SamadhiSound news
29.01.10: Sweet Billy Pilgrim tour dates for Spring '10
Sweet Billy Pilgrim will be touring this Spring with the award-winning Malian singer Rokia Traoré, who's been described as “the most adventurous African artist around”. Traoré specifically requested the presence of SBP on this tour due to the lasting impression they made when they shared the stage at the critically acclaimed, one-off performance, at London's Barbican of May 2009. This will be an evening of diverse but complimentary musical talents that shouldn't be missed.
Tuesday 27 April - LONDON Koko*
0870 432 5527 | www.koko.uk.com | www.ticketweb.co.uk | www.seetickets.com
Wednesday 28 April - LIVERPOOL, Philharmonic Hall
0151 709 3789 | www.liverpoolphil.com
Friday 30 April - BRISTOL, Colston Hall
0117 922 3686 | www.colstonhall.org
Sunday 2 May - GATESHEAD, The Sage Gateshead
0191 443 4661 | www.thesagegateshead.org
Tuesday 4 May - EDINBURGH, Usher Hall
0131 228 1155 | www.usherhall.co.uk
Wednesday 5 May - MANCHESTER, Bridgewater Hall
0161 907 9000 | www.bridgewater-hall.org
Thursday 6 May - BRIGHTON FESTIVAL, Dome
01273 709709 | www.brightondome.org
Friday 7 May - COVENTRY
024 7652 4524 | www.warwickartscentre.co.uk
12.01.10: David Sylvian: To Blow the Heart Wide Open
You can find an extensive interview with David covering multiple aspects of his work at allaboutjazz.com
30.12.09: all about jazz best of '09
John Kelman, managing editor at allaboutjazz.com, includes both manafon and twice born men in his best of 2009. See article here
22.12.09: Manafon in end of year lists
Manafon has cropped up in a number of the best of 2009 lists most of which, if you're so inclined, you might discover for yourselves. Honorable mention goes to Mapsadaisical which kindly placed the album at #1 and The Wire at #6.
06.12.09: all about jazz review Manafon deluxe edition
The first extensive review of the Manafon deluxe edition can be found at allaboutjazz.com and on our review pages here
02.12.09: Season greetings and news for the year ahead
We'd like to thank everyone who remained invested in Samadhisound in 2009. We're very grateful for your interest and support. We'd like to wish you the best for the holiday season, peace and prosperity for the year ahead. Please click here to download our card designed, as always, by the talented Mr. Bigg.
In addition, we have a specially composed, seasonally inspired, work by Akira Rabelais which we're able to offer as a free download here. Titled '1340 Gaw. & Gr. knt 471 Wel by-commes such craft vpon cristmasse' and running at 59.54 mins, it's further exploration of the material Akira unearthed and treated for his samadhisound debut ' Spellewauerynsherde (see here for more details).
Which brings us around to the subject of the releases for the year ahead. In early 2010 we will be releasing Akira's second work for Samadhisound, 'Caduceus'. A guitar based series of compositions treated by software of his own design, 'Caduceus' is a powerfully dynamic work, at turns disquietingly romantic, couched in an unnervingly volatile quietude, and raucously savage, a beautiful brutality. It is a compelling work, hallucinatory, a true auditory experience. Jan Bang releases his debut album with us in 2010. '...and Poppies from Kandahar' is marked by Jan's amazingly acute ear for sound design and his ability to create and sustain delicate, but powerfully evocative, moods of sonic and textural complexity. Some of you might be familiar with Jan's remix work for David Sylvian in collaboration with his Punkt partner, Erik Honoré. This team was also responsible for co- writing / producing Arve Henriksen's 'Cartography' (ecm). '... and poppies from Kandahar' could be seen as something of a companion piece to the latter featuring, as it does, contributions from Henriksen, Jon Hassell, Sidsel Endresen, Eivind Aarset and many more. Toshimaru Nakamura, a contributor to the album 'Manafon', brings both his improvisatory and compositional skills into focus on the beautifully minimal solo album 'Egrets'. Toshi played a pivotal role in developing the aesthetic that became the basis for the onkyo scene in Japan. He's since established himself as a mainstay of the free improv scene with his adopted 'no-input mixing board' and continues to perform and record with a great diversity of musicians annually, worldwide. With contributions from Arve Henriksen (tpt) and Tetuzi Akiyama (gtr), and executively produced by David Sylvian, 'Egrets' belies its improvisational beginnings via its distilled, opaque beauty. Some of the solo performances bring to mind early experiments in Frippertronics dialed three decades into the future. It's an album that surprises with its variety of tonal colours drawn from minimal resources.
We are also in the process of producing a strictly limited vinyl edition of 'Manafon'. A double album that will include the Japanese only released remix of 'Random Acts of Senseless Violence' by classical composer Dai Fujikura.
Updates on these and further releases in the new year.
samadhisound
28.10.09: Interview with David
David has recently completed a lengthy interview especially for davidsylvian.com - the full piece can be read by clicking here.
The full complement of lyrics for Manafon can be found here, and shots taken during the making of, here.
28.10.09: Sweet Billy Pilgrim - UK tour with the Portico Quartet
Come the end of the month, Sweet Billy Pilgrim commence their first full length tour of the UK in the solid company of the Portico Quartet, also fellow Mercury Music Prize nominees and darlings of the left-field jazz scene. For listings click here.
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