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Mice Parade on tour now in Japan - followed by US west coast dates

2013-05-22T16:40+00:00

Mice Parade is currently touring Japan and will be on the US west coast starting on May 28th at Casbah in San Diego. Mice Parade's Adam Pierce contributed some of his current listening material to a brand new podcast - download it here and check the tracklist out below as well as the live dates.

Dates:
21 May - Akaso, Osaka Japan
22 May - Liquid Room, Tokyo Japan
23 May - O-NEST, Tokyo Japan (acoustic covers set)
25 May - The Republik, Honolulu HI
28 May - Casbah, San Diego CA
29 May - The Echo, Los Angeles CA
30 May - The Crepe Place, Santa Cruz CA
31 May - Brick & Mortar Music Hall, San Francisco CA
02 Jun - Holocene, Portland OR
03 Jun - Triple Door, Seattle WA

Podcast tracklist: DOWNLOAD
1. Sierra Maestra - Elena La Cumbachera
2. Rokia Traoré - Dounia
3. Magnetic Fields - You Must Be Out of your Mind
4. Desmond Dekker - Honour Your Mother and Father
5. Eddie Palmieri - Pa La Ocha Tambo
6. Doc Watson & Jean Ritchie - The Storms are On The Ocean
7. Red House Painters - Grace Cathedral Park
8. Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz International - Sweet Mother
9. The Replacements - Unsatisfied
10. Rhythm & Sound feat. Jennifer Lara - Queen In My Empire

Download Mice Parade’s “Ground As Cold As Common [Live]”

2013-03-27T17:02+00:00

Head to GoldFlakePaint today and enjoy an exclusive glorious 8 minute live version of "Ground As Cold As Common", from their 2005 album, Bem-Vinda Vontade, yours to download! GoldFlakePaint also have this to say about Mice Parade's most recent LP, Candela, available to buy at our webstore, here:

"as you can tell from its glorious noise, Candela is another wondrous journey through highly infectious rhythms constantly shifting musical landscapes."

Mice Parade are to follow up Candela in the coming months with a digital live album, so keep your eyes peeled for news. In the meantime, Adam Pierce had this to say on the release:

“We couldn’t be prouder of our live album, after talking about making one for nearly a decade! We had a great band on our European and Uk tour in 2010, that gave the songs life and constantly blew me away while doing so.

We managed to capture it right at the end of the last tour that we’d be doing in that format for a while… I think we all tip our hats to the closing of a great era in our memories.”

Mice Parade - Candela OUT NOW

2013-03-11T12:14+00:00

Candela, Mice Parade's ninth album is out now.

'an array of catchy song based tunes and experimental arrangements highlighting a stylizes sense of craft and musicianship' - Modern Drummer Review

'vocals are prominent, and the pop melodies have a way of burrowing into your head and staying there. The production is busy and tight' - Ghettoblaster

'for all the international influences, Mice Parade never sound like tourists. It fdeels natural, efforless and authentic.'' - Was Ist Das?

You can buy the album from us, here, and get any Mice Parade digital album for free.

Mice Parade - Candela review / pre-order offer

2013-03-06T16:50+00:00

Mice Parade release their new album Candela in the UK and Europe this coming Monday - and if you pre-order it from the FatCat online store you can choose any of their other albums as a free download to keep you going.

Here's a lovely handwritten review of Candela from Was Ist Das.

FatCat Podcast #80 - Mice Parade

2013-03-06T16:28+00:00

Mice Parade - NY's Adam Pierce - contributes some of his current listening material to a brand new podcast in anticipation of the release of new album Candela. As globe- and era-spanning as one might expect from Mice Parade, the material here represents Minnesota, Puerto Rico and Mali; ska-reggae, indie and Latin, with plenty in between. While Mice Parade's music nods to its creator's wide and varied record collection, Pierce's playlists provide us with an even more revealing insight into his intriguing and learned interests and influences.

