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myspacers that love Bella Union...

Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:06:05 GMT

put your favorite song on your myspace page?!

....simply add your favorite Bella Union artists track...

www.myspace.com/misskristaann

how great.

and don't forget to say hi to Simon!
x

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my latest novel

Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:56:15 GMT

my latest novel

a young new band...

www.myspace.com/mylatestnovel

audio for your ear

a Bella Union favorite*

enjoy.

x

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www.myspace.com/bellaunionrecordingartists

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:26:54 GMT

Hello Tribe!

Pardon my temporary leave of absence,
life has been hectic! & soon the holidays will be here again!
O. Boy! Wow.

I just had to keep you abreast of whats happening with B.U.
by forwarding this great link to sample just some of the wonderful music Bella has to offer*

www.BellaUnion.com -as well.

enjoy.

find my favorite Bella Union artist on my buisness page

www.myspace.com/thetshirtgirl

(The Mini Gallery is under construction & looks forward to meeting all of yous!)

We love Bella Union artists*

find me personally anytime :

www.myspace.com/misskristaann

cheers.
stay connected...

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graffiti artist

kay3 — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:17:57 GMT

has anyone heard this one by kid loco? i am absolutely loving it! :) my question is, loving this cd as i do, what else can i find of this caliber? always on the hunt for new, good music!

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KCRW will present Dustin O'Halloran June 28th

Fri, 27 May 2005 19:45:28 GMT

KCRW will present Dustin O'Halloran June 28th

Dustin's OTHER job...... DEVICS

When you hear something as beautiful and endowed with genuine emotion as the music of Devics, you can’t help but wonder...Just who are these people anyway? Well, the short answer will hardly raise an eyebrow: Devics is vocalist Sara Lov and multi-instrumentalist and sometimes singer Dustin O'Halloran, a musical duo from Los Angeles who found a home in Italy after signing to the UK label, Bella Union. But the complete answer is as unique and magical as anything in the history of modern music.

The story of Devics begins with the birth of Sara Lov in Hawaii. Raised by her mother in Los Angeles after the divorce of her parents, she had a fairly ordinary childhood until the age of four when she was kidnapped by her father – a man she describes as “a very interesting, intellectual, creative, artistic person,” but also “a violent sociopath” – and forcibly relocated to Israel. Destined to grow up without a mother like a surprising number of rock n’ roll greats, Sara Lov lived under the shadow of an unbalanced international fugitive from justice. A decade before a kindly uncle brought about her repatriation to the United States, Lov foresaw her salvation in music: “When I was six, I said ‘I’m going to be a singer.’”

Dustin O’Halloran, had an equally pleasant early childhood in Los Angeles, distinguished primarily by the fact that he showed himself to be a musical prodigy on the piano at the age of six, finding his calling at the very same age as his future partner. Things changed when illness incapacitated his mother and necessitated the young O’Halloran’s move to his father’s home on the remote Hawaiian island of Kauai. And so the creative core of Devics grew up on opposite ends of the globe, the first abducted and taken to the Middle East, the second reluctantly cast off to a tropical island.

As unlikely as it was that Lov and O’Halloran should traverse entire continents to form a band, it seems inevitable that these Corsican twins should become romantically involved when they finally met in an art class at Santa Monica College in the mid-nineties. “We just instantly clicked,” says Lov, “We came from the same planet.” It was “purely to impress” Lov that O’Halloran first returned to his childhood instrument, and eventually picked up guitar, bass and drums. Their physical relationship cooled a few years later but the two already “had a child together” in Lov’s words, a band called Devics, named after a little-known guardian angel.

Whether in tribute to kismet or serendipity, the group’s musical output has been as prolific as it has been magnificent ever since. In 1998, shortly after the release of a compilation of early demos entitled Buxom, Devics’ first proper album arrived on their own Splinter Records, official home to Devics catalog. A fourteen-track manifesto of talent, If You Forget Me...

It was after discovering this stunning debut along with a subsequent EP entitled The Ghost in the Girl, that ex-Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde invited Devics to sign with his Bella Union label. It proved a fitting launching pad for Devics 2001 release, My Beautiful Sinking Ship. The album hit in Europe and led to a series of tours that took Devics all over Western Europe, through the Eastern Bloc and into Russia.

With their fan base now centered squarely across the Atlantic, Lov and O’Halloran moved to Italy, where noted filmmaker Giuseppe Bertolucci had made Devics a familiar name by using their music to score his 2001 film L'amore Probabilmente. Sequestered in the Italian countryside south of Bologna in a cobwebbed farmhouse a friendly promoter had lent them, O’Halloran and Lov began writing and recording music for their next release. The result, an album of mesmerizing beauty entitled The Stars at Saint Andrea, released in 2003, sealed Devics’ growing fame in Europe. Devics was acclaimed across the board by the British rock mags NME, Uncut and the Times of London.

