Hello Sweeties. It’s 2012. I’m busy writing a score for a thatrical play based (somehow) on Italian and German Cabaret in the ’30s as I’m writing this. That means that it will be a while since you’ll hear more indie pop songs from Tiny Tide. Seemed to me a good  excuse to gather up some of our tunes and bring you this little 2007-2011 free collection. Enjoy.

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• 01. February (“Febrero”)
• 02. To Fall (“Fall to Fall” )
• 03. Miracle Day (“Plato’s Summer Stars”)
• 04. Ape (“A Protest”)
• 05. Euro Instinct (Back To The U.E.) (“Plato’s Summer Stars”)
• 06. The Smiths And The Cure (“Moontalking”)
• 07. Vacaciones De Invierno (“Fall to Fall”)
• 08. Nimesulide EG (“Plato’s Summer Stars”)
• 09. The Psychopath At The Club w/ Stars In Coma (“Febrero”)
• 10. Penelope (“A Protest”)
• 11. Shooting With The Welsh Girl (“Plato’s Summer Stars”)
• 12. Come Along Pond (“There’s A Girl That Never Goes Out”)
• 13. Girls From Ronta (“Febrero”)
• 14. A Diamond For Marina (“There’s A Girl That Never Goes Out”)
• 15. Little Soul Rock (“A Protest”)
• 16. Hash Piper (“Plato’s Summer Stars”)
• 17. Summer Plan (“Fall To Fall”)
• 18. Lover Loser (“Febrero”)
• 19. Fall w/ Annemarie (“Fall to Fall”)
• 20. Goodnight Sunshine (“A Protest”)

A dream come true! Even better than catching Santa Clown trying to hide its presents under the carpet while crossin’ the mainroom for a midnight walk! Tiny Tide are featuring the traditional Polaroid Christmas compilation with a NEW Christmas song called “Cheap Christmas”.

You can download the Free Christmas Compilation HERE

I’m SO happy to share this tiny Christmas Mix-Tape with artists I love like The Ian Fays, Le Man Avec Les Lunettes an ANT. Here’s the Lyrics. Enoy!

TINY TIDE – “CHEAP CHRISTMAS”

“How will Santa get a brand new house of gingerbread
Gifts ideas for millionaires on very wealthy Christmas bags
Cutting hard against the grain the  economic trend
Royal icing, lollipops to hide under your bed at night

Cookies, gum drops, sweetie bars are coming to an end
Was a houseboat made to sail
or the latest Chevrolet
that would cheer up my days

Save the money for your rates…
the money for your rates…

Cheap Christmas.
You know my love is always Free
Cheap Christmas
So Save your money for your needs
Cheap Christmas.
Don’t want to see no packages
Cheap Christmas
Under the lights of flocked trees

Non alcoholic finest wine for a party with no fun
When you deal with a surprise,  it’s so hard to compromise
For the more discerning ones ukuleles for your fires
Keith and George would have approved stated so clear the review

I could play “Wild Honypie”… and “something in the way”
She moved so I could stay
and spent her rent in France
to get a rare Monet

Wasting the money for her mate
the money for her mate.

Cheap Christmas.
You know my love is always Free
Cheap Christmas
So Save your money for your needs
Cheap Christmas.
Don’t want to see no packages
Cheap Christmas
Under the lights of flocked trees

If you don’t know what to get
Just stop to be upset
Enjoy your christmast time and dance

Cheap Christmas…”

(Picture by Francesca Nik Adamo)

“… Fatta salva quindi una mesmerica imitatio Dylan nell’acquario amniotico di A Forest, il resto è tutto uno sciorinare struggimento sperso Jens Lekman (Penelope), cremosità agrodolce Eels (Ape), estro caraibico Paul Simon (Little Soul Rock) ed estro onirico wave come un Marc Almond irretito Stephin Merritt (la title track, con l’ospitata-cameo di Paolo Pugliese dei Les Fauves)…”

Turn your Google Translate on and have a look on this charming
“A Protest” review on Sentireascoltare

TINY TIDE – A CHRISTMAS WITHOUT CAROL

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I always had mixed feelings on Christmas songs.  I mean… Why such an effort to write stuff people will hear only 1/12 of his lifetime pretending being good? The answer is: Christmas songs are awesome! And they sound pure pop! Moreover is also true that capitalism is slowly extending Christmas to all the other months of the year and I know friends (and I’m not kiddin’!) with some Christmas Pop compilation always waiting in some place of their cars ready to show up out of the blue and play any time of the year. That’s why when I wrote my first Christmas song a couple of years ago I thought I would have never doubled that episode of my life… but not only it’s becoming an habit… this year you’ll find even THREE Tiny Christmas Songs!

