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Moby on 'Don't Love Me':


“If there’s a more conventional, sexy song on the album, ‘Don’t Love Me’  would be it. It was actually the one song I was thinking of not including on the record: it felt a little more uptempo and lighthearted than the other stuff I’d done. It’s funny – I thought it was too happy: then I played it for a friend of mine, and he said, ‘Have you listened to the lyrics? There’s nothing happy about it!’ I’m glad it made it onto the record, because Inyang Bassey sings on it.

About five years ago, I was looking for someone to sing with me on tour. I auditioned a bunch of very good professional singers, and the last person I auditioned was Inyang Bassey. At the time, she was working in the experimental classical music department at Carnegie Hall, and she’d grown up listening to the Dead Kennedys and Black Flag. Professionally, she shouldn’t have been auditioning for me – she’d never really sung with anyone, but when she walked in and started singing, she revealed these Mahalia Jackson/Etta James pipes! Since then, her career has been taking off, and it’s been great to see her get recognition.”

Innocents

Don't Love Me (feat. Inyang Bassey)

Buy & Stream

Spell Blanket - Collected Demos 2006 - 2009

Spirit House

Desert Songs - EP out January 15th 2016 (Beating Drum / Six Degrees)

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01. Heaven’s Gate
02. We Come and Go
03. Book of Dreams
04. Crying Out Loud
05. I Hear a Calling

The two songwriters, Dawn Landes (US) and Piers Faccini (UK) met in 2013 when they recorded a Lead Belly song for Faccini's cover project, Songs I Love. Later that year, Piers invited Dawn to France to perform in a 12th Century Romanesque Chapel in the remote Cevennes region of the south of France near Piers' home and studio. Inspired by their first experience of performing together, they met up a few months later to write and record the intimate suite of songs that would become the EP, Desert Songs.

The bare autumnal skies and rugged mountainous landscapes provided the perfect backdrop for their collaboration. In between sessions, they walked the footpaths in the hills around the studio, swopping tales of the mystics and seekers that inspired the stories and lyrics in Desert Songs. Where Dawn would quote the Desert Fathers or Thomas Merton, Piers would would cite Sufi poets Rumi and Hafez or the poems of St John of the Cross. Dawn and Piers wove the arrangements together using the rich collection of instruments in Piers's studio, a Malian Kora, a 1930's National resonator guitar, West African percussion and an Indian dulcimer and tampura. Back in her Brooklyn studio a month later, Dawn recorded drum parts with Ray Rizzo. Desert Songs was then mixed in NYC by Pat Dillet.

Both songwriters have released critically acclaimed albums to their names, Piers Faccini’s most recent album Songs of Time Lost was in NPR’s top 10 world music albums of the year as well as in Songlines UK’s 10 best albums of 2014. Dawn’s most recent album Bluebird won the 2015 IMA award for “Folk/Singer-Songwriter album of the year” and featured guest appearances by Norah Jones and members of Bon Iver. In 2015 she was invited to give a TED Talk and perform in Lincoln Center’s prestigious American Songbook Series.

Desert Songs will be released by Beating drum on January 15th 2016 in Europe and in North and South America by Six Degrees.

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Dawn Landes & Piers Faccini - Book of Dreams (From Desert Songs EP)

Largo

Paranoid Android

A Place For Us To Dream

Bright Lights

Long Ambients Two

LA16

from 'I Forsee The Dark Ahead, If I Stay' [CD|2LP|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den259
available on all formats at http://denovali.com/tkde

The highly praised live album of the Dutch cult ensemble from 2011 finally available on cd & vinyl.

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble’s liveshows were known for their transcendental journeys, mixing live improvisation with the structure form studio album songs. TKDE always worked with a complex live set up, linking multiple laptops, channeling, effects and looping systems to recreate the intricate sound of their music. During the period from 2007 till 2011 many live performances were recorded, and decided was to release a compilation of songs as a live album. In 2012, a year before the split of the project, the live album was released digitally to show the diversity and flexibility of the band live.

- "The album presents a series of tracks recorded from shows over the last five years, doubling as essentially a "best of" and insight into the live TKDE experience. (...) And it is exactly this weaving of disparate threads, often in an unexpected and chaotic fashion, that make TKDE so fascinating. Compositions can—and do—traverse through multiple genres, as one would expect from a pooling of such eclectic backgrounds." (4.5 / 5 Resident Advisor)

- "A consistently impressive collection that manages to vividly document TKDE’s spectacular live show" (Cyclic Defrost)

I Forsee The Dark Ahead, If I Stay

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Adaptation Of The Koto Song (Hungary, 2011)

Mazurka des anges

Jazz pianist BRAD MEHLDAU has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. Starting in 1996, his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. entitled The Art of the Trio (recently re-packaged and re-released as a 5-Disc box set by Nonesuch in late 2011). During that same period, Mehldau also released a solo piano recording entitled Elegiac Cycle, and a record called Places that included both solo piano and trio songs. Elegiac Cycle and Places might be called “concept” albums made up exclusively of original material with central themes that hover over the compositions. Other Mehldau recordings include Largo, a collaborative effort with the innovative musician and producer Jon Brion, and Anything Goes—a trio outing with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy.

Paranoid Android

Brad Mehldau