We are currently looking at options regarding audio on our website, I thought I would upload Papa November’s debut for Bearos records, ‘From the Start Line’ and try SoundCloud that we quite like. In the mean time have a listen to some vintage Papa November.
Papa November ‘From the Start Line’
Published by January 11th, 2010 in First Fold Records and Papa November. 0 CommentsWe at First Fold were kindly invited to take part in an artist/creative types series of presentations, it was a really cool evening and a clear example of how people like Capsule and Created in Birmingham are bringing together people that work hard to see Birmingham raise it’s profile as a creative and imaginative city. Thank you to the organizers for putting in the effort. Click on the banner for Capsules summary of the event, including some pictures.
first fold live session
Published by August 28th, 2009 in First Fold Records, Nations Shall Rise, Papa November and Them Use Them. 0 Comments
It took several laptops, a digital mixing desk, two radios, a stylophone, a cassette player and a pair of decks to create first folds live session for rhubarb radio. The session was great fun and our hosts Skeleton and Dolhasz were very welcoming. Stuart from Papa November and Ben from Them Use Them represented the fold and performed an improvised set of laid back experimental nonsense as Nations Shall Rise…
first fold rhubarb radio session
Published by August 20th, 2009 in First Fold Records and Nations Shall Rise. 0 Comments
THE BEAT SUITE PRESENTS
FIRST FOLD RECORDS
WEDNESDAY NIGHT TWENTY SIX OF AUGUST MIDNIGHT TILL TWO
For whoever listens to online radio. This should all be quite odd and hopefully fun. Presented by the boys from the beat suite with a live set from first fold’s in-house band nations shall rise…, a specially prepared first fold focused set by royal from the open beats collective and some chat about what we are about.
Review for Book One – Azmaveth
Published by August 1st, 2009 in First Fold Records and Papa November. 0 Comments
Follow the blue rabbit for an insightful review by Bearded’s Norman Miller. Thanks again to Bearded for not ignoring the little people!
Papa November contributes to Supersonic Installation
Published by July 14th, 2009 in First Fold Records and Papa November. 0 Comments
‘There Are No Others, There Is Only Us’
video installation by Marc Silver / Music by Ben Frost
Moor Street Station,
Birmingham,
Friday 24th – Sunday 26th July 10 am – 6pm daily Free
‘There are no others, there is only us’ is a powerful visual metaphor illustrating the nature of collaboration and the power of crowds, with music composed by post minimalist producer Ben Frost (Bjork, Valgeir Sigurosson). The centerpiece of the film is an aerial dance of half a million swarming birds, projected at Birmingham Moor Street Station, where 7,000 commuters come and go daily. In addition to Ben Frosts soundtrack 5 artists have been invited by Supersonic Festival to compose alternative scores to accompany the film. These include sound pieces created by: Andrew Moscardo-Parker, Papa November, Simon Fox, Matt Snowden, Sam Underwood
Geography of Nowhere Review for Bearded Magazine’s Website
Published by June 17th, 2009 in First Fold Records and Geography of Nowhere. 0 Comments
The lovely people at Bearded have written all sorts of nice things about the Geography of Nowhere release Inheritance of Jackals for First Fold. Check it.
Papa November interview by Zenon Gradkowski
Published by June 8th, 2009 in First Fold Records and Papa November. 0 Comments
Lazarus Corporation’s Zenon Gradkowski gives Stuart Tonge from Papa November a platform for his musical rants, the results are to be found on Lazarus Corporations website.
Spunkle "Live" CDs
The lot of the independent publisher is a hard one. In choosing to hand-craft their wares, they face long, endless weekends and evenings of printing and cutting and glueing and assembling. Slowly, with almost glacial accumulation, piles of CDs amass on every available domestic surface; kitchen table, chairs, stairs etc. The floor suffers from the confetti of snipped label-ends and excess paper. Rubber stamp ink stains your fingers. You go to bed tired and irritable and wondering how you will ever complete enough of them.
But then the time does arrive when you have enough, and when you step back and see the piles of finished articles, packed into boxes, lined up and ready for distribution, a dim sensation passes over you that the effort was worth it (but that next time you really WILL think of a faster way to put the releases together).
Geography of Nowhere
Published by April 9th, 2009 in First Fold Records and Geography of Nowhere. 0 Comments
Justin Wiggan from Geography of Nowhere has stepped up to the challenge of creating unique packaging for his album release ‘Inheritance of Jackals’ For his release he has created 100 unique drawings complemented by Leon Wiggan’s fantastic scribbles.
