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Contact Jon Brilliant jon@brilliantmusic.biz
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American roots music, English & Irish Folk & Balladry, Bob Dylan & countless other songwriters, floor-singers and players from the 60s on, Woody Guthrie, Martin Carthy, English Acoustic Collective, Rory MacLeod, David Sylvian, Blind Willie Johnson, Sonny Terry, Jerry Douglas, Debashish Battacharya, CSN & Neil Young, Van Morrison, 'the Boss', Bob Marley, Steve Reich, Island Records, Late Junction, Transatlantic Sessions.........
'Bele Aelis' at Broadstairs Folk Week 2009
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... folk/acoustic roots music, Americana, an old fashioned singalong with goodtime -feelgood dancing, a story in song, songs to light your candle by, torchsongs, a song to keep us warm, love songs, ballads, airs, acoustic guitar wizardry, 'acoustic trance', English Soul Music (ESM), nouveau contemporary and global sounds…
“Well I don’t mind putting my neck on the line and saying that these two are surely going to hit the big time before too long. Tobias ben Jacob and Phillip Henry, two great guitarists and what a voice Tobias has too... Phillip spent last month in India studying slide guitar with Debashish Bhattacharya, so surely things can only go from strength to strength...”
THE ROOTS UNION are a dazzling five piece who fuse acoustic guitar, dobro, violin, beatbox harmonica, bass, percussion and harmonies. Their live show offers a rich tapestry of compelling songwriting and often spellbinding musicianship...
2009 saw them touring the UK and gracing the stages of many festivals including Glastonbury, Electric Picnic, Green Man, Secret Garden Party, Sidmouth, Broadstairs and Cambridge Folk Festivals. As well as lots of local and national radio airplay and a live set at Maida Vale Studios for BBC Radio 3's Late Junction.
The band are currently 'in the lab with the pen and pad' working on their debut album at Propagation House in Cornwall. Scheduled for release in Spring 2010. There is a live EP in the pipeline this winter currently being mastered in Nashville and tours planned for late January and the Spring...
....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...
How's it going? There is a free track available for you at the moment on our myspace page. Just click the FREE DOWNLOAD box at the top of the page and enter a valid email to download the tune. How cool is that!
Have a great week and thank you very much for being electronically connected to us as friends and fans.
Keep on rolling with that lovely sound of yours - tis an honour indeed to be blessed with your music, The stuff you are all coming out with is totally on it ;) the tradition of the expedition!!! Love to you all ~ M x
Roots people, great set on Friday, your sound is special, the CD is in the car and permanantly ON! was amazing to meet you all, even if I didn't get much sleep! Stay in touch and see you next year for sure. N
