Over the past 12 months or so, the ideas for a new album have been forming. There was an original concept in mind to release a 12" LP, but as these dissolved, they were replaced by the historical and un-trendy format of the compact disc. The selected tracks, written and recorded during 2014, are released as a 60 minute limited CD and download.
This album, Closer To The Sea Without Moving, contains 10 new tracks, including "Closer To The Sea" (which was to be one full side of an LP, it's five parts totally 22 minutes).
The album is released as a 150 copy CD with hand screen printed silver on black gatefold sleeve with 8 page photo booklet.
The physical CD/download will be available from 11.10.2014 from the Bandcamp site:
yellow6.bandcamp.com
Also available is the recent recording "Live at FUSE Bradford 22 Aug 2014" available for free download. The 3 song set includes alternate versions of 2 album tracks, along with one originally released on Y6XV (merry6mas2013) - also available to download.
watch out for merry6mas2014 (the coming of age) - 16th in the ongoing series.....
Friday, 10 October 2014
Monday, 14 July 2014
Summer News 2014
Hi
I
hope you are enjoying the sun/rain or both wherever your summer is
happening. Here in the middle of
England, about as far from the sea as it’s possible to get yellow6 is beavering
away slowly on a few things…
First
off, I have contributed to the Silber QRD guitarists compilation with an
exclusive improv noisey guitar track, in the company of many many fine
guitarists. From the Silber newsletter:
Next
up, I have two gigs over the summer.
First
is an appearance at the Fairywood Festival in Essex on 9th
August. All info here: http://fairywoodfest.moonfruit.com/
The
I play at Fuse Art Space in Bradford on Friday 22nd August : Memory
Drawings / Yellow6 / Gerrard Bell-Fife: https://www.facebook.com/events/263124737206673/
The
new album….
In
a change of plans, the new album will now be released as a limited CD/download
by the wonderful Silber label http://www.silbermedia.com/ The CD will be an edition of no more than
200 copies, available through Silber in the USA and Yellow6/Bandcamp for
UK/EU. Digital download will be via
Bandcamp/Silber/iTunes…. More on that soon (probably an autumn release)
Lastly,
I have copies of the limited gig edition
of Y6XV in special spray stencilled sleeve.
There were only 20 of these and there’s about 10 left. I also have copies of the Death:Valley 2CD
set and the 2LPs Death and Valley in colour vinyl, and the last few copies of
the Tonefloat LP in silver sleeve and Sleep of Reason 4LP set, all at special
prices (email for info). Other stuff
still available through yellow6.Bandcamp.com
Enjoy
your summer and more news soon…
Jon/yellow6
Sunday, 15 June 2014
Y6XV Reviewed - limited edition available
many thanks to Beach Sloth for the review below:
http://beachsloth.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/yellow6-y6xv-77.html
http://beachsloth.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/yellow6-y6xv-77.html
yellow6 creates beautiful sky-gazing music on “Y6XV”. While it may try to pass itself off as “shoegaze” there is too much hope within these songs to let them simply stare at the ground. Here the guitar soars without a care. The melodies are clear-eyed in their determination to evolve. Gradually they do with extreme care and patience. Slowness is a major feature of many of the pieces on here and it is wonderful. A lack of speed means the songs are able to become graceful, even grand in their elaborate presentations.
“bright skies” begins the album in the best way possible. Aspects of the work conjure up images of Stars of the Lid at their most rock-oriented. “falcon one” is brilliant. Texture-wise it is incredibly appealing. Distortion becomes the anchor upon which everything else rests. With the distortion providing the support the guitars gently linger above. Particularly brilliant is how the distortion melts away to reveal the beauty. Such a carefully laid out piece it is a highlight of the album. On “sleep day” yellow6 brings in sparse drumming in an almost slow-core song.
“summershine” starts to bring the album to a close. Starting out with an incredibly aggressive sound it focuses on how the song loses the energy and mellows out into a calming gentle lullaby by the end. “all fives” is by far the most ambitious song on the entire album. Closing things off with a summary of everything that preceded it, it grows loud before experimental impulses bring it to its gentle conclusion. “Y6YV” is a tender sweet album full of colorful glorious melody.
