy Bell, recording under his electronic alter ego GLOK, and the producer and Insult to Injury label boss Timothy Clerkin have joined forces for Alliance, a brand new seven-track album released by Bytes on November 8. The collaboration finds Andy and Tim with their freak flags flying, working in a freewheeling environment where nothing was off limits, with influences ranging from Death in Vegas and Boards of Canada to James Holden and New Order.

The woozy ‘Empyrean’, which combines the analogue-decayed production of Boards of Canada and the ethereal vocals of ‘Xtal’ from Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 with a fizzing behemoth of a synth line, is a fitting way to launch the album as it was the first track they worked on together. “It’s basically a Timothy Clerkin remix of a demo I sent him,” Andy explains. “I can’t get enough of it. To me, it’s one of the best tracks I’ve ever been involved with since I started making music.


New Music From Ride

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Ride's new album ‘Interplay’ will be released on March 29th, you can pre-order it here.

New single 'Peace Sign' is available to listen to everywhere now!

Andy Bell On Joining Oasis, Signing To Creation With Ride And More

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 Below is an in-depth interview with Andy Bell with These Little Victories that covers his entire career.

Happy Birthday Andy Bell

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GLOK Announce UK Tour

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Andy Bells' 'Strange Loops & Outer Psych' Available To Pre-Order Now!

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CD compiling tracks from Andy Bell’s three EPs of remixes, acoustic versions and covers of songs that inspired his second solo album ‘Flicker’. Includes four tracks not on the vinyl versions. Housed in a mini-LP style card sleeve.

Includes digital pre-order of Strange Loops & Outer Psych. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

Shipping out on or around February 10th, 2023. More details can be found here.

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