UPC: 827170129023 Release : 18.03.2013
Tracklist CD: 1. Step On The Carousel 2. Lose Your Love 3. Good Times 4. Carousel 5. Lost Years 6. Winter Months 7. My Saviour 8. Away 9. Stick Together 10. Broken 11. Forget Me Not 12. Step Off The Carousel
Le Carousel is the new band project from acclaimed Belfast DJ/recording artist Phil Kieran. For 'Le Carousel' Kieran assembled some of Ireland's finest musicians, writing most of the album while staying in Donegal on the remote west coast. Fittingly 'Le Carousel' evokes feelings of half-remembered childhood day-trips and windswept empty beaches. Fans of emotive Electronica, blissful Balearica, artists like Spiritualized, Slowdive, Pink Floyd, Goldfrapp, Steve Reich, Rothko, Bat For Lashes, and Galaxie 500 should sign up here, although anyone with a heart is going to take something away from this extraordinary piece of work. Two influential music figures already sold on the new album are music and film soundtrack producer David Holmes, and DJ/Producer Andrew Weatherall, who have both remixed tracks. Weatherall has remixed club single 'Lose Your Love', while Holmes has remixed the new single 'Carousel'. Available on CD and digitally. Escorted by 3 X 12"s with remixes from Andrew Weatherall , David Holmes , Hrdvsion and Phil Kieran
Laurent Garnier - fucking loved every seconds of it .......Loooooved it
Matthew Dear - It's fantastic... really. The mix and the vocals on everything is pristine. Really nice work!
Bicep - have had the album on repeat, really feelin it... awesome work
Felix martin ( hot chip ) - it's beautiful, unusual , unexpected and amazing.
jamie jones - your album is super cool.. im really impressed, nice 1.
maya jane coles - absolutely loving it! :) Really nice!!
Peter Hook ( new order / Joy Division )- Got it on now ....and it is GREAT! Well done really lovely, hooky
Vital Sales Points:
- Debut Album by "Le Carousel " produced by Phil Kieran
- Releases on PKR (Phil Kieran Recordings)
- Extensive Global Promo + Tour
- Wordandsound Shared Adverts in GAS
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UPC:827170482760 Release : 18.03.2013
Special Remarks: two special club mixes of Le Carousel "Lose Your Love "
Tracklist 12": A1.Good Times - Phil Kieran mix B1.Stick Together - Phil Kieran mix
These tracks are all drawn from Le Carousel, Phil Kieran's forthcoming album recorded with a discerning selection of talented Irish musicians. It's a thoughtful album with Phil's perfectionist nature, musical talent, engineering and mixing skills turned towards the art of songwriting. It's a symbol of a more innocent age, a woozy look back into childhood, a blissed out album of reflective songcraft, tinged with time-lapse psychedelia and shot through with hazy fairground ephemera. Here they are reimagined for the dancefloor, filtered through Phil's unerring techno sensibility, and shot through with more than a hint of the New York post punk disco that has infused his recent releases. They are a perfect fusion of techno and song, of rhythms and beats, soundscapes, textures and melodies, and equally suited for the dancefloor or watching a beautiful sunrise over a beach at dawn. More

UPC 827170482661 Rel date 18.2.2013
Tracklist 12": A1.Lose your love - Andrew Weatherall mix B1.Lose Your Love - Phil Kieran mix
These tracks are all drawn from Le Carousel, Phil Kieran's forthcoming album recorded with a discerning selection of talented Irish musicians. It's a thoughtful album with Phil's perfectionist nature, musical talent, engineering and mixing skills turned towards the art of songwriting. It's a symbol of a more innocent age, a woozy look back into childhood, a blissed out album of reflective songcraft, tinged with time-lapse psychedelia and shot through with hazy fairground ephemera. Here they are reimagined for the dancefloor, filtered through Phil's unerring techno sensibility, and shot through with more than a hint of the New York post punk disco that has infused his recent releases. They are a perfect fusion of techno and song, of rhythms and beats, soundscapes, textures and melodies, and equally suited for the dancefloor or watching a beautiful sunrise over a beach at dawn. Phil's last two releases contained remixes by Dave Clarke, DJ Hell and Maya Jane Coles and on this we have the bona fide UK techno legend that is Andrew Weatherall. Listen and you will find it easy to hear why they were all so happy to remix Phil's work: there's the strong percussive structure that is his trademark, at once both subtle and strong, which make it so easy to work with. It's no wonder with work of this high level that he can count so many top DJs as admirers of his work. Andrew Weatherall does, on 'Lose Your Love', what he has done so well over so many years: skilfully striping it down and turning up the techno, giving the track it's own life free from that of its original. It's a job very well done, again.
Laurent Garnier - fucking loved every seconds of it .......Loooooved it
Matthew Dear - It's fantastic... really. The mix and the vocals on everything is pristine. Really nice work!
Bicep - have had the album on repeat, really feelin it... awesome work
felix martin ( hot chip ) - it's beautiful, unusual , unexpected and amazing.
jamie jones - your album is super cool.. im really impressed, nice 1.
maya jane coles - absolutely loving it! :) Really nice!!
Peter Hook ( new order / Joy Division )- Got it on now ....and it is GREAT! Well done really lovely, hooky



