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Leila
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Leila Arab, musician, producer, recording artist, moved to London after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. She started recording for Rephlex Records her own style of heavily IDM-influenced soul/ambient music. Described by DJ Gilles Peterson as ‘the best of what Britain has to offer in the cutting edge of music’, composer/producer Leila has collaborated and toured live with Bjork, been featured on Plaid ‘s Not For Threes debut, and remixed the likes of Acacia under her experimental Gramatix alter-ego.
On the title track of her debut release, the Don’t Fall Asleep EP, an eerie treated voice was juxtaposed against corrupted funk. Her debut album was recorded in her bedroom and issued on Rephlex Records in 1998. Drawing on techno, funk, soul, electronica, hip-hop and classical, Like Weather was created in the same arbitrary way that most people buy and listen to music - that is, with little sense of genre boundaries. At one point, the album was actually rumoured to be a lost Prince recording. The album Like Weather is a widely respected milestone and defines a period of London urban music.
A single, ‘Feeling’, suggested a dysfunctional All Saints. Other tracks drew on the grandeur of Andrea Parker, the shiftiness of Tricky, the sonic perversity of the Aphex Twin and the anal, painstaking attention to sound of hip-hop. ‘All the tracks are quite intense, really,’ admits Leila of her recordings, ‘I take what I do seriously. I try to make moving music.’ Luca Santucci, Donna Paul and Leila’s sister Roya supplied vocals on the album.
On the title track of her debut release, the Don’t Fall Asleep EP, an eerie treated voice was juxtaposed against corrupted funk. Her debut album was recorded in her bedroom and issued on Rephlex Records in 1998. Drawing on techno, funk, soul, electronica, hip-hop and classical, Like Weather was created in the same arbitrary way that most people buy and listen to music - that is, with little sense of genre boundaries. At one point, the album was actually rumoured to be a lost Prince recording. The album Like Weather is a widely respected milestone and defines a period of London urban music.
A single, ‘Feeling’, suