We bought James William Hindle's debut album on trust in his record label (Badman, which had just released albums by Mark Kozelek and Paula Frazer) and in the beautiful sleeve ŕ la Red House Painters. When we got home, we looked at the booklet and found out that the artwork was done by our comrade Matt Dornan from Comes with a Smile. That was definitely a very good start. As for the music, we totally fell for James's folk songs and catchy melodies. We loved his very soft voice, and his cover of the Bee Gees' "I Started A Joke" was such a gem! So, when he got in touch with us and offered to record something for hinah, we obviously welcomed him with wide open arms. Here is this one-off object, a collaboration with James Green from Big Eyes.
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"The Goat" is a collection of mostly improvised instrumental pieces recorded in one day in May 2005 in Sheffield, UK. The project came about through a mutual love of drone-based melody and the resulting recordings seemed to illustrate a simpler side to their own musical interests. Hindle is perhaps better know as a folk-singer, especially in the US, where he releases albums on San Francisco label Badman Recordings, and Green for his experimental chamber group Big Eyes as well as more recent solo outings.
Recording info
- Tracks –
1. You've Done It Again
2. Play Ball
3. Think Thinner
4. We're On Your Side
5. Who Was The Dog I Saw You With?
6. Think About Tomorrow
7. They're Playing Your Song
8. It's Raining On Your Parade
All songs written by Hindle/Green and copyright Hindle/Green 2005
- Musicians -
James William Hindle: acoustic guitar, harp, percussion
James Green: acoustic guitar, loops, harmonium, harmonica, autoharp
Additional harp, singing bowl and percussion by Jamie Crewe
We discovered Templo Diez thanks to an exchange of records with the French label Intercontinental Records, which had released the band's debut album "Hoboken". Three years later, while hinah was on a sabbatical year, Pascal Hallibert sent us the new cd of Templo Diez, "Winterset", on which we especially loved the beautiful song "Sal". We suggested we could put out an EP if they felt like going for more acoustic tracks and putting the voice of Gloribel Hernandez (who was also singing on "Sal") more upfront. And they agreed!
We discovered Andrew Goldman's music a few years ago, at the time of his folk, melodic project Maestro Echoplex. After playing for a while under the name John Guilt, Andrew started a new project named Fulton Lights, which has just released its second album "The Way We Ride" and its heavier and more distorted atmospheres and tempos. As Andrew was on solo tour in Europe, we invited him over for a session that was meant to be electric but ended up being acoustic after the amp of our friend Éric decided to break down at the last minute. So here is a chance to discover Fulton Lights in its most stripped-down version!
Those who visit our website regularly are bound to have come across the name "Flowers From The Man Who Shot Your Cousin" once in a while in the news section. Indeed, we have been following closely Morgan Caris’s project in the last five years and we would very much like to release something with his name on it... But Morgan is a perfectionist and this something is yet to come. Therefore a hinah session had clearly become necessary and the opportunity of an acoustic evening with Shelley Short and Brittain Ashford to inaugurate our Parisian hinah hq was just the perfect excuse!
This is not the first treat we get from Matt Bauer: a few years ago, he had already contributed to our "Tribute To The Anthology Of American Folk Music by Harry Smith" with an edited cover of "Willie Moore". Shortly afterwards, he had sent us his big EP "Wasps And White Roses", a beautiful folk piece on which the banjo blends with Matt's suave voice. In addition, Matt was surrounded with nice people, as Jolie Holland and Mariee Sioux joined him for this EP! So as Matt was touring Europe as part of Alela Diane's backing band in the spring, we invited him to make a detour via Frankfurt for a live hinah session.
:: Catalogue & mp3 ::
hinah029 - Templo Diez
hinahgift026 - Fulton Lights
hinahgift025 - Flowers From The Man Who Shot Your Cousin
hinahgift024 - Matt Bauer