BIRTHDAY TAPES MMXII explanatory notes

At the beginning of the MMXIIth Year of our Lord we started a new collaborative with our sweet-hearted friends GIANT HELL.
We called it BIRTHDAY TAPES, as it was to be in concert with the cosmos and zodiac-affiliated and but also because we wanted each object to feel like a gift, wrapped as they are specially commissioned ark work.
Essentially a 'singles' club with one split release per zodiacal month.
So in MMXII there will be contributions from 24 different bands /recording artists and 12 visual artists/ image makers/ illustrators.

You can listen to the 7 so far below.

The series can be subscribed to HERE or digitally HERE.

Alternatively individual releases can be purchased HERE or digitally HERE

There a still a few full subscriptions remaining, which, in addition to all 12 tapes, also include a hand-mae wooden box to keep them all in courtesy of WINEBOX PRESS as well as some other surprises  and printed matter.

If you have any questions please direct them to:
 birthdaytapes@gmail.com or comfortableonatightrope@gmail.com

NITE JEWEL + NICHOLAS KRGOVICH + ALDOUS RH

all perform LIVE at SOUP KITCHEN tomorrow night, Sunday 15th July 2012.
 Tickets are still available HERE

It's almost three  whole years since Ramona Gonzales' NITE JEWEL last played in Manchester. If you were there then or you've had the pleasure of listening to any of her pitch-perfect and perfectly pitched pop records on BIG LOVE, Italians Do It Better, No Pain In Pop, Gloriette, 1984 (stones throw), human ear, Mexican Summer or any of her self released cdrs. Her newest album 'One Second Of Love' arrived at the start of the year via Secretly Canadian and displays, as on all of the other releases, her knack for constucting a sophisticated pop music that is refined, elegant and learned and but not so  knowing that it ever stops being fun.We are so glad to welcome NITE JEWEL back to Manchester.





Never shy to collaborate, having worked in the past  with Butchy Fuego, Linda Perhacs, Ariel Pink, Julia Holter and Cole MGN among others, most recently she's been working with NICHOLAS KRGOVICH (see Frank Ocean cover above) who joins her on this tour, playing in the NITE JEWEL band and also as main support. Perhaps best known for his wrk in NO KIDS, P:ANO and collaborations with MOUNT EERIE, KRGOVICH has recently started to record and perform under his given name and has a string of releases including a 7" on P W Elverum and Sun (video below) and a new covers LP called 'REAL LIFE'.


Nicholas Krgovich - It Never Was You from N KRG on Vimeo.



Opening proceedings is ALDOUS RH, one of the best dancers in town. A contribution to BIRTHDAY TAPES is forthcoming as are, probably, a string of classic albums to be given away online and hopefully released on traditional formats too.



See you there yeah