Sad news. The band Parachutes has officially announced today they will no longer be playing together. However they have kindly made available for free download, all their music including their new EP 'Tree Roots'. In the words of the band themselves . . .
Hey everyone,
it was over a year ago that we played our last concert...
since that night we have all been up to a lot of really good things… having babies, making new music, making art exhibitions, traveling, singing in choirs, playing in other bands, and all kinds of mischief…
we wanted to thank you folks for your continued support and kindness.. .but we thought it was also right for us to let you know that we are not playing together anymore. and we have no plans to continue playing together…. NOW, that doesn't mean that we didn't have fun last year touring and having good drunken times together, because those were some amazing times. but we are all excited to keep trying new things and new projects…
so here you can can download (for free!) our two albums and our ep. the first album is from 2003, just called "Parachutes". our second album was recorded on a mountain top castle in italy in 2004. That album is called "Susy", named after the beautiful dog living with us on that mountain. Last is our ep "Tree Roots" made in 2008, recorded in reykjavik iceland, and mixed by jónsi.
thanks again for everything...
hugs,
alex, scott, tinna, thordis, brandan, kari, aaron, bibbi, kristinn...
PARACHUTES
myspace page (including announcement & original download link)
download part 1 contains two full length albums as indicated below
download part 2 contains two live concerts + the EP 'Tree Roots' and the EP 'Demo' which includes instrumental versions of tracks from 'Tree Roots' + extra songs 'Birdpumkin', 'Paper Birds'
and 'Grass Leaves'
NB: you can download the track 'Grass Leaves' alone from a link in the comments (with thanks to Chris)
[SS] Download (new link 04.08.2012) - Albums - 'Parachutes' & 'Susy' -
[SS] Download (new link 04.09.2012) - EP's - 'Tree Roots' & 'Demo' & Live - 'In Alex's Living Room' & 'Chicago 24.09.2008' - (EP's & Live are in one folder)
~ New! 30..10.2011~ Tour EP {FLAC} pending
myspace page (including announcement & original download link)
download part 1 contains two full length albums as indicated below
download part 2 contains two live concerts + the EP 'Tree Roots' and the EP 'Demo' which includes instrumental versions of tracks from 'Tree Roots' + extra songs 'Birdpumkin', 'Paper Birds'
and 'Grass Leaves'
NB: you can download the track 'Grass Leaves' alone from a link in the comments (with thanks to Chris)
[SS] Download (new link 04.08.2012) - Albums - 'Parachutes' & 'Susy' -
[SS] Download (new link 04.09.2012) - EP's - 'Tree Roots' & 'Demo' & Live - 'In Alex's Living Room' & 'Chicago 24.09.2008' - (EP's & Live are in one folder)
~ New! 30..10.2011~ Tour EP {FLAC} pending
34 comments:
thats sad! but best wishes to you and thank you for the great music!!! norman
When I download the Parachutes Tour EP using the link supplied with this sad post, I get a nearly 30mb zip file that is empty. This has happened twice.
I'll miss this band. There Tree Roots ep is soooo good. Thanks for the post!
So sorry, file was corrupt at my end. New linky now uploaded :)
*Their*....
No worries... em... does the Tour EP contain the same content as the Tree Roots EP? The files look the same.
So sorry, the Tour EP was later released as, and called 'Tree Roots'
Apologies
Haha, no problem. Thanks :-)
Simply beautiful music. Very Sigur Ros-esque. Thanks!
I looked and I found the 'Grass Leaves' mp3 that everyone's looking for.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/68594614414735f3/
Thats so kind thnx, i was about to go troling through all my stuff to try and find it!
No problem.
They were offering all their other songs on their myspace except this one.
I love listening to this one and I noticed no-one had a link to it anywhere.
Enjoy!
This link isnt working for me, any chance for re-up on . . .sendspace?
thanx
Done.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8uyw56
Enjoy!
I think the same link was emailed to you as well. Tell me if there are any problems.
Thnx so much, worked a treat - gonna do a fresh post of all the above as some have had a problem with the zip so it will be included in there as well
x
No Problem. It's just a shame I didn't see them in concert before they announced their split. Thanks for mentioning me in the post.
Thanks for posting this and thanks for the blog. Looks like I've got something new to check out!
Hey, long time lurker here, I have often been turned on to great recordings and such from this site, but never been able to use Rapidshare, as I am from South Africa and Rapidshare thinks that all South Africans have the same IP address :/
I know you cantswitch for one person, but I'd really love the 2nd parachutes download, and Rapidshare simply doesnt work! Anyone able to upload it to megaupload?
- thanks anyway :)
Hey Oliver
please email me, (one person is just as important as many! Im happy to upload stuff for you on another provider, im a big fan of sendspace at the moment if thats any good to you)
jon
is the song "where were you" in Tree roots zip file?
I've watched that beautiful adv "Moments" and the song attracted me
their other songs must be great too :D
HI Yellowroom, Im not sure in which zip file 'Where were you' is so here is the song on its own :)
http://www.mediafire.com/?gmmntk51nzc
Are all the songs supposed to be like 3 minutes? I guess I was just expecting Sigur Ros length, but i just wanted to make sure the files were'nt shortened or something...
They are for the most part 'pop song' length :(
I think the main relationship between them and Sigur rós is Alex... not so much musically
I think its a real shame they stopped when they did, Im sure the next album would have been amazing
Thanks for the albums.
these links are dead
http://www.zshare.net/audio/68594614414735f3/
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8uyw56
can you re-upload grass leaves please?
thank you very much
I thought I'd put eberything in this : [MF] Download - EP's - 'Tree Roots' & 'Demo' & Live - 'In Alex's Living Room' & 'Chicago 24.09.2008' - (EP's & Live are in one folder)
have you checked this one?
Thank you for some very beautiful music.
Links aren't working:(
The links is broken. Please, please, Can you upload it again?
Which specific link ?
Also please see here:
http://www.victoryrosemusic.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/dead.html
:(
Hi, this is a great thing you've done, but the links are no longer active. perhaps you could use an alternative website? soundcloud maybe. thanks for your time
I wont be updating this site BUT new links for parachutes are on the way x
Thank you for the new links.
The second link doesn't work for me :c Thanks for the other link though :D
Thank you for fixing the link so quickly.
Thank you so much for this C:
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