Glasgow-based folk-blues trio Avocet will be playing Celtic Connections Festival tomorrow at CCA Glasgow, supporting the wonderful Kacy & Clayton.
They’ve put out their single ‘Sell Me to the Wind’ today, available on all streaming services: have a listen!
Big thanks to Michiel Mutsaerts for recording, mixing and artwork, Bart Schatteleijn for mastering, Guillermo Almo Martín Viana and Ignacio Santoro for playing on the track. Photo by David Sinclair.
Just released: ‘Moment Of Being’, the short music film for The Visual’s album title track. It was edited, directed and produced by lead vocalist Anna van Rij. Starring Renzo Popolizio of Nationale Opera & Ballet, and mime student at Academie voor Theater en Dans Kaja van Bruggen.
‘It’s an ode to the human touch. The physical and emotional experience of being touched. Sense is what makes us feel alive. To be touched, to be-loved and to be alive.’
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Something different out on Mink today: a collection of tracks by classical musician and sound healing expert Eline van Esch (who is also a solo flute player in The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra), specifically created for meditation, relaxation, sound healing, yoga, sleep, being in stillness… anything that involves winding down.
The album is available on streaming services, and on CD in our webshop.
We are very happy to support this project and thank Doris Veldman for recording and mixing. Artwork by Michiel & Marieke.
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Available since today via 2Doc.nl / NPO 3 after being premiered at Nederlands Film Festival; a documentary by filmmaker Iris Grob & production house Hazazah, entitled ‘Alleen Op De Wereld’, featuring Anna van Rij of The Visual, who’s debut album we released back in March.
‘Anna is a young artist and looks for answers in her poetry and music. Kjeld lives in a small house surrounded by nature. In individual ways, they both try to give meaning to life.’
It also features some great shots from The Visual’s album release show in Amsterdam.
The documentary is in Dutch. Highly recommended!
Here’s the music video for Torii’s recent single ‘Heat Lightning’, created by band member Jilles van Kleef and Pauline Bauvin.’Heat Lightning’ is the first single released by Dutch psychedelic pop outfit Torii, taken from their upcoming album ‘Return To Form’ (out February 2020).
Torii shrewdly borrows stylistics and bends them to its whims, like on the sweltering soul melodicism of ‘Heat Lightning’, which thrillingly accelerates into a motorik-indebted slipstream.
Many thanks to Spotify for placing the track in New Music Friday, and all other radio stations, blogs and playlists who have shown their support.
The album release show in Amsterdam, plus shows in Utrecht and Rotterdam have just been announced:
Last night Pitou supported Tamino at a sold out show in legendary venue L’Olympia in Paris. We are so proud to see how far she has come, and how she keeps developing as an artist.Pitou is currently working on a new album. Her first two records can be found on streaming services, and on vinyl & CD in our webshop and record stores.
Image by Ramy Moharam Fouad
As some of you already know, we’re absolutely over the moon to welcome one of our favourite bands to the Mink Records & Mink Music Publishing family: TORII
This Friday will see the release of their first single ‘Heat Lightning’ from their upcoming album ‘Return To Form’, which will come out in February 2020.
‘The psychedelic pop of Dutch quintet Torii seems to deftly breeze by without a care in the world: warm, wistful and weightless. Multiple listens to the band’s debut LP Return To Form (due early 2020), however, reveal a stark antithesis of that snap judgment: each one of these eleven tracks was written, composed and recorded with painstaking, deliberate care. Founder Domenico Mangione transmutes troubled feelings of trauma, lonesomeness, and alienation into his intricate, spectral production values.
Torii started as a solo project that found Mangione demoing tracks in an abandoned school building. This rather desolate scenery, plus the screeching of the seagulls that terrorized the area, provided the perfect echo chamber for the Dutch musician & producer to find his definitive voice, at his desired pace. That being said: Torii’s early incarnations – with a revolving line-up of musicians around Mangione – were, as a result, much more erratic in sonics and live performance. During ‘Human’ – off of the band’s 2016 Submerged EP (Geertruida Records) –, he would often exert himself in cathartic guitar noise, failing to straddle his own non-conformist lexicon to his bandmates – and vice versa. Soon after releasing their debut record, the band played critically-renowned festivals and venues, namely Paradiso, Vera, De School, Incubate, Grasnapolsky and Le Guess Who?.
Now a steady five-piece ensemble – Mangione, multi-instrumentalist/producer Tijmen van Wageningen, guitarist/lap steel player Willem Oostendorp, keyboardist Jilles van Kleef, and drummer Olivier Schiphorst – Torii began using Mangione’s free-spirited recording methods as the root for fully-realized studio splendor, giving themselves ample time to blur the sharp frontiers in skill and philosophy. Each musician handled Return To Form’s makeup with kid gloves, harvesting wayward sounds in meticulous fashion.’
– words by Jasper Willems
– photo by Rick Erfmann
Founder of Mink (Marieke McKenna) will be spinning records at the amazing Le Guess Who? festival this weekend! Two sets on Sunday, in the main hall (Ronda), between 18.30-19.30, and 20.23-21.35.
Read more about the festival on the official website.
Make sure you check out the line up for this amazing festival, which kicks off today.
It truly is the most adventurous music festival The Netherlands has on offer in terms of line up.
Hope to see you there!
Image by Pierre Zylstra
Two songs by our artists The Visual (‘Figure’) & The Mighty Breaks (‘You Can Take Me’) have been nominated by Dutch national broadcaster’s music platform 3VOOR12 and NPO 3FM for ‘Song of the Year’.
You can vote for their tracks, any many others, via this link.
THE VISUAL – FIGURE
THE MIGHTY BREAKS – YOU CAN TAKE ME
Last Friday we released The Mighty Breaks’ debut album ‘Master Club’ in style at our very own night club ‘Master Club’, named after the real deal in Italy, for one night, at The Grey Space in the Middle. The turnout was more than we dreamt of in advance, thank you all so much for being there, for sharing this special moment with us.
You can listen to the record here, it’s also available on 12” vinyl, in our webshop and record stores.
The always amazing Philine van den Hul took some cool pictures of people attending the event, to be seen here.
Much love!