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'Work With This' from Kiel
Posting recordings from my recent concerts over on my Patreon. Here’s a little song from last Friday.
'The Ghost Is The Only One That Beats My Drum' live in Leipzig
Click the image above to listen to a version of this song played live in Leipzig at the beautiful Horns Erben.
I’m posting more from this show and the next in Freital all week to my Patreon and Bandcamp subscribers. Please sign up to either of those to get all the new music as I make it and support me directly.
Thanks all
‘You Were Somewhere, You Thought You Were Nowhere’
A new single is available today for everyone through my Bandcamp site. ‘You Were Somewhere, You Thought You Were Nowhere’ was written and recorded last month.
‘You Were Somewhere, You Thought You Were Nowhere’ (7:51)
‘You Were Somewhere, You Thought You Were Nowhere’ (Giardino version, take 2) (7:15)
As with all my releases my Bandcamp and Patreon subscribers get this automatically, please consider signing up for that.
'Giardino, August'
Number 27 in my monthly subscription releases is now available.
‘Giardino, August’ was recorded in one afternoon in August 2022 and features a version of a new song 'You Were Somewhere, You Thought You Were Nowhere', a Lambchop cover and a set of older things.
Also included - a 20 minute, five-part improvisation recorded the same afternoon as a change from all the words.
You Were Somewhere, You Thought You Were Nowhere
The Man Who Loved Beer
Matthew And Robert
One Bite At A Time
Here
Soldier Johny
And I Don’t Know Why
Improvisation (i)
Improvisation (ii)
Improvisation (iii)
Improvisation (iv)
Improvisation (v)
As always, these are released as very limited CD-r editions, which I personalise and send to you, or as a full quality digital download. Each physical edition is available the month of release, the digital whenever. This means that if you subscribe now you get to download all previous volumes, as well as dozens of other songs and images I’ve been making exclusively for subscribers. Here are the links:
House Concerts please
I would like very much to focus on just playing where people live for the rest of the year if possible. If you are able to host a simple, acoustic house show where you are please get in touch.
Thank you
Stephen at thegreatpark@icloud.com
Katharinenruine recordings on my Patreon and Bandcamp
Soundboard / microphone recordings from last week’s concert at the Katharinenruine in Nürnberg have now been uploaded to my Patreon and Bandcamp subscriptions. Two are up already and two more are coming in the next couple of days.
Please consider subscribing to my Patreon for just €3 a month to support me and hear these and dozens of other exclusive recordings:
Perhaps there’s more from this special show I can share too but I’ve been fairly sick since the show so my concentration and productivity isn’t what it could be. I’m hopefully on the mend.
My 25th subscription release is now available
A live recording from a few weeks ago in Hamburg is now available through my Bandcamp and Patreon subscriptions. ‘Cafe Feuerwache 2’ is a return to the old house in Altona where I first played in November last year and from which a recording is also available. This was a very enjoyable, relaxed night and I think the set came out grand.
When I Was Away
The Royal Canal
Work With This
Here Comes Your Son
Lover O Lover
I Do Wrong
Paper Birds
The Woods Were Full Of Them
Leave Well Alone
The Hills Are Alive
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn’t
Super Good Advice
So Long Song
As always, this is available as a limited CD-r which I make and personalise and also as a full quality 24bit download. Please sign up below:
Here’s the 9 minute ‘The Hills Are Alive’ from the evening:
'The Hills Are Alive' live at Cafe Feuerwache, Hamburg 20/06/22
Photo by https://www.instagram.com/idaorloff/
I started playing this long song again, here it is in Hamburg last week.
I’m releasing the complete concert from this night as a limited CD and full quality download for subscribers to my Patreon or Bandcamp. Please consider doing that via the links below. Each month I make a new release - new recordings, unreleased material or live recordings and this is the 25th.
'Leave Well Alone' now available
My new album ‘Leave Well Alone’ and is now available at Bandcamp as a very limited edition CD-r and full quality digital download. The full album is available to stream here:
Here’s the track list:
Sticks
First Thought Best Thought (video here)
Here Comes Your Son
Look Out Kids (video here)
This Is How You Make It What It Is Not
Bern
So Long Away From
Leave Well Alone
Canary
I Once Knew The Lowlands
June dates
I’m expecting perhaps one or two little changes but right now but my month goes something like this:
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13/06/22 El Lokal, Zürich, CH
https://www.facebook.com/events/1389451088147027/
16/06/22 Mühlstrasse 14, Leipzig, DE
https://www.facebook.com/events/966078684256721/
17/06/22 Kosmos Festival, Chemnitz, DE
https://www.facebook.com/events/5110810545666282/
18/06/22 Galerie Fango, Cottbus, DE
https://www.facebook.com/events/714477333150319/
19/06/22 Deichdiele, Hamburg, DE
https://www.facebook.com/events/1026815754890652/
20/06/22 Café Feuerwache, Hamburg, DE
https://www.facebook.com/events/539256404500116/
22/06/22 Garden Concert, Hohenweddrien, DE
23/06/22 Prinz Willy, Kiel, DE
https://www.facebook.com/events/1038704463429079/
24/06/22 Club-Debil, Dresden, DE
https://www.facebook.com/events/419134583221420
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Please email me at thegreatpark@icloud.com if you'd like to make it to any of these or if you just would like to say hello.
