The Declining Winter

Bio:

The meanderings of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds, West Yorkshire. A musical project to keep me occupied whilst my other group is on hiatus and so I can pretend that I'm not just an office worker by trade.

I'm attempting to keep this project environmentally friendly and so the first 7" 'The Future Sound of Hip Hop parts 1 and 2' was housed in 100% recycled packaging. The initial copies came with a bonus CD of remixes by Epic 45, Remote Viewer, Part Timer and Northstation, this has now sold out. A seperate 3" cd of remixes/collaborations came out on Moteer in January and further remixes (including those which appeared on the cd with the earlier single) are available from Mobeer... if you have the password which comes with the Moteer release. Confused? Yes, so am I.

The album 'Goodbye, Minnesota' is out now on Ireland's Rusted Rail records. Again it has recycled sleeves - can you see a pattern emerging? None of these activities has anything to do with popular demand by the way.

The next Declining Winter record proper was entitled 'Haunt the Upper Hallways' and appears on Home Assembly Music in luxurious 7" AND CD format with the 7" containing three songs and the CD containing the same three songs plus 7 bonus ones.


The Declining Winter live band at the moment consists of R.Vincent Adams, Paul Elam, Gareth S Brown, Sarah Kemp and/or Elaine Reynolds, plus Richard Morris or James Yates, and has become a tight rocking unit. It made its debut on March 20th 2008 at the Packhorse in Leeds (see video below). The band will be playing shows when requested from here on in - take a peek at the gig listings on this here page (or last.fm) to see where they can be caught next.

Booking info:

UK and Europe: paul@sleepsoundagency.com


Oh, and to supplement all the fun of this here MySpace site, you can visit The Declining Winter website or last.fm page for downloads, pictures... and more of that kind of thing. You can also follow us on Twitter if you want but we don't say too much.
Heres a video of our 2010 World Cup Theme!
Heres a video of 'Haunt the Upper Hallways' (7" with bonus CD on Home Assembly Music out now)

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Here's the video for 'Hey EFD inst' from the same record And finally, here's a video of the first ever performance - "Yorkcitythree" live at The Packhorse, Leeds on March 20th 2008.

Member Since:

October 19, 2006

Members:

Richard Adams and a lot of help

Influences:

Dogs, autumn, ycfc, streetlights, I-35, hebden bridge, the declining winter

Sounds Like:

.. The Declining Winter
Haunt the Upper Hallways CD & 7" (£5.99)

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“A familiarly stark, rustic sound-world, full of tumbling beats and sweeping, harmonised violins…… Gorgeous music - Highly recommended” BOOMKAT The Declining Winter
Goodbye Minnesota CD (£8)

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"autumnal and graceful, its quietly resigned tenor gesturing toward emotional troubles that remain just out of focus" UNCUT .. The Declining Winter
T Shirt (£6) Available in grey. State size & colour when ordering

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Tour CD (£4) Very limited handmade 3" Cdr. 5 unreleased tracks.

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Record Label:

Rusted Rail/Misplaced Music/Moteer/Home Assembly