C 1. Ivor MacGyver - Saliva 2. Photon - La fuite en arrière (En-joy) 3. Guards! Guards! - Go Nowhere 4. Field Glass - Postcards 5. Franklin’s Kite and Postal Blue - Mumble 6. Edine - Where The Sidewalk Ends 7. The Color Waves - Adjustments 8. Warped Kiss - You Always Find a Way 9. Crimson & The Sunbird - Where Did the Day Go? 10. After The Noise - Those Were The Days

License:

CAll songs on this album are licensed under Creative Commons (Attribution – Noncommercial – No Derivative Works), except the songs by Guards! Guards! (copyright Monster Bobby/Lisa Bouvier) and After The Noise (copyright Robert Post/Ingrid Støy). This means that you are free to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work, as long as the use is non-commercial, and as long as you credit the artist, and as long as you don’t edit the artist’s work in any way. If you want to use the song in other ways than the ones mentioned above, you have to get the artist’s permission to do so. More info here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0

The songs explicitly mentioned above as not licensed under Creative Commons can not be shared freely outside of this compilation. 1 Volume C: The noisy, but calm one...

Volume C is both the noisiest and Mayfield from Victoria and Jacob. They Jon Kohen and Warped Forest gives us the calmest of the three Between combine Enderby’s folky pedal harmonium brushed snare drums, strings and swirling and calm vocals with Jacob’s drum machine, cymbals on their duet “You Will Always Find Two Waves - The Second Wave and sings about the hidden stories lying in a Way” - and lovely, harmonic vocals. volumes. It is full of contrasts, like boxes in antique shops and car boot sales. the sea and the waves. One minute Former Hefner drummer Antony calm and quiet, the next minute Postal Blue and Marc Elston from bands like Harding gives us an acoustic start on his raging and wild. The Liberty Ship and Bulldozer Crash have collaboration with Italians Loud Off and made a song that has been a favourite for Adam Kirk. The calm start of the song ends This volume starts with a BANG, with the many of the people who have pre-listened in a crescendo of piano, drums, strings, energetic “Saliva” from The Just Joans and to this volume. “Mumble” is an indiepop guitars and - do I hear a banjo in there as The Spook School. Silja in the team have song that in many ways reminds me of the well? been dancing around her kitchen table to Go-Betweens’ style of playing. This is the this for months. song that brings together the calm waves The last song on the compilation comes and the rougher ones. from two Norwegians, Robert Post and Next track, from Watoo Watoo and MAUP, Ingrid Støy. Since Post can mean “After” continues the energy, with a track in the Lisle Mitnik (Fireflies) and Edine (The and “Støy” in Norwegian means “Noise”, style of both and Joy Division. It Marshmallow Kisses) have worked together they call themselves After The Noise. Their has beautiful vocals from Watoo Watoo’s before, and their whispery vocals, acoustic song has lovely, jazzy vocals, a choir-like Pascale, and lots of spacey synth swirls. guitars and glockenspiel works perfectly chorus and layers of both acoustic and together in their beautiful “Where The electric guitars. An evening song, - and a Monster Bobby and Lisa Bouvier have Sidewalk Ends”. beautiful one to end the album with. made the upbeat synthpop tune “Let’s Go Nowhere”, with a repetitive synth sequence, The relaxed atmosphere created by Lisle strings, lots of handclaps and Lisa’s relaxed and Edine continues on the spine tinglingly Knut ePop, 03.06.14 and beautiful voice on top. beautiful “Adjustments” by The Color Waves aka Alison Eales and Garry Hoggan. I love The tempo slows down, and Enderby’s both of their voices, and am so happy that Room enters the scene together with Jacob both of them sing on this one.

