Arch Hill Recordings Newsletter

Arch Hill Recordings Newsletter

Soundtrack to the Film Separation City by Samuel Scott and Luke Buda out next week

On 3rd of August Arch Hill Recordings is pleased to be releasing the soundtrack to the film Separation City - composed and compiled by Samuel Scott and Luke Buda. Aside from compositions by Sam & Luke the album features tracks by The Phoenix Foundation, SJD, The Black Seeds, Cassette, The NZSO, Wild Bill Ricketts and Mike Fabulous. The beautiful cover artwork is by artwork by Jessica Scott.

Watch the Separation City movie preview

Listen to the single 'Happy in the Trees' by Samuel Scott and Luke Buda

Samuel Scott and Luke Buda are both also known for their band The Phoenix Foundation, two respective solo albums each and the soundtrack (with the Phoenix Foundation) to the movie Eagle Vs Shark. It was an interesting and unique project for Sam and Luke to make music for as the film drifts between hilarious comedy and something much darker and painfully real.  According to Sam, director Paul had to reign in some of their more “oblique approached to sound”, but in the end it was a great challenge for them as it produced music that doesn't sound like anything they have ever made before. Also, apparently, the help of fellow Phoenix guitar man Conrad Wedde was required to add a little magic to some of the ‘love scenes’.

Written & produced by Tom Scott the film Separation City is a bittersweet comedy drama about falling out of love for the very first time. A painful lesson about how unrequited love lasts forever and while requited love comes with a use-by date. A story about courtship, mateship and jumping ship. A film for anyone who has ever been in a relationship and woken up beside someone they once adored beyond measure and thought even fleetingly, is this it?

Samuel Scott and Luke Buda - Separation City OST

Featuring The Phoenix Foundation, SJD, The Black Seeds, Cassette, The NZSO, Wild Bill Ricketts and Mike Fabulous.

$NZ 20

Cover art drawing by Jessica Scott and text by Anns Taylor

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David Kilgour & the Heavy 8s with Sam Hunt Auckland & Leigh Shows
Come and celebrate the release of their album "Falling Debris" with Sam Hunt and David Kilgour & The Heavy 8's - two of New Zealand's most iconic and enigmatic performers together on one stage for a very rare appearance.

Mystery Girl Presents David Kilgour & The Heavy 8's with Sam Hunt

    * Friday 21st of August -  Leigh Sawmill Cafe - Leigh - 9pm
    * Saturday 22nd of August - Montecristo Room - Auckland - 7pm (table seated)

In Auckland, this very special evening kicks off at 7.30PM SHARP (doors at 7pm) with the following order of events

    * An acoustic set from David and band, mostly playing songs from "Falling Debris".
    * Poetry with Sam Hunt.
    * An electric band set; David Kilgour, Sam Hunt and the Heavy 8's

The Montecristo show is TABLE SEATED and RESTRICTED TO 250 TICKETS - so get in quick or risk missing out. The table seating is first in first served.

Tickets $30 +BF from Real Groovy and Under the Radar - available from Friday 31st of July. You can also buy an album and ticket package for $50 from Under the Radar. 

David Kilgour & Sam Hunt - Falling Debris

"It is as though Kilgour’s music has grown up around these poems, attaching itself to the words like they were always meant to be together" Nick Bollinger - NZ Listener

Available from Arch Hill website $NZ 20

Photos taken at Sammys in Dunedin by Deano Shriffs

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Don McGlashan in Australia

Don McGlashan has just returned from two very successful shows in Australia, one at the Sydney Opera House and the other at the Northcote Social Club in Melbourne. While he was there he picked up a great four star review in the Sydney Herald Sun, a big story in the Australian and a drive time show on the ABC. 

Marvellous Year was released in Australia on July 17th on Good Red/Shock Records.

Also look out for the forthcoming Seven Worlds Collide album, released on August the 10th and featuring a couple of McGlashan songs performed with members of Radiohead, Wilco and Johnny Marr.

Don McGlashan & the Seven Sisters - Marvellous Year

"still plenty of new evidence of his particular songwriting genius throughout" 4/5 Stars - Russell Baillie - NZ Herald

$NZ 25

Don McGlashan photo by Greta Anderson ______________________________________________________________________________

 
The Bats Australian Release, Shows and US Release and Reviews
The Bats release their album The Guilty Office on Mistletone in Australia this July and play their first shows in six years over there

MELBOURNE: FRIDAY 7 AUGUST @ Northcote Social Club w/- Crayon Fields + The Twerps. 

SYDNEY: SATURDAY 8 AUGUST @ Hopetoun Hotel w/- Crayon Fields + Songs (trio).

The Bat's excellent album 'The Guilty Office' was released on Hidden Agenda records in the USA in June, and since then they have picked up some excellent reviews all over the shop...

They have also released a split 7" single with Australian band Songs with The Spring Press

US and European Reviews for 'the Guilty Office'

Pitchfork: "The band hasn't tinkered with its signature chiming guitars and surging straight-ahead rhythms. But why fix a formula that works? From melodic, bobbing lead "Countersign" to bucolic closer "The Orchard", Office is a comfortable, comforting listen, wonderful in its very familiarity." (7.5)
Agit Reader (interview): "Stuck away at the bottom of the world could be an advantage."
Popmatters: "Over seven full lengths, the Bats have not only perfected their own melancholy sound, but they've remained a vital and strikingly consistent pop band. One listen to The Guilty Office makes that clear."
Prefix Mag: "The Guilty Office also shows a willingness to expand things a bit."
Big Takeover: "This is definitely an album that rewards repeated spins."
Washington City Paper: "Few can work a Velvet Underground riff as tenderly."
Flavorpill/Flavorwire interviews Robert Scott.
Blurt Magazine: "Simple riffs, angelic harmonies & dreamy atmosphere."
Dusted: "Across 26 years and seven albums, the Bats have been quite consistent. Each tune has a crisp beat driven by the unstoppable rhythm section of Paul Kean and Malcolm Grant, an economical guitar melody by Kaye Woodward, and a sweet-sad lyric delivered in a matching voice.... [The Guilty Office] renders the familiar in sharper detail."
All Music Guide: "Songs that burrow into your consciousness and settle in for a long visit."
The Times UK: "A perfect example of old-school melancholy indie pop."
Maximum Ink: "Shimmering indie innocence swung around frenzied, art-punk thunder."
Uncut Magazine UK: "Defiantly lo-fi romanticism."
Mojo Magazine UK: "Byrdsian chimes and the freewheeling grooves of the VU's Loaded."
Aversion: "Straightforward songwriting executed with amazing subtlety."
Sounds XP: "Indiepop heaven"
The Line of Best Fit: "Like folk rock played in a charged atmosphere."

The Bats - The Guilty Office

"Twenty-six years after they were formed, to make music as fresh and joyful as this is almost miraculous. Everything I want music to be." - John Campbell

$NZ 20

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...and don't forget the new album by The Clean... Mister Pop is out September 7th! 
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