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.

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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

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.

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

Beep Beep’s Vette Analoge Shit presents:

LE GUESS WHO pre PARTY w/ CLUES (unicorns/arcade fire) for FREE.

The nice people of the Le Guess Who festival asked us to participate in this years edition of the potentially best indoor festival in Holland. And so we do! Not only will we curate a venue during the festival it self, but we will also be hosting the PRE-PARTY. So we’ve booked Clues (the new with Unicorns front man Alden Penner and Brendan Reed of Arcade Fire) to create awesomess. And since we are so desperately desperate for people to like us, we’ve decided that all of you are welcome. For Free!! Jeez! Read the rest of this entry »

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