The point was to try the Dickens way and deal with Past, Present and Future. So here you go… a special git for Christmast 2011! Artwork was made by the unbeatable Claire “Atta Girl” Goldthorp, who already worked on “Plato’s Summer Stars”. Ejoy

TINY TIDE – A CHRISTMAS WITHOUT CAROL

All Song Written And Recorded by Mark Zonda

1. Vintage Angel (Song of Christmas Past)
2. Christmas Lima Bean (Song of Alternative Christmas Present)
3. Noel on the Moon (Song of Christmas Future)

And now to the lyrics…

Vintage Angel (Song of Christmas Past)

Vintage Angel
Shining all the night
On a Painted sky
Over aluminium sights

I will linger (I really love your style)
As the day go by (so caring and polite)
always by your side (I need to feel your vibes)
’till the holy day will shine (amethyst heart on fire)

Silver Angel
you did catch me by surprise
Among the gifts
I hope to get
you have no price

Snow like feathers
On my Christmas card
felt as you came by
thisVictorian winter sight

Little helper (a stunning filigree)
celebrating light (is dressing christmast dreams)
always by your side (oh wonderful delight)
spreading hope with faith and  pride (and light this holy night)

Look at your old granny’s style
flattering cuts with a strap
the most expansive pendant
will never suit her neckline

Vintage Angels
you have caught me by surprise
Giving away
all that I’ve got
this Christmas night

Praising the lord
to have you back
this holy night

Christmas Lima Bean (Song of Alternative Christmas Present)

Just arrived, I spent a day through airlines and check-in
Can’t believe I made it and I landed safe and neat (Over here)
See the maid, she waves my name right by the limousine
Telling me we have to hurry she still have to clean
and cook

Christmas Lima Beans
Christmas Lima Beans
You’re the one I want
Live your life with me

Christmas Lima Beans
Christmas Lima Beans
Leave the winter out
Let your love come in

Christmas Lima Beans
Christmas Lima Beans

So your parents turned out not being such a mess
When your mother saw your kiss I thought she’d got me death
And despite the sulk and shouts your dad is not a Nazz
Do they know it’s dinner time bring

Christmas Beans

Your skin is butter-like
Your chestnut kisses drain my soul tonight
I’m soaked and simmering
As tender as your cook required to be
Salt, pepper and lime juice
Please add some spice but careful not to abuse

Christmas Beans

Noel On The Moon (Song of Christmas Future)

You made
me smile
With your dream
so out of sight
We should come home right on time
N.A.S.A. shoots
were rad

A live broadcast
will show our cards
The Earth
will shine

From our Noel on The Moon
Noel on The Moon

All your
nice songs
are filled
with notes
New Christmas Songs
Wise up space owls

I hate
to break
My Tex
as girl
But Kiev called
have to
land home

Our Holy hosts
from the west coast
will join our toast
it won’t take long
Will sing
along

On a Noel on The Moon

Bedtime creeps
moonbeams shine before we go to sleep
tonight
Santa Clause did catch me by surprise
it seemed
we would overcome our greatest fears

On a Noel on The Moon

Have you seen the movie “Drive”? I was totally blown away by the picture and… the soundtrack! “Nightcall” by Kavinsky & LoveFoxxx was a killer pop hit in the opening scene and contributed to turn this movie into magic since its very first moments. And since that electro piece of ’80s dance nostalgia is – de facto – pure easy listening behind all those cold synths and vocoders… I tried to make an acoustic version for you! So here it is. Enjoy

Nightcall cover by… Tiny Tide!

Nightcall (Kavinsky Acoustic Cover) by tinytide

Second Christmas Song made for my 2011 Present-Past-andFuture Xmas Project. The one dealing with my present. Or at least my “Aternative” one, the one that takes place in that part of a multiverse where I actually made it to spend my Christmas in Lima. I tried to work hard on vocals challenging myself even in a tiny Beach Boys tribute, but I hadn’t the time to go in a real studio and do things properly. So that’s what you got!

