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

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 ;) 

A photo posted by Zygmunt (@zygmuntday) on Dec 12, 2014 at 6:53am PST

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/

Prisoner II Video & Single

Here it is:

Single, remix, b-side:

Enjoy.

Magnus Loom - Gilded Bumf

Our sometime saxophone player Joe Murgatroyd has just released this eccentric and lyrically meta track from his new project Magnus Loom (https://soundcloud.com/magnusloom). 'ave a gandaaaaaaaa

We're in the new issue of the East End Review

Pick up your copy at your local East London cafe / bar / pub / venue / barbers now.

[link to the review to follow, when it goes up]

Peter Hai - Blitzkrieg

Echo Pressure bassist Nathan Kerntiff, aka Peter Hai, has just released his new album "Blitzkrieg," a lyrical instrumental album featuring violin and woodwind drones, intricate fingerpicked guitar, growling bass synths and even me (Zygmunt) playing trombone.

Listen to it below:




Although cinematically wide in scope, the album retains a homespun intimacy and personality, achieved through honest recording techniques - buzzing strings, atonal brass waverings and the rasping of fiddles are all left in - building up a rustic, impressionistic soundscape, that, for me, evokes the desolate, war-torn European countryside that seems to be suggested by the title, a dreamscape of small lives snatched up in the darkness of huge events beyond their knowledge or power to change.

However there is also a timelessness to the music, which is perhaps partly down to the tasteful use of modern insturments to flesh out, rather than ornament, the music - synths are used as part of the fabric of a whole, working in harmony with the acoustic instruments, not as signifiers of the cutting-edge.

Anyway, since Nath joined the band we have had many discussions about the record and it's great to finally hear it in it's entirety. Give it a listen.

- Zygmunt