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>Leaf Newsletter #45
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>26 June 2001
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>This newsletter contains details of the following:
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>1. GORODISCH - Thurn & Taxis mini-album release
>2. GORODISCH launch party
>3. Other Leaf events
>4. Mail order info
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>1. NEW RELEASE
>GORODISCH - Thurn & Taxis
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>formats: mini-LP (DOCK 22) & CD (DOCK 22CD)
>release date: Monday 25th June 2001
>mail order price: LP: 6.00 GBP (+p&p) / CD: 6.00 GBP (+p&p) - please
>reply to this email for mail order info
>barcode: LP: UPC 0666017021218 / CD : UPC 0666017021225
>
>Thurn & Taxis is the first full release by Gorodisch, aka Stephen
>Cracknell. The recordings were put together during 2000 and the
>early part of 2001, bringing together traditional British folk-song
>and more synthetic influences, making for a thoroughly contemporary
>sound that's woozily out of time. With live cello provided by
>Stephen Wolff and horns by Primal Scream's Duncan Mackay
>embellishing Cracknell's guitar work and programming, it's an
>alluring voyage of restlessness and melody.
>
>Thurn & Taxis is a nod to American author Thomas Pynchon's novel,
>The Crying Of Lot 49, which traces oblique clues towards a shadowy
>courier company established in medieval Europe, long since driven
>underground. Gorodisch's album strongly evokes these ideas of secret
>communications and the way reality is coloured by the passage of
>time and memory. Beauty in confusion, if you like.
>
>The recording of Thurn & Taxis was interrupted by a spell last year
>touring as part of Badly Drawn Boy's band (alongside Fridge).
>Previously Cracknell bought and sold secondhand records for a living
>and played guitar on releases for the now-defunct Cup Of Tea label,
>as well as gracing remixes by Grantby. Later he co-founded reissue
>label Trunk Records, home to the Super Sounds Of Bosworth and
>legendary soundtrack to seventies cult movie, The Wicker Man. More
>recently, Cracknell has contributed to David Holmes' Buffalo Soldier
>soundtrack.
>
>Two other Gorodisch tracks have previously appeared on The Leaf
>Label: the first, 'Omaha', surfacing on The Leaf Label's Osmosis
>compilation (1999), while 'Cariad' was recorded for the most recent
>Invisible Soundtracks 12" (and also appeared on Susumu Yokota's much
>heralded LeafCompilation mix CD). Expect a full-length Gorodisch
>album in 2002.
>
>"Stealth-like combinations of live strings, guitars and filmic
>sampling with understated beats, choosing to bastardize elements in
>ways that avoid obvious jazz/folk/psych taggings. Smooth." DJ
>magazine, 4/5
>
>
>CD: 12":
>1. A1. Setting Sail
>2. A2. Moth To The Flame
>3. A3. B.O.F.
>4. B1. A Time To Listen
>5. B2. The Strangest Feeling
>6. B3. Blues For Pablo Money
>7. B4. Homeward
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>2. The Main Ingredient and The Leaf Label present:
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>An Evening With Gorodisch.
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>Thurn & Taxis launch party.
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>Wednesday 11 July 2001.
>Plastic People, Curtain Road, London EC1.
>£3.
>9pm-2am.
>info: 020 7733 1818.
>
>DJs Gorodisch, Pablo Money, Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) plus Special Guest.
>
>Yes, summer's here and the time is right for violent
>revolution/dancing in the streets (delete where applicable), so
>before it disappears all too quickly, our hero Gorodisch has
>persuaded professional anorak & amateur DJ Premier wannabe Paul
>McGee aka Pablo Money to forego his seat on the deck chair and join
>him on the turntables once again for a night of madness in the booth
>and hip-shaking on the floor.
>
>The venue is the splendid Plastic People in deepest Shoreditch, home
>to one of the finest sound systems in London.
>
>Representing the new school will be Kieran Hebden (Fridge/Four Tet),
>fresh from his recent musical missions across the globe. The book is
>already open on which Joni Mitchell tune he will drop in the midst
>of a dancehall frenzy. Rumours also abound of other noted bods
>around town drifting by to join in the merriment and entertain your
>good-good selves, so come prepared to dance and to show your moves
>to the people.
>
>All of the above entertainment will be available to you the public
>at the knockdown price of £3 - you can't say fairer than that,
>especially if you can't pronounce your 'f's, 't's & 'h's.
>
>For those of you still nonplussed by all of the above, here's a list
>of the tunes currently on rotation on the Pablo Money gramophone:
>Pete Rock: Get Involved (BBE)
>Gil Evans: La Nevada (Impulse)
>Future Sound Of London: Meadows (promo)
>War: Four Cornered Room (Blue Note)
>MOP: Ante Up (Remix) (Loud)
>Professor Longhair: Big Chief Pt. 1 (Rhino)
>Pep Love & Dilated Peoples: Fight Club (Hieroglyphics Imperium)
>Christine Perfect: And That's Saying A Lot (CBS)
>Southside Movement: I've Been Watching You (20th Century)
>The Geoff Love Orchestra: Three Days Of The Condor (MFP)
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>The Gorodisch Dirty Dozen
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>Julie Driscoll: I Know You Love Me Not' (MFP)
>Mike Westbrook: Awakening' (Deram)
>St Germain: Sure thing (Todd Edwards Mix) (Blue Note)
>Don Cherry: Universal Mother (Atlantic)
>Custom Blue: Stucture (Island Blue)
>Herbert: Bodily Functions (Stud!o K7)
>Anne Briggs: The Snows They Melt The Soonest (Topic)
>Redman & DJ Kool: Lets Get Dirty (Def Jam)
>Blaze: You Dont Really Love Me (Motown)
>Bert Jansch: Blackwaterside (Transatlantic)
>Foxy Brown: Oh Yeah (Def Jam)
>Black Sabbath: Behind The Wall Of Sleep (Vertigo)
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>2. OTHER LEAF EVENTS
>
>Saturday June 30
>Knitting Factory, NYC, USA
>310 + Manitoba + Oval
>
>Wednesday July 11
>Plastic People, Curtain Road, London, UK
>Gorodisch + Pablo Money + Four Tet + special guest
>
>Friday July 13
>Klein Social, Vienna, Austria
>Tony Morley + Four Tet
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>Saturday July 14
>Belgrade, Yugoslavia
>Tony Morley + Four Tet
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>Sunday July 15
>Soundscapes, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
>Tony Morley + Four Tet
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>Friday July 20
>The Big Chill Enchanted Garden Festival, Wiltshire, UK
>Manitoba
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>Saturday July 21
>The Big Chill Enchanted Garden Festival, Wiltshire, UK
>Tony Morley
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>Sunday July 22
>Slack Sabbath, Hanbury Arms Ballroom, London
>Manitoba
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>Monday July 23
>Xfm X-posure, Barfly, The Monarch, London, NW1
>Manitoba + Herbert + Organic Audio
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>Wednesday July 25
>93 Feet East, Brick Lane, London
>Four Tet + Manitoba
>
>August 17-19
>The Big Chill, Lulworth Castle, Dorset
>Gorodisch
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>
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>
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