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The Unthanks Photo credit: Judith Burrows Here's The Tender Coming (EMI) is the brand new album by THE UNTHANKS (formerly RACHEL UNTHANK & THE WINTERSET).
Cesaria Evora
Cape Verde legend CESARIA EVORA has a brand new album Nha Sentimento (Lusafrica) out now and will be playing a major London concert in May 2010. More here soon...
Young folk duo JONNY KEARNEY & LUCY FARRELL are currently on the road supporting The Unthanks on all of the latters UK tour dates (Jonny also played bass with The Unthanks for their recent Later...With Jools TV appearance). Jonny & Lucy's début mini-album The North Farm Sessions (RabbleRouser RRM006) is released on 25 January 2010 via Proper Music Distribution. More soon...
John Crosby is a leading specialist music publicist/PR, handling UK national press campaigns for such artists as Mariza, Camille, Yasmin Levy, The Unthanks, The Imagined Village, Chumbawamba, Alasdair Roberts, Bill Callahan, Thomas Mapfumo, Natacha Atlas, Los De Abajo, Värttinä, Oysterband, Tito Paris, Sara Tavares, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill and many others over the past twenty years
"(Mariza)...has a fabulously effective publicity
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"As a profession, promotion rests somewhere between craft and art, balancing subtlety and persistence. John Crosby has the knack of seeming to be almost invisible, while gently nudging the media into bringing his artists to the surface and into the limelight" CHARLIE GILLETT, BBC LONDON
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Mariza Photo credit: Isabel Pinto
Portuguese Fado singing sensation MARIZA makes a welcome return to the UK following the release of her most recent album Terra (EMI). A new 'live' DVD is due soon and a brand new CD will be recorded for release later next year. Meanwhile, she plays the following 2010 concerts: 25/26 Jan LONDON Royal Festival Hall www.southbankcentre.co.uk 0844 875 0073 / 6 Feb MANCHESTER Bridgewater Hall www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk 0161 950 0000 / 7 Feb BRIGHTON Dome www.brightondome.org 01273 709709 / 8 Feb COVENTRY Warwick Arts Centre www.warwickartscentre.co.uk 024 7652 4524 / 9 Feb GATESHEAD The Sage Gateshead www.thesagegateshead.org 0191 443 4661
THE IMAGINED VILLAGE have their brand new, much anticipated, second album Empire And Love (ECC002) released on 11 January 2010. Read more... CD release is closely followed by a UK tour from 15-30 January 2010. Full tour details at Empire And Love Tour
Yasmin Levy Photo credit: Ali Taskiran "the next world music superstar" THE GUARDIAN ****
"Aside from her stunning looks, Levy's biggest asset is her voice, which is versatile, sensuous, and brimming with emotion" THE INDEPENDENT
In YASMIN LEVY's music there is an undeniable tension between the purity of Ladino (the Judeo-Spanish music of Spain) and the fiery heart of flamenco. As she explained to David Honigmann of the FINANCIAL TIMES ÕThereÕs a very traditional way of singing Ladino. I learnt itÉlistening to women singing and itÕs beautiful, but I missed the passion. Flamenco is nothing but passion.Õ She first successfully explored the fusion of these two in her second album La Juderia (Connecting Cultures) but then, with her third album Mano Suave (World Village), returned to, deeply and powerfully, rediscover her Ladino roots. For her brand new (and fourth) album Sentir (World Village) she has finally found a vision that integrates effortlessly these various musical directions. With Sentir, YasminÕs music truly becomes Õof the worldÕ.
Produced by the acclaimed Javier Lim—n (who has worked previously with the likes of Portuguese fado star Mariza), the albumÕs programme draws songs not only from Ladino (ÕMi KorasonÕ, ÕLondje de MiÕ) and flamenco (Javier Lim—nÕs ÕNos Llego El FinalÕ) traditions but also contemporary material (by Javier, Yasmin) and even Leonard Cohen (in a remarkable and fresh version of ÕHallelujahÕ).
An important factor in YasminÕs life and musical direction has been the legacy of her father Yitzhak Levy, who died when Yasmin was only one year old. ÕUna PastoraÕ allows Yasmin, by the miracle of modern technology, to duet with him. As she says ÓThis is one of the most beautiful songs my father ever recordedÉHis singing is something holy for me and I was afraid to touch itÉuntil I realised that it was my own fears I needed to overcome.Ó
For those new to the music and its language and history, Ladino is the collective term for the Judeo-Spanish languages spoken by the Jews of Spain: these languages infuse the original ancient Spanish with other languages including Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Slavic languages, Portuguese, French and Italian. The geographical spread of communities in North Africa, Turkey, Greece and the Balkans, each with distinct dialects and religious customs, is reflected in the musical variety of Judeo-Spanish folk songs carried down to the present day.
YASMIN LEVY will be playing the following UK concerts in early 2010: 8 Feb MILTON KEYNES - STABLES 01908 280800 www.stables.org / 9 Feb MANCHESTER - BAND ON THE WALL 0845 2 500 500 www.bandonthewall.org / 10 Feb BIRMINGHAM - TOWN HALL 0121 780 3333 www.thsh.co.uk / 11 Feb GATESHEAD- THE SAGE 0191 443 4661 www.thesagegateshead.org / 13 Feb BRIGHTON - ST. GEORGES CHURCH www.seetickets.co.uk www.stgeorges-church.org / 14 Feb BRISTOL - ST. GEORGES 0845 4024 001 www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk / 23 Feb SOUTHAMPTON - TURNER SIMS 023 8059 5151 www.turnersims.co.uk / 24 Feb LONDON - CADOGAN HALL 020 7730 4500 www.cadoganhall.com |