You will find the “Song of Christmas Future” and some other extra on the Christmas EP coming out 12 December 2011. Meanwhile… enjoy your “present”

Christmas Lima Bean (Song of Alternative Christmas Present) by tinytide

Here’s to the lyrics…

Christmas Lima Bean (Song of Alternative Christmas Present)

Just arrived, I spent a day through airlines and check-in
Can’t believe I made it and I landed safe and neat
See the maid, she waves my name right by the limousine
Telling me we have to hurry she still have to clean
and cook

Christmas Beans
Christmas Beans
Christmas Lima Beans

Christmas Lima Beans
Christmas Lima Beans
You’re the one I want
Live your life with me

Christmas Lima Beans
Christmas Lima Beans
Leave the winter out
Let your love come in

So your parents turned out not being such a mess
When your mother saw your kiss I thought she’d got me death
And despite the sulk and shouts your dad is not a Nazz
Do they know it’s dinner time bring

Christmas Beans
…

Your skin is butter-like
Your chestnut kisses drain my soul tonight
I’m soaked and simmering
As tender as your cook required to be
Salt, pepper and lime juice
Please add some spice but careful not to abuse

Christmas Beans
…

I always had a strange relationship with Christmas Songs, equally divided between an unlimited love for some of the best pop tracks ever written and the magic that lay in them and the useless effort to write a song that people will listen for 1/12 of the year to put it back in some kind of fridge. There’s no smart “About a Boy” dialogue could change my mind. Still it’s a couple of years that I’m enjoying a lot writing this Christmas song, so this time I decided to make it… triple!

It’s my intention to release a Christmas Song Free EP on the second week of December. Three songs will deal with Christmas past, present and future plus the EP will have some Xmas extra.

However may seems absurd I’m recording so many stuff  these days that it happened I broke my second professional audio recording equipment. It’s money! So if you want to make a donation feel free to buy one of our EP on KinGem Records!

While you’re waiting I decided to release the first of these Christmas Songs. Clearly it’s the one dealing with Christmas Past. It’s called “Vintage Angel (Song Of Christmas Past)”. I tried to keep it as simple as possible trying to recreate a ’60s song, but then something went out on its own as usual.

Anyway… here you go:
Vintage Angel (Song of Christmas Past) by tinytide

Here’s the Lyrics…

VINTAGE ANGEL (SONG OF CHRISTMAS PAST)

“Vintage Angel
Shining all the night
On a Painted sky
Over aluminium sights

I will linger (I really love your style)
As the day go by (so caring and polite)
always by your side (I need to feel your vibes)
’till the holy day will shine (amethyst heart on fire)

Silver Angel
you did catch me by surprise
Among the gifts
I hope to get
you have no price

Snow like feathers
On my christmas card
felt as you came by
this victorian winter sight

Little helper (a stunning filigree)
Celebrating light (is dressing Christmas dreams)
Always by your side (ohwonderful delight)
Spreading hope with faith and  pride (enlight this holy night)

Look at your old granny’s style
Flattering cuts with a strap
The most expansive pendant
Will never suit her neckline

Vitage Angels
You have cought me by surprise
Giving away
All that I’ve got
This christmas night

Praising the lord
To have you back
This Holy Night”

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Pictures by Francesca Adamo and Vladimir Kostromitsky, art by Mark Zonda and Megan Sennett.

You may also order an hard CDR copy on KinGem Records.

It’s always good to meet special people. No matter which page of the book we’re involved in. Sometime we just have to keep on reading and a new impressive character comes out of the blue. This time it was Francesca Adamo, a very young photographer from Forlì I met on a very indie birthday party. The whole photo session was an excuse to gather some songs and compose new material to gather everything in a new EP, called “A Protest”. Find out more on lyrics and tracks…

1. A Protest

This song was originally intended as a love song for two guitars. How two instruments would have expressed such feeling? I wondered the song should have been played but voice and drums only while the two guitars should have sang. When “A Protest EP” project came into my mind I thought that giving up the “Love Song For Guitars” to add some lyrics could have turned out good. That’s why I spent my Saturday autumn evening shouting on my car while driving across a country highway. After the melody came out I passed a whole Saturday night working on the lyrics. And that’s what you get! Track was mixed by Paolo Pugliese, a friend from the band “Les Fauves”. The song closes with Jon Hardy from the indie pop band The Pristines.

2. Ape

I wrote this song as a quick one after realizing that playing “BCK” live would have been too art for me, after a band practicing sesison. That’s before I decided to trash the whole “TenneT” session goin’ for saving the best songs for the next project I’m workin’ on. So the first “APE” version was really a quick one with just drums, electric distored guitars and fuckload of vocals. I really like the reverbs and the harmony in it. As for the song – I don’t know how I came out with that crazy stuff – my attention was caught by a live performance by Lady GaGa showing off her talent on a super furry piano. So I started to wonder how would have been tough having a relationship with an artist selling your privacy by the pound and GaGa singing in front of zillion of people about her new lover replacing her former official mate, afraid of standing an affair with a gurl with such personality. You may find some random references to Donkey Kong and Taran as well.

