Leaf Newsletter #55
27 May 2002
This newsletter contains details of the following:
1. BOOM BIP & DOSEONE - 'Circle' album
2. MURCOF tour dates
3. Other Leaf events
4. Charts
1. BOOM BIP & DOSEONE - Circle
CD / BAY 24CD / UPC 0666017032528
limited edition 2xLP / BAY 24V / UPC 0666017032511
release date: Monday 27 May 2002
mail order prices: CD/2xLP: 10.00 GBP (+p&p)
Artist website:
http://www.dirtyloop.com
for mail order, real audio samples and further info, go to:
http://posteverything.com/artists/release.php?id=1868
A Birdcatcher in a no-piece suit and a Town Crier in the round,
Circle is the massively acclaimed debut album from lyricist Doseone
(also a member of cLOUDDEAD) and producer Boom Bip. With a body of
releases on Mush Records and links to the Anticon collective, Doseone
and Boom Bip's first album together dismantles hip hop and
reimagines it as a borderless zone where anything is possible.
Boom Bip: "I wanted to do a project with no boundaries, my fellow
musicians and my sampler. So Dose and I discussed doing a record
together with live instrumentation and vocals that no one has ever
attempted before. Dose and I locked ourselves in a studio and made
what we like to call our 'audio film' Circle. The rest is yet to
come..."
Circle is a psycho-delic tapestry weaving an astonishing pantheon of
words and live instrumentation into a mangled hybrid of the history
of pop. Doseone speaks a language of sickness: tongue twisting spools
of dizzying prose at light speed, mind melting acid-phrases delivered
in slow speak... even bird calls.
Playful, contradictory, intuitive and fucked-up, the album sucks you
into an insidious dream sequence vortex, where the paranoid and the
paranormal collide with the ghosts of Captain Beefheart, The Last
Poets and The Residents. Circle is a cohesive trip of word and sound
that ends where it begins, in between taking on epic proportions and
exhuming the spirit of your long lost inner child.
In addition to Circle, Boom Bip will release his debut solo album on
Lex Records later this summer. Doseone's plans include a new
Themselves record (Doseone and Jel) on Anticon this autumn, and a new
cLOUDDEAD album (Doseone, why? and odd nosdam) on Mush/Big Dada.
A Mush Euopean tour is planned for the summer, watch this space for
more details...
Circle was originally released on California's exceptional Mush
Records, home also to cLOUDDEAD, before being licensed to Big Dada.
This is the first time Circle has been released outside of North
America.
reviews of Circle:
"Playful, contradictory, intuitive and f**ked up" Seven *****
"One part hip hop, one part audio theatre and one part crafted genius" DJ ****
"Excellent" Muzik ****
"Part regression therapy session, part open mic night at the original
Cabaret Voltaire, part madman mumbling on a street corner, this might
be the best, and certainly the most challenging, document to have
emerged from HipHop's savant garde" The Wire
"A certifiable Freudian freak-out" Jockey Slut
"Anticon's masterful poet/lyricist Doseone impresses with yet another
fantastic release. Each track works on its own, and as a component of
a whole becomes far greater"
Urb
"Completely unhinged"
New York Times
"Bizarre avant hiphop similar to Anti-Pop, Latryx or Kool Keith, but
definitely on its own wavelength"
XLR8R
"One of the most bizarre, avant-urban releases since Dr Octagon"
CMJ
"A masterpiece. The first few listens may leave you dizzy, cos
neither Boom Bip nor Doseone are afraid to go in over their heads or
yours to make a point. Repeated listens reveal chaos theory and
fractile interpolations deep into the head of a true poet, one who
knows exactly where he is. The kind of novel to read over and over"
Your Flesh
"One of the greatest contemporary hiphop albums, and it shall forever
remain a classic. Circle could be the most important musical purchase
you make this year, no matter what type of music you listen to"
Exclaim!
