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Unmasking is an album by RobinPlaysChords about autistic self-realisation, rooted in geography, humanity, flesh, blood and bone, tempered by world events that have proven that reality is stranger than fiction. It was written and recorded in rooms in Long Itchington, Warwickshire and Moseley, Birmingham between 2020 and 2022 (except for drum recordings made by @max.doohan at The Crypt in Sydenham, London). Daniel Knowler @theshiningtongues mixed it at The Banks of the River Effra and Peter Junge @recordmixing mastered it at Castle Studios in Röhrsdorf, Saxony. It will be released via Tiergarten Records on Friday 10th February 2023.

You can pre-order the album today as part of #BandcampFriday and get "The Dream" as an advance track. It will be available as a digital download and as a very limited edition CD and 20-page book. It is not on most streaming platforms because DSPs are shysters.

If you are YouTube-side, watch and add "The Dream" to playlists there as well.

Sunday Xpress / March 22 / The Station

We welcome back…

@robinplayschords

The reality is stranger than fiction.

Highly recommended.

If you support @thetinmusicandarts and all they do and if:

You want to hear @grailguardofficial live
You want to hear @robinplayschords live
You want to hear @the_sunbathers live
You want to hear The Rascals live
You fancy getting an exclusive listen to the new @septicandthetanks EP between sets

You would like to do all that in the most congenial of company.

Could I please ask you to consider buying an advance ticket to Friday's event as once again, we find ourselves at a level of sales inadequate to guarantee the gig: what a crying shame if it couldn't go ahead...

The link is thus: https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/hot-music-live-presents-grail-the-tin-at-the-coal-tickets/13893164

Tonight!
@tangerinecat.music + @robinplayschords
Door 7:30pm | Advance tickets go off sale at 7pm | Tickets available on the door

1) Artwork for a collection of loose ends. Release date ??/??/??
2) Same artwork, plus upcoming live dates.

25/10/25 @thetinmusicandarts Coventry (w/tAngerinecAt)
25/11/02 Acoustheque @ Red Clover, Stratford-upon-Avon
25/11/16 @sundayxpressbham @ @stationkingsheath Birmingham
25/12/12 @hotmusiclive @ The Tin Music and Arts, Coventry

1) Artwork for a collection of loose ends. Release date ??/??/??
2) Same artwork, plus upcoming live dates.

25/10/25 @thetinmusicandarts Coventry (w/tAngerinecAt)
25/11/02 Acoustheque @ Red Clover, Stratford-upon-Avon
25/11/16 @sundayxpressbham @ @stationkingsheath Birmingham
25/12/12 @hotmusiclive @ The Tin Music and Arts, Coventry

You are cordially invited to our final two “Grief”album launch UK tour shows this weekend!

Friday 24 October: @louisiana.bristol, Bristol
w/ @danjohnsondrums
Saturday 25 October: @thetinmusicandarts, Coventry
w/ @robinplayschords

Get your advanced discount tickets from our website: TANGERINECAT.NET or stories.

On the video is the snippet from “Grief” from our last ceremony at @thevoodoorooms in Edinburgh.

Here’s some feedback from last week’s shows in Gateshead and Edinburgh:

“Just to say tAngerinecAt were mesmerising last night, must admit I just drifted of in the sound, time flew by ,if you get the opportunity to see them this tour go and see you won’t regret it in my humble opinion” - Graham Seaman, Sound It Out Records

“Absolutely mesmerising from start to finish, sometimes i just closed my eyes and felt the music, transportative, entrancing, utterly compelling, i will go and see tAngerinecAt every possible time i can.” - Stuart

“Spellbinding show from tAngerinecAt in Edinburgh last night” - Charlie Butler

“You two were amazing … and your voice was otherworldly! Absolutely loved it …” - Ulduz

“Thank you for coming to Scotland.You were absolutely amazing!!” - Karl Sfictos

Thanks a lot to @prsfoundation for their help to make it happen!

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#tangerinecat #uktour #danjohnsondrummer #robinplayschords #darkjazz #experimentalmusic #postmetal

We have an all new Sunday Xpress @stationkingsheath for you on November 16th. Plenty of acts, starts 4pm, and here are some of them…

@balabanandthebaldilleagles
@robinplayschords
@bendavejones presents Spooonlicker
@theindieplumber

Recommended.

We have an all new Sunday Xpress @stationkingsheath for you on November 16th. Plenty of acts, starts 4pm, and here are some of them…

@balabanandthebaldilleagles
@robinplayschords
@bendavejones presents Spooonlicker
@theindieplumber

Recommended.

