NEWS

17/08/10

New, free download available now, click the image:

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08/08/10

Our 31st release: The Great Park 'If You Can Hold It You Can Throw It' is now available to buy from here or as a digitial download in any format at Bandcamp.

9 tracks written and recorded by Stephen Burch in Berlin between April and August - this features Birdengine and Fee Reega also contributing to the songs.

The initial edition of 100 is numbered, with individually stamped cds, photo, lyrics insert and clippings.

01. RUN FROM MY ARMS (3.09)
02. SAILOR'S NOTES (4.04)
03. TOM (4.41)
04. CRETINOUS MAN (5.34)
05. BLACKWATER SWIM (4.13)
06. SONG FOR A COALMAN (5.02) - FREE MP3 HERE
07. WHERE TO BEGIN (7.04)
08. IF YOU CAN HOLD IT YOU CAN THROW IT (5.02)
09. PORTUGAL (3.24)

Please select your location...

Germany £10.00 UK & Europe £12.00 Rest of the world... £14.00

 

Download the complete album for £5 in uncompressed audio or almost any other format at Bandcamp here:

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05/08/10

Sorry for the lack of updates - some of us have been playing concerts all July in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Latvia and England. It's been distracting.

But here we are with our 31st release:

The Great Park 'If You Can Hold It You Can Throw It'

9 songs recorded in Berlin in the last 2 months by Stephen Burch, with contributions by Lawry Tilbury (Birdengine) and Fee Reega. We're making artwork now and it will be available to buy in a limited run of 100 to begin with on Monday 09.08.10.

To download a free mp3 of 'Song For A Coalman' please click here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?rt7gkx80rp6rjwj

Please contact us if you wish to hear the album and write about it and we'll send you a free download link.

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07/07/10

The complete concert by Woodpecker Wooliams and The Great Park in Prinz Willy, Kiel, Germany is now available as a free download. 17 songs in total, including recordings of new, unreleased songs by both artists.

Comes as a .zip file with mp3s, artwork, details, review and a pdf of the poster.

(LINK HERE)

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29/06/10

A live recording from The Great Park's recent short tour in Portugal is availble to download on the site now. DOWNLOADS PAGE HERE.

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02/06/10

A recent live recording from Birdengine is now available to download for free from the DOWNLOADS PAGE HERE .

Recorded last week at Intersoup in Berlin this features 10 tracks, including several new songs that will appear on the next Birdengine album.

Many thanks to Lawry for letting WR share this with you.

Birdengine is in Germany for just two more shows - our last is this Thursday at Laika - please come along if you can.

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16/05/10

We have a few copies of Blanket's recent 4 song ep 'Non' to sell.

'Non' was recorded in one day here in Berlin last summer and put together for their recent concert in Venice. For this recording Blanket are just Vicky Steer on vocals and keyboards and Stephen Burch on guitar and keyboards. Two of the songs are new.

Tracklisting runs like this:

01. BUTTER / 02. WOOD FOR FIRE / 03. ALL LOVE IS DEAD / SALOMÉSALAMI

Listen to 'Non' on Last.fm here.

The packaging is a simple stamped sleeve, with a hand typed wonky insert.

Numbers of this are especially limited, but if you'd like a copy you can buy one here. Prices include postage wherever you are.

Please select your location:

Germany £6.00 UK & Europe £8.00 Rest of the world.. £10.00

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PLUS - couple more free downloads available now:

WR022 Fee Reega 'Du willst kein Bettler sein und ich keine Heilige' and two recent concerts by The Great Park are all now available on the DOWNLOADS page.

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24/04/10

Two new live recordings from The Great Park to download for free:

Run From My Arms (live at Wärmehalle Süd, Leipzig 17/04/10)

http://www.mediafire.com/?5ezytmggyjn

Trouble - for Magdalena (live at Wärmehalle Süd, Leipzig 17/04/10)

http://www.mediafire.com/?injmqik2ku1

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12/04/10

WR030 'Mute Swimmer'

Guy Dale's 'Mute Swimmer' album is finally released with contributions from Kay Johnson, The Diamond Family Archive, The Great Park and Nezih Antakli.

