Danny Green, Cathy Cardin, Benjamin Gregory, Jo Burke, Mike
Influences
Song, Friends, Love, Other. Plus Will Oldham, Bill Callahan, David Pajo, Jim O'Rourke, Robert Wyatt, Tortoise, Grizzly Bear, The Ockelford Brothers, Directing Hand, Fugazi, Boredoms, Sonic Youth, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Scatter, Philip Glass, Jazzfinger, Pavement, Godspeed!, Preslav Literary School, Richard Dawson, Silver Jews, Tom Waits, Fog, Why?, Animal Collective, Akron/Family, Jeffrey Lewis, Cat Power, Deerhoof, Dylan, Radiohead, OCDC, Elliott Smith, Howe Gelb, James Yorkston, Johnny Cash, Joanna Newsom, Matmos, Neil Young, Of Montreal.
Sounds Like
BOOKING ENQUIRIES:
UK please email Danny at Willkommen Records:
danny@willkommenrecords.co.uk
EUROPEAN BOOKING
Dennis at Burning Eagle
dennis@burningeaglebooking.de
BENELUX BOOKING:
Geert at
Ham Radio Communications
hamradiocommunications@gmail.com
+31 6 430 87 873
To order, click on the Buy it Now buttons below. Allow up to 14 days delivery but expect less.
****NEW*****LAISH QUARTET. An unofficial four song release in the Willkommen cardboard sleeve, hand stamped and hand drawn cd. Limited to 50. £5 including postage and packaging. Features the songs:
Song on a Transition
To Do
Pity No More
The Love Written Down
NEW! Rereleased Willkommen Records 15 Track Sampler featuring a lot of exclusive songs. See www.willkommenrecords.co.uk
Moonshine Moonshine - Violet
Laish Quartet - In the Morning
Sons of Noel and Adrian - 30 Boys With Bats
The Leisure Society
Shoreline - Jubeltane
Kristin McClement - Planks
Hamilton Yarns - Search for the Underwater Town
The Miserable Rich - Knife Thrower's Hand
Redwood Red - In a Green World
Christian Silva - 88 Key Alphabet
Atlas Crease - Four Corners
Kopek - The Way You Are
Rowan Coupland - Memories of the Summer of 2003
Climbers - Bookshop Folk
Plus extra
"Toy Soldier Records 1:18" TSR:004 (2008) 18 track cd, bargain price of £6.99, featuring Laish Quartet's new version of The Love Written Down, plus new songs by Sons of Noel and Adrian, Everyone to the Anderson, Revenge of Shinobi, Jonquil, -a+m, Epideme, Lebanons, plus more!
Laish Quartet is the given name for Daniel Green and company’s musical outlet. There's an inventive fingerpicking style, distinctive and honest vocal deliveries from the four singers; violin, melodica, bass and drums. A prolific songwriter, Green's lyrics contain open letters to friends; wry meditations on love, uplifting odes to death, deadpan humour and a weary sense of hope. Live, they are a confident and joyous experience, as they recently proved at a headlining show at the Pavilion Theatre for the Brighton Festival . Laish Quartet are an integral part of the Willkommen Collective, Brighton and London's independent folk family and label home to The Leisure Society, Shoreline, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Kopek, Redwood Red, Kristin McClement and the rest. A full length album will be released by Willkommen Records in late 2009.
Best Live Band Seen This Week....electro-folk innovators....Daniel Green's sublime vocals...honest soulful and gimmick free (NME)
Recalls the work of Vincent Gallo and The Microphones in startling fashion...proves Daniel Green is a fascinating prospect well worth keeping an eye on (LeedsMusicScene.net)
Pure people music for the soul...folk of the kind that raises heart rates and quickens pulses. (Source Magazine)
Photo above by Greg Neate, taken at the Willkommen Records show with Cath and Phil Tyler March '09.
SHOWS
The full Laish Quartet experience involves Cathy Cardin on vocals and percussion, Ben Gregory on bass and vocals and Jo Burke on fiddle and vocals and Mike on drums.
We have so far shared stages with Mumford and Sons, Sixtoes, Castanets, Jonquil, David Thomas Broughton, The Leisure Society, The Mariner's Children, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Held by Hands, Revere, Mary Hampton, Revenge of Shinobi, Richard Dawson, Rowan Coupland and worked with these promoters and festivals: Brighton Festival, Union Chapel, Big Chill Festival, Firegathering Festival, Small World Festival, Willkommen, Toy Soldier, Lack of Communications, NFR, Littlest Birds, Broken Toy Music, Bleeding Hearts Club, O.I.B. Records, Little Nomadic, Thumbdog Promotions, Victory Inn and Brighton Stripped.
