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Aquilo (band)

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Aquilo
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Background information
OriginSilverdale, Lancashire, England
Genres
Years active2013 (2013)–present
Labels
Websiteaquilomusic.com
Members
  • Ben Fletcher
  • Tom Higham

Aquilo are an English musical duo from Silverdale, Lancashire, consisting of Tom Higham and Ben Fletcher. They began gaining recognition in 2013 for their singles such as "Calling Me" and "You There", in addition to their five EPs.

The duo's debut album, Silhouettes, was released on 27 January 2017. Their second studio album, ii, was released on 4 May 2018, and the third studio album A Safe Place To Be was released on 15 October 2021.

History

Career beginnings

Members Tom Higham and Ben Fletcher grew up as neighbours in Silverdale, Lancashire. They were both part of rivaling rock bands in their hometown.[3][4] Higham studied music production in university.[3] The two worked on their musical projects individually before collaborating as Aquilo.[5]

2013–present: Aquilo, Human, and Calling Me

Tom Higham
Tom Higham

Aquilo began receiving attention in 2013 for their debut tracks "You There" and "Calling Me".[3][4][6] "You There" was included in BBC Radio 1's playlist on 12 June 2014 and the "Best Of BBC Introducing Stage" choices.[7] The song was also featured in the trailer for the 2014 independent drama Camp X-Ray.[8][9] Additionally, they performed "Calling Me" and "You There" on the BBC Introducing stage at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival 2014 on 28 June 2014.[10] They also played at the 2014 Kendal Calling festival.[11] Their first EP, Aquilo, was released on 3 March 2014.

On 8 December 2014, they released their second EP, Human.

On 5 March 2015, their collaboration with popular disc jockey Vanic, "Losing You", was released onto YouTube and SoundCloud. It has so far accumulated over 7.5 million 'plays' on SoundCloud as of 10 April 2017.[12] They also collaborated with French DJ and record producer Madeon on "Innocence" from his debut album, Adventure, on 27 March. Besides collaborations, their third EP, Calling Me, was released at the start of June that year. Another EP, Painting Picture Of A War, was later released on 4 December.

On 17 March 2016, they played alongside alt-pop duo Oh Wonder, at O2 Forum Kentish Town, London.

In November 2016, the band appeared on Enigma's eighth studio album The Fall of a Rebel Angel. They provided vocals to the album's closing track and second single, respectively, "Amen".[13]

On 27 January 2017, the duo released their debut album, Silhouettes.[2] Their second studio album, ii, was released on 4 May 2018.[14]

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Silverdale, Lancashire

Silverdale, Lancashire

Silverdale is a village and civil parish within the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England. The village stands on Morecambe Bay, near the border with Cumbria, 4.5 miles (7 km) north west of Carnforth and 8.5 miles (14 km) of Lancaster. The parish had a population of 1,519 recorded in the 2011 census.

BBC Radio 1

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Camp X-Ray (film)

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Glastonbury Festival 2014

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Kendal Calling

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Kendal Calling is a music & arts festival, held annually at Lowther Deer Park in the Lake District, Cumbria in the North West of England. It has grown from a two-day, 900 capacity event in 2006 to a 25,000 capacity 4-day music festival. Kendal Calling has 9 stages and has featured live performances from notable artists such as Blondie, Pendulum, Doves, Dizzee Rascal, James, Mumford & Sons, Calvin Harris and British Sea Power. In 2010 Kendal Calling was awarded the Best Small UK Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards, as voted by the public. Kendal Calling also won the industry award 'Best Small Festival' at the LIVE UK awards 2011. Superstruct Entertainment, the live entertainment platform backed by Providence Equity Partners, owns the festival after it entered definitive agreement for the acquisition of several live music and entertainment festivals from Global Media & Entertainment and Broadwick Live.

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Madeon

Madeon

Hugo Pierre Leclercq, better known by his stage name Madeon, is a French DJ and music producer from Nantes, currently based in Los Angeles. He initially came to widespread public attention at 17 through a YouTube video, "Pop Culture", where he performed a mash-up of 39 different popular songs in real-time using a Novation Launchpad. It received millions of hits in its first few days of release. Madeon has cited The Beatles and Daft Punk as his greatest musical influences.

