UK Jazz Impressarios and Mercury Prize Nominees Led Bib celebrate their Tenth Anniversary with TWO new albums; touring now in the UK
New studio album The People In Your Neighborhood and a limited edition vinyl-only live album The Good Egg to be released by Cuneiform in May,
Album Launch Residency in London May 1-3!
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The People in Your Neighborhood
[Cuneiform, 2014]
Listen to a track from The People in Your Neighborhood, courtesy of
Cuneiform Records:
 "New Teles" (mp3 download)
SOUNDCLOUD / @BANDCAMP / @YOUTUBE
UK Release Date: April 21, 2014
US/Worldwide Release Date: May 13, 2014
The album’s title, The People in Your Neighbourhood, is taken from Holub’s fondness for the Sesame Street sketches of the same name. The concept brought about a curious insight into Led Bib’s fans too, when the band asked ‘pledgers’ to their Kickstarter campaign (the crowd funding campaign which raised funds to make the album) what their occupations were. A fascinating array of jobs ensued and feature in the album’s artwork - from psychotherapist and roofer to philosopher and ad executive, plus of course fellow musicians and artists.
Including recordings from the band's performances at the Vortex Jazz Club in February 2013 and The Match and Fuse Festival in July 2013, The Good Egg is Led Bib at their strongest: on stage in their hometown, showcasing their jazz rock prowess in a daring, raunchy live format. The Quietus says:
"The Good Egg, which features three songs from the new album and one from its predecessor, offers irrefutable evidence of the band's live prowess. Like the very best of the genre, the Arkestra or Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath for example, this is music that swings and also destroys - whose inherent sense of chaos informs and helps define its strong melodic content."
Led Bib UK Tour Spring 2014
April 22
Cornwall - St. Ives Jazz Club
Western Hotel in St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 2ND
April 23
Barnstaple - Broomhill Art Hotel
North Devon EX31 4EX 01271 850262
April 24
Brighton - The Hope
11-12 Queens Road
April 25
Shefflied- Millenium Hall
518-520 Ecclesall Road
April 26
Coventry- Warwick Arts Centre
University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL
April 27
Leeds - Fusebox @ The Fox and Newt
9 Burley Street, Leeds LS3 1LD
April 28
Bath - The Bell
103 Walcot St. BA1 58W
April 29
Manchester - Freedom Principle @ Dulcimer
567 Wilbraham Rd, Chorlton, Manchester M21 0AE
April 30
Cardiff - Dempsey's
15 Castle St, Cardiff CF10 1BS
May 1 - 3
ALBUM LAUNCH RESIDENCY
London - Vortex
11 Gillett St, London N16 8AZ
May 4
Canterbury - Sounds New Festival
49 Barton Mill Rd, Canterbury CT1 1BP
[VIDEO] Led Bib Live @ Kongsberg Jazzfestival 2012
Led Bib Bio
2014 sees Mercury Prize nominated rock-jazzers Led Bib celebrate their 10th Anniversary with the release of their fifth studio album, and third for American label Cuneiform, 'The People in Your Neighbourhood'. On the same date the band will also release a limited edition vinyl album of live music entitled 'The Good Egg,' recorded over two London shows last year.
Led Bib retains its original line-up of 10 years ago, when the infamous five met at Middlesex University and formed the band for Mark Holub’s university project. The group are bandleader Mark Holub, drums; Pete Grogan, saxophone; Chris Williams, saxophone; Liran Donin, double bass and Toby McLaren keyboards/ piano. Looking back on a decade of music that takes in seven albums, hundreds of live shows and a string of accolades, Led Bib can feel content that they have punched through genre barriers to fly the flag for progressive music in the UK and that they forged a path where a host of new exciting bands would follow.
During their 2009 Mercury Prize nomination for Sensible Shoes, The Times said of the band:
"The future of jazz or an infernal racket? This young London “post-jazz” outfit are a bit of both. Under the drummer Mark Holub, saxophones and a bumpy rhythm section manoeuvre from dishevelled waltzes to jazz-thrash, pausing occasionally to catch their breath. They’re clearly having a great time, and sometimes you will, too."
Described as “a lean, mean, improv-rocking jazz machine” by Time Out and “among very few artists who seem less interested in following anyone else's traditions than starting their own” by Yahoo Music, Led Bib’s ability to blend groove, improvisation, thrash and everything in-between means that their live shows have become renowned for carrying along their audiences with an infectious energy more affiliated to their avant rock peers than a jazz group, making this set of live performances unmissable.
The band's trademark hooky melodies and idiosyncratic improvisation along with their confident, genre-crossing raw energy will be brought to the road this spring, as the group begins to share their new work with their avid fans.
Eastern melodies tumble into rock and roll grooves, jazz phrases open up pastoral overtures, and crescendos rise and disappear into whirring kraut-rock wormholes. There’s an electricity here, a ‘group mind’ built out of a confidence in each of the member’s playing that means risks can be taken and their unique sound world cracked open and reassembled time and time again. The band has come a long way from their humble beginnings as Holub’s college music project!
Praise for Led Bib:
“Part free improv, part art-rock, the band’s uncompromising formula puts them in the vanguard of the new school of British jazz."
- The Sunday Times
“A mix of darting Zappa-jazz hooks, sinister electronics, Ornette Colemanesque sax and hefty rock drumming.”
- The Guardian
"You’ll be hard pressed to keep the lid on this explosive tour de force of ensemble intelligence."
- The Independent
“For audiences from bebop diehards to thrash-metal headbangers via punk, world music or John Zornian abstractions, this still-growing group's fearless exuberance goes on being a blast of fresh air.”
- Word Magazine
"They represent a new generation of jazz musicians, blessed with the technical know-how of a music college degree and the sexiness of rock n' roll."
- Blues and Soul
For more information on Led Bib, please see:
http://www.ledbib.com - Led Bib on Twitter - Led Bib on Cuneiform
http://www.cuneiformrecords.com
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