3. Penelope

After the local success of “Holly Turns To Grey” - a Christamas song I wrote for A Nice Person - I really believed we could have found the time to record “A Reallyt Nice EP”. Quite a year passed after I wrote the first song for that project. It was an acoustic melancholic ballad filled with regret and ’80s nostalgia called “Penelope and The Mac5″. (I guess the first or possibly second song able to impressed Gary Sansom from Duffelcot Records).  Days passed becoming ages and I took the chance to finish that marvellous song adding some synth strings and a piano in the second part. Do say I’m really proud of that girl.

4. Big Jazz Theory

This song was intentionally written to be a big hit for a Swedish Label. Partially inspired by the CBS TV Serie “Big Bang Theory”, the song was also an attempt to try and write a song à-la-AlloDarling (Liz keeps on baking us such marvellous anthems for her loved idols, so why shouldn’t deserve a song on her own). I’m really proud of it. Some passages are really close to some specific Trattoria Records productions like Citrus, and it was nice to mix sinth, vocal and real trumpets for the horns parts. Also think it’s the only song I wrote where I play all the possible instrument I’m able to play  beside  the flute. A Big Jazz indeed!

5. Little Soul Rock

When the Fukushima Incident happened after the great tsunami that shocked Japan (and the World) I felt the urge to do something. I’ve always been in love with that country, and I felt somehow unarmed and defeated as a human being. I reacted by turning off any source of news, lowering the light in my room and starting to write a song on my bed, trying to come out with something my beloved Pizzicato 5 could have done wondering how I would have felt if I should have been hit but such an inevitable and terrible disaster. America, Russia, Lord knows where. Japan wasn’t the first country running on this kind of radioactive hazards, but possibly was the the only one reacting in such a brave and honourable way. Talking about the music in the end I ended to sound a bit like Paul Simon in his solo years. And I do say that I don’t mind that at all! Possibly the most refined song I recorded.

6. A Forest

Me trying to look like Mr. Zimmerman looking for my big guitar solo time. I just tried to get a picture of what it’s happening in the World Year 2011. It came a bit out of focus I suppose.

7. Goodnight Sunshine

A song dedicated to a person I love on the other side of the World. It’s funny having to deal with a person you care so much for and you get to talk with most of the moment of your time sharing a different time location. Sometime I feel like we’re a meta post-modern independent version of the classic movie Lady Hawk, meeting halfway our days. Telling the truth we just swap nights and days, winter and summer, and each time our two half of the World collides we share our impression of the days sharing news and – above all -songs. This girl and me have a very common taste, but it’s surprising how inspiring and refreshing we could be one another, always coming up with something impressive to care fore. Where this kind of relationship will lead us to? How long will it last? Maybe it’s better consider what Audrey Hepburn would have said or talk about one of our favourite bands uncertain future. It’s a sonic youth.

*** The Lyrics ***

1. A Protest

Surrender to the stars
An dream of broken hearts
The silhouetted pines now coming to my sight
The solitary path got pale by the moonlight
I’m diving in the lake
To keep my soul alive.

Valleys and fields
On my feets, standing still
Blades of grass for my tears
Join my sad melody
Calling friends, enemies,
Walk on by in my dreams
Hold my hand
sStay with me
Waiting quiet by the trees
Watch me now.

I watch her shadow grow
Enlived by the fire
Her tear the darkest fall
Projected on the strand

She’s pretty and she knows
So cheerful and alive
The Moonlight stole a smile
for every tear I dried.

The torrent voice rings strong
Sbove a star-bright well
‘Come take this woodland tale
And sing it by the lake

May all the strenght and grace
Enlight her pretty face
Just like a glorious dream
On beds of velvet drapes

Mere of beauty like the grace which lies upon the mountain place
When forest of romance will dance the night away.

Get down and stay.

