Monday 19 December 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UndNQK-2eks&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UndNQK-2eks&feature=youtu.be

Xmas edition of World Vision on tonight FM and online 10pm, some reggae, some post punk, some 60s from a band I recorded in the studio, and some new Invisible System tracks amongst others.... http://www.somervalleyfm.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/2-presenters/153-Dan%20Harper

Xmas edition of World Vision on tonight FM and online 10pm, some reggae, some post punk, some 60s from a band I recorded in the studio, and some new Invisible System tracks amongst others.... http://www.somervalleyfm.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/2-presenters/153-Dan%20Harper

Friday 16 December 2011

new EP links, bbc iplayer etc

Catch a snippet of new EP, you can't buy it yet mind! http://www.amazon.com/Cauldron-P-feat-Dan-Harper/dp/B006LXRMKQ/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1324063739&sr=1-5

Or hear full version 2 days left (BBC6music radio bass reduced n compressed!) of Mama Yey off EP featuring Sydney Salmon from Shashemene Ethiopia and Zewditu from Ethiopiques on vocals. Other tracks include Merv from Eat Static/Ozrics and Stu from Courtney Love/Hole, Dennis Wint on vocals and Mimi from Ethiopia who we since signed to realworld

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0184rwt#segments

Wednesday 14 December 2011

Grab a listen to first public play of track off new Invisible System EP, all tracks very different, bbc6muisc with gid coe first up with the more dub reg one...http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0184rwt#segments

Grab a listen to first public play of track off new Invisible System EP, all tracks very different, bbc6muisc with gid coe first up with the more dub reg one...http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0184rwt#segments

Wednesday 30 November 2011

forgot about soundcloud after using mixcloud for radio http://soundcloud.com/invisible-system

forgot about soundcloud after using mixcloud for radio http://soundcloud.com/invisible-system

Saturday 26 November 2011

New E.P. out Jan 2012

New E.P. out Jan 2012

Thursday 24 November 2011

played some post punk/goth stuff e.g. skeletal and ghost and anne m new album and some of simon hinklers solo on tonights show, must get some of your tunes to get on there soon got some old but shout if you can send any new stuff etc : D Ok I got around to making the new world vision radio programme, on 10pm tonight 97.5fm local and link below, post punk/goth (local and global) and local blues bands from my studio this week - repeated next week mon and thurs 10pm http://www.somervalleyfm.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/2-presenters/153-Dan%20Harper played some skeletal and ghost and anne m new album and gave you a mention on tonights....D Ok I got around to making the new world vision radio programme, on 10pm tonight 97.5fm local and link below, post punk/goth (local and global) and local blues bands from my studio this week - repeated next week mon and thurs 10pm http://www.somervalleyfm.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/2-presenters/153-Dan%20Harper

played some post punk/goth stuff e.g. skeletal and ghost and anne m new album and some of simon hinklers solo on tonights show, must get some of your tunes to get on there soon got some old but shout if you can send any new stuff etc : D

Ok I got around to making the new world vision radio programme, on 10pm tonight 97.5fm local and link below, post punk/goth (local and global) and local blues bands from my studio this week - repeated next week mon and thurs 10pm

http://www.somervalleyfm.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/2-presenters/153-Dan%20Harper

played some skeletal and ghost and anne m new album and gave you a mention on tonights....D

Ok I got around to making the new world vision radio programme, on 10pm tonight 97.5fm local and link below, post punk/goth (local and global) and local blues bands from my studio this week - repeated next week mon and thurs 10pm

http://www.somervalleyfm.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/2-presenters/153-Dan%20Harper

Tuesday 8 November 2011

News The Couldron E.P. to be released soon. Download only (lossless audio or mp3). We have caught up with the modern age! An EP of psy dub reggae, ethiopian post punk rock grunge, traditional fusion and jamiacan acid pop to be enjoyed over xmas.

News

The Couldron E.P. to be released soon. Download only (lossless audio or mp3). We have caught up with the modern age! An EP of psy dub reggae, ethiopian post punk rock grunge, traditional fusion and jamiacan acid pop to be enjoyed over xmas.

Sunday 6 November 2011

Coven EP

Will be releasing an Xmas digital download only EP, too many tracks that didn't go onto the last 2 albums to let flush / float away! Coven is the name of the EP RIP EP!

