Leaf Newsletter #51
26 November 2001
This newsletter contains details of the following:
1. New release: MANITOBA - Give'r EP
2. Leaf party at Cargo, London, Dec 10
3. forthcoming Leaf events
4. Leaf radio broadcasts
New Release:
1. MANITOBA - Give'r
format: 12" (DOCK 29) & CDS (DOCK 29CD)
release date: Monday 26th November 2001
mail order price: 12"/CDS: 4.00 GBP (+p&p)
barcodes: 12": UPC 0666017028026 / CDS: UPC 0666017028064
website:
http://posteverything.com/manitoba
for mail order, real audio samples and further info, go to:
http://posteverything.com/artists/release.php?id=1479
This time last year, no-one knew who the hell Dan Snaith was. But his
debut album as Manitoba, Start Breaking My Heart, changed all that
with a motherlode of critical bon mots and performances at The Big
Chill, an Xposure Live gig for John Kennedy's Xfm show and DJ luv
from the mighty LTJ Bukem, Ross Allen, Andy Weatherall, Gilles
Peterson, DJ Food to Pete Lawrence, plus the maximum capacity, double
headline gig with Four Tet at London's 93 Feet East in August. Along
with Susumu Yokota, Manitoba is The Leaf Label's biggest success
story.
This September, Dan relocates from Toronto to London, and it wouldn't
be right unless nuff respect was be paid to Dan's hometown. On the
Give'r EP (note the spelling!), he brings you the glorious 'Dundas,
Ontario', with a brand new Manitoba remix that kicks that
'folktronica' tag into oblivion. This new mix gives a good impression
of the sort of thing you can expect when Dan DJs - he rocks a party
like no-one else...
Then there's two brand new tracks: 'Tits and Ass: The Great Canadian
Weekend' - a throbbing, clattering beast that falls away to unveil
some of Dan's most beautiful keyboard melodies yet. 'Webers' chimes
and bells like the gentlest Japanese bonsai garden. It's also "a
burger joint makes the best burgers in the whole goddam world,"
apparently.
A label-bankrupting video in the style of a hip hop ho-down,
featuring the Dundas massive, is on your box now, and is also
included on the CD single. A Manitoba microsite should be ready soon
too.
So, what is this Dundas place like, anyway?
"Dundas is a little hippy place, outside a steeltown called Hamilton,
where everyone is listening to the Grateful Dead, as well as to
Motley Crüe," Dan says. And Hamilton? "Mullets and glue sniffing and
shitty/amazing graffiti and tons of abandoned buildings and just
fucking crazy people in medieval metal outfits."
Crikey. "Dundas is cool because all the most musically tuned in
people I've ever met come from there. I have no explanation as to why
this is," Dan shrugs, "except it's all Koushik's fault."
Mysterious psychedelic/folk/hip hop producer Koushik is the first
signing to Kieran Hebden's new label, Text Records. "Koushik managed
to engineer this group of friends who got into heavy shit like 808
kick drums and snares from Schoolly D's 'Gucci Time', while still
understanding that Zeppelin kicks the shit out of Matmos and that
Spacemen 3 kick the shit out of Oval." Well said.
CD: 12": GIVE'R
1. A. (45rpm) Dundas, Ontario (remix)
2. B1. (33rpm) Tits And Ass: The Great Canadian Weekend
3. B2. (33rpm) Webers
4. - Dundas, Ontario (album version)
5. - Dundas, Ontario (remix) VIDEO
2. Leaf party at Cargo
STOP PRESS:
Kieran "Four Tet" Hebden now added as special guest DJ!
The Leaf Label (in association with Eat Your Own Ears and The Concert
Clinic) present their biggest ever live event at London's Cargo on
December 10.
With the emergence this year of hot electronic wizardry from Manitoba
and Gorodisch's joyful psych/folk/jazz, the label's mainstay Susumu
Yokota hasn't yet given cause to alert the quality control police
with three superb albums this year (LeafCompilation mix CD, Grinning
Cat and Will), while Eardrum's fierce voodoo percussion and the
endlessly revealing layers of ghostly evocation in 310 make up the
vast reaches of Leaf's roster.
