....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our fourth LP release...
LEILA ADU has been described as 'A Nina Simone for the Noughties', and her two acclaimed albums infuse a broadly 'art-rock' approach with elements of torch song, speakeasy blues, avant garde jazz, gamelan, post-rock textures, and a David Lynch style dreamlike b-movie melodrama. As her website has it, exploring the "dissonant edges of familiar forms", but with that kind of 'dissonance' that they once accused Thelonious Monk or Debussy of, the kind that soon betrays it's own compelling melodic and harmonic logic to the attentive listener...
'Dark Joan', Leila's third album as a solo artist, was recorded in Chicago with the legendary Steve Albini (PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsome, Nirvana, Pixies), and Albini's genius has been to strip her sound back to it's essence, and hold it's most distinctive qualities up to the light. It doesn't hurt that this is by far Leila's most powerful set of songs to date, and if anything we are lead even deeper into her world by the pictures painted with just piano (or in some cases harpsichord or a grime-encrusted electric piano) and that voice...
Capable of anything from delicate heartbreaking purity to a fearsome dramatic power, her powers are seemingly limitless, yet unlike most other singers of her calibre, never does she resort to melodrama or show-boating, or any kind of pastiche, instead she employs her resources fully in the expression of her distinctive musical vision and the deep well-spring of her imagination. Nothing ever sounds as though it could have not been sung...
Hey guys thanks for the show on friday was good fun, you guys were awsome. love to play with you again sometime, good luck for upcoming shows. Allurecity
Lemonade is good. we are new and are looking for shows so if you need a support act we will be down.... thanks for the add and first commenting our page.... it needed some action....
Recently came across your space - a very pleasant surprise! I now realise I have heard Lemonade before on the bnets, but had thought it was an international band - nice to hear you're local! Keep up the good work,
You were living on a farm facing the ocean and were just about to go on tour. Neil started up the Van to leave and said "I'll just let it go on its own and we'll meet it at the road". So he puts the van in drive and lets it drive off through the fields without a driver. It kind of drives aimlessly around the farm collecting all the wire fences before veering toward the road on the other side of which is the sea.
We all start racing toward it but we get there too late and it drives off the road into the deep still(ish) water.
Immi finds a secret doorway not far away which leads down to a secret underground/undersea photographers studio. We sneak in and find that the van is actually at the the bottom of a tank that the absent photographer uses to shoot models underwater. Somehow we manage to get the van out and drive it up the stairs from the studio.
Then Neil installs the radiatior that he has been carrying around and George and Queen go on tour.
