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May 142020
 
cover design by Hinterland collective

This is the solo project of Jamie Whitby-Coles, Ex-Gloucestershire pro cricketer, “Lieutenant Wesson” from Bollywood blockbuster Lagaan and more recently drummer with This Is The Kit, The Liftmen, Rozi Plain.


The album began in 2001 from field recordings: wild-life, answerphone messages, songs from the old peoples home where he worked; found-sounds and talking; plus guitar all recorded onto minidisc and looped there and played alongwith. Other instruments and vocals were then gradually added in Garageband.


As the songs progressed various friends were added to the mix including guitar ace Neil Smith, bass master Jim Barr, disco-ordination’s own Jesse d Vernon, and the album was finished in around 2010.


It was released on aug 29th 2020 for international Record Shop Day.

For a little taster of what it might sound like go here.. https://youtu.be/CgDeIIiy1K4

May 142020
 
Gamechanger by the artist Banksy used with permission

Release date fri 15th may 2020
label – Disco-ordination records
format – digital only

This is a special lock-down homage anthem by new band The New Space Finders (AMoonflowers spin off project). The song is dedicated to the superheroes keeping us fed and generally alive.
All proceeds from sales will go to Good Earth Growers
a Cornish organic farming movement.

The two mixes are credited as by The Moonflowers (uk 90’s psychedelic movement) and Otherish which is another new band you’ll be hearing more from very soon which has it’s roots in 90’s record label Pop God and Me band.

you can listen and support here https://disco-ordination.bandcamp.com/album/superheroes

Superheroes by The New Space Finders

The Moonflowers are currently working on a studio album loosely titled “The Life And Death Of Life And Death” aiming for an early 2021 release

Dec 062019
 

release date Feb 28  2020
label – Disco-ordination
cat number DOCD036

Two days in the recording and nearly two years in the finishing we’re proud to present The Fantasy Orchestra’s first album.

This record documents the huge community of talent, love, dedication and positive energy brought about by members of the orchestra and about 160 of them, mostly amateur musicians and singers are on the record!

The tracklist represents  a Fantasy mix of well-known and lesser-known composers such as Bristol-based master guitarists Paul Bradley and Jamie Harrison: who’s song, The Bear, gives the album it’s title. There are tunes composed in the 50’s, 60’s and 70s (Sun Ra, Hendrix, Caetano Veloso); and tunes written since 2010 (Richard Dawson, Disasterpeace).   The track list represents a Fantasy mix of well-known and lesser-known composers such as Bristol-based master guitarists Paul Bradley and Jamie Harrison, whose song, The Bear, gives the album its title.  

preorder the album =  https://disco-ordination.bandcamp.com/album/the-bear-and-other-stories

listen to the whole album here:
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Order a CD!

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£10 if you’re going to pick it up in paris or bristol

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£13 if you’d like us to post it to you

and please let us know if you’d like vinyl!

The first session was in Paris on Sat 18th Nov 2017 at Midi Live studio. The next took place on April 15th 2018 at J and J studio in Bristol:

Both sessions feature an almost completely different set of musicians as the orchestra has  branches in Bristol and in Paris

We play hits from round the world and round the genre. We play Bohemian Rhapsody, Moondog, Dance Of The Knights, Mehbooba and Anna Meredith. We get out the glitter, greasepaint, our grooviest garb and make a lot of cacophonous noise …usually fun to see!

Feb 012016
 

cover-andy-skellam-square2Andy Skellam is a Bristol based musician who creates an idiosyncratic blend of surreal folk & dissonant blues using acoustic/electric guitar, banjo and his baritone singing voice. His music reflects darkly humorous & deeply affecting absurdities.

Andy’s second full length album, Green Moat, was recorded in various locations near Bristol, UK using mostly analogue equipment & techniques. It was produced by Jesse D Vernon (This Is The Kit, The Moonflowers, The Fantasy Orchestra).

Green Moat plays like a surreal dreamscape, perhaps because it is a product of late nights spent hunched over a guitar beside the glowing embers of a fire whilst everyone sleeps. It has spawned from the dusty corners & dank barns of his feral childhood on a disused farm.

Although the songs were created in a rather solitary way, the album is a collaborative affair featuring Beth Porter (cello), Jamie Whitby Coles (drums) and Jesse MorningStar (bass, violin, keys) & vocals by regular collaborator George Morgan. 

The soundtrack to resting on a broken tree in mulchy woods… [it] has provoked comparisons to Syd Barrett and Nick Drake – artists who similarly managed to butterfly-pin the strangeness of English life in music’ Dan Weltman, Hollowbody, Snails. 

Andy is up there in my top three favourite guitarists of the new British ragtime guitar revolution’ Kate Stables, This Is The Kit.

He’s tall and thin, got cobwebs in his beard, falls asleep between sentences and hails from Herefordshire via Portsmouth. Andy’s voice is as mellow as a spadeful of Herefordshire soil in Autumn. His guitar playing is as steady as a grandfather clock showered by pine needles.

