Perfume Genius - Debut album ‘Learning’ and debut London Show

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Perfume Genius’ debut album ”Learning” will be released in the UK, June 21st, on Organs (Turnstile), tracklisting is

1.Learning
2.Look Out, Look Out
3.Mr Peterson
4.Gay Angels
5.You Won’t B Here
6.Write To Your Brother
7.No Problem
8.When
9.Perry
10.Never Did

We’re also very excited to announce Perfume Genius’ debut UK show at Hoxton Hall, London, July 13.
Limited number of tickets on sale Tuesday June 1st from here.
Support comes from Porcelain Raft.

Gruff Rhys Announces Premiere of Seperado!

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Gruff Rhys has spent the past five years crafting his first documentary, “Separado!” Directed by Dylan Goch & Gruff Rhys, “Separado!” takes us on a pan continental road trip in search of Rhys’ long lost Patagonian uncle, the poncho wearing guitarist Rene Griffiths. Dylan Goch follows Gruff Rhys on a tour that takes in the theatres, nightclubs and desert tea houses of Wales, Brazil and the Argentine Andes as he discovers what became of his family, the Welsh Diaspora and its musical legacy.

The documentary will have its U.S. premiere next month at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The screening will take place on June 24th and 26th, tickets go on sale June 1st. The Mexican premiere will then take place at the Distrital Film Festival in Mexico City on June 3rd accompanied by a short live set by Gruff.

In conjunction with “Separado!” comes the July 26th, limited edition, The Terror of Cosmic Loneliness. This collaborative album between Gruff Rhys and Brazilian industrial legend Tony Da Gatorra was recorded in Sao Paulo and moments of the recording process are captured in “Separado!”. Pre-order the album here!

ISLET - Celebrate This Place launch gig

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Islet launch their debut release, mini album Celebrate This Place on May 26 at Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach, out on digital and 12″ vinyl.
It will be available exclusively at their gigs (each vinyl sold at gigs will include a brand new edition of the isness with download code) before its available in stores and online from June 14.
Support in Cardiff comes from YUCK.

For more Islet live action, check it here.

Perfume Genius in New York

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We’re very excited to let you know that Perfume Genius has announced two shows in New York in July

20/7 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson St , NY 10013.

23/7 Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211.

Bento#9 - Curated by Dam Mantle

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Turnstile are excited to release Bento#9, curated by Dam Mantle.

Dam Mantle talks about the tracks on his bento -

1. Becoming Real’s “Jen’s Clock”, is due to out on Ramp recordings very soon. A soundtrack to someone lost and alone in an arctic landscape, this will no doubt move dancefloors in 2010, if not physically then emotionally.

2. Young Montana, who has recently got the attention he deserves from the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs will no doubt show us that he has a lot to offer in times ahead. Magnificent production from a young Coventry-based producer.

3.’Waters filthy Love’ is an absolute gem of a track from Glasgow based ‘Fox Gut Daata’.

4. Rebong is a track from my first EP, harps, synths, vocal chords and god knows what else.

Join the Turnstile Music mailing list at the top of this page to receive Bento #9 as well as past and future Bento releases.

For more info on Dam Mantle go here - http://dammantle.com/

GRUFF RHYS AND TONY DA GATORRA FORM SURPRISE COALLITION PACT

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There was a shocking development today to the constitutional crisis erupting in the feudal government of the United States of Britain, a small system of islands located to the north west of the European mainland.

SHOCK!

In an unexpected maneuver songwriter and musician Gruff Rhys has formed an emergency government with Brazilian inventor and protest singer Tony Da Gatorra. It is believed they will govern in the name of stability and peace.

CRUNCH TIME FOR DEMOCRACY

Arcane titles such as Prime Minister and Chancellor will be forfitted. In a historical agreement the unelected House Of Lords will be dissolved (literally) and the royal family peacefully relieved from their titles and duties. They will not be replaced.

A BATTLE FOR PEACE.

They will govern in the spirit of hope to unburden us from the terror of cosmic loneliness. ‘Peace be with you brothers and sisters, there is no death, only light, there is no evil when it collides with good will.’ They said yesterday in a joint statement on the steps of 10 Downing st.