A limited edition of Y6XV was made for the recent live show in May 2014 in London - 20 copies in special handmade spray paint stencilled sleeves. Some of these are left and will be on the Bandcamp site in the next few days.
The next Y6 release will be a download/limited CD released by Silber....more on that soon
Monday, 7 April 2014
Yellow6 live May 2014
Yellow6 live
The only Yellow6 show currently booked / planned is on 22nd
May 2014 at Power Lunches in Hackney, London with thisquietarmy and Imprints.
Power Lunches Arts Cafe
446 Kingsland Road
Hackney, E8 4AE
Full details of the show are here:
and here:
the set will probably be a mix of ‘greatest hits’ and new
stuff but who knows what might happen in the next few weeks…..
There will be copies of the TQA/Y6 collaboration CD and LPs Death:Valley
available at the show, and a special edition of Y6XV (same CD, different
sleeve)
Hope to see some of you there
Jon/Y6
Be Prepared for:
thisquietarmy: over nine years Montreal’s Eric Quach has been performing dark and expansive guitar based experiments. Taking influence from sources ranging from post-punk and krautrock to black metal, his work swings between glacial and propulsive.
"cavernous, imploding rock music and astrally inclined drone ritual [...] it's shoegaze played through in the din of a rocket launch” - Rock-a-Rolla
"Deep penetrating tracks & dazzling astral atmospheres" – ATTN Magazine
http://
Yellow6: we are delighted to put on a rare London show for Jon Attwood. Since the 90’s, his music has been drifting along slowly, its gentle momentum picking up emotional resonance in a way few in this field, other than maybe Labradford and Stars of the Lid, have achieved.
"the music has a rare depth and intelligence which Attwood’s contemporaries struggle to match even on their best days” - Leonard’s Lair
Imprints: London based experimenters in archaic noise technologies. Formerly known as Mavis Beacon, with one stunning tape of beautiful static under that name, they are playing here in support of their new album.
"celebrating their academic origins but moving beyond them into equally ecstatic territory” - Foxy Digitalis
£6 in advance/£8 on the door
http://
www.beprepareduk.com
thisquietarmy: over nine years Montreal’s Eric Quach has been performing dark and expansive guitar based experiments. Taking influence from sources ranging from post-punk and krautrock to black metal, his work swings between glacial and propulsive.
"cavernous, imploding rock music and astrally inclined drone ritual [...] it's shoegaze played through in the din of a rocket launch” - Rock-a-Rolla
"Deep penetrating tracks & dazzling astral atmospheres" – ATTN Magazine
http://
Yellow6: we are delighted to put on a rare London show for Jon Attwood. Since the 90’s, his music has been drifting along slowly, its gentle momentum picking up emotional resonance in a way few in this field, other than maybe Labradford and Stars of the Lid, have achieved.
"the music has a rare depth and intelligence which Attwood’s contemporaries struggle to match even on their best days” - Leonard’s Lair
Imprints: London based experimenters in archaic noise technologies. Formerly known as Mavis Beacon, with one stunning tape of beautiful static under that name, they are playing here in support of their new album.
"celebrating their academic origins but moving beyond them into equally ecstatic territory” - Foxy Digitalis
£6 in advance/£8 on the door
http://
www.beprepareduk.com
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
end of year message 2013
As we reach the end of another year, just a brief message to
thank you for your support during the year.
It’s been a quiet year by Y6 standards with only 2 3 releases, 2 digital
and one physical. The physical release:
Y6XV (merry6mas2013) has been more successful in sales terms than the last two
merry6mas releases and there are only a handful left (available from Bandcamp
or email me). This release was compiled
from various recordings made during 2013 that were completed for this release,
the remainder of the unfinished material being consigned to the recycle bin to
start afresh in 2014.
Thanks to all who have bought this album and for the kind
words people have said – it means a lot.
There are lots of plans for 2014, but who at the moment I
can’t say what will become of the plans and if they will become reality…. watch
this space.
