SIDE A 1) Seahorse and the Storyteller 2) Have You Met Martina 3) Scopolamine 4) Gold Fever 5) The Story Of Echo Lake 6) Dr. Killjoy SIDE B 7) Jaipur 8) Madhouse Mumbai 9) Dreams Of An Aquarian 10) Avramina Comes Up 11) Shh..They’re Sleeping 12) Dragonfish LP includes a free download card Born into a musical family, Michael Leonhart has been making mythical creatures who meet, fall in love and begin piecing waves in the music and entertainment world since he was 17, together the mysteries of each others past.” when he was honored as the youngest Grammy recipient in history. Since then, he has become a highly sought after trumpet To help see his vision to fruition, Leonhart enlisted the service of player, producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger. a group of New York Studio musicians that have provided the backdrop for records by El Michels Affair, TV on The Radio, Over the past 10 years, Michael Leonhart has performed and/or Dap-Kings, Antibalas, The Phenomenal Handclap Band, and The recorded with some of the best names in music. Some of those Plastic Ono Band. Those musicians include Luke Riverside, names include Yoko Ono, Mos Def, Steely Dan, Brian Eno, Binky Griptite, Yuka Honda, Jamie Leonhart, Dave Guy, Leon James Brown, Bill Withers, David Byrne, and Todd Rundgren, Michels, Thomas Brenneck, Homer Steinweiss, Nick Movshon, not to mention the 50 plus recordings he has appeared on for Stuart Bogie, Jamie Leonhart, Chochemea Gastelum, Mike Truth & Soul. However, Seahorse and The Storyteller, is the first Williams, Katie Sheele, and Sunny Jain. time the world will be exposed to the psychedelic, reverb drenched, and highly intimate music that has surfaced solely Seahorse is a record that defines genre generalizations and will from the imagination of Michael Leonhart. prove to be one of the most enjoyable and interesting records of 2010. With quirky arrangements featuring strings, mellotron, fuzz While on the road with Steely Dan in 2005, Leonhart came up guitar, horns, vibes, farfisa, gang vocals, and practically every with the idea to record a concept record that would meld the percussion instrument under the sun, Michael Leonhart & The styles of Bollywood funk scores, 60’s psychedelic rock, and the Avramina 7 have crated a new and unique sound that heavily mythical storytelling of artists like Peter, Paul, & Mary and draws influence from artists like R.D Burman, The Beatles, Fela Donovan. Seahorse and The Storyteller is a modern musical Kuti, and 60’s psychedelia but manages to sound completely opera that in the words of Leonhart, “tells the story of two fresh and new and like nothing else out there. THE ONE SHEET FOR THIS ITEM IS A RESOLICITATION Format: LP Cat. No: TSLP 009 Label: Truth & Soul Records Available: JUNE 22nd Truth & Soul 99 North 10th Street, Suite 102, Brooklyn, NY 11211 • www.truthandsoulrecords.com.