Lessons In Time - You Dance And You Dance Single

Just when you think you have heard it all before, there is an artist/band emerging from nowhere with a new, genre-defying, yet at the same time, accessible & sublime sound. Arcade Fire did it. Fleet Foxes did it. Bon Iver, Great Lake Swimmers, and so on, did it.

Blake Wassell AKA Lessons In Time is 19 and lives in Australia, he is fascinated by the capabilities of sound and music. Blake makes music, which is as beautiful as it is fascinating, made up with at-hand materials, field recordings, heartfelt and clever vocals and traditional instruments, using minimal recording equipment. His sound walks in the middle of electronic, experimental uniqueness and rustic, hillbilly folk, leaving you wondering how he at this young age is already creating music which falls in its own genre.

‘You Dance, And You Dance’ is out to download now, March 15th 2010 , and is taken from the forthcoming debut album by Lessons In Time out later this spring.

www.myspace.com/lessonsintime

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http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/you-dance-and-you-dance/id353930228
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Dance-And/dp/B00373RVPY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1268635175&sr=8-3-catcorr

Introducing Townes Van Zandt Via The Great Unknown

This release available via the Forthesakeofthesong website - click here
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Introducing Townes Van Zandt Via The Great Unknown
released October, 2009

Forthesakeofthesong is an English label who have signed Lessons In Time for an album release in early 2010. Early this year, they also asked him if he wanted to contribute to this compilation, which he said yes to. So Telafonica jumped on the bandwagon and asked if we could be involved as well. While a little surprised at our interest (we're not exactly folk music) the label was happy for us to be a part.

The idea of the compilation was for a bunch of relatively unknown artists (hence the title) to cover Townes Van Zandt songs. It turned out there were a few not so unknowns who contributed - Jad Fair, Great Lake Swimmers, J Tilman (of Fleet Foxes) etc - as well.

Telafonica did a version of 'St John The Gambler', a kind of 'don't go out dressed like that' moral tale dressed up as a dark almost murder ballad. We went for moody atmosphere but tried to steer clear of straight folkiness. So there's a bass line which was actually played on a cello (didn't have access to a double bass) and glockenspiel and voice for most of it, with some kick coming in at the climax. Most of the atmosphere, though, is created by layers of subtle processing on Eliza's voice. There's 4 different tracks of her voice singing by the end, all with different types of filters, delays, ring modulators etc on them to create whisps of swirling sounds.

Reviews:
"An important project and a fascinating album.” 8/10 (AMERICANA UK) (link)
"This album works on two different levels, as an introduction to the work of a great songwriter and as a sampler of some splendid modern performers."(BEARDED) (link)
“A vibrant portrait of contemporary folk…the proper tribute Earle's wasn't.” (EXCLAIM!) (link)

1. Lessons In Time (AU) - At My Window
2. Thomas Denver Jonsson (SWE) - To Live Is To Fly
3. Loophole & Ciaran Kirby (IRL) - Lungs
4. Great Lake Swimmers (CAN) - Our Mother The Mountain
5. Fort King & My Hawaii (US) - Loretta
6. Christina Kulukundis (UK/US) - If I Needed You
7. J. Tillman (US) - My Proud Mountains
8. Gustav Haggren (SWE) - Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel
9. Kevin Tihista (US) - Still Looking For You
10. Kate Maki (CAN) - I'll Be Here In The Morning
11. Anders Parker (US) - No Place To Fall
12. Telafonica (AU) - St. John The Gambler
13. Nick Jones (US) - Don't Take It To Bad
14. The Wheel (US) - She Came And She Touched Me
15. Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time (UK) - Pancho And Lefty
16. Pacific Ocean Fire (UK) - You Are Not Needed Now
17. Chris Mills (US) - Tecumseh Valley
18. The Be Good Tanyas (CAN) - Waiting Around To Die
19. Jad Fair (US) - Turnstyled, Junkpiled

from jenny...

Adrian,

I have finally got to listen to your song - it is totally amazing, just like Blake's song, it is just what I was hoping for - you have both done your unique take on the song, but still managed to maintain the feel of the songs!! I love it and I am now so bloody excited about the album!!! Please pass this Email on to the rest of your group!

Thank You very much!

Jenny, Label Manager
Forthesakeofthesong
myspace.com/forthesakeofthesongltd
forthesakeofthesong.co.uk

townes van zandt

eliza, have you had a chance to go through those townes van zandt songs and see which you think best? we need to let the label know by tomorrow which we're choosing.

lost plots

the fine folk at for the sake of the song have asked if we could let them know what song we're going to do for the townes van zandt tribute album by thursday of next week. have you had a chance to listen to the suggestions, eliza?

blake, i understand tim has been talking to you about a new mixer he's getting, and you're thinking of doing likewise? the one he's getting would also be perfect to take out live as it's got the exact number of mic inputs we need (4) but is much smaller than our current one. so if you are thinking of getting a mixer, think hard about that one!

eliza - we have space for cherry tomorrow night.

a few pieces of random news

my radio alarm went off this morning. a melancholy voice was intoning, 'light is sweet, and it pleases my eyes to see the sun'. 'twas slightly surreal. especially as how i'm such a morning person.

for the sake of the song sent a myspace friend request. i sent back a message asking if they'd be interested in us covering something for the townes van zandt compilation. they were, so we'll be joining lessons in time there.

the venue we're playing at on june 11 (el rocco's) has a grand piano on stage. we can use it.