To top off Devics’ success in 2004, O’Halloran released an album of instrumental work entitled Piano Solos, which won four stars from the British publication Mojo as well as the Italian Rolling Stone and received critical attention from classical music critics who likened him to Debussy, Chopin and Beethoven. Together and apart, O’Halloran and Lov had won the hearts and minds of progressive European audiences, but what of America?

Determined to gain a foothold in their native country, Devics returned to Los Angeles in 2004 to complete work on their fourth album. Their fans will not be disappointed. Push the Heart (release date TBA) is a revelation, a new beginning for Devics that highlights past triumphs and gives the listener a glimpse of heretofore-unseen musical destinations.

On June 7, Left Wing Recordings will dangle the carrot in the States by releasing a five-song EP called Distant Radio, featuring five new tracks. And here, in this little sliver of time called the present, the history of Devics awaits its next chapter.

by: Tara Brown

Great Story. Great Folks. Check it out...

www.myspace/devics

appearing @ Tangier's JUNE 28th& in July

the ........5th, 12th, 19th & 26th

chill & enjoy.

KCRW will present

Dustin O'Halloran

in The Fold @ Tangiers

on Saturday June 28th.....

Dustin's solo album

"Piano Solos" .....

is out on Bella Union........ now!!!!!....

check out-

www.dustinohalloran.com

he will also be showing his film that was made
especially for the album!!!

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Much Love goes out to the Bella Union family in London....

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:41:38 GMT

Much Love goes out to the Bella Union family in London....

they are in our thoughts & prayers everyday*

*******************
love one another, forgive & ..........give peace a chance.
*******************

xo

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thanks ....

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 02:57:07 GMT

thanks to midlake & simon @ bella union
for the wonderful, funny & endearing past weekend...xo

I can't wait to see more bella babies in the U.k. this summer....

I'm exhausted....hope the tribe enjoyed the late show performace if ya caught it......

I'll be in L.A for a few weeks- hit me up.

xo

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memo from Midlake...

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 16:02:31 GMT

hello friends.
a few points of interest...

1.) already sent this out in an earlier post, but here is a reminder.
MIDLAKE will be on THE LATE LATE SHOW with CRAIG FERGUSON on MONDAY, JUNE 13TH. guests will include actor, JASON LEE, and DR. DREW PINSKY. (LOVELINE)

http://www.cbs.com/latenight/latelate/

2.) the same night, MIDLAKE will also be special guests on LA's very own INDIE 103.1 with host, DANNY MASTERSON. (that 70's show) performing a few songs and chatting with danny. the show is from 10pm to midnight. go here to listen to the show live.

http://indie1031.fm/listenlive.html

3.) we would like to thank all of you who saw us with Rilo Kiley recently or at Coachella and have sent kind words our way. thank you very very much.

4.) we are still deep into the recording process right now and hope to have the album completed by early fall. this would give us an early 2006 release date which i know seems far away, but surely you can find things to do in the interim to keep you occupied. harhar. really though, we have been working hard and want to make sure we give you all the best album we can. these things take time so thanks for sticking with us.

5.) for those of you who do not own our album "Bamnan and Slivercork," and have had a hard time finding it, you can once again order it from AMAZON.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000244FGY/qid=1117726915/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/104-8700476-9655966?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

thanks again everyone...happy summer.

www.midlake.net
www.bellaunion.com

love,
the midlakers

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MIDLAKE will play Spaceland at 9pm June 12th!!!

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 21:56:37 GMT

MIDLAKE will play Spaceland at 9.pm 12th June!!!

OMG!

SPACELAND JUNE 12th.....@ 9pm

we'll all be there!!!

this is a last minute show scheduled while Midlake is in town*

yeah! i love it! please come see this amazing band!
xoxoxoxo

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So who knew Texas was so cool?

sadieandclyde — Thu, 26 May 2005 04:33:32 GMT

Explosions in the Sky
Mandarin
Sonna
Caribou

I think Texas is the last place I'd have guessed these bands as having come from. In fact, I did guess incorrectly a lot, and couldn't help but notice this odd trend of seemingly everything I liked being from Texas. And here I thought I disliked Texas.

Makes me wonder if I should rethink things altogether... drink Texan wine &... pollute more.

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New Bella Artist just signed!

Wed, 18 May 2005 13:47:31 GMT

My Latest Novel*

"....when you see THAT band...the one that makes your stomach fall 13 floors, makes the lump in your throat grow to a size you feel may be actually visibly upsetting to others, well it's happened to me a couple of times in my short life ( " liar, you're ancient!! "), with explosions in the sky, and lift to experience.
well this time, i got it bad. they are super young, and immensely talented. they are from scotland, they are dead cool too, you know in that no-idea-they-are-cool way of cool, and they are called My Latest Novel. you have to hear them. go to their site now www.mylatestnovel.com and join mailing lists etc....tell them where you heard about them. oh yeah and i just managed to sign them too!! beating off stiff competition from some other fine fine labels, i feel like ten feet tall today........."
xx - Simon @ Bella Union

and there's a fresh new foto of them in the kitty*

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