More "Best of 2020"

Little sweetheart, yesterday we were back on the great Irene Trudel’s show on WFMU. 

Irene was one of our earliest champions, the first DJ to play tracks from “Of Love and Lost” and then really taking up the banner with BPXmas and Angels, onward. 

Today was her Best of 2020 show. She played “A Place” - the lead off track from disc two of Deux Anges and had lovely things to say about it after. Irene’s including the album in her Best Of makes this the fourth year end list Deux Anges has made. Sylvia designed this little graphic with the info. 

Congrats, little sweetheart! Love you forever. 

Live in London

Little sweetheart, remember I told you how we suddenly piqued the interest of Max Reinhardt - the former host of BBC 3’s Late Junction, who’s now over on London’s Soho Radio? He played “Infinity Hall” from the new album on his Best of 2020 show last month and then another track, “Snowfall” on Christmas Day. 

Well, last night he sent me a message on Twitter asking if I could do a live phone interview with him on the air this morning about 8am our time. He wanted to talk both about music and to have someone on from the US to talk about the rather shocking attack on the Capitol two days ago. 

So, I set an alarm - that’s early for you & me, right, little sweetheart?! - and was on my second cup of coffee by the time he called. I think the on air stuff went fine. Sylvia said it was like hearing me on MSNBC - ha! 

But I think my favorite part was all the off air stuff. Between segments, as Max was playing tracks (he asked for two musical suggestions of other artists - I picked Swartz et’s “Nighttide” and a really great Iranian ambient artist named Siavash Amini - we chatted. I got to tell him how much we’ve loved his shows over the years and he said really nice things about our work, too. He’s actually living in Oxford where you went to school. He asked what track he should play of ours but I left it up to him. 

He picked “Flag Day (Summer Dream Version)” from Sometimes in Dreams and I said that was a great idea since you are featured so prominently, little sweetheart! And that’s how the show ended - with your soaring vocals. 

Listen, little sweetheart, you’re on the radio!

Christmas Morning

It’s Christmas Day, little sweetheart. It started early, with a London radio broadcast at 8am our time here in NYC. We were back on Max Reinhardt’s show on Soho Radio. He played “Snowfall” from Deux Anges and had such wonderful things to say about it, addressing all three of us that I have to share it here for you now:

"Well, that's the first sign of snowfall this year, anyway. That was Bipolar Explorer from their album Deux Anges and it's on Slugg Records. And, um, I have to say - hi, there, Summer & Sylvia & Michael, if you're all listening. And you're all in very different places and very different dimensions, I know, but I just have to say, the more you listen to the album, the double-album, the better it gets! And it's all so different! That one ("Snowfall") is, uh, somehow or other, somewhere between Sonic Youth and "The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus" ! But, anyway, very fine!

Isn’t that just terribly nice, little sweetheart? Merry Christmas, my gorgeous girl. Listen, you’re on the radio!

Best Albums of 2020

Remember, little sweetheart, I was just telling you about all the wonderful, lovely airplay Deux Anges has been getting? Well, last weekend something extraordinary happened... 

Max Reinhardt - the legendary longtime host of BBC Radio 3’s great Late Junction - featured us on his show on London’s Soho Radio. And not just any show - his Best of 2020. And not just on the three hour show - he closed the show with us! “Infinity Hall” (which seems to kinda becoming the single) ended the program - his Best Releases of the Year - and he introduced us with these words: 

"And... Bipolar Explorer. Well... there is hauntology at work. Hauntology right in the center of their work."

From your days at Oxford, little sweetheart, to my days working in London as a writer, to our times, finally, together there, I think it would be hard to find two more Anglophile Americans than you & I, don't you? And an not unsubstantial part of that was listening, on both sides of the Atlantic, to Max - and John Peel and Verity Sharp - on BBC. Pretty heady stuff for us, isn't it little sweetheart? 

Listen, you're on the radio!