Jan 06, 2010
Twister News & Reviews
Twister is now the featured album on Leigh's music site, where you can hear all those glorious twisted remixes any time of day or night. You'll see there's also some new shots up there of the EP's custom handcrafted package (recyled paper folder with foam dot to hold CD), printed by Stumptown Printers, so you know what you're getting when you decide to order the beautiful, magical, physical object. (Although, if you prefer the ephemeral, intangible download, we've got you covered there as well.)
A couple new reviews of Twister have rolled in since last time we spoke. Zaptown Magazine claims that "Leigh Marble's forte is the studio with the itch to set some dynamite to his own songs," and draws comparisons to Throbbing Gristle and Meat Beat Manifesto. Not what you expected from a "folk rock" artist's remix record, was it! Meanwhile, the Orange County Music Examiner opines that the vocals on Twister "seem like they could be on the soundtrack for a Halloween movie". We're not sure exactly what that means, but if you understand how much we love Halloween around these parts, you know we take it as a compliment!
Oct 24, 2009
New Live Video
Here are two live cuts from Leigh and his band, from their September show at Kelly's Olympian.
First up, Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song", complete with accordion and pedal steel.
Next, Leigh's own "Long Overdue". This song has evolved quite a bit from the album version on Peep, so if you haven't made it out to one of Leigh's shows in a while, you might be surprised.
Filmed by Autumn Andel - thanks Autumn!
Oct 01, 2009
Twister Video & Digital Relaunch!
We are proud to announce the digital relaunch of the Twister remix EP on our music site. Explore the full album there now, with complete streaming versions of all the songs.
Twister features six dubby & dirty remixes of Red Tornado songs, by four different guest producers. The relaunched version adds a bonus remix, the "On Your Way (Stoner Ace Breakdown)".
And now, ladies and gents, stand witness to the world premiere of the "Lucky Bastards" remix video! This heady, psychedelic epic was shot and produced by Jeremy Wilson (Dharma Bums, Pilot, MastanMusic):
"Lucky Bastards (King County Jail Dub)" video
Using footage culled from Leigh's live collaborative remix performance with the Teledubgnosis Sound System, and painted with the video projection art of Abstract Machines (House of Badger), the nightmarish vision of the "Lucky Bastards (King County Jail Dub)" remix is brought to the screen in vivid Swirly-Vision.
Reviewers called Twister "darkly hypnotic" (Portland Mercury) and "FOLK'DUB" (Willamette Week) upon its release. More ears are catching on now - have a listen and see what you think!
Sep 04, 2009
New Band Members
Leigh's shows at the LaurelThirst and Kelly's Olympian mark the debut of two new band members: bassist Peter David and pedal steel player Scott Hay. Peter comes to us via Seattle, where he held down the low end for spacerock-tinged alt-country rockers Prosser. He currently also plays in The Caps, and he can eat fifty eggs.
Adding a new facet to the band's sound is Scott Hay on pedal steel. Scott cut his (steel) teeth during a tenure with Bay Area country favs the Plain High Drifters. Fear not, though - Leigh Marble is not goin' country! Scott's pedal steel speaks with a measured and mournful tone that melds with Leigh's new darker electric guitar sound.
Sep 04, 2009
Bandcamp News: The End of Free Downloads
After all the chatter in the last couple newsletters about Bandcamp, you think we'd have exhausted the subject. Almost... except they go and surprise us earlier this week with the announcement that they're discontinuing 128k MP3 as a download format. Meh, who cares, right?
Normally, we'd shrug too. However, 128k downloads were what we had set up as free downloads. Those were free, and all the high quality formats had a minimum price. For more details on the issue, see Leigh's blog entry about it.
But the bottom line is, this is your last week to grab a free 128K download of Leigh's albums from Bandcamp. They haven't given us an exact shut-off date, but it will be some time next week.