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the love that whirls

About Me

The Love That Whirls is the pseudonym I use for my home recorded lo-fi (& low key!) musical project. As you can tell my musicianship skills are pretty limited. I'm no professional & that's how it was meant to be as I only learnt to play in my early 30's. So treat this page like a normal myspace page if you will as I don't dedicate alot of my time to educating myself to play any better or record any better! I spend more time organising artists/bands to play at a once monthly music night held in Shipley West Yorkshire called rpm. Take a look in The Love That Whirls top friends list and you can have a peek at what my brother Andrew & I get up to at said night. Make a friend of rpm if you like. Also check out my wife Caroline's page, The House Of Rose & Brown which is her shop which sells all things vintage. If you appreciate & are moved by ephemera & aesthetics then Caroline may wanna hear from you too.Julian Brown.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

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Member Since: 09/10/2006
Influences: the velvet underground, modernism, dada art, the close lobsters, franz kafka, moby dick, paul auster, jimmie rodgers, don delillo, the triffids, hurrah!, microdisney, haruki murakami, hal hartley, takeshi kitano, postmodernism, laurie anderson, oscar wilde, galaxie 500, spacemen 3, felt, tom verlaine, 1960's garage/punk, f scott fitzgerald, the weather prophets, the railway children (the mid-late 80's wigan based indie outfit not the film, silly!), the go-betweens, prefab sprout, the lilac time, everything but the girl, david sylvian, virginia astley, bill nelson, YMO, leonard cohen, the bathers, syd barrett, daniel johnston, the bats, the clean, david kilgour...
Sounds Like: ......everything and nothing
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New collaboration with Jonas Lofving in the offing..

I am working with the brilliant Swedish singer/songwriter Jonas Lofving.  We are working on a song in a Postal Service kinda way.  So my tape is on it's way to the maverick genius for him to sprinkle ...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:24:00 GMT

big plans

happy new march to everyone.i hoped to be more musically creative this year.  however due to organising a monthly music night & the general busy shenanigans of life i have decided a compromise.that co...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:01:00 GMT

songs from 2006 posted

2 and a half years on i've decided to post 5 songs recorded in mid 2006.  included is my grant mclennan tribute & go-betweens song 'apology accepted'.  from the bottom of my heart, it go...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:59:00 GMT

3 old fresh trax up. Surprisingly hi-tec

..TR>   i was tired of the depressing dictaphone numbers so instead...well there's 'weekend' from 2001. this isn't the original of that little number but is the best recorded & features an...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:05:00 GMT

Brand New Song!

'Lord, Give Me Sleep' is up.  Recorded by trusty dictaphone.  Written about lack of sleep, mainly down to working night-shifts.  Not being able to sleep during the daytime in-between sh...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:29:00 GMT

i recommend clem snide & a bottle o yellow-tail australian pinot grigio

so i listened to those 3 clem snide albums yeaterday eve.  starting with 'soft spot' (2003), then 'end of love' (2005) and finally 'the ghost of fashion' (2001).  3 fantastic albums.&n...
Posted by on Wed, 21 May 2008 05:28:00 GMT

song from 2003 just up shallow & 2008 dictaphone song 'in my arms'

’shallow’ thanks.. 2003 recorded in brighton & hove studio flat near the sea ’in my arms’ thanks.. 2008 recorded by dictaphone shipley living room for caroline  
Posted by on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:19:00 GMT

1 new lowest of lo-fi song successfully uploaded!

that's right folks!  i managed to convert 1 of my 2 new songs to mp3.  the other song don't wanna play ball for some reason.  but hey, here's 1 anyway.  and it's called 'has been'....
Posted by on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:47:00 GMT

chills, bats, verlaines, tall dwarfs etc appreciation page on facebook

i set up an appreciation page for all those and a few more over on  facebook  if you can find it!  listed under 'new zealand pop appreciation society' or something. cheers now, julian. ...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:50:00 GMT

lowest of lo-fi *2 new songs posted soon!*

yep i recorded 2 new songs last week. i have this new way of recording. it's by using a device called a dictaphone. it tends to make early daniel johnston recordings sound like they were produced by t...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:58:00 GMT