santa sprees
discography
albums
Keep Still (2001) 74 mins compact disc
Released by Dreamy Records |
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Kitten Come Home - Wasted On You - Alcoholic Gunslingers Are Cool - Petrified Old Sage - Customised Luv - Our Charity pt.1 - Late Teens In The Clinic Ra Is Rising - Making A Row Man - Back There - Roll Out The Beds - Our Charity pt.2 Pockets Of Snow - Start Again! - Someone Watches Over Me - Umarekawaru Make Up Dust - Fireworks For Guido - 240 Volts Of Home Fire - Our Charity pt.3 My Past Collapses Behind Me - If You're In Town, Look me Up - Free Inside (Worldes Blis Ne Last)
All songs by Anthony Dolphin & Katherine Marshall. Produced and recorded in Kashiwa, Japan March 1999-August 2000 by Anthony Dolphin, Katherine Marshall, Makiko Nakao, Hiromi Shimonuma and Toshio Dazai. Mastered at Music Brains Inc., Setagaya, Tokyo by Koji Katsuta. |
The Inseparable Santa Sprees (2006) 59 mins compact disc
Released by Leapantique Records |
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I Hear Voices (I Think They're The Real Me) - High Places Are Good Places Bird-Shaped Pastry For The Birds - She Walks Through Walls - Sleeping Partner Ghosts Moan Too Much - Viriconium - Crackers & Partners - Family Planning Hansel Needs Gretel (Like Poorhouse Soup Needs A Stinging Nettle) A Typhoon's Tail (For Hideto Kannai) - This Hotel Is Cheaper Than I Am Overcome - I Want To Get My Carriage Clock - Mayflies
All songs by Anthony Dolphin & Kazuko Machida Dolphin Produced and recorded in Kita-Kogane, Matsudo & Meguro, Japan October 2000-November 2006 by Anthony & Kazuko Dolphin. |
Out On Our Own (2008) 45 mins compact disc
Released by Leapantique Records |
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Vinegar On Amsterdam - Red Hearts On My Fur - The Lark, The Rising Tide O Cupid, You're Part Of A Distant Dream - In Love, We Still Are Stuck - Librarian At Play We Are Out On Our Own - No Help - So Long So Young
All songs by Anthony Dolphin & Kazuko Machida Dolphin Produced and recorded in the Sun Loft, Surugadai,Japan February 2007 - November 2008 by Anthony & Kazuko Dolphin. |
The Future Knows Best (2018) 77 mins
Leapantique / Released on Bandcamp
Short Sun - We're Back - I Should Think Of You Less - Enough Is Not Enough
They Want For Nothing With No One Else - Your Neediness Needs Attention
I Don't Need Any Convincing These Things Are Real - Heba Had The Peasants Trampled Underfoot
They Got Friends - In A Mess - When It's Not Easter - The Devil - I Am Walkong Out (Onto The Ledge With You)
These Things Can't Be Undone - Premises - Demands - When Jad Fair Wrote A Song About My Brother
The Audience Fails To Notice - First Night Alone - Masonry Bees - This Misery - Push Him On The Spikes
Astrid Plain - Your Questions Answered - Longing For The Certainties Of Faith Will Kill Us All
Forces (Are Not The Only Thing Stopping Us) - It Is Only Timing I Lack
The Future Knows Best - Everything Reminds Of Something Else
All songs by Anthony Dolphin & Kazuko Machida Dolphin
Produced and recorded 2016 to 2018 at Longwood House, Buckfastleigh
and Hillside Bamboo, Dartmouth
Robe Phase Once Abandoned (2019) 94 minutes
Leapantique / Released on Bandcamp
Before My Eyes,There Were Ears - Pure Thought - Phil Spector - Password Protected Yoghurt
She Woke Up Then - Cheap Flights - You're The Habit That's Keeping Me - R Trees Lent Logic
Oil Well Method - Sunday Sometime - String Tier - There's A Lot Of Thinking Still To Do
What If I Had A Feeling? - The Old City - With This Masque - Fernix - There Is Magic - Terrestrial Extras
November Vision - Bunny Wants Her Hind Legs Back - Is Anne Diamond Dead? - Hard To Let Go - Tongues Wag In This Town
Put The Poison Down - Pomona Became Heady - At Least I Know Now - My Turn In The Old City
Robe Phase Once Abandoned - Robe Phase III - We Know When Our Time Is Up
All songs by Anthony Dolphin & Kazuko Machida Dolphin except 'Tongues Wag In This Town' written by Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston. The third movement of 'R Trees Lent Logic' quotes from 'Ooh Baby Baby' by Smokey Robinson and 'I'm Glad' by Don Van Vliet.
