NILS PETTER MOLVAER
SING SING PENELOPE
@ QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL, SOUTHBANK
MONDAY 22ND FEBRUARY 2010
7.30PM - £8.50 - £20

Norwegian trumpet player, composer and producer Nils Petter Molvaer connects multiple music styles - jazz, ambient, house, electronic and break beats, as well as elements from hip hop, rock and pop music - and effortlessly melts them into convincing soundscapes of deep intensity. His live shows are famous for blending music and lighting into a breathtaking experience for the spectators.

Sing Sing Penelope was established in Poland in 2001 by young musicians playing in key Polish and European jazz, avant-garde and chamber contemporary projects. The band, who are connected to the legendary Club ‘Brain’ from Bydgoszcz, have created a fresh, modern, electro-acoustic style and musical language. They have just released a new live album featuring one of the greatest European trumpet players, Andrzej Przybielski, who has recorded with the likes of Tomasz Stanko, Krzysztof Komeda, Czeslaw Niemen and SBB.

The Queen Elizabeth Hall is the second largest concert hall on Southbank Centre site, hosting chamber orchestras, quartets, choirs, dance performances and opera. As well as the main concert hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall also contains two smaller venues, the Purcell Room and The Front Room at the QEH.

Date: Monday 22nd February 2010
Venue: Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
Address: Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
Info: 020 7960 4200
Tickets: £8.50 - £20
Available from southbankcentre.co.uk / 0844 875 0073

nilspettermolvaer.info

Together @ The Coronet

Together Is Back! On 12th March and every Friday thereafter, London’s club scene will be turned on its head. Elephant and Castle’s The Coronet Theatre welcomes Together for a long anticipated return to the world’s clubbing capital. Together will be the freshest new night to emerge this year and for 16 weeks only will twist and turn your senses in a celebration of all things electronic and alternative every Friday night!

Launched on New Year’s Eve 2001 at the legendary 10,000 capacity Chainstore in East London the first Together event was headlined by none other than The Chemical Brothers and Dave Clarke. The night’s success resulted in four consecutive New Years Eve parties at Turnmills before its popularity resulted in Together going monthly in January 2006.

An exciting pool of talent such as 2manyDJs, Crookers, David Guetta, Fischerspooner, Francois K, Green Velvet, Hot Chip, Justice, Josh Wink, Lethal Bizzle, Ladytron, Klaxons, London Elektricity, MSTRKRFT, Roni Size, Sneaky Sound System, Simian Mobile Disco, Mylo, Trenemoller and many more have all rocked the crowds at Together over the years.

Due to the high standards set by the Together team, recognition soon led to events being held in conjunction with Bestival, Headstart, labels Modular, DFA and Snowbombing. Sadly in 2008 Turnmills closed, meaning Together had one final blow out in March of that year, headlined by Fatboy Slim.

However, the outstanding line-ups weren’t all Together had to offer as the nights were also infamous for injecting creativity into clubland. This included theme nights with fancy dress, fashion shows, freak shows, magic, face painting, retro console games, Andy & Ed’s legendary ‘Swap Shop’, and even the odd free haircut, here and there. The fun element gave Together an extra edge on all other nights across London in terms of audience interaction and pure carnival atmosphere.

The Coronet is a venue to rival any club in London. With a capacity of 2,600 spread over three floors it boasts the biggest main room dancefloor in the capital, not to mention the mind-boggling state of the art sound system. The 1920’s Art-Deco building has a rich history of putting on high calibre events. In the Victorian era the venue housed crowds flocking to see the latest Melodramas, before the era of the Minors ABC show that attracted a congregation every Saturday morning. But fast forward to the present day and it’s the Together faithful that will be seen flocking to The Coronet.

The Together nights will welcome huge and diverse line-ups with every event in an outstanding, underrated venue. Each weekly club night will encompass a melting pot of sounds including the biggest and best DJs and up-and-coming live bands in the alternative electronic scene. All the fun the public have come to expect from Together will also be back as we bring a bit of sunshine to south east London starting this Spring.

