22-716: Holly Macve is an Ireland-born musician who performs as a solo artist. She released her first album Golden Eagle on the Bella Union label in March 2017. Her follow up album Not The Girl was released in May 2021. Born in Galway in western Ireland, Macve and her sister were whisked away "in the night" by her mother from their errant father, to live with her grandparents in Holmfirth , West Yorkshire. Macve's grandfather Duncan Druce
44-487: A BRIT Award. In 2016, following his sold out show at Royal Albert Hall , artist John Grant received a Silver disc for the album Pale Green Ghosts . The label's releases are distributed by the distributors PIAS worldwide. Robin Guthrie Robin Andrew Guthrie (born 4 January 1962) is a Scottish musician, songwriter, composer, record producer and audio engineer , best known as
66-399: A four-piece band called The Heat, who later released a single under the name The Liberators in 1980. The same year, Guthrie co-founded Cocteau Twins with Heggie and vocalist Elizabeth Fraser . Following the break-up of Cocteau Twins in 1998, Guthrie released his first solo record, Imperial , in 2003 on Bella Union Records . Guthrie's next release, which was co-written with Harold Budd ,
88-554: A two-night showcase at London's Royal Festival Hall featuring their artists such as Beach House and Midlake , along with guest appearances from Paul Weller and members of Editors . That year, Fionn Regan 's debut album was nominated for the Mercury Prize . The label underwent financial troubles in 2007 and Raymonde considered shutting it down. While in Oslo, Raymonde received a link to Fleet Foxes ' Myspace page, who at
110-783: The Telefon Tel Aviv track "The Sky Is Black", from The Birds EP (2012). Guthrie released Fortune , his newest full-length album on 26 November 2012. In 2015, Guthrie and friend Mark Gardener of Ride wrote, performed and recorded an album Universal Road together. Guthrie currently tours live under the name "The Robin Guthrie Trio" consisting of himself, Steve Wheeler (on bass) & Antti Mäkinen (on drums). He works and lives in France with his wife Florence. In 1985, Robin Guthrie produced Felt 's fourth studio album, Ignite
132-542: The Bella Union record label in 1997, through which they could release their own work as well as any collaborative efforts. The band had a difficult relationship with 4AD founder Ivo Watts-Russell and also regretted signing with Universal Music Group 's Mercury Records . The band split up not long after, but instead of letting the newly formed label go under, Robin Guthrie , Simon Raymonde and their former manager Fiona Glyn-Jones decided to take charge of it. One of
154-508: The Girl , Macve listened to "loads of different things", including The Shangri-Las , The Beatles and John Lennon , John Cale , PJ Harvey , and Nick Cave . Bella Union Bella Union is a British independent record label founded in 1997 by Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins . It is now run solely by Raymonde. After releasing records with 4AD for a large part of their career, Cocteau Twins decided to start up
176-523: The Seven Cannons , and in 1987, he produced The Gun Club 's fourth studio album, Mother Juno in Berlin. In 1990 he produced Lush 's second EP Mad Love and a few other songs scattered on various compilation albums. He went on to produce their 1992 debut album Spooky and Black Spring EP (1991). In 2005 Guthrie mixed Amber Smith 's third studio album entitled RePRINT which brought
198-698: The Sky , Fleet Foxes , The Acorn , Mercury Rev , Peter Broderick , PINS , M. Ward , Philip Selway , John Grant , Lawrence Arabia , The Low Anthem , Hannah Cohen , Laura Veirs , The Flaming Lips , Lanterns on the Lake , Inventions , John Tavener , Marissa Nadler , Arc Iris , Clarence Clarity , and Jambinai . The label won the Independent Record Company Of The Year award at the Music Week Awards, as voted by
220-579: The UK independent retailers, in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016. In 2012, for the 15th anniversary the label took over the curation of one day at End of the Road Festival . In 2014, signee John Grant was nominated for a Brit Award . In 2015, Raymonde signed the Yorkshire-born singer Holly Macve, releasing the single "Corner of my Mind". In 2016, artist Father John Misty was also nominated for
242-726: The Year . He subsequently released two four-track EPs , Everlasting and Waiting for Dawn . Two more collaborations with Harold Budd (who had previously announced his musical retirement) were released simultaneously in 2007. After the Night Falls and Before the Day Breaks were both co-composed, co-produced and played with Budd. Like the soundtrack to Mysterious Skin , both albums are slow, drifting pieces primarily utilising treated guitar and piano. Guthrie has also collaborated with singer Siobhan de Maré (formerly of Mono ) as
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#1732797785951264-401: The band Violet Indiana. Their first full-length album, Roulette , was released in 2001. A second album, Russian Doll , followed in 2004. In March 2006 Guthrie reported on his weblog that the group had started work again on new material. In May 2009, Mirrorball , an album-length collaboration between Guthrie and John Foxx was released on Metamatic Records . A new solo album, Carousel ,