Produced and recorded upon Hillside Bamboo, Dartmout 2018 to 2019.
Sum Total Of Insolent Blank (2020) 96 minutes
CD edition on Leapantique / Released on Bandcamp / Distributed by Tunecore
Diag F - I Struck Gold - Sum Total Of Insolent Blank - All Very Twenties Said The Asp
The Little Ones Were Made Of Pipe Cleaners & Felt - We Drew Lots - Twelve Imperfect Men
I Met The Man Who Milked The Cows On Malted Milk - Bit Into A Madeleine - Inconvenient Ruth - Lump Sum
Correction Fluid - Ludwig Wittgenstein - Further To Cut Element - How You Butcher Fish Finger?
Tear Blades Grass Blades Longways - Queue For Burning Ski Lodge - Stay Up, Sindy - verything's Still Normal (In Space)
Pet Project - Taste Is A Shallow Actor - Inner Life - The Thaw Came Quick - All Rivers Misled Me - Quadrangle Deviant
Lights Line The Way - Outside, It's Bedlam - Musical Chairs Blasphemy - Hidden Away - Routine Routine
The Bigger Ones Were Made Of Brass - Tempt Fate - Whatever It Takes (Apart From That) - Progress
Let's Not Go Back To Normal - The Rest Were Made Of Twine & Foam - This Is No Time To Act Alone
Getting Married All The Time - Love Is The Destination - Fluid Correction - Empty Hours - Opiate - The Home Help Won't Help
All songs by Anthony Dolphin & Kazuko Machida Dolphin.
Produced and recorded upon Hillside Bamboo, Dartmout January to July, 2020.
Fanfare For Tonsils (2021) 61 minutes
CD edition released on Leapantique / Digitial edition on MuteAnt Sounds /
Cassette edition on Woodford Halse / Vinyl edition on Ramble Records
In Frost Sandals - The Gulf Between Us - Know Your Place (In Hell) - Save Yourself - Fanfare For Tonsils - Outside Prison
Cloud Bisected At Horizon Then France - Heavy Hint - Harper’s Goldfish - Fell In The Well - Bracelet Paste Thinly
Her Dad’s A Mason - Tenth Iteration Of Paradise - It’s No Coincidence - Of Free Will - Someone Else’s Wedding
Not Us I Don’t Trust - See July In Mirror & Mirror - High On The Spring - Rex Is A Day With Fleas - Nell Becomes A Witness
Wooden Cross Funds Pending - Coma, Semi-Cologne - My Life Coach Is Dead - Only Younger - Bereavement Office Closed Wednesday Near Death Inexperience - The Old Oak Is Sawdust - Warm Exchange Of Tear Gas Anecdotes - The Failing Body Beside You
Fear Of Four - Visiting Hours Are Over - Run Wild When I’m Gone - Narrowing Path
All songs by Anthony Dolphin & Kazuko Machida Dolphin with Graham Darnell and David Fair.