Friday 4 November 2011

Writhlington Studios

www.writhlingtonstudios.co.uk this is the studio I run commercially (as well as teach diploma in) out for hire for recording, mixing, mastering etc with you there or not there if too far away! ftp/post etc . New, Pro Tools HD, nice mics, preamps, monitoring, plugins, outboard, instruments etc - everything there and only £20 an hour with me due to education subsidy. Cheers Dan

Sunday 16 October 2011

Invisible System mp3 download store

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Invisible-System/46460854245?sk=app_155326481208883

Wednesday 12 October 2011

playing around with 4 tracks that would make a nice digital only download e.p for invisible system, would be lighter workload for me to put it out lik

playing around with 4 tracks that would make a nice digital only download e.p for invisible system, would be lighter workload for me to put it out like that, or should I work on 4+ more to make it an album and take longer? thinking digital only again, if anything gets pressed this time it would be vinyl:) thoughts?

Monday 26 September 2011

Back on radio after trips abroad World Vision on in 3 mins at 10pmhttp://www.somervalleyfm.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/2-presenters/153-

Back on radio after trips abroad World Vision on in 3 mins at 10pmhttp://www.somervalleyfm.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/2-presenters/153-Dan%20Harper
online of 97.5fm if you are around radstock/norton

Saturday 17 September 2011

Bone flaps off the new album with me, zewditu, merv and bos, showing post punk, goth, kraut rock, ethiopian side of the album;)

Bone flaps off the new album with me, zewditu, merv and bos, showing post punk, goth, kraut rock, ethiopian side of the album;)

Sunday 11 September 2011

Punt (made in Ireland and Ethiopia!)


Punt (made in Ethiopia) by Irish roots via Invisible System! Always knew my irish roots came across in the Invisible System productions in some ways and my Irish mate pointed out Punt was almost an Irish album by nature! :)

Tuesday 30 August 2011

http://www.youtube.com/user/danieleonharper?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/IFk6XvYkSAQ

http://www.youtube.com/user/danieleonharper?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/IFk6XvYkSAQ

http://www.youtube.com/user/WrithlingtonStudios?feature=mhee#p/u

http://www.youtube.com/user/WrithlingtonStudios?feature=mhee#p/u

Wednesday 24 August 2011

Invisible System DJ set this weekend if you are local;)


Invisible System DJ set this weekend if you are local;)

Friday 29 July 2011

another usa review

http://loupgaruda.blogspot.com/2011/06/invisible-system-street-clan-not-your.html

photos

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150258538796017.322797.602201016

Monday 25 July 2011

World Vision programme 4 10pm tonight http://www.somervalleyfm.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/2-presenters/153-Dan%20Harper

World Vision programme 4 10pm tonight
http://www.somervalleyfm.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/2-presenters/153-Dan%20Harper

Tuesday 19 July 2011

Invisible TShirt For Sale : 1 of a kind!

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150251089691017.320477.602201016

Monday 11 July 2011

Prog 3 of World Vision on in 5 mins

http://www.somervalleyfm.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/2-presenters/153-Dan%20Harper

Monday 4 July 2011

http://www.radionz.co.nz/genre/allprogrammesbygenre/music/talk?result_551217_result_page=I 2 RNZ interviews : Invisible System

http://www.radionz.co.nz/genre/allprogrammesbygenre/music/talk?result_551217_result_page=I

2 RNZ interviews : Invisible System

http://www.allmusic.com/album/street-clan-r2173568

http://www.allmusic.com/album/street-clan-r2173568

usa interview

http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/19453

Sunday 3 July 2011

http://loupgaruda.blogspot.com/2011/06/invisible-system-street-clan-not-your.html?showComment=1309735655105#c210655510713876499

http://loupgaruda.blogspot.com/2011/06/invisible-system-street-clan-not-your.html?showComment=1309735655105#c210655510713876499

Monday 20 June 2011

Invisible System - Street Clan released in the USA tomorrow :) www.invisiblesystem.com

Invisible System - Street Clan released in the USA tomorrow :)
www.invisiblesystem.com

Tuesday 14 June 2011

Last nights radio programme World Vision with me up on www.harperdiabate.com also repeated next Monday 10pm on www.somervalleyfm.co.uk with new progra

Last nights radio programme World Vision with me up on www.harperdiabate.com also repeated next Monday 10pm on www.somervalleyfm.co.uk with new programme every 2 weeks same day and time

Saturday 11 June 2011

Got a new Invisible System radio show starting locally FM and online Monday http://www.somervalleyfm.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/2-pres

Got a new Invisible System radio show starting locally FM and online Monday

http://www.somervalleyfm.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/2-presenters/153-Dan%20Harper

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Harper Diabate Valve Mics on special offer this month as times are hard;) Were £325.50 and now have 3 used once only for £150 for this month only....

