SkyBabyRecords: Newsdesk

SkyBabyRecords are very pleased to announce that the Cellarscape back catalogue – 25 songs, and more to come – is now available to enjoy on Spotify:
http://www.spotify.com/uk/free-user/

For those not in the know about what Spotify is, it’s a way to listen to music you like on your computer, iPhone, etc.On Facebook? You can use this link to access Cellarscape on Spotify, plus, feel free to re-post the link on your Facebook page to spread the love to your friends:
http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://open.spotify.com/artist/4ut5RYVCAiXLx5WTNCL4Cl

Devon’s fabulous Fresh FM is currently playing not one, not two, but three Cellarscape songs as part of their airplay rotation. All taken from the current album ‘Animation, Suspension’, you can also request to hear the epic ‘Where Vanishing Point Dissolve’, the schizophonic ‘You Got The Girl’, and also the full-pelt wake-up call of ‘Shadowfight’ here:
http://www.freshfmpetroc.co.uk/songs/page/7/sort/2

Thanks to the Fresh FM team for the support and airplay.

The picture and sound are both locked for the new horror-comedy short, ‘The Furred Man’.

Written and directed by Paul Williams (‘The Wake’, ‘Mightier’), and scored and produced by SkyBabyRecords’ Paul Terry (who has worked on every film by Williams since 1999), the werewolf story features creature effects by SFX wizard Jon Moore (Ridley Scott’s ‘Robin Hood’, ‘Doctor Who’).

‘The Furred Man’ has already begun its global journey, being entered into various film festivals, so more news on this as it happens. You can keep up to date with ‘The Furred Man’ from its IMDB page here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1669816/
…and also via the official Evil Hypnotist Productions site:
http://www.evilhypnotist.co.uk/ 

There’s now a brand new Preview page for Cellarscape on Apple iTunes. You can hear previews of and purchase individual tracks from the past three releases here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/cellarscape/id219125797 

AOL’s Music website has come across Cellarscape and have featured the back catalogue on their site:
http://music.aol.com/artist/cellarscape/album

Thanks to the AOL Music team for the support.

Early prep has started for the new Cellarscape EP, due out this Autumn/Winter. The 4-track EP, entitled ‘A Theta/Delta Union’, has been described an "an interval record," between 2009’s ‘Animation, Suspension’, and the next full-length album due out later in 2011.

As a deliberate contrast to ‘Animation, Suspension’s constant gear changes, the new ‘A Theta/Delta Union’ EP will be Cellarscape at its most delicate. From the demo tracks, this sounds like the kind of record to stick on in the early a.m. with a bottle of red wine. More updates very soon. 

The score to new Paul Williams short film ‘The Furred Man’ is now mixed and complete. PT finished mixing the soundtrack with James Bellamy (who worked on all of PT’s Cellarscape recordings and film work), who even provided some killer Hammond organ for the end credits theme.

PT is also the producer of ‘The Furred Man’, and flew with writer/director Williams to Copenhagen yesterday for the film’s grading process. They’ve met up with the film’s Director of Photography Eugen Gritschneder and 1st Assistant Director Henrik Kolind to work through the detailed and important colour grading process. 

This weekend, Paul Terry completed the recording of the soundtrack for the new Paul Williams film ‘The Furred Man’.

At The Safehouse studios, gifted violinist Carole Carpenter laid down her parts (including a serene but creepy vocalization) for the score in just a matter of hours, with Emma Watts and Julia Hardy providing some excellent guests vocals for the surf-rock of the end credits theme ‘Bite Me (She Said)’.

Niki Jones, who has appeared on all of Paul Terry’s film soundtracks lent his bass and guitar skills to ‘The Furred Man’s end credits song ‘Bite Me (She Said)’ today. The ’60s surf-rock groove is now taking shape even more.

Cellarscape listeners can also hear Nik’s intuitive and most excellent bass work of several tracks on 2009’s ‘Animation, Suspension’ record.

Paul Terry (aka Cellarscape) has begun the recording sessions for the soundtrack to the forthcoming new film by British writer/director Paul Williams. The new horror-comedy short will feature a brand new score and end credits theme tune by PT. Tracking for the drums for the end credits song, entitled ‘Bite Me (She Said)’ started yesterday, with the rest of the instruments and themes to be recorded in fits and starts over the next couple of weeks.

You can watch the teaser trailer for ‘The Furred Man’ here:
http://www.evilhypnotist.co.uk/

Many of you will already know that the Storm The Charts campaign – which Cellarscape's song 'You Got The Girl' is a part of – has recently morphed into a different kind of voting beast. But SkyBabyRecords salutes the change: this campaign, to get independent artists more into the public consciousness, should never have been about a popularity contest: we'll leave the number crunching to The X Factor.

