Bear's Den - Blue Hours - VINYL LP

White Vinyl. Set for on May 13th via Communion Records, the album sees the much-loved folk-rock duo - made up of Andrew Davie and Kevin Jones - once again team up with producer Ian Grimble on what is one of their most personal records to date.Davie says InchBlue Hours is a kind of imaginary space you get into at night, a place where you process difficult things or where you try to figure everything out.Inch Themes on the album include both self-reflection and mental health after both struggled with the latter in recent years. InchIt's the main over-arching theme with this record,Inch Davie explains. The group, who have worked with mental health charity CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) previously added InchIt probably speaks to our struggles and hopefully many other people's too. Men are not very good at talking. We're not really taught how to - men have no idea how to talk about this stuff, certainly to each other.InchThe pair describe the conceptual blue hours headspace that gives the new album it's title as being Inchsomewhere between a hotel, a mental health hospital, a bar that stays open later than anywhere else, a paradise, a dream, a nightmare and an endless sea of corridors and staircases leading you to rooms that represent memories - good, bad, happy or difficult.Inch Despite the album's challenging themes, it's an album drenched in hope too. InchWe wanted this to be a celebration of music,Inch Jones continues. InchI think that informed some of the bolder decision making on this record. At a time when music was so distant, it felt important to make an album that sounded hopeful, celebratory, ambitious and beautiful in spite of the heavy subject matter in some of the songs.Inch Jones adds InchIt was almost like we needed to shout louder than before because we felt that there were more barriers between the audience and us. We needed something to tr

This journey began with a serious nudge in the form of 'You need to make a new recording already!' The idea had been germinating and the time had arrived. My very first meeting with Michael Winograd to envision a whole CD resulted in concise goals for people to be surprised at every cut no matter how many times they listen, for tears and guffaws to bubble up on occasion, and for people to sometimes find it impossible to sit still. Yes! I want you to dance! So here it is. After months of sifting through mountains of songs, of traveling to Brooklyn to record, of being happily jostled on the streets of Chinatown while seeking out candied ginger to get me through long days in the studio, of painting and collaborating and writing, and of pondering the outcome - I offer this small treasure of Yiddish art and music as a feast for the eyes and the ears. Deep Skies. The lyrics of several of these songs conjure up Maxfield Parrish's multiple washes of transparent watercolor, inviting the observer to reach into them as though there's depth without end. And so it is with the poetry of songs like HIrsh Glik's deep heavens hung with stars, Wolfson's memories of Vilne barely perceptible through the deep fog of memory, Papirnikov's skies bluer than blue, and let's not forget Levine - off into the yonder. H. Leivik's treasure hidden under the snow brings us to explore another layer, and the emotions of needleworkers and children reaching for hope deepen our exploration as well. Please sing along. Please sing! These songs are our lives, and songs only live when we fill the air with them. Michael and the assembled musicians - some of the finest in the world, I believe - have placed each song in a thoughtful new frame, in a fitting setting. For you. For all of us. AND! The recording is slipped into a small hard-bound book for which I created the cover art and paintings on every page! Th

Fragments is a collaboration album between Bear's Den and Paul Frith, stemming from the handful of shows the band did in 2018 (Reeperbahn, London, Utrecht). The Fragments live shows saw acclaimed composer and arranger Paul Frith rework and arrange a number of songs from the Bear's Den catalogue with an orchestra; from adding orchestral flourishes to the originals to completely pulling apart and reimagining tracks. Limited Edition LP on White 180-gram Vinyl + 3 die-cut perforated 12Inch inserts.