Last Updated 20 Jan 2010

Y E L L O W 6

welcome to the temporary Yellow6 website

something a bit more comprehensive will be along shortly (no, really)

in the mean time, you can get info on news, gigs etc. on the MySpace page

a pretty comprehensive discography at discogs.com

mail order from Norman Records

or you can email to jon [at] yellow6.com

Forthcoming gigs:

Full details soon, but for now…

Paris Sunday 28 Feb at Les Disquaires (with Felicia Atkinson)

April 16 – Le Drugstore, Lille

April 17 – tbc (somewhere in northern France)

April 18 – plane ari home gigs, Habarcq (with Microphonics)

April 19 – Gent (with Microphonics)

April 20 – Antwerp (with Microphonics)

NEWS… see below for latest update (this is the info sent to the mail list – email to join)

NEWS:

31 Jan 2010

Brief update…. Available early Feb (about a week from writing this) is Yellow6 Live, a double cdr on October Man (recorded at Union Chapel, London and Café Video, Gent, October 2009)

There will only be 50 copies and it will be available from October Man Recordings for 5 pounds (plus shipping). Sleeve pic is below.

Work has been completed on the album for ToneFloat which will be a 3 track LP in the labels c-series: 00:30 / 090209 / 20.1.10 and will be mastered by Dirk Serries (Fear Falls Burning / Microphonics)

Here’s what ToneFloat say about the c-series:

tonefloat/c catalogue
the c imprint is tonefloat's testlab for a variety of artist and styles. by pressing a maximum of 300 records, and releasing them per 100, it gives us (tonefloat and the artists) the ability to release music on vinyl rather than on a digital format or cd-r's. most artists make it to full scale releases on tonefloat's main label. the records come with stylish paper sleeves and have a handstamped, numbered and 'c' lacquered card to go with.

Also complete is a track ‘Heavy With Snow’ which will be released as a limited 3” cdr by Russian label ABGVRD in the near future.

The new CD will also make an appearance around April. Titled ‘Cut’ it will be about 60 mins including three (or maybe 4) tracks entitled ‘Cut’ which are variations on a theme, and a coupld of others including ‘Diagnosis’ which featured Dave Collingwood (Yann Tiersen, Gravenhurst) on drums. There will be a limited edition available by mail order only which will include a second disc of alternate versions/mixes/additional tracks titled ‘Uncut’. More on that soon…

Last but not least, for those in the vicinity of Paris, France I will be playing on Sunday 28 Feb at Les Disquaires (with Felicia Atkinson).

Thanks for reading

Jon./y6

20 Jan 2010

A bit slack with the news updates of late, but loads coming up (including maybe an updated/expanded website!!!)

Last few copies of merry6mas still available (see below)

Aarktica – In Sea/aes nI remixes available now from Silber / Darla (Norman Records imminently) including Y6 remix

Silber Christmas free download comp available now from Silber including Y6 exclusive ‘5-0-3’

And coming soon….

Double live cdr on October Man (recorded at Union Chapel, London and Café Video, Gent, October 2009)

Vinyl LP in ToneFloat C-Series (all new material)

Self released CD album ‘Cut’

Close/r CD album (collaboration with many)

3” cdr on ABGVRD from Russia – one 20 min exclusive song ‘Heavy With Snow’

And in progress but coming this year

Sleep Of Reason: 3 LP set on Equation, limited 100 copies (Dirk Serries / Jon Attwood collaboration)

Collaboration with Thisquietarmy (improvised recordings in Montreal, March 2009, mixed and edited by Eric Quach and Jon Attwood)

Collaboration with Larkian (for release on Dead Vox label)

And maybe more!

