- 2nd March
- New Website
- As the connoisseurs among you will doubtless
- have noticed, the internetual home of
- Electric Butterfly Recordings has a new face!
- Let's have three cheers now.
- Fisehatak!
- Kampai!
- Iechyd da!
-
- 15th January
- A blue sky
- for the first time in a while.
- A white ground.
- The snow is starting to melt. It slips and crunches
- under your feet and flies off your boot in a cold,
- damp flurry. Grit and car exhaust colour it: grey and brown
- flecks against the off white. Half a snowman
- is still standing on the field. A skeleton.
- I am alone, blinking in the overwhelming white.
- I breathe steam at the sun above me, and
- Feel the snow melt beneath me, and I sigh
- and I smile.
-
- 2nd January 2010
- Music as Communication
- How is it that music can communicate such acute
- emotions to us? Is it through the associations
- it has with nature and our own lives?
- Or is it purely to do with the physics of harmonics,
- and our instinct to seek balance and harmony?
- Could music be used to communicate even more accurately our
- feelings and ideas? Or perhaps it is already even
- more accurate that language, in that it is less ambiguous?
-
- 24th December
- Merry Christmas
- and a happy new year from all the team here at
- Electric Butterfly Recordings.
-
- 12th December
- News
- Oh the times they are a-changing
- Electric Butterfly is set to heart your heart racing
- With new music in 2010 ranging
- From beat-poetry to choirs to keyboard improvisations
- It's all innovation
- It's all beatuiful
- It's all electric.
-
- 29th November
- News
- Of course you'll all have bought your copies of Fire Book
- from iTunes by now, but if you want to listen to the
- Promo EP, you can do that now on Spotify.
- Tim Gilvin's second album 'Under the Midday Moon' has also
- been newly added to the Spotify catalogue.
-
- 25th November
- Beauty
- The sensations of life
- The senses that wake in
- Response to a colour, a sound, a taste.
- That is beauty.
- The only difference between art and life
- Is that in life,
- Truth and beauty rarely
- Collide.
-
- 15th November
- News
- With one week to go until the release
- of Tim Gilvin's Fire Book, you can now download a
- Promo EP, which features tracks from the album, as well as
- exclusive remixes and demos.
- There's a link on the Go Shopping page.
-
- 6th November
- Spotify
- Tim Gilvin is uploading his back catalgue to Spotify.
- The latest addition is Out of the City.
- There's a link on the Listen page.
-
- 8th October
- Music as Art
- A sequence of numbers in time,
- Harmonic to one another,
- Represented in sound waves,
- Which arouse emotional affectations
- In the brain of the listener.
-
- 7th October
- Music as Science
- A sequence of numbers in time,
- Harmonic to one another,
- Represented in sound waves.
-
- 15th September
- Alphagram
- Definrs! Aeelps eigv Cceeilrt Beeflttuy Cdeginorrs all eomny beggilno ot uoy!
-
- 1st September
- News
- Fire Book is pretty much finished,
- You can all look forward to spending a highly
- Reasonable amount of money on it
- When it comes out, hopefully
- Some time in November.
-
- 13th August
- Calling all...
- Poets musicians artists and producers
- Want to get involved with Electric Butterfly?
- Drop us an email @
- administrator@electricbutterflyrecordings.com
-
- 7th August
- Fire Book
- Tim Gilvin's recording a new album. 17 tracks of
- Pure songwriting goodness.
- Got all the tracking done today, bar a few guest spots
- That still need filling. It's sounding alright so far.
-
- 30th July
- Aoide
- You keep yourself inside
- Your head and
- You pull the covers over
- Yourself.
- You only ever break out when
- You hear the stirring of a spirit.
- You hear Aoide waking and
- You dance.
- A human
- Being.
-
- 6th July
- Sparks EP
- Out today! Tim Gilvin's new 5-track
- Sensation has finally hit the shelves.
- Get it now on iTunes or on Bandcamp.
-
- 25th June
- Free Press
- The press are free to opress,
- And distress, and worry, and bother,
- And disturb.
- The press are free to break the
- Law.
