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 ;) 

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.

Azealia Banks Remix Competition

I decided to enter the Azealia Banks remix contest for 'Chasing Time', largely cos I've got a new FM synth vst (PG-8X) that I'm becoming obsessed with.

The master is a bit squashed, not perfect, but it's not too bad for a laptop job.

Here is the resulting track, got definite Northern bassline vibes:




You can grab the stems here if you're interested: http://azealiabanks.com/remix/

Press Release: Prisoner II Video & Single

Zygmunt Day & Echo Pressure will be releasing a video for ‘Prisoner II’ on November 24^th 2014. The song will also be released digitally as a single, with two b-sides: ‘Imprisoner,’ a sparse electro re-work of the song from Uther Moads, and ZD & Echo Pressure’s ‘Come On Baby Please’, a piece of guitar-pop pastiche featuring Sophie Jamieson.

“‘Prisoner II’ is a song written over the course of several years and is mainly about loneliness; I wrote the song in my head whilst being stationed in various mist-cloaked environments, such as Cambridge in the UK and Makkum in the Netherlands, where I spent autumn and winter 2012-13 working in a shipyard. One of the overriding feelings of being in these situations was a longing for a respite from the cold and the work in human connection: some kind of intimacy, warmth and familiarity. I also missed family and home. The idea of the video draws on this experience; it follows somebody who finds himself alone in a bleak environment, who unexpectedly finds a connection with an abandoned dog.” – Zygmunt

The video was filmed on the North-West coast of the UK during the tail end of hurricane Gonzalez by award-winning photographer and film maker Ben Jacobs. It was very windy. Bonnie the dog (above, in still), however, was a real pro on set.

‘Prisoner II’ also features trumpet playing from Patch & The Giant’s Angie Rance.

This will be the second official single released from ZD & Echo Pressure’s album, On Streets That Know, which came out in June this year, to a small but encouraging amount of critical acclaim.

The video will be released on November 24^th on YouTube, Vimeo and Clowdy. The single will be released simultaneously on SoundCloud and Bandcamp.

Gig at The Stag's Head, Hoxton // 24th October 2014 // with Aretes

Aretes are a great band. We first played with them at The Nest months ago, but I've been listening to their album ever since. There are a few genuinely excellent songs on their debut, particularly the sad and haunting emigration anthem "All My Sons And Daughters", which is my favourite song. They are a great band and their album is well worth your time:

We played some new songs, including the ones we recorded in Madrid, it was the first public airing of one of them, and it seemed to go ok. 

The Stags Head night looks likely to become a monthly fixture, so keep an ear to the ground.