Harper Diabate Valve Mics on special offer this month as times are hard;) Were £325.50 and now have 3 used once only for £150 for this month only.... www.harperdiabate.com

Saturday 21 May 2011

Nigel Williamson, Uncut Review : Ethiopiques Goes Global Chapter Two Invisible System's acclaimed debut Punt - Made in Ethiopia was a thrilling conte

Nigel Williamson, Uncut Review : Ethiopiques Goes Global Chapter Two

Invisible System's acclaimed debut Punt - Made in Ethiopia was a thrilling contemporary re-imagination of the Ethiopiques sound, combining authentic African recordings with dub, drum'n'bass and electronic programming to create the sort of album Damon Albarn might make if he pitched up in Addis Ababa. 

Assisted by sympathetic fusionists from Portishead, Little Axe and Ozric Tentacles as well as a cast of African musicians - notably the brilliant voice of Zewditu Tadesse - the follow up is cut from similar cloth but shows even greater ambition, giving us such previously unknown genres as Ethiopian garage ("Zedanmer") and African motorik ("Bone Flaps").

Friday 20 May 2011

http://www.frootsmag.com/content/issue/reviews/ Invisible System, Street Clan review in fRoots by Jamie Renton The origins of Dubulah’s project can

http://www.frootsmag.com/content/issue/reviews/

Invisible System, Street Clan review in fRoots by Jamie Renton

The origins of Dubulah’s project can be traced back to his stay out in Ethiopia as a guest of Brit producer/multi-instrumentalist Dan Harper, whose Invisible System project takes apparently similar ingredients to Dub Colossus with very different results. As on IS’s debut, 2009’s Punt, Harper has invited a whole range of performers from Ethiopia and also the UK’s alt rock and reggae scenes, to improvise something for him to play with, mix and generally sound-sculpt into a series of tracks which (when this process works), are greater than the sum of their disparate and off-the-cuff parts. Street Clan has got a more unified sound than its predecessor, an earthy rumble of rock, dub and Ethiopian influences, its lo-fi character driven as much by necessity (Harper wasn’t blessed with the record label patronage that allowed Dub Col their studio trimmings) as by choice. Like Dubulah’s album it’s a sprawling affair, checking in at nearly 80 minutes, and its rockier excursions aren’t to my taste. But there are some dirty-beautiful moments of musical transcendence here, especially when the combination of young Ethio singer Zewditu Tadesse and UK-Jamaican vet Dennis Wint roar and ride over the mutant dub-Ethiopiques-techno-rock backing. As with his earlier album, Street Clan repays repeated attention.
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Thursday 19 May 2011

http://www.nrk.no/programmer/sider/jungeltelegrafen/ 30/4/11 prog if anyone speaks Norweian! lol

http://www.nrk.no/programmer/sider/jungeltelegrafen/
30/4/11 prog if anyone speaks Norweian! lol

Wednesday 18 May 2011

http://www.radio3.rai.it/dl/radio3/programmi/puntata/ContentItem-2095471d-5eca-4110-bd53-978e99a50135.html?refresh_ce If anyone speaks or listens to

http://www.radio3.rai.it/dl/radio3/programmi/puntata/ContentItem-2095471d-5eca-4110-bd53-978e99a50135.html?refresh_ce

If anyone speaks or listens to Italian :)

Monday 9 May 2011

WPKN Archives: Dan Harper from Invisible System Interview

WPKN Archives: Dan Harper from Invisible System Interview

http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/19453

http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/19453

Valve mic competition on www.harperdiabate.com just email to sales@ what Diabate means, the best and funniest answer by the weekend has the chance to

Valve mic competition on www.harperdiabate.com just email to sales@ what Diabate means, the best and funniest answer by the weekend has the chance to buy a stereo pair for the price of one mic;)

