TAG: Beak

Mar07

Portishead To Record New Album

The world has given a lot of attention lately to Geoff Barrow’s various projects, including Drokk, BEAK> and his Invada record label. And he’s now ready to repay by giving us what it is we really want, new music by Portishead. Barrows told The Quietus that the group plans on recording a new record, although nothing is underway just yet.

“We’ve been getting together recently and talking about lots of stuff,” he said. “There’s definitely going to be another record, we’re just going to get on it as soon as my studio gets working.” …MORE

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Feb07

STREAM New Geoff Barrow of Portishead Music (MP3)

Portishead’s Geoff Barrow has some new tunes for us to hear. And while none of it is fresh music from his most famous band, the producer/DJ/drummer is offering up selections from his groups DROKK and BEAK> as part of a sample for his Invada record label. The two DROKK songs, “Exhale” and “Justice One,” are basically dark ambient piecesrecorded with Ben Sailsbury that were inspired by “Mega City One” (comic geek alert).

Other standouts on the compilation include Barrow’s remix of the rocking “The Haunting” by Scarlet Rascal & Train Wreck and Anika’s cover of Chromatic’s “In The City.” Check out the full 11-song sampler after the jump.

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Sep06

HEAR Portishead Side-Project Beak> Cover Pink Floyd’s “Welcome To The Machine” (MP3)

For all the well-deserved fanfare that accompanies Portishead, it’s surprising that Geoff Barrow’s other trio, Beak>, seems to have mostly stayed under the radar. The group’s 2009 self-titled album was a lesson in live minimal synth/bass/drum alchemy, and this cover of Pink Floyd’s classic “Welcome To The Machine,” recorded for a Mojo Magazine sampler CD, delivers the same.


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Sep02

URB Exclusive: BEAK> MP3 + Tix Giveaway for U.S Tour + Portishead Interview + BIG NEWS (Video & MP3)

BEAK> are only playing four US dates and URB’s giving away tix…and if you’re not near NY, SF, LA or the Borscht Belt, URB’s still got your back, with “Deserters” an ultra-scarce BEAK> MP3 which is unavailable unless you’re one of the 200 persons who buys the limited edition cassette at one of their four tour stops in the country…plus, BIG news about Portishead, and a rough video clip of their set at Coachella ‘007

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Dec08

Beak – Beak (Review)

Beak

Beak

Released by Ipecac


It's impossible to listen to Beak and not search for traces of Geoff Barrow's other, slightly more epochal outfit, Portishead. Elusive and creepily perfect, Portishead records demand devotion and inspire a curiosity the band seems impossible to sate. So we turn to Beak, which emerged with every bit the attitude of a side project, with an investigative ear. It seems fair to surmise that few purchased Beak, after all, without foreknowledge of Barrow's other band. So, to make the comparisons, one hears in its rich percussive thrust echos of the ...

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