Talent confirmed for the first two events include Mylo, Crystal Fighters, The Bloody Beetroots (first live show), Hervé, Kissy Sell Out, Mowgli, Man Like Me, Doorly and more! Lock N Load also curate the Get Loaded events – a London institution.

Check together-club.co.uk for regular updates.

Tom Stephan : Nervous Nitelife

Released: 15th February 2010

Some know this dance floor superhero Tom Stephan only by his alias Superchumbo, but really that’s only one side of this multi talented New York born/London based artist. ‘Nervous Nitelife: Tom Stephan’ offers a window into his current DJ set and also a look into Stephan’s production and remix cache that features names like Diplo, Major Lazer and Larry Tee. Combine this with Stephan’s own original productions and new single ‘Light’s Out ft. Rowetta’ and you’ve got one hell of a mix.

‘Nervous Nitelife: Tom Stephan’ picks up right in the middle of an extremely productive time for Stephan. His latest originals ‘Turn That Shit Up’ (for Southern Fried) and ‘Lights Out ft. Rowetta’ (with Pete Gleadall for Nervous) reflect his newest inspirations: the electro sound of the UK and the new Dutch sound. This inspiration comes to the forefront of the compilation with the ravey electro stabs-meets-twisted house of Nervous Disco Dolly’s ‘Get Up Everybody (Starkillers Mix)’ and the minimal squelches of Seductive ‘Underground Sound.’ North and South unite when Miami’s great Robbie Rivera and NYC’s big room electro machine Rooster & Peralta throw down on ‘Move Move (DJ Observer & Daniel Heathcliff Mix)’ This frantic wave is then met with a trough as the punishing beats of Benny Royal ‘Back to Basic’, Afrojack ‘Polkadots’, Christian Arango ‘Body Shake’ and SpiritMindster ‘Furious Night (DJ Dextro Mix)’ take over the centre point of the mix.

The final third of the mix is full of great surprises and the action picks up big time with Tom Stephan’s own dizzying remix of Major Lazer ‘Keep It Going Louder (Tom Stephan Harder Mix)’. Williamsburg favourite Larry Tee keeps it going with the assistance of Roxy Cottontail on Afrojack’s drum-atic remix of ‘Let’s Make Nasty’ while Mikix The Cat takes it all back to the days of acid house with his whistle blowing remix of Rico Tubbs ‘Born to Bounce’. Things starts bouncing thanks to bonus beats courtesy of Diplo on his remixes of Bingo Players ‘Get Up’ and Tom Stephan’s ‘Turn That Shit Up’ before Oscar G closes it out vocal house style with Tom Stephan’s reworking of his ‘What You Need’ feat Tamara Wallace.

Revved, revitalized and ready for the future, Tom Stephan is starting the drumbeat all over again.

nervousnyc.com

V/A : Bustin’ Out. New Wave To New Beat: The Post Punk Era 1979-1981

Release Date: 15th February 2010

‘Bustin’ Out, The Post Punk Era 1979-1981’, the first in the New Wave To New Beat series, is an often-startling picture of the no-holds-barred musical ructions which sprang up after punk’s scorched earth revolution. Compiler Mike Maguire has made a rigid stand against being pigeon-holed throughout his 30 year DJing career, spreading the message that no sound or genre should be compartmentalised. This multi-hued set is a fine testimony to this ethos.

The music termed post punk is well represented here in many of its diverse strains by some of its prime movers; encompassing anything from Gary Numan’s austere electronic pop on ‘Replicas’ through 23 Skidoo’s atmospheric tribal boogie on ‘The Gospel Comes To New Guinea’ to the scrabbling guitar-driven pop of Josef K from Glasgow’s Postcard Records. What happens elsewhere defies blanket description as every track charts a different musical seam which, invariably, proved highly influential. Killing Joke’s radical, apocalyptic approach was often cited as a massive influence on anyone from Nirvana to industrial bands, but also incorporated dub reggae and New York dance music, as evidenced by 1979’s ‘Almost Red’.

