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Miguel Marin leaves Piano Magic and is replaced by Jerome Tcherneyan on
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European tour including Belgium, Holland, Germany and Italy.
Limited edition 12”, “Writers Remixed,” (featuring remixes by FortDax,
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“Writers Without Homes” is released on 4AD and launched with a special show
in London. The group coax long-lost folk chanteuse, Vashti Bunyan, out of
retirement to sing on “The Crown Of The Lost.” Simon Raymonde (Cocteau
Twins) volunteers to play piano and Paul Andersen (Tram), John Grant (The
Czars), Suzy Mangion (George) and Charlotte Marionneau (Le Volume Courbe)
enlist on vocals. Caroline Potter and Johnson fill the vocal gaps. |
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One-off show in Malaga, Spain. |
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Play Les Nuits Botanique Festival in Brussels, Belgium. Franck Alba debuts
on guitar. |
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One-off Glasgow concert. |
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“Writers Without Homes” released in America through 4AD/Beggars Banquet.
Piano Magic commence recording their 5th album at The Fortress with Robinson
Hughes and at Tcherneyan’s home studio in Hoxton, London.
2nd tour of Spain. |
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Piano Magic and 4AD part ways. |
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track EP, “Speed The Road, Rush The Lights,” released on Spanish label,
Green Ufos. |
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August 2003
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One-off show in Salobrena, Spain. |
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Piano Magic release a split 7” single with Klima on the French label,
Monopsone. |
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Play Rockomotives Festival in Vendome, France. |
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One-off show in Paris. |
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“The Troubled Sleep Of Piano Magic” is released on Green Ufos and licensed
to P-Vine in Japan and later, to Dora Dorovitch in France. The album veers
between fragile, glacial balladry and the band’s noisier, meatier live
sound. |
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3rd tour of Spain. |
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Dora Dorovitch release ‘The Troubled Sleep Of Piano Magic.’
London show. |
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The band support French superstar, Alan Bashung in Brussels, Belgium before
two more shows in France. Cedric Pin stands in for Alasdair Steer on bass. |
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London show - James Topham’s last with Piano Magic. |
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Tour of
France with
Cedric Pin, now permanent, on keyboards. Piano Magic’s 100th concert is in
Lyon
on the 21st. |
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Piano Magic begin recording on their 6th album, “DISAFFECTED” at The
Fortress with Gareth Parton as engineer.
Headline Tanned Tin Festival in Santander, Spain before a one-off show in
Athens, Greece. |
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“Opencast Heart EP,” 4 tracks of minimal electronica, released on Important
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Concerts with mutual fans, July Skies, in London and Birmingham. |
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“Disaffected” is released on Darla (North
America), Talitres (France & Germany)
and Green Ufos (RoW). It is widely-received as the band’s most mature,
melodic, coherent work and closely knits guitar and electro-pop,
experimental soundscaping and anthemic noise. Again, the band drafts in
John Grant of The Czars for “Your Ghost” and Angele David-Guillou for the
album’s title track.
Piano Magic play Primavera Festival in Barcelona. |
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3
shows in Italy. One of which is at the Neapolis Festival in Naples with
Johnson’s heroes, Kraftwerk. |
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Play Sous La Plage Festival,
Paris,
France. |
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Two concerts in Spain before a full tour of France. |
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London show followed by 4 concerts in Spain. |
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