An Taobh Tuathail Vol III is the new compilation CD from Irish cult underground music show An Taobh Tuathail (The Other Side) which celebrated ten years on the air in 2009. The 15 track compilation is compiled by presenter Cian Ó Cíobháinand includes a track by First Fold’s Them Use Them.
Olaf Tyransen from Hot Press had this top say about the compilation:
As with O Ciobhain’s two previous albums, this is an extremely well thought out compilation of truly sublime mood music. The post-Christmas comedown has been sorted.
Thanks once again to Cian for his support and encouraging inclusion of First Fold material.
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.
We 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.
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…
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 suitewith a live set from first fold’s in-house band nations shall rise…, a specially prepared first fold focused set by royalfrom the open beats collective and some chat about what we are about.
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
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.
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.
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).