PS. CHECK OUT VOLUMES A + B: http://eardrumspop.com/releases-2/ 2 Ivor MacGyver - Saliva (David Pope from The Just Joans + The Spook School)

Lyrics by David Pope Who are Ivor MacGyver: Music by David Pope & The Spook School The Just Joans are a lo-fi indie band from the west Recorded & Mixed in Adam’s bedroom of Scotland. They released a debut album, “Last Tango in Motherwell”, on Ivan Lendil Records back Mastered by Subsequent Mastering in 2006. Since then they have released a bunch of EPs and an album on wonderful WeePop Records. : “We quite The Just Joans are currently working on a new EP ADAM (SPOOK SCHOOL) which they will hopefully release later this year on wanted to use the opportunity of having their very own Oh So Sensitive label. a band that could potentially only ever

The Spook School are four friends from Edinburgh have one song to choose a band name that using a raucous mixture of indie-pop, feedback and ABOVE: DAVID. BELOW: THE SPOOK SCHOOL links with the song title. So we chose ‘Ivor nudity to create a fun live show. Their debut album (PHOTO: MICHAEL WOOD). MacGyver’ cause ‘Ivor MacGyver - Saliva’ ‘Dress Up’ came out on Fortuna POP! in 2013 with lead single ‘I’ll Be Honest’ gaining airplay on has a pretty nice phonetic ring to it, and 6music with Steve Lamacq, being playlisted on we quite want to make up a silly music Amazing Radio and the video being described by video where we splice up clips from the Clash Magazine as “A joyous, colourful, comedic show ‘MacGyver’ to make it look like he’s visual rant”. dubbed The Spook School “Sweetly shambolic”, and having seen them the ‘single boy’ in the song.” live we promise you’ll be beaming for days after. Such an energy and happiness kick! Ivor MacGyver made a computer game

The two bands have known each other since especially for this release: playing a few gigs together then dancing and http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/19795631/#fullscreen drinking too much at various indie- (namely Edinburgh’s Unpop!). They have laughed and cried and vomited together on numerous occasions. The song was written by David a few years ago and initially called ‘Single Boy’ as a little nod towards ‘Single Girl’ by Lush. The Spook School, according to http://thespookschool.com David, “did a great job and turned a https://facebook.com/pages/The-Just-Joans/40408923713 slight wee acoustic song into a snarling indie monster!“ 3 Photon - La fuite en arrière (En-joy) (Watoo Watoo + MAUP) MAUP (YANNICK)

Who are Photon: Music: Yannick Rault Lyrics: Michaël Korchia Watoo Watoo is back with “Une si longue attente” - an album released by Seattle-based label Jigsaw Records. Over the years, Watoo Watoo has released four albums and three EPs on various Michaël: “Watoo Watoo met Yannick of labels. The music was strictly indiepop in the early MAUP on a forum dedicated to analog synth. years, but the band has been able to renew itself. I introduced myself and gave him a link to Depending on the songs, the influences range from 60s to 80s pop. Warbling bass lines, crystal- our music. Yannick listened and loved it. He clear guitars and vintage keyboards all have a asked Pascale if she could sing on one of his good place in the band’s music. Watoo Watoo primarily consists of Pascale and Michaël, who live songs – the one on this compilation. Then we in Bordeaux. Michaël usually records the songs at decided to work on more songs. We’ve never home, sometimes e-mails friends to help with the guitars, and then asks Pascale to add her lovely met as we live 700km from each other, but voice. it’s quite fun to work via internet anyway!” Yannick started as a drummer, then played in new wave/electro bands, influenced by The Cure, Joy Photon have worked on many songs since Division, Depeche Mode. He eventually switched to the guitar, the bass and sometimes the keyboard. this first one! Sometimes they start from He started doing music with computers in 1995 has been working solo since 2000 (soundtracks for a song written by Michaël, sometimes by video projects, cartoons, TV shows). His own band Yannick. Both play the instruments and then is called MAUP and he has played instruments in the band This Grey City since 2013. Pascale adds her vocals.

The band wanted a retro-futuristic style, and https://facebook.com/photonphotonphoton got their name from one of Michaël’s vintage https://youtube.com/watch?v=sRhm-hK-ado cameras - of the brand Photon. http://watoowatoo.net/ MUSIC VIDEO! 4 Guards! Guards! - Go Nowhere (Monster Bobby + Lisa Bouvier)

