There it is! A brand new e.p. by former the Unicorns and Clues frontman Alden Penner. The recording named ‘Odes to the house‘ is Penner’s first solo effort since 2005 and documents a collection of acoustic songs written during a three month journey through Africa and the Middle East. The songs are accompanied by four videos showing the recording process of the e.p. at Dutch Design Factory ‘Pastoe’.

“The collection of songs are dedicated to the people of the world, particularly in North Africa and the Middle East, who have been expressing their desire for justice and peace in recent months, in the hopes this energy and fervour can be channeled into true and enduring emancipation from the weight of grievous oppression.”, says Alden.

DOWNLOAD ALBUM LOSSLESS (€ 3,- or more)
BUY THE PACKAGE (for € 5,- /€ 7,- )
SHARE ALBUM (bandcamp player)

1. Last shelter
2. The fountain of the living
3. The mountain of significance
4. The house won’t pass

All songs written by Alden Penner.

‘Odes to the house’ is available in two formats.

Package #1 containing:
Silkscreen poster
Compact disc
Download card (video/wav/mp3)

Alden Penner
Odes to the house incl. CD
€7.00

Bandcamp:
Lossless audio files

DOWNLOAD ALBUM LOSSLESS (€ 3,- or more)
BUY THE PACKAGE (incl CD) (for € 7,-)
BUY THE PACKAGE (for € 5,-)
SHARE ALBUM (bandcamp player)

1. Last shelter
2. The fountain of the living
3. The mountain of significance
4. The house won’t pass

All songs written by Alden Penner.
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While the early birds who personally picked up their copy of our upcoming release by Alden Penner at the release party are happily downloading away at our download page, the rest of you will have to wait a tiny bit longer before we drop this beauty called ‘Odes to the house’. This four song e.p. by former Clues & The Unicorns frontman Penner was recorded only a month ago in our hometown Utrecht. And while Alden was recording, local talent Esther Willering crafted together beautiful handmade packages to contain ‘Odes to the house’. Included are a silk-screened poster accompanied by a document, a dropcard containing the four video’s and songs in uncompressed quality for download and an optional CD.

You could see to artwork progress here, here and here. Now enjoy the finished product.

Alden Penner is a Canadian musician and producer from Montreal, Canada. In 2000 Penner formed The Unicorns together with high school friend Nicholas Thorburn and Jamie Thompson. The band released two albums ‘Unicorns are people too’ and their hit album ‘Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?’ which garnered critical acclaim.

After the band broke up in 2004, Alden returned in 2007 with a new group called ‘Clues’ which’s self-titled debut album was released on May 19th 2009 on Constellation Records.

On april 4th 2011 Alden Penner released his first solo effort since 2005 through Beep! Beep! Back up the Truck. The recording named ‘Odes to the house’ documents a collection of songs written during a three month journey through Africa and the middle east.

Currently we are finishing up a solo e.p. by Alden Penner named ‘Odes to the house’. It will contain 4 brand new tracks and will be accompanied by 4 videos of Aldens performance. The e.p. will enter the world on very short notice. More on that soon. Meanwhile Alden will be touring Europe with his other project named ‘The Hidden Words’.

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12/03 :: THE HIDDEN WORDS à Metz Les Trinitaires
13/03 :: THE HIDDEN WORDS à Lyon Le Transbordeur
14/03 :: THE HIDDEN WORDS à Grenoble TBA
16/03 :: THE HIDDEN WORDS à Rennes L’Ubu
17/03 :: THE HIDDEN WORDS à Saint-Nazaire Le VIP
18/03 :: THE HIDDEN WORDS à Laval Le 6 par 4
21/03 :: THE HIDDEN WORDS à Toulouse Festival Progres-Son
23/03 :: THE HIDDEN WORDS à Nantes L’Olympic
24/03 :: THE HIDDEN WORDS à Paris Le Café de la Danse w/ Dark Dark Dark, Matt Elliott
25/03 :: THE HIDDEN WORDS à Cherbourg L’Epicentre
17/04 :: THE HIDDEN WORDS in Ottawa at the National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex dr. 3pm

After rounding up day two we are now able to give you a second peek in to the garden of the Universal House of justice. Meanwhile we have been moving from ‘Location A’ into the studio. There will be four songs.

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Before kicking off the upcoming tour with his new formation ‘The Hidden Words’, former Clues and Unicorns singer Alden Penner will be visiting our humble town Utrecht to record a solo e.p. titled ‘Odes to the house‘. This might tickle your curiosity, and just like you we too can’t wait to see how this one pans out.

