....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...
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our third LP release...
"Anutha Kinda Brotha" is the debut LP from underground legend ART TERRY. Since moving to the UK from his native Los Angeles in the early 90s, Mr Terry has established himself as one of London's characters.
Describing Art's sound to the uninitiated usually involves debunking some of the stereotypes of what the 'typical' black Californian might play. Despite his jazz training, and coming of age to the sounds of classic soul and funk, these styles are only a part of his musical vision. His fascination with folk styles, classical music, punk rock, pure pop, easy listening, musical theatre and the European avant garde have taken him on different paths from most...
The result is an orchestral pop record full of sonic inventiveness, whether it's the blend of Shuggie Otis's 60s California and Sun Ra's ancient Egypt on 'Bible', Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons leading a mariachi band on 'Escort', or the Walt Disney music box orchestra of 'Miss Dominatrix', but whilst this is very much a sonic feast, we shouldn't overlook Art's extraordinary lyrical adeptness, and the distinctive character this brings to the proceedings, with a knack for unique and colourful imagery, and how like a great short story writer he is able to paint an engaging picture whilst keeping back from casting judgement on his characters, always leaving open ends for the listener to tie; giving us the feeling that however far astray someone might have gone, there is always sympathy and human feeling for them in Art's mind...
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our second official LP release...
"Modern Mediaeval" is the third LP from singer-songwriter DAVID GARSIDE, and the first to receive the full Frizz Records vinyl treatment. It’s also clearly the most fully-realised statement of his distinctive vision so far…
It’s an easy route to locate David in the tradition of his ‘classic’ influences (McCartney, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys, Love, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Dexy’s…), but there are few songwriters working today that have absorbed these influences so fully, and arrived at a mature style as David has…
This is ’singer-songwriter’ music in the sense that it’s focus is on song-craft and the unfolding of the lyrical vision of a single individual, but if so then it’s definitely at the sophisticated end of the scale (’progressive’ if that term isn’t too loaded…), filed alongside ‘Bryter Layter’, ‘The Hissing Of Summer Lawns’, ‘Pretzel Logic’ or ‘Surf’s Up’...another FRIZZ RECORDS instant classic!
"Modern Mediaeval" can be downloaded from the iTunes Store
The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our first official LP release...
"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" is the debut release from AUGUST, the London based band centred around the songwriting partnership between vocalist VEDINA MOSE and multi-instrumentalist / producer RAPHAEL MANN (MR HUDSON / JOY JOSEPH / ART TERRY), with master drummer CLEAN CUT MARK and clarinetist / vocalist MAREE CHOIE completing the core line-up, and a supporting cast including ART TERRY (keyboards), SHOHEI KAWAMOTO (AKA Japanese producer Baraki, Bass clarinet, soprano sax and flute), and KAI HOFFMAN (French horn)
Always an act that juggled a diverse set of influences, the album has been compared to artists as diverse as KATE BUSH, PRINCE, DE LA SOUL, SLY STONE, MADLIB, SERGE GAINSBOURG and THE DELFONICS, for its concoction of wild experimentation and traditional song craft, organic production and futuristic electronic touches, funk bass & drums and jazz & orchestral references, infectious melodies and lyrical flights of fancy...with nods towards classic soul, JB funk, Studio One, 60s pop, psychedelia, left field hip hop, new wave, doo wop, tropicalia, high life, & avant garde jazz, without any song ever fitting squarely into any of those categories...new music, basically...and an instant classic!
"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" can be downloaded now from the iTunes Store
The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers
Please, please, please sign up as a fan on the website (it's free), then rate the song (heart logo) at the Amazing Tunes website as it will get us airplay on Amazing Radio (which replaced the Birdsong Channel on DAB radio!). You can download the single for just 79p but more importantly listen to and rate the song as it will bump us up for airplay!
NOW FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE AND ANYONE YOU KNOW!!!!
La Folie are back in town again and we playing at the O2 Academy on Friday 11th of Septmeber! It's £4 a ticket and you get in to Transmission afterwards for free! Entry to that is usually £5 so it makes blatent sense to come see us first and you save a quid as well! get in touch if you fancy coming down
A mini Sheffield festival 4th-6th September. Spread across two great venues; The Harley and The Wick at Both Ends. Click the poster for full line-ups.