Written, performed and recorded by Bobby Barry Who are Guards! Guards!: and Lisa Bouvier Monster Bobby is the name of the solo project Mixed by Seb Falcone Bobby Barry has kept up off-and-on in downtime from playing with The Pipettes and A Little Orchestra “and whatever else”. There was one Monster Bobby album in 2007 on the Hypnote “Lisa said she Recording Concern, plus a few 7”s & 3” and so BOBBY: forth on the likes of Unpopular and Hugpatch. liked the band name because Just recently Bobby started a new band called Far Rainbow. it was both funny and -based Swedish riding instructor/pop pretentious. I just like band chanteuse Lisa Bouvier says; “I am, as well as doing solo stuff, in every single band and project names that seem to contain on the planet (like The Flatmates, The Proctors, Satan & Megastar... the list goes on forever).” too much punctuation.” Lisa’s past bands include Stars in Coma and Lost Summer Kitten, and this list goes on forever too, Bobby and Lisa have collaborated before; so chances are you own at least one Bouvier- infused song! the deeply moving song Pightle 21 with A Little Orchestra makes the ePop team a little overcome with emotion. Having Lisa took part in BTW2’s Vol B too: enjoyed the collaboration process once http://eardrumspop.com/releases-2/compilations/ again for Between Two Waves, Guards! Guards! have already started working on another song...

http://monsterbobby.tumblr.com http://lisabouvier.se 5 Field Glass - Postcards (Enderby’s Room + Jacob Mayfield from Victoria and Jacob)

Music by Dan Mayfield and Jacob Mayfield Who are Field Glass: Lyrics by Dan Mayfield Field Glass are brothers Dan Mayfieldand Jacob Vocals by Emma Winston Mayfield, and Emma Winston. Dan and Emma are from the indie-folk band Enderby’s Room, and Jacob is one half ‘Postcards’* is about the of Victoria and Jacob. hidden stories lying in boxes Enderby’s Room are from London, UK. With a Victorian in antique shops and car boot pedal harmonium forming the cornerstone of their sound, sales. These messages that their songs are characterised by delicate harmonies, unusual instruments and vivid storytelling. The band takes were once personal and only its name from author Anthony Burgess’s character Mr shared between two people Enderby, who wrote his prose while sat on the toilet. are now open to the public.

Victoria and Jacob are Jacob Mayfield and Vicky Harrison. They met in Cambridge while at university * No envelopes were used studying Creative Music and Sound Technology. After in the making of ‘Postcards’ teaming up to work on a variety of projects (such as interactive sound installations, sound for computer games, and laptop composition) they moved to London to focus on the band. Jacob and Vicky started out as DAN: “The three of us have talked a folk duo and then went from to a fully about making more songs in this style. electronic lineup. In 2013 they released their debut album on Fika Recordings and WIAIWYA. We certainly enjoyed trying to make a piece of music which had no frills, with just a pedal harmonium, drum machine and vocals. It’s a nice outlet for ideas that we have lying around but which have yet to find a home.” JACOB (L), DAN (R) http://fieldglassmusic.co.uk Grant Wilkinson made a music video for the http://enderbysroom.co.uk song: http://bit.do/fieldglasspostcards http://victoriaandjacob.co.uk 6 Franklin’s Kite and Postal Blue - Mumble

Who are Franklin’s Kite Song and Vocals by Marc Elston and Postal Blue: All instruments, production and mastering by Adriano Ribeiro Franklin’s Kite is the latest incarnation of Marc Elston’s songwriting and recording projects that go back to the late ‘80s including Mumble is a simple song based around a D Bulldozer Crash and The Liberty Ship. chord shape. Marc’s four track demo was put on SoundCloud, where Adriano heard it and liked Postal Blue was formed by friends Adriano (vocals), André (drums), Alessandro (guitar), it. The two had already worked on another song and Ismael (bass) in Brazil in 1998. They called Normandy by Sundown. Adriano worked were inspired by guitar pop from the 60s up his version and sent files to Marc, who added to the early 90s. Postal Blue released the vocal on. Marc then isolated his tracks and Adriano eponymous first four-song CD-EP on Drive- In Records (2000). They signed to Shelflife polished and did the final mix. Records and released the “Weather Sensitive” CD-EP (2002), followed by the début album “International Breeze” (2004). Postal Blue released “Road to Happiness” CD-EP in 2006 “We have never on Humblebee Recordings - their only release MARC: supported by live shows, in their hometown met, but we recorded for Brasília between 2006-2008. Postal Blue was never meant to be a touring band. In 2008, the same compilation Postal Blue’s singer and main songwriter in the early 2000s. We Adriano released a three-song single on Cloudberry Records as a one-man band. Fast- share similar tastes forward to 2014, there is finally a new record, and musical instincts... a split single with fellow Brazilians Pale Sunday, on Dufflecoat Records. Another 7” Adriano makes up for single is scheduled for July and a new album the technical ability in late 2014 on Jigsaw Records. that I completely lack!”