Sunday 8 May 2011

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00gf7df/Paul_Moss_08_05_2011/ BBC Invisible System interview with Paul Moss today around 40 mins in. Liked Glo

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00gf7df/Paul_Moss_08_05_2011/

BBC Invisible System interview with Paul Moss today around 40 mins in. Liked Gloucester, Stroud and Ross on Wye en route also:)

Saturday 7 May 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGLtGs-XXQg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGLtGs-XXQg

Friday 6 May 2011

http://www.writhlingtonstudios.co.uk/

http://www.writhlingtonstudios.co.uk/

Sunday 1 May 2011

Nice to do a local radio interview for a change http://www.fromefm.co.uk/ radio for our small somerset town! You can hear the Invisible System tracks

Nice to do a local radio interview for a change http://www.fromefm.co.uk/ radio for our small somerset town! You can hear the Invisible System tracks and interview here go to programmes : music : unheard

Wednesday 27 April 2011

Loads more reviews, BBC, New York Times etc links below. All great. Also join us on our band / musician facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com

Loads more reviews, BBC, New York Times etc links below. All great. Also join us on our band / musician facebook page here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Invisible-System/46460854245

myspace here:

http://www.myspace.com/invisiblesystem

twitter here

http://www.twitter.com/invisiblesystem

and blogger!

http://www.blogger.com/profile/17998515052672960465

we even have a youtube and vimeo hardly used but some rough footage on there!

http://www.youtube.com/user/danieleonharper

http://vimeo.com/invisiblesystem

Reviews

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/mcpn
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/arts/music/cds-from-alison-krauss-colin-stetson-and-dennis-coffey.html?scp=1&sq=street%20clan&st=cse
http://lastheplace.com/2011/03/25/invisible-system-takes-world-fusion-music-to-a-new-level-with-new-cd-street-clan/
http://worldmusiccentral.org/2011/04/17/whopping-crossbreed-of-genres/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/8438445/Invisible-System-Street-Clan-CD-review.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/6f27a360-5e6b-11e0-b1d8-00144feab49a.html
etc

Tuesday 26 April 2011

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150175513011017&comments Some footage of original Ethiopian recordings for the albums at my home/studio i

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150175513011017&comments

Some footage of original Ethiopian recordings for the albums at my home/studio in Addis to track 3 'Zedanmer' off new Invisible System album, Street Clan. Our new Ethiopian vocalist/front woman Zewditu Yohannes Tadesse at the end of the video dancing (and singing on track). Guest on this one with me Merv from Eat Static.

Sunday 24 April 2011

"More wild, frantic and unexpected than its well-received predecessor. " Robin Denselow 2011-04-21 It’s impossible not to admire Dan Harper. Until f

"More wild, frantic and unexpected than its well-received predecessor. "

Robin Denselow 2011-04-21

It’s impossible not to admire Dan Harper. Until five years ago, he was an aid worker in Ethiopia, where he not only became fascinated by the country’s remarkable music scene but built his own studio in Addis Ababa and managed to persuade leading local artists to record with him. He also invited producer and bassist Nick Page, also known as Count Dubulah, out to Ethiopia and introduced him to his musical friends; as a result, Page formed his highly successful Ethiopian fusion band Dub Colossus.

Once he returned to England, where he now works as an unconventional music teacher in the West Country, Harper continued work on a fusion project of his own. He persuaded an impressive selection of British musicians to add their contributions to his Ethiopian recordings, and the result was the album Punt, credited to a band Harper called Invisible System. It included a remarkable cast, from the legendary Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed through to punk hero Captain Sensible, guitarist Justin Adams and Count Dubulah; the results veered from African styles to psychedelic rock, trip-hop and dub. Although this was originally something of an obscure DIY release, Harper managed to bring his work to national attention, and won impressive reviews.

Since then, the two Ethiopian fusion experiments have continued. Dub Colossus, now a rousing live band rather than merely a studio project, have a new album of Ethio-jazz and reggae fusions, Addis Through the Looking Glass, while Invisible System have a very different second set, Street Clan.

Once again, the album is based around recordings that Harper made in Africa – this time in Mali as well as Ethiopia – to which he adds his own guitar, bass, synth programming, percussion and production work. Then there are contributions from a new set of Western musicians, including the great American guitarist Skip McDonald, Adrian Utley from Portishead, Stuart Fisher (who has worked with Courtney Love), and members of psychedelic hippie heroes Ozric Tentacles. Then there’s Jamaican singer Dennis Wint, who Harper met in the Somerset town of Frome, where he lives and works.