Headliners include: The Crookes, Max Tundra, Paul White, JFB, Dark Sparks, Shmoo, Findo Gask, Ed Maker (Reverend & The Makers), Party Horse (Ex Tiny Dancers), Hallo...I Love You (Ex Elle S'Appelle), Squire Of Gothos, Pygmy Globetrotters & many many more..
Thanks for being a friend.
I really appreciate it and I hope you like what you heard.
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Check out BARON VISUALS [aka Chris Scorthorne] VISUAL MIX of LONDON BASED 'OUTPUT ' Track titled 'VIBRATIONS' (Peace Division Remix) on 'DOGMATIK Records'
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Dec 15 2009 11:16 PM
Dec 14 2009 4:47 PM
Dec 9 2009 10:50 AM
Dec. graphic specials ACT now.
Logo Design:
6 proofs, 2 revisions for: $250
Apparel:
5 designs, 1 proof each two revisions for: $500
Web:
8 page website, two graphics, paypal store for:$600
(must have godaddy as your hosting)
Music:
6 page Press kit for:$300
4 insert CD:$200
email me here or at durtegraphx@gmail.com with all inqueries.
Nov 30 2009 2:43 PM
PARTY HORSE
Bringing the pain to The Stockroom (Sheffield) this SATURDAY!
Come party.........
Nov 20 2009 11:53 PM
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...
Download from iTunes, LP/CD from http://www.frizzrecords.com
Oct 22 2009 8:29 PM
"Anutha Kinda Brotha" is the debut LP from underground legend ART TERRY. Since moving to the UK from his native Los Angeles in the early 90s, Mr Terry has established himself as one of London's characters. Describing Art's sound to the uninitiated usually involves debunking some of the stereotypes of what the 'typical' black Californian might play. Despite his jazz training, and coming of age to the sounds of classic soul and funk, these styles are only a part of his musical vision. His fascination with folk styles, classical music, punk rock, pure pop, easy listening, musical theatre and the European avant garde have taken him on different paths from most...
The result is an orchestral pop record full of sonic inventiveness, whether it's the blend of Shuggie Otis's 60s California and Sun Ra's ancient Egypt on 'Bible', Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons leading a mariachi band on 'Escort', or the Walt Disney music box orchestra of 'Miss Dominatrix', but whilst this is very much a sonic feast, we shouldn't overlook Art's extraordinary lyrical adeptness, and the distinctive character this brings to the proceedings, with a knack for unique and colourful imagery, and how like a great short story writer he is able to paint an engaging picture whilst keeping back from casting judgement on his characters, always leaving open ends for the listener to tie; giving us the feeling that however far astray someone might have gone, there is always sympathy and human feeling for them in Art's mind...
Download from iTunes, LP/CD from http://www.frizzrecords.com
Oct 21 2009 9:08 PM
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Oct 6 2009 7:18 PM
Oct 1 2009 9:24 PM
"Modern Mediaeval" is the third LP from singer-songwriter DAVID GARSIDE, and the first to receive the full Frizz Records vinyl treatment. It’s also clearly the most fully-realised statement of his distinctive vision so far…
It’s an easy route to locate David in the tradition of his ‘classic’ influences (McCartney, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys, Love, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Dexy’s…), but there are few songwriters working today that have absorbed these influences so fully, and arrived at a mature style as David has…
This is ’singer-songwriter’ music in the sense that it’s focus is on song-craft and the unfolding of the lyrical vision of a single individual, but if so then it’s definitely at the sophisticated end of the scale (’progressive’ if that term isn’t too loaded…), filed alongside ‘Bryter Layter’, ‘The Hissing Of Summer Lawns’, ‘Pretzel Logic’ or ‘Surf’s Up’...another FRIZZ RECORDS instant classic!
"Modern Mediaeval" can be downloaded from the iTunes Store
The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers
Sep 23 2009 5:53 PM
We're on the road this weekend come check out one of the shows....