Postal Blue took part in BTW2’s Vol B too: https://soundcloud.com/marce68 http://eardrumspop.com/releases-2/compilations/ https://soundcloud.com/postalblue 7 Edine - Where The Sidewalk Ends (Fireflies + Edine from The Marshmallow Kisses)

Lyrics and music by Lisle Mitnik Who are Fireflies Vocals by Edine and Lisle Mitnik and Edine:

Lisle Mitnik, based in Chicago, has been writing songs for his solo project Fireflies Lisle and Edine met and his duo Tiny Fireflies. In songwriting, he years ago on Myspace. combines his love for lo-fi indie recordings of the 1980s and 90s with his unrefined They always wanted to knowledge of classical arrangement. Lisle tries to craft each song into a tiny snow-globe-sized collaborate on some universe you can curl up in and get lost for a little while. And succeeds - the ePop team are ye ye girl project. prone to curling up and getting lost... Lisle and Edine have Edine creates bedroom karaoke pop with musicians worldwide. She is into oldies, italo made a few songs disco, spanish guitar, vintage, 20s-60s. Based in London and Hong Kong, Edine started together for Elefant singing for indiepop duo The Marshmallow Kisses in 2001. This is her collaborative project Records, and lately with worldwide musicians. Claiming to be a Lisle took part in BTW2’s Vol B too: geek, she has been actively collaborating with http://eardrumspop.com/releases-2/compilations/ Edine’s vocals can be different musicians over the internet under the name Tramgirl Karaoke Club. She has released heard on a couple of singles with Lisle Mitnik (Fireflies), Emilio Jose, And he released an EP at EardrumsPop: The Sound of Arrows and Maskopet. Her music http://eardrumspop.com/releases-2/singles/page/4/ songs on Fireflies’ album is often a pleasant combo of French ye ye, Swedish disco and Cantonese opera. (Both releases with Tiny Fireflies) “In Dreams” (2014).

https://facebook.com/iamedine http://firefliesmusic.bandcamp.com/ 8 The Color Waves - Adjustments (Alison Eales + Garry Hoggan - both from All My Friends/Butcher Boy)

Written by Garry Hoggan and Alison Eales Who are The Color Waves: Performed by Garry Hoggan and Alison Eales

As well as writing with Garry, Alison Eales has Produced by Garry Hoggan played keyboards with Butcher Boy since 2005 and have also released a stunning solo single on EardrumsPop. Garry: “We’ve been in a couple bands together previously, and Alison is my favorite Gary Hoggan was part of All My Friends, along with Alison and Jason Sweeney. They produced person to write with. This compilation gave us a one album (“Get Hung Up”) and one EP (“Up and chance to revisit that. We met many moons ago Down The River”). Gary is a former member of at a monthly club we both used to go Butcher Boy. to. I’m too old for dancing now.”

The song “The Earliest Blue” by All My Friends is a firm EardrumsPop favourite! Find it on SoundCloud! Alison: “We became firm friends after discovering a mutual love of They Might Be Giants and Homestar Runner. I enjoy working with Garry because we each admire what the other does, but also know how to Garry: “We wanted to wash away the make suggestions and compromises.” old All My Friends name and start anew, because we want this to be different. I saw the name on an old vintage camera lens at Check out Alison’s EP on EardrumsPop: a time when I was grasping desperately for http://eardrumspop.com/releases-2/singles/page/3/ a name I wouldn’t hate after five minutes: I took it as a sign.” The Color Waves absolutely intend to work together again. Watch this space! https://facebook.com/TheColorWaves http://butcher-boy.co.uk/ https://soundcloud.com/allmyfriendsmusic/ 9 Warped Kiss - You Always Find a Way (Jon Kohen + Ben Raymond and Morgan Mahoney from Warped Forest)