Street Clan is even more wild, frantic and unexpected than Punt, with sections that work brilliantly and tracks where Ethiopian vocals are surrounded by a blitz of thrash guitar and percussion, results ranging from exhilarating to messy. The best tracks come towards the end, where the emphasis shifts from the clash of African vocals with full-tilt Western guitars, through to more conventional dub reggae. There’s still an African edge to Teenage Lion and Broken Heart, thanks to the vocal work from Zewditu Tadesse; but Wint dominates the songs with an energy and style that makes him sound like an unlikely male answer to early Patti Smith.

Back from camping in Wales to a great BBC album review :) http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/mcpn

Back from camping in Wales to a great BBC album review :)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/mcpn

Sunday 17 April 2011

Another new USA review! world music central

Whopping Crossbreed of Genres
By
TJNelson
– April 17, 2011Posted in: CD Reviews

Invisible System - Street Clan
Invisible System

Street Clan (Harper Diabate Records, 2011)

Following up on their Songlines World Music Award Best Newcomer nominated CD Punt (Made in Ethopia), Invisible System, headed up by Dan Harper, is back with their sophomore recording Street Clan. Recorded in Ethiopia, Mali and the United Kingdom on Mr. Harper’s off time from his gig as an aid worker, Street Clan is another fantastical ride with guest appearances by Portishead’s Adrian Utley, Skip McDonald, Eat Static and The Ozirc Tentacles and percussionist Stuart Fisher. Delving into a razor-sharp otherworldliness, Invisible System tumbles headlong into an edgy course filled with plenty of twists and turns.

Packed with 17 tracks, Street Clan is a whopping crossbreed of genres, covering the map from dance to dub to reggae to rock to post-punk and to psychedelia. With such a daunting cornucopia of sounds and divergent directions, I wonder if perhaps it wouldn’t have been wiser to break up the tracks into two different recordings.

Personally, I found some of the post-punk, thrash tracks a little discordant with the overall sound. It’s one of those things where you have an idea of where the artist is going, but you’re not sure you want to follow. Listeners shouldn’t be discouraged because there are some excellent tracks on Street Clan.

Invisible System’s vocalist Zewditu Tadesse hits the mark on opening track “Tizita” against an eerie background of electronic, shadowy guitar and clever percussion. Equally good is the track “Ambassel” with Mimi’s Azmari traditional band and backed by some slick guitar licks. Dipping into the edgy, “Bone Flaps” is all guitar fire, drums, bass and Zewditu’s vocals in a sort of African punk homage.

Standout gems include the trippy reggae tinged “Woman’s Love,” the electronica charged “Live Up to Love” that screams trance joy and the hypnotic “Oumabetty” with its mix of rhythms, mournful sax lines and liquid vocals. “Teenage Lion” gets a jacked up treatment by Invisible System’s vocalists Zewditu Tadesse and the husky voiced Dennis Wint against a sway-backed reggae beat that pulses with sheer goodness.

Street Clan is akin some wild and wonderful underground cave club where the musical colors keep shifting and you just can’t help jumping into the very center.

Buy the album:

In North America: Street Clan. Other recordings available: Punt
In Europe: Street Clan. Other recordings available: Punt

Friday 15 April 2011

Cracking review for new album in The New York Times:) Invisible System : Street Clan http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/arts/music/cds-from-alison-kra

Cracking review for new album in The New York Times:)
Invisible System : Street Clan

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/arts/music/cds-from-alison-krauss-colin-stetson-and-dennis-coffey.htmlInvisible System

As an aid worker in Ethiopia and Mali, Dan Harper started recording local singers and bands. Then, as a musical project he called Invisible System, he started tinkering — extensively and transformatively — with what he collected, playing guitar, bass and synthesizers and adding collaborators. On Invisible System’s second album, “Street Clan” (Harper Diabate), the African sounds are melded with mean metal riffs, funk bass lines, dance beats, psychedelic guitar jams, dub-style echoes, the righteous declamations of a Jamaican-British reggae singer (Dennis Wint) and more. It’s a latter-day, more chopped up, more aggressive follow-through on the ideas of “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.” The roiling results have some of the volatility of the Mars Volta and Jimi Hendrix and the implacability of Lee Scratch Perry. The reggae honors the Rastafarian tenet of a return to Ethiopia, although it sometimes tilts toward cliché. But the Ethiopian singers — Zewditu Tadesse, Tawebe and Mimi — are all grabbers: raspy and passionate, their voices leaping out of the tracks.