Adventure (Madeon album)

Adventure (Madeon album)

Adventure is the debut studio album by French DJ and record producer Madeon. It was released on 30 March 2015 through popcultur and Columbia Records. The album features talent and vocals from Kyan, Dan Smith from Bastille, Passion Pit, Mark Foster from Foster the People and Aquilo and was produced entirely by Madeon himself.

Oh Wonder

Oh Wonder

Oh Wonder are an English, London-based alt-pop duo consisting of Anthony Vander West and Josephine Vander West. Since releasing their debut album, they have seen international success with their alt-pop singles. Oh Wonder recorded and released one song a month for a year, starting in September 2014. All of the songs were released together as a self-titled debut album on 4 September 2015. On 14 July 2017, the duo released their second album, Ultralife. On 12 February 2020, they released their third album, No One Else Can Wear Your Crown. On 8 October 2021, the now-married duo released their fourth studio album, 22 Break. All four albums were written, recorded, produced, and mixed by the duo and have seen cross-platform success.

Enigma (German band)

Enigma (German band)

Enigma is a German musical project founded in 1990 by Romanian-German musician and producer Michael Cretu. Cretu had released several solo records, collaborated with various artists, and produced albums for his then-wife, German pop singer Sandra, before he conceived the idea of a new-age, worldbeat project. He recorded the first Enigma studio album, MCMXC a.D. (1990), with contributions from David Fairstein and Frank Peterson. The album remains Enigma's most successful, helped by the international hit single "Sadeness ", which sold twelve million units alone. According to Cretu, the inspiration for the creation of the project came from his desire to make a kind of music that did not obey "the old rules and habits" and presented a new form of artistic expression with mystic and experimental components.

Silhouettes (Aquilo album)

Silhouettes (Aquilo album)

Silhouettes is the debut studio album by British indie band Aquilo. It was released on 27 January 2017 through Island Records. The album includes songs from previous extended play releases, including "Human", "You Won't Know Where You Stand", "I Gave It All", "Never Seen You Get So Low" and "Waiting". The lead single from the album, entitled "Sorry", was released on 10 November 2016.

II (Aquilo album)

II (Aquilo album)

II is the second studio album by British musical duo Aquilo. It was released on 4 May 2018 through Island Records. ii includes earlier singles released in the EP ii , in November 2017, and other five new tracks.

Musical style

Aquilo's music have been described mainly as alternative, as well as electronica, dream pop, ambient and indie. They are known for producing "soft, calm electro-pop",[4] "chilled electronic",[15] "ravishingly refined sort of dreamily sad electronica",[3] and "fragile dream pop laced with subtle electronica and soulful vocals."[16]

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Alternative rock

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Electronica

Electronica

Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that started in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to refer to electronic music generally.

Dream pop

Dream pop

Dream pop is a subgenre of alternative rock and neo-psychedelia that emphasizes atmosphere and sonic texture as much as pop melody. Common characteristics include breathy vocals, dense productions, and effects such as reverb, echo, tremolo, and chorus. It often overlaps with the related genre of shoegaze, and the two genre terms have at times been used interchangeably.

Ambient music

Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. It may lack net composition, beat, or structured melody. It uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation. The genre is said to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual", or "unobtrusive" quality. Nature soundscapes may be included, and the sounds of acoustic instruments such as the piano, strings and flute may be emulated through a synthesizer.

Independent music

Independent music

Independent music is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries; this may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

Electropop

Electropop

Electropop is a hybrid music genre combining elements of electronic and pop genres. Writer Hollin Jones has described it as a variant of synth-pop with outstanding heavy emphasis on its electronic sound. The genre was developed in the 1980s and saw a revival of popularity and influence in the late 2000s.