JON KOHEN Who are Warped Kiss: (PHOTO BY: LOUIS GENDRON)

rd Jon Kohen released his first EP, on 3 of June - Recorded, produced and mixed by Jon Kohen coincidentally the launch day of Between Two Waves’ Volume B. It’s called “The Heart of the Co-written by Ben Raymond, Morgan Mahoney, Machine”, and is definitely worth checking out. and Jon Kohen Jon plays acoustic/. He describes it as playing acoustic guitar over subtle electronic dance and beats, then arranging the sounds on the computer. Jon also adds synthesizers JON: “Throughout the writing and drones. In addition to his solo project, Jon is part of Kismet, an acoustic quartet from Boston process ideas were flying featuring cello and upright bass. They play acoustic everywhere like bullets from the music based on roots, folk and with a haunting yet uplifting sound. three of us. We collectively chose Warped Forest plays loop based ambient which to keep and which to throw psych-folk. Lately they have been playing with two drummers, two violins, male and female away.” vocals,and guitar/vocal loops.

This collaboration was a natural product of a Morgan wrote the lyrics based on healthy musical relationship between three best a poem she wrote, and Jon helped friends. Jon plays drums in another band with Ben Raymond from Warped Forest called Speed write some of the words as well. Trials, and on weekends Jon, Ben and Morgan Mahoney (also Warped Forest) enjoy having drinks and playing music together, whether it be Do they want improvisational or covers of their favorite artists. to continue the collaboration...? “Hell yeah!” http://jonkohen.bandcamp.com/releases http://warpedforest.bandcamp.com/ 10 Crimson & The Sunbird - Where Did the Day Go?

(ANT + Loud Off + Adam Kirk) ANT

Riff by Adam Kirk

Who are Crimson & The Sunbird: Lyrics and vocal melody by Antony Harding Antony Harding, aka ANT, is known as the drummer of Music, arrangement and production by Loud Off legendary Hefner - but he’s also had a great solo career! A mini album, “Cures For Broken Hearts”, was released in 2000, and the same year ANT recorded a session on the John Antony: “Many years ago my old school Peel radio show. ANT then released the debut album “A Long friend, Adam Kirk, sent me the riff from his Way To Blow A Kiss” (2002), as well as the CD “Floating On The Breeze” (2003), the compilation “Sad To See It’s home in California. I looped it, wrote the lyric Morning” (2004) and a second full length album “Footprints and recorded the vocal. Then I got stuck. Through The Snow” (2006). His next mini album arrived in 2009 - “These Long Dark Country Roads” featuring help Sometime later I sent it to Loud Off in Italy. from Hefner’s and as well as Time passed by and one day the song returned ’s Tjínder Singh and James Milne. ANT’s third full length album was released in 2012, “The Birds Sing fully transformed with acoustic guitars, drums, Goodnight To You And Me”, and an instrumental mini-mini- violins and piano.” album “Only Pipe Dreams In The Pipeline” in 2013.

Loud Off is an instrumental music project born in 2008 Crimson and thanks to Andrea Raccanelli and Bruno Noaro. Over the years the band changed many times its number of members, LOUD the Sunbird: but in recent years it’s returned to be all around Bruno and OFF Andrea. Even though Loud Off stopped their live activities, The name conjures up colour they have kept alive external collaborations. Their music as well as nature, which is characterized by fluid sounds and inspired by Northern Antony, Adam and Loud Off Europe’s atmospheres. all love, and it also has the suggestion of two names Adam Kirk is a guitarist from the Isle of Wight who lives in coming together. California. He has worked with artists such as Joan Baez and Tanita Tikaram.

