Group Listening - Frogs

Описание: Musical collaborators for the past decade, Paul Jones and Stephen Black are together known as the woodwind-and-key-wielding, sculptural-papier-mâché-hat-wearing Group Listening.

They announce details of new album Walks; their first album of completely original compositions, set to be released 10th May on PRAH Recordings: http://linktr.ee/grouplistening

First single “Frogs” is out now. Paul Jones takes up the story: “I was on holiday in Madeira with my girlfriend, and we went on an excursion to an area of the island on the coast near Port De Cruz.There was a subterranean river near there, and we heard this incredible noise emanating from under a bridge, the noise of many frogs all gathered together and croaking en masse, with this natural reverb and echo from the concreted and high sided waterway giving it a strange acoustic. Fantastic.

“I recorded the sounds with my iPhone, at the time just to capture the extraordinary sound- world they’d created. Later on I book-ended these recordings with an improvised electric harpsichord recording I’d made, and the whole thing coalesced to create the bedrock of the track. Stephen added the neoclassical-esque clarinets later, and when I was mixing and arranging the woodwind, I had as an ideal the sound and tone of a mid-century classical recording. Maybe a work by Aaron Copeland, or Symphonies of Winds by Stravinsky - a little bit astringent. A musty woodblock floored recording room, mid-sixties, tape reels steadily whirring.”

Stephen Black adds: “Frogs feels like a call to arms, a slow march where Paul and I are slowly walking, with purpose, through thick, sticky, mud. We have an army of frogs by our sides and we feel invincible.”

The duo tour the UK in May/June 2024 - get tickets at http://linktr.ee/grouplistening

31st May - Loves Cafe,Weston-Super-Mare
1st June - Shift, Cardiff
4th June - Kazimier Stockroom, Liverpool
5th June - Glad Cafe, Glasgow
6th June - Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh
7th June - Futtle, Fife
8th June - Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
9th June - Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds
11th June - Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester
12th June - St Matthias Church, London
13th June - Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
14th June - The Rose Hill, Brighton
16th June - National Justice Museum, Nottingham
26th June - Dareshack, Bristol
27th June - The Grayston Unity, Halifax
28th June - Unitarian Church, Shrewsbury
29th June - The White Hotel, Manchester

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