LONDON - Fri 25th Sep - 12 Bar Club
SHEFFIELD - Sat 26th Sep - Redhouse
Sep 22 2009 11:24 AM
"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" is the debut release from AUGUST, the London based band centred around the songwriting partnership between vocalist VEDINA MOSE and multi-instrumentalist / producer RAPHAEL MANN (MR HUDSON / JOY JOSEPH / ART TERRY), with master drummer CLEAN CUT MARK and clarinetist / vocalist MAREE CHOIE completing the core line-up, and a supporting cast including ART TERRY (keyboards), SHOHEI KAWAMOTO (AKA Japanese producer Baraki, Bass clarinet, soprano sax and flute), and KAI HOFFMAN (French horn)
Always an act that juggled a diverse set of influences, the album has been compared to artists as diverse as KATE BUSH, PRINCE, DE LA SOUL, SLY STONE, MADLIB, SERGE GAINSBOURG and THE DELFONICS, for its concoction of wild experimentation and traditional song craft, organic production and futuristic electronic touches, funk bass & drums and jazz & orchestral references, infectious melodies and lyrical flights of fancy...with nods towards classic soul, JB funk, Studio One, 60s pop, psychedelia, left field hip hop, new wave, doo wop, tropicalia, high life, & avant garde jazz, without any song ever fitting squarely into any of those categories...new music, basically...and an instant classic!
"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" can be downloaded now from the iTunes Store
The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers
Sep 19 2009 5:19 PM
We want you to hear, rate and invest 79p on our first official single release, Ease the Pain by clicking on the link
http://www.amazingtunes.com/users/peachy/tunes/24458?rec=1e2f222a-a077-11de-aa6e-00144f458b1a&ref=peachy
Please, please, please sign up as a fan on the website (it's free), then rate the song (heart logo) at the Amazing Tunes website as it will get us airplay on Amazing Radio (which replaced the Birdsong Channel on DAB radio!). You can download the single for just 79p but more importantly listen to and rate the song as it will bump us up for airplay!
NOW FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE AND ANYONE YOU KNOW!!!!
Sep 12 2009 10:21 AM
The songs are:
These Black & White Flames
On A Wave
Everything's You
If you get chance please have a listen and any comments left will be welcome.
tbawf
Sep 10 2009 1:36 AM
Special Olympics.
8pm-1am
10/09/09
Free Entry
The Harley.
Ferg, Leki, Steve,
Black Betty by Ram Jam.
Sep 9 2009 7:29 PM
Sep 9 2009 1:12 PM
Poster is done by Mr Nick again, enjoy...
Love Mannie La Folie
Sep 2 2009 3:08 PM
made by those big bad men at www.blametelevision.com est.2003
see the jeebies play live on the 4th september 'the harley hotel.SHEFFIELD uk......9pmish...
Sep 1 2009 12:27 PM
Headliners include: The Crookes, Max Tundra, Paul White, JFB, Dark Sparks, Shmoo, Findo Gask, Ed Maker (Reverend & The Makers), Party Horse (Ex Tiny Dancers), Hallo...I Love You (Ex Elle S'Appelle), Squire Of Gothos, Pygmy Globetrotters & many many more..
Aug 30 2009 5:41 PM
Aug 27 2009 9:06 PM
How are you? Did you get any results recently? Well if you did congrats from us!! :0)
What are you up to Saturday Night? Cause we are hitting the Steel City once again, showcasing brand new material, mixed with new old favorites!!
Come down to:
THE POMONA, Ecclesall Road - 29th August 2009
Bring all your friends, mates, buddies!!!
A great night for all, especially if you are celebrating, come down and celebrate with us!!!
You in? let us know, and DONT MISS OUT!!
See you there
Rich, Craig, Mark
TheDismissiveATTACK!!
Aug 25 2009 7:35 PM
Aug 6 2009 5:14 PM
Here Is Our New Music Video
Hope You Enjoy It
Jul 24 2009 6:52 PM
I really appreciate it and I hope you like what you heard.
If you're interested in staying in touch I'm offering a free mp3 download to everyone who signs up to my mailing list Join my Mailing List by clicking here or by visiting mrballad.com
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Jul 20 2009 9:27 PM
Jul 18 2009 12:12 AM
cheers