David Bowie Official Features Raf and O’s New Album; ‘Time Machine’ is Out Now!
April 25, 2014 § Leave a comment
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Raf and O’s new full-length second album is OUT NOW!!!
Finally, we’re so proud to present Time Machine, self-released on Telephone, available on Bandcamp, iTunes and all good digital stores.
Latest press says:
“A beguiling slice of noir-pop…a total treat.”
The Girls Are
“Tripped-out hypnotic Raf and O embody the exploratory art school/mime period Bowie from bent out of shape Air meets folkloric avant-noir to ESG and Radiohead’s Hail To The Thief”
Monolith Cocktail
A special gig was staged at the beginning of the month to celebrate its release.
“She’s a tongue twisting storm, she will sing at the show tonight…”
David Bowie Official featured the launch for our new album.
We are absolutely thrilled !!!
“One of the more memorable events of the Beckenham Festival in September 2013 was RAF AND O’s haunting performance of David Bowie’s Lady Grinning Soul (http://smarturl.it/liveRAFnOlady)… Lady Grinning Soul is included on that new LP: Time Machine” David Bowie Official
The front cover captures Raf and O performing on the Beckenham Bandstand
GET IT HERE!
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We’d like to thank all who came down and once again Kaparte for the wonderful hosting.
More live performances are scheduled. Today we’re off to play at the ‘genuinely alternative after-office’ Scaledown. For more details, address etc, see our LIVE PAGE. Then next up is South East London in May; we shall be performing at Vinyl in Deptford. Details again will be added HERE.
Raf and O x
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Pictures by Angelique Le Marchand, Adam Donen and Lee Winter
‘Time Machine’ Album and EP Available Now! Presenting Official New Video And Launch At Shoreditch Church
March 25, 2014 § Leave a comment
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RAF AND O – TIME MACHINE OFFICIAL VIDEO
Hi folks,
lots of news since our last blog.
Cabaret Futura, in February, got us right into the mood. We performed ‘Dreamachine’ for the first time to its projected spinning counterpart right behind us! Massive thanks to Richard Strange for inviting us and for setting such a brilliant atmosphere!
Raf and O are proud to announce the TIME MACHINE EP on Telephone Records, featuring contributions from Merlin & Charles Hayward, Irmin Schmidt affiliate Kumo and Grace Jones collaborator Robert Logan. Available now in all good digital stores and on our NEW BANDCAMP SITE : ‘Interstellar spaciousness’ tweets EXCLAIM! Magazine and features the EP. Get your copy HERE!
Our December encounter with the moving image turned into the ‘Time Machine’ OFFICIAL video, featured in February on New York ‘s IMPOSE Magazine : “With silver space lining, stainless steel kettles and 3-D spectacles adorned; we enter the Raf and O “Time Machine” trip…whispering their song like tomorrow’s cautionary lullabies sent backward to today as an omen of intrigue.” Impose asked us as to how the video was realised and how we go about doing what we do. Both features can be read within the images below.
Pre-orders for the TIME MACHINE CD ALBUM are available now. The CD features ten original tracks + our version of David Bowie’s Lady Grinning Soul, with an immediate download of one track when you pre-order. The cover picture was taken on the Beckenham bandstand by Luigi Altilia during Raf and O’s performance of ‘Lady Grinning Soul’ at Memory Of A Free Festival (the remake of the iconic Beckenham Free Festival). GET THE NEW ALBUM HERE!
And finally…Raf and O’s ‘Time Machine’ Album Launch at the splendid Shoreditch Church: April the 4th, curated by the renowned and excellent Kaparte. Do get your tickets HERE, before they run out, it will be a night full of surprises. We are really looking forward to play our new album and more! Truly special guests on the night.
Roger O‘Donnell from The Cure! He will be joining Adam Donen and expect more still! Leaving you with an old English nursery rhyme ‘Oranges and Lemons’.
See you down in Shoreditch!!
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Raf and O x
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Cabaret Futura And The Time Machine Is About To Land
February 7, 2014 § Leave a comment
Hello! First blog of the year and 2014 starts with a bang!
Raf and O are playing Cabaret Futura in just over one week! Richard Strange‘s legendary monthly club, established in the 1980s was ‘the focus and meeting place for the energy, which fed the explosion in fashion, photography, filmmaking and music, serving the need for specific and not standardised tastes’. Re-opened four years ago, past guests have included Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, Michael Nyman and many others. Not to be missed!
