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09 August 2008… some news…. If you’re interested in learning a little more about what goes
on in my head, and I fully understand if you might not want to J, you can read a
couple of new interviews… one for old friends DSO
and the
other for newcomer Crumbs In The Butter make sure you check out the rest of their sites while you’re
there – DSO has a huge archive of live/album reviews and interviews, and CITB
has got off to a good start with Winterlight and Distant Noise features… in other news, I will be playing live in Leeds on Saturday 19th
October at the Brudenell Social Club on the Forest of Sound stage at the
Brainwash festival (not to be confused with Brainwaves in Boston!) in release news, a track from the recent (sold out) Distant
Noise CD, STHLM, will be on the forthcoming Symbolic
Interaction double CD ‘The Silence Was Warm Vol.2’ out around September. Check out their site and other fine
releases. That’s all for now… enjoy the summer Jon.6 x 08 June 2008… it's been a lovely sunny day in this neck of the woods, almost
like a proper summer day... so i'm sitting inside writing this to inform you
of a new release from the people at Distant Noise records. If you like When
The Leaves Fall Like Snow, then there's a further 5 tracks from the same
sessions released as a very limited 100 copy CDR imminently. this isn't just some left-overs that weren't good enough to
make the 'proper' album, but 5 tracks that were selected before the album was
compiled, all of which i thought worthy of being heard. you can get order a copy (available soon) from the distant
noise website, their myspace, or a small number of online retailers - links
below. one track is available to hear on the distant noise myspace site Distant Noise: http://www.myspace.com/distantnoiserecords http://www.distantnoiserecords.co.uk Other stockists: When the Leaves Fall Like Snow is still available from www.yellow6.com,
www.makeminemusic.co.uk
and all good (and some bad) retailers Also, if you or anyone you know puts on gigs and may fancy
having Y6 play, i'm currently looking to do some live work so please get in touch
- midlands / south in UK preferred but anything considered :-) cheers jon. 30 March 2008… gig news:
Saturday 12th April 2008 The Croft, Bristol UK Crippled Black Phoenix / yellow6 Update 15 March 2008 hi just a quick announcement to say that the new double CD
"when the leaves fall like snow" arrived from the pressing plant
today and is available direct from yellow6.com NOW. It will be
available from the make mine music website next week and in the shops around
14th April. There's some edited songs on the MySpace page for you to check
out (and one on the Wire Tapper CD on the front of the latest issue of The
Wire) but for the full effect, get the double CD cost is 11 pounds (UK) 12 pounds (EU) and 12.50 (R.O.W)
including shipping and you can get it by paypal to jon@yellow6.com thanks for listening jon. Update 22 February 2008 Firstly,
here is the news mailout from yesterday…. And them some info on the new
album… Hi I hope you are having a good 2008 so far. If you are, Y6 is about to make it even better... if not, don't
worry help is at hand. Clinically proven to aid relaxation, Yellow6 is
back with a new album. So, it is called "When The Leaves Fall Like Snow" and
is a double CD of recordings made in Stockholm in late 2007. Quite
minimal in some ways, not in others. The album is currently being manufactured and will be available
in the shops in April 2008, but direct from Yellow6 and Make Mine Music as soon
as copies are back from the plant. Disc 1 is 6 long tracks, each over 10 minutes... Disc 2 is the
shorter ones, tho not by a lot. A few tasters will be available on
the MySpace page any day now (maybe even tonight). More info will
appear on the website along with sleeve art etc. in the next week or
so. An edited track will appear on the next Wire Tapper cover mount cd. Any promo requests, please email me... -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Aside from that, for those in or around London over Easter,
Yellow6 are playing the Distant Noise RoTa gig on Saturday 22nd March at
Notting Hill Arts Centre, Notting Hill Gate. Also playing are Televise,
Winterlight and Luga. Free entry and it's on from 4-8 pm... time for
lunch before and dinner after. Following on from this (a while later), Distant Noise will be
releasing a 5 track 40 minute cdr by Yellow6 titled "STHLM"
in their 12 cdr series, one per month for the year... mine is #6 of course
(June) and is more of the material recorded in the highly productive time in
Sweden. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- last but by no means least, some other projects: iamstringsthatrembleunderabow - my collaboration with Dirk Serries
which will be released on vinyl by Equation in the summer. check the
MySpace page Council Flat
(collaboration with Charles Wyatt) will be recording an album at
some point which is destined for release by Music Fellowship at some future
time. I have also
joined the Crippled Black Phoenix family... although unfortunately I won't be
playing on their European tour in April, I hope to get to play live with them
later in the year, and have recorded a few smatterings of guitar for their
forthcoming (and totally excellent) double CD to be released by Invada in a
few months. more soon, in
the meantime, happy spring jon/yellow6 DISTANT NOISE: http://www.luga.haveajoint.com/ iamstringsthatrembleunderabow: http://www.myspace.com/iamstringsthattrembleunderabow Council Flat: http://www.myspace.com/councilflat Crippled Black Phoenix: http://www.myspace.com/crippledblackphoenix
so… the
album…. When
The Leaves Fall Like Snow 2CD
album released on Make Mine Music Disc1 :
Fall Still
water Street Katarinahissen två leaves
fall like snow street
writing Disc2 :
Further all
space Amateur You
can’t be everywhere he said Everything
changes Norwest
passage Moderna Mellan Last
Saturday Magasin2 Tre Born out
of the isolation of 6 weeks spent in a foreign city, this album is pretty
minimal compared to previous releases, but not minimalist… there are some
edits of tracks available on the Y6 myspace page for you to download. As
tasters: www.myspace.com/jonyellow6 And
here’s a small version of the front and back sleeves… the discs will come in
a card digisleeve.