Tracklist:

1. Sierra Maestra - Elena La Cumbachera

2. Rokia Traoré - Dounia

3. Magnetic Fields - You Must Be Out of your Mind

4. Desmond Dekker - Honour Your Mother and Father

5. Eddie Palmieri - Pa La Ocha Tambo

6. Doc Watson & Jean Ritchie - The Storms are On The Ocean

7. Red House Painters - Grace Cathedral Park

8. Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz International - Sweet Mother

9. The Replacements - Unsatisfied

10. Rhythm & Sound feat. Jennifer Lara - Queen In My Empire

Doug McDiarmid’s Mice Parade remix at Clash

2013-02-27T11:54+00:00

Clash have written a glowing piece to accompany Doug McDiarmid (of WHY?'s) remix of Mice Parade's track, "This River Has A Tide". The song, from their latest album, Candela, is described by Clash as an 'album highlight'. They go on to describe Candela as a piece of work that "should see Mice Parade reach a new level. Quite simply - it's a fantastic album, one that matches soaring peaks to gently hewn lows, one that fuses an ever ambitious compositional nous with palpable sense of drama."

You can pre-order Candela - which is released on the 11th of March - from our website, here.

Mice Parade - Candela pre-order special offer

2013-02-04T12:32+00:00

Candela, the brilliant new album from Mice Parade, is now available for pre-order in the UK & Europe at the FatCat online store. Customers who pre-order Candela will also receive their choice of Mice Parade's other albums for immediate free download!

Mice Parade’s US tour starts TONIGHT

2013-01-30T18:56+00:00

Mice Parade's US tour starts tonight in Columbus, Ohio at Tree Bar. The Parade will travel through the midwest and some of the south before heading up the east coast. Grab a copy of the band's brand new album, 'Candela', at a show in your area or favorite local or online retailer.

DATES:
30 Jan – Tree Bar, Columbus OH
31 Jan – MOTR Pub, Cincinnati OH
01 Feb – Schubas Tavern, Chicago IL
02 Feb – The Bishop, Bloomington IN
04 Feb – The Mohawk, Austin TX
05 Feb – The Circle Bar, New Orleans LA
07 Feb – Snug Harbor, Charlotte NC
08 Feb – Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, Charlottesville VA
09 Feb – North Star Bar, Philadelphia PA
10 Feb – Knitting Factory, Brooklyn NY
11 Feb – TT The Bears, Cambridge MA
12 Feb – Black Cat Backstage, Washington DC

Mice Parade - ‘Candela’ OUT TODAY in the US

2013-01-29T16:35+00:00

FatCat is excited to announce that Mice Parade's latest studio album, 'Candela', is out today in the US on CD, LP, and digitally.

Mice Parade will head out on a US tour starting tomorrow in Columbus, Ohio. Buy a copy of the new record at a show in your area, or at your favorite local record shop or online retailer.

Stream Mice Parade’s forthcoming record ‘Candela’ on WNYC

2013-01-22T19:38+00:00

Head over to WNYC to listen to a full album stream of Mice Parade's forthcoming album, 'Candela', due out on January 29th in the US. Mice Parade will be touring the US starting at the end of this month, check below for a list of dates.

Galapagos Presents ‘Double Dolphins On The Nickel’ by Mice Parade

2013-01-10T14:58+00:00

As detailed in an earlier newspiece posted today, Galapagos Presents took time with Mice Parade late last year to do a photoshoot and live session in an East Sussex 18th Century mansion. Check out the video of song 'Double Dolphins On The Nickel' from their eponymous 2007 album below.

Mice Parade’s Galapagos Presents photo shoot!

2013-01-10T11:11+00:00

Late in 2012, Mice Parade Acoustic Trio visited Brighton for the first time in 2 years to play a much anticipated show at The Hope. Whilst they were in town they did a short live session for Galapagos Presents in "an 18th century mansion set in the heart of East Sussex countryside."

The accompanying photoshoot is now up on the Galapagos Presents website, which you can see here.

Mice Parade's stunning new full length album, Candela, is due to be released on the 11th of March 2013.

FatCat 2012

2012-12-12T15:44+00:00

We'd like to start our reflection on 2012 with a gesture of appreciation. Dustin O'Halloran – at his stunning live performance at the Barbican Hall in May this year – mentioned his relationship with FatCat and his label-mates. Though we were pleased, flattered, at the time, it is rare that we have opportunity to return our gratitude and express our thanks to the artists who make our jobs so rewarding, enjoyable and fruitful. So, if you have released a record with us in 2012, worked with an artist, put on a show, allowed us to feature your demo on our mini-site (etc. etc.), you are likely to be on the expansive list of people to whom this small gesture is offered. This would all be a lot more difficult without you.

