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"intelligent, inspired and frankly impossible to categorize" www.losingtoday.com, Indie music magazine.
Tabloid are a glam-rock-cabaret group based in London, formed by singer/songwriter Izzy Gaon in 2006, to go on a musical adventure that is dramatic, surprising and dark, following the likes of: Queen, Bowie, Kate Bush, Lou Reed, Danny Elfman, Nina Simone, Chet Baker, Dresden Dolls, and many others.
Band line-up features Izzy Gaon on vocals and guitars, Chen Wissotzky on bass guitar, Sonia Gurdjieff on Piano, Zillo Benetti on drums and percussion.
Tabloid have performed around London on nights like Hunga Munga, Feeling Gloomy, New Folder, Big City Red Neck among other, and at venues like The Dublin Castle, Spitz, Buffalo Bar, Monkey Chews, Cross Kings, The Enterprize, Café 1001, etc.
These days, Tabloid are performing their acoustic & electric sets around London, promoting their freshly released debut album, now available on http://cdbaby.com/cd/tabloid
A Word From The Editor:
Dear people, believers, promoters, industry guys, lovely ladies: please feel free to tell us how you're doing.
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"...’the junkie violin player’ is well - not to put to finer point on things - the bollocks. So infectiously catchy we wonder how this honey has escaped the confines of the Tabloid tool shed without the world health organisation being alerted, think Lou Reed tangling with Moriconne styled ’Spaghetti western’ scores set amid a bracing and beguiling arid atmospheric grandeur replete with the merest cortege of swirling strings all pitted against a kind of breathlessly crusading against all odds force of will tension that tears and saps your emotions to a husk to culminate at 2.45 (when the chorusing whistles hit home) into an overwhelming rush of chest beating pride that rips you up from the inside. Quite perfect but then I guess you gathered that. The oddly disturbing and noire-ish Brecht-ian styled ’Man on the Floor’ with its crooked shanty like Weimar-ian accents and regimental clockwork toy calibrations is acutely surreal in a way that establishes a distant blood line to Bowie’s appraisal of ’Alabama Song’ while the cracked dynamics and routinely obscure time signatures of ’take a seat’ still exude that eerily willowy off kilter effect that alludes to Kate Bush’s ’Army dreamers’ as though curiously spiked by an early career Space. The hauntingly majestic ’frozen lake’ as the title might suggest is charismatically wrapped in a fairytale like enchantment that ushers in a softly caressing spectral glow which to these very much recalls the more quietly introspective and tender moments of Radiohead’s back catalogue leaving the frankly remarkable ’remember’ to round up the pack and which still sounds to us like a sepia laced homely brew of nostalgic fuzzy felt lined Capra -esque unworldliness replete with crackling open fires and valve burning transistors with the creaking and groaning floorshow of Black Heart Procession rewiring Disney’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’. In all honesty as good as anything we’ve heard from the Earlies and Shady Bard. A magical experience awaits. Single of the missive. www.myspace.com/tabloiduk
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"Ticklin' The Strings" by Sweet Hollywaiians Amazing Japanese hot string band playing 1920's, 30's, 40's style hawaiian, swing, calypso, blues, italian music and originals,featuring vintage instruments.3 songs with Robert Armstrong and Tony Marcus(from Robert Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders)
"The Sweet Hollywaiians have probably the best feel for this 20's music of any string band working today. They manage the rare feat of sounding relaxed even when their playing is hot, are top notch musicians with tasteful arrangements and a full, rich, warm sound.Plus, they have a nice gamut of tunes, from King Nawahi to Giovanni Vicari to Bobby Leecan. See them live, if you can, for an unforgettable experience. If you can't, buy their Cds!" ~ Terry Zwigoff
Hey cheers for the friendship, check my page if you're interested in recording, mixing or mastering - top mics, great rooms, low rates. Keep up the good work :)
I recieved an e-mail from you with links to your myspace page-had a listen & liked what i heard! Would love to arrange a gig with you some time. I will keep checking your page & shall look forward to your EP, Melody
Hey Izzy, brilliant music, performance and production. well done! I wish you success with the album the quality is superb. we are doing an album pre launch showcase at The Fly on new oxford street on the 11th of may at 19:45. it would be nice to see you there. take care Omri
Hey Izzy, ANY TIME! I'm just getting my studio back into operation...I'll send you some rough tracks at some point, would be awesome!...and if you need any squeeky sax for your recordings, I'm always on hand!
