Our new album, the soundtrack to Owen Hatherley’s book A New Kind of Bleak, is available for pre-order from iTunes now. It is released on 3rd September 2012.
The album is digital-only, but will be available from other sites such as Juno (including lossless formats) in due course.
A minisite for the album is coming soon.
You may have noticed the new header on this website, and indeed its shiny new design. This is because our first proper album release is on its way. We have created the official soundtrack to Owen Hatherley‘s excellent new book for Verso, A New Kind of Bleak. It’s not a score, it’s a set of 18 songs based on Owen’s writing – if it was on vinyl or CD rather than digital, it would be a double album. Coming to iTunes and other retailers soon – we will announce the release date when we know it.
To tide you over until then, and to cheer up those who can’t afford to buy music at the moment, we have released a new free EP of stories and music on Bandcamp: The Damned Hangman. Today is Lammas, otherwise known as the Gule of August. The Gule of August is thought to mean the Yule of August, so here comes your present…all we ask in return is for your (real) email address.
First Fold Books have just published the second issue of their journal, Premier Pli. They kindly asked us to contribute to the journal and accompanying CD. You can hear new music from us plus read short stories and see new photographs and artwork. Other contributors include Jon Brooks, Craig Earp and Katy Acquaye-Tonge.
You can purchase this fine organ here.
We have a brand new EP out for free download from Bandcamp, Revenant Branch. Revenant Branch is an EP by Golau Glau in celebration of National Libraries Day 2012. This is the sound of the revenant library branch, the ghosts of dead libraries returning from the grave to remind us not to close any more.
Many of the sounds on the EP were recorded in public libraries across England that have now closed down.
Golau Glau are working on a book about public libraries as part of our ‘Public Interest’ project. We passionately believe in them as sources of culture, information and lifelong learning, and places of non-commercial, accessible society and sanctuary for all.
National Libraries Day
National Libraries Day is one day devoted to all libraries – public libraries, school and university libraries, prison, national, law, business and commercial libraries. A nation-wide celebration of libraries, librarians and library staff in all sectors in the UK. It takes place this year on 4th February 2012, which is tomorrow at the time of writing. Please visit your local library and support #NLD12
The 2011 Golau Glau seasonal spectacular is here!
The Masque Of Bruma is a festive EP out now for free download from Bandcamp.
A masque is an amateur dramatic entertainment of the 16th to 17th centuries in England, consisting of pantomime, dancing, dialogue, and song, often performed at court. It seems appropriate for our motley collection of: a brand new song about the Icelandic myth of the Yule Cat, a radiophonic take on a classic mummers play, beautiful Christmas carols, a remix by Ghost Box‘s resident genius The Advisory Circle and a little wassailing.
Illustrations by the lovely Dom Cooper.
We released a brand new mini LP, ‘Somato’, for free download today from Bandcamp.
Big love to Sonic Router, who premiered the release with a massive Golau Glau interview/feature on their new website.
PREMIERE: Golau Glau’s ‘Somato’ Mini LP
As you can see above, the Golau Glau seasonal EP Myrrh & Myth is available to stream and download (for FREE) from Bandcamp on the Pin Factory label. Christmas, Yule, the solstice, Sinterklaas, Mari Lwyd, secular fun – all are celebrated here. Along with an excellent remix from Pye Corner Audio.
Please share it with your friends and lovers.
Videos are on Vimeo here or on YouTube here (and embedded below).
On Monday 13th December, the seasonal Golau Glau EP will be released. It is a mixture of instrumental and vocal tracks.
From a Winter Solstice song to a Yule instrumental, an exploration of the stories around St. Nicholas to a sound piece inspired by the Welsh Mari Lwyd tradition, and topped off with a traditional Christmas Carol – this is Myrrh & Myth.
Full details to follow on the release date, including videos for all the main tracks. Here is the artwork. Illustration by Mr Steven Horry the Second, design and typography by the Golau Glau collective.
There’s a big fat zip here with ‘Foolstide’ and ‘A Tragic Error’ plus a songsheet and artwork. You can find more information about the tunes here.
Keep passing this link on: GOLAU GLAU
Oh, and you can stream and download the individual tracks below.
‘FOOLSTIDE’:
‘A TRAGIC ERROR’:
Golau Glau’s Christmas present to you, ‘Foolstide’, is released today.
DOWNLOAD ‘FOOLSTIDE’ BY GOLAU GLAU – CLICK HERE
UPDATE: 2011 free Christmas EP HERE and 2010 Christmas free EP HERE
Thanks to our good friends at Bedtimebunnage (their post about ‘Foolstide’ is here), who are kindly hosting it for us, you can download a tasty zip file containing:
The Golau Glau collective is 6 months old today, 2nd December. Thank you so much if you have listened to us, we really appreciate it.
DOWNLOAD ‘FOOLSTIDE’ BY GOLAU GLAU – CLICK HERE
PASS IT ON – tweet links to this post, blog it, play it on the radio, burn a CD and print the songsheet and give it away at gigs or gift it as a cheap present to your work Secret Santa or extended family…
