20th October 2009
"Another Thunderous Silence" was released three months ago today. Written and recorded by Alan McNeill and Sue MacGregor, it's been described as "a broad lush panorama", "ambient chill-out with an edge" and "something close to ecstasy". The EP is available to buy from all your favourite download stores, including iTunes and Boomkat.
13th October 2009
Last night's gig was awesome, thanks to all the people who came along. Always a pleasure to play at Tut's. Always a treat to hang out with Marie-Claire and Jackie.
Photos by Marie Lauchlan.
5th October 2009
Tickets for the 12th are selling well. Get yours for £4 by emailing gigs@engine7music.com.
30th Sepember 2009
People demanded a gig. OK, we said. Let's do a gig. Hey, come along.
9 - 11.30pm. £6. Discounts available by emailing gigs@engine7music.com.
27th August 2009
MASSIVE shout out to Vic Galloway and Muslim Alim for making us feel so welcome at the BBC. And a HUGE thank you to my friends Marie-Claire, Signy and Jackie who made the whole thing quite special with their gorgeous singing and playing.
Photos by Marie Lauchlan.
Good times.
25th August 2009
Tune in to Radio 1 for the Vic Galloway show at midnight on Wednesday 26th Aug, because Engine7 will be performing four songs live, including a rather special cover track we've been working on.
97-99 FM, innit.
25th August 2009
The Engine7 show for Unique Beats in Edinburgh on Saturday the 22nd was EPIC. At nearly an hour, it was the longest and most exhausting set we'd played. Thanks for coming along everyone, and a huge thanks to Andy Farina who organised the event and still managed to smile throughout.
Pics soon.
24th August 2009
The Lotus Project show at Mannifest on the Isle of Man was quite awesome. Thanks to the crowd for being so warm and appreciative.
The Lotus Project live at Mannifest, Isle of Man.
12th August 2009
Engine7 is pleased to announce some live action:
- Mannifest (Isle of Man) with The Lotus Project on Saturday 15th August.
- Unique Beats at Forest Cafe at the Edinburgh Fringe on Saturday 22nd August.
- Live session on the Vic Galloway show on Radio 1 on Wednesday 26th August at midnight.
More updates soon.
12th August 2009
Engine7, live at 'Genre is a Dirty Word' in Glasgow, in May 2009. Photography by Gav Inglis.
3rd August 2009
Ushered in with an entrancing piano melody, "Nuesta Señora" swells into a stately, orchestral-ambient setting in a mere five-minute running time. Strings, phase-treated guitars, piano, and glockenspiels merge into a slow-moving mass of ponderous character, while softly pulsating bass lines lend heft to the whirring electronic streams and melodic fragments that flow through the second original, "Bell Deconstruction." The EP's jewel is "Me, But Perfect (Glossolalia mix)" which intensifies the original version with open-hearted emotion and drama by layering vocals, so yearning they verge on ecstatic, over a thick stirring mass of electronics, piano, and glockenspiels. With the original's beats entirely removed, the update firmly locates the Engine7 sound within Sigur Rós territory. Finally, the iridescence of "Sunrise, Catalonia (Costa Brava mix)" is as blinding as light reflecting off the ocean on a summer's day; something close to ecstasy is achieved in this also-beatless and sun-dappled drone treatment.
2nd August 2009
This is twenty minutes of beatless music that conjours up blue skies, blazing sun, white sand and turquoise sea. The opening track has a lengthy fade in of piano arpeggios before opening out into a broad lush panorama of the kind that Moby used to be good at. The Glossolalia remix of "Me, But Perfect" ditches the cracked beats of the original in favour of a balearic chill-out anthem, laden with overdubbed and filtered vocal chorus. The final two tracks are drone-heavy. "Bell Deconstruction" is a rich soup of backward loops (possibly ringtones mashed up unrecognisably), that has subtle shifts in texture in a barely-altering structure. "Sunrise Catalonia" in its new form is also based on a sustained, unwavering synth chord, with bleeps and mixed voices making it sound like the Animal Collective go Ibiza.
20th July 2009
Engine7 - Another Thunderous Silence is now available to buy from all your favourite download stores, including iTunes and Boomkat.
14th July 2009
Engine7 - Another Thunderous Silence
- 1. Nuestra Señora
- 2. Me, But Perfect (Glossolalia Mix), featuring Sue MacGregor
- 3. Bell Deconstruction
- 4. Sunrise, Catalonia (Costa Brava Mix)
9th July 2009
Engine7 is proud to announce a brand new four track EP, "Another Thunderous Silence". It will be available on the 20th of July. More details soon.
8th July 2009
Apologies for the recent lack of updates, it's been a busy few months.
There's been a few gigs: The Goat last month, and Pivo Pivo in May, along with an appearance at the Unique Beats festival in Edinburgh. The 'Genre is a Dirty Word' night was really special too.
18th June 2009
Had some connectivity issues recently. Updates soon.
10th April 2009
Engine7 is gigging again. Here's the details for the first one...
18th November 2008
Come to Pivo Pivo tonight to see and hear the amazing one man band that is Engine7! Marvel at the lonely figure on stage, blinded by the glare of the projector, desperately trying to hold together songs that he has created for this very night, just so they can hang in the air for a few minutes, like audible fog, like late night ideas that never quite make it to the morning. Like a deep, dirty depression of a sound that used to be music, but not anymore.
8 - 11. Free entry. Waterloo St.
Please come along.
12th November 2008
Well that was a good gig... Thanks to everyone (and there was loads of you) who came along, thanks to Tronic for consistently being the best Friday night out in Glasgow, to Russ for his amazing visuals and to my fantastic friends Sue and Marie-Claire for their incredible singing.
Photos by Mark Connelly.
The next show will be very soon, updates here shortly.
17th October 2008
The first Engine7 gig for eight months will be rocking the Tronic sound system at Blackfriars Basement on the 7th of November. That's a FRIDAY NIGHT folks, so get your party shoes on - these guys will be providing music you can actually DANCE to: Sabrepulse, Gravious, I am Blip and Edge of the Map. There's going to be visuals and DJs till 3am.
9 - 3AM. £5/7. Entry includes a Tronic compilation CD, including a track by Engine7. Discounted tickets @ www.SECxtra.com and Ticket Scotland
Please come along.
12th July 2008
The debut Engine7 album "Me, But Perfect" has been released worldwide. The track listing is:
- 1. Sunrise, Catalonia (7:14am)
- 2. Me, But Perfect (7:48am)
- 3. Obsessive/Compulsive (9:12am)
- 4. Glitches (10:08am)
- 5. Tempertantrum (11:36am)
- 6. Path of Least Resistance (12:42pm)
- 7. Nichts (2:46pm)
- 8. A Conversation (4:21pm)
- 9. The Air Sings (7:08pm)
- 10. Hive Mind (7:21pm)
- 11. Goodnight, I Love You (8:07pm)
It is available on cd and digital download. There will be a couple of shows around the release, more details here soon.
28th April 2008
The Engine7 single "Tempertantrum" has been released on digital download stores worldwide. The track listing is:
- 1. Tempertantrum (11:36am)
- 2. Sunrise, Catalonia (7:14am)
You can buy it from iTunes for £1.58.