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Sparks From The Mothership proudly presents

"BLOW OUT THE CANDLE" a new collaboration between
THE BIRD AND THE MONKEY (Scottish Borders)
& JUSTIN LAVASH (Prague)

WHO: The Bird And The Monkey / Justin Lavash
WHAT: Blow Out The Candle (single)
WHEN: Throughout January 2019
FORMAT: Free Digital Download
LABEL: Athene Noctua Records / Sparks From The Mothership
NEW RELEASE or REISSUE: New Release
DESCRIPTION: Blistering Indie Blues

For further enquiries on this & other releases, email us at: sparksfromthemothership@gmail.com

 

"If the Most Haunted team went looking for the ghost of
Captain Beefheart, this is what they’d hear as the lights
went out." - Kerry JK, Fresh On The Net

"...a bracing shot of Caledonian Yankee blues..."
- Paul Kerr, The Devil Has The Best Tuna

Download Blow Out The Candle
by The Bird and The Monkey / Justin Lavash
in various formats, including MP3, WAV & AIFF:

PRESS RELEASE:
For their first official single since 2015, Scottish alternative musician / filmmakers, Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian - aka The Bird And The Monkey - have collaborated with Justin Lavash (an expatriate English bluesman who has been living in Prague for the past 14 years), for a rocked up cover / reworking of his bluesy supernatural anthem, Blow Out The Candle (from the Justin Lavash: Live in Prague 2015 LP). Hard-rocking drums provided by long-time Lavash collaborator, Frazer Watson.
 
Blow Out The Candle had its first airing on Ian Hales' Sunday Evening Service on Acacia Radio, with further plays from Donald Strachan on TD1 Radio / Views From The Edge, Jim Gellatly on Amazing Radio and Bob Osborne's Aural Delights 307.

The track was one of the ten Fresh Faves picked by Tom Robinson's followers on the Listening Post for review by Kerry JK in Fresh On The Net batch 297. Long time supporter of Sarahjane & Roger's music, Paul Kerr of The Devil Has The Best Tuna MP3 blog (the man who suggested Swan & Simian call themselves The Bird And The Monkey) describing the song as "easily the best collaboration of the year... pitching for a place in the Devil's favourite tracks of 2018".

OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR
BLOW OUT THE CANDLE

 

LINE-UP / RECORDING NOTES:

composer:
Justin Lavash

line-up:
Sarahjane Swan (vocals), Justin Lavash (vocals, slide & acoustic guitars), Roger Simian (lead guitar, bass, electronics), Frazer Watson (drums)  

location:
Scottish Borders & Prague

mixed by:
The Bird And The Monkey at BPlusMequals?, Scotland, 2018

mastered by:
LANDR

cover art by:
Avant Kinema

JUSTIN LAVASH JANUARY 2019 TOUR DATES:

January 9th - Hard Rock Cafe, Prague, Czech Republic

January 11th - Žižkovšiška, Prague, Czech Republic
January 18th - Teplice Jazz Club, Teplice, Czech Republic
January 24th - Dada Club Kasper, Jindřichův Hradec, Czech Republic
January 25th - Cafe Galerie Zeleny dum, Prague, Czech Republic
January 26th - Blues Bahnhof, Prague, Czech Republic
January 30th - Studio Pamět', Prague, Czech Republic

PRESS PICS

The Bird And The Monkey - Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian

 Justin Lavash

Frazer Watson

FULL PRESS QUOTES:

"Devil favourites The Bird & The Monkey are back with a new track, a collaboration with guitar genius Justin Lavash. Blow Out The Candle, a bracing shot of Caledonian Yankee blues, is a reworking of a track from Lavash's  Justin Lavash : Live in Prague 2015 album and the duo's first non festive new track since 2015. It's more muscular than the duo's usual fare. It sounds like their traditional ethereal alt rock has been pumping the iron and consuming industrial quantities of protein pills in the last three years. For the vegan duo working with the incredible Lavash has brought out their meaty beefy side.

It's the duo's best track so far, I know I say that every time they release a song, but it's true this duo just get better and better with each release. Blow Out The Candle is pitching for a place in the Devil's favourite tracks of 2018 and is easily the best collaboration if the year,  so don't be surprised if it pops up again in the blog's end of year review."
- Paul Kerr, The Devil Has The Best Tuna

"Apparently named by our very own Paul Kerr, The Bird and The Monkey are Sarahjane Swan and Roger Simian, a duo of Scottish musician-filmmakers whose work has been featured on Radio 1, 6 Music and even as part of a BBC 2 teen drama. Here they have collaborated with Prague-based guitarist and songwriter Justin Lavash, whose fierce slide guitar combines with their cinematic sound to create a dirty, psychedelic blues rock rich in atmosphere and attitude. If the Most Haunted team went looking for the ghost of Captain Beefheart, this is what they’d hear as the lights went out."
- Kerry JK, Fresh On The Net

LINKS:

www.TheBirdAndTheMonkey.com

www.JustinLavash.com

www.starnow.co.uk/frazerwatson  

www.SparksFromTheMothership.com