Vessels

Boon Glefters

We have new music, a new video, new live shows, a new website, and new merch, all waiting round the corner, about to trip you up and steal your Pope inspired loafers…

So, in the spirit of spring, we’re having a clearout, and we’re down to our last few tee-shirts – just a few logo tees left, small sizes in yellow or blue, and large in white. We have fitted ladies logo tees in green, still in S, M or L.

Because we’re simple minded folk, we’re banging them out for £8, including postage – NO MATTER WHERE IN THE WORLD YOU ARE – unless of course you live somewhere so outsandingly esoteric that the Post-Office just laughs at us…

So pour a Saft Flader, readjust your angle of recline, boon on over to the Vessels webshop and henge yersen a tee before there are NONE LEFT…

xx

Vessels

Happy 2013 sockenfelpers!

London dwellers ahoy – the 1-2-3-4 Neu Gallery in Redchurch Street will be hosting an installation of our interactive Helioscope video next week as part of the London Short Film Festival.

On the evening of Monday 7th the gallery will be open all evening for a private screening (which you Vessels fans are invited to) and the directing team including Tim Harrison will be present to answer any questions.

On Wednesday 9th and Friday 11th, and as well as being in the gallery from 4pm, in the evening it will be projected onto the gallery window with passers-by being able to control it using their smartphones in place of the mouse. If you’re thinking of heading down, remember to take headphones to get the music as well!

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So,marching as we are through the mists of time where each cycle of 12 months seems to speed up by a factor of 3 the longer we cling to the surface of the earth, it is apparently that time of the year again where we try and remember those things that have made this particular trip around the sun more memorable or special than the last spin round.
So without further a do, and in no particular order, here are some of the things we thought were cool in 2012. Actually you will notice that, as we are at the cutting edge of all things contemporary, there are a few things here from 2011, that’s because it is taking some of us a while to catch up with things these days!

With best wishes to you all for Xmas and the New Year from everyone in Camp Vessels. We are looking forward to a busy and exciting 2013 – we look forward to seeing you then!

Tim xx

Martin:

ALBUMS:
Nathan fake – Steam Days
Swans – The Seer
Grizzly Bear – Shields

GIGS:
Haushka at the National ATP
The Twilight Sad at Brudenell Social
Swans at Koko

FILM:
Tyrannosaur

Lee:

FILM:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Not a massive budget but just a lot of fun.

COMIC:
Transmetropolitan
I know this has been out for a while but I just started collecting this year and fell in love with it. Really funny but with a very relevant plot. I’m up to number 8 of 10.

Tom:

ALBUMS:
Fieldhead – A Correction
Awesome ambient throbs with gently crackling beats on the wonderful Gizeh Records.
Sun Glitters – Everything Will Be Fine
Actually came out in 2011 but only discovered this year when we played a gig with him in Luxembourg. Blissed-out side-chained wonky trip-hop with great use of pitch shifted vocal samples.

Pete:

ALBUM – James Blackshaw – Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death
FILM – Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film
GIG – Leo Kottke, Passionskirche, Kreuzberg, Berlin

Tim:

ALBUMS:
Daphni – Jiaolong
Infectious dance music with smatterings of soul and afrobeat.
Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces
Another late 2011 release but more of a soundtrack to late 2012 for me. Some of the most intelligent pop music around, managing to be experimental and catchy at the same time.
Kiasmos – Thrown EP
Best track of the year on this. Clearly not an album though.

GIG :
Do Make Say Think, Electric Palace, London

A wonderful video (view on Vimeo or YouTube) for our Nathan Fake cover has arrived. Directed by Morgan Beringer, it’s a kaleidoscooping swirl of pulsing imagination that we dig big.

Also, not content with making the single her ‘Headphone Moment’ last Friday, ex-Kenickie songstress and disc-jockey extraordinaire Lauren Laverne made it her MPFree on Monday! Nip over to her blog to download if you haven’t already. Alternatively, our Soundcloud has reached it’s download limit so get it through our Bandcamp. It’s a ‘name your fee’ purchase kinda thang over there, so it’s still free if you don’t wanna pay anything. Should be on iTunes Spotify etc soon.