That’s
all for now Jon. p.s. if
you still want to pick up Merry6mas2007 got to www.tonevendor.com
in the USA Update 13 February 2008 Hi
people… there's lots going on around now and i guess you might like to know
some of it so you can get all excited in anticipation... so... things
to be released: the new
2CD album "When The Leaves Fall Like Snow" will be released on Make
Mine Music in the next few months (probably April). just completing the
mastering and sorting out the packaging etc. It's a mammoth listen with
2 full CDs each over 70 minutes long - those people at the silent ballet are
gonna love it :-) anyhow
- it was recorded in Stockholm in Fall 2007, the product of 6 weeks relative
isolation in a foreign country. A taster track (severly edited from
it's original 8+ minutes to 4 mins) will be on the Wire cover mount CD with
the April edition (out 13th March) also a
product of this fertile period is the forthcoming cdr release in the
distant Noise 2008 series. Mine is #6 (of course) and is a 5 track 40
minute collection entitled STHLM. also coming along this
year will be: iamstringsthatrembleunderabow
- my collaboration with Dirk Serries which will be released on vinyl by
Equation in the summer. Council Flat
(collaboration with Charles Wyatt) will be recording an album at
some point which is destined for release by Music Fellowship at some future
time. i have also joined the
Crippled Black Phoenix family... although unfortunately i won't be playing on
their european tour in april, i hope to get to play live with them later in
the year, and have recorded a few smatterings of guitar for their forthcoming
(and totally excellent) double CD to be released by Invada in a few months. last but not least, i
have a gig (yes - one gig) in London on 22nd March (easter weekend) and it's
free... Notting Hill Arts Centre, Notting Hill Gate running from 4-8 pm with Televise, Winterlight, Yellow6 and
Luga that's all for now.. more
news when it happens (if not before) jon. Weds 26 Dec 07 Ok,
year end round up time… these things must be done if only to make me think
back to what the hell has happened to the last year… So…
it’s been a busy time with two album length releases plus a few compilations
and stuff. Some entertaining moments
at gigs… the first (Paris) and last (Bristol) of the year being the most
enjoyable for me. Bristol
particularly amusing in some ways as the audience had come for the Dreamboat
Records Christmas party and were ready to rock… and Yellow6 came on first. During the first song 90% of the audience
quietly left the room to go back to the bar leaving an appreciative few who
mainly managed to make it for the entire 40 minutes without falling over or
asleep (congratulations and thank you).
The Parisians were incredibly friendly and hospitable… inbetween there
were a couple of awful gigs (Ii.e. no-one came) at the Slaughtered Lamb in
london, and in Luton, saved by some of the other artists (Rothko, Rameses
III) and the fact that a teenage hero, Spon – the former UK Decay guitarist –
was doing the live sound in Luton.
Have to admit, at times you start to wonder why you bother, but bother
you still do… also played in Brooklyn with Council Flat, my new project with
Charles Wyatt. Along with the Council
Flat collaboration, I recorded new music with LAM, Fear Falls Burning and
Dave Collingwood. The track with Dave
is on the Dreamboat comp under the name of White Noise Masking and the FFB
collaboration is scheduled for 2008 release by Equation records under the
name of ‘iamstringsthatrembleunderabow’. Release
wise there was my first (and last) release for Resonant, a label I have long
admired. Plus other releases on
Unlabel, Chat Blanc, Dreamboat, Darla, MMM and Fugues. I also
went to some fine gigs by other people, bought some great cds (yes, I BUY
music!!!) and rediscovered some others long unplayed… I also spent 6 weeks
working in Stockholm where I got to record loads of new material which will
see the light of day in 2008… So here
goes with some lists of releases, gigs, favourite listening etc.: Releases: Painted
Sky (Resonant) Ion-e
(Unlabel) Vert:resultat
(chat blanc) Little
darla has a treat for you (Darla) MMM
digital compilation (Boomkat) Digital
re-issues (MMM and others, from Boomkat) Dreamboat
2008 (dreamboat) Merry6mas2007
(MMM) Fugues
cdr Here’s my top listens of the year…. In no particular order Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement of The Decline And Live - And so
to 2008…so far planned are a cdr album on Distant Noise recordings and a
double cd on Make Mine Music, both made up of the Stockholm recordings. Live – who knows… after this years efforts
I’m not going to be hunting down opportunities to play to no-one, but of
course will entertain any offers!