I guess I should not let this pass without the expected
‘best-of’ list…but it’s not what many would see as the most exciting of lists
I’m sure. Not much cutting edge or
obscurist music, and all-in-all a rather mainstream selection (not that that is
a bad thing).
Not many gigs attended this year, but I saw each of two of my
favourite bands almost twice - Cowboy
Junkies (missed half of first set as stuck in traffic but managed full gig next
night) and Low (ridiculously early start to Nottingham gig and missed start of
set by arriving at 8.30 pm). Also saw A
Winged Victory For The Sullen in Leicester.
A small but perfectly formed selection of live shows.
So, most listened to albums of the year in no particular
order (and not all released in 2013)
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
Low – The Invisible Way
Wire – Change Becomes Us
The National – Trouble Will Find Us
Nadine Shah – Love Your Dum and Mad
Bowie – The Next Day
Explosions in the Sky/David Wingo – Prince Avalanche
Wooden Shjips – West
Pan American – Cloud room, Glass Room
Chelsea Wolfe – Unknown Rooms
And because I’m too lazy to type full titles, others by
Thought Forms, Adrian Utley Guitar Orchestra, Moon Duo, Songs:Ohia / Magnolia
Electric Company, Anna Calvi, Rachel’s, Cowboy Junkies, New York Dolls and a
lot of old punk favourites.
Of course I have also been listening a lot to the various
recordings of Lou Reed (nothing unusual there, but I’ve strayed from the usual
selection of faourites). Along with John
Peel, he is the one person to have the greatest influence on my own music, the
music I love, and the musical world in general.
Whilst I would not claim to love every note he ever played, he was
always challenging, ground breaking, innovative, wilful, awkward but
inspired/inspirational and will be greatly missed.
Wishing a happy new year to you all and I will continue this
musical journey in 2014.
Jon/Yellow6
www.yellow6.com
Thursday, 19 December 2013
review of Y6XV on The Sunday Experience from Mark Barton:
http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/yellow6-4/
For the last 15 Christmastimes our normally agitant moods brought on by the silly season and all its associated tat, commercialism and thoroughly miserable weather have been somewhat warmed and cooed by the expectant arrival of yellow6’s seasonal offering in the release of his ongoing Merry6mas CD‘s. Much cheer has been afforded and spent in that time transfixed to the sounds emanating from the turntable from said offering that its made the seasonal experience a tad more palatable. As traditional as turkey this limited release was originally given out free to friends, fans and admirers of Yellow6, demand and repute grew such that it became an official release in recent years. This year though word came that the 15th annual soiree nearly never happened. Keen observers will duly note that once responsible for a prolific release schedule there’s been something of an easing off the gas in respect to Yellow6 outings these days, where once these annual selections came adorned in detailed liner notes ‘XV’ arrives bereft of such information just simply stating ‘a collection of new recordings made during 2013’. has, we wonder, Mr Atwood lost interest. We certainly hope not, long admired here, Mr Atwood is one of this nations foremost sound alchemists whose expansive canvas to date has journeyed at turn into the drone, minimalist post rock, space rock, dream pop and ambient outposts, equally adept at crafting the grand and panoramic as he is the lulled and spectral, his craft is both intimate and porcelain in design. Available digitally and as an uber limited hand numbered 100 only CD edition – our copy for note takers is #96 – ’Y6XV’ features over an hours worth of material composed during 2013, included here the complete ’fives’ suite as recently commissioned by the esteemed Silber imprint which I think I’m right in saying includes an array of movements that where clipped from the final edit. On the whole the collection is the most inward looking to date in so much that the prevailing mood appears soured and steeped in loss, that said still steeled and equipped in classicism, poise and elegance, Atwood is a proven past master at the stately, the monolithic and the cinematic as opening salvo ’bright skies’ so ably provides testament. Frosted chime arpeggios softly serenade the undertow of bruised opines, there’s almost a hymnal reverence about its wares as though a bleakly beautiful epitaph suspended in a trictor like amid a late 60’s suspense styled noir drilling you could easily imagine underpinning a David Lynch chiller elsewhere there’s the slow arrest of the tearfully traced ‘sleep day’ hushed, hurt and hollowed in an introspection