286-671: The co-founder of the alternative rock band Cocteau Twins . During his career Guthrie has performed guitar, bass guitar, keyboards , drums and other musical instruments, in addition to programming , sampling and sound processing . Guthrie grew up in Grangemouth , Scotland. There were musical instruments in his family's home, but he never had any proper musical training. With an interest in electronics and trained as an electrician , Guthrie started to experiment with fuzz boxes and guitar pedals to find an alternative sound for his guitar. Guthrie and his friend Will Heggie were members of
308-470: The earliest bands to sign on was the Australian trio Dirty Three , who continue to release under Bella Union. Other early signees include Françoiz Breut and The Czars , who were the first American band signed to the label. Since 2000, when Guthrie moved to France to concentrate on his own music, Raymonde took the reins at Bella Union. In 2007, the 10th anniversary celebrations saw Bella Union host
330-436: The last six years and I love her songs, and I’m especially proud of featuring on this one." The track is taken from her forthcoming EP scheduled to be released in 2024. It was her mother's record collection that initially inspired the young Macve, from old blues to Bob Dylan . From these early influences, she went on to discover the likes of Leonard Cohen , Johnny Cash and Gillian Welch . When making her second album Not
352-468: The time had only released a demo version of " White Winter Hymnal ". He immediately expressed interest and had to fight off Sub Pop in order to secure a European distribution contract with the band, which was ultimately agreed to. Fleet Foxes' 2008 self-titled debut became Bella Union's first platinum-selling album in the UK. The label has subsequently released music by Father John Misty , Beach House , Department of Eagles , Karl Blau , Explosions in
374-399: Was a classical composer. At 18, Macve moved south to Brighton where she began performing at local venues, working in a café whilst singing on open mic nights . Bella Union boss Simon Raymonde was a customer at the café, and having watched her perform, signed her to his label where she went on to record her first solo album Golden Eagle released in March 2017. The bulk of Golden Eagle
396-506: Was labelled as one of the "top 12 notable acts" by The New York Times . Bob Boilen of NPR Music described Macve as "the best voice I heard at SXSW". For the 2021 album Not The Girl , Macve co-produced tracks with band member Max Kinghorn-Mills. Not The Girl was mixed by Collin Dupuis, who worked on Lana Del Rey ’s Ultraviolence and whom Macve considers a significant musical influence. In an interview with Rolling Stone , Del Rey
418-420: Was quoted as saying Macve would be the ideal person to play her in a biopic. In October 2023 Macve released "Suburban House" featuring Lana Del Rey on her own label Loving Memory Records. Describing her collaboration with Macve, Del Rey was quoted as saying: "Ever since I heard Holly’s music I knew she had one of the most beautiful singing voices in the world. Her flawless, emotional vocals have inspired me over
440-1073: Was recorded in Newcastle at the home studio of producer Paul Gregory (of Bella Union label-mates Lanterns on the Lake ), with extra recording in Brighton and London. On its release, Macve was described by Record Collector as "an ethereal offspring of Nick Cave blessed with the stark musical backdrop of Johnny Cash's 'American' series of recordings." Macve has worked and toured with artists as John Grant , Villagers , Benjamin Clementine , Bill Ryder-Jones , Fiona Brice , Tony Visconti Mercury Rev and Royal Northern Sinfonia . Working with Northern Sinfonia also sparked Macve's interest in cinematic arrangements. Macve has appeared at numerous music festivals including Glastonbury , End Of The Road , Latitude , and Electric Picnic . Following her appearance at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas in 2017, Macve
462-703: Was released via Rocket Girl in Europe on 1 September 2009 and Darla Records on 15 September 2009. Additionally, Guthrie issued the Angel Falls EP in early 2009, and the Songs to Help My Children Sleep EP in October 2009. A further EP Sunflower Stories was released in March 2010 Guthrie's most recent releases are Emeralds (2011) and two collaboration albums with Harold Budd, Bordeaux and Winter Garden (with Eraldo Bernocchi ) (both 2011). He played guitar on
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#1732797785951484-502: Was the film score for Gregg Araki 's Mysterious Skin . The soundtrack was released in May 2005 by Commotion and consists of 15 complete songs based on the short pieces used in the film. In 2006, Guthrie signed a four-album solo deal with Darla Records , the first product of which was the album Continental . In February 2007, American webzine Somewhere Cold voted Continental best album of 2006, on their 2006 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame , and ranked Guthrie Artist of
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