Aside from these releases, it is the 10th anniversary of my
debut release so I may choose to celebrate that in some way, and it will also
be the 10th merry6mas cdr so if anyone has any ideas for something
special to mark this occasion (I was thinking an mp3 cd of the previous 9
years as part of a double cd package)… suggestions welcomed. Thanks
again to everyone who has supported Y6 in any way in 2007, and a happy 2008. Jon.6 x Weds 28 Nov 07 Hi -
Just a brief update to say merry6mas2007
is here! Ok, now you’ve calmed down a bit, get your
paypal accounts or whatever at the ready…
track list is in the update below, picture of cover and disc are
below… Cost
including postage is: £5.00 (UK) £5.50 (EU) £6.50 (everywhere else)
what are
you waiting for – it’s nearly 6mas J …………………….. Thursday 08 November 2007 Some
news and things…. Just returned from 6 weeks working in the beautiful city of
Stockholm which was excellent – and inspiring as I have recorded about 3
hours worth of new music which will most likely trickle out in the near
future – in a non-radiohead style I’m guessing… Anyhow,
on to the news… Hej! Where to start… I guess new and up coming
releases is a good one… Out now:
Little Darla Has A Treat For You v25 – Endless summer 2007-08 Includes new and exclusive yellow6 song
‘Encase’ along with stuff from aarktica, stafraenn hakon, port-royal, section
25, japancakes and many more (2CD, 32 tracks – get it from Darla or yellow6.com) Out November 12th is the Dreamboat
records 2008 sampler Includes new and exclusive yellow6 song ‘L#2’
and a track by White Noise Masking, a new collaboration between Dave
Collingwood (Dreamboat / Gravenhurst / Azalea City Penis Club) and Jon
Attwood (yellow6). Also includes Robin Allender, Gala Band,
Rollercoaster Project. Available on
the Gravenhurst tour, from Dreamboat, Bleep, iTunes and I should get a few… Last but certainly not least… merry6mas2007 is
almost upon us and should be available late November/early December.. This years offering will have packaging
yet to be determined (but most likely something minimal, diy and arty with
sticky backed plastic and cornflake packets or something… the last bit is
probably not true in case this affects your decision to purchase… or not) So – the most important thing is the music
and, subject to final confirmation, the track list will be: Burning holes in the sky (y6 2007 – unreleased) Diamond
(y6 2007 – unreleased) In some other
(y6 2007 – unreleased) L#4
(y6 2007 – unreleased) Phase1
(y6 2007 – unreleased) Down (recorded with Mark Simnett and Jason
Perez) LAM-Y6 (collaboration with LAM) Karola Bloch (Port-Royal remixed by Y6) Life On Mars (Televise remixed by Y6) Available from make mine mailorder, Norman
records, yellow6 and other fine retailers LIVE: A couple of gigs coming up: 25 November:
Council Flat @ Luna Lounge, Brooklyn (Charles Wyatt and Jon Attwood) 01 December:
Rothko, Rameses III, Yellow6 @ Hat Factory, Luton UK 20 December:
Geisha, Azalea City Penis Club, Yellow6 – The Croft, Bristol finally, some teasers for 2008… limited cdr for Distant Noise ‘iamstringsthatrembleunderabow’ – album spring
2008 (collaboration between Dirk Serries (Fear Falls Burning) and Jon Attwood
(Yellow6)) Council Flat – recording early 2008 for
potential album release (Charles Wyatt and Jon Attwood) A new album from Yellow6, hopefully on vinyl
(spring 2008?) thanks for sticking with it this far... Sunday 19 august 2007 Another
sunny summers day in England… ok, it’s raining again… Just a
little news update on a few things you may find interesting…. Fist
up, some gig dates – one soon, one not so… both in Luton, Bedfordshire UK: 01 sept 2007 SNAFU @ The Hat Factory,
Luton yellow6 / Dont Move Play
Dead / Some Princes / Horselover Fat 01 December 2007Slave Bells @ The Hat
Factory, Luton Rothko / Ramses III /
yellow6 More info on the Without
Dead Time sites (they are the nice people who are organising them) http://www.myspace.com/withoutdeadtimerecords http://www.wdtrecords.co.uk Some
releases: DIGITAL
DOWNLOADS!!! The Make Mine Music catalogue will be available as
digital download from Boomkat as of 22 August 2007. In
addition to the entire MMM catalogue, there will be a number of digital only
releases of sold-out releases, previously issued on other labels. Aside from the Portal releases from
