Anna Kashfi
'Procurement'
released September 1st
(Little Red Rabbit Records, 2008; LRR007)

Anna Kashfi is the name of a band from Manchester who play dreamy, melancholic music that crackles with the memories of past mistakes, missed opportunities and the emotional games played by lovers in battle.  Their new album ‘Procurement' is a stunning work that moves from stately ballads through late-night laments to droning psychedelic folk that is eerie and gentle in equal measure. This is the point at which traditional English folk, modern Americana and klezmer traditions come together to create a sound that is familiar and comforting yet opaque and elusive.
"A really lovely album" - MARK RADCLIFFE

Last Harbour
'My Knowen Foe'
released August 17th
(Little Red Rabbit Records, 2008; LRR006)

An EP of three songs recorded at Blueprint studios Salford in October 2007. One was written the month before in a remote Northumbrian cottage, one is a resuscitation and one is an epic closer.

Last Harbour
'Dead Fires and the Lonely Spark'
(Little Red Rabbit Records, 2008; LRR005)

The new album from the Manchester-based collective recorded with Richard Formby in glorious analogue. PLAN B : “Great chasmic dramas hide within the swooning dustbowl rumbles of these songs, blackly turbulent like 16 Horsepower or Lift To Experience, with a Wild West baroque feel akin to Okkervil River.” LONDON TOUR DATES : “A brooding, country-noir masterpiece.”
UNCUT : "Well worth investigating."
DROWNED IN SOUND : "Bewitching."

Another handmade EP. Recorded in a church in Levenshulme one Wednesday evening by the Last Harbour Gentleman's Quartet.  'Pepper's Ghost' was made to coincide with our tour supporting Willard Grant Conspiracy. It contains a new song and acoustic versions of two songs from 'Dead Fires and the Lonely Spark'. SOLD OUT

A handmade EP of oddities, versions and curios of songs from 'Hold Fast, Pioneer'. These are all alternate versions, as well as one unreleased song that didn't make the final album cut.  'October' was made to coincide with our tour supporting Mark Mulcahy.