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London fog has put a stop to today’s Golden Hour Listening Party XI…join us instead tomorrow at 15.30!
We were on the radio again!
Looking forward to a live session for DeXter Bentley’s Hello GoodBye Show on Resonance FM in Spring.
Have a listen to last week’s show featuring ‘End of the World’ here or the week before featuring ‘Toll the Bell’ here.
Golden Hour Listening Parties VII, VIII & IX starting at 16.00 local time.
London 51°30'34.1"N 0°05'54.8"W
Bruxelles 50°50'31.0"N 4°21'31.2"E
Innsbruck 47°17'44.7"N 11°23'17.0"E
Golden Hour Listening Party V today in Luxembourg!
15.45 CET
Don’t miss it if you’re around!
LONDON 02.12.16
51°51’97” N 0°07’57”W
We’ve had a number of Golden Hour Listening Parties now, the latest one by the river in Greenwich, where this video was taken.
They’ve all been quite special occasions. It’s quite a beautiful and sometimes intense experience to listen to something together with other people in such a concentrated way while the surroundings get darker or lighter, depending on the time of day.
We’ve got quite a few listening parties planned over the next coming months and some of you have already been in touch to organise your own. If you’d like to do that, please get in touch on info (at) frenchforcartridge (dot) com
You can read more about our new album ‘The Golden Hour’ and the thinking behind the Golden Hour Listening Parties HERE.
We’re hosting Golden Hour Listening Parties to launch our new album ‘ The Golden Hour’, which is out now!
02.12.16 London/City of London EC4M
02.12.16 London/Greenwich SE10
11.12.16 Luxembourg City
15.12.16 London/City of London EC3M
16.12.16 London/City of London
22.12.16 Helsinki
31.12.16 London/Wapping E1W
01.01.17 London/Canary Wharf E14
08.01.17 London SE1
golden hour noun
- In medicine, the golden hour is the first hour after a traumatic injury, when emergency treatment is most likely to be successful.
- In photography, the golden hour is a period shortly after sunrise or before sunset during which daylight is redder and softer, which makes for dramatic skies and surreal cityscapes.
As we were finishing this album, we realised we had made a much darker and more political album than we had initially set out to do taking in subjects like war, loss and the state of the environment.
The songs very much reflect our current state of mind and we are happy to be more vocal about the issues we feel strongly about as we find that you can’t stay quiet any longer with the way things seem to progress. The title of the album refers to the first hour after a traumatic injury, when treatment is most likely to be successful as well as to the short time after sunrise or before sunset when daylight is redder and softer, creating dramatic skies and surreal cityscapes. As such we find it a suitable title for a call to action on environmental and political issues at this hour when the problem has been identified and there still is a chance to fix it.
This album will benefit from quiet listening and we want to bring people together for some real-life social sharing. So, to launch the album we will hold Golden Hour Listening Parties in outside spaces, where the light hits the surrounding environment in particularly spectacular ways during the said golden hours. In this way, we hope to encourage friend and fans to take a break from their busy lives and come together for a moment of contemplation and come up with a plan of action; discuss what needs attending around us - in our neighbourhoods, our countries or further afield - and do something about it.
If you like the sound of it, come along to one of the parties scheduled above or host your own party. Details on how to do this can be found HERE or by sending us an email on info (at) frenchforcartridge (dot) com
Our new album featuring CHROMA is out today!
golden hour noun
- In medicine, the golden hour is the first hour after a traumatic injury, when emergency treatment is most likely to be successful.
- In photography, the golden hour is a period shortly after sunrise or before sunset during which daylight is redder and softer, which makes for dramatic skies and surreal cityscapes.
Physical copies of ‘The Golden Hour’ have sold out on pre-order, but you can get a digital copy either on iTunes or in our own shop.
This album won’t be available to stream anywhere in the first instance.
Instead, we’re inviting you to a more social form of listening by hosting a number of Golden Hour Listening Parties in various outside spaces across the globe, where the light hits the surrounding environment in particularly spectacular ways during the golden hours of the title.
We hope this will be an opportunity for a moment of contemplation around the themes of an album, which turned out altogether darker and more political than we had planned. The playful melodies are still there, of course, but this is perhaps a more intricate collection of songs that reflects our turbulent times by weaving in topics of war, loss and the state of the environment.
Find out more about the thinking behind the title HERE and look out for an announcement about the first batch of parties very soon.
iTunes - http://apple.co/2fZqJMk
Our shop - http://bit.ly/2gt8LCP
Artwork by Damien Beaton
Tomorrow is release day!
The first Golden Hour Listening Party will be at 8am.
51°30'46.8"N 0°05'48.9"W