OverWorlds – Listen

Take yourself to the OverWorlds and UnderWorlds website and look at the map. There you will see many pins. Find Armley. A GG-shaped surprise awaits you there.

Listen Again to The Silver Satchel – Thirteenth Folio

This is the Thirteenth Folio taken from The Silver Satchel, Golau Glau‘s radio show. The Silver Satchel broadcasts on the fourth Wednesday of every month, from 6-8pm UK time on Space Invader FM.

Unbuckle the leather satchel, silvery and mysterious and crammed with books and papers. Carefully slide out the binder of past papers labelled “Difficult Questions”. Within is contained the thirteenth folio of curios for broadcast. Blow off the dust and breathe in the magic… 

TRACKLISTING:

On Again, On Again! – Jake Thackray
Mini Culcha – Mo Kolours
Am I The Same Girl? – Dusty Springfield
Flat Luxury – Golau Glau
If I Knew You Were Coming I’d Have Baked A Cake – Gracie Fields
Is It Because I’m Black? – Ken Boothe
Games People Play – Joe South
Your Trip to Disneyland – Walt Disney Productions
A Simple Game – The Four Tops
Myth – Beach House
Stone Cold – Groove Chronicles
Moanin’ – Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers
Existinct – THEESatisfaction
Puts Me to Work – Cate Le Bon
Funky Breaks (extract) – Klaus Weiss
Highland Muse – Yatri
The Last Day – Golau Glau
Porterhouse – Oliver Trevin
What A Morning – Roland Kovac New Set
[What Shall We Do With] The Drunken Sailor – Synthesonic Sounds
Everyday People – Sacramento Senior High School
Hook You Up – Sylver Tongue
Neutron – John McEntire
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger – James Stewart
How Could We Be Wrong? (Remastered) – Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & His Orchestra
Out Of Our Sight – Chris Watson
Thump Thump – The Jet Age Of Tomorrow
A Qui Le P’Tit Coeur Apres 9 Heures – Roger Miron
Wild Horses – Prefab Sprout
It Miek – Desmond Dekker And The Aces
Boom! Shake the Room – DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince
Come Back And Shake Me – Clodagh Rodgers

STREAM THE SHOW ON MIXCLOUD

Revenant Branch

We have a brand new EP out for free download from Bandcamp, Revenant Branch. Revenant Branch is an EP by Golau Glau in celebration of National Libraries Day 2012. This is the sound of the revenant library branch, the ghosts of dead libraries returning from the grave to remind us not to close any more.

Many of the sounds on the EP were recorded in public libraries across England that have now closed down.

Golau Glau are working on a book about public libraries as part of our ‘Public Interest’ project. We passionately believe in them as sources of culture, information and lifelong learning, and places of non-commercial, accessible society and sanctuary for all.

National Libraries Day
National Libraries Day is one day devoted to all libraries – public libraries, school and university libraries, prison, national, law, business and commercial libraries. A nation-wide celebration of libraries, librarians and library staff in all sectors in the UK. It takes place this year on 4th February 2012, which is tomorrow at the time of writing. Please visit your local library and support #NLD12

The Yule Cat Video

The video for ‘The Yule Cat’ from ‘The Masque Of Bruma’ EP is here!

Download ‘The Masque Of Bruma’ free from Bandcamp

You can also read blogs about the EP from Warren Ellis, Paul Cornell, Jim Jupp (Ghost Box), Stubby’s World Of Christmas, Chatiryworld and Dans le mur…du son! 

The Masque Of Bruma

The 2011 Golau Glau seasonal spectacular is here!

The Masque Of Bruma is a festive EP out now for free download from Bandcamp.

A masque is an amateur dramatic entertainment of the 16th to 17th centuries in England, consisting of pantomime, dancing, dialogue, and song, often performed at court. It seems appropriate for our motley collection of: a brand new song about the Icelandic myth of the Yule Cat, a radiophonic take on a classic mummers play, beautiful Christmas carols, a remix by Ghost Box‘s resident genius The Advisory Circle and a little wassailing.

Illustrations by the lovely Dom Cooper.

2011 Seasonal Spectacular

Coming soon from Golau Glau…free to download later this month. This year: The Masque Of Bruma awaits.

While you’re waiting, we advise that you enjoy SPEKTRMODULE 2 by Warren Ellis, featuring our very own ‘Seeing This Shape’. Or our Christmas EP from last year, Myrrh & Myth.