Produced and recorded upon Hillside Bamboo, Dartmout August, 2020 to May, 2021.
other releases
compilations
Head In The Clouds (1999) compact disc
Released by Dreamy Records (rem 004)
'You Don't Get It Now But You Will' - Kirk Lake
'Graffiti Truck' - Jamie Owen
'I Wish I'd Been An Extra In Dawn Of The Dead' - Santa Sprees
'I Wish' - Graham
'Meet Me At The Brilliant Eclipse' - Izumi Misawa
'20,000 Ft' - Arco
'The Sea Blinks Back' - Ninotchka
'Why Must You Feel So Sad' - The Autumn Leaves
'As The Time Keeps Ticking By' - Graham
'The Minch' - Ninian Hawick
'De Helpende Hond' - Santa Sprees
'Tender' - Chris Starling
'Twilight Of The Empire' - Fariña
'Scottish Rite Temple Stomp' - Ninian Hawick
'The Everlasting Sun Castle' - The Autumn Leaves
'Twinkle' - White Hotel
'Lena' - Izumi Misawa
'Sleep' - Arco
'Last Night At The Sands' - Kirk Lake
'One For Sinatra, One More For The Road' - Kirk Lake
A Wish On A Star (2001) compact disc
Released by Dreamy Records (rem 017)
'The Return Of The Clerkenwell Kid' - The Real Tuesday Weld
'Back In Yr Pram' - Santa Sprees
'I'll Be Yr Bird' - M Ward
'I'll Think Of It Today' - Broken Dog
'Caribou' - Dudley Klute
'Jezebel Blue' - Graham
'Some Words On Parting' - Flare
'Some Breezes (Demo)' - Jamie Owen
'Swans (Demo)' - Rivulets
'Toledo' - Silver Springs
'Mi Ilegada' - Ursula
'Stream (Live)' - Arco
'Trolling On The Lake' - Summer Hymns
'King's Parade' - S Hotel
'Criminal' - Cole Marquis
'The Man Who Invented California' - The Witch Hazel Sound
'Making Up Is Hard To Do' - Stars On The Water
'Make Room' - Santa Sprees
'Serenity' - Izumi Misawa
'The Birds And The Bees' - The Real Tuesday Weld
Comes With A Smile Volume 3: Pretty Together (2001) compact disc
Released by Comes With A Smile (smile003)
'Ticket With No Return (Alternate Version)' - The Orgone Box
'If The World Was Blind' - Doug Hoekstra
'Gone To Stay' - Radiogram
'Pretty Together(Demo)' - Sloan
'Sleeping Partner' - Santa Sprees
'(I Don't Like) The Way We Live Now' - Flare
'Wolfy (Demo)' - Howe Gelb
'Time Has You (Demo)' - Wondermints
'You Know The Way' - The Cash Brothers
'Doctor, Doctor' - Brendan Benson
'Don't Dream' - David Grubbs
'Cornish Breezes' - James Hindle
'Trouble On The Railway' - Sodastream
'I Will Never Marry' - Nina Nastasia
'Elephantine'- Mark Mulcahy
'She Shines (Demo)' - Sweet Apple Pie
'Ugly Buildings Are Beautiful' - Mull Historical Society
'Watch Them Ride Away' - Chris Von Sneidern
'Something More Besides You (Live)' - Cowboy Junkies
'Old Bloody Orange' - Hawksley Workman
Get Thee Behind Me Santa (2002) compact disc
Released by Puppy Dog Records (pup01)
'If Every Day was Like Xmas/Obey' - The Rebel
'Away In A Manger' - Long Johnny Silver
'Sleighride' - Airport Girl
'Jesus Christ' - Simon Breed
'Marshmellow World' - Prewar Yardsale
'All I Want For Xmas' - The Teenbeat
'Winter Song' - Fun Size Lions
'Her Name Was Xmas' - Herman Düne
'Goodnight, We 3 Kings' - Infant
'XMAS-4-1' - Santa Sprees
'Assassination On Xmas Eve' - Jeffrey Lewis
'Balloons' - Jack Hayter
'The Other Side of Xmas' – Baxendale
'Little Drummer Boy' - Simon Breed & Paul The Girl
'In the Bleak Midwinter' - Abbey Grange
'Zaftalong Gubi Guby' – Dufus
'It’s Only Xmas' - Major Matt Mason USA
'Transylvanian Xmas' - Zombina and the Skeletones
'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' - The Rickets
'The Holly & The Ivy' - Borage For Courage
'Merry Xmas Everyone' - Flamingo 50