See you next week peeps!

Xx

YESYES! Residents of the U to the K – prepare thineselves for an onslought of vessels audio in realtime 3D at a city near you!

21/11/12 : Broadcast – GLASGOW
22/11/12 : Cafe Drummond – ABERDEEN
23/11/12 : Wharf Chambers – LEEDS (late show open till 6am) 
24/11/12 : Buffalo Bar – CARDIFF
25/11/12 : The Shacklewell Arms – LONDON

ps Added to the bill of the poster above is the wonderful Mountain Range. Come early to witness his fine knob twidling prowess.

Xx

Gadies and Lentlemen
I know it may seem like a dream, like the realisation of some deep embedded fantasy which you share only with yourself and your figurines, but we have a new track for you RIGHT NOW…. NOW

To satiate the beseechings of your nuanced eardrums whilst we chip away at ‘Vessels Full Length No. 3’, we have arranged and recorded a COVER VERSION of James Holden’s remix of ‘The Sky Was Pink‘ by Nathan Fake. Download it for free right now. That’s right folks, we have recorded a cover version. We were going to cover Badfinger’s ‘Can’t live’, but Pete was outvoted four to one….

Check it out RIGHT NOW at Spin.com and stay tuned for the tuncenating video that our friend Morgan Beringer is putting the finishing touches to right now…

As if that’s not enough, Tom has crenged together a mixtape for you, a bit of a mixathon if you will, a skittery Death Race through some of the vibes we’ve been absorbing whilst writing and recording our new material. Boon it up on Soundcloud and don’t forget to tell your mates yeah.

Speaking of new sounds we’ll finally get the chance to share them with some of you in November when we hit ol’ Jack “the road” Jackson for a handful of UK dates.

Tell your mates – as far as we can gather tickets for Leeds and London are already pretty buncenated and may well sell out…

21/11/12 : Broadcast – GLASGOW
22/11/12 : Cafe Drummond – ABERDEEN
23/11/12 : Wharf Chambers – LEEDS (late show open till 6am)
24/11/12 : Buffalo Bar – CARDIFF
25/11/12 : The Shacklewell Arms – LONDON

See you soon Quadraboon…

Head over to Playcanvas at your peril! Tonenoise.com (Lee and Tom’s brand-spanking-new sound design webpage) have provided some audio for this cool little interactive e-card.

http://apps.playcanvas.com/playcanvas/halloween/2012

Personalise to share to you your friends. 🙂

(Best viewed using Chrome or Firefox, and requires webGL so won’t work on old machines unfortunately.)

Enjoy!

Vessels

Xx

ClengeHefters!

Brace Yersens! Tie down your farmyard figurines, make yersen a brew in a Spode blue Jubilee mug and prepare an emergency trouser clasp – the long awaited final cut of the

Helioscope interactive video is here! Click the picture or this link:

HELIOSCOPE INTERACTIVE

Guide the magnifying glass through Helioland, using your mouse to negotiate and personalise your audio visual experience (no need to click unless you want to pause it!). Remember to check the windows in the warehouse for some wistful Warwick wonderment!

Close all other browser windows/tabs for best results.

This has been a long time in the making and we really hope you enjoy exploring it as much as we have being involved in the making of it. Thanks so much to the skillful directors, Tim Harrison and Ian Pons Jewell at Studio Murmur.

Enjoy!

Vessels

Xx

Kwenders!

Somehow, amidst all of the hazy hours spent locked away writing the new Vessels album (Sounding SCOONING BTW) our very own Lee J Malcolm has found a spare moment or two to write and release another solo album…

Lee J Malcolm’s presents Terrestrial will be released on the 5th November on EPM Music, and to whet your appetites before that the single/EP Trashcan Riotface Queen will be released this coming Monday the 15th of October via iTunes et al. What’s more, there’s a Vessels remix of this badboy on the digital EP, oh yeah!

You can hear Lee’s new track in this Dubmission podcast, at about fifteen minutes in – enjoy…

The American version of Being Human used our song Yuki over the closing scene of its latest episode, aired on the SyFy network yesterday.

Boon!

Here’s Clare McArdle’s video for it from 2008.

🙂

Xx