four musicians playing music
Simon and I will be taking to the stage in the retro Sandtimer Duo formation at St Pancras Old Church to play at Bare Feet Records‘ showcase. We’re really excited to be playing alongside Billy Lubach, Phoebe Troup, Me And The Moon, Chlo Atlanta, Kev Minney, Neev and Samuel Nicholson.
Today, some 6 months after we did a Bandcamp-only ‘soft release’ of our second album Running In Sunlight, we are following with the universal release on all music platforms, including Apple Music, Deezer, YouTube Music, SoundCloud and Spotify. We’d like to thank everyone who’s supported the album so far and, if you’re hearing it for the first time, we hope you enjoy it too!
For all links to the album: https://album.link/s/6tSNppzQ5VbKiKnqzENnYv
We did an interview with Virginie Onephithak at Thread. regarding the album’s content, the production process, the music business and what life lessons we’ve learnt from the last year.
Thread. interview: https://www.threadofficial.com/stories/sandtimer-running-in-sunlight.
For our recent second album ‘Running In Sunlight‘, we’ve been releasing a series of ‘audiovisuals’ for the album tracks. This snowy forest is for ‘I Wanted Us To Be‘, the first song we’ve ever released with Rachel singing lead vocals.
With a year away from live performances, one… unusual… idea to get our music out there was to create a game for one of our songs. This is the result- a retro driving game. Here’s a video of me playing it and talking about the mechanics etc.
PLOT- You must drive 3 cars safely along a motorway.
PLOT TWIST- You must drive all 3 at the same time.
You can play this game at https://sandtimer.co.uk/three-cars-game
Thank you so much to Radio Wigwam for hosting our performances- we played a few Running In Sunlight tracks as well as some brand new ones. It was really nice to be part of such a wonderful festival, one of the lights in these dark times. You can watch the performance back on the Radio Wigwam Facebook page.
Today! Sunday! It is the last day of the Radio Wigwam LOCK-DOWN FESTIVAL and we are part of the festivities with an exclusive Sandtimer performance for you. We’ll be on at around 9.15pm today- tune in via the above link.
Good morning all, hope you’re keeping safe and well at the moment. We’ve just put out a couple more songs from our latest album, ‘Running In Sunlight’- you can now hear ‘Changes’ and ‘I Wanted Us To Be’ on all good (and indeed all nefarious) music stores. Listen at: https://album.link/i/1550553045 or in one of the embedded players below.
Here’s a nice little clip of some tree canopies to go with our song ‘Changes‘ from our recent album, Running In Sunlight.
We’ve released a double A side of two more songs from our recent second album, Running In Sunlight. Listen to both songs on all music stores here, or find the tracks on embeddable players below.
Another audiovisual from the Running In Sunlight album- this one’s called Canadian Boating Song and is based on an old folk song with words by Thomas Moore, whoever he was:
Faintly as tolls the evening chime,
our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,
our voices keep tune and our oars keep time.
Soon as the woods on shore look dim
we’ll sing at St. Ann’s our parting hymn.
Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast
The rapids are near and the daylight’s past
The rapids are near and the daylight’s past.
Why should we yet our sail unfurl?
There’s not a breath the blue wave to curl
There’s not a breath the blue wave to curl.
But when the wind blows off the shore
Oh, sweetly we’ll rest our weary oar
Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast
The rapids are near and the daylight’s past
The rapids are near and the daylight’s past.
Ottawa tide- this trembling moon shall
see us float over thy surges soon shall
see us float over thy surges soon.
Saint of this green isle, hear our prayer,
grant us cool heavens and favouring air.
Row brothers, row, the stream runs fast,
The rapids are near and the daylight’s past.
The rapids are near and the daylight’s past.