This pre-Christmas party season teaser features live action from all
the label's London-based artists. The 7-piece Eardrum band play their
first ever proper London show, along with Manitoba (he moved over
from Toronto, okay?) and Gorodisch (with Sam and Adem from Fridge,
plus Duncan Mackay from Primal Scream). There will also be a rare DJ
set from the very first Leaf signing, Graham Sutton (Boymerang/Bark
Psychosis), as well as inimitable party tunes from label boss, Tony
Morley and, straight from thirteen months of playing drums on tour
with PJ Harvey, Mr Rob Ellis. Visuals come courtesy of Leaf
designers, Non-Format (they make The Wire and Lo Recordings look
sharp, too).
We will be giving away a special CD to all partygoers, featuring 8
new and exclusive track by Leaf artists, including A Small Good
Thing, Manitoba, Susumu Yokota, Rob Ellis, 310, Gorodisch, plus new
signings Boom Bip and Doseone and Murcof.
Where else you gonna be on a Monday night?
Eat Your Own Ears in association with The Leaf Label and Concert
Clinic present:
Live
Eardrum
Manitoba
Gorodisch
DJs
Graham Sutton (Bark Psychosis/Boymerang)
Rob Ellis
Tony Morley
+ special guest Kieran Hebden (Four Tet)
visuals
EkhornForss
free CD for every ticket holder
Monday December 10
8pm-1am
Cargo
Rivington Street
London EC1
tickets
£7 in advance from
http://posteverything.com/leafatcargo
also Rough Trade Shops, Smallfish (Old Street), Sister Ray (Soho)
£9 on the door
info:
http://posteverything.com/leafatcargo
tel: 020 7733 1818
http://www.cargo-london.com
tel: 020 7613 7730
3. other forthcoming Leaf live events
Saturday December 8
Vector, Moderna, Leeds, UK
Manitoba + Tony Morley
Friday December 14
Kaaiman, Napelsstraat 57, Antwerp, Belgium
Tony Morley
keep up-to-date at:
http://posteverything.com/news/article.php?id=1428
4. Leaf radio shows
Time for another of The Leaf Label's monthly radio shows. Broadcast
by Campus Radio Network in France and other discerning stations
around the world, this month's show features half-hour mixes by
MANITOBA and TONY MORLEY, and will be followed by shows including
mixes by SUSUMU YOKOTA, GORODISCH and more.
If you have a radio show that would like to broadcast our mixes,
please get in touch and we'll send you a CDR!
here are the tracklistings for this month's show:
Tony Morley Radio Mix 3
A Small Good Thing - A Mighty Stillness (The Leaf Label)
Silent Poets - Someday (Toy's Factory/Yellow)
Calexico - Triple Truckstop (City Slang)
Sole - Bottle Of Humans (Anticon)
Carmen Tejada - Gira Gira (Plug Research)
A Small Good Thing - Border Incidental (The Leaf Label)
Sylvester - I Need Somebody To Love Tonight (Fantasy)
Susumu Yokota Radio Mix 2
Stevia - Cherry Girl (NS Com)
Stevia - La La La Psyche (NS Com)
Susumu Yokota - Kemuri (Sublime)
Stevia - Astral Spirits (NS Com)
Anima Mundi - Anima Beat (NS Com)
EBI - Ten (Space Teddy)
Susumu Yokota - untitled (Unreleased)
all tracks by Susumu Yokota
Additionally, the following radio shows will be airing interviews
with Tony Morley over the next few weeks - all shows will feature
brand new Leaf recordings to be released in 2002.
Wednesday December 5
gues on Miles Ahead/Groovetech live internet radio show, 7pm-9pm
http://www.groovetech.com
Sunday December 9
guest on Nick Luscombe's Flow Motion XFM radio show, London, UK. 9pm-midnight
http://www.xfm.co.uk
Thanks for listening. Get in touch!
The Leaf Label
Suite 219, Bon Marche Building, 241 Ferndale Road, LONDON, SW9 8BJ, UK
leaf@posteverything.com (please update your address books!)
http://posteverything.com/leaf
Leaf is a PostEverything label
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