The set also shows how later musical movements germinated in the new technology around this time, especially in the hands of electronic protagonists like former Throbbing Gristle duo Chris & Cosey, who pillaged the new sampling possibilities and predated techno with their use of proto-electro pulses, as illustrated by ‘Heartbeat’, from their 1981 debut album. Or Belgium new beat pioneers Front 242, whose ‘Body to Body’ sounds like a spooked house music prototype. New York was leading the world at this time, particularly the legendary ZE Label, which embodied the multi-genred melting pot of disco, punk, reggae and latin they called Mutant Disco. The label is represented here by Lizzy Mercier Descloux’s infernal treatment of Arthur Brown’s 1968 hit ‘Fire’ and Bill Laswell’s Material with ‘Bustin’ Out’, his first major dancefloor statement before going on to become a world-renowned producer. Another side of the city is presented by quintessential downtown NY post punk/no wave outfit the Bush Tetras and their debut single, ‘Too Many Creeps’, while visionary musician-producer Arthur Russell flies the wigged-out disco flag under his Loose Joints banner on the Larry Levan-remixed ‘Is it All Over My Face’.

The disparate post punk spirit that had captured the rest of the world is illustrated with the Kraftwerkian ‘Cracked Mirror’ from Vancouver’s Moev, Germany’s No More with deadpan electronic classic ‘Suicide Commando’ and San Francisco’s avant-punk Tuxedomoon providing one of the set’s most grippingly-complex outings with the title track from their ‘Desire’ album. Meanwhile, Melbourne duo Dead Can Dance match Lisa Gerrard’s spooky vocals with Brendan Perry’s subterranean atmospherics on their 1981 ‘Frontiers’ demo.

‘Bustin’ Out. New Wave To New Beat: The Post Punk Era 1979-1981’ is a perfect example of how far music had evolved since 1977 in an exciting, unpredictable era.

The CD includes liner notes by Kris Needs.

futurenoisemusic.com

José James : Black Magic

Release Date: 22nd February 2010

José James, the jazz voice of a generation, returns with a moodier, edgier and more sensual sound, drawing inspiration from the worldwide underground. His debut LP ‘The Dreamer’ (released in 2007 on Brownswood Recordings) was crammed with smoky, low-slung jazz grooves blessed with Jose’s rich baritone vocals. Magnificent self-penned works nestled alongside uniquely crafted cover versions of John Coltrane, Rashaan Roland Kirk and even West Coast hip hop institution Freestyle Fellowship. Pursuing the same deeply soulful vocal jazz tradition exemplified by Babs Gonzales, Billie Holliday, Joe Williams and Leon Thomas, ‘The Dreamer’ quickly cemented Jose’s stature and raw talent within the worldwide jazz community.

Since ‘The Dreamer’ José has performed in maybe 30 countries, worked with some of the best, wisest and finest artists in the world such as Chico Hamilton and Junior Mance and he has built a community of friends and fellow music-lovers all over the globe. The distance from New York to Tokyo is quickly bridged by music, as the track ‘Promise In Love’ with DJ Mitsu The Beats of Jazzy Sport aptly demonstrates.

José is keen to stress the way that this global community has shaped ‘Blackmagic’: “There is community on this record and my community has grown – Minneapolis gave way to New York, while New York in turn gave way to London, Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Sao Paolo, Berlin (big up Jazzanova!), LA (yes I still need to come out I know!! I hear you too DC!), Rotterdam (North Sea Jazz Festival), Detroit (!), Barcelona, Brussels... I've been living and working in these cities – digitally, long-term, short-term, paying rent or whatever, for 2 years or so and it's all there.”

José started the process with LA’s beat conductor supreme Flying Lotus (Warp/Brainfeeder) in April 2008: “In a phone call he changed the entire scope of my musical direction and focus – thank you man.”

Tossing ideas back and forth between the East Coast and West Coast, the pair crafted a handful of delightfully dusty, slightly dishevelled hip hop soul joints. Anchoring the album in hip hop’s boom-clap foundation, José is perfectly at ease riding FlyLo’s bumpy sketches, just as he is contributing good-time vibes to DJ Mitsu’s sunshine soundtrack ‘Promise In Love’, blessing Moodyman’s retro jazz-funk groove ‘Detroit Loveletter’, or indeed morphing Benga’s dubstep anthem ‘Emotions’ into a killer live jazz workout.