Discography

Albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions
Title Album details Peak chart positions
Release date Label Format UK Update[17]
Silhouettes 27 January 2017 Island CD

Digital download

64
ii 4 May 2018 Island CD

Digital download

–
A Safe Place To Be 15 October 2021 AWAL CD

Digital download

–

EPs

Title Details
Release date Label Format
Aquilo 3 March 2014 Believe Digital download
Human 8 December 2014 Island Digital download

12"

Calling Me 1 June 2015
Painting Pictures of a War 4 December 2015
Midnight (Live) 29 January 2016
In the Low Light (Live) 5 May 2017 Digital download
ii (Side A) 17 November 2017 Digital download
Sober 8 July 2020 AWAL Digital download

12"

Singles

  • "You There" (2014)
  • "I Gave It All" (2014)
  • "Losing You" (2014)
  • "Calling Me" (2015)
  • "Good Girl" (2015)
  • "Sorry" (2016)
  • "So Close to Magic" (2016)
  • "Amen" (2016)
  • "You Won't Know Where You Stand" (2017)
  • "Silhouette" (2017)
  • "Almost Over" (2017)
  • "I Could Fight on a Wall" (2017)
  • "Thin" (2017)
  • "Who Are You" (2017)
  • "Silent Movies" (2018)
  • "Seagull" (2018)
  • "Sober" (2020)
  • "Just Asking" (2020)
  • "Always Forever" (2020)
  • "Moving On" (2020)
  • "Missing the Mark" (2020)
  • "Out in LA" (2021)
  • "Our Bones Turn To Stone" (2021)
  • "I Wanna See You Smile" (2021)

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Official Charts Company

Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.

Silhouettes (Aquilo album)

Silhouettes (Aquilo album)

Silhouettes is the debut studio album by British indie band Aquilo. It was released on 27 January 2017 through Island Records. The album includes songs from previous extended play releases, including "Human", "You Won't Know Where You Stand", "I Gave It All", "Never Seen You Get So Low" and "Waiting". The lead single from the album, entitled "Sorry", was released on 10 November 2016.

Island Records

Island Records

Island Records is a multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in Jamaica, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, another label recently acquired by PolyGram, were both at the time the largest independent record labels in history, with Island having exerted a major influence on the progressive music scene in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. Island Records operates four international divisions: Island US, Island UK, Island Australia, and Island France. Current key people include Island US president Darcus Beese, OBE and MD Jon Turner. Partially due to its significant legacy, Island remains one of UMG's pre-eminent record labels.

II (Aquilo album)

II (Aquilo album)

II is the second studio album by British musical duo Aquilo. It was released on 4 May 2018 through Island Records. ii includes earlier singles released in the EP ii , in November 2017, and other five new tracks.

AWAL

AWAL

AWAL is a British music distribution company owned by Sony Music Entertainment. The company serves as an alternative to the traditional music label deal, offering deal structures to artists and independent labels without them giving up ownership or control. In 2021, Sony Music Entertainment purchased AWAL from Kobalt Music Group for $430m.

Source: "Aquilo (band)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2021, November 14th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquilo_(band).

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  2. ^ a b c Havens, Lyndsey. "English Duo AQUILO On Their Atmospheric Debut Album, Anxiety & More". Billboard. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d Lester, Paul (7 April 2014). "New Band of the Week: Aquilo (No 1,736)". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  4. ^ a b c Brinnand, Emily (29 April 2013). "Aquilo – New Band Up North #24". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  5. ^ "Aquilo – New Music". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  6. ^ "Aquilo – "You There"". Pigeons & Planes. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  7. ^ "Radio 1 Playlist". BBC. 12 June 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  8. ^ "Best of BBC Introducing". Glastonbury. BBC. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  9. ^ Reilly, Travis (8 August 2014). "Kristen Stewart Shakes Bella Swan Stigma in First 'Camp X-Ray' Trailer". The Wrap. Retrieved 13 August 2014. The trailer contains ... Aquilo's haunting song “You There” ...
  10. ^ "Aquilo". Glastonbury. BBC. 28 June 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  11. ^ "Lineup 2014". Kendal Calling. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  12. ^ "Vanic x Aquilo – Losing You". SoundCloud.
  13. ^ Amen by Enigma on Discogs. Discogs. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  14. ^ "ii – Aquilo – Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  15. ^ "Aquilo Interview". Banana. 5 March 2013. Archived from the original on 22 May 2014.
  16. ^ Aquilo – Agenda – Ancienne Belgique – Official Website zebrix.abconcerts.be
  17. ^ "Official Albums Chart Update Top 100 30 January 2017 – 05 February 2017". Official Charts Company. OCC. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
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