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TRACKLISTS:
1 - The Strand Cinema
2- Light Through Trees
3- Strike The Match
4 - Atlantic
5 - Grand Central Terminal
6 - Pensive Clap
7 - Transitions
8 - Elephant In Castle
9 - Monarch
10 - Last Words

Release Info:
On 24th March Belfast music producer, Phil Kieran releases his sixth album THE STRAND CINEMA.

The electronic music producer and DJ whose catalogue of collaborations namechecks acts as diverse as Agoria, Green Velvet, Roman Flugel to Nitzer Ebb, Depeche Mode and David Holmes is set to release his 6th studio album The Strand Cinema on the 24th March on his own label PKR.

The last five years have seen an evolutionary shift for the electronic musician, undertaking more soundtrack work, including for film (Nightride on Netflix, Rough), radio (The Northern Bank Job BBC R4) and theatre (East Belfast Boy).

The Strand Cinema album is a tribute to the art deco cinema building , The Strand, where Phil’s recording studio is. A stirring and beautiful record, it seamlessly traverses the worlds of contemporary classical to beautifully elevated dance music with a recognisably cinematic influence. Managing to sound both grand and expansive, as well as minimal and introspective – it’s a record that explores the macro and the micro.

The opening track “Strand Cinema”, begins with a steady, gentle, looping pulse, almost recalling the kosmische ripples of Cluster, before sweeping and enveloping strings enter, resulting in a track that manages to sound both grandiose and tender in one fell swoop.

Lead single “Atlantic” perhaps most perfectly encapsulates the various sonic worlds that Kieran is operating in, merging a bordering on euphoric dance beat layered with infectious melodies, while remaining anchored to organic sounds, as strings and percussion collide with the driving and hypnotic groove of the track.

“Strike the Match” showcases Kieran’s talents for detail, in a track that feels almost palpably textural and rich in complexity but without feeling overly busy or superfluous; while “Elephant in Castle” utilises intense, almost gargling electronics, that drone with a foreboding and ominous tone, but also produces fractured moments of light, beauty and poignancy.

Created during Covid Kieran’s method was “To literally be like a tuning fork and ask: What's in my chest? If I were to describe what's inside me, and what's going on in the outside world, If I had to score that in a film, what would it sound like right now? I guess I sort of soundtracked my own life”

“One positive side of lockdowns was that we spent more time in natural surroundings where I’d make field recordings. I’d also record acoustic sounds: cello, violin, percussion, guitar etc and then create my own sample bank from all these single one-note sounds. So, creating your own loops and drones. The album was created from organic sounds manipulated by machines; melted, mangled and hacked with computers but machines only sound as good as the human spirit put into them.
The idea of nature and humans versus technology is the concept behind the album’s A/V show which debuts in Belfast in March before touring. Featuring works by 11 artists from across the worlds of film, animation, advertising, architecture, computer science and dance such as Scottish BAFTA nominated Simone Smith, LA based director Frederico Marzio Vitetta who is famous for skateboarding films like ‘Wet Dream’ with Spike Jonze, to futuristic CGI from BAFTA nominated Kris Kelly and a video from contemporary dancer Oona Doherty. onscreen visualisations that explores The visuals explore nature and technology along a timeline from past, present to future with cinema as a loose reference point with varying degrees of utopian versus dystopian moods###