Thanks and see you soon,
Stephen
New album 'Leave Well Alone'
My new album is called ‘Leave Well Alone’ and is now available to subscribers through my Patreon and Bandcamp sites and on the 26th of June for everyone else. I’ll also have physical copies at all of my concerts this month so if you can make it to a show you can buy one there.
Here’s the track list, everything apart from ‘Look Out Kids’ was recorded over the last few weeks in Stuttgart or out in the Giardino house:
Sticks
First Thought Best Thought (video here)
Here Comes Your Son
Look Out Kids (video here)
This Is How You Make It What It Is Not
Bern
So Long Away From
Leave Well Alone
Canary
I Once Knew The Lowlands
The CD or digital versions are available to pre-order through Bandcamp via the link below:
Rather than struggle to write something about this album that likely won't help with anyone's understanding or enjoyment of it I thought I'd just answer any questions. Anyone have anything that they'd like to know about this one? Comments below please.
That's it, that's it. Thanks as ever,
Stephen
El Lokal, Zürich 13.06.22
Typically beautiful poster design from El Lokal for this month’s set of concerts. Very happy to be heading back there
More info here.
FIRST THOUGHT BEST THOUGHT
Here’s a new, brief song from the new album that’s releasing to subscribers next weekend and to everyone else on 26.06.22. I’m happily playing concerts throughout June so I’m sure I won’t have so much time to handle everything and I think it’s easier for me to stagger the full release until the later in the month.
The rest of the album doesn’t go like this.
Concert in Aachen this Saturday
I am playing my first concert of 2022 and the first for me since last November. The longest break I've had between shows since 2008.
The event is at Überhaupt and will be organised with 3G rules, or as they write:
3G-Regel: Bitte Immunisierungsnachweis oder aktuellen Corona-Test (PCR < 48 Std., Schnelltest < 24 Std.) einschließlich Ausweis am Eingang vorzeigen.
I appreciate asking people to be in rooms with others might not be the most considerate thing to do but this date has been moved already and I can't imagine things getting much better soon. If you can make it and feel comfortable enough please join me but otherwise let's hope for more opportunities later in the year.
More details behind the links below and if you are a subscriber to my Patron or Bandcamp let me know and you get on the guest list.
Überhaupt website here
Überhaupt Facebook event here
Thanks all,
Stephen
'Giardino, January' out today for everyone
A new, little EP is out for everyone today - five songs recorded one afternoon by the fire in a little hut in the Remstal countryside near Stuttgart.
I Once Knew The Lowlands
When The Animals Follow The Gunshots
Here Comes Your Son
Work With This
This Is How You Make It What It Is Not
This includes very simple versions of three new songs, 'I Once Knew The Lowlands', 'Here Comes Your Son' and 'This Is How You Make It What It Is Not' that were originally on the 'Five New Songs' EP that was out in January.
'Look Out Kids'
An EP, ‘Five New Songs’ is out this Sunday, the 6th of February to everyone subscribed to my Bandcamp or Patreon sites (Patreon subscriptions begin at just €3 monthly) and I have a new song ‘Look Out Kids’ from it for everyone now.
All these were recorded over the last couple of weeks and I’m very happy to share some new music with you all. More coming soon.
S
Available for everyone this weekend: 'Subscription Selection : ten songs from the first twenty months'
Available for everyone this weekend - a selection of music from the first twenty months of my subscription. I have over 34 releases available for everyone signed up, here’s ten songs from the things I make especially for them. I appreciate the title is not the snappiest but hopefully you get the idea (and perhaps subscribe).
I Know What I Make Isn’t Fine - The Winter Recordings
I Know What I Make Isn’t Fine
Annabel
The Royal Canal
Boys, I Am Worried
You Are Better Than This
Song For A Coalman
Joe And Robert And Me And Mike
Song For Fee
Tom
Make A Dead One Of It
I Do Wrong
Portugal
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn’t
Suit Of Stones
Paper Birds
Here
Fair And Fine
You Belong To Me, You Do
I Know What I Make Isn’t Fine (first take)
Number 20 in the monthly subscription releases coming 01.01.2022.
19 songs originally recorded in December 2010 for the album 'Winter'. 7 unreleased tracks, all songs remixed and remastered.
Available as a hand stamped CD edition with hand typed and personalised sleeves, linear notes and full quality digital download.
Digital download includes pdf with linear notes.
Physical edition available throughout January, digital anytime. €10 digital / €15 physical including postage anywhere at my Patreon or Bandcamp sites.