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New 'I Do Wrong' video from 'I Know What I Make Isn't Fine - The Winter Recordings'
Filmed in Berlin back in 2010, this is a new video for the newly mixed / mastered version of ‘I Do Wrong’ from ‘I Know What I Make Isn’t Fine - The Winter Recordings’ that’s out next weekend.
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I Know What I Make Isn’t Fine - The Winter Recordings
I Know What I Make Isn’t Fine
Annabel
The Royal Canal
Boys, I Am Worried
You Are Better Than This
Song For A Coalman
Joe And Robert And Me And Mike
Song For Fee
Tom
Make A Dead One Of It
I Do Wrong
Portugal
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn’t
Suit Of Stones
Paper Birds
Here
Fair And Fine
You Belong To Me, You Do
I Know What I Make Isn’t Fine (first take)
Number 20 in the monthly subscription releases coming 01.01.2022.
19 songs originally recorded in December 2010 for the album 'Winter'. 7 unreleased tracks, all songs remixed and remastered.
Available as a hand stamped CD edition with hand typed and personalised sleeves, linear notes and full quality digital download.
Digital download includes pdf with linear notes.
Physical edition available throughout January, digital anytime. €10 digital / €15 physical including postage anywhere at my Patreon or Bandcamp sites.
'I Know What I Make Isn't Fine' video
A new mix and master of all the songs recorded in December 2010 for the album ‘Winter’ is coming at the end of the month. 19 tracks, including 7 unreleased. Available on limited CD and full quality digital download through my Bandcamp and Patreon sites from 01.01.22.
More info and tracklist coming soon.
'November' now available
Here is the latest release - a fifteen track collection from the last few weeks of concerts and travels through Germany and Switzerland.
'November' is available to all subscribers at Bandcamp and to all on the €10 or higher Patreon tiers, both as a full quality digital download and limited CD edition. If you sign up now you'll be able to download this and about 30 other releases, over 20 of which are exclusive to subscribers.
Please consider supporting me in this way - I believe these recordings are from the last concerts I will get to play for some time and making these releases for people is a massive source of encouragement for me these days.
Thanks all,
Stephen
Recent Apple Music playlists
I realised I hadn’t shared what I’ve been having on repeat for a few months so here’s a couple for you. No particular order to these, I just make a little list each month for myself and save them.
July 2021
August 2021
September 2021
October 2021
Concerts this month
I’m happy to be playing some concerts this month in Germany and Switzerland, beginning this evening in Dresden and carrying on like this:
03/11/21 Hole Of Fame, Dresden, DE - link
04/11/21 Lila Drache, Halle, DE - link
05/11/21 GALERIA LUNAR goes Underground, Hannover, DE - all welcome, please email for details
06/11/21 Private House Concert, Rosche, DE
07/11/21 Fotostudio Gezett, Berlin, DE - all welcome, please email foto@gezett.de for details
08/11/21 Café Feuerwache, Hamburg, DE - all welcome, please email for details
09/11/21 Tonfink, Lübeck, DE - link
10/11/21 Waggon, Offenbach, DE - link
16/11/21 Gustav, Bern, CH - link
* 17/11/21 - FREE, CH - looking for somewhere to play / stay
* 18/11/21 - FREE, CH - looking for somewhere to play / stay
19/11/21 Mundwerk, Thun, CH - link
If anyone can help at all with the 2 free days in Switzerland, preferably around the Bern area it would be fantastic. Otherwise I’m looking forward to a busy couple of weeks and I hope some of you can make it along to these. Say hello if you do.
Stephen
'FÜRTH' double disc and download now available for everyone
My recent concert at the Badstrasse in Fürth is now available as a 17 song download or double disc physical edition to everyone at Bandcamp or through my Patreon subscription.
This was one of the most enjoyable concerts I've ever played and certainly my favourite show of 2021 so far.
When I Was Away
The Royal Canal
Down Down Down
Hove Beach And Eggshells
Lover O Lover
Deserter
Pretty Peggy-O
I Do Wrong
The Ghost Is The Only One That Beats My Drum
Song For A Coalman
If I Have To Walk All The Way To England
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn't (with Stefanie VIVIAN VOID)
Super Good Advice (with Stefanie VIVIAN VOID)
Lord Franklin
So Long Song
Paper Birds
We Swam A Little Song
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'Yurt' EP now available
A new 3 track EP, recorded in a Yurt in the west of Austria a few weeks ago is now available on my Bandcamp and Patreon sites. It includes a new sketch / song I was writing the same evening.
This was a lovely little visit. After a couple of nights in the luxurious Villa Müller (recordings from that are here) I rode over to my friend Johannes and set up in his beautiful yurt in the field behind the old house he’s rebuilding. There was an old bottle of cheap whiskey and I played and played. Most of it unlistenable, of course.
I’m uploading and sharing more of these sort of occasions, as well as some recent concerts I’ve enjoyed playing on my Bandcamp and Patreon sites. It would mean the world to me when more people head over there and support me that way.
Thanks all
Stephen
'Work With This' from Speicher, Husum last weekend
Here’s the first song from my long set at the wonderful Speicher up in Husum on the north west coast of Germany last weekend. I’ll probably put together a collection from this evening for my Bandcamp and Patreon pages in the next few days as I remember it being a nice concert.
