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Christmas at Fika Recordings

We've a host of Christmas releases to keep you going through the festive season. Our double albums from Norwegian Christmas supergroup Sunturns:

<a href="http://shop.fikarecordings.com/album/christmas-i-ii">Christmas I & II by Sunturns</a>

A four track EP from Allo Darlin's Bill Botting:

<a href="http://shop.fikarecordings.com/album/its-not-christmas-anymore">It's Not Christmas Anymore by Bill Botting & The Two Drink Minimums</a>

A long sold out 6 track 10" from Darren Hayman:

<a href="http://darrenhayman.fikarecordings.com/album/christmas-in-haworth">Christmas In Haworth by Darren Hayman</a>

And our mammoth free/pay-what-you-like advent calendar from 2011: (and don't forget the advent calendar site, with downloads, artwork, prose and more)

<a href="http://shop.fikarecordings.com/album/darren-hayman-fika-recordings-advent-calendar">Darren Hayman & Fika Recordings advent calendar by Various Artists</a>

Finally, here's a Spotify playlist if that's more your bag...

Happy Christmas!

Bill Botting & The Two Drink Minimums - Graceland [Digital]

Artist: Bill Botting & The Two Drink Minimums
Title: Graceland
Format: Digital single
Cat#: Fika059SG1
Release date: 10th December 2016
Bandcamp | Spotify

Allo Darlin' are sadly no more, playing their farewell shows at Moth Club and the Scala this weekend. But it's not all bad news - Allo Darlin's Bill Botting has recorded a solo record! He's assembled an all-star band, featuring Hannah 'little sis' Botting (Owl & Mouse), Paul 'Thunder' Rain (Allo Darlin'/Tigercats), Tom 'Filibuster' Wade (Owl & Mouse) and Jonny 'Huddersfield' Helm (The Wave Pictures). You can pre-order the album on vinyl, CD or digitally right now, and get an immediate download of Graceland to tide you over until the album's release in the spring.

Introducing Enderby's Room

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I found some notes recently from when I was first setting up the label 6 or so years ago, listing some of the bands I'd love to release once I'd worked out what the hell starting a record label actually entailed. Tucked up near the top of that list was Enderby's Room.

So, I'm really quite chuffed to say that today we're releasing the debut single from Enderby's Room. It'll be followed up with a couple more digital singles and a proper 7" in February, and a full album is on it's way to manufacture now - expect that to be out in April.

Enderby’s Room is fiddle player Dan Mayfield, once from rural Lincolnshire, but he has now found home living in London. His folk tinged songs reflect on his traditional folk upbringing, which included playing fiddle for Morris dancing sides around the country. Mayfield has played fiddle for many artists including Daniel Johnston, Darren Hayman, The Wave Pictures and Allo Darlin.

Over the past ten years he has gently built up a collection of his own songs, which he performs with his band Enderby’s Room. The name comes from an Anthony Burgess character called Mr Enderby who composed his prose inside the toilet. The band’s make up has been constantly evolving; around 30 different individuals have been a part of Enderby’s Room over the last decade, before settling on the current 5 piece lineup.

Enderby’s Room’s sound features a Victorian pedal harmonium, together with French horn, double bass, ukulele, guitar and percussion.

Lakeside, the first single from their forthcoming debut album, is one of the first songs that Mayfield composed, taken from the perspective of someone longing to be with someone they can’t be with. There are themes of nature and listening which also feature throughout the rest of music on the forthcoming album. Mayfield is joined by Emma Winston (Deerful, Owl & Mouse) on vocals in this lamenting duet.

As well as Enderby’s Room, Mayfield set up School of Noise which encourages young people to be creative with sound, using unusual noise making and sound sculpting machines. This project has seen him take workshops to the Green Man and End of the Road festivals as well as the Southbank Centre, Museum of London, Great Ormond Street Hospital and primary schools around the country.

Spotify | iTunes | Bandcamp

Here's Enderby's Room playing Lakeside live at Union Chapel for Daylight Music:

Stanley Brinks and the Old Time Kaniks - Right Down My Alley [Digital]

Right Down My Alley is the first single taken from Stanley Brinks and The Old Time Kaniks forthcoming double album Vieilles Caniques et Nouvelles Caniques.

Spotify | iTunes | Bandcamp | Soundcloud

Pre-order the double vinyl, double CD or digital versions of the album here.

Turtle Dove now available on CD

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You've been asking us for a while for a CD version of Stanley Brinks & The Kaniks' "Turtle Dove", following it's vinyl only release for Record Store Day earlier in the year. So here it is - complete with lyrics booklet - in a gatefold style digifile sleeve. We're shipping copies now from Fika HQ, so if you were after one, now's your chance! It'll be available in shops shortly - we're expecting a mid December street date if you'd prefer to pick it up from your local record shop. Buy your copy here with an immediate mp3/wav/flac download: http://shop.fikarecordings.com/album/turtle-dove

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Stanley Brinks and Freschard tour dates

November 4th MARSEILLE, France - La Machine a CoudreNovember 5th ARLES, France - Le Magasin de jouets November 23rd METZ, France – Bar 7/7 November 24th TBA November 25th NANCY, France - Home sweet home festival #4 November 26th REIMS, France - TBC November 27th REIMS, France – Quartier libre (tbc) November 28th PARIS, France – L'Olympic Cafe November 29th ZÜRICH, Switzerland – New Zitrone December 1st FREIBURG, Germany – White Rabbit December 2nd MANNHEIM, Germany - Altes Volksbad December 3rd WAIBLINGEN, Germany – Fidel's Fitz at Kulturhaus Schwanen December 4th BAERENBACH,Germany – Shorty's