The Odds and Ends single by Canon Blue has been a favorite in the Rumraket office and headphones for a long time! We are very happy to release this extended single with some very good and different remixes included!

Canon Blue - www.myspace.com/canonblue

TURBOWEEKEND:
Turboweekend's take on Odds and Ends is a hauntingly dark and brooding march into the night, complete with a sleazy back beat and moonlight drenched synths to lead the way. This might be the most catchy release on Rumraket ever and its hard to resist. Turboweekend are local heroes in Denmark, but criminally overlooked outside the kingdom - if you like to dance to good and intelligent songs you should investigate.
http://www.myspace.com/turboweekend

VINCENT OLIVER:
An English wunderkind who breathed a second life into Rum Diary. Vincent Oliver recently also contributed to the Efterklang discography with a hilarious and genius remix of Efterklangs Mirador song. Vincent Oliver releases his music on LOAF Records.
http://www.myspace.com/vincentoliver

RIVAL CONSOLES:
This remix of Odds and Ends is the kind that completely turns the original inside out and destroys it to create something new and unique of the scattered parts. Rival Consoles has a new Decadent EP out now on the lovely Erased Tapes Records.
http://www.myspace.com/rivalconsoles

KILL KRINKLE CLUB:
A dream pop duo from Dublin. This remix of Odds and Ends is full of their lo-fi warmth destined to put happy thoughts in your head and a glow in your heart. Kill Krinkle Club claim that they will represent Ireland in the next Eurovision Song Contest.
http://www.myspace.com/killkrinkleclub

This EP was released as a free digital EP in the slipstream from Colonies the debut album of Canon Blue. This download is not free, but very very cheap and it will give you the brilliant and praised EP in 320kbps quality!

a letter from Daniel aka Canon Blue:
The story goes that in the old days, during the winter solstice, all the oceans in the world would lay calm and the bad weather would subside. It was then that the kingfisher bird would fly out into the open sea to build its nest and lay its eggs, believing they would hatch in time before the waves began to rise again. This time came to be known as the halcyon days.

The Halcyon EP was recorded in my bedroom during the month of November, 2007. Winter always seems to be a more creative time for me, and the sudden cold and slower pace that was settling in over Nashville provided a welcome excuse to stay inside and work. A few friends came by as well, each with their own special sounds from cellos to horns to live drums, adding new colors to the mix.

This EP, for me, is a way to reflect on yet another year quietly slipping by, enjoying the present stillness of a tennessee winter, and looking forward to what is coming up over those yon there hills. I hope you are to able find something in it too. thanks for listening...

- daniel james (sunday december 9th, 2007)

- myspace.com/canonblue

CANON BLUE - HALCYON EP
written, recorded and produced by Daniel James
mastered by Mads Brauer
drums by Gavin McDonald
cello on tracks 2-4 by Claire Indie
sax on tracks 1 & 4 by Justin Thomas Daly
slide on track 1 by Andrew Smith
trumpet on track 1 by Tyler James

Copyright 2007 RUMRAKET
contact@rumraket.com

Canon Blue "Colonies" It is a dizzying cocoon of new-folk, eccentric-pop and space-rock sensibilities, wrapped warmly with a strong electronic influence.

Mixed by Chris Taylor (of Grizzly Bear) and mastered by Cristian Vogel (acclaimed solo artist, producer remixer etc), "Colonies" is undoubtedly Rumraket's most fierce and extrovert release to date.

Written recorded and produced by Daniel James
mixing and additional production by Chris Taylor
mastered by Cristian Vogel at Station 55
art & packaging by Ben Tousley
drum samples courtesy og Gavin McDonald
additional drums on "treehouse" by Dan Burns
additional guitar on "target practise" by Peter Barbee
additional violin on "Sea Monsters" and "Mouth to Mouth"by Catherine Brigham

Special thanks to:
My Family, Chris York, Rasmus Stolberg, Casper Clausen, Thomas Husmer, Tyler James, Jason Martin, Chris Taylor, Ben Tousley, Cristian Vogel, Efterklang, Paper Route and Rumraket