This February celebrates Burroughs, who would have been 100 and after watching a documentary about friend and collaborator Brion Gysin, one winter day, a new song just flew out: it’s called ‘Dreamachine’ and we are really excited about playing this at Cabaret Futura for the first time! February is also both ‘Raf ‘and ‘O’s birthdays and what’s better than celebrating by performing?
So come down, Monday 17th, all details and FB event on the LIVE PAGE.
And here are the latest updates for ‘Time Machine’.
This March we are very excited to be releasing an eponymous EP ahead of our album: ‘Time Machine EP’ is scheduled for 24 03 2014. It contains the original Time Machine plus three fantastic reworkings from Merlin & legendary Charles Hayward of This Heat fame, Kumo AKA Jono Podmore collaborator of Irmin Schmidt from Can and part of collective Metamono and Robert Logan electronic composer who has also contributed to Grace Jones latest releases.
‘Time Machine’, Raf and O’s second album, will be officially released on 21 04 2014. So looking forward! We are celebrating with a special event, the Album Launch on 04 04 2014, promoted by wonderful Kaparte at the ancient parish St Leonard’s (Shoreditch Church). On the same night, the excellent poet, songwriter and actor Adam Donen will also be launching his new album and there will also be some amazing special guests. Watch this space!
There are still some EARLY BIRDS TICKETS left, so get them HERE while you can!
More details and FB event on the LIVE PAGE
Raf and O x
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Projecting Ahead
December 4, 2013 § Leave a comment
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Hello and December greetings!
2013 is now drawing to a closure. We look back at the highlights of the year: launching Lady Grinning Soul at Café OTO alongside Larsen & Little Annie and performing at Memory Of A Free Festival, (watch Live video), the remake of the iconic Bowie‘s Beckenham Free Festival to raise funds for the bandstand.
Kaparte Oxjam’s night, our last live outing at the Ivy House also felt special; fantastic feedback and lots of very receptive people from each side of the stage. Still cherishing some fabulous gigs.
Raf and O have taken the rest of this year off from live shows and shall return in 2014. Just been confirmed we will be playing at the fabulous Cabaret Futura in February; can’t wait! More dates will be announced soon. In the meantime, we’re working on all logistics for ‘Time Machine’. Our second album will be released in April 2014, a bit later than predicted, but the ‘Time Machine’ will be landing this time. Ahead of the album a new single in March too. We will keep you posted with details and development as they happen. Darkness finds its way in some new inspired tunes as the light reduces and the nights grow longer. New material is in process. Projecting ideas ahead, we hope to bring these fresh sounds to you in the not so distant future! This month we’re prepping something ...
And lastly, we leave you with the latest live pictures from the Kaparte Oxjam gig courtesy of Angelique Le Marchand. X
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Time Machine And The Sun Machine – Memory Of A Free Festival 2013
August 7, 2013 § 1 Comment
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Raf and O announce the new album ‘Time Machine’ will be out in the autumn. We are extremely pleased to say that our album will be out before the year’s over; July called for some splendid sun, we’ve been walking and replenishing! We’re now making plans for our new release and will keep you posted.
On the gigging front, we’ve been playing some fresh material. Performing on the carpet where Bob Dylan stood and played London for the first time, Scaledown 90 at The King and Queen was our recent live outing. On the night also a powerful solo performance by the brilliant Charles Hayward. Thanks Scaledown for hosting us, it was a great night!
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Raf and O performing ‘Lady Grinning Soul’ December 2012 and Raf and O in the studio
Full Stop Gig, Nedry Remix of ‘The Fog’, ‘Strange’ Live Video
May 20, 2013 § Leave a comment
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Hi all,
Come join us this Sunday, see/ hear for yourself. Details on the LIVE PAGE.
Facebook event
Here is one more video courtesy of Luigi Altilia from our launch at Cafe OTO back in April.
‘Raf and O caress Bowie’ Bowie Wonderworld
Raf and O x
Lady Grinning Soul / The Fog Out Now + News From Launch at Cafe OTO
April 8, 2013 § Leave a comment
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Hello!
our single is coming out today!! Very excited about it, it’s a self-release, please support us by getting yourself a copy HERE
It includes our version of David Bowie‘s Lady Grinning Soul (studio take)
‘The Fog’ and a remix of The Fog by electronic trio Nedry.
The LIVE VIDEO has reached 1000 plays in just over a month and the feedback so far has been fantastic!
