Video directed by John Owen. Featuring Susanna Herbert and Steve Dolton.All This Time by Message To Bears and The Kids and the Cosmos #shortsMessage To Bears2024-07-01 | ...Hillside EmbersMessage To Bears2023-03-22 | New single with 'The Kids and The Cosmos' to be released next Friday.
Hear it first on Patreon just launched - patreon.com/messagetobearsMessage To Bears and Will Samson - Saola (Official Audio)Message To Bears2020-02-14 | After multiple contributions to each others' recordings over the years, two friends Jerome Alexander (Message To Bears) and Will Samson present a fully collaborative release, Together.
The six track album was created in just 8 days during late 2019 at Jerome's home studio in Bristol, UK. No songs were written prior to the recording sessions, allowing the music to be guided by spontaneity and intuition.
Album artwork by Benoît Pioulard. Mastered by Taylor Deupree.HIN - The Lower HeatMessage To Bears2019-07-11 | Taken from the "Warmer Weather EP" by HIN, available to buy and stream now: wearehin.bandcamp.com
'2 school friends reunite digitally to make an ambient electronic project. Their debut EP deals with feelings of isolation, environmentalism and friendship. Made between Los Angeles and London, Jerome Alexander (Message To Bears) and Justin Lee Radford (The Kids and The Cosmos) new musical project, HIN.'
'After living in London for the past 5 years where he released 2 albums, countless remixes, collaborated with and produced for other artists, Jerome returns to live in his hometown of Bristol, where he completes his new LP from within his home studio, located on the edge of local woodland. It would be these daily walks amongst small streams and ever-changing trees that would influence and help form this latest collection of songs. These small glimpses of meditations are a means of processing all the anxieties that would otherwise be neglected without an outlet for creativity. Constants is an attempt to hold onto something real and grounding amongst the seemingly fleeting and fragile experiences of life.'
'On Message To Bears’ fourth LP Carved From Tides Jerome Alexander throws all caution to the wind and delivers an experience emotive enough to tug at every fibre in a heartstring. Released on 1 July, Carved From Tides sees Jerome eschew the arbitrary boundaries that have been erected between synthetic music and music made on more traditional instruments. Lead single ‘I’ll Lead You There’ is exemplary. Starting with a gloomy acoustic arpeggio that wouldn’t be out of place in the hands of Elliott Smith or Nick Drake, its folky textures are soon penetrated by a thudding beat over which collaborator Will Samson lends his tender reverberating vocals. The heart-wrenching mood of the arrangement lends it a depth of feeling that characterises the whole LP.'
'Jerome’s love of ambient music is highlighted in the opener ‘Never Be’. It’s a cinematic start to the album, replete with sweeping synths and strings. The muffled piano lends some rhythmic shape to its openness. It ends tempestuously, with thunderous bass raging against the dying synths as it refuses to go gently into the night.'
Of his mentality when creating Carved From Tides Jerome says: "The album is supposed to reflect a transitional period in one's life, referencing change in circumstances, decisions, relationships with others and evolution as an individual, whether subtle or not, which thereby influences where you are now, and realising wherever you are now is ok, and that you are in a constant state of flux. When writing it, I was going through what felt like a very transitional period myself, and I guess this was my way of processing it."
'Composed, recorded and produced between both his home and studio in North-East London over the past year, Carved From Tides is Jerome’s most sophisticated work yet. The title refers to the capacity of something fluid and transitional to be able to affect and mould what appears to be solid and stable over time. It is through the fluidness of Jerome’s approach - in not pigeonholing instruments with expectations of what sort of music they should make - that Jerome achieves just this. The fluidity of music itself is the tide that he carves his masterwork from. And the success he achieves here is solid indeed.'
Director: John Dunn 1st Ad: Seb White 2nd Ad: Regan Alexander Dop: Markus Ljungberg Producer:Hillery Baptise Producer:Tamara Dunn MakeUp: Hannah Ortner Bts / Dit Andrew Kavanagh Editor: John / Seb Post Producer: Sarah Antrobus Colourist: Danny Wood Dancers: Nico Migliorati and Isabelle CressyMessage to Bears - MoonlightMessage To Bears2014-05-28 | Message to Bears - Moonlight
Sound In Silence is very pleased to welcome J.R Alexander (aka Message To Bears) with his new Moments EP.
Being already well known under the moniker of Message To Bears, the multi-instrumentalist Jerome Alexander has released so far two albums, one EP and one split album, all of them on the recently closed Dead Pilot Records.
This time he releases his new EP under a different alias, choosing for the first time to use his real name as the new tracks take a more electronic direction. Moments EP is slightly less ambient and more beat based than his previous releases, while some of its tracks could have easily been released under the name of Message To Bears.
On Moments EP, J.R Alexander demonstrates a progression in his discography, creating five excellent tracks of beautiful soundscapes, using layers of electronics, warm synths, ethereal samples, gorgeous acoustic guitars, glockenspiel, piano and viola. The finishing touch on the great sound of Moments EP was applied by the carefully done mastering of George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave).
This is a limited edition of 300 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies, packaged in a lovely hand-stamped recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert printed on nice fabric paper. credits
released 22 December 2012Message To Bears - Wolves (Phosphorescent cover)Message To Bears2011-11-15 | My interpretation of the beautiful song by Phosphorescent.
mama there's wolves in the house
mama they won't let me out
mama they're mating at night
mama they wont make nice
they're pacing and glowing bright
their faces all snowy and white
bury their paws in the stone
make for my heart as their home
they tumble and fight
and they're beautiful
on the hilltops at night
they are beautiful
blazing with light
is the whitest and the tallest and the biggest one
she's muscled and fine
when she runs
they're tearing up holes in the house
they're tearing their claws in the ground
they're staring with blood in their mouths
mama they won't let me out
they tumble and fight
and they're beautiful
on the hilltops at night
they are beautiful
blazing with light
is the whitest and the tallest and the biggest one
all muscled and fine
when she runs
mama there's wolves in the house
mama i tried to put them out
and mama i know you're too wise
to wait till those wolves make niceMessage To Bears - Wake MeMessage To Bears2011-11-08 | Order 10th Anniversary Limited Edition Vinyl - diggersfactory.com/vinyl/245489