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VINCENT
OLIVER: PRESS KIT
Artist: Vincent
Oliver
Title: Vincent Oliver EP1
Cat# LOAF01
Format: Digital Download/Limited Edition (500) 3" cd
Release Date: March 2006
Tracklist:
1. Drunk fun in London
2. A piece called bad ending
3. So big eyes
4. If yellow were sad
  
Left: Vania's illustation of me / Middle:
Whole packaging for CD / Right: me. (Click images for bigger versions)
Here
for a *.pdf of Vania's illustration (3.83MB).
Here for a *.zip containing
extended versions of everything here (21MB).
NICE
PRESS
Warpmart, UK - art object of the week:
"..by all accounts Vincent Oliver is a name you should remember
and perhaps bandy about if that's what you like to do - ..For a first
time release this is really on a very accomplished and thoughtful level.
Well deserving of it's beautiful packaging, this is a gentle epic that
will whip up a quiet storm."
click
for entire article
Trax Magazine, France
“…Vincent Oliver creates kaleidoscopic music with touches
of irony and full of a purity that subtly references a variety of inspirations”
Laurent Guerel
Boomkat, UK
"...an insanely beautiful sound comparable to Slowdive’s Alison
or the finest moments of Ulrich Schnauss. A fabulous start for a strange
series, recommended."
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for entire article
Wire, UK
(in reference to a remix of buddy Nathan Fake's 'long sunny')
"Vincent Oliver's mix of "Long Sunny" delivers a perfect
three minutes of pop before blossoming into a sky-sized shoegaze workout
complete with overdriven guitar and glockenspiel.."
Popnews France
“… Vincent Oliver puts forward a fluid intelligent electronica
which will garner him respect from the electronic scene”
What Picadilly said
when they awarded me record of the week:
"Beautiful stuff, you
need this."
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for entire article
..they fucking loved it.
ME
What
LOaf wrote:
Vincent Oliver is a name you can hear a lot `round the Lo Recordings
offices. We think he is just a terrific bloke. His Highness, Mr. Oliver,
is quite an amusing guy so we just thought it will be better to pop
some questions for him, and let him tell you the whole shebang behind
his music:
Loaf: Influences/Chronic illnesses?
Me: I was brought up on a diet of glam-rock. Marc bolan, Steve Harley
and David Bowie. I think these chaps form a kind of base for most of
my influences. I take inspiration from everything, though. I'm very
visually stimulated and I'm into words and that. It's mostly every day
things and the people around me. Its atmospheres and feelings that I'm
inspired by and try to achieve. I don't find that music itself inspires
my music but more the feelings it creates.
No chronic illnesses. I am chronically irritating, though.
Loaf: Describe the
tracks?
Me: 1 - Drunk
fun in London: It's an atmospheric track, mostly - based almost
entirely around one chord. It's a kind of homage to my bloody valentine,
a fact that I use to set the context for listeners... so they know how
to enjoy it. I wanted to affirm the idea that I'm not a guitar band,
but use it as a tool, the way I would a synth.
2 - A piece called
bad ending: Gets me to sleep.
3- So big eyes: Fucking gay. Amongst the
first few actual songs I'd written. It was the first track I was brave
enough to record vocals for without caking them in vocoding.
4- If yellow were
sad: I was lucky enough to record
a full symphony orchestra in a nice big space. I used mostly the sound
of them tuning up - I liked the random interaction between the different
orchestra sections and the melodies that jumped out.
Loaf: Music making
process, anything interesting?
Me: I usually find that the bulk of a song will come all at once - the
main lyric, melody and atmosphere. I then spend a few months in creative
agony trying to finish the idea. I like to try different techniques
and concepts of music making and will usually cater the process according
to what I'm trying to achieve with the track.
What I wrote:
Biography:
I was born in North Shields, Near Newcastle 7th November
1982. My family moved south when I was only 2 or 3 so that my dad could
find work after Thatcher closed so many of the factories down. We landed
on a council estate in Surrey where they still reside.
I was painfully shy and only started making music when I about 17. I
had a cracked copy of Fruityloops and would spend hours on the family
PC making awful noises. I mostly sampled single guitar blasts from my
favourite metal bands and turned the BPM up to 300. It came out sounding
a bit like what we call 'drill'.. or 'drillcore', if you're silly. I
called myself 'pelt'.
I was talked into doing music GCSE and Music Technology A-level. These
only really served to damage my confidence further.. I didn't do any
work.
The year after I finished college I learned how to use some bits of
software and started writing proper songs. I also enrolled in a Music
Production course at university. The course was mostly shit, but it
gave me the time and resources to learn a lot by myself.
Whilst at university I recorded the songs that are on my EP and some
of what will be on my next EP. Jon Tye sent me an e-mail telling me
that Lo would like to release me on the day of my graduation.
Since then I've been touring Europe and Japan with Nathan Fake, performing
specially commitioned graphic pieces that I have made to accompany his
music.
CONTACT &
LINKS
My website
http://www.vincentoliver.co.uk
My myspace page:
http://www.myspace.com/vincentoliver
For More info please contact:
udi@hub100.com
jon@hub100.com
vincent.oliver@gmail.com
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