Our Sound Repository has been updated, expanded and organised!
Just click the link above and you will be treated to a kinds of WTL racket including four brand new tracks from our recent recording sessions for our as yet untitled second album.
We have called this selection ‘Hope You Are Well’:
Hope You Are Well (Demos) by Wizards Tell Lies
Enjoy!
WTL
March and April have been very happy months for WTL and the release of our EP ‘The Occurrence’ (through First Fold Records).
‘Twisted Willows’ from the EP was broadcast on Cian O Ciobhain’s ‘An Taobh Tuathail’ (The Other Side) show on RTE RnaG (Galway, Ireland):
An Taobh Tuathail at about 41:14 in.
Mark Ryan at Amazing Radio played another of our tracks on Amazing Beats (about 15:40 in) this time it was an early version of ‘Fire of the Black Sun’.
Later in March we contributed an early live rehearsal of ‘How It Starts’ to First Fold’s free download album ‘Because Music is Recorded‘ which is still available for download.
Joseph Stannard gave ‘The Occurrence’ a most encouraging review in (The) Wire (issue 339, May 2012, page 70).
We are most grateful to Joseph for reviewing our little EP and for his comments which have given us much food for thought and will hopefully contribute to a positive development of Wizards Tell Lies’ sound.
We must also thank Stuart, Ben, Gareth (for his amazing artwork) and the rest of the First Fold family for all their support of WTL, without whom non of this would have happened and also Mark Barton for his ongoing encouragement and support and also to Indie Rock Mag in France for their inclusion of ‘The Occurrence’ on their ‘Le Streaming du Jour‘ page.
Onward and upward, as they say.
Hello everyone and happy Easter.
First Fold Records has compiled a delightful and exciting collection of live recordings from artists connected to the Fold and made it available for free! You can’t get better than that, surely, and so please click on the download link below and spread the news to your friends and other such folk as you deem fit. As they say, “The more, the merrier.”
01. Wizards Tell Lies, How It Starts (Early Live Rehearsal – 2008)
02. Boss Turbo Doesn’t Afraid of Anything, MAKE OBJECT CUBE (Live at BOYD 6)
03. Harry Dawes Trio, Excerpt from Improvisation (Live at BOYD 6)
04. Einstellung, Ich Rechne Damit, Dass Sie Blitzen
05. Damrai Vent, Live
06. Lucky Dog, The Memory of the Light
07. Magnetophone, I Choose Fire
08. Papa November, Engulfed (Live at BOYD 3)
09. Juneau Brothers, Where’s Our Battle?
10. Arc Vel, Rain Glass Sleep
Thank you very much indeed for popping by, we do hope you enjoy this collection of music.
WTL
Hello everyone.
We hope you are well.
Our EP ‘The Occurrence’ will be going on sale through First Fold Records on 19.03.12 and you can see the official product page here. There you can stream the entire EP and also click on a various ‘buy buttons’ to either purchase the download or the CD. And remember, good people, the first 100 physical CDs come with a specially created mini-zine which, we think, is rather groovy.
To buy the CD, please do click here:
Buy CD Version of The Occurrence
To buy the download, please click here:
Buy Download Version of The Occurrence
Clicking these buttons takes you to the official First Fold Topspin Shop.
We are very proud of this release and hope that you will enjoy it.
Thank you for listening.
WTL
With the release of our new EP ‘The Occurrence’ looming over the horizon like some dark portent we would like to draw your attention to our very special ‘Occurrence‘ page. There you will find more about this release, including info about anthropologist Ezra Parker – the inspiration behind the release – and her incredible experience at Oak Nook.
Early photograph of Ezra Parker at work ©The Ezra Parker Archives
The EP is released on 19th March through First Fold Records, and the first 100 physical CDs are packaged with a specially created mini-zine.
We thank you for your time.
WTL
Last night we received news from First Fold Towers that gave us cause to hold a small celebratory ritual which sent much excitement through The Forest of Dark. The proofs of our brand new ‘The Occurrence’ EP had arrived and was being checked and scrutinised by those employed to do such things.
We have only the photograph of this object to admire (courtesy of Lord Tonge) at the moment but that, sometimes, is more than enough.
Thrilled and excited,
WTL
PS Released 19.03.12 through First Fold Records
This morning was spent cutting and folding little zines for our EP ‘The Occurrence’ which will be released on the 19th of March 2012 through First Fold Records.
Each CD will come with this special little zine and you will receive either a white, blue, orange, yellow or green one.
The zine is limited to 100 and features photographs from the archive of Ezra Parker (more about her closer to the release date). It is Ezra’s fascinating story that inspired the recording of ‘The Occurrence’.
The EP will be available through First Fold Records on 19th March but, in the meantime, to whet your appetite here is track two from the EP entitled ‘Occurrence’:
Between the hours of 7pm and 12am on Friday nights you can hear Mark Ryan (presenter of Amazing Beats on Amazing Radio) playing a plethora of electronically created music. A man known only as ‘Charles’ (we don’t know if this is, in fact, his real name) had suggested the word ‘Wizard’ to Mark for a random musical search as part of the ‘People’s Choice’ segment. Chance threw forth ‘Wizards Tell Lies’ and when we were notified that Mark would be playing one of our tracks as part of his show in truth we wondered how we would fit into this predominantly ‘dance’ tracked show. It was a strange and wonderful experience to hear our track ‘The Final Transmission of Gilbert Delaney’ sandwiched beautifully between Whigs & Rakes’ ‘We Are Not All Human Here’ and Blacklisters’ joyfully titled ‘Trickfuck’. It seemed fitting we were placed somewhere between ‘inhuman’ and ‘peculiar sexual practices’.
A huge thank you to Mark Ryan for playing our track and we were moved, excited and inspired by his very kind words regarding this music that we make.
Thank you for popping by.
WTL