There was a certain dread of the workload we had set ourselves when we initially wrote out our 2012 release calendar at the end of last year. A brief scan through our release list for the year reveals one of the busiest schedules FatCat has undertaken since its inception. It has included 10 full-length albums – including 3 debut LPs and 2 remix albums – as well as their respective satellite single or EP releases and a handful of short-run limited editions. Happily foiling this, however, is our confidence that plenty of the music here will soon come to represent an important, indelible part of the personality and history of the label, released by artists whose names may eventually serve as real currency in our future endeavours. PAWS, US Girls and Breton – to name just the debutants – might come to be the bands that we mention when opening conversations with a brand new artist whose work we admire.

Our post-classical imprint 130701 recorded another successful year, principally guided by its figureheads Max Richter, Hauschka, Dustin O'Halloran and Johann Johannsson. The latter three composers toured the Transcendentalists triple-headliner across Europe in early May (as mentioned above) to rapturous response, with the accompanying Transcedentalism 12" EP selling out almost immediately. The stable also expanded to include Parisien composer Sylvain Chauveau this year, who released his gorgeous unreleased collection Simple in November. Elsewhere, Hauschka boldly widened his remit beyond the orchestral sphere to release a series of remix EPs (here and here) featuring heavyweight guest collaborators; an album continuing the project followed digitally in November, and will be released physically in February.

We approach 2013 with a similar balance of apprehension and excitement. The release calendar for next year is already beginning to closely resemble the scale of 2012's, but already neatly and satisfyingly mixes new signings with returns from more established artists. Already ready for preview is music from Mice Parade's fantastic Candela album; the long-awaited, aforementioned physical release of Hauschka's Salon des Amateurs remix project; the first single from Ores and Minerals, the follow-up to Mazes' acclaimed 2011 LP. Amazon recently made available a free, 10-track sampler made up partly of forthcoming material, which can be found here.

Following this write-up will be a collection of artists' and staff top ten picks for the year just passed – further reasons to celebrate 2012 in one sense, and a final review in anticipation of 2013 in another.

So, to book-end this write-up: thank you for reading; we'll see you next year.

Mice Parade announce winter 2013 US tour

2012-12-05T17:01+00:00

Mice Parade will be touring the US starting January 30th to promote the release of their newest record, Candela. The album will be released on January 29th in the US and will be available digitally, on vinyl LP and CD. The tour starts in Columbus, Ohio and hits some of the midwest before heading south to Austin, then wraps up in Washington DC after stopping in Philly, NY, and Boston. Head over to MTV's The Hive HERE to watch a video for "This River Has A Tide", the first single from Candela.

Dates:

30 Jan – Tree Bar, Columbus OH
31 Jan – MOTR Pub, Cincinnati OH - FREE SHOW
01 Feb – Schubas Tavern, Chicago IL - tickets
02 Feb – The Bishop, Bloomington IN - tickets
04 Feb – The Mohawk, Austin TX - tickets
05 Feb – The Circle Bar, New Orleans LA
07 Feb – Snug Harbor, Charlotte NC
08 Feb – Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, Charlottesville VA - tickets
09 Feb – North Star Bar, Philadelphia PA - tickets
10 Feb – Knitting Factory, Brooklyn NY - tickets
11 Feb – TT The Bears, Cambridge MA
12 Feb – Black Cat Backstage, Washington DC

Mice Parade NEW VIDEO

2012-12-05T12:08+00:00

Mice Parade are releasing their new album 'Candela' on January 29th in North & South America (March 11th 2013 in the UK). MTV obviously is already excited and has premiered their video 'This River Has A Tide' here. Be the first to watch it via the link below. Remember, you can download the track for free on our site.

Download “This River Has A Tide” from Mice Parade’s forthcoming record ‘Candela’ out 1/29 in the US

2012-10-17T19:11+00:00

Named after a colorful late-night bar in Madrid (known as a flamenco guitar players Mecca), Candela is a bright and vivid LP that omnivorously references source material from across the globe and rebuilds it into the distinctive, inimitable voice that Mice Parade has come to represent. Often regarded as the solo project of New York's Adam Pierce (Swirlies, The Dylan Group, HiM, múm, and Philistines Jr.), though Pierce often engages carefully-selected guest musicians for each release, Mice Parade is unbeliveably now in its second decade of shape-shifting; its personnel expanding and shrinking, and its influences and marker points becoming increasingly varied and widespread.

Mixed and recorded by Pierce with the assistance of Jeremy Backofen (Felice Brothers), Candela represents Mice Parade's most adventurous release and its closest to pure pop music. From the dense, rhythmically-intense "Currents" and its funk brio to the devastatingly pretty drum kit/electric guitar interplay of "Pretending", there are plenty of heady moments of pop brilliance bubbling amongst elements of abstract, restrained eloquence.

