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JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC NEW RELEASES RELEASE DATE 9th + 16th APRIL 2012 CALL OFF: 23th MARCH + 6th APRIL 2012

HARMONIA MUNDI LABELS WORLD VILLAGE, JAZZ VILLAGE, LE CHANT DU MONDE

Simcock / Garland / Sirkis

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Diabel Cissokho

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RELEASE DATE 9TH APRIL 2012

Lighthouse Simcock / Garland / Sirkis THE NEW ALBUM FROM ONE OF THE UK'S PREMIER JAZZ ENSEMBLES, AND THE FIRST GWILYM SIMCOCK RELEASE SINCE HIS 2011 MERCURY NOMINATION Once upon a time … there was a lighthouse. When Tim Garland took on a job as composer-in-residence at nearby Newcastle university he decided to buy a house - near St. Mary’s Lighthouse. For his CD “If The Sea Replied” Garland recorded several bass clarinet solos in the lighthouse which he later orchestrated. During his work he had the idea of presenting the project live and for this he needed fellow musicians - and the Lighthouse Trio was born.

Label: ACT Music Catalogue No: ACT9525-2 Barcode: 614427952523 Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Tim Garland / soprano & tenor sax, bass clarinet Gwilym Simcock / piano, melodica on 01 Asaf Sirkis / drums, percussion, hang drum

Garland taught Gwilym Simcock at London’s Royal Academy of Music. The Welsh pianist, whose award-winning solo album “Good Days at Schloss Elmau” finally gave him star status, forms together with Garland one of the most productive partnerships around (they also work in Malcolm Creese's 'Acoustic Triangle'). The Israeli conjurer of sound drummer and percussionist in one - Asaf Sirkis quickly became one of the most interesting trendsetters of the jazz and world music scene after his move to London, including work as hand drummer in Gilad Atzmon's Orient House Ensemble. But it was for the Lighthouse Trio that he developed an especially composed drum set which is tailored for music full of rhythmic surprises, and perfect to showcase his ability to create unusual sounds.

A celtic influence surfaces on some of the trio's material, unsurprising given Simcock's birthplace (Bangor, North Wales) and Tim's musical history (incl. British Folk/Jazz group 'Lammas' for many years). Strong, distinctive melodies and bounding folk-tinged rhythms underpin the music, along with many other influences from around the world and some tributes to a few of the great musicians of recent British contemporary music history. If St. Mary’s Lighthouse is a genuine sight, this Lighthouse is a major aural sight - a new chapter in lighthouse history.

01 Space Junk 4:29 / 02 Weathergirls 6:18 / 03 One Morning 8:59 / 04 Above The Sun 7:34 / 05 The Wind On The Water 5:04 / 06 King Barolo 9:18 / 07 Wax Lyrical 7:48 / 08 Devilled 3:49 / 09 Tawel Nawr (Quiet Now) 3:16 UK TOUR DATES: Fri 20April Jazzahead, Bremen Germany / Wed 25 April Village Underground, Shoreditch, London / Thu 26 April RNCM Manchester / Fri 27 April Assembly Rooms, Derby / Mon 7 May Cheltenham Jazz Festival / Tue 15 May The Forge, London / Thu 17 May Watermill Jazz Club, Dorking / Wed 23 May Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple / Thu 24 May Anvil Arts Centre, Basingstoke / Wed 20 June Devizes Festival / Thu 19 July Guernsey Festival / Wed 3 Oct Grove Park Festival, Chiswick, London

RELEASE DATE 16TH APRIL 2012

Kanabory Siyama Diabel Cissokho “Groove , melody and soul, and those voices hitting you like an Atlantic wave, it's irresistible.”

Justin Adams Singer, songwriter, kora player, multi-instrumentalist, producer – another creative musical dynamo is emerging out of West Africa. For the last few years Diabel Cissokho has played in his family’s band Bannaya and alongside some of Africa’s greatest talents. Now his time has come, and Diabel presents Kanabory Siyama (“Don’t run from your ethnicity”), recorded with a fluctuating cast of superb musicians in Dakar and London. With a soulful sound of mesmeric Manding melodies, rooted in the musical traditions of Senegal and Mali, Diabel’s original songs express his thoughts on life, family and the hardships and afflictions suffered across the world.

Sleevenotes by Justin Adams

Label: World Village File Under: World music Catalogue No: 450021 Barcode: 3149026007420 Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal

* World on 3 (BBC Radio 3) session to be broadcast late March * Advertised in fROOTS and Songlines * Extensive promotion to national and local press/radio and specialist music press * Posters and tour flyers available * Facebook and Google campaigns and other online marketing

World Music : SENEGAL

30th and 31st March: St Ethelburga’s, Bishopsgate, London 6th April: Ropetackle, Shoreham 13 April: Lantern Theatre, Sheffield 18 April: Carnegie Hall, Glenrothes 21st April: ‘ALOMO!’ night at Hackney Attic, London 26 April: The Canteen, Bristol 27 April: Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis 2 May: The Chichester Inn, Chichester 11 May: Royal Court Theatre function, London 24 May: Galeri Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales 15th June: Green Note, London

UK Tour 2012 (more dates tbc):