ZYGMUNT DAY & ECHO PRESSURE ANNOUNCE NEW EP, SHARE VIDEO FOR ‘MR SOL’

‘Mr Sol’ video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdqjfsL6isE

Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/zygmunt-day/mr-sol-1

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Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure follow up last year’s full-length, “On Streets That Know,” with their new Ep, “No Hood, No Dogs, No Food, No Drink”. The band, which also includes drummer Joe Hyam, guitarist Giancarlo Grasso and bassist Nathan Kerntiff, recorded the EP in Madrid at Mr. Soul Estudio with engineer David Hyam, Joe’s cousin, in the heat of July 2014.

Once again, the band’s music addresses the difficulty and hopefulness of the UK’s current way of life, with the title being taken from an apt sign in the window of Zygmunt’s local charity shop. This time the band embraced more streamlined arrangements than the folk/drone of their debut album, drawing on rock, samba, disco and jazz rhythms. The new sound was made possible by the wealth of equipment available at Mr. Soul Estudio – a fully functioning Hammond organ and Leslie speaker, Wurlitzer and Rhodes electric pianos, a Yamaha upright, a beautiful vintage Gretsch drumkit, and a wealth of guitars, basses, amps and microphones.

‘No Hood, No Dogs, No Food, No Drink’ is released on September 18^th and a release event is scheduled for the 17^th September at The Finsbury in Manor House, London.

ANNIVERSARY

Ladies & gents, it is one year since we released our debut album, "On Streets That Know," to a small but encouraging amount of critical acclaim.

"On Streets That Know" album launch show at The Victoria, Dalston

The 11-track album was around two years in the making, starting with just me working on my own with a USB mic and eventually resulting the in the formation of Echo Pressure, funded via stints in a shipyard, a bar and as a security guard at the Olympics.

The album features contributions from more than ten musicians, and sums up the textural and lyrical obsessions of a young man who has listened to a lot of drone, dancehall and indie rock and also been to a lot of pubs. It was mixed with the collaboration of Tim Kramer who was a vital asset in creating some of the thick, delay-soaked soundscapes you can hear on the record.

In the last year the band and I have been gigging regularly in London, apart from when I developed vocal nodules and had to sit a couple months out (now healed!), we put on a residency at The Stag's Head where we invited a lot of our favourite bands and DJs to play, we've been working on music videos (which you can see here) and we flew out to Madrid in the summer to record a new EP on some beautiful 70's instruments (coming out September).

As we now look to the future, and begin recording on a new album, this is a good time to say, that if you have enjoyed what we've been doing over the past year and a bit, and I hope you have, then get a copy of the album!

Available here: https://zygmuntday.bandcamp.com/album/on-streets-that-know

Two Great New Videos

Two new videos with widely different aesthetics, and wildly different sounds, to check out by some of our associates:

Firstly "Holy Fire" by Many Things

Secondly "The Process" by Jupiter-C

Live at The Horn, St. Albans, 17th Jan 2015

Ah, lads + lager, what a time to be alive.

Stag's Head Residency 2015

BIG NEWS !

At the start of this year we will be hosting a run of shows at The Stags Head Hoxton, 55 Orsman Road, N1 5RA, where we will be playing alongside some of our favourite bands, soloists and DJs.

On Saturday Jan 31st, we will be joined by Fawn, who will be unleashing her gorgeous voice over guitar and loops, atmospheric guitar duo Blue Movies, and Mystic Mez on the decks playing reggae classics til 1am.

On Friday Feb 20th we will be graced with the electro-jazz styles of Uther Moads, and will have a special concert and talk from solo melodeon player Owen Woods, who will show us some trad and modern tunes with the instrument. Babak Ganjei of NTS radio show Hot Mess will be DJing til 1.

On Saturday March 28th we will play alongside Hunck, our favourite North London via Dorset pop band, as well as Magnus Loom, who will bring his prodigious twisted pop music to life in the Stag's back room. We will also have a DJ but I haven't booked one yet...

All this will take place in a cosy oak-panelled East End boozer where they sometimes have 2 pints for 4 quid and also sell cheap & delicious pizza.

It's gonna be a lot of fun.

Hunck Release "Something Missing" EP

Great time at @hunckband EP launch last nght. Now going to go back to 1996 so I can listen to their cassette ;) 

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Our friends in the band Hunck have just released a tape of jangly and heartfelt drone-pop; they played a launch show last night at The Finsbury and it was great. I had a lot of pints of Guinness, but it was great anyway. Check it out / get a copy here:

We will hopefully be playing together in March 2015.

Prisoner II Single Press

So far the single has been written about / posted at the following places:

Bernie Brooks of A Ship In The Woods made us blush with this lovely write-up: http://look.shipinthewoods.com/post/103556062418/on-prisoner-ii-by-zygmunt-day-echo-pressure

We Close Tonight featured us on their December playlist:http://weclosetonight.com/2014/11/24/i-have-been-mostly-listening-to-16/

And Tom Johnson of GoldFlakePaint named us one of his Fresh Licks (and worked out that I secretly want to be in a dystopian electro-pop band -- we would all wear grey shirts and white make-up):http://www.goldflakepaint.co.uk/fresh-licks-zygmunt-day-echo-pressure-prisoner-ii/