Kingem Records – The Land of The Pop

What’s so special about Christmas songs? Is this kind of silly and very short term vogue goin’ to hold his own place and stand out as a real music genre or is this to be included in the list of silly stuff you’re forced to do in a failing attempt of being cool? As for Christmas 2011 and Tiny Tide seemed a lot like the perfect excuse to challenge its own imagination, since the Italian pop band released a little EP following the old route of Dickens and his Christmas ghost stories.

Not only the EP is ironically called “A Christmas Without Carol”, yet holds three songs called “Vintage Angel (Song of Chirstmas Past)”, “Christmas Lima Bean (Song of Alternative Christmas Present)” and “Noel On The Moon (Song of Christmas Future)”. This new release also include a bonus track called “Cheap Crhistmas”, just recorded for the notorious Italian indie blog “Polaroid”.

You can also get the EP and Polaroid Christmas compilation clicking here and here. Here to buy someone an handmade gift.

Art was made by Claire “Atta Girl” Goldthorp. Do check her site here.

Tiny Tide are back with a new EP called “A Protest”. This work collects a couple of songs originally meant to released by a Swedish label (thing that never happened) with some other ballads and a protest song written and recorded in just two weeks to fit the photography session made by the young talent Francesca Nik Adamo. The EP is featuring Paolo Pugliese from the Italian band Les Fauves and  a cameo by Jon Hardy from The Pristines. You can have more details and buy the album here.

This album is dedicated to The Zucchetti Anti-WallStreet Protest Scene.

A Forest (Tiny Tide) from Kingem Records on Vimeo.

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It’s not without feeling a little bit guilt for not having found the time to give this little update the importance it deserved, that I’m pretty proud to announce and introduce you to one of the most exciting indie projects of the year: the indie lo-fi twee theme ep “Fall to Fall”. What if a chanteuse from Indonesia would met a singer from Italy and they started to collaborate to a couple of song? Penny drops! After an interview on SleepWalKing Magazine (R.I.P.) and a collaboration on Tiny Tide album “There’s A Girl That Never Goes Out”, Mark and Rima had so much fun that decided to join each other’s bands from Italy and Indonesia working on an EP about the passing of seasons. “Fall to Fall” was born!

The album also features Porlock on the beatles-que “Tea Time Intermission”while the track “Vacaciones de Invierno” is inspired by a collection of poems by Carolina Quiñonez Salpietro, from Lima. (everything falls into place, considering that Annemarie first release was from Plastilina Records, from the same city). You can find more information on the project on Tiny Tide page here and – above all - buy the CDR here. The EP come along with a picture and a poem of Rima. Come along and celebrate Fall!

Despite how much confusing it may seems, Tiny Tide REAL new album is out! What make it even harder to believe is that this collection of “impossible love songs” is called “There’s A Girl That Never Goes Out”, just to make clear that we’re in love with indie pop and we really wanted this album to be an epic explosion of lo-fi modern dittos. Songs were written and recorded winter 2010/2011, vocals and mixing made on different sessions on “Faith&Fame Studio”  between March and June. Album cover and art was made by Nicola Guerra and Jonathan Lee Hart, Simona Rovida and Rimauli Dindani from Annermarie appears on some tracks as guests. More information here.

YOU CAN GET THE ALBUM HERE. ENJOY.

Seems really strange to announce the release of an album… BEFORE the new album that was actually expected. But here we go: Tiny Tide‘s “Plato’s Summer Diary” – recorded in three weeks during Summer 2001 – is a quick collection of lo-fi songs inspired by live shows, tv-series and so many other inputs that hit Mark Zonda along his way back from the beach. You can have more information on the album here. Enjoy.

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