110 numbered copies with lyric sheet inserts, fold out covers, photos, etc.

01. A FIGURE (5.36)
02. VESSEL (2.02)
03. DIFFERENT NAME (4.21)
04. TELEPATHY (1.16)
05. PAUSE (THIS SONG IS A TELESCOPE) (4.56)
06. A NIGHT IN (5.09)
07. PAN AM GIRL (3.06)
08. BOLIVA (2.30)
09. A NAME IS A CODE (5.01)
10. SONG AGAINST ITSELF (8.25)

Download a free mp3 'Different Name' from this link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?gn4lmmg0jqi

Please select your location:

Germany £10.00 UK & Europe £12.00 Rest of the world.. £14.00

 

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31/03/10

New album from Mute Swimmer out on Woodland Recordings in one week. Please check back for details.

And now, free to download:

Details here.

And there's a video of Fee playing in Berlin last weekend here.

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22/03/10

WR029 Fee Reega 'Herr Keine Beine' is now available to buy online from us.

Recorded by Fee in Berlin in February 2010, this has 6 new songs that 'tell of leaving, going, running away and drowning in ice water'.

An edition of 100 elaborate copies each in a unique box with photo and gold leaf, hand numbered by Fee on the reverse.

01. WER WEIß OB (3.07) 02. EIN LAND IN DEM ICH LAUT UND LEISE SEIN KANN (4.15) 03. TAUBSTUMM (4.55) 04. ICH WILL NUN NICHT MEHR GEHN (1.34) 05. ICH BIN OFT GENUG GEGANGEN (4.22) 06. DIE WISSEN NICHTS (4.15)

More details on the Work page here - and English translation of the lyrics here.

Please select your location:

Germany £10.00 UK & Europe £12.00 Rest of the world.. £14.00

 

CONCERTS

05/09/10
The Great Park - Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
3pm afternoon show

08/09/10
The Great Park - Café Averechts, Utrecht, The Netherlands

09/09/10
The Great Park - Pest House, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

10/09/10
The Great Park / Preslav Literary School - Nora's house, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - all welcome, contact for address

11/09/10
The Great Park (with Preslav Literary School) - Flux/S, Eindhoven, Netherlands

12/09/10
The Great Park / Preslav Literary School - Vrijhaven, Den Haag, The Netherlands

15/09/10
Preslav Literary School / The Great Park - Rondeel, Maastricht, The Netherlands

15/09/10
Mute Swimmer - Ä, Berlin, Germany

16/09/10
Preslav Literary School / The Great Park - Le Cercle, Rue des Wallons, 45, Liège (Laveu), Belgium

17/09/10
Mute Swimmer - Laika, Berlin, Germany

17/09/10
The Great Park / Preslav Literary School - Gemert, The Netherlands - venue to be annouced

18/09/10
Preslav Literary School / The Great Park - Landbouwbelag, Maastricht, The Netherlands

21/09/10
The Great Park - Antje Öklesund, Berlin, Germany

24/09/10
The Great Park / Preslav Literary School - Intersoup, Berlin, Germany

26/09/10
The Great Park / Binoculers - Laika, Berlin, Germany - 3pm afternoon

26/09/10
The Great Park / Binoculers - Joe's Bar, Berlin, Germany - 8pm evening

20/10/10
The Great Park / Takeda / Woodpecker Wooliams - Prince Albert, Brighton, United Kingdom

28/10/10
The Great Park / Woodpecker Wooliams - Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

08/11/10
The Great Park supporting Charlie Parr - Tamesis Dock, London, United Kingdom

11/11/10
Binoculers / The Great Park - Garage, Aarau, Switzerland

13/11/10
The Great Park - Sedel, Luzern, Switzerland

15/11/10
Mute Swimmer - Pony Bar, Hamburg, Germany

16/11/10
Mute Swimmer - Prinz Willy, Kiel, Germany

16/11/10
The Great Park / Binoculers - Dachauer Kultur-Schranne, Dachau, Germany

26/11/10
The Great Park / Mute Swimmer - Intersoup, Berlin, Germany

27/11/10
Mute Swimmer - Wärmehalle Süd, Leipzig, Germany