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Tickley Feather (USA/Philadelphia/Paw Tracks)
Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands
Upstairs @ Whelan’s, Nov 18
Tickets €12 plus booking fee from WAV Box-Office (Lo-Call 1890 200 078), City Discs, Tickets.ie, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide
“Sachs cuts through the buzz and drum machines and lets expressive singing and melody reign.” - Dusted Magazine
“The juxtaposition between the haunting and the naive is one of the key things that make the record (Hors D’Oeuvres) such a likeable and engaging listen. - Drowned in Sound
The creative force behind Tickley Feather, Annie Sachs, entered into music as inauspiciously as most; making friends with other neophytes who were looking for a creative way to spend their time.
What differentiated Annie from her initial partners was an idiosyncratic and preternaturally bizarre voice and vocal style. Annie’s abilities quickly made her a sought after member of many bands though she was essentially un-malleable to most of the conventional songwriting presented to her.
Annie chose to forge her own path and selected the Tickley Feather nom de guerre in 2004 to attempt to define her own sound and use it to express her truly singular and unique perspective. Her initial recordings on a "gently used" four track were able to transcend the lo-fi ghetto by eschewing preciousness in favor of bizarreness.
Around this time Annie was invited to participate in a film who’s director Danny Perez was preparing on behalf of Animal Collective. The group became interested in her music and invited her to release an album on their Paw Tracks (Ariel Pink, Black Dice, Rings, Panda Bear) imprint. The self-titled album was released by Paw Tracks in the spring of 2008. It was preceded by a critically heralded split 7“ with Serpents of Wisdom and another split 7” with Bermuda Triangles from Richmond, Virginia released on the CNP label.
After many years in Philadelphia, Annie decided she should consolidate her energies in her former home of Virginia. In a search for isolation Annie retreated to rural Virginia earlier this year and moved into a dilapidated farmhouse which had been annexed by a school for the deaf and the blind. She wished to remake the mold that she had cast with her previous work and was able to create what was to become her new album Hors d'oeuvres in an environment sympathetic to her aesthetic. Liberated by solitude and firmly entrenched with her young boy Aiden, Annie is now able to gain a new perspective and find a new direction.
For fans of: Animal Collective, Syd Barett, Kria Brekkan (Múm)
www.myspace.com/tickleyfeather
www.paw-tracks.com
www.underthestars.de/tickleyfeather.php
Patrick Kelleher
Dublin-based Patrick Kelleher is a 24 year-old musician hailing from Wicklow, although he spent much of his childhood in the English town of Rugby. Patrick has created and distributed the home-made EPs “You Look Cold” and “He Has To Sleep Some Time” (Virtual 7”). The latter can be downloaded free via his myspace.
His music varies from brooding, tense electronica to jaunty acoustica to 8-bit dance-floor ditties, but always with a twist of something ethereal or idiosyncratic. His songs are often premised on a mixture of live instrumentation, drum machines, cheapo voice-sampling yamaha keyboards and vocals that are, at times, heavily distorted.
“…with all of Joyce’s love for experimentation and all of Beckett’s restraint, this is Patrick Kelleher’s first LP. Like Ariel Pink, minus the tape hiss, Kelleher crafts songs to be sung outside closed windows, or from behind drawn curtains. Perry Como meets Passion Pit on ‘Until I Get Paid’, as sleepy “doo-wops” and grainy instrumentation sidle underneath Kelleher’s slinky tones. Elsewhere, 8-bit blitzkriegs are blasted in homage to Miami Vice (‘He Has To Sleep Sometime’)... Though the record swoops from texture to texture, it all remains united under a slight cloud of reverb.” 8/10 NME
www.myspace.com/patrickkelleher
Tickley Feather (USA/Philadelphia/Paw Tracks)
Patrick Kelleher & His Cold Dead Hands
Upstairs @ Whelan’s, Nov 18
Tickets €12 plus booking fee from WAV Box-Office (Lo-Call 1890 200 078), City Discs, Tickets.ie, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide
“Sachs cuts through the buzz and drum machines and lets expressive singing and melody reign.” - Dusted Magazine
“The juxtaposition between the haunting and the naive is one of the key things that make the record (Hors D’Oeuvres) such a likeable and engaging listen. - Drowned in Sound
The creative force behind Tickley Feather, Annie Sachs, entered into music as inauspiciously as most; making friends with other neophytes who were looking for a creative way to spend their time.
What differentiated Annie from her initial partners was an idiosyncratic and preternaturally bizarre voice and vocal style. Annie’s abilities quickly made her a sought after member of many bands though she was essentially un-malleable to most of the conventional songwriting presented to her.
Annie chose to forge her own path and selected the Tickley Feather nom de guerre in 2004 to attempt to define her own sound and use it to express her truly singular and unique perspective. Her initial recordings on a "gently used" four track were able to transcend the lo-fi ghetto by eschewing preciousness in favor of bizarreness.
Around this time Annie was invited to participate in a film who’s director Danny Perez was preparing on behalf of Animal Collective. The group became interested in her music and invited her to release an album on their Paw Tracks (Ariel Pink, Black Dice, Rings, Panda Bear) imprint. The self-titled album was released by Paw Tracks in the spring of 2008. It was preceded by a critically heralded split 7“ with Serpents of Wisdom and another split 7” with Bermuda Triangles from Richmond, Virginia released on the CNP label.
After many years in Philadelphia, Annie decided she should consolidate her energies in her former home of Virginia. In a search for isolation Annie retreated to rural Virginia earlier this year and moved into a dilapidated farmhouse which had been annexed by a school for the deaf and the blind. She wished to remake the mold that she had cast with her previous work and was able to create what was to become her new album Hors d'oeuvres in an environment sympathetic to her aesthetic. Liberated by solitude and firmly entrenched with her young boy Aiden, Annie is now able to gain a new perspective and find a new direction.
For fans of: Animal Collective, Syd Barett, Kria Brekkan (Múm)
www.myspace.com/tickleyfeather
www.paw-tracks.com
www.underthestars.de/tickleyfeather.php
Patrick Kelleher
Dublin-based Patrick Kelleher is a 24 year-old musician hailing from Wicklow, although he spent much of his childhood in the English town of Rugby. Patrick has created and distributed the home-made EPs “You Look Cold” and “He Has To Sleep Some Time” (Virtual 7”). The latter can be downloaded free via his myspace.
His music varies from brooding, tense electronica to jaunty acoustica to 8-bit dance-floor ditties, but always with a twist of something ethereal or idiosyncratic. His songs are often premised on a mixture of live instrumentation, drum machines, cheapo voice-sampling yamaha keyboards and vocals that are, at times, heavily distorted.
“…with all of Joyce’s love for experimentation and all of Beckett’s restraint, this is Patrick Kelleher’s first LP. Like Ariel Pink, minus the tape hiss, Kelleher crafts songs to be sung outside closed windows, or from behind drawn curtains. Perry Como meets Passion Pit on ‘Until I Get Paid’, as sleepy “doo-wops” and grainy instrumentation sidle underneath Kelleher’s slinky tones. Elsewhere, 8-bit blitzkriegs are blasted in homage to Miami Vice (‘He Has To Sleep Sometime’)... Though the record swoops from texture to texture, it all remains united under a slight cloud of reverb.” 8/10 NME
www.myspace.com/patrickkelleher