That’s all for now

Jon./y6

here are the details of the new merry6mas cdr, available to order now:

YELLOW6 : MERRY6MAS2009

CDR : EDITIONS6 (E6:01) : INITIALLY 150 COPIES

DUE : 01 DEC 09

THE LATEST IN THE LONG RUNNING MERRY6MAS SERIES, STARTED IN 1998, THIS EDITION IS THE FIRST RELEASE ON THE NEW 'EDITIONS6' LABEL. THE MUSIC ON THIS DISC (9 TRACKS, 52 MINUTES) IS ALL EXCLUSIVE TO THIS RELEASE. THE MAJORITY OF THE MUSIC WAS COMPOSED FOR THE SHORT FILM '9732' BY SWEDISH DIRECTOR NICLAZ ERLINGMARK (ELENZIAH FILM) WHO CONTACTED YELLOW6 LATE IN 2008 TO SCORE MUSIC FOR THE FILM. DURING THE WRITING OF THE SCREENPLAY, NICLAZ HAD BEEN LISTENING TO 'TELESCOPE PEAK', A TRACK FROM THE 2001 YELLOW6 ALBUM 'MUSIC FOR PLEASURE'. OVER A FEW WEEKS OVER AN HOUR OF NEW MUSIC WAS RECORDED FOR CONSIDERATION FOR THE FILM, MOST OF WHICH IS INCLUDED HERE. AFTER MANY EDITS, THE FILM WAS COMPLETED CONTAINING ONLY THE ORIGINAL TELESCOPE PEAK, AND PLEASURE/PAIN (FROM PAINTED SKY).

THE PIECES HERE ARE THOSE THAT WERE INSPIRED BY THE FILM AND STAND ON THEIR OWN, MOSTLY WITH FURTHER TRACKING/MIXING ADDED. ALSO INCLUDED IS A RE-RECORDING OF TELESCOPE PEAK. THE FILM 9732 WILL BE RELEASED DURING 2010.

9732#1

9732#2

9732#3

BLINDED

LIGHT#1

LIGHT#2

STOLEN

TELESCOPE PEAK 2009

DEAD VOICE

Sample tracks are available on the MySpace player.

You can order a copy of merry6mas 2009 direct from Yellow6 with the details here:

Paypal to jon@yellow6.com

Cost is 5.00 GBP (UK), 5.50 (EU), 6.00 (ROW)

Email me at the same address if you would like to pay by cheque/cash

Copies will also be available shortly from Norman Records (UK), Darla (US), Where Are My (Canada), n5MD (US)

that's all for now...

jon./yellow6

PREVIOUS NEWS:

i hope you are all enjoying autumn/fall.... here in Leicestershire most of the leaves are off the trees and there are fireworks going off all around this evening.

so... to the news. firstly, i would like to thank everyone who came to the gigs in France and Belgium. I really enjoyed the trip which included 5 gigs and a radio session in 5 days with sets between 35 and 90 minutes long.

the radio session for the wonderful Dr Adams is available to listen to online here: http://www.radioscarpesensee.com/crbst_35.html the Y6 session is about half way through. The sound isn't perfect in places as i overloaded the mixing desk a little, but it includes a couple of songs from 'When The Leaves Fall Like Snow' along with some of the material in progress for the new album. the show in Gent was also recorded and may appear on line soon....

On the subject of upcoming music releases... there's lots in progress and most of that will appear next year, but something before the decade is out....

MERRY6MAS2009 : after some possibility that the series would end with last years 6masBox, here it is again. This years CDr will be available late November/early December and includes music written for the film 9732 by Swedish film maker Niclaz Erlingmark (www.elenziah.com). For various reasons, the music i wrote specifically for the film didn't get used in the soundtrack, but old tracks 'pleasure/pain' and 'telescope peak' did. The music is still good tho i think so is included here, along with a couple of other things that won't find a home elsewhere.

more news on that in a few weeks.....

LIVE AT UNION CHAPEL : the Yellow6 set from the recent Union Chapel / Arctic Circle Daylight Music session, featuring the songs 'close', 'if you see something say something', and 'cut' will be released in some form by October Man. Again, more details soon.

and for next year:

Album 1 - the new Y6 album for which there are currently 11 songs in progress - not all of them will make the album as that's enough for a double

Album 2 - Close/R. this is an album built around 3 chords repeated throughout, while other things come and go in the mix. With contributions so far from David Newlyn/Caught In The Wake Forever/Konntinent/Portal/Stafraenn Hakon and others to come this is a hypnotic/relaxing journey to be taken in number of sections that all merge into one.

(not sure how/where they will appear yet....currently investigating options for releasing them)

Also a few ongoing collaborations will see the light....

that's it for now... more soon

jon.

"when the leaves fall like snow" available NOW.

£10 (UK) £11 (EU) and £12.00 (R.O.W) including shipping and you can get it by paypal to jon [at] yellow6.com