CD LP
1 A Open
2 A The Bird Catcher
3 A Square
4 A Dead Man's Teal
5 A Re: The Rarity Of Meaningful Experience
6 A Directions To California
7 A The Lantern
8 A "Art Saved My Life" - 71
9 B Questions Over Coffee
10 B Wishful Thinking
11 B Ironish
12 B 21 To 35
13 B Slight
14 B "Open Quotes
15 B Town Crier's Walk
16 C Fence Hopping
17 C Poetic License
18 C Viewfinder
19 C The Birdcatcher's Return
20 C Sleep Talkin
21 C Gin
22 D Goddamn Telephone
23 D I Get It
24 D Me And People
25 D Ho's
26 D Ho's
27 D This Album Was Meant To Be Myself But Somewhere Along The
Line It Ended Up Feeling More Like You... Yet...
28 D The Birdcatcher's Oath
29 D Close
2. MURCOF live dates
Murcof (aka Fernando Corona) will make his live debut in Europe in
June/July, including shows in Spain (SONAR), Italy, France and the
UK. He will also be appearing at Canada's Mutek festival in June.
Manitoba and Tony Morley also appear at some of these shows.
Here are the dates confirmed so far:
Sunday June 2
Mutek Festival, Montreal, CANADA
Murcof (live) + Atom Heart + Dandy Jack + Juan Self
Friday June 14 18.25 > 22.00
Sonarvillage, Sonar Festival, CCCB, Barcelona, SPAIN
Manitoba (live) + Murcof (live) + Tony Morley (DJ)
Sunday June 16
Heineken Jammin' Festival, Autodromo di Imola, Bologna, ITALY
Murcof (live) + Jazzanova, etc, etc
Saturday June 22
Leaf Label Night, Kuumba, Bristol, UK
Manitoba (live) + Murcof (live) + Tony Morley (DJ) + Mat Yee King (DJ)
+ Max Tundra (DJ)
Sunday June 23
Optimo, The Sub Club, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Murcof (live) + DJs Twitch, Wilkes and Roland
Thursday June 27
The Sprawl, The Lifthouse, 85 Charterhouse Street, London EC1M, UK
Murcof (live) + Matt Rogalsky + EVOL + DJs Richard Fontenoy + BitTonic
+ si-cut.db
Saturday June 29
Rising Sun Arts Centre, Silver Street, Reading, UK
Appliance + Murcof (live)
Sunday June 30
Aquaplaning Festival, South Of France
Murcof (live) + more tbc
Wednesday July 3
Eat Your Own Ears, The Lock Tavern, 35 Chalk Farm Road, London NW1,
UK
Murcof (live), Tony Morley (DJ set), Eat Your Own Ears DJs
Thursday July 4
Flomotion, Cargo, Rivington Street, London EC2A, UK
Murcof (live) + Manitoba (live) + Tony Morley (DJ) + Nick Luscombe
(DJ)
3. Other Leaf live events
Friday May 31
The Social, London, UK
Manitoba (DJ) + Four Tet (DJ)
Friday June 7
Duplex, Geneva, Switzerland
Manitoba (live)
Saturday June 8
Come Shake The Whole presents: Montreal Electronic Groove Festival,
Cargo, Rivington Street, London EC2A, UK
Manitoba (live) + Freeworm (live) + Stereomovers + London Elektricity
(DJ set) + Ewan Pearson + Damon Havlin & Stan Fontan
Friday June 21
Impotent Fury, 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, London E1, UK
Manitoba (DJ set) + Four Tet (DJ set)
Friday June 28
Domino Records Night, Embassy Bar, Upper Street, London N1, UK
Gorodisch (DJ set) + more tbc
Thursday July 6
Ultraschall, Munich, GERMANY
Manitoba (DJ) + Tony Morley (DJ)
keep up-to-date at:
http://posteverything.com/news/article.php?id=1428
4. Charts
One from the man Dan Snaith (Manitoba)
1. El-P . Fantastic Damage
2. Surgery . More Weed
3. Junior Boys . Birthday EP
4. Mercury Rev . Yerself Is Steam/Boces
5. Tweet . Oops (Oh My)
6. Pride . Pride
7. The Flaming Lips . Yoshimi...
8. Icarus . Soviet Igloo EP
9. El-P and Slug 12"
10. Krinjah . Bam Bam
Thanks for listening. Get in touch!
The Leaf Label Ltd
Suite 219, Bon Marche Building, 241 Ferndale Road, LONDON, SW9 8BJ, UK
leaf@posteverything.com
http://posteverything.com/leaf
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