After neglecting myspace for years I just worked out how to use the new version and updated with 3 tracks off new album - enjoy:)

After neglecting myspace for years I just worked out how to use the new version and updated with 3 tracks off new album - enjoy:)

It's UKs Independent Record Store Day tomorrow. Get out there and support our struggling stores;) You can buy our new album whilst your at it:) In jus

It's UKs Independent Record Store Day tomorrow. Get out there and support our struggling stores;) You can buy our new album whilst your at it:) In just about all indie CD stores in the UK and some of the majors

Wednesday 13 April 2011

Just got 4 stars in Financial Times here and R2 / Rock n Reel mag and 5 stars from LAs The Place + this is The Telegraph :) Mixing dark-toned Ethiopi

Just got 4 stars in Financial Times here and R2 / Rock n Reel mag and 5 stars from LAs The Place + this is The Telegraph :)

Mixing dark-toned Ethiopian folk sounds with West Country hippy electronica, this enterprising DIY production draws in contributions from British indie players from Portishead to On-U-Sound System. Touches of Krautrock, dubstep and a certain raw, informal drive make this one of the more interesting of many projects inspired by the great Ethiopiques series.

Invisible system
Street Clan

Invisible System on BBC3 Late Junction tonight! May cheer me up after landing back in the UK to rain and greyness, TAKE ME BACK SOUTH!!! :)

Invisible System on BBC3 Late Junction tonight! May cheer me up after landing back in the UK to rain and greyness, TAKE ME BACK SOUTH!!! :)

Monday 4 April 2011

Invisible System's Street Clan on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction programme (www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/latejunction) on Wednesday 13 April

Invisible System's Street Clan on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction programme (www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/latejunction) on Wednesday 13 April

Thursday 31 March 2011

We be on BBC6msuic Gideon Coe again tonight, his show is always full of good tunes and worth tuning in;)

We be on BBC6msuic Gideon Coe again tonight, his show is always full of good tunes and worth tuning in;)

Saturday 26 March 2011

R2 / Rock N Reel Mag 4star review

INVISIBLE SYSTEM
****
Street Clan
(HARPER DIABATE RECORDS) HYPERLINK "http://www.harperdiabate.com"www.harperdiabate.com

Following Invisible System’s acclaimed, award nominated, debut Punt (Made In Ethiopia) comes this second eclectic helping of global fusion that once again knocks any preconceptions of ‘world music’ into a cocked hat. As with its predecessor Street Clan brings together Ethiopian musicians with members of bands as diverse as Hole, Portishead, Little Axe, Eat Static and The Ozric Tentacles and, just to make things even more interesting, adds a couple of Jamaican reggae vocalists, (Sydney Salmon from Shashamene, Ethiopia and Dennis Wint who Invisible System main man Dan Harper bumped into in Frome High Street) to the mix. Their involvement adds yet another dimension to an album that leads you along until you think you’ve got handle on proceedings before throwing a curve ball and setting off in a totally different direction. Spontaneous, joyous and full of sonic surprises it’s an unlikely endeavour where anything can, and often does, happen, with Ethiopian and Jamaican voices merging over music that ranges from beat heavy psychedelic guitar driven Krautrock (‘Live Up To Love’)to disjointed thrash-punk guitar and drums with traditional Ethiopian instruments (‘Mutant Miners’) and with every possible variation between. It really shouldn’t work, but it does and wonderfully so.
Dave Haslam

First review out for Street Clan. 5 stars 5/5:) Great review from Los Angeles, and makes you giggle, right on the money - lol

First review out for Street Clan. 5 stars 5/5:) Great review from Los Angeles, and makes you giggle, right on the money - lol

Invisible System Takes World Fusion Music to a New Level with New CD Street Clan
Master musician Dan Harper and Invisible System has once again orchestrated a fusion masterpiece with his new CD Street Clan. With a more aggressive tone than last years Punt (Made in Ethiopia), Street Clan combines a European base with a Jamaican groove and an Ethiopian feel.

