Releases

American Royalty

MATCHSTICK (Red Vinyl)

American Royalty

[Vinyl] 7"

2012, Seaport Music Records

VINYL FORMAT. "Matchstick" is the title track of both the a-side of this 7” red vinyl, and the debut EP (Guns in the Sun Records) bearing the same name, by rising Los Angeles-based psychedelic, blues-rock trio American Royalty.

This 7” b-side features the track “I’ve Been Fighting for You.” Each limited-edition record is hand-numbered (200). 

American Royalty is comprised of lead vocalists Billy Scher and Marc Gilfry whose eerie, soulful harmonies combine with guitars, samplers, drums, and synths in a unlikely blending of dark garage rock with poignant electronica, resulting in what has been critically dubbed “an impossible cross between The Black Keys and Boys Noize.”

Tracklisting

Disc 1

A Side          Matchstick

B Side          I’ve Been Fighting for You

The Witness Protection Programme

THE WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAMME

FLAT FOOT Limited Edition 12" Vinyl

Featuring remixes from:

Stone Bridge

DJ Meme

Richard Morel

Louie Balo & Trackkula

Bander

Pimpsoul

and a full orchestral remix by Liam Bates

gLab

Limited Edition 7" Vinyl

Delivery is the debut release of the indie/electronic trio gLab. Based out of an obscure repair shop in Dublin, Ireland, the single features the title track “Delivery” on the A side and the grown-up “Itsy Bitsy Spider Song” on the B side.  

Delivery is vinyl pressed in limited edition of 250, and includes a free digital download. Both songs were recorded and produced by Dubliner Martin Clancy, artist in residence at Seaport Music Records, who weaves a curious story of how the band, and record, came to be.  

About the Band
gLab is Greg G, aka “Mr. G” of Mr. G Repairs (vox), Allie Jerome (vox) and Martin Clancy (music).  The trio first met as Clancy, in the midst of a trans-Atlantic musical project with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, found himself in need of a Saviour to rescue his digital music files from a waterlogged, and seemingly dead, laptop he accidentally dropped into a storm drain.  The files needed to be sent to the U.S. by that evening.  Panicked, Clancy stumbled into a coffee shop where he found a phone booth and a tattered book of yellow pages bearing the date 1999.  Flipping through the pages, Clancy spotted a small tombstone ad that read, “Mr. G Repairs…pretty much anything.”  

After a quick call, Clancy found himself in a battered old Belingo van heading through the Dublin Mountains in the company of Mr. G.  The pair ended up at an old brick warehouse -- both a repair shop and home for Mr. G, and a one Ms. Allie Jerome.  With the laptop dismantled on a workbench piled with discarded motherboards and a sundry electronic parts, the musical contents of the all-important files became known, which lead to the appearance of a karaoke machine. The rest of the afternoon merged into one surreal memory, with Clancy recording the musical noises of Mr. G’s improvisational verse derived from a Japanese server manual and sung through copper tubing, and Allie’s percussive accompaniment on a martini glass while continually shouting "oh oh oh oh,” and thus becoming gLab.  

Today, Clancy returns regularly to the warehouse to write and record with Allie and Mr. G – who, respectively, mix and pour musical libations and offer online repairs for all manner of electronic devices. Information on gLab, as well as the retail sale of a series of bespoke inverters, motherboard testers and laptop chargers, is available at www.gLab.cc.