ADAM KIRK http://antpop.com https://facebook.com/pages/Loud-Off/85214678438 11 After The Noise - Those Were The Days

(Robert Post + Ingrid Støy) INGRID STØY O photo: ANDREAS ULV

Who are After The Noise: Written by Ingrid Støylen Runde and Robert Post All instruments played, recorded and mixed by Ingrid Støy is a singer and teacher living in Oslo. Her previous projects and collaborations Robert Post are varied to say the least; from improvisational music through French chanson, singing own INGRID: “I heard Robert do an amazing solo takes on 60s in the duo When the gig at the world’s smallest festival (aka our Ship Comes In, and now writing in Norwegian for her and folk-inspired trio. friend’s tiny boathouse party) by beautiful Hjørundfjord. We found that different musical Norwegian singer, composer and lyricist Robert Post debuted with a worldwide release of his backgrounds and mutual friends was a good eponymous titled album in 2005. Awarded Best starting point for collaborating.” Male Artist and Best Video at the Norwegian equivalent to The Grammys the same year. He has sold in excess of 80,000 albums worldwide. “I asked Ingrid to send His debut single “Got None” was number one ROBERT: in Italy for weeks, and in the UK, France and me a song sketch and then take it Norway it was among the most played songs in from there. I loved the rawness of the year of its release. Robert Post has toured with some of the music world’s biggest artists the demo, the mood and the feel including Aimee Mann, Rufus Wainwright, Jason to it. So rather then writing new Mraz, Texas, Natalie Imbruglia, Ray Lamontagne parts, as I thought I would, I began and Lissie. His music has been described as Sgt. Pepper-era Beatles blended with Rufus recording on top of the demo.” Wainwright’s charm, with a bit of Bob Dylan and a dash of Neil Young. The Sunday Times Robert Post and Ingrid Støy: Culture wrote about him: “The whole of Post’s Post can mean after, and debut album glories in tunes many songwriters Støy (an abbreviation Ingrid would kill for”. has used for solo projects) means noise in Norwegian. Hence, the bandname After the Noise. http://soundcloud.com/ingrid-st-ylen-runde ROBERT POST http://soundcloud.com/robertpost photo: LASSE FLØDE 12 The cover designer: Knut B. Lindbjør (Featherfin)

Knut (Featherfin) took part in BTW2’s Vol B: Who is Knut http://eardrumspop.com/releases-2/compilations/ B. Lindbjør:

Knut B. Lindbjør makes art and music as a hobby - Knut’s favourite tools are and relaxation in stressful Photoshop, pencils and pens, colour times. Knut’s digital collages pencils, water colour, scissors, are based on what he has at hand. He usually puts paper, his iPad, his stylus, his everything together digitally, Procreate app, words and poems. but the creations are usually built up of photographs - old and new, his own paper drawings, paint, paper cut- outs, paper scans, elements he finds... all sorts of stuff. A mix of old and new - a bit dreamy and surreal. Knut’s art is not supposed to be Art featured on this page by Knut B. Lindbjør. life-like.

Knut’s musical project is KNUT: “Art, music, words called Featherfin - and he is also a very important part of and creativity is the blood that the EadrumsPop team... my body needs to survive. I listen to lots of different music, mainly indiepop, folk and electronica.”

KNUT’S ELECTRONICA https://soundcloud.com/featherfin/ PROJECT 13 VOL A AND B ARE ALREADY OUT, GO GET THEM: http://eardrumspop.com/releases-2/compilations/ Credits: Cover design: Knut B. Lindbjør Booklet design: Silja Haddal Mork (http://siljahaddalmork.com) The album is mastered by Knut at Eardrumspop Big thanks to: • The bands - for taking part and making such fantastic songs! We are your biggest fans... • The illustrators - for making awesome art • The Indiepop Shop Talk Facebook group - for advice and inspiration • Cris (Sundae + Bubbletone Discos + Little Treasure) for technical advice DID YOU MISS THESE? • Raül from Bloodbuzzed and Lene Martine - for helping decide on the final 31 • All you ePop listeners out there - for your continued support

Who are the FOR MORE FREE, BEAUTIFUL MUSIC: EardrumsPop team: http://eardrumspop.com

EardrumsPop is a netlabel which http://facebook.com/eardrumspop releases great music for free. http://twitter.com/eardrumspop

The people who run the label are Stefan (@stevefan) from Germany, Tim (@tenacioustim), an American Please help us spread the word residing in Ireland and the two Norwegians Knut (@eardrums) and about The Second Wave! Silja (@silja_hm). Stefan, Tim, Knut and Silja :-) We hope you enjoy Between Two Waves - The Second Wave! 14