it was my great pleasure to stumble into a partnership of two of my favorite graphic designers: félicie haymoz (CH – fantastic mr. fox / girls in hawaii) and les tontons racleurs (BE – including nico belayew who does our design work).
last year, during a residency at recyclart in bruxelles, they got together and built a giant stop-motion animation cube (built using screen-printed recycled materials)… when i found out, i invaded their space for three days and made a music video for “bells of the morning” (taken from “le grand discours”)…
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today, our new album came into this world… “le grand discours” was born at about 11am (when i finally got out of bed!) and weighs in at about 60gms – she is healthy, ready for action and waiting at a store near you to tickle your speakers… to celebrate, we have a host of auxiliary features – an aidan remix of wallis bird’s single “encore”, a video for “someday tonight”, a show at the very lovely “capitol” in mannheim and a great big smile on our faces
her parents hazelwood, roughtrade, the italian weather ladies and aidan are all very proud…
arrived in ireland now and getting ready for the first leg of the european tour starting next wednesday – wexford – cork – dublin – limerick – galway. if any of these are near you, please pop by… the past few days, i’ve been shaking my stuff on stage in the olympia with a host of irelands best ladies at the womans heart show – best warm-up ever
welcome to the new floatinghome.org, designed by mr. nico belayew (www.tchiktchak.be).
for our first piece of news, we’d like to announce that our debut album, “le grand discours”, will be released on the 16th march 2012 with hazelwood vinyl plastics and roughtrade. it features the italian weather ladies among its 20 or so guests, has been mixed by marcus wüst and designed by nico belayew… we are very excited and have shared some samples and stuff in the “releases” section
the tour to spread the word and note will be a solo affair. it begins on march 07th in wexford and passes through ireland, germany, austria, belgium and the netherlands before may. see the full list of dates in the “tourdates” section.
-aidan