cassettes
The Current Mind Of Santa Sprees (1996) 60 mins cassette Mostly instrumental lobby music recorded for the Impakt Festival in Utrecht Live Bait - Feedtime - Radio Mast Music - Through The Fingers - Tin Bin With Cave Paintings On It - Northern Land Mass - Taste Is Everything - De Helpende Hond - Kasprowy Wierch - Kid Goat - Sullen Indian Girl - Bear Slenders - S.O.S. Music - My Monster - Kalwarian Cross - Chalet Girl (1976) - The Lawns - Doctored
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Take In The Corn With Santa Sprees(1995) 45 mins cassette
Released by the tiny Peacock Window Muzak cassette label
Through The Fingers - The Synthesizers - I Know You're The One - Blacked Out Red Eyed - House Of Hair - She Ghoul - Hot Tweak - Zombified - My Girl (Smokey Robinson)- Sense In Yr Song - Them Man Made Women Made Me - Mummified Mind - Oh Jeannie! This Band Can't Go On - Starting To Rock Starting To Roll - I Can't Make It On Time (The Ramones) - The Dead Saw Our Love - Someone Watches Over Me - Slaves
Emotional Racket (1997) 60 mins cassette
Released by Leapantique Cassettes
The Ardabil Carpet pt.1 - Robert Bresson - Have It Yr Own Way - I Wish I'd Been An Extra In Dawn Of The Dead - She Ghoul - Back There - De Helpende Hond - Tramboy Rides The Trams - Ra Is Rising (And He's Hot)- Speechless - Good News Travels Fast - Pockets Of Snow - It's Not That Long - Dripping In Gold - Hair Triggers On The Range - Sense In Yr Song - The Synthesizers - Sleeping Partner - Hot Tweak - House Of Hair - Magic Beam - They're Here! - I Live In The Clouds - 1-Helluva-Luv-In - Oh Lo Ramone - Druids - Emotional Racket I'm In - She Is Going To Spend Christmas In The Hills - Someone Watches Over Me - Free Inside (Worldes Blis Ne Last)
Home Recordings Volume 16
November 2nd - December 23rd, 1998
Glad You're Gone - Revivial Hit & Run - In & Out Of Touch - Karditsa Wishes - Call Centre Hush - You're The Island - Sweet Bell 1211980K - ABC 9BC - I Think I'm On The Dinosaur's Side - Old Sage (Looks Like Joan Quigley) - June Duprez - Completely Part 1 - Old Sage Rag - Poor Mantis & The Pipettes - It's Clearer Now - Into The Flames (3 Themes) - Settle On A Sound - Folk Music: I Protest - Simple About R'N'R - Into The Flames - Modern Ways - Wind It Up Our Way - Started With Nothing - Wildlife - Alcoholic Gunslingers Are Cool - X Marks The Spy - Volos Bay - Spirit World - Different Drum (Nesmith) - Joe Can't Manage - Explain Away This - Explained Away (Theme) - Melody Is A Prophecy Fulfilled - Oriental Dream At St George's Circus
Home Recordings Volume 15
September 30th - November 1st, 1998
Customised Luv - Personality - If I'm Ever Moved Again (I'm Going To Blame You) - Start Again! - Wasted On You - Get Yr Love - Race For A Wife - These Are The Things That Will Pull You Through - Race For A Wife II - Can't It Wait 'Til Tomorrow - Let Me In - I'll Do For Now - Get Well Soon - On Broadway (Mann/Weil/Lieber/Stoller) - View From Kastraki Balcony - Travelling Companions - Personally (Kelly) - Male Lead Blushes & Leaves - Our Charity (First Installment) - Our Charity (Full Payment Parts 1 To 3) - Our Charity (Empire Breaks & Turns) - Outro Charity - Wintry Part 9 - Our Charity (Two Sweet Themes) - Limbo Noir
Home Recordings Volume 14
February 1st - October 10th, 1998
