Buzzard Lope
Debut mini-album Daybreak
released 19th November 2010
ŇThe
loveliest, sublime music you'll hear anywhere.Ó The Hit Sheet, 2010
You have beside you the
first release from off-pop trio, Buzzard Lope. ItŐs not been easy getting it to
you. Between the original sessions in summer 2008 and the current moment,
thereŐs a tale of disease, death, love, tax and immigration that will doubtless
form the backbone of a second release. But letŐs focus on the matter in handÉ
Biography:
After scratching a brief
living playing jazz in the moth-eaten bars of Bedford in the early half of the
decade, singer/pianist Roger Illingworth and double bassist Adam Jarvis poached
Brazilian drummer Raphael Saib from a post-rock band and set about marrying the
alternative pop of Ben Folds Five with the wrong-headed jazz and balladeering
of Small
Change era Tom Waits, with a little Thee Silver Mt Zion thrown into the
mix. Both at live shows, and on the album, the trio is joined by a changing
cast of brass, woodwind, strings, guitars and accordion, giving rise at times
to lush and glistening arrangements, at
other times simple and stark, and on the odd occasion, unashamedly pop. After
gaining a publishing deal with RAK, the album was recorded at the beautifully
equipped RAK studios, in the very same room thatŐs given rise to music by as
diverse a clientele as Hot Chocolate, Neil Young, Radiohead, and Grinderman.
The albumŐs central theme is the absurd difficulty of simply making a start;
perhaps ironic, in light of the trivial and tragic delays on the road to this
first release.
Lost Toys Records:
Daybreak is released by
independent label Lost Toys Records, a Bedford-based collective of artists and
musicians, home to the Johnny Parry Chamber Orchestra, visual artist Andy
Holden, and post-hardcore group Ice, Sea, Dead People.
Upcoming
Shows:
Sep 17 Hare & Hound, Birmingham, UK
Sep 22 UnderSolo, Camden, London, UK
Oct 10 Luxe, Spitalfields, London, UK
Oct 11 – 17 Germany Tour (see www.myspace.com/buzzardlope)
Oct 21 Roadtrip, Hoxton, London, UK
Nov 10-18 Daybreak UK Tour - TBC
Nov 19 Daybreak Album Launch – Luminaire, Kilburn, London, UK