At first listen, I thought this CD would be great for a London or West Hollywood underground club. The second listen made me think it really needs to be played with hundreds of people in a mosh pit. After playing it everyday for a week, I finally realized this CD is perfect for one person in a mosh pit with hundreds of wild animals! This is mass confusion at its best! You will not be able to decide if you should go to a hip club or go on an African safari. Either way, the music is superb and the human expression is amazing.

Street Clan has grabbed graffiti from an international wall and transferred the meaning behind it into music. With a cast of experienced musicians from around the world, Invisible System’s Street Clan gets another five star review!

Check it out at www.HarperDiabate.com

Thursday 24 March 2011

Catch us tonight on BBC6 music with Gideon Coe 9pm - midnight http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zj9b3

Catch us tonight on BBC6 music with Gideon Coe 9pm - midnight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zj9b3

Tuesday 22 March 2011

Sorry we are pulling out of Wreck n Roll gig with Eat Static , Skip McDonald etc on Sat in Bristol, numbers been down on the tour, come on UK we are a

Sorry we are pulling out of Wreck n Roll gig with Eat Static , Skip McDonald etc on Sat in Bristol, numbers been down on the tour, come on UK we are all struggling in recession but I think up north it was £12 to see all those class acts and mutated circus. What is going on!?!?

Sorry we are pulling out of Wreck n Roll gig with Eat Static , Skip McDonald etc on Sat in Bristol, numbers been down on the tour, come on UK we are a

Sorry we are pulling out of Wreck n Roll gig with Eat Static , Skip McDonald etc on Sat in Bristol, numbers been down on the tour, come on UK we are all struggling in recession but I think up north it was £12 to see all those class acts and mutated circus. What is going on!?!?

Monday 21 March 2011

Different track off new album on DJRitu A World In London here http://www.mixcloud.com/djritu/dj-ritua-world-in-london/?utm_source=redirect&utm_medium

Different track off new album on DJRitu A World In London here
http://www.mixcloud.com/djritu/dj-ritua-world-in-london/?utm_source=redirect&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=cloudcast

Well I never thought this would be on the pre-order suppliers!! http://www.whsmithentertainment.co.uk/cd/the-invisible-system/street-clan/10406878.htm

Well I never thought this would be on the pre-order suppliers!!
http://www.whsmithentertainment.co.uk/cd/the-invisible-system/street-clan/10406878.html

Friday 18 March 2011

Playing in Bristol next weekend with Eat Static, Skip McDonald etc at Motion nightclub for the Wreck n Roll

Playing in Bristol next weekend with Eat Static, Skip McDonald etc at Motion nightclub for the Wreck n Roll

Not sure if I should admit this either but the cheapest place to pre-order the album now is not Asda but HMV! http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDeta

Not sure if I should admit this either but the cheapest place to pre-order the album now is not Asda but HMV!
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;0;-1;-1;-1&sku=91927
£8.99 free p&p

Wednesday 16 March 2011

1 day left if you want to hear a track off the new album second time Gideon on BBC6music has played this one and just caught it! http://www.bbc.co.uk/

1 day left if you want to hear a track off the new album second time Gideon on BBC6music has played this one and just caught it!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z2r3v#p00fldbd

Tuesday 15 March 2011

speak japanese!?

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/hmvjapan/4021351/

and another preorder

http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=337673

Monday 14 March 2011

or here

http://www.normanrecords.com/poogle/index.php?q=invisible+system+street+clan&btnG=Search

Few more shops to pre-order new Invisible System album up http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/TheInvisibleSystem-StreetClan-HarperDiabateRecords

Few more shops to pre-order new Invisible System album up
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/TheInvisibleSystem-StreetClan-HarperDiabateRecords-75127.html

Friday 11 March 2011

Pre order the new Invisible System album Street Clan here - released 11th April :) http://www.cargorecords.co.uk/release/15434

Pre order the new Invisible System album Street Clan here - released 11th April :)
http://www.cargorecords.co.uk/release/15434

Wednesday 9 March 2011

Writhlington Studios is now available for hire, with me in, Pro Tools HD + all the extras at only £150 per 7.5 hours, special offer.

Writhlington Studios is now available for hire, with me in, Pro Tools HD + all the extras at only £150 per 7.5 hours, special offer.