March:

12th: Jocky Venkataraman – Post Post Office EP (free download)

25th: Adam Stafford – Shot-down You Summer Wannabes/Fredrick Wiseman (Single, free download)

26th: Alan Bissett/Adam Stafford/The Kays Lavelle/Burnt Island/Jamie Sturrock LIVE at the Roxy Arts Centre Edinburgh (tickets £5, early show beginning 7pm)

April:

6th: Radio Trees – Outside World Strategies Vol.2 Mini LP (free download)

20th: Jamie Sturrock – New (untitled) EP (free download)

May:

17th: Kays Lavelle – Be Still, This Gentle Morning LP (CD)

August:

Alan Bissett/Adam Stafford – Untitled EP

September:

26th: Adam Stafford (writer)/Steven Tosh (illustrator) – Do You Still Need The Light? (graphic novella)

October:

Adam Stafford – Build a Harbour Immediately LP (CD)

Some of these dates may change, heck we might even throw-in more releases. Check blogs and pages for updates.

Love during wartime,

WBI x

Also you may be pleased to discover The Kays play an evening with Wise Blood Industries on March 26th at The Roxy Arts Centre (formerly The Bowery) in Edinburgh, alongside author Alan Bissett, Adam Stafford (Y’all is Fantasy Island/Size of Kansas), Burnt Island and Jamie Sturrock. We hope you can make it!

Download for FREE here!

Single Credits: Written by The Kays Lavelle. Produced and engineered by Neil Pennycook & Alex Fenton. Mixed by Alex Fenton. All rights reserved 2010.

#1 is drenched in strings, mournful guitar and Stafford’s trademark croak and obtuse lyrics. #2 is creepy like a walk up an icy path with zero visability.

Enjoy!

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1. Play on The Weekend’s Sunny Days

2. The Woman of The House Thought as Much

Download FREE here! (12m, 2 tracks including cover artwork)

Credits: #1 Produced, recorded, mixed & mastered by Tommy Blair and Adam Stafford. Written by Adam Stafford. Woman playing Cello: Susan Apelby; woman singing and playing Fiddle: Laura Dorricott; man singing: Leo Bruges.

#2: Written, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Stafford. All instruments played by Stafford.

Copyright Wise Blood Industries/yifi Music 2009. All rights reserved.

It’s with great pleasure to announce that Wise Blood Industries will be  hosting the new single from Glasgow’s Burnt Island for free download!

Burnt Island is based around the songs of Rodge Glass (vocals, acoustic guitar). The band has evolved several times since forming in 2007, with various friends coming and going along the way. The now-stable line-up includes Rodge’s longest serving collaborator, Malcolm Jack (electric guitar, bass, vocals), also Rik Evans (viola), Amber Comerford (flute, vocals) and Andrew Campbell (bass, keys, vocals). That is, provided they’re not playing with other bands, studying for Masters degrees, making television programmes in the Hebrides or performing with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on that particular day. The band have been Vic Galloway’s ‘Unsigned Heroes’ on his BBC Radio Scotland show, and played at both the Triptych and Connect festivals, as well as supported the likes of A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Hjaltalin, Sleeping States and The Phenomenal Handclap Band in 2009.  Rodge, also an award-winning novelist and biographer of the Glaswegian artist Alasdair Gray, contributed to Ballads of the Book, an album released in 2007 by Chemikal Underground Records which featured collaborations between authors and musicians. He co-wrote and performed the track ‘The Fire’ together with highly influential folk legend Vashti Bunyan.

Download the single for FREE here! Or pick up a CD copy, distributed by Dead Light Records.

Burnt Island are putting the finishing touches to their Chem19-recorded debut album which is scheduled for release next year. They play a show with author Alan Bissett and WBI’s Adam Stafford at the Captain’s Rest on Great Western Rd in Glasgow on Friday the 5th of February 2010. We hope you can make it along!

Download free here! (zip file 14m including single artwork)

1. The Moments Before

2. Timeless Colour

Credits:  Songs by Rodge Glass/ Music by Burnt Island. Produced by Dave McAuley at Chem 19 Studios, Glasgow. Single photograph by Ross Wood.

Originally intended to be released in September, Adam Stafford’s official debut solo album Awnings is a fresh cock-flash in the face of the modern Scottish music constabulary. As a man without peers, Stafford’s LP is a swirling fist storm of a cappella improv madness, constructed from maddening complex algo-rythms and throbbing techno vulgarity amongst flashes of wayward electronic beatboxing and spoken word poetry, utilising only his mere throat and two loop pedals.

And all recorded in an intense 3 hour improv session in mid-September, it really does put most albums on the so-called “best-of” lists this year to shame (Pitchfork baulk!).

Not every-one’s cup of poisoned tea – moderate rock fans stay away! But if this quote from illustrator Paul Ryding tickles your scrotal flappys, download without hesitation: “Awnings sounds like Steve Riech if recorded in the  megabus toilet. broken down in steps by one musician with a flask of cider and the biggest brass ball I ever did see!”

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Adam Stafford also directed the new clip for The Twilight Sad’s song “Seven Years of Letters”. Veiw the video here!

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1. Penshaw Monument

2. Expert Jump

3. Add Mask

4. Medievel Windmill

5. Huntington House For the Deaf

6. The Long Slow March to Literacy

7. Awnings

LP Credits: Written, Recorded and Performed by Adam Stafford in a three hour session on September 14th 2009. Mastered by Michael John McCarthy November 2009.

Under ten-minutes long and displaying a dizzying array of tap acoustic Polly-rhythms and summery melodics, the EP will find admirers amongst fans of Four Tet, Plaid and Kaki King and introduces a brilliant new talent to the WBI fold. Jamie is currently working on two follow-up EP’s that he is planning as a triptych and an LP under his new guise, The Golden Machine.

Download the EP for FREE here!