WALLS INTO OUR MIDST 12"

GO AHEAD VIDEO

After releasing the first Banjo album a year ago and doing absolutely nothing in the way of getting a video done for Go Ahead, finally Yang came along and made one for me! Very very kind of him. The video premiered on the NME website a few days ago but you can also watch it in a better definition below.

merry christmas!

merry christmas everyone.

this is a little xmas video i found in my inbox today courtesy of yang. read what he says about it HERE.

xx

XA2011

In ongoing banjo tradition here's my xmas album for the year.

It features 9 songs that you might have heard before or not and it comes a little later because I wasn't really going to do a xmas album this year but then since I was sick at home for the last week I decided to have a go at it.

Being ill I wasn't really able to sing but then it's not that I am that great of a singer anyway. (In 'Winter wonderland' you can really hear my voice breaking and dying but I thought that was quite funny to hear!)

This year's album is quite different from the previous ones... some of these songs are way less popular than the ones I've covered before and in general this one is a bit more 'crazy' but I think it goes quite well with the other two...

I had fun doing it. I hope you'll enjoy it!

First 1000 downloads are free then you can name your price.

xx

alessio

LISTEN/DOWNLOAD XA2011 HERE.

01 Wonderful christmas time

02 It's beginning to look a lot like christmas

03 I saw three ships

04 Winter wonderland

05 Frosty the snowman (reprise)

06 Back door santa

07 When christmas comes to town

08 Carol the bells

09 We wish you a merry christmas

Recorded first take at home between December 15th and December 18th 2011.

IDIOT RAIN (ESPERANZA REMIX)

Here's a remix of Idiot Rain by Esperanza.

It was supposed to come out ages ago but for a reason or another I kept pushing it back.

I thought it would be perfect timing to release it now that Esperanza has an album out that you should absolutely check out. Check it out HERE.

Also check out the remix WALLS did for their track Jaipur and the song Sirena in which I sing for them. I love these guys!

october mix

01 Perc - Choice
02 The Field - Then It's White
03 Jurgen Muller - Sea Bed Meditation
04 Colin Stetson - Home
05 Bachelorette - Grow Old WIth Me
06 Lucio Battisti - Separazione Naturale
07 Faust'o - Orange
08 Poison Dwarfs - Nachtmahl
09 Wolfgang Voigt - Frieden

absolutely mind blowing. go check it out if you are in london!

WALLS 'RAW UMBER/TWILIGHT' + TOUR DATES

Download 'Raw Umber/Twilight' from our new album 'Coracle' on Pitchfork.

Here's a list of our next shows. See you around!

25 Sep Leeds, Nation Of Shopkeepers UK

27 Sep London, Shacklewell Arms UK

29 Sep Mercury Lounge, NYC USA
01 Oct Cameo Gallery, NYC USA
02 Oct Royale Nightclub, Boston USA +
03 Oct Le National, Montreal CANADA +
04 Oct Phoenix Concert Centre, Toronto CANADA +
05 Oct Grog Shop, Cleveland USA +
06 Oct VIA Festival, Pittsburg USA +

07 Oct Vic Theater, Chicago USA +

08 Oct Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis USA +
11 Oct Wilma Theatre, Missoula USA +

12 Oct Neptune, Seattle USA +
13 Oct Wonder Ballroom, Portland USA +

15 Oct Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco USA

16 Oct Bootleg Bar, Los Angeles USA

17 Oct Mayan Theatre, Los Angeles USA +

26 Oct Nottingham, Rescue Rooms UK

27 Oct Bristol, Start The Bus UK
04 Nov The Hague, Rewire Festival HOLLAND
15 Nov Paris, La Machine FRANCE +
16 Nov Sheffield, The Plug UK +
17 Nov Cork, Cypress Avenue IRELAND *
18 Nov Galway, Roisin Dubh IRELAND *
19 Nov Dublin, Twisted Pepper IRELAND *
20 Nov Liverpool, Kazimer IRELAND *
21 Nov Manchester, Now Wave UK *
23 Nov Brussels, VK BELGIUM *
24 Nov Amsterdam, Studio K HOLLAND *
30 Nov Barcelona, Apolo SPAIN +
01 Dec Madrid, Joy Eslava SPAIN +
02 Dec Bilbao, Café Antzokia SPAIN +
05 Dec Trezzo sull’Adda (Milan), Live Music Club ITALY +
06 Dec Hamburg, Golden Pudel GERMANY
07 Dec Berlin, Postbahnhof (w/ Battes) GERMANY +
10 Dec Minehead, ATP UK

+ with Battles

* with The Field

WALLS 'SUNPORCH' VIDEO

WALLS SUNPORCH 12"

RECORDING PERCUSSIONS FOR THE NEW ALBUM. PLAY THEM ALL AT THE SAME TIME!

bad news

As you may have heard the independent distributor PIAS was a casualty of the senseless riots that took place in London two nights ago. The warehouse completely burned to the ground, and with it, hundreds of thousands of CD's and records released on some amazing labels that we all love. You can find the list of all the labels distributed by PIAS HERE.

The business of these labels will be seriously affected by this so it would be great if you could help these labels out picking up a record from the many amazing ones they released that you've been meaning to buy in your local record store or even better simply going to the labels site and buying an album, a single or whatever even if you downloaded illegaly a phew days ago.

One of these labels, Memphis Industries, released my first album at the beginning of 2011.

You can read HERE what they have to say about it and go HERE to buy some stuff!

alessio

WALLS SUNPORCH

• Photo: Robert Bellamy

Check out the new Walls single coming out on Kompakt on August 29th August. Our new album 'Coracle' will come out on September 27th. Super EXCITED!!

"Sunporch" By Walls by Kompakt

esperanza

ESPERANZA is a great new band from Italy. Their music is super fresh and mixes a million different sounds to create something very original and perfect for this summer. They asked me to sing on one of their songs and I did. Check out their Sirena EP that is coming out on Gomma today. Be sure to check out the Luke Abbott remix too! Enjoy!!

an emotional playlist i've done for the nice people at 716 blog.

banjo mix june

This month's mix is quite nuts.

01 Drums Off Chaos & Jens-Uwe Beyer First Half

02 Deutsche Wertarbeit Auf Engelsflugeln

03 La Monte young B Flat Dorian Blues 19 X 63

04 Karen Black/Harry Freedman The Santanic Choir

05 Conrad Schnitzler Start ID 3

06 Scott Walker The Lady Came From Baltimore

07 Lucio Battisti La Nuova America

08 Maurizio Bianchi Anesthesie Total

09 Robert Fripp Water Music II

10 Gunter Schickert Wald

11 Fugazi Argument

DOWNLOAD THE JUNE MIX.