I’m just home after other enjoyable concerts at the beautiful Buchhandlung Blattgold and Prinz Willy’s lovely little bar in Kiel. In between I spent most of the week on the little island of Bornholm in between Sweden, Denmark and Germany. No concerts played there sadly, but some writing and much fuel for further songs.
Big thanks to everyone who came out and helped. Later this month I’m in Karlsruhe, Freiburg and then Ulm. Anyone up for coming along please get in touch.
More to follow then,
Stephen
'Zeppelin' video
From the 18th subscription release ‘The Villa Müller Recordings’ out 01.10.21 at the following:
FREITAL now out
A set of songs from my recent concert at the Spielbühne, Freital on the 21st of August is now out.
I played outside the theatre to a quiet but super friendly crowd - was a lovely visit. I played two sets, lots of songs and this is a selection of most. I edited out some of my excessive talking, and a couple of technical sound issues with a few of them.
The Royal Canal
Down Down Down
The Ghost Is The Only One That Beats My Drum
Pretty Peggy-O
Luck Is Cruelty On The Wind
We Make Our Own Fun
Barbara Allen
Super Good Advice
Lord Franklin
So Long Song
Good Night
We Swam A Little Song
I’ll have it on this site very soon, but in the meantime it’s available at Bandcamp here.
Hamburg concert this month
I’ve just added a special, acoustic concert in the Buchhandlung Blattgold, Wexstrasse 28 in Hamburg for next Friday evening - the 24th of September.
It’s free entry, with donations and I’ll be playing for an hour from 19:00. Spaces are very limited - I think about 20 people can attend. It’s 2G and you’ll need to reserve your place via email.
You can also just drop me a message and I’ll take it from there.
If you use Facebook, the event is here.
That’s all the info - I’m very excited to be playing back in Hamburg after almost a year away and hope some of you can make it.
Have a great week,
Stephen
Villa Müller, Feldkirch
Photos above by Katharina Koutnik from my concert at the beautiful Villa Müller a week or so ago.
I stayed there a few days, played a concert on the Sunday and then recorded most of the next day. I played some old songs but also wrote some new things and played some instrumental ideas. I’ll post the complete set of things I made on my Patreon and Bandcamp sites soon but in the meantime here’s a little idea of what happened.
'Lord Franklin' from 'Eight August Songs'
Here’s a spontaneous cover of the folk song ‘Lord Franklin’ I recorded a few weeks ago for my latest release, ‘Eight August Songs’ available through Bandcamp and Patreon now.
‘Lord Franklin’ (or ‘Lady Franklin’s Lament’) was written around 1850 and tells the story of the 1845 expedition to find a passage between the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific. Two ships and their crew were lost and the wife of Franklin sponsored many expeditions in an effort to locate her husband. The song is told from the point of view of a sailor at sea who actually dreams Franklin’s story into the song, thinking it true, which it is. It’s frames within frames, songs within songs and a very strange and beautiful text. Naturally, Wikipedia has more information on the origins and various versions here.
I’ve always loved the melody of this song and thought I’d try to understand the structure, which is actually very simple and in fact likely originates from a much earlier instrumental Irish tune ‘Cailín Óg a Stór’. This, in turn, was the basis for ‘The Croppy Boy’. As is often the case, start looking into a folk song and the rabbit hole opens up.
I had never tried this song before this take but have since played it at most of the concerts I’ve played this month. All of these shows were recorded and I’m posting songs from them on my Patreon and, along with other recordings I’ve just made, they’ll likely turn up for the next month’s subscription release.
Thanks for listening,
Stephen
Recordings from Freital on my Patreon.
I’ll be posting live recordings from my recent concert in Freital on my Patreon page over the next few days. It was a lovely night and I played a bunch of things I don’t normally play. Some new songs from the last few albums and a couple of folk covers, including something I never tried before. Please consider supporting me there - it’s just €3 a month and there’s much exclusive music from me uploading already, with more coming all the time.
The photo above is by ankola007 from the night.
Free download of 'DESI'
A six song recording from my recent concert at DESi in Nürnberg is now available as a free download to everyone on my mailing list and to all Patreon and Bandcamp subscribers. It’s also available to buy through Bandcamp.
I’ve put the form for the newsletter below. I post once a month maximum and have a few other releases that are available to everyone there. I get that it’s a bit old fashioned but it’s nice to feel like I’m speaking to the people that are wanting to hear from me and not just shouting arrogantly into the void.
31.07.21 DESI, Nürnberg, Germany
The Royal Canal
I Do Wrong
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn't
Hove Beach and Eggshells
Lover O Lover
So Long Song
I’ll send an email out tonight with a link to download, and if you miss it drop me a line and I’ll add you to the list and I’ll make sure you get another.
Of course, everyone signed up to my Patreon or Bandcamp subscriptions get all the new music I make and release anywhere so there’s that too. I’d be super happy if more people decide to support me this way as it’s the absolutely one of the best sources of encouragement to me these days.
This was a spontaneous, relaxed evening and I’m happy to share music from it with you.
Cover photo by https://www.instagram.com/lea_laerm/
Live tracks on Patreon
I’ve been uploading single tracks, especially recent live recordings over on my Patreon page for the last few weeks. Today there is a version of ‘The Royal Canal’ from last Saturday’s concert in Nürnberg up here. I’ll follow with more in the next week.
Finding it fun to share things every few days - I would really appreciate it if you considered signing up there to hear this stuff. €3 a month will get you started and it means a lot to me to make things for those that are listening.
Thanks all, have a good weekend.
Stephen