Now, voting in the Storm The Charts campaign is much more in the spirit of its original intentions, in our opinion: in the voting area, you'll get five random bands appear from the 500+ involved. Have a listen. If you like one a lot, vote for it. And repeat: you'll get another five artists appear, and you can do the same thing as often as you like:
http://stormthecharts.com/poll.php

So, although this makes going exactly to the Cellarscape poll and voting lots impossible, it keeps the hackers/cheaters at bay, plus, makes the campaign about what it should always have been about: music fans discovering new music. And for that, we applaud Wes White and the runners of it. Will Cellarscape end up in the final 40? Who knows? We're more the happy to leave that to the hands of fate.

Voting to put Cellarscape and the song 'You Got The Girl' through to the next round of the fantastic Storm The Charts campaign (that champions independent artists to get them chart recognition) – ends at MIDNIGHT, TUESDAY APRIL 13. So, if you haven't already voted, here's how you can do so and get involved:

Vote for Cellarscape here:
http://194.154.164.103/~ftp@stormthecharts.com/poll.php?id=191

(But please, NO MULTIPLE VOTES – as the campaign organizers will just delete them.)

Plus, copy and paste the above weblink and paste it into your Facebook and MySpace statuses, and also, forward it to your friends and family – it all helps loads.

Huge thanks everyone. Let's annoy mainstream radio stations by getting the 5-minute-plus angular Cellarscape rock track on their airwaves...

If you love music, or you work in some way connected to music/the media, chances are you've already heard about Storm The Charts. If you haven't heard about it, we'll sum it up here:

Storm The Charts has garnered 500 songs by unsigned/independent artists, and plan on whittling it down to 40, which they will then attempt to get into the charts, to give unheard artists some lovely public exposure. It's a great campaign that really champions the independents. Don't just take our word for it – the likes of the BBC, The Guardian, the NME and Glastonbury FM have all had something to say about it.

Cellarscape joined the campaign as the 65th artist to do so (scroll all the way down to the 65th placement on this page: http://stormthecharts.livejournal.com/) with the track 'You Got The Girl'.

Your task? Well, joining the campaign will massively help all independent artists out there. Then, checking out the Cellarscape song could mean (if you like it) you decide to vote for it when the time comes. Either way, joining the Storm The Charts campaign here is a great thing to do for music:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=231943888357

Many thanks everyone. And if you want a further taster of Cellarscape, help yourself to the free Album Taster MP3, found via the Music/Lyrics tab on the left.

Championing the underground music scene, the fantastic Froglix Radio's top five songs for this week includes Cellarscape's full-pelt pop-rocker 'Minor Fractures' (see the 'this week's faves' bar on the left):
http://www.froglix.com/about

Thanks to Froglix for their continued support.

Pop over to KDTN Radio One's Blog for a feature/focus on Cellarscape:
http://kdtnradio1mag.blogspot.com/2010/01/cellarscape.html

Many thanks to all at KDTN and SDC OmniMedia Group for the coverage.

WUML 91.5FM Radio in Lowell, Massachusetts, have been playing Cellarscape's 'Treading Water' across the airwaves. The track is taken from the current album 'Animation, Suspension', and features some soaring backing vocals by Paul Miro (Apes, Pigs & Spacemen).

An extra nice addition to being played on the station is that, on one day is particular Cellarscape was played before the legend that is Nick Drake.
http://www.spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=wuml&plid=5759

Huge thanks to all at WUML for the support.

Pop over to the official Cellarscape Facebook page, and you'll see – among other things – the brand new splash page where you can play/listen to the entire Cellarscape back catalogue (25 tracks) at your leisure. And to mix things up a bit, we've done just that – we've scrambled the tracklisting of the 'Animation, Suspension' album along with the previous EPs, 'Fifth Phoenix' and 'Copilot' to make things a bit more interesting.

Check it out, join as a fan, and spread the Cellar-word – hope you all enjoy the new look & tunes.
http://www.facebook.com/cellarscape

DVD & Blu-ray Review – the UK's best-selling guide to DVD & Blu-ray – has featured an early news report on 'The Furred Man', the forthcoming horror-comedy short by British writer/director Paul Williams which SkyBabyRecords' Paul 'Cellarscape' Terry is currently working on the soundtrack to. Check out the story here:
http://www.dvdreview.co.uk/page/dvdreview?entry=great_tunes_implied_and_in

Huge thanks to Matt Chapman & the DVDReview team for the support.

Hope you're all very well and that 2010 is shaping up to be a great one for you. For SkyBabyRecords, there's lots to come, from acoustic vibes to werewolf-inspired string sections...

CELLARSCAPE – EXCLUSIVE MP3 'ALBUM TASTER' DOWNLOAD
Here at SBR, We appreciate life is a fifth-gear, fast-lane affair – which is why, if you've not had a chance to check out the new Cellarscape album 'Animation, Suspension' yet (the acclaimed record critics are hailing as: "Experimental. Groundbreaking. A symphony for today's music lover", "poetry in motion", and "a palette of aural delight"), we've created a free 2-minute album taster MP3 for you to download.
Not only does it showcase the vast range of song styles from the album, but also, much-loved Absolute Radio presenter Annabel Port (Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show) provides a voice-over to guide you through the tracks.
Simply head to the 'Music & Lyrics' tab on the left-hand side of this screen, and claim your free download.

