{"id":11308,"date":"2015-06-08T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T10:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=11308"},"modified":"2015-06-08T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T10:27:18","slug":"tony-volker-break-reshape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/06\/tony-volker-break-reshape\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Volker &#8211; &#8216;Break &#038; Reshape&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"PromoBody\">\n<div id=\"promoBody\">\n<div id=\"promoDetails\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11309\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/06\/tony-volker-break-reshape\/tony-volker2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tony-Volker2.png?fit=657%2C437&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"657,437\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Tony Volker2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tony-Volker2.png?fit=640%2C426&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11309\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Tony-Volker2.png?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tony Volker2\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>&#8220;An up-and-coming new artist to keep your peepers on.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>The NME &#8211; Radar<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Coming from South London, songwriter Tony Volker&#8217;s music is probably best described as artfully produced electro-folk. His new EP, &#8216;Break &amp; Reshape&#8217;, has been released on 12&#8243; vinyl and as a digital download.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Volker&#8217;s songs are written using a finger-picked guitar and produced using classic audio recording and subtle, sparse and experimental electronics. Together they combine to<\/div>\n<div class=\"PromoBody\">\n<div id=\"promoBody\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span class=\"Description PromoDetailsItem\">Tony Volker is a South London songwriter who makes artfully produced electro-folk, showcased perfectly by the tracks on his new EP &#8216;Break &amp; Reshape&#8217; released on 12&#8243; vinyl and as a digital download.\u00a0Tony initially had no plans to release records but simply started by experimenting on his laptop but over the years the project grew and has led to him becoming one of the UK&#8217;s most hotly tipped emerging artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Citing influences as diverse as Thom Yorke, Jon Hopkins Elliott Smith and Glass animals and having already shared the bill with the likes of Katy B, Tony aspires towards &#8220;no less than world domination by Christmas. Not much to ask really is it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Description PromoDetailsItem\">Tony will be launching his EP\u00a0at Briggs and Williams in Dalston, on June 16. You can find him online on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyvolker.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/tonyvolker\" target=\"_blank\">SoundCloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/musictonyv\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tony_volker\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCSowGv0scenKXKa-VaOmndQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>. Check out his most recent release, &#8216;Kingdom of the Beasts&#8217;:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OTp12bP_jMg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><span class=\"Description PromoDetailsItem\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"PromoBotttom\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from South London, songwriter Tony Volker&#8217;s music is probably best described as artfully produced electro-folk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[1707,1706,286,77,78,304,1705,1708,1704,1641],"class_list":["post-11308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","tag-break-reshape","tag-electronic-folk","tag-ep","tag-new-release","tag-singer","tag-songwriter","tag-south-london","tag-thom-yorke","tag-tony-volker","tag-vinyl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-2Wo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35886,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/05\/toni-sidgwick-try\/","url_meta":{"origin":11308,"position":0},"title":"Toni Sidgwick &#8211; &#8216;Try&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"11\/05\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Originally from the Shetland Islands, but now based in County Durham, singer\/songwriter Toni Sidgwick first started in music twelve years ago, busking on the streets of Edinburgh to support herself whilst studying. 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