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UPC: 827170129023 Release : 18.03.2013
Tracklist CD: 1. Step On The Carousel 2. Lose Your Love 3. Good Times 4. Carousel 5. Lost Years 6. Winter Months 7. My Saviour 8. Away 9. Stick Together 10. Broken 11. Forget Me Not 12. Step Off The Carousel
Le Carousel is the new band project from acclaimed Belfast DJ/recording artist Phil Kieran. For 'Le Carousel' Kieran assembled some of Ireland's finest musicians, writing most of the album while staying in Donegal on the remote west coast. Fittingly 'Le Carousel' evokes feelings of half-remembered childhood day-trips and windswept empty beaches. Fans of emotive Electronica, blissful Balearica, artists like Spiritualized, Slowdive, Pink Floyd, Goldfrapp, Steve Reich, Rothko, Bat For Lashes, and Galaxie 500 should sign up here, although anyone with a heart is going to take something away from this extraordinary piece of work. Two influential music figures already sold on the new album are music and film soundtrack producer David Holmes, and DJ/Producer Andrew Weatherall, who have both remixed tracks. Weatherall has remixed club single 'Lose Your Love', while Holmes has remixed the new single 'Carousel'. Available on CD and digitally. Escorted by 3 X 12"s with remixes from Andrew Weatherall , David Holmes , Hrdvsion and Phil Kieran
Laurent Garnier - fucking loved every seconds of it .......Loooooved it
Matthew Dear - It's fantastic... really. The mix and the vocals on everything is pristine. Really nice work!
Bicep - have had the album on repeat, really feelin it... awesome work
Felix martin ( hot chip ) - it's beautiful, unusual , unexpected and amazing.
jamie jones - your album is super cool.. im really impressed, nice 1.
maya jane coles - absolutely loving it! :) Really nice!!
Peter Hook ( new order / Joy Division )- Got it on now ....and it is GREAT! Well done really lovely, hooky
Vital Sales Points:
- Debut Album by "Le Carousel " produced by Phil Kieran
- Releases on PKR (Phil Kieran Recordings)
- Extensive Global Promo + Tour
- Wordandsound Shared Adverts in GAS
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UPC:827170482760 Release : 18.03.2013
Special Remarks: two special club mixes of Le Carousel "Lose Your Love "
Tracklist 12": A1.Good Times - Phil Kieran mix B1.Stick Together - Phil Kieran mix
These tracks are all drawn from Le Carousel, Phil Kieran's forthcoming album recorded with a discerning selection of talented Irish musicians. It's a thoughtful album with Phil's perfectionist nature, musical talent, engineering and mixing skills turned towards the art of songwriting. It's a symbol of a more innocent age, a woozy look back into childhood, a blissed out album of reflective songcraft, tinged with time-lapse psychedelia and shot through with hazy fairground ephemera. Here they are reimagined for the dancefloor, filtered through Phil's unerring techno sensibility, and shot through with more than a hint of the New York post punk disco that has infused his recent releases. They are a perfect fusion of techno and song, of rhythms and beats, soundscapes, textures and melodies, and equally suited for the dancefloor or watching a beautiful sunrise over a beach at dawn. More

UPC 827170482661 Rel date 18.2.2013
Tracklist 12": A1.Lose your love - Andrew Weatherall mix B1.Lose Your Love - Phil Kieran mix
These tracks are all drawn from Le Carousel, Phil Kieran's forthcoming album recorded with a discerning selection of talented Irish musicians. It's a thoughtful album with Phil's perfectionist nature, musical talent, engineering and mixing skills turned towards the art of songwriting. It's a symbol of a more innocent age, a woozy look back into childhood, a blissed out album of reflective songcraft, tinged with time-lapse psychedelia and shot through with hazy fairground ephemera. Here they are reimagined for the dancefloor, filtered through Phil's unerring techno sensibility, and shot through with more than a hint of the New York post punk disco that has infused his recent releases. They are a perfect fusion of techno and song, of rhythms and beats, soundscapes, textures and melodies, and equally suited for the dancefloor or watching a beautiful sunrise over a beach at dawn. Phil's last two releases contained remixes by Dave Clarke, DJ Hell and Maya Jane Coles and on this we have the bona fide UK techno legend that is Andrew Weatherall. Listen and you will find it easy to hear why they were all so happy to remix Phil's work: there's the strong percussive structure that is his trademark, at once both subtle and strong, which make it so easy to work with. It's no wonder with work of this high level that he can count so many top DJs as admirers of his work. Andrew Weatherall does, on 'Lose Your Love', what he has done so well over so many years: skilfully striping it down and turning up the techno, giving the track it's own life free from that of its original. It's a job very well done, again.
Laurent Garnier - fucking loved every seconds of it .......Loooooved it
Matthew Dear - It's fantastic... really. The mix and the vocals on everything is pristine. Really nice work!
Bicep - have had the album on repeat, really feelin it... awesome work
felix martin ( hot chip ) - it's beautiful, unusual , unexpected and amazing.
jamie jones - your album is super cool.. im really impressed, nice 1.
maya jane coles - absolutely loving it! :) Really nice!!
Peter Hook ( new order / Joy Division )- Got it on now ....and it is GREAT! Well done really lovely, hooky



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