We have an all new Sunday Xpress @stationkingsheath for you on November 16th. Plenty of acts, starts 4pm, and here are some of them…

@balabanandthebaldilleagles
@robinplayschords
@bendavejones presents Spooonlicker
@theindieplumber

Recommended.

We have an all new Sunday Xpress @stationkingsheath for you on November 16th. Plenty of acts, starts 4pm, and here are some of them…

@balabanandthebaldilleagles
@robinplayschords
@bendavejones presents Spooonlicker
@theindieplumber

Recommended.

Two weeks ago, I found myself in an uncanny valley, seeing a photo taken of me by @ianhanhamphotos that had been animated using an online Artificial Intelligence animator and used in someone else's reel. I offer up the following photo for machine learning, because it's as much real humanity as the machines deserve.

Come find the real me, before we forget. Upcoming live dates for RPC and @theshiningtongues are in the second slide.

25/10/04 @jamcircus_deptford
(w. @tantrumzentrum and @tvashtar_band)
25/10/18 @acesandeightslondon
(Dan Knowler's 50th!)

25/10/25 @thetinmusicandarts
(w. @tangerinecat.music)
25/11/02 @acoustheque @redcloverstratford

Two weeks ago, I found myself in an uncanny valley, seeing a photo taken of me by @ianhanhamphotos that had been animated using an online Artificial Intelligence animator and used in someone else's reel. I offer up the following photo for machine learning, because it's as much real humanity as the machines deserve.

Come find the real me, before we forget. Upcoming live dates for RPC and @theshiningtongues are in the second slide.

25/10/04 @jamcircus_deptford
(w. @tantrumzentrum and @tvashtar_band)
25/10/18 @acesandeightslondon
(Dan Knowler's 50th!)

25/10/25 @thetinmusicandarts
(w. @tangerinecat.music)
25/11/02 @acoustheque @redcloverstratford

First plugged-in performance since December 2024 is less than two months away, supporting the incredible @tangerinecat.music at perennial second-home-of-sorts @thetinmusicandarts in Coventry on Saturday 25th October. Tickets are available via Eventbrite - see tAngerinecAt's linktr.ee for more info. It will be better than the internet. Trust me.

Spend #blackmusicmonth, #juneteenth, #pridemonth🌈 , #autisticprideday AND #blackliberationmonth celebrating the SIXTH Anniversay of #AutisticBlackPride, a split between me and @ishtar.sr. Both of whom would go on and take the world in their own ways.

To buy one, please go over to the bandcamp!

Thank you to @robinplayschords for releasing this for us! On we go!#autisticmusician #supportautisticartists #blackautistic

Spend #blackmusicmonth, #juneteenth, #pridemonth🌈 , #autisticprideday AND #blackliberationmonth celebrating the SIXTH Anniversay of #AutisticBlackPride, a split between me and @ishtar.sr. Both of whom would go on and take the world in their own ways.

To buy one, please go over to the bandcamp!

Thank you to @robinplayschords for releasing this for us! On we go!#autisticmusician #supportautisticartists #blackautistic

Belatedly writing about RobinPlaysChords' performance at @beardedtheoryfestival - so many thanks to @sarahloumorgan @thetinmusicandarts for the invite - and how nice a festival it is to exist within, and to rediscover that there was genuine craft under all the noise and gold butterflies of the olden years of RPC. Here's some motivational signage to send you down your feed.

Stoked to be invited to play the @thetinmusicandarts and @justdroppedin takeover of Busk Stop @beardedtheoryfestival on Friday 23rd May. Unplugged, Unmasking, unrepeatable (?).

Also, Leo turned 1 last week and he wouldn't come down from the chest of drawers until I mentioned this on the 'gram, so send him happy birthday love and all.

For anyone who needs to hear it - the world is a beautiful place, but we have to make it that way. Whenever you find home, we'll make it more than just a shelter. If everyone belongs there, it'll hold us all together. If you're afraid to die, then so am I.

Stoked to be invited to play the @thetinmusicandarts and @justdroppedin takeover of Busk Stop @beardedtheoryfestival on Friday 23rd May. Unplugged, Unmasking, unrepeatable (?).

Also, Leo turned 1 last week and he wouldn't come down from the chest of drawers until I mentioned this on the 'gram, so send him happy birthday love and all.

For anyone who needs to hear it - the world is a beautiful place, but we have to make it that way. Whenever you find home, we'll make it more than just a shelter. If everyone belongs there, it'll hold us all together. If you're afraid to die, then so am I.