‘Very creative. I enjoyed it a lot’
Mike Garson (David Bowie’s pianist/ collaborator since 1972)
‘Awesomely bizarre’
God Is In The TV Zine
‘Raf and O caress Bowie’
Bowie Wonderworld
News from our recent Launch at Cafe OTO … it was a wicked night! You can watch a video HERE and there’s more to come.
Thanks to all who came down to this brilliant venue; so many people and such an attentive audience! Promoted by our wonderful friend, the very excellent Klarita from Kaparte, we supported Larsen with Little Annie – they did a fantastic show.
And thanks to Angelique Le Marchand for these and other brilliant shots! (Below)
Get yourself a copy of our single, it’s going for a song, quite literally on iTunes!
LADY GRINNING SOUL / THE FOG – BUY HERE
Raf and O x
Mike Garson And Bowie Wonderworld Praise Raf and O’s Version Of Lady Grinning Soul!
March 14, 2013 § Leave a comment
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Raf and O are thrilled to have received this endorsement from David Bowie’s creative collaborator since 1972 and stunning pianist on the original ‘Lady Grinning Soul‘!
‘Very creative. I enjoyed it a lot’ Mike Garson. Raf is buzzing, as this era of Bowie was central to her initial musical development.
Our live video has also been featured in the Bowie Wonderworld website and has been described as ‘Raf and O caress Bowie’.
The upcoming single ‘Lady Grinning Soul/ The Fog will soon be available to pre-order. To be updated on this, please join our mailing list; just send an email to info@rafando.com
By joining you will also be entitled to periodic freebies only available to this list.
We are really excited and your support is absolutely invaluable.
Tickets for the launch at Cafe OTO are still available HERE
Raf and O x
Raf and O announce release for Bowie’s Lady Grinning Soul + The Fog + Remix by Nedry (Cafe OTO Launch)
February 26, 2013 § Leave a comment
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Hi folks!
Lots happening!!!
Having spent all of 2012 closing the live shows with our rework of David Bowie‘s ‘Lady Grinning Soul from the seminal album ‘Aladdin Sane‘ we are finally releasing it ahead of our new album. We’ve had some thoroughly excellent feedback from live audiences, so we are celebrating this as well as Bowie’s return!! Being long standing fans of his work and Raf a complete Bowie nut means we are buzzing!
It will be released as a package containing the studio version of ‘Lady Grinning Soul‘, ‘The Fog‘ and a wicked Remix of the latter courtesy of the brilliant three piece post-dubstep/ electronic band Nedry. More details on this soon.
In the meantime, here is a video of a live version of ‘Lady Grinning Soul’ from the Lewisham Arthouse show – massive thanks to Luigi Altilia for filming.
The launch is to be taking place at CAFE OTO on April 1st promoted by the wonderful Klarita from Kaparte Promotions – great venue and great bill!
We will be opening for Larsen (15 years of avant/ experimental activity) on their European Tour feat. legendary dub-diva Little Annie (a.k.a. Annie Anxiety Bandez), who has recently released her autobiography.
You can get your TICKETS HERE
FACEBOOK EVENT
We’ve also just started a TWITTER page – you can follows us HERE
Extremely excited 😀
Raf and O
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New Website, New Material, Singing For Japan
May 18, 2011 § Leave a comment
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Hi and welcome to the shiny new Raf and O site.
Following on last years Album release “A Giant In The Snow” we’re currently beavering away on this year’s new material.
Our first gig of 2011, April 18 @ 93 Feet East gave the opportunity to air the new songs in a live context. Excited with growing both sides in tandem, it’s definitely keeping us fresh and on our toes, really good to see how the studio to stage translation works.
Thanks for the support and the fantastic stage handing!
Well into a collaboration with the excellent Robert Logan, we are brewing up what we feel is some lovely stuff, soon to be getting radio airplay, so some post TBA on that front shortly.
Pics of Raf and O & Robert Logan at work
SONG FOR JAPAN
Help the Japan relief appeal. Having spent a great day earlier this April in the studio singing with Gabby Young and friends, the track, SONG FOR JAPAN – “We’re All In This Together” was released on monday this week 16 05 11. Available on iTunes, all the proceeds go to the Japan relief fund.
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/song-for-japan-were-all-in/id433404517
So come in, have a look listen or whatever. Hopefully the site is all fully working, if anything doesn’t, let us know and we can look into it.
Cheers
Raf and O
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