Andy has opened for artists such as Alastair Roberts, This is the Kit, Gravenhurst, Diane Cluck & Spiro, and has collaborated with Bristol contemporaries Rachael Dadd, Wig Smith & Hollowbody. He has toured Europe, South America and the UK.

Jun 222012
 

Out to Space (DOCD031) – perhaps a more Autumnal offering features 12 of their spacier and more cosmic sides. Available from 1st September 2012.

1 There we will find the sun (From Whales To Jupiter 1993)

2 Shake it together (Shake It Together EP 1995)

3 Connotation vibration (From Whales To Jupiter 1993)

4 Colours and sounds (Colours And Sounds 1995)

5 The Winkstress (Colours And Sounds 1995)

6 Planet dodo (From Whales To Jupiter 1993)

7 Too much love (Colours And Sounds 1995)

8 Goldmine (From Whales To Jupiter 1993)

9 Dreamlovers (From Whales To Jupiter 1993)

10 Morning pipe (Don’t Just Sit There, Fly! 1997)

11 Jupiter (From Whales To Jupiter 1993)

12 The river is flowing  (Don’t Just Sit There, Fly! 1997)

 

After a decade and a half of silence The Legendary Moonflowers reanimate themselves to dish out some of the ole magic at a time when the world needs it most. Like a multi headed hydra posing as King Arthur they have smuggled themselves onto the lineup of two of Albions finest festivals this summer: Camp Bestival in Dorset and Shamballa in the midlands and will perform backed by a whole tribe of singers, lutists and various troubadours their ethereal mix of ecstatic party music and heraldic spiritual yearning.

 

The band were famous in the 1990s for their psychedelic, sometimes naked shows and were beloved by their cult following. They also managed 5 albums before they dissapeared in rural france in the late ’90s which have stood the test of time where many have fallen by the wayside.

 

These albums are available digitally for the first time this year on Disco-Ordination records and the band are releasing two compilation CDs for the uninitiated:

 

The Moonflowers reconvened on the 11/11/11 (ending the show with a triumphant version of John Lennons Imagine “and the world will be as one, one, one ,one ,one, one. One”). The band had such fun they decided to do it again this year. Let the fun continue!

 

www.legendarymoonflowers.com

Jun 212012
 

Having Fun With The Moonflowers (DOCD032)– contains 12 of The Moonflowers  favourite hits and party tunes. Available from July 18th 2012. A great compilation for the summer .

1.Get Higher (Get Higher EP 1990)

2. Tighten Up (Tighten Up on the Housework Brothers and Sisters EP 1992)

3. Brothers and Sisters (Tighten Up on the Housework Brothers and Sisters EP 1992)

4. Revolution (Colours And Sounds 1995)

5. Ug (From Whales To Jupiter 1993)

6. Share You’re Food (From Whales To Jupiter 1993)

7. Come By Ours (From Whales To Jupiter 1993)

8. Housework (Tighten Up on the Housework Brothers and Sisters EP 1992)

9. Disco-man (Covers EP 1992)

10. Pink Girl (Brainwashing and Heartists Blue Life Stripes 1997)

11. Song For Summer (From Whales To Jupiter 1993)

12. Cairo Disco (Brainwashing and Heartists Blue Life Stripes 1997)

 

After a decade and a half of silence The Legendary Moonflowers reanimate themselves to dish out some of the ole magic at a time when the world needs it most. Like a multi headed hydra posing as King Arthur they have smuggled themselves onto the lineup of two of Albions finest festivals this summer: Camp Bestival in Dorset and Shamballa in the midlands and will perform backed by a whole tribe of singers, lutists and various troubadours their ethereal mix of ecstatic party music and heraldic spiritual yearning.

 

The band were famous in the 1990s for their psychedelic, sometimes naked shows and were beloved by their cult following. They also managed 5 albums before they dissapeared in rural france in the late ’90s which have stood the test of time where many have fallen by the wayside.

 

These albums are available digitally for the first time this year on Disco-Ordination records and the band are releasing two compilation CDs for the uninitiated:

 

 

The Moonflowers reconvened on the 11/11/11 (ending the show with a triumphant version of John Lennons Imagine “and the world will be as one, one, one ,one ,one, one. One”). The band had such fun they decided to do it again this year. Let the fun continue!

 

www.legendarymoonflowers.com

 

Nov 162011
 

Last year we re-released This Is The Kit’s Krulle Bol on vinyl for record store day. This year (on the 29th aug) we’re doing drummer Jamie’s solo record called B-Fax.

We’ve just released a lockdown single “Superheroes” by Moonflowers and Pop God related band “The New Space Finders” – get it here

Now we’ve released the Fantasy Orchestra record DOLP036 on vinyl and CD on the 28th FEb 2020. If you need it posting go here: http://www.offthebeatentracks.org/buy-the-fantasy-orchestra-cd-lp-here/

Excited to be releasing and album Jamie Whitby-Coles, drummer extraordinaire of The Liftmen, This Is The Kit, Rozi Plain and many others. His project is called B-Fax and will be out in April 2020 for record store day