We Don't Deserve The Rest (3 Themes) - We Don't Deserve The Rest - Early Worries - Champ's Theme - Tonight In Smiler's - Dream Before Work (3 Versions) - Give Up Champ - Start Again! - Free Inside (Ether Themes) - Free Inside (Waltz Time) - Free Inside (Nite Club) - Time Has Proved Me Wrong - Luv Chimes In - Luv Theme - Catch Up Music - If You're In Town (Look Me Up) - Miss E - Customised Luv - If I'm Ever Moved Again (I'm Going To Blame You) - Personality
Home Recordings Volume 13
June 4th - July 4th, 1997
The River Burst Its Banks - The Old Ground - Not Shopping Around - Overrun - Ancient Egyptian Boat - Seed Fossil - It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (Miller) - Shrimps In A Pool - Little Life - Piscina Tiles - I'll Wait On You - I Wanna Make You Happy - Comeback - Think Nice Thoughts - Howitzer Hearts - Check Yr Facts - Choir Of Steam - Tried To Say - Heading For The Moon - Who Left The Garden Gate Open? - Back In The USE (Berry) - Stick Ups 1 to 5 - Sould Exercise - The Long Voyage Of Irish Mist - Back In Yr Pram - You Must Be Available - Nature Trail - Sodium Monoflurouphosphate (A Dental Symphony) - Beauty Sleep - This City Won't Sleep (Fried Mechanical) - These People Are Tired - Is It Getting You Down? - Desire Is A Constant - We Don't Deserve The Rest
Home Recordings Volume 12
December 4th - April 11th, 1997
Jeannie Mantra - Oh Jeannie! (Super Deluxe Version)- Flea Circus - I'd Like To Think That You'd Stay As You Are Now - Make Up Dust - My Girl (Robinson/White)- It's Almost Light - Half Way Home - Theme For Britannia Crossing (part 1) - Skywriter (Darnell)- New Depths I've Been Dreaming Up - We'll Get By - Oil On Denim - Nu Skool Twip Tweezer - Token Bubble - You're Never Going To Get Anywhere With An Attitude Like That - Late Teens In The Clinic - If Whales Were Canaries - The Middle Age - We Know How Tales Are Going To End - Tweety Pie 45 - Let's Not Get Married - Wonder Of The World - Little Fluffy Cesar - It's The Thing To Do - Like It Or Not It's Love - Can I Come Up To Yr Level? - Hot Blizzard - Strasbourg (Grey Limit) - Used To Light Fireworks For Guido
Home Recordings Volume 11
October 15th - December 4th, 1996
Back There - Good News Travels Fast - The Thought Is Clear - Clearer Still - Viriconium 1996AD - I Need Nothing - Speechless - Kid Goat - Hi-Lo-We Get - Great Weight (Off Of My Mind) - She's Going To Spend Christmas In The Hills - Breax - Barroco Amnesiac Almanac 1886 - Calling Pitch Control - Don't Go Santa Claus - The Very Same - You're My Type - Last Legs - Last Lap - She Got A Reindeer In Her Stocking - I Wish I'd Been An Extra In Dawn of The Dead - Someone Watches Over Me - It's Not That Long - In The Long Run (The Carry Nations)- Free Inside (Worldes Blis Ne Last) - The Lawns - Back Lawn - We're Not To Blame - Clear Eyed Again - I Buy My Fizz At The Pop Shop - Going Home For The Weekend - To Love Is To Win - My Past Collapses Behind Me
Home Recordings Volume 10
June 5th-October 16th, 1996
Advice To A Friend - Make Him Alright - My Course is Run - I'm In A Hole - Have It Yr Own Way - None Of Your Loving - 1-Helluva-Luv-In - In The Beginning - Chalet Girl (1976)- Even You Cast A Shadow - Get Lucky - Home Sweet Home - My Monster - I Live In The Clouds - Covered In Glory - When I Last Saw You - Metric Conversion - Imperial - Metric - It's A Feast It's A Fast - Like A Jumbo Jet - Carpenter's Reserve 1982 - They're Here - Constance & Wanda - Fridgidarium - A Cold Rolling Of Tanks - We Don't Want To Waste The Water - Three Lifts 1989 - A New Thing - Free Inside (Worldes Blis Ne Last) - Ray Of Hope - Since You've Gone (I'm A Mess) - 4T