For now though we’d like to stick to the fact that on Thursday March 10th Alden will be performing a solo set in Utrecht’s brand new, soon to be legendary barista bar ‘The Village, Coffee and Music‘. Be warned; limited tickets are available. So if you want to attend this special concert and be the first to hear Aldens solo songs & see The Village we advise you to sent us an email at info (at) beepbeep.nl as soon as you can.

More information will be sent to you in reply to your reservation mail.

The recordings of ‘Odes to the house’ will be available at shows of his upcoming dates in France and the release gig in Utrecht on Thursday March 10th.

Alden Penner is a Canadian musician, founder and member of indie pop bands like Clues and the Unicorns (known for their major album ‘Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?’). Penner is also a producer and additionally known in the indie music community as the founder and sometimes, owner of indie record labels. Dutch people might remember Clues from it’s appearances on the LEGUESSWHO? festival in 2008 and 2009.

All Alden Penner dates under the name of ‘The Hidden Words’ .

04/03 :: Vendôme – La Chapelle des Rockomotives
10/03 :: Utrecht – The Village
12/03 :: Metz Les – Trinitaires
13/03 :: Lyon Le – Transbordeur
14/03 :: Grenoble – TBA
16/03 :: Rennes – L’Ubu
17/03 :: Saint-Nazaire – Le VIP
18/03 :: Laval – Le 6 par 4
21/03 :: Toulouse – Festival Progres-Son
23/03 :: Nantes – L’Olympic
24/03 :: Paris – Le Café de la Danse w/ Dark Dark Dark, Matt Elliott
25/03 :: Cherbourg – L’Epicentre

While the Le Guess Who? Festival is knocking at our door, we’d like to take a sec and reminisce. Only two weeks ago we hosted the official Le Guess Who? Pre-Party in dB’s with the awesome Clues, and man, did we have a blast. A packed venue and exactly the right tunes to get us in that guess who? mood.
Check out this first vid of Clues (more on the way) and hope to see you tomorrow night at our own show during the festival with Audiotransparent, Moon & Sun and Ryland Bouchard in the Kargadoor.

Some of you may have already noticed a bit of flirting, but now it’s getting hot!

This year, Utrechts annual LE GUESS WHO? festival will be taking place from november 26th untill november 29th. The festival is initiated by Tivoli and offers more the 50 must see acts including Patrick Watson,
the Very Best, Tragicly Hip, the Dodos and Great lake swimmers.

STOP! Now before we continue. Utrechts sweet sweet venue Tivoli is still under heavy fire. Make your self useful and support them by signing their petition HERE!

CONTINUE! For this years edition the pretty pretty LE GUESS WHO? peeps, have asked us to participate in their awesome initiative…wink…wink. So honoured as we where we could not refuse such a flattering offer…wink…wink. This is what we came up with.

Saturday November 14th at dB’s studio, Utrecht

LE GUESS WHO? pre-party with

CLUES (Montreal, Constellation records)

Clues was founded in the summer of 2007 by Alden Penner (one-half of Unicorns) and Brendan Reed (Endless Forever, Arcade Fire). In 2008, Clues recruited friends Ben Borden, Lisa Gamble, and Nick Scribner from the Montreal art and music scenes.
During live shows and on recordings, the band share and trade-off on their extensive collection of instruments and create a hopeful, urgent music that expands Montreal’s (already diverse) pop music lexicon, with references to post-punk and experimental music traditions. Clues’ concerts incorporate multiple drummers, a Commodore 64, and an OLPC.

Afterwards people will be dancing to tunes chosen by Utrechts most famous DJ WIEKES

Almost forgot… We are paying so…
It´s FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

it starts at 21:00 and you can show your coolness here by signing in at
LAST FM

During the festival it self Beep! Beep! will host a night at Kargadoor which is near EKKO at the Oudegracht.

Friday November 27th

MOON & SUN (swe/nl) 20:45 – 21:15
AUDIOTRANSPARENT (nl) 21:45 – 22:30
RYLAND BOUCHARD (usa) 23:00 – 23:45

www.myspace.com/moonandsunsings
www.myspace.com/audiotransparent
www.myspace.com/rylandbouchard

Open: 20:00
Entree: € 6,-
LAST FM

More hot words on that next week when we are still hungover from the incredible pre-party!!!