Cornwall’s Josiah Gillespie is an innovative singer-songwriter, creating striking folk-pop songs filled with honesty, hope, and that all-important melody…
From Neil Young to Ryan Adams to Death Cab For Cutie, the heroes of the genre leave their mark on his music as much as the relationships that inspired it. The result is folk-pop; carved out of wood to an immaculate finish, but allowing the grain and knots of its material to shape it.
Continuing to play to intimate crowds and at grassroots-level events, Josiah recently signed to Birmingham label Zang Productions. Almost one person at a time, this personal music is going public – and it’s going to stay there.
From Neil Young to Ryan Adams to Death Cab For Cutie, the heroes of the genre leave their mark on his music as much as the relationships that inspired it. The result is folk-pop; carved out of wood to an immaculate finish, but allowing the grain and knots of its material to shape it.
Continuing to play to intimate crowds and at grassroots-level events, Josiah recently signed to Birmingham label Zang Productions. Almost one person at a time, this personal music is going public – and it’s going to stay there.
20th Mar 2013
FROM NEWS...
After a decade of musical jestering Zang Productions is finally to be shut down. We leave you with these parting gifts:
-One last album, called So Long, Farewell, Goodby, I Love You. It's free to download, and it features University of the King, Florent, Barrowclough, Benjamin Blower, Greybeard, Vincent Gould, Fiction Fight, Ebenezer, Bethan Marshall and Selina Blakeney.
-And also three music videos - dug out out of the vaults of unfinished Zang work. One for Selina Blakeney's Stay Tight, one for The Custodians' Sacred, and one for Benjamin Blower's Hey Hey Babylon is Dead...
With love x
10th Jul 2011
FROM NEWS...
Of course you can still watch this video on Youtube, but this should be fun.
The Cut is a local short film festival running over two weekends.
The venue is the Prince of Wales Pub in Moseley, Birmingham.
The first two screenings of the video have already happened.
The final screening is on Saturday July 16th in the afternoon some time in the programme running from 12:30 to 1.30pm.
http://thecut2011.blogspot.com/
The Cut is a local short film festival running over two weekends.
The venue is the Prince of Wales Pub in Moseley, Birmingham.
The first two screenings of the video have already happened.
The final screening is on Saturday July 16th in the afternoon some time in the programme running from 12:30 to 1.30pm.
http://thecut2011.blogspot.com/
12th Sep 2010
FROM NEWS...
6th Sep 2010
FROM NEWS...
Say Anything is first single from Josiah Gillespie's debut album, here is the music video...
2nd Aug 2010
FROM NEWS...
The debut album from Josiah Gillespie - "The Ache And Answer" - is available now!
Gillespie headed to the quiet depths of the Welsh countryside to record these songs and ended up with post-surf beach-fire anthems, brooding diary entry ballads and uninhibited explosions of joyful, soulful folk.
Gillespie headed to the quiet depths of the Welsh countryside to record these songs and ended up with post-surf beach-fire anthems, brooding diary entry ballads and uninhibited explosions of joyful, soulful folk.
1st May 2010
FROM NEWS...
Zang artists have been featured a lot during the last month on Brumcast, a birmingham based podcast playing non-genre specific music from the West Midlands...
Brumcast 157 'Graveyard Banter' - Listen Here
Named after the Ickberg track, this Brumcast features Ickberg as well as Benjamin Blowers 'Ringing The Bell For The Last Time'
Brumcast 156 'Blood On The Doorframe' - Listen Here
Named after the Benjamin Blower track, he is then accompanied by Josiah Gillespie with his track 'Between The Lines'
Brumcast 155 'Where has the money gone?' - Listen Here
Benjamin Blower makes is 3 in a row, this time with the track 'I See Trouble Round The Bend', Josiah Gillespie joins him again with the track '70 x 7'
Brumcast 157 'Graveyard Banter' - Listen Here
Named after the Ickberg track, this Brumcast features Ickberg as well as Benjamin Blowers 'Ringing The Bell For The Last Time'
Brumcast 156 'Blood On The Doorframe' - Listen Here
Named after the Benjamin Blower track, he is then accompanied by Josiah Gillespie with his track 'Between The Lines'
Brumcast 155 'Where has the money gone?' - Listen Here
Benjamin Blower makes is 3 in a row, this time with the track 'I See Trouble Round The Bend', Josiah Gillespie joins him again with the track '70 x 7'
1st May 2010
FROM NEWS...
Josiah Gillespie is in the process of wrapping up his first Zang release, but in the meantime fellow Zang new-comers Fiction Fight have remixed a track from Josiahs forthcoming album.
The track is called 'Say Anything' and the 'Fictional Remix' can be got in the Free Download section right now...
The track is called 'Say Anything' and the 'Fictional Remix' can be got in the Free Download section right now...
Watch on Youtube
