The Sighs / Jayrope & Slowlearner • 3.09.06
NEWS: Debut album “Early Grey” out on Stilll Records, Belgium, in early 2008!
The Sighs
... are Jayrope (music) and Slowlearner (poetry & lead vocals) from Berlin doing future folk touching other genres around.
Listen to the player below you’ll hear. At times there’s electronics and at times there’s beats aswell. The Sighs choose music and words just to suit their souls as big as blue whales.
Their 5th and most recent EP Trawl, originally released in November 2005 as a limited edition of 50 handmade pieces on CD-r, will be rereleased as “Peregrinations” in early December 2006 on Berlin’s Blank Records. It’ll be a double CD containing the original EP aswell as a remix album featuring the likes of Matt Elliott, Manyfingers, Tom Bugs, Marten Rux etc.
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Listen on
The Sighs played around 50 live concerts yet, since September 2004. They appeared for instance with Matt Elliott, Manyfingers, Tom Bugs, Hood, Tarwater, Anne Laplantine, Like Plankton for the Elephant, Ellen Schneider, Vanishing Breed, Sickerman & John Edward Donald.
So one could say, that they have found a dedicated audience already, and they are happy about this.
The worldwide renaissance of folk music seems to support their idea of songbased, poetry-oriented music, minimalistic and using no-computer electronics at times.
Recently
... in April 2006, jayrope & Slowlearner have travelled to Bristol’s Cube Cinema to record with Tom Bugs, Manyfingers, Toni Maiof (Geisha) and Matt Jones (Crescent) for an upcoming album to be recorded and then released in spring 2007.
Current live shows in autumn 2006 already feature these new songs, featuring Blank Rec. labelfounder Sickerman on Cello and guitar aswell as Berlin’s underground celebrity Kiki Bohemia on additional vocals and tambourine.
Images
The Sighs thrashed, in the morning after a club 103 show in Berlin in 2005.
Image by jayrope
14.04.2006 @ Cafe Delight, Bristol. This night was awesome, with Chris Cole, Matt Jones, Anton Maiof, Tom Bugs, Guy of Bronnt and many others attending.
Image by Tom Bugs.