Roisin, some long lost Y6 is available: lake:desert music
for pleasure decay:repeat there
is also a cheapo MMM samples with tracks from most MMM artists for £1.99 go here
to find more: http://www.boomkat.com/ Lastly,
there are a couple of physical releases of y6 material on compilations… a new
and exclusive song ‘encase’ will be on the new Little Darla compilation CD,
available early September 2007 www.darla.com (a few copies available
from me) and I have a collaboration with Dave Collingwood (Gravenhurst/Azalea
City Penis Club) on the forthcoming Dreamboat records sample. That’s
all for now – unless anyone knows of contacts for gig promoters in or near
Stockholm Jon. Current
fave listening: Grails
– Burning Off Impuities Fear
Falls Burning – once we all walk through solid objects Eluvium
/ jesu – split Gregor
Samsa – 27:36 Labradford
– fixed:context Sunday 08 july 2007 Hi people… another quick update to let you
know about some upcoming gigs – some confirmed, others awaiting
dates/venues/everything else… So, first confirmed gigs
are: 22 july 2007 electroacoustic club @ the
slaughtered lamb, london after the fox / jf nuy / yellow6 http://www.electroacousticclub.com/ please come along if you
can… there will also be gigs later in the year in
Luton and brighton and other places t.b.c still available to buy are the last few
copies of merry6mas2007 and the Unlabel cdr ‘ion-e’ coming up some time later in the year will
be a collaboration with Fear Falls Burning, a track on the next Little Darla
comp, and maybe some other stuff more soon jon. Friday 06 April 2007
Hi…
quick easter newsflash…. Update
to the Live page with my return to Paris on 23 May to play with Rothko and Olivier
Cavaille at Le Tryptique Also –
The Unlabel series 52 release ‘ion-e’ is now available – the numbered edition
from Unlabel only, an additional 50 un-numbered copies from yellow6.com or
make mine mailorder Painted
Sky is now available worldwide… Last of
all… look out for news of a short UK tour with Stafraenn Hakon in July Jon.6 Monday 5 March 2007
NEWS…NEWS…NEWS…NEWS Ok…
here it is… Painted Sky is now available on pre-release mail order either
from Yellow6.com or www.resonantlabel.com It’ll
cost you £8.99 UK, £9.99 Europe £10.99 USA, Rest of World (including
postage) (or from Darla in the USA) PayPal
to jon@yellow6.com Official
release date is 02 April 2007 More
info / press release etc. are on the Resonant Label web site. Promo requests should be addressed to
Resonant AND
THERE’S MORE Out
13 March 2007 is the split cdr ‘vert:resultat’ on Chat Blanc records of
Montreal, Quebec. This has 10 mins of
new Y6 music unavailable elsewhere (entitled: winter/green) and is split with Boreal. Details on how to get one are here: how to get one I
will have VERY FEW copies so you are best to order direct if you want one
(paypal, money order, cash, chips etc.) No
definite news on the release of the Unlabel seies 52 cd yet… it will be soon I
also have the last few copies of merry6mas2006 left – there were extras after
the spray painted sleeves ran out so I have a few with just the printed
insert… That’s
all for now Jon. Sunday 21 January 2007
Hello and a slightly
belated welcome to 2007. the holidays
were a busy and creative time here and there’s some new releases headed your
way in the first few months of 2007…
Due on 5th
March is the new full length album Painted Sky, released by the wonderful Resonant
Label. Full details will be added here and on the
Resonant website (and MySpace) soon…
Before that hits the
stores, there will be two cdr releases.
One is a 40 min cdr titled
‘ion-e’ which will be the final part in the Unlabel series 52. There
will be 100 numbered copies available from Unlabel (and Norman Records). ion-e was written and recorded in about 6
hours on Sunday 14 January 2007 with a couple of overdubs added the following
day.
The other is a split 3”
cdr on Chat
Blanc of
Montreal, Canada. It is titled
“vert:resultat” and is a split with Montreal’s Boreal. The Yellow6 tracks are titled ‘winter’ and
‘green’ totalling 11 mins and were recorded over the Christmas holiday at the
end of 2006.
As for Painted Sky, here’s
a sneak preview of the sleeve and track list. There are songs available to hear on the Yellow6 and Resonant
MySpace pages.
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