Teardrop (band)

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Teardrop
Jono & Pete Renton
Background information
Origin	Nottingham, United Kingdom
Genre(s)	IDM Ambient Downtempo Electronica
Years active	2006 - Present
Label(s)	PAR Records
Website	http://www.teardropmusic.com
Members
Pete Renton Jono Renton

Teardrop consists of just two members, Jono Renton and Pete Renton. Both are brothers and have been producing music together for years, and their latest project, Teardrop, has taken them the furthest. Both members using different skills to create their unique sound, often associated with such acts as The Album Leaf, Boards Of Canada, Aphex Twin and other Intelligent dance music artists.

1 History
2 Record Label
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Formation

Pete made various soundtracks for short films such as linkhere which is currently being played at Cannes Film festival. and also was part of numerous bands. Jono did his own thing studying Music Technology at college and making a small ambient project titled 'Long Journey'.

The two decided to give a shot at writing and recording material together which would then be produced by Peter. The first track they made was a song called ‘Vuttony’ which can be found as a b-side on the Vuttony EP. After that they wrote Vuttony, which was the song that made them continue to create music together, and whilst in Scotland they decided to call themselves Teardrop, after listening to the song Teardrop by Massive Attack. They chose the name while travelling Scotland, in Edinburgh This is also where a lot of the Queensferry EP was written.

[edit] Queensferry EP

Their debut EP (Queensferry EP) featured their song Vuttony which had got fans excited from Myspace and Garageband. As well as fans, the song Vuttony brought the band numerous awards including best chillout track for 3 weeks running, track of the day, best melody, best mood and best song in electronica.^[1] Surprising both of them, this urged the two on to make another album, a full length album.

“Our first track together as Teardrop was Vuttony, Jono came up to me one afternoon and showed me a riff he played on his Takamine, by the evening we had that song done, "it all seemed to just work” says producer Peter Renton.^[2]

The album was released on 19 June 2006^[3] by an independent record label/distributor PAR Records

[edit] Time Spent With Antique Mirrors

The bands first full length album has been in the process of writing and recording for over a year. Originally the album was titled 'Euphoria' but having stuck with that name for a long time, the two decided they needed a fresh new image, changing the bands identity typeface and re naming the album. “Both of us are perfectionists, it doesn’t take us long to write the material, it's the recording that takes longest, getting what we have in our heads out and on to the computer." says Jono. So far the album contains a wider variety of music in relation to the previous EP.

"The Queensferry EP was more of a test, Euphoria is the real thing" Pete announced on the official Teardrop MySpace[1].

The original artwork for the album was done by Chris Mise, a graphic designer. But due to title change, they started preparing a photo that Jono took, but later found a photo by a friend of the bands, Dan Williams^[4] fitted the music and their style a lot more. Dan Williams was more than happy to have the image as the front cover. Although a video and song haven't been picked to be released as of yet, the video was thought to be made by Pete Renton, an animation as part of the project.

[edit] Next Studio Album

Announced on the official site[2], in [April] [2007], a remix album is in its beginning stages, titled 'Wireless Euphoria' it will contain the Open Arms (Wireless Remix) that was featured on the Wireless Studios[3] design site (as background music), as well as other remixed versions of songs from the Euphoria album. The arwork for the album was shown on myspace, its cover is a photo of a mixing desk taken by Matthew Harper, a friend of the band.

[edit] Record Label

PAR Records is an independent record label started in October 2005, with its main artist being Teardrop, other artists are currently signed up.</ref> by an independent record label/distribulor PAR Records