Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2021 . Twenty-year-old, London-based musician and poet Arlo Parks, has been very steadily climbing the ranks as an artist to watch since the of her confessional debut single InchColaInch in 2018. Arlo has received praise from artists such as Billie Eilish, Wyclef Jean, Clairo, Florence Welsh and Phoebe Bridgers during the past year while growing her fan base exponentially. Arlo's debut album Inchis a series of vignettes and intimate portraits surrounding my adolescence and the people that shaped it. It is rooted in storytelling and nostalgia - I want it to feel both universal and hyper specific.Inch On a personal level, Parks struggled with her identity growing up; a self- confessed tom-boy who was super sensitive and Inchuncool,Inch she says it was like InchI'm a black kid who can't dance for S**t, listens to emo music and currently has a crush on some girl in my Spanish class.Inch By the time she reached 17, she shaved her head, figured out she was bisexual and produced/wrote an album's worth of material. Album Tracks 1. Collapsed in Sunbeams 2. Hurt 3. Too Good 4. Hope 5. Caroline 6. Black Dog 7. Green Eyes 8. Just Go 9. For Violet 10. Eugene 11. Bluish 12. Portra 400

In 1660 the Restoration put an end to a period of artistic austerity and saw a rebirth of musical life in England, encouraged by a powerful need to be entertained. Many works for harpsichord were published by famous composers, yet also by others who are today quite forgotten. Caroline Huynh Van Xuan presents an original and hitherto unrecorded programme of InchgroundsInch that enables one to rediscover the repertory and the vitality of the English music scene in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. After her music studies at the Lyons Regional Conservatory in harpsichord, piano, chamber music, and teaching, Caroline Huynh Van Xuan joined the harpsichord class of Francoise Lengelle at the main Lyons Conservatory where she worked with Dirk Borner, Jaky Piscione, Pablo Kornfelt, and others. She currently teaches at the Marselles Regional Conservatory. Album Tracks 1. Ground 2. Allmand 3. Song #1 4. Aire 5. Song #2 6. Hornpipe 7. Song #3 8. Ground 9. Almand 10. With Him He Brings the Partner 11. Hornpipe 12. Since in Vain 13. Ground 14. Aire 15. Ground 16. Prélude 17. Allemande 18. Here the Deities Approve 19. Allmand 20. Chaconne 21. Ground 22. Prélude 23. Aire 24. 3/4 25. Affettuoso 26. Ground 27. Air & Variations 28. Ground on Moon Over Bourbon Street

Twice Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award-winning artist Arlo Parks announces her new album, Ambiguous Desire, due April 3rd via Transgressive Records. Ambiguous Desire is Parks at her most confident and experimental, supplanting live band sessions for modular synths, Ableton plugins and samplers that channel the frenetic, vibrant spaces she was immersed in, all while spotlighting the acclaimed poetry and lyricism she's beloved for. Reflecting on the making of the record, Parks shares, InchI danced more than ever as I made this record, I made more friends than ever too, found myself in the weird underbelly of New York juke nights, unleashed, laughed and laughed and laughed. This record has desire at it's centre. Desire is a life force, it's a wanting, a yearning, a momentum - we are all alive because there is something or someone we want - desire is an engine. But it is also mysterious, tangled, random, enlightening and HUMAN.Inch Parks crafted the album with producer Baird (Brockhampton, Kevin Abstract). Their process unfolded between NYC's vibrant, community-rooted nightlife and long, introspective days spent in Baird's downtown loft. The result is Parks' most vulnerable, self-affirming, and euphoric work to date. 4pp digisleeve, Reverse board with spot gloss to the front, 8 page poster and 2 page insert. Album Tracks 1. Blue Disco 2. Jetta 3. Get Go 4. Senses Ft. Sampha 5. Heaven 6. Beams 7. South Seconds 8. Nightswimming 9. 2Sided 10. Luck of Life 11. What If I Say It? 12. Floette