all primed upon a John Barry slow fuse. Somewhere else ‘two days previous’ mentioned in passing in previous despatches – notably Tales from the Attic Volume XX – incidentally the briefest cut here is subtly aglow in a shy eyed romance delicately bathed in 60’s inflections and turned in the kind of measured grandeur oft portrayed on Godspeed platters. ‘they look lost’ offers a rare moment of lightness; reflective and softly radiant, a dreamy lull exudes from the grooves to reveal something of a reclining cloud watching beauty. Best of the set ’summershine’ is adorned and shrouded in vapour trailed halos, the motifs brooding and bitter sweet pulsate and prowl to a navigatory path blended upon forlorn and pensive spy themed noir pierced with a quiet majestic stillness that nods to some colluding studio activity between Budd and Mancini. http://www.yellow6.bandcamp.com/releasesmoment. In sharp contrast the tension unfurling throughout ’calling once more’ coils cons
http://marklosingtoday.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/yellow6-4/
For the last 15 Christmastimes our normally agitant moods brought on by the silly season and all its associated tat, commercialism and thoroughly miserable weather have been somewhat warmed and cooed by the expectant arrival of yellow6’s seasonal offering in the release of his ongoing Merry6mas CD‘s. Much cheer has been afforded and spent in that time transfixed to the sounds emanating from the turntable from said offering that its made the seasonal experience a tad more palatable. As traditional as turkey this limited release was originally given out free to friends, fans and admirers of Yellow6, demand and repute grew such that it became an official release in recent years. This year though word came that the 15th annual soiree nearly never happened. Keen observers will duly note that once responsible for a prolific release schedule there’s been something of an easing off the gas in respect to Yellow6 outings these days, where once these annual selections came adorned in detailed liner notes ‘XV’ arrives bereft of such information just simply stating ‘a collection of new recordings made during 2013’. has, we wonder, Mr Atwood lost interest. We certainly hope not, long admired here, Mr Atwood is one of this nations foremost sound alchemists whose expansive canvas to date has journeyed at turn into the drone, minimalist post rock, space rock, dream pop and ambient outposts, equally adept at crafting the grand and panoramic as he is the lulled and spectral, his craft is both intimate and porcelain in design. Available digitally and as an uber limited hand numbered 100 only CD edition – our copy for note takers is #96 – ’Y6XV’ features over an hours worth of material composed during 2013, included here the complete ’fives’ suite as recently commissioned by the esteemed Silber imprint which I think I’m right in saying includes an array of movements that where clipped from the final edit. On the whole the collection is the most inward looking to date in so much that the prevailing mood appears soured and steeped in loss, that said still steeled and equipped in classicism, poise and elegance, Atwood is a proven past master at the stately, the monolithic and the cinematic as opening salvo ’bright skies’ so ably provides testament. Frosted chime arpeggios softly serenade the undertow of bruised opines, there’s almost a hymnal reverence about its wares as though a bleakly beautiful epitaph suspended in a trictor like amid a late 60’s suspense styled noir drilling you could easily imagine underpinning a David Lynch chiller elsewhere there’s the slow arrest of the tearfully traced ‘sleep day’ hushed, hurt and hollowed in an introspection all primed upon a John Barry slow fuse. Somewhere else ‘two days previous’ mentioned in passing in previous despatches – notably Tales from the Attic Volume XX – incidentally the briefest cut here is subtly aglow in a shy eyed romance delicately bathed in 60’s inflections and turned in the kind of measured grandeur oft portrayed on Godspeed platters. ‘they look lost’ offers a rare moment of lightness; reflective and softly radiant, a dreamy lull exudes from the grooves to reveal something of a reclining cloud watching beauty. Best of the set ’summershine’ is adorned and shrouded in vapour trailed halos, the motifs brooding and bitter sweet pulsate and prowl to a navigatory path blended upon forlorn and pensive spy themed noir pierced with a quiet majestic stillness that nods to some colluding studio activity between Budd and Mancini. http://www.yellow6.bandcamp.com/releasesmoment. In sharp contrast the tension unfurling throughout ’calling once more’ coils cons
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