Folding Leaves
by Message To Bears
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Digital Album
Immediate download of 9-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
No middlemen involved and your purchase allows me to keep making music, for which I am profoundly grateful. Thank you!Buy Now ₤5 GBP or more
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Limited Edition Screen Printed CD
Comes in a screen-printed Arigato pack with original artwork by Jake Blanchard and includes a booklet of beautiful photography by Holly Kimberley.
Includes immediate download of 9-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.Sold Out
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Limited Edition 12" Vinyl
Vinyl pressed on blue coloured vinyl, with alternative artwork to the CD release. Artwork by Jake Blanchard. Mastered by Keith Kennif.
Vinyl pressed in an edition of 200 on blue wax with full colour sleeve.
Includes immediate download of 9-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.Sold Out
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Daylight Goodbye
05:50
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2. |
Wake Me
05:31
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Mountains
03:54
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Bird's Tail
03:43
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Farewell, Stars
04:16
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Undone
02:43
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At a Glance
03:38
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Unleft
04:04
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about
'Folding Leaves, the latest record from Message to Bears, takes the idea of something rustic and organic and tenderly crafts it into musical origami: something complex and detailed, yet gracefully simple.
Jerome Alexander, the multi-instrumentalist behind MTB, combines layers of rustic strings, crisp acoustic guitar and a warm, almost wordless vocal melody – a sound which builds throughout each song and across the whole album. The resolution of each crescendo – after the communal, folksy accumulation of voices, strings and other instruments – is either triumphant, or left to crumble away on a breeze of bird song and crackling ambience.
The effect is an album that is unfolding in two ways: both as an old letter or map, unfurling to display detail and emotion, or disappearing, as an origami swan pulled at two ends loses its creases, becoming as formless and unassuming as it began.'
Jerome Alexander, the multi-instrumentalist behind MTB, combines layers of rustic strings, crisp acoustic guitar and a warm, almost wordless vocal melody – a sound which builds throughout each song and across the whole album. The resolution of each crescendo – after the communal, folksy accumulation of voices, strings and other instruments – is either triumphant, or left to crumble away on a breeze of bird song and crackling ambience.
The effect is an album that is unfolding in two ways: both as an old letter or map, unfurling to display detail and emotion, or disappearing, as an origami swan pulled at two ends loses its creases, becoming as formless and unassuming as it began.'
credits
released 18 January 2012
Composed and produced by Jerome Alexander at Message To Bears studio in Oxford. Viola and violin performed by Laura Ashby. Mastered by Keith Kenniff. Artwork by Jake Blanchard.
Composed and produced by Jerome Alexander at Message To Bears studio in Oxford. Viola and violin performed by Laura Ashby. Mastered by Keith Kenniff. Artwork by Jake Blanchard.
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Message To Bears is the musical alias of English composer and multi-instrumentalist Jerome
Alexander.
Alexander creates beautiful soundscapes by interweaving acoustic guitar, piano, electronics, ethereal samples, strings and hushed vocals.
For Composition/Licensing/Booking enquiries - messagetobears@live.com (UK)
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discography
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Jan 2012 -
Jul 2009 -
Dec 2012 -
Jan 2007 -
Jul 2011 -
Jul 2011
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