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June 23rd 2008
So - two new releases in two weeks - exciting times indeed.
Today sees the release of Glissando’s ‘With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea’.
The press has been amazing for this and hopefully those who pre-ordered the record have been enjoying it for a few weeks.
It’s out now on CD and download from the usual outlets.
June 16th 2008
The quite brilliant Her Name is Calla’s new mini-album ‘The Heritage’ is out now!
Get yourselves over to the store to get your copy.
The deal which includes the previously released 7” ‘A Moment of Clarity’ is still on, we have however sold out of ‘Calla shirts - hopefully we’ll have some back in stock in the near future.
The album is available on CD and on download from the usual outlets.
June 5th 2008
Glissando have just received album of the month on the Blues Bunny
webzine. www.bluesbunny.com
There is also a wonderful review of the Heritage over at www.angryape.com
A few new items have been added to the online store including brand new Her Name is Calla and Glissando posters with artwork from both the new records.
May 22nd 2008
With two new Gizeh releases just around the corner, the press is gathering and we’ve had some great reviews through so far for both Her Name is Calla and Glissando. Check the media and press section for the latest.
We’re also happy to tell you that ‘Calla and Glissando will be tour together in July to support the two records. Here are the dates:
July 4th Leeds - Packhorse
July 5th York - Basement
July 6th Birmingham - Concrete
July 7th Newcastle - Head of Steam
July 8th London - Barfly
July 9th Cardiff - Ten Feet Tall
Both Glissando and Her Name is Calla are running blogs at the moment, have a read here: www.slowsecret.com / http://hernameiscalla.blogspot.com
April 13th 2008
We are delighted to announce that Glissando’s new record ‘With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea’ will be released through Gizeh on June 23rd.
As with the Her Name is Calla mini-album ‘The Heritage’ there is a limited edition cassette version available - only 20 copies so get in there fast.
A new version of ‘Floods’ - taken from the new album is now up on myspace
April 9th 2008
Reviews are starting to filter through for ‘The Heritage’ - here’s a lovely one from the nice folk at www.rockfood.co.uk
“It's rare that i'm caught off guard by a record to quite the extent that i have been by The Heritage. I sat down with my cup of tea two nights ago, stuck the cd on, and whipped my laptop out to begin work on what would, i thought, be a fairly standard, if complimentary review.
The problem was that 'The Heritage' is SO much better than most of the stuff we're sent to review that i didn't really know where to start. I still don't if i'm totally honest. There are echos of Hope Of The States, iLiKETRAiNS and even Silver Mt Zion, but as the record rumbles on it becomes more of a heaving, living, breathing monster - exploding into a cinematic landscape the size and shape of the scariest bond theme ever written at the close of 'New England'. Guitars are doused in reverb of continental proportions, moulding huge expanses of noise which suddenly suck you back down to more intimate moments when the drums lock everything back together.
I could probably bang on for hours about the close of New England alone, and how it's raised the bar for 'post-rock' (if thats what you want to call it, which clearly i do) above and beyond anything their peers have managed to acheive - but i won't. Surfice to say, there had to be a step forward at some point, and clearly this is it.”
March 20th 2008
Thanks to everyone who has pre-ordered the new Her Name is Calla mini-album.
The cassette option sold out on day one.
The CD is still available though so get ordering!
We have the new Glissando record ‘With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea’ coming out at the end of June. the band have just put up the new version of ‘Floods’ that has been re-worked for the album. Check it out at their myspace now.
There are also a couple of new photos on there too, kindly taken by Shorn Keld.
March 17th 2008
‘THE HERITAGE’ NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
Her Name is Calla’s new mini-album ‘The Heritage’ is now available for pre-order from the Gizeh Online Store.
It’s available in 3 different packages.
The record isn’t released officially until June 9th but you can listen to the lead track from the album ‘Nylon’ now on myspace.
This weekend Her Name is Calla play two sold out shows with The Twilight Sad in Scotland and then head out on their own UK jaunt in April. For full details visit the tour section.
March 13th 2008
Ok, so here’s the new look Gizeh site, it’s such a busy time right now we decided to get on top of this web site nonsense and pull our fingers out of our arses... indeed. Sorry to be so blunt but that is the truth.
It’s turning into an extremely exciting year, new releases, tours and general good times ahead.
So what’s new? Well here goes:
We have two new records lined up for release in May....
Glissando have a new album which is almost done and goes under the title ‘With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards the Burning Sea’. It a beautiful thing, we hope you enjoy it.
Her Name is Calla are back with their follow up to the ‘A Moment of Clarity’ single we put out last year. Their new mini-album is called ‘The Heritage’, it’s pretty long but it ain’t an album so there.
Both bands have their biggest tours to date queued up, take a look at the myspace sites for the full schedules.
We’re also planning so very limited edition freebies with these new records for the first 20 pre-orders so keep an ear to the ground for that.
Right that’ll do I guess.
Rich
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