YURI LANDMAN ENSEMBLE feat. JAD FAIR & PHILIPPE PETIT w/ Arnold van de Velde & René van Lien That's Right, Go Cats - LP (siluh037) Tracklist Side A That's Right, Go Cats (22:04) Interlude I (1:00) Side B Small Steps (2:19) Interlude II (0:43) Soundtrack to a Panic Attack (3:18) Interlude III (0:49) Slow Grow (4:37) Interlude IV (1:20) Structures to Ashes (4:03) Interlude V (0:42) Wall of Muur (5:42) Contact: [email protected] Artist: Yuri Landman Ensemble feat. Jad Fair & Philippe Petit 0043/69910920177 Title: That's Right, Go Cats Release: May 18th, 2012 Format: LP LISTEN >> Stream / Download Label: Siluh Records Labelcode: LC 15356 http://official.fm/playlists/90668 Cat. Nr: siluh037 Password: moonlander1979 Barcode: 9006472020721 Recorded by Arnold van de Velde & Philippe Petit Mastered by Philippe Petit Distribution: AL!VE (GER), Plastichead (GB), Sonic Rendezvous (BENELUX), Hoanzl (AUT), Sound Pollution (Scandinavia), Artwork: Soundworks (FRA), Max Musik (SUI), Soundforge (GRE), Paper Cut on Front Cover by Jad Fair Goodfellas (ITA), Green Ufos (ESP), Artunion (JPN), Fiomusica (POR), Supersounds (FIN), Indiego (HUN), Ordis (digital) Graphic Design by Julia Schneller & Yuri Landman CD via Thick Syrup Records! Release Info // Yuri Landman is a Dutch experimental luthier who has made several avantgardistic electric string instruments for a bunch of artists including Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Liars, Blood Red Shoes etc. This release is a colloboration of him with Jad Fair (Half Japanese) & avantgarde sound artist Philippe Petit. Bio // YURI LANDMAN Yuri Landman (1973) is an experimental instrument builder and musician. After a career as a comic book artist as well as a musician in the bands Zoppo and Avec-A, Yuri Landman began designing experimental musical instruments. Based on prepared guitar techniques, he built his first instrument in 2001 to solve the inaccuracy of instant preparations. In 2006 he got in contact with Liars. Developed over six years of prototyping, he fully realised the Moodswinger for them with commissions from numerous other musicians to follow. Yuri has custom built derivatives for such musical luminaries as Sonic Youth, Half Japanese, Enon, Lou Barlow, dEUS, The Dodos, Blood Red Shoes, Liars, HEALTH, Liam Finn, The Luyas, The Veils, Melt- Banana, Micachu & The Shapes, The Go! Team, These Are Powers, Kate Nash, Women, Action Beat, Peter James Taylor, Rhys Chatham, Dustin Wong, Philippe Petit and others. Around 2008 he started giving lectures and presentations with his instruments, leading to a request in 2009 for a practical building workshop. This became the rise of the Home Swinger project. A Gesamtkunstwerk consisting of a DIY-workshop where people build their own electric instrument and often followed by an afternoon rehearsal on the second day and a 40 minute ensemble performance with multiple Home Swingers, drums, basses, and guitars in the tradition of the Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca compositions. Soon after the rise of the Home Swinger project, other building workshops followed. Events have taken place in AU, BE, CH, DE, FR, UK, IR, NL, SV and US. He recorded the musical pieces with the Rotterdam based musicians Arnold van de Velde and René van Lien (both formerly active in the noise act Feverdream and currently in Neon Rainbows). Jad Fair did the vocals on this recording. In addition to this 22 minute track they recorded a set of other songs all played on Landman's instruments. In 2012 Landman formed the 2-piece band Bismuth w/ multi-instrumentalist Arnold van de Velde. The Moodswinger as well as the Home Swinger are included in the permanent collection of the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, AZ. The SONS Museum in Belgium owns another instrument of Landman. Bio // JAD FAIR In 1974, with his brother David, Jad Fair co-founded the lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese. Over the ensuing three decades, Half Japanese released nearly 30 records, and in the process, attracted a solid base of fans passionate about the band’s pure, unbridled enthusiasm for rock and roll. Jad also performs and records as a solo artist, and occasionally collaborates with such musicians as Daniel Johnston, Teenage Fanclub, Moe Tucker (of Velvet Underground), Yo La Tengo, Steve Shelly and Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth), John Zorn, Kramer, and more. Jad’s talent for album cover design (he designed many of Half Japanese’s and all of his own solo album covers) led Jad to a second career as visual artist. His simple, joyous drawings and intricate, complex paper cuttings are shown in galleries around the world. Books of his artwork have been published in the U.S., UK, Germany, France and Japan. Jad is available for illustration work, including CD covers, t shirt designs, and advertisements. Bio (by John Dougan) // JAD FAIR There are plenty of performers who rock critics compliment by using the label "primitive," but few if any can hold a candle to the greatest American rock primitive, Jad Fair. With his fantastic and increasingly influential band, Half Japanese, or as a solo performer, Fair has constructed a prolific and extremely interesting career. He writes and records songs that display an uncomplicated emotional directness, unselfconscious (almost hokey) charm and warmth, and a genial simplicity that is simply beyond words. Although Fair's later recordings are certainly more accessible -- in some ways resembling those of another great American primitive, Jonathan Richman -- his stock-in-trade is still the ability to compose and play music without any discernible (i.e., traditional) musical talent. Although he has "played" guitar since the mid-'70s, Fair, according to past and present members of Half Japanese, still can't name a chord, plays riffs almost by accident, and wouldn't have it any other way. Fair's career as a solo artist began in 1980. It wasn't that he was particularly upset or unhappy with the direction in which he and brother David were leading Half Japanese, but rather that he needed another outlet to satiate his obsessive desire to make music. The first efforts were tentative and, in terms of the noise-versus-music factor, more noise than music, akin to early Half Japanese records. But by the mid- to late '80s, Fair's solo records were becoming more accessible due to the contributions of celebrities and huge Half Japanese fans such as Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis, NRBQ's Terry Adams, and Gumball mastermind Don Fleming; with the members of Yo La Tengo, he even cut an album, Strange But True, which was released on Matador in 1998. And while the records got a little more polished, they certainly never lost a bit of Fair's childlike view of the world, nor his explosive, giddy belief in rock's liberating potential and endless possibilities. In Fair's world, love is the key to solving the world's problems, but his naiveté-as- philosophy, while not deep, is never rank or manipulative (you always believe that he believes). And although he can sound cloying at times, the honesty and joy of this music will let you forgive his occasional excesses. By not being your typical singer/songwriter, Jad Fair has made the world a safe place for those who care passionately about rock & roll, but who don't feel the need to achieve any degree of virtuosity. It's Spooky, issued in summer 2001, continued his quirky reign. That same year, Fair reunited with Daniel Johnston for Lucky Sperms: Somewhat Humorous, followed by collaborations with R. Stevie Moore (FairMoore) and Jason Willett (Superfine) in 2002 and 2003. Six Dozen Cookies, a Jad and David Fair production, arrived in 2006, followed by Halloween Songs (2008) and I’ll Be Moe (2009). Beautiful Songs: The Best of Jad Fair, a triple-disc retrospective spanning Fair's solo career, as well as his work with Half Japanese, arrived in 2011. That same year saw the release of a new solo album, His Name Itself Is Music. Bio / PHILLIPPE PETIT Philippe Petit is interested in soundtracks; even if he creates original music he'd rather be introduced as a "musical travel agent" than a composer. PETIT uses an Electric Psalterion and Hackbrett Cymbalum + guitars + computer and synths to build up melodies/themes or electronic layers, process acoustic and field recordings. To second the machine he likes to move various glasses, or percussive obJects, and take advantage of vinyl material to fondle released sounds. A journalist for various magazines and radio as well as a musical activist, PETIT has celebrated 29 years of activism, sharing his musical passions as the man behind the cult labels Pandemonium Rdz. and BiP_HOp Aside his solo works, Petit has assembled what people call a dream-team of collaborators, joining European Contemporary Orchestra, Lydia Lunch, Murcof, Cindytalk or Faust onstage, and working with: Foetus, Eugene Robinson (Oxbow), Edward Ka-Spel (Legendary Pink Dots), Kumo, Scott McCloud (Girls Against Boys), Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle), My Brightest Diamond, Sybarite, Pantaleimon, Graham Lewis (Wire), Barry Adamson, Scanner, Mira Calix, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, Guapo, Leafcutter John, James Johnston (Gallon Drunk/Bad Seeds/Faust), ASVA, Jarboe and many more... He is also the founder (w/ Hervé Vincenti) of the international collective Strings Of Consciousness Pics from the Sessions Weblinks: Yuri Landman www.hypercustom.com Jad Fair www.Jadfair.org Documentary Movie on Jad Fair's legendary band Half Japanese http://youtu.be/Ta2DePPtLo8 Philippe Petit www.philippepetit.info IV w/ Philippe Petit www.tokafi.com/15questions/interview-philippe-petit Siluh Records www.siluh.com .