the people have spoken and here is what they have to say about “le grand discours”…

“it’s simply wonderful melancholic music orchestrated with a full band… Highly reccommended! 6/6”
“De la musique mélancolique tout simplement merveilleuse orchestrée par un groupe complet… Vivement recommandé! 6/6”
“ist es einfach wunderbar melancholische Musik in voller Bandbesetzung… Ein absoluter Tipp! 6/6”
– stadt magazine

“an infinitely rich, moving and natural piece of folk art, which offers continuous surprises. A diamond debut.”
“De l’art folk infiniment riche, touchant, naturel et toujours surprenant. Des débuts 18 carats!”
“ein unendlich reiches, bewegendes, natürlich fließendes Folk-Kunstwerk entstehen, das immer wieder neue Überraschungen bietet. Ein Debut-Diamant.”
– glitterhouse

“beautiful songwriting debut for the year-end list… stunning. 4/5”
“Joli travail d’écriture qui aura sa place au classement de fin d’année… Magnifique! 4/5”
“wunderschönes Songwriting-Debüt für die Jahresendliste… atemberaubenden. 4/5”
– schallplattenmann

“There is so much to discover in “Le Grand Discours”, people who love Elbow, Nick Drake and John Martyn, will accept it with open ears.”
“Il y a tant à découvrir dans “Le grand discours”. De quoi ravir les oreilles amoureuses de Nick Drake, Elbow ou John Martyn.”
“Es gibt also viel zu entdecken auf „Le Grand Discours“, das Menschen, die Elbow, Nick Drake und John Martyn mögen, mit offenen Ohren aufnehmen werden.”
– Suite 101

[if you would like to read more… please visit: this blog]

during our november 2011 tour, we had the good fortune of being welcomed into some of the loveliest and most intimate venues imaginable – peoples living rooms!

we would like to share this solo performance of one of aidan’s older songs, “believe”, filmed by the good people at bedroomdisco.de – please leave a few words if you enjoy it 🙂

if you want to read more about this, visit: http://aidanfloatinghome.blogspot.be/2012/06/livingroom-concert-video-believe-by.html

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”)…

please check it out and leave a word or two 🙂

[if you want to read more: http://aidanfloatinghome.blogspot.de/2012/04/bells-of-morning-video.html]

Our graphic designer made us nice stickers !

If you’d like a pack of 12 sent to your home, use the Paypal Button at the end of this post. We ask 5€ for 12 stickers, postage to anywhere in Europe included. Please check your delivery adress in Paypal.

And please send us (or post them on facebook) pictures of the stickers where you used them !

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 🙂

hello,

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