'THE FURRED MAN' – SOUNDTRACK WORK BEGINS
+ TEASER TRAILER UNLEASHED
Paul Terry has scored the shorts and feature work of British writer/director Paul Williams since 1999, and he's begun work on writing the soundtrack to Williams' forthcoming new horror-comedy short, 'The Furred Man'.
Expect werewolves, comedy, and campfire stories, all jam-packed in this new tale from the director of 'Mightier' and 'The Wake'.
More news as the soundtrack progresses, but in the meantime, you can see the intriguing teaser trailer here:
http://www.evilhypnotist.co.uk

AUTUMN/WINTER = BRAND NEW CELLARSCAPE EP
+ DEBUT ASH TREE LANE EP
In October/November, expect two very different EPs to be released. As a stop-gap until 2011's next full-length Cellarscape album, a brand new 4-track Cellarscape EP entitled 'A Theta/Delta Union' will be released.
Plus, as a complete contrast to those cinematic alt-acoustic vibes, the debut EP from Ash Tree Lane will also be released on the same day – 'The Shelf Has Fallen'is a dark, heavy, and ominous affair, with grinding riffs and a love for instrumental sections.

That's all for now. Hope you enjoy the Cellarscape Album Taster MP3, and we'll keep you up-to-date with everything else in what's shaping up to be an exciting year.

Bristol's Burst FM have reviewed Cellarscape's album 'Animation, Suspension', calling it an album "where no song feels like a filler and each track has something a bit different about it – a refreshing breath of fresh air amongst so many up-and-coming artists that rarely wonder outside their comfort zone, something that Cellarscape is clearly not afraid of."

You can read the full review over at Burst FM's glorious new website:
http://www.burstradio.org.uk/musicteam/reviews/albums

Thanks to Mike Limb, Alex Brisland and everyone at Burst FM for the support.

You can now download a FREE album taster of Cellarscape's acclaimed new album, 'Animation, Suspension' – featuring a voiceover by much-loved Absolute Radio presenter, Annabel Port. Simply go to the Music & Lyrics tab on the left-hand side (on the navigation bar), and claim your free MP3.

The 2-minute taster/radio promo takes you through the many shifting tones, hooks and choruses from the album, with Annabel as your guide.

The trusty sidekick on Absolute Radio's Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show, Annabel also has the wonderfully entitled 'Annabel Portcast' available, which you can download/subscribe to free on iTunes, or from here:
http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/djs_shows/shows/geoff/annabel.html

Hope you all enjoy the promo. Huge thanks to Annabel for her fantastic voiceover skills.

The OuterSound podcast, from Froglix Radio have featured Cellarscape in their 'Best Bands of 2009' hour-long podcast. The OuterSound team whittled down 2009's bands to the 14 they felt produced the best music, and Cellarscape is very proud and honoured to be part of the list that features the impressive likes of Canada's Rude City Riot and the UK's The Kut.
You can download the podcast, which includes Cellarscape's 'You Got The Girl', here:
http://www.froglix.com/category/artist/cellarscape

Huge thanks to all at Froglix Radio and the OuterSound team.

Aside from his Cellarscape duties, Paul Terry is currently writing the soundtrack for new horror short 'The Furred Man', written and directed by Paul Williams. The teaser trailer for the forthcoming film is here (scroll down on the page to 'Coming Soon'):
http://www.evilhypnotist.co.uk/

More on this as it nears post-production completion, but expect the howling to commence March/April 2010 in film festivals around the globe...

As a precursor to our 2010 announcements for SkyBabyRecords, we've released a new free video podcast for your enjoyment. It's 'The Wake' (2006) Promo trailer, feat. 'Gran Death Bingo (Cast Iron Remix)' by Paul Terry:

This is a promo trailer for the 2006 British comedy-drama 'The Wake', written & directed by Paul Williams. The song the trailer is cut to is 'Gran Death Bingo (Cast Iron Remix)' is taken from the original soundtrack to the film, composed and performed by Paul Terry. The first incarnation of the song, 'Gran Death Bingo' (without the clips of dialogue) was used as part the 2009 Empire Film Awards promo campaign.

Got iTunes? Simply do a search for 'SkyBabyRecords', click on the podcast channel that pops up, and download away. Wanna just watch it alleviate the boredom of your Thursday at work? Click here:
http://blip.tv/file/3075975/

Enjoy!

Supporter of independent artists, Talent Showcase Radio has made Cellarscape one of their featured artists, with an eclectic selection of tracks from the new 'Animation, Suspension' album playable on their site.

You can hear the pop-rock sprint of 'Minor Fractures', the brooding 'Where Vanishing Points Dissolve', fragile 'Patience & Zara', and grinding rock of 'Treading Water', plus read all about Cellarscape on Talent Showcase Radio, just by clicking here, and then going to 'Featured Artists' on the navigation bar:
http://talentshowcaseradio.com/

Thanks to the TSR team for the support.