Download "This River Has A Tide" HERE

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Tour Dates:

Oct 17 - Hafenklang, Hamburg Germany
Oct 18 - HBC, Berlin Germany
Oct 19 - Thalia Kino, Dresden Germany
Oct 21 - Arena, Vienna Austria
Oct 22 - Klub Place, Rijeka Croatia
Oct 24 - Schocken, Stuttgart Germany

Competition Winners for Mice Parade Acoustic Trio Brighton Date

2012-10-11T11:11+00:00

We’re delighted to announce Heliopause as the winners of a competition to support Mice Parade Acoustic Trio at The Hope in Brighton on the 14^th of October 2012. Heliopause was started by filmmaker and animator Richard Davis. His music has taken him from Belfast to Berlin and now to Brighton, constantly evolving with various members along the way.

The gig, which marks Mice Parade’s first visit to Brighton in 2 years, will also serve as a preview for their new album, Candela.

Additional support will be provided by Do You Feel What I Feel Deer. Tickets are available £9 in advance from WeGotTickets and SeeTickets.

Mice Parade Acoustic Trio - Updated European Tour Dates

2012-10-08T11:02+00:00

We are delighted to announce new European dates for Mice Parade Acoustic Trio. As well as the previously announced shows in France, the UK, Belgium and Germany, the trio will also be performing at the Klub Place in Rijeka, Croatia on the 22^nd of October 2012 and an additional Austrian date at a yet to be confirmed venue on the following day, the 23^rd of October.

Sadly the performance at the 7 Café, Metz, France on the 9^th of October has been cancelled.

The competition for your band to support Mice Parade at the Brighton date at The Hope, 14^th of October 2012, is still going ahead, so if you’ve yet to enter, don‘t hesitate. The link to the flyer with all the information is here.

The updated European dates are as follows:

Oct 08 – Café De La Danse, Paris France
Oct 10 – Stakhanov, Nantes France
Oct 12 – Taylor Johns House, Coventry UK
Oct 14 – The Hope, Brighton UK
Oct 15 – Botanique, Brussels Belgium
Oct 16 – King George, Koln Germany
Oct 17 – Hafenklang, Hamburg Germany
Oct 18 – HBC, Berlin Germany
Oct 19 – Thalia Theater, Dresden Germany
Oct 21 – Arena, Vienna Austria
Oct 22 – Klub Place, Rijeka Croatia
Oct 23 – TBA, Austria
Oct 24 – Schocken, Stuttgart Germany

Competition: open for Mice Parade at their Brighton show

2012-10-05T14:55+00:00

Mice Parade are playing in Brighton (FatCat's home town) and your band could open for them! The winner will be chosen by Mice Parade & FatCat. For information on how to enter click here

Mice Parade Acoustic Trio announce fall US + Europe tour dates

2012-09-18T18:43+00:00

Mice Parade Acoustic Trio have some shows lined up this fall. They'll be playing in Boston, NYC, upstate New York, Washington DC, and Philly in the US and traveling through Belgium, France, Austria, the UK, and Germany in Europe. The trio consists of Adam Pierce singing and playing the cajón, Dan Lippel on guitar, and a special guest that will be sharing a piece of the stage. Mice Parade's live record, Live: England vs. France, came out a few months back and the band are ready to release a proper full length this coming winter. Stay tuned, but for now here are the dates:

US Dates:
Sep 21 - Joe's Pub, New York NY
Sep 22 - Royale Nightclub, Boston MA
Sep 23 - BSP Lounge, Kingston NY
Sep 26 - The Falcon, Marlboro NY
Sep 29 - DC9, Washington DC
Sep 30 - Kung FU Necktie, Philadelphia PA

Europe Dates:
Oct 08 - Cafe De La Danse, Paris France
Oct 09 - 7 Cafe, Metz France
Oct 10 - Stakhanov, Nantes France
Oct 12 - Taylor Johns House, Coventry UK
Oct 14 - The Hope, Brighton UK
Oct 15 - Botanique, Brussels Belgium
Oct 16 - King George, Koln Germany
Oct 17 - Hafenklang, Hamburg Germany
Oct 18 - HBC, Berlin Germany
Oct 19 - Thalia Theater, Dresden Germany
Oct 21 - Arena, Vienna Austria
Oct 24 - Schocken, Stuttgart Germany