Музыка и песни Hayman, Darren / Hayman, Darren на LP

An autobiographical album about break ups, the record is tender, honest and frequently funny. Darren set an 8 track, acoustic rule for the record. Everything sounds warm, close and intimate. Darren's own love-worn, London voice is joined on every song by the sweet antipodean tones of Hannah Winter and Laura K, recording artists and songwriters themselves with Common or Garden and Fortitude Valley. When Darren Hayman made his debut in 1997 with the acclaimed indie band Hefner his lyrical remit was the broken hearted. His early songs told the story of the lonesome and lost, and broken dreams of love on the back streets of London. After Hefner, Hayman's palette grew to include a unique take on place and memory. In the early 2000s he wrote a trilogy of albums around the history of Essex. In 2012 he made an instrumental album describing the tranquillity of Lidos. In 2016 Darren was awarded 'Hardest Working Musician' by the Association of Independent Music for his epic project on Thankful Villages, the 55 villages that survived the Great War with no casualties. His most recent record, 12 Astronauts, tells the personal story of the only men to have walked on the Moon. Darren is continually obsessed with the idea of what songs can be, and the stories they can tell. As he explains, "With projects like Thankful Villages, I became interested in what a record could be, using field recordings, interviews and songs to make sound collages. I wanted to return to the stricter art of song writing and try and make the twelve best compositions I could. I wanted to make useful songs, words that could be comfort, not just thoughts that would depress." The songs for Home Time were written over a three-year period but recorded quickly, and with love, in Darren's home. Home Time is a fragile, subtle slice of prettiness. Wrap it around you. Three digital singles will be released; 'I Tried and I Tried and I Failed', a song about the endless, circular nature of being human, 'I Was Thinking About You', a song about the uncontrollable nature of memory and how it continues to haunt us even when we consider the long buried, and 'The Joint Account', about how when trying to negotiate matters of the heart and mind, it is sometimes the physical objects that anchor us down in the mire. // "bold and unique" The Sunday Times // "Its delicately observed song cycle unfolds like a novella or short film, with tracks that might seem slight in isloation gaining resonance in situ." Q // "Bugbears is a rich and warming curio, and there's something quietly noble about Hayman dragging the thoughts of these long-dead writers back into the light." Mojo // "uniquely intimate and very satisfying" BBC // "Hayman has hit a creative purple patch_ a treat". Mojo

Hayman returns with a powerful new collection of songs based based on William Morris's Chants for Socialists. Chants for Socialists is an album of 19th century chants made relevant to the 21st century while staying true to many of William Morris's ideals. Darren explains - " William Morris wrote these lyrics in the late 19th century; they were to be sung to the popular tunes of the times. In only two cases did he specify a particular melody. I saw these as mergency' protest songs, something to draw on in times of strife. I think we are in troubled times. I regard these as useful lyrics. Morris grouped these songs under a banner of socialism and I class myself as a socialist, but these songs, to me, are more about simple kindness and hope. I have dressed the songs with a simple, urban folk sound. Warm, fuzzy guitar distortion sits alongside broken pianos and dented brass. I offer these songs as political, historical curiosities and as something to comfort aging lefties like myself. They are uplifting, songs to be sung in communities. A communal approach was taken in the recording of this album. The group vocals were recorded at two of Morris'ss former homes: the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow and Kelmscott House in Hammersmith. Singers were invited indiscriminately from the local area. Morris's own elmscott' letterpress was used to hand print the limited vinyl edition of the record, and I also travelled to another of Morris's homes, Kelmscott Manor, to record his piano. Record Label: Wiaiwya Style: Independent

Limited Edition Vinyl 10 EP (500 copies) with free MP3 download. Record Label: Fortuna Pop! Style: Independent

Following his January Songs project Darren continues one of his busiest years with a brand new solo album of subtle, drifting piano ballads called The Ship's Piano available as deluxe fold out card sleeve and on LP. More info about The Ship's Piano in Dar Record Label: Fortuna Pop Style: Independent

14 track album on swimming pool blue vinyl. "My name is Darren Hayman and I have made an instrumental album about Britain's open air swimming pools; it's called "Lido". If I am known or liked for anything at all in my career then it is for my lyrics. In my own listening, however, I have moved more and more towards instrumental music. If instrumental music can be about anything then surely it can be about this feeling; the sensation of fumbling, desperately, in the back of your mind. Looking for something beautiful that you know was there once. My album "Lido" is about open air swimming pools and something else as well. It's just impossible to say what it is exactly." - Darren Hayman Record Label: Where Its At Style: Independent