2. Ape

The bobbed green wig did suite her firnged dress
She immediately pur fingers on her hair
Performing to promote her brand new flame
She sat down calm and sang about her

APE
Banana Banana

(The Angels plays with Romeo tonight)
(A tatoo states I’ll love her till I die)
(My winged cross is older than you think)
(so please come down and carry on with me)

Why must be a pain when silence breaks
She told me she was dumped yesterday
He wasn’t really sure to settle down
A dignified silence left the town

Her heartache fed so many Twitter fans
The Mirror said she didn’t mean to offend
You really need support from a good friend
forget about your boyfriend I’m your

APE

And watch her, she didn’t get donkey konged
while asking the reporter: “How high can you get?”
She worn hairs in coca cola rollers
She’s looking so savage now
With not a place to stay
She must be my Jean and I bet that I’m your…

3. Penelope

Take a seat
Stay with me
Grab your favourite can of beer
Say the words
“I recall!”
Trip down our memory road

Though I can’t disagree – after all  – a bit of it all – did chuck in our world
And I would rather not kick – all that dust -  but I really wanna know

Penelope, would she ever beat The Mach 5
Penelope, did she ever had a chance
Penelope, would she ever beat The Mach 5
Penelope, are you ever gonna win
A crock of crap, no it wouldn’t change a fact
Penelope, always left me unimpressed

Perfect gloves, bright pink dress
Go-go boots and tight to impress
Glamour gal
Ace of race
Yet a damsel in distress

But you can’t figure out clever ways she will get out
Her safety has never been in doubt.

And she’s crying “Hayulp”
Baby look at her
And she’s crying “Hayulp”
Won’t somebody even care

4. Big Jazz Theory

It’s really not like I don’t care for cats
I  have some interests infacts… on Shrodinger’s!
Suddenly your dolphins aren’t sweet… anymore
But God know how I’d get raped for a kiss

Your monkey sleeps inside me
On radioactive boxes
And bites me bad and dead
On random times

Untill the box is open
I’m both alive and broken
Ok, the cat’s alive let’s go!

In a big mess
Such a sweetness
In this big jazz theory

It’s a big mess
A three person chess
In a big jazz theory

Rat pack music it’s ok to escape
But we’re a 6-piece line-up,  we’re stuck in clubs
Dinner dances from the radio
1940 in my dark black hole

Come play at my wedding
I’d be so enthusiastic
And don’t forget to break my heart tonight

A wee-mail to say thank yee
For blessing my reception
I think I’m still alive… let’s go!

So live long and prosper
I think we’d better play outside
So live long and prosper
I think my life’s about to start
So live long and prosper
I think we’d better go outside
so live long and prosper

It’s time for good looks and make up

5. Little Soul Rock

Little soul
Hangin’ on the town
Little soul
Look at what we’ve found
So many things we’ve lost are gone
And now I need to be alone
With the one I love
The one who’s singing
Little soul words
Need to listen close
To your heart beats
Fast and loud

Little Soul Rock

Little Soul
We cracked the core
Little Soul
Reach the very source
Our safety is planted in the trash
Is getting daily deemed at last
Let the Motown Stars
Show up in droves
With lil’ soul claps
And then collapse
To their best sound
Anything loud

6. A Forest

Riot Gears to shut the Anti-Wall Street protest scene
See the brand new morning shining clear
Tuesday morning left them with some  rounds of bags and beans
Gained by replacing gas with tears

And the television service showed the arrested volunteer
Didn’t look a quiet engineer
All around the Country fighting Democratic greed
Breaking basic laws and smoking weed

With the rats, the acts and violence, the fire and its seeds
The Forest gonna rise and burn its breed

Occupied London part-time protest part-time joke
Students soon to become unemployed
We don’t need no answers from the cooperative corps
Laying down at night among the corns

Verified rumours stated clear in first place
Parents and their children didn’t care
Get out of your tents and get your head around the fact
This won’t stop that waste in any case

So the rats, the craps and violence, the fire and the pain
The Forest gonna rise and burn the day

Nothing I have thought was made to fit these crazy days
I was pretty stroked by your 3rd grade
All around the world they’ll get to catch that pretty wave
Bringing brand new changes into place

Water can be rough and really bad at the same time
I hope you’ll pull some new tricks to survive
Pristine islands, luxury resorts and the good life
Wonderwalls that soon will fall apart

Let the rats, the rain and violence, the shit along the way
Let the Forest rise and bury all the pain

7. Goodnight Sunshine

As I wake up
She gives another yawn
While her make up
It’s almost clearly gone
I was dreaming
To spend my life with you
Were you reading
That sonic youth review

27 years of love and dates
Will the song remane the same the next decade
Guess it’s gettin really late

Goodnight Sunshine
I really have to go
Have some fine wine
I have to catch the flow
Here’s my last line
Goodnight Sunshine

When she comes back
Our talks are made of songs
Trading love tracks
We played all day long

I was waiting
To catch your sleepy eyes
In the morning
I’m tired in disguise

“I should never feel alone” like Audrey said
While you’re mixing jam and bread
And it’s time to go to bed
There is something left unsaid
While you’re typing from yoru Mac
“Goodnight Sunshine”