José announced his comeback with a killer 12” featuring ‘Blackmagic’ remixes from the hotly-tipped Joy Orbison and dubstep innovator Untold. An EP drops in January featuring production from the aforementioned FlyLo, Moodymann, DJ Mitsu The Beats and Taylor McFerrin before the full album is released on 22nd February 2010.

myspace.com/josejamesquartet

The Cinematic Orchestra : Late Night Tales

Release Date: 5th April 2010

As Late Night Tales moves into a new decade, the long awaited chapter from The Cinematic Orchestra greets us with style. Following editions from behemoths of rock Arctic Monkeys and Snow Patrol, The Cinematic Orchestra’s selection sees a return to a more typical Late Night compiler. Their association with the series reaches back to the inclusion of ‘Channel 1 Suite’ from their debut album ‘Motion’ on Zero 7’s memorable 2002 compilation. With track selection and order seeing many revisions since the inception of the project, we arrive in 2010 with one of the most defined Late Night Tales yet to come in the 23 title strong series.

Not for nothing are they called The Cinematic Orchestra. Jason Swinscoe has been living and breathing soundtracks for many a year (the last one was his epic effort for Disney, ‘The Crimson Wing’). You suspect that he’d manage to turn a trip to Sainsbury’s into a Homeric odyssey fit for string sections and harp players, such is his aptitude for the gallant, the grand and the plain groovy.

The Cinematic Orchestra are now on their fourth original album (not including live recordings, remixes and, of course, contributions to soundtracks) and third country, having relocated to New York after spending spells in the UK and France and these days can be found in Fort Greene, a vibey Brooklyn neighbourhood with a grand musical heritage. You can hear some of these influences seep out, gently washing your way. Eddie Gale, whose obscure jazz classic ‘The Rain’ is featured here, was also a native of Fort Greene.

There are also some known quantities. The delectable Björk’s ‘Joga’ is present and correct while Swinscoe’s affection for the double bass, here provided by Danny Thompson, is clearly evident on Nick Drake’s ‘Three Hours’. The marvellous Shuggie Otis also makes an appearance with the musically stunning and grammatically interesting ‘Aht Uh Mi Hed’, while Sebastien Tellier’s ‘La Ritournelle’, already regarded as a modern classic, doffs its cap in the direction of Mr. Swinscoe. The compilation would not be complete without some soundtrack content - Burt Bacharach’s ‘South American Getaway’ from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, appears in a heavily re-edited form, while the strangely familiar ‘Electric Counterpoint’ by Steve Reich drops the temperature a tad.

This being Late Night Tales we could not depart without a venerated (and exclusive) cover version produced by the boys. The Cinematics’ offer up ‘Talking About Freedom’, originally sung by Fontella Bass with whom they have worked extensively. A little nod in deference to Fontella, there; a nice touch. Concluding the album, Will Self continues his spoken word short story ‘The Happy Detective’, now onto the third part.

Tracklisting:
1. Flying Lotus - LA-EP3 Aunties Lock Rebekkah Raff Remix
2. Nick Drake – Three Hours
3. Eddie Gale – The Rain
4. Terry Callier - You're Gonna Miss Your Candyman
5. The Freedom Sounds Feat. Wayne Henderson - Behold The Day
6. DJ Food - Living Beats
8. Shuggy Otis - Aht Uh Mi Hed
9. Thom Yorke - Black Swan
10. Cinematic Orchestra – Restaurant
11. Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint III
12. Bjork - Joga
13. Imogen Heap – Cumulus
14. St.Germain - Rose Rouge
15. Songstress - See Line Woman
16. Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle
17. Burial - Dog Shelter
18. Burt Bacharach - South American Getaway
19. Cinematic Orchestra – Talking About Freedom
20. Will Self - The Happy Detective Part 3

latenighttales.co.uk

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