The Chill Out Tent: May newsletter
Festival frolics, birthday parties and a neolithic deep listening experience
Welcome to The Chill Out Tent newsletter, a monthly transmission that will bring a carefully curated selection of music and other nice things into your life.
Album of the month: House music doesn’t get any deeper than the house music of Frank & Tony. Ethos is probably the finest distillation of their deceptively simple, amazingly beautiful sound.
Also on TCOT turntable: The Horizon is on the Horizon is the first release on Delia Recordings, a new label, event series and magazine from Nottingham. This compilation showcases what they call Nottingham’s Balearic to Laurel Canyon music scene, which means it’s right up our street.
Promised Heights is the third in a trilogy of albums from pioneering Black British act Cymande. This is the 50th anniversary of its release in 1974 and yes, it still sounds fresh 50 years on!
Sensory Blending is a magical musical collaboration between space jazz maestro Jimi Tenor and Italian musical experimentalists Aura Safari.
Summertime shenanigans: We’ve just put together the line-up for The Chill Out Tent at We Are Love festival. And we’re hopelessly excited about:
Richard Norris playing an exclusive Music For Healing set
Phil Mison bringing the Balearic sunshine
Paul Hillery playing an increasingly rare set of Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadors
Live sets from Sonlife and Masiba, and more
Wildblood & Queenie promising smiley acid house dancing
Yoga and gong baths with Amrit, Louise and Hayley
Talks on mushrooms, nutrition therapy, and psychedelics
Plus loads more of your favourite Chill Out Tent DJs and special guests TBC
And, of course, The Legendary Chill Out Tent Birthday Closing Party with Chris Coco, Ben GC and The Balearic Ultras
There are a whole bunch of other exciting artists and events that have come up since we wrote this email. So we will devote a whole newsletter to WAL once all our plans are confirmed - v.soon!
Buy tickets here.
Happy birthday: Our friends at Old Tree Brewery are celebrating their 10th birthday in Brighton’s funky-as-fuck St. Augustines community centre on June 1st. Trust us, these guys know how to throw a party. You can expect funghi and fermentation-themed workshops and crafts in the afternoon, with ceilidh and DJs making you dance into the wee hours. Buy tickets here.
Staying in: A Love Song is a beautiful slow but short movie from 2022 set in the American West, with a soundtrack filled with ambient Americana and scratchy country music played on the wireless. Love, dreams, beautiful landscapes and music - it has The Chill Out Tent written all over it.
Springtime online: Last month we showcased the Knepp Estate’s live Stork Cam and the action has just gone up a level - they have babies! And if you like watching baby birds, then you should check out Sussex Heights’ live peregrine falcon nest cam. How fluffy are they?!? If you watch for long enough, you’ll see Mummy coming home and feeding them. Online entertainment really doesn’t get any better than this. (Warning: not for pigeon fanciers… or anyone squeamish.)
Weird art corner: Explored through the deep time history of the Neolithic in East Brighton and the contemporary soundscape of Whitehawk, the Neolithic Cannibals exhibition ‘Deep Listening to the Unheard’ mixes archaeology, psycho-geography, sound art, and activism. You can visit the Neolithic Camp - a place of communion, celebration, and ritual for free. More details here.
Sunday dinner: You can hear all of our albums of the month (see above) during May at our residency at one of London’s cosiest pubs, the delightful Simon The Tanner in Bermondsey. The Chill Out Tent DJs and some very special guests will be spinning some of their favourite tunes from around 4pm every Sunday.
One more tune: The first Kiasmos album was a bona fide classic and the few tracks released ahead of second one (out July 5th) suggest another beautiful record. The duo of Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds and Faroese musician Janus Rasmussen know just how to touch all those places that make you go “aaaaahhhhh….”
That’s a kinda wistful, lost in beauty sorta feeling.
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