Boiler Room

We were on the Boiler Room not so long ago:

Live on Boiler Room TV / NTS - Monday Nov 5

Stoked to announce that Paco Sala will be joining NTS & Boiler Room TV for a special live broadcast. The whole thing will be both broadcast and analogue recorded live - and select cuts from those involved will then committed to vinyl. Full details. Log in from 7pm GMT to see the whole show - or email me antony dot harrison at gmail dot com before friday if you'd like to come along to the actual show (no tickets available). Stoked.

Power Lunches this Thursday

We are playing out this Thursday at Power Lunches with Martin Creed, Apostille, Joanne Robertson. Its free. I love Power Lunches.

News

...new songs, releases, shows, shit... soon...

Paco at the Pylon

Us live at the exotic pylon in june + some magic from mr mugwump;

29/06/12 - Paco Sala and jonny mugwump by Exotic Pylon on Mixcloud

Live on the Exotic Pylon - TONIGHT -

Yo....
We are live on the Exotic Pylon show tonight! Tune in to 104.4 Resonance FM from 9 this evening.

Plus there's a new Paco track available, together with 22 other juicy chunks of sonic goodness,  over at the hot new Digitalis website. Its a smart, smart comp...

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Live at Kristina Records pic...

Thanks to Ozden Demir for this shot from the Paco Sala/Kristina Records in-store...

Twitterer

Yo.
We are now on twitter @paco_sala
Be smashing if you were a follower

Some other really important stuff:

1. Thanks to all that came to Kristina for the in-store. Thanks for coming along, drinking, nodding your heads, buying the record and sticking about after.

2. I'm currently finishing the vocal mixes for the next Paco release. Its called 'The Fog'.
It'll be digital and cassette only for this one & again on Digitalis - probably toward the end of the summer.

3. We are playing live on the Exotic Pylon Radio show June 29th.  Expect some new material.

4. We are really very available for bookings. mail me: antony.harrison@gmail.com

In Store later

Dear Dalston,We are at Kristina Records (near Bardens) for an in-store set later on. Starts at 7.
We'll be playing almost nothing from the record.
You can bring your own booze and cruise the records racks while we play...and buy copies of the record of course...
See you later Dalston...

Kristina Records free in-store this Thursday...

Ro-Me-Ro availability + In Store

Dear Londoners,

You can buy Ro-me-ro at Kristina records NOW. They even have a couple of the clear vinyl pressings.

We will be doing a free in-store show at Kristina May 17th.

Please come along.

Ro-Me-Ro is album of the week at Boomkat

Ro-Me-Ro is out NOW and is AOTW at Boomkat. Yes!

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The first few come on transparent vinyl. There is a MP3/FLAC option as well...
Here is the review:

*Initial copies come on strictly limited transparent vinyl* Oh my, Digitalis strike pure gold with one of the finest debuts we've heard on the label since the magnificent pair of Motion Sickness of Time Travel albums last year, a killer amalgam of squashed beats, lo-fi pop and narcotic, slo-jams hugely recommended if you're into Hype Williams, Nite Jewel or Julee Cruise. Paco Sala is the work of producer Anthony Harrison (Konntinent), now working with celestially enigmatic vocalist, Leyli, who between them evoke a dreamstate of introspective ambience, solitary R&B and heavenly-crushed Pop. It's radically different to anything else you'll have heard on Digitalis - bar, of course this record's predecessor, a C38 starring Felicia Atkinson which was quietly ushered out on the label in 2011. In any case, this is essentially your first encounter with Paco, and trust us, it promises to be a very memorable one. Leyli's vocals are the stunning central feature to seven of the ten songs, from the crystalline beauty of 'Gifts Of The Bloom' to the sub-tropical breeze of 'Spiral' and the deserted Roadhouse vibes of 'Earn Your Stripe', but it's when they're coupled with the uniquely skewed variety of Paco's productions that we can measure this safely in the realms of brilliance. Between the lingering shuffle and mind-melting melody of 'Dumb Truths' to the Vatican Shadow-like bruise of 'Blank Legend', 'Spiral's sepia-tinted imagining of AC Marias-meets-Fatima Al Qadiri or the dry-docked Yacht vision of 'Legacy Edition', you've got a genuinly stunning addition to the outer-Pop sphere. The best thing on Digitalis since Jürgen Müller's 'Science Of The Sea'?: Easily. A massive recommendation.

Verb/re/verb

Thanks also to the verb/re/verb folks for:

Some foreign daisy sea that existed nowhere but constantly. With trick and delay, slight envy and winking, a shift of planes like shift of grey streets, the bloom, waving bouquets, and over capacity the daisy’s were born out of a pregnant hill somewhere in nowhere, that existed constantly. She called it the “Gifts of the Bloom”, and timed it for further than spring, the daisy affair ended only when she wished. As she aged she wished more often. Until the “Gifts of the Bloom” was simply some childhood everyday holiday. And still, it existed nowhere, but not constantly.

Dumb Truths

I've been in Chicago - its a beautiful place. If you feel like wading through a bunch of iPhone pics, be my guest

Back to London and back  to Paco, you can now stream the album title track from the Digitalis bandcamp

The next digi-single 'Earn Your Stripe' is also going to be available real soon - and the full album proper to follow...

Some Beach Sloth

And some more Gifts love from Beach Sloth...
http://beachsloth.blogspot.com/2012/03/paco-sala-gifts-of-bloom-71.html
Cheers Beach Sloth!

Gifts of the Bloom @ No Fear of Pop

Smart write up of Gifts of the Bloom over at No Fear of Pop...

 “Gifts of the Bloom” is the first single from Ro-me-ro, Paco Sala’s forthcoming LP on Digitalis. Paco Sala is the side project by Konntinent‘s Antony Harrison, who was recently joined by vocalist Leyli. The result of this encounter is a truly marvelous affair, a restrained yet lush pop tune that starts out slowly and almost carefully until Harrison’s looped instrumentation and Leyli’s multiply layered, crystal-clear vocals intermingle, lift off and eventually vanish into ethereal, otherworldly spheres.


Cheers No Fear Of Pop!

You can get Gifts of the Bloom now over at the digitalis bandcamp for a dollar
Ro-me-ro is expected to drop early/mid April

Paco'd

Its time Paco got a home of its own - and this is it.
Lets start with:
Thanks to Leyli, Inca Gold and everyone that took time out to say nice stuff about our debut show last night. I didnt screw up and Leyli sounded glorious - first show nailed & the night bus home...
Thanks also to the postman & D&M in Berlin for the Ro-me-ro test pressing which arrived yesterday...its a wonderful thing.
Done.