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You can finally listen to the album in its entirety on the website of Spanish magazine Mondo Sonoro, as well as listen to / watch tracks that I selected for somehow having had an influence on the album’s making and contents, here. I wrote a small text in Spanish to accompany each track, but even if you don’t speak Spanish, I still hope you’ll enjoy that extra “window” into the album’s world !

Seven tracks of the album can also be listened to on David Garland’s Spinning on Air programme, on New York radio WNYC. I had the pleasure of doing a live session for David back in 2005, so I’m honoured that he chose to feature the album so prominently in his excellent radio show, and find his view of the record (as focusing on a play on proportions) really interesting. Listen here.

I hope you will enjoy all of these!

Second Language, the label releasing The Weighing of the Heart, run a suscription system whereby by suscribing to get the next 5 releases of the label (including my album), you will get an exclusive item with each album. For The Weighing… , we asked Iker Spozio, the author of almost all of my artwork so far, to make some hand-made prints: Iker made 6 different linoleum engravings, and printed 25 copies of each. You can see the engravings and part of the process below: no machine whatsoever is involved, it really is all done by hand, one colour at a time.

The majority of the prints are already reserved for current suscribers, but there are a few left for new suscribers, so if you’re tempted, go here (of course this is while stocks last, so if you really are suscribing to get a print, be sure to ask beforehand !).

I’ll be playing live in Crystal palace (South London) at the very intimate Antenna Studios (65-capacity) on 7^th June, with Klima opening. Only 50 tickets are available, so grab these while you can! More details in the FUTURE SHOWS section.

“Humming Fields” has been chosen as a Rough Trade/Guardian Track Of The Week.

This is a UK-only MP3 subscription service offered by Rough Trade in partnership with the Guardian, so if you subscribe this week you’ll actually receive, among other tracks, “Humming fields”.

“Humming fields” video on Youtube

Makino Takashi’s video for “Humming Fields”, which premiered in Tokyo last Saturday, is now visible on Youtube and just below here. Thank you so much Makino!

Live in Portugal and Dublin in May

I’m also finally able to announce the first gigs that will open my May-June small European tour: I’ve chosen one of my favourite countries, Portugal, as the place to do my first concerts after more than 4 years away from the stage. I’ve always felt really comfortable and welcome in Portugal, so I didn’t doubt for a second that this was where I would make my “comeback” ;-) So get ready Lisbon, Coimbra and Guimarães on May 23rd, 24th and 25th!

It is also with lots of excitement that I’m going back to Dublin, another place I love for its warm audiences, and I’m told that the Unitarian Church is stunning, so I hope that many of you will come to this show on May 31st!

All details in the Live Shows / Future Shows section. And there will be many more shows this autumn and dates will be posted over the summer.

Second Language preorder

Finally, Second Language, the label that is releasing The Weighing of the Heart, are now taking preorders on their website. Please know that if you buy the album directly from the label, both the label and myself greatly benefit from this, so if your idea by buying the album is to support us, then indeed their website is the best place to do this!

Many thanks for your support as always :-)))

The opening track of my new album The Weighing of the Heart, “Push The Boat Onto The Sand”, can now be heard exclusively on FACT magazine, here. I hope you will enjoy this first peek into the album’s sonic world!