Messol featuring Amy Tweddle - Rome in Fall / Autodidact

 

Treehouse Orchestra Recordings 2023

01 Rome in Fall

02 Autodidact

First new release of 2023 from Cumbria label Treehouse Orchestra Recordings. This one is a collaboration between Marc Gillen (Brocken Spectre, The Nightowl Sings) and Amy Tweddle (We/Are/Quasars).

Marc Gillen - Drum machine, keyboards, samples and vocals.

Amy Tweddle - Guitar and vocals.

Mixed and arranged by Alastair Popple at the Kitchen Sync.

Recorded at home 2022-23.

Words by Marc Gillen.

Artwork by Stephen Benson.

'Rome In Fall' contains a modified extract from "Night on the Docks - Sax" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License - creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Film dialogue on 'Autodidact' from 'Human Desire' [Fritz Lang 1954).

TOR091.

Messol featuring Eleanor Servanté - Battle of Black Beck / Faint Lines

 

Treehouse Orchestra Recordings TOR076. 2020.

01 Battle of Black Beck

02 Faint Lines

Marc Gillen: Guitars, keyboards and sounds.

with Eleanor Servanté: Vocals.

Words by Marc Gillen.

Recorded at home, August - September 2020.

Mixed and arranged by Alastair Popple at the Kitchen Sync.

Photography by Marc Gillen.

"Messol is a new project for me, the idea being I write a song, ask someone to sing it, use it as an A-side. Then I write a B-side, maybe an instrumental or a little experiment, then put it out as a single. Repeat and fade, maybe one day if I get a few done it will make for a cool wonky mixtape.

If I'm really lucky different singers will sing the songs and bring something to the words and melody that goes places I would not. A chance to see what opens up. It's always fascinating to hear someone sing your words, collaboration is a beautiful thing.

I am thrilled that Eleanor Servanté agreed to sing on these two tracks; after hearing the wonderful 'Distaff Lines', I knew I wanted Eleanor to sing 'Battle of Black Beck', which I wrote three years ago and it was going to be a Mystery Spring song, but it always seemed to slip away quietly. It was always the odd one out. Three years of roaming and now Eleanor has given it a home."