Home Recordings Volume 9
February 5th-May 17th, 1996
I Got You To Come Home To - Nocturnal - Fly-By-Night - Big Gush & Little Swordfish - Oh Jeannie! This Band Can't Go On - Money Maketh The Man - The Dive - New Vice - Popular Militia Boogie - Everybody's Uncle - Hard Work Kills Everyone - The Ardabil Carpet parts 1 & 2 - Microjet - Soothing Shock Fanfare For Trumpets & Drums - I Can't Count The Ways - Someone Watches Over Me - Tin Bin With Cave Paintings On It - A Rock For The Rays - Jeannie Is In Heaven - Jeannie Waves Back - Iced Bloom In A Glass - Sleeping Partner - Short Term Memory Song - Iced Bloom In A Glass (reprise) - Never Gonna Be There For You - Unspool - I'll Never Get Over You Now - Republican Address - Covenant Hall & General Store - Babysitter Outwoods - Milkshake - How Do They Go...? - Detail - Ra Is Rising (And He's Hot)- Bear Slenders - Magic Beam - It's Not That Long - Ramona & The Starlings - Starling Beat - Steamer - Druids
Santa Sprees Record Other People's Songs
Personally (Kelly/HR 19 mdr) So Long (George Davis/SJ 5 2tc) Long Gone Lonesome Blues (Hank Williams/SJ 3 2tc) I Can't Make It On Time (The Ramones/HR2 2tc) My Girl (Robinson/White/HR12 4tc) Abdul & Cleopatra (Richman/12 Bar cdr) License To Confuse (Barlow/HR3 2tc) Christmas (Darlene Love/HR5 2tc) Mean (Boots Collins/HR3 2tc) White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane); HR 20 mdr) In The Long Run (The Carry Nations/HR11 4tc) Fire To Burn (Half Japanese/Surugadai 16td) |
BBC Session Bush House London
(February 2001)
Robert Bresson - Kazoo Solo - Ra Is Rising
Anthony Dolphin-vocals,kazoo,percussive lemon, xylophone; Katherine Marshall - vocals,harmonica; Graham Darnell - vocals, acoustic guitar
Live At The 12 Bar
(March 2001)
Petrified - Ra Is Rising - Alcoholic Gunslingers Are Cool - Abdul & Cleopatra - Someone Watches Over Me - Back In Yr Pram - Late Teens In The Clinic - Old Sage - I Wish I'd Been An Extra In Dawn Of The Dead - Umarekawaru/Free Inside - Sleeping Partner
Anthony Dolphin - vocals, keys, five string guitar, percussion; Katherine Marshall - vocals, diamonica, electronic noise; Graham Darnell - vocals, guitar, handclaps; Tracy Lee Jackson - vocals
radio
events
De Helpende Hond
(WFMU, Stereo Odyssey with Yancy Yohannon,
Dec 12, 1999)
I Wish I'd Been An Extra In Dawn Of The Dead
(WFMU, Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine,
Jan 10, 2000)
I Wish I'd Been An Extra In Dawn Of The Dead
(BBC Radio 1, John Peel, Sept 1999)
De Helpende Hond
(BBC Radio 1, John Peel, Sept 1999)
Fireworks For Guido
(WMBR 88.1 FM, Breakfast For Champions with Marianna Parker,Feb 21, 2001)
Alcoholic Gunslingers Are Cool
(WMBR 88.1 FM, DJ Anne, Feb, 2001)
Ra Is Rising / Robert Bresson
(BBC London/6 Music, Feb, 2001)
De Helpende Hond
(WFMU 91.1 fm, Trouble On Tuesdays, Dec 14, 1999)
De Helpende Hond
(WFMU, Faye Kahn, May 11th 2012)
I Wish I'd Been An Extra In Dawn Of The Dead
(BBC Radio London, Gideon Coe, Sept 1999)
A November Vision
(WRIR Pan Galactic Brunch, Nov 2019)
They Got Friends
(Cando FM, Space Is The Place w/ Shaun Blezard, Mar 2020)
Astrid Plain
(Cando FM, Space Is The Place w/ Shaun Blezard, Apr 2020)
Sum Total Of Insolent Blank
(Radio Free America, Free Form Freakout, July 2020)