Name: Colourfield
Brand: Dan Michaelson

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

VGLP060

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Colour

Black

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

180 Gram Vinyl Set. Holoprint Sleeve on Reverse Board with Printed Inner.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-07-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5051083159401

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

VGLP060CLEAR

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Clear

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format: Yes

Special Edition includes numbered CD of Dan's Argument for Strings.

2020-11-06

5051083161565

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes / Signed copies: No / clear

Artist

Dan Michaelson

Genre GB

Modern Composition

Label GB

Village Green

Albums of the Year 2020

Dan Michaelson is the 33 year-old whisky barrel baritone and short-legged leader of Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards. After his former band Absentee took early retirement due to lack of ego, he decided to start work on a solo career, with and without The Coastguards.

Village Green is an independent label reshaping the landscape of minimalism, classical and electronic music. Its diverse roster boasts some of the most forward thinking modern composers working in the UK & Europe today. With roots firmly set in the world of soundtrack styled atmospherics, *Village Green* explores the fertile ground where classical and minimalist composition collides with contemporary production.

Amazing album from one of our favourite artists and we are really pleased to have a super limited version. Though better known for his solo albums of dark, Americana tinged reflection, Dan is no stranger to instrumental music, having spent the past few years creating scores for film (Blowin' Up, 2018) and television (Detectorists Series 1, 2 and 3, 2016-2018), whilst gradually building confidence with orchestra through his trilogy of albums Distance, Memory and First Light, an album for solo voice and strings.

“Whilst working on the orchestral palette of those albums, I fell in love with the likes of John Adams, Steve Reich, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Caroline Shaw with the same force that I had fallen for The Velvet Underground and Leonard Cohen many years before, and with the same result… the inspiration to investigate a new direction”.

On making the decision to step back from singing and lyric writing, the response was simple “Everyone gets tired of the sound of their own voice sometimes...”.

Inspired in equal parts by John Luther Adams, Spiritualized, Etta James and Gavin Bryars (none of them strangers to a blistering saxophone or sinking bass), Colourfield signals Dan Michaelson's first release as an instrumental artist as well as his debut for contemporary music label Village Green.

Colourfield

Music GB

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