The Silver Satchel – Seventh Folio archive/tracklisting

This is the Seventh Folio taken from The Silver Satchel, Golau Glau‘s radio show on Space Invader FM. The Silver Satchel broadcasts on the fourth Wednesday of every month, from 6-8pm UK time. The show is now up to stream on Mixcloud (tracklisting below):

THE SILVER SATCHEL – THE SEVENTH FOLIO 24 AUGUST 2011

Unbuckle the leather satchel, silvery and mysterious and crammed with books and papers. Carefully slide out the pile of papers marked for shredding and stamped with “Unrest”. Within is contained the seventh folio of curios for broadcast. Blow off the dust and breathe in the magic…

TRACKLISTING:

Barbaric, Classical, Solemn – The National Gallery
And I Love You So – Perry Como
Pulse Persephone – Daphne Oram
Madeleina (12″) – Pablo Lubadika Porthos
Big Baby – Spectrals
(You’re) Timeless To Me – Christopher Walken & John Travolta
Indian Love Call (GG Refix) – Slim Whitman
5 The Party – Golau Glau (an extract from ‘HENRY – The Methods of Ethics 2011′)
Black Dot, White Spider – Seeland
Somewhere – P J Proby
All In The Golden Afternoon – Disney
Fruhstuck, Fernsehen, Schlafen – Staubsauger
Doctor My Eyes – Jackson 5
Jordu – Emil Richards and The Microtonal Blues Band
Discussions With Salome, Daughter Of Herodius – Milo Moesche
Dil Sajan Jalta Hai – Asha Bhosle
I Resign Myself To Being Here – John Giorno
Inaugural Trams – Super Furry Animals
Polly Vaughan – Shirley Collins
Mr Taylor’s Trousers – Dolly Dolly
I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman – Whistling Jack Smith
Inspector – Golau Glau (an extract from ‘Public Interest’)
Scared Of Spiders – Kenickie
We’ll Turn Things Upside Down (When The Revolution Comes) – It’s Immaterial
Glad To Be Gay (Secret Policeman’s Ball) – Tom Robinson
Keep Your Heart Right – Terry Callier
Right Field – Peter, Paul & Mary
Flowers – William Loose, Stu Phillips, Marvin Elling
Police On My Back – The Equals
Eudemonics/Naked Space – Golau Glau
You Will Keep Me Then – John Barry
Moondancer – Meco
My Name Is Nobody – Ennio Morricone
An Argument With Myself – Jens Lekman
Two Of The Beatles Are Dead – Keith Top Of The Pops & His Minor UK Indie All-Star Celebrity Backing Band
I Am A Call Girl – Ranu Mukherjee
Mr Sandman – The Chordettes

Electronic Encounters

We contributed a new song to the Electronic Encounters compilation, which is out NOW for FREE download.

New music inspired by the 1977 Steven Spielberg movie – Close Encounters of the Third Kind 

The Golau Glau tune ‘Seeing This Shape’ kicks off the album, which also features tracks from the likes of Pye Corner Audio and Dolly Dolly.

The Silver Satchel – Sixth Folio archive/tracklisting

This is the Sixth Folio taken from The Silver Satchel, Golau Glau‘s radio show on Space Invader Radio. The Silver Satchel broadcasts on the fourth Wednesday of every month, from 6-8pm UK time.

Unbuckle the leather satchel, silvery and mysterious and crammed with books and papers. Carefully slide out the lightly bound stack of mimeographed worksheets entitled “Summer – Holiday Reading List”. Within is contained the sixth folio of curios for broadcast. Blow off the dust and breathe in the magic… 

STREAM THE SILVER SATCHEL – SIXTH FOLIO ON MIXCLOUD

TRACKLISTING:

Music Box – Synthe-Sound-Trax
Follow The Sunshine – The Yellow Balloon
Sunny Skies – James Taylor
Summer Rain – Johnny Rivers
Mikuu Mise Mibaa Don – The Black Beats Band led by King Bruce
One Summer Night – The Danleers
Stranger In My Own Home Town – Elvis Presley
Summertime – Peaking Lights
Summertime Dream – Gordon Lightfoot
All On A Summer’s Day – Syd Dale
Paradise – Jean Adebambo
Summertime Love – Anthony Perkins & Chorus
Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) – Spiller
Midnight City – M83
The Height of Summer – The Knife
Last Of The Summer Wine – Ronnie Hazlehurst
Spring, Summer, Autumn – The Style Council
Jellyhead (Radio Edit) – Crush
The Long, Hot Summer – Dick Haymes
Summer Games – Golau Glau
A Summer Long Since Passed – Virginia Astley
Innocence Elsewhere – The Advisory Circle
Summer Soft – Stevie Wonder
Delius (Song Of Summer) – Kate Bush
Feel (Lotide Mix) – Nightwave
That Summer Feeling – Jonathan Richman
Southern Nights – Glen Campbell
Sun Goddess – Henry Mancini
(There Is) No Greater Love – Amy Winehouse
Sun Is Rising – Mr Beatnick
Acid Man – Jolly Roger
Summer Holiday (GG Refix) – Cliff Richard
Saddled With Sunshine – Val Merrall Orchestra
10,000 Bulbs – Golau Glau
Tell that Girl to Shut Up – Holly and the Italians
Automatically Sunshine – The Supremes

Compline

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GOLAU GLAU – COMPLINE