- The press are free to say what they like
- And if they say it enough times
- You'll belive it. And if you
- Believe it, and he believes it,
- And she believes it
- Then I'll be a fool to deny it.
- The press are free to keep us
- In the dark.
- The press are free to keep us wherever they want us.
-
- 18th June
- Motorway
- Consider this: I'm in the middle lane
- And the settled rain is a
- Mirror for the sun again.
- Liquid light to the left
- And right of me and I'm doing 83
- And getting faster now,
- I'm doing 95, I'm doing 103,
- What's gotten into me?
- Then I see your face right in front of me
- Reach out to touch it but it falls away.
- I can't wait to see London,
- And the sunrise in the east.
- I will smile and sigh
- And squeeze the gas.
- I've been offered a place to stay,
- And a job to while away the days.
- And I promise that I can still bring you
- Flowers
- At the very least every couple of weeks.
-
-
- 16th June
- Opera (plural operák)
- 1. A theatrical work combining drama, music,
- song and sometimes dance.
-
- 28th May
- Rain
- Just got in before the rain came
- Sat on the inside looking out
- Falling past the window down to the pavement
- Down to a suit and tie rushing by
- Beneath an umbrella
- In here it's quiet
- Eye of the storm
-
- 19th May
- Pancakes
- 1 cup of sugar
- 3 glasses of self-raising flour
- 1 bowl of milk
- 1/3 bucket of eggs
- Mix together the ingredients in a large
- Basket, until the batter is
- Thick enough to keep its shape. Then
- Fry in a large pan with hot butter
- for aprroximately 3 minutes, or until
- Golden. The pan cakes should be roughly √0.004
- Acres in circumference. Serve hot
- With biscuits.
-
- 13th May
- Supermarket
- I don't know why they're called
- SuperMarkets.
- They're not.
-
- 11th May
- Headache
- A train line being laid down
- Between one ear and
- The other. Shinkansen with
- Rusty brakes. The screech of a harpy.
- Every time I take this little
- White pill
- I get weaker.
- Not stronger.
- A distraction on the windowsill:
- A butterfly.
- A medicine.
- As fleeting a cure as you can
- Imagine.
-
- 8th May
- Radio Chaos
- The final mix of a new EP
- Hit my ears today today.
- Hurricane.
- Picture a hurricane spinning:
- A whirlwind riot.
- Chaos.
- Confusion
- Over the airwaves.
- In the aftermath,
- A piano and two guitars,
- A singer and a drum.
-
- 29th April
- Peter Pan
- This man hasn't washed in days.
- You can tell
- From the way he smells.
- Who is he talking to anyway?
- Muttering as his eyes dart up
- And down the pavement.
- A deranged smile.
- The whole street avoids
- Looking at him, and they sneer...
- On the other side of town,
- A train pulls out of the station,
- And a child has the whole carriage smiling.
- Lost in conversation
- With an imaginary lion and an imaginary dog.
-
- 24th April
- Catching Sparks
- Tim Gilvin is in the studio next door
- Laying down the vocals for a new EP:
- Sparks.
- It's 17:08 and raining.
- On the way over here I was thinking
- About sparks.
- A moment of brilliance and brightness
- That disappears in a moment.
- Impossible to catch.
-
-
- 7th April
- Butterfly
- A Butterfly in the park stopped on a
- Rail right up close. Stood still to
- Get a closer look. The Butterfly
- Flapped its wings and flew away
- Again. Was running late. But
- Stopped to look all the same.
- Electrified.
- The Butterfly is never late.
-
- 1st April 2009
- Fools
- A fool on the bus
- Missed his stop and swore at the driver.
- Left his coat on the seat.
-
- 24th March 2009
- Electricity
- Power Lines run through the countryside.
- Through the towns.
- Outside your house.
- Power Lines run through the city
- From the lips of the politicians
- Down to the ground
- Power Lines run down Fleet Street
- And into our minds
- What is Power?
- Power is imagination
- Imagination is power
- Power is excitement
- Excitement is sometimes
- Hidden. Power is
- In the excitement of
- Beauty.