RECORDINGS
There are various recordings floating around by Laish Quartet. At present we are working hard on a proper debut album to be released on Willkommen Records this year. In the meantime there is an unofficial 4 song release limited to 50 copies. Look to your left.
THE PAST
During his teens Green embraced the DIY approach to music and recorded hours worth of noise experiments and lo-fi instrumental music. His previous bands are the Leeds-based, Cabinet and Newcastle-based Nachmi . He also continues to record with the improvisatory group, Over Kodiak .
Here endeth the blurb. We hope you enjoy the songs and suggest you go for a brisk walk outside, do a bit of stretching.
The first Willkommen Records event at Coachwerks in Brighton. Located just off Lewes Road, on Hollingdean Terrace, this is a beautifully converted industrial space and now an inspiring and spacious venue (plus they have a very cheap bar!)
Noiserv is the name given for Portugeuse musical mastermind, David Santos. Compared to Juana Molina, David Thomas Broughton and Jose Gonzalez, he creates a hypnotising and emotionally engaging atmosphere, looping the sounds of the room, xylophone, guitar, melodica, harmonica and keyboards.
Woodpecker Wooliams is a charming one woman experimentalist. With an extraordinary bag of tricks, employing vocals, kora, celtic harp, clarinet, harmonium, glockenspiels and whistles, she conjures bewitching freeform lo-fi chants and sings folk songs of mystery and secrecy.
Redwood Red is Cathy Cardin. She is the feminine touch to Willkommen favourites Sons of Noel and Adrian and Laish Quartet. With her grounded and pure vocal delivery, she interweaves a unique fingerpicking guitar style with double bass and flute. This is a rare live outing for Redwood Red and one not to be missed.
Tickets available from Resident (01273 606312) or online here:
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TWILIGHT FOLK CLUB PRESENTS as part of THE CANTERBURY FESTIVAL- the IVOR NOVELLO AWARD NOMINEES......... THE LEISURE SOCIETY LIVE AT ORANGE STREET MUSIC CLUB, SUNDAY OCTOBER 25TH STARTS 1.00 PM TICKETS £12/£10 in advance.
Nick Hemmings band THE LEISURE SOCIETY, famously nominated for an Ivor Novello award this year for their song "THE LAST OF THE MELTING SNOW",will be playing live in Canterbury as part of the CANTERBURY FESTIVAL. The band are also on the same label as, and share members with THE SONS OF NOEL AND ADRIAN who were so well recieved at the club earlier this year-this will be a rare oppurtunity to catch this rapidly upcoming band in a small venue.....
In the words of the critics....
"Beautifully pastoral debut." MOJO **** "Wonderful" Observer Music Monthly **** "An autumnal mist of British Bank Holiday ennui surrounds Nick Hemming's literate meditations." The Times **** "Music to cuddle up to, music to clutch yourself to, music that is, as Jimmy Webb might say, necessary. This is a band that could well be the sound of 2009." Maverick Magazine **** "A lovingly crafted, tender folk record that will secure them as a named brand on the shelves of pop. The love affair begins." Ragged Words "Magical... shimmers with loveliness" Word Magazine "This is a record of extraord
Hey! Thanks again for being our friend. Make sure you have a little listen to our album Songs For Abandoned Buildings. If you like it, please follow the link on the player to buy it from itunes so we can play a town near you! Don't forget to give us a review on itunes when you buy it :)
So THIS SATURDAY (Sept 12th) OIB Records will host a VERY special show at Audio in Brighton with three of our favourite alt-folk acts VETIVER (Bella Union) + TINY VIPES (Sub Pop) + ROWAN COUPLAND (Willkommen Records). There's been a lot of interest in this show but there's still some tickets available from the links below, we've also put a select number aside for sale on the night.
Whalebone Polly is a duo made up of Kate Staples of This is the Kit and Rachael Dadd of The Hand and their music has much in common with those groups - rippling banjos, warm harmonies and odd percussive interludes.
Rozi Plain has played with Francois and the Atlas Mountains and has had records released by the Fence Collective. Her songs are sumptuous and charming.
Rowan Coupland amassed a mini-choir for his last Willkommen show at the Sanctuary - who knows what he’s got in store for us next?
Tickets from Resident (01273 606312) or online here:
Hello,
Just a wee note to tell you about our music event at the Bookshop this weekend.
Playing are:
*Haunted Stereo www.myspace.com/hauntedstereomusic
alt-folk/ indie/ experimental six-piece line-up from Southampton.
*Jo Burke www.myspace.com/joburkemusic
English folk singing in a la Sandy Denny and Anne Briggs.
*Marcus Hessenberg, www.myspace.com/tulips
Brighton’s hidden avant pop gem
Saturday August 8th from 7:00 till 10:00 It’s FREE hope to see you there!
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