Rachel Taylor-Beales To Release New Album 2015

This week Rachel Taylor- Beales has announced that she will be releasing her new album 

'Stone's Throw-Lament of the Selkie' this year 2015.

'The album features an eclectic bunch of brilliant musicians, who have all been great to work with.
Paul Gray (formerly of The Damned/Eddie and The Hot Rods /UFO) makes a guest appearance on bass for a few tracks. Lucy Rivers has provided beautiful violin throughout with additional cello strings from Rosy Robinson. Dylan Fowler has contributed slide guitars and sonic textures with his unique sound and Angharad Evans has sung additional backing vocals on many tracks. My brother Shane Beales guests on percussion and Bill Taylor-Beales (aka Sir Silence and my husband!) plays more bass, assorted guitars, percussion and a bit of organ- leaving me with main electric/acoustic guitar, piano, organ, ukulele, and lots of vocals...'

For more information on the back story of the album please visit Rachel's blog page

http://www.rachel-t-b.blogspot.co.uk

End Of The Pier, New EP Release From Sir Silence And The Hush

Press Release:

End Of The Pier, By Sir Silence And The Hush

On the 14^thof March 2015, Sir Silence And The Hush are set to release a digital 4 track EP, End OF The Pier on Hushland Records.

End of The Pier EP is a collection of toe-tapping, post apocalyptic folk-rock-roots tunes that have drawn their inspiration from the imagined world of Charlie Hush, the main protagonist in Bill Taylor-Beales debut novel Kite.

The songs chart themes of ‘End Times’ both in terms of unending rain and devastation through climate change, as well a ‘tongue in cheek’ biblical narrative. As a character, Charlie Hush finds himself on the end of the South Parade Pier, with a hotel copy of a Gideon Bible and a pack of tarot cards conversing with the dead souls of those who accidently or deliberately never made it back to shore. He later finds himself to be a victim of a terrifying climate induced event creating a personal apocalyptic scenario to add weight to his many imagined versions. The lyrics are written from the perspective of Charlie’s world with his folk, rabble roots band.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Bill and Rachel Taylor-Beales in their Hushland studio, the EP features an eclectic array of musicians including Paul Gray (former Damned/UFO/Eddie and The Hotrods) on bass.

Lucy Rivers provides violin and Stacey Blythe plays accordion. Their folk-roots melodies crossing over in dialogue and at times almost playfully jousting each other. Percussion from Shane Beales, and a guest appearance on tambourine from Melbourne based Kim Beales serve to make the collection into a family affair, with Bill and Rachel Taylor-Beales supplementing the rest of the instrumentation and vocal arrangements.

On the 14^th of March 2015 Bill Taylor-Beales will be celebrating his 50^th birthday and has decided to release End Of The Pier to coincide with this!

Please accept his invitation to join in the celebrations by downloading End Of The Pier from www.sirsilenceandthehush.bandcamp.com

(available from 14/03/2015)

HUSHLAND LIVE EP

HUSHLAND NEWS

We are pleased to announce that selected live tracks from Sir Silence and Rachel Taylor-Beales radio sessions on BBC Wales Evening Show are now available to download as an EP for free on Bandcamp!

(click on the link to download)

http://racheltaylor-beales.bandcamp.com/album/hushland-live-at-the-bbc-radio-wales

Rachel is currently enjoying maternity leave and making good progress and recovery from her back injuries, the physio thinks she'll be fit enough to begin performing again by the summer! Plans to record her next CD are now underway!

Bill is busy with the People Around Here arts charity working with young people across Cardiff, and will be donning the Sir Silence hat with another cross art/multi media project later this year,

Polly Summer Taylor-Beales now 5 months is very much enjoying jumping to banjo and ukulele tunes everyday!

Rachel Taylor-Beales New Live Album Released!

PRESS RELEASE AUGUST 2012

RACHEL TAYLOR-BEALES RELEASES NEW LIVE ALBUM

AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD FREE FROM BANDCAMP AUGUST 01/ 2012

In June 2012 Rachel and her collective of highly talented musicians were due to enter Welsh Studio Felin Fach and record a 6 track EP of new songs featuring special guests including her previous collaborator multi-instrumentalist and guitar virtuoso Dylan Fowler as well as the highly acclaimed bassist Paul Gray (formerly of The Damned/ Eddie And The Hot Rods/ UFO/ New York Dolls and more)

However, in May just 4 weeks prior to the recording dates, Rachel (then 24 weeks pregnant) fell from stage during a sound-check while on tour in Italy and sustained immobilizing injuries to her lower back and hip, (fortunately the baby was fine and unharmed!)

In light of this all plans and projects scheduled for the coming weeks and months had to be postponed and cancelled as recovery and intensive physiotherapy to restore her body in readiness for the birth of her baby due at the end of August had to take priority!

In the weeks that followed Rachel’s injuries new plans were formed.

The studio EP received an upgrade to full-length album and will be recorded and released in 2013, still featuring the skills of her collective as well as Paul Gray, Dylan Fowler and some additional special guests!

In its place Rachel has decided to release a Live Album of 8 selected tracks recorded with her  ‘Extraordinary Collective’ at a gig in Newport University earlier this year.

The chosen songs reflect new and current arrangements of some familiar tunes. Catrin Anghard (aka Angharad Evans) provides additional lyrics sung in Welsh language. Cellist, Rosy Robinson brings extra backing vocal harmonies as well as new cello dynamic parts while multi-instrumentalist Dylan Fowler adds his electric guitar, slide and piano and mandocello into the mix.

The collective were also joined by two hidden members at the time of recording as Rachel was then 14 weeks pregnant and Rosy 20 weeks!

The ‘Live at Newport University’ album is released on Hushland Records and will be available to download for free on Band-Camp from August the 1st 2012. Rachel will then be on maternity leave after this time but will be taking bookings again after May 2013. For more info and updates in the meantime please visit her website and follow her on twitter.

www.racheltaylor-beales.com

www.hushland.com

http://racheltaylor-beales.bandcamp.com/   

(New LIVE CD available to download for free from August the 1^st 2012)

COPY/ LINER NOTES FOR LIVE ALBUM 2012

RACHEL TAYLOR-BEALES AND HER EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTIVE LIVE AT NEWPORT UNIVERSITY 2012

SONGS:

DIGGING SONG

TURNAROUND TOWN

COME ON IN

CHILD IN THE SUN

MELANCHOLY

WAITING FOR YOU

LIBERTY

HERE WE GO

NOTES: THESE ARE A SELECTION OF SONGS TAKEN FROM A GIG THAT WAS PERFORMED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES NEWPORT CAMPUS AS PART OF THE CULT CYMRU CREATIVE INDUSTRIES FAIR IN MARCH 2012

http://www.cultcymru.org/

http://www.musiciansunion.org.uk/

MUSICIANS:

RACHEL TAYLOR-BEALES: VOCALS/ ACOUSTIC GUITARS/ ELECTRIC GUITAR/ BANJO

WWW.RACHELTAYLOR-BEALES.COM

DYLAN FOWLER: MANDOCELLO /ELECTRIC GUITAR/ SLIDE/ PIANO

WWW.TAITHRECORDS.CO.UK

CATRIN ANGHARAD: BACKING VOCALS WELSH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ROSY ROBINSON: CELLO / ADDITIONAL BACKING VOCALS

ENGINEERED AND RECORDED BY BILL TAYLOR-BEALES

WWW.BILLTAYLOR-BEALES.COM

MIXED AND MASTERED BY RACHEL AND BILL TAYLOR-BEALES @ HUSHLAND STUDIOS CARDIFF 2012 WWW.HUSHLAND.COM

WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO MY ‘EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTIVE’ OF MUSOS AND FRIENDS WHO GIVE SO MUCH OF THEIR TIME EXPERTISE AND CREATIVITY! TO BILL FOR ALWAYS BEING ON HAND TO HELP IN SO MANY WAYS AND MAKE THINGS WORK FOR THE BEST! AND TO PAUL GRAY FOR HIS CONTINUED SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT!

Rachels upcoming gigs and projects postponed due to injury

UNFORTUNATELY, RACHEL'S UP COMING GIGS/ RECORDING PROJECT HAVE NEEDED TO BE CANCELED AND POSTPONED DUE TO INJURY FROM FALLING FROM STAGE WHILE ON TOUR IN ITALY. FOR MORE INFO PLEASE SEE RACHEL'S BLOG POST... http://www.rachel-t-b.blogspot.co.uk/

Rachel in Italy

Rachel has just confirmed that she'll be playing 3 dates in Italy May 4th/5th/6th...
More info on this coming soon...

Creative Industries Fair March 3rd

Rachel has been invited to be a part of Cult Cymru's Creative industries fair, in Newport, March the 3rd 2012.
She will be playing music sessions throughout the day and also guesting on a panel discussing 'Out of The Box, Freelance Survival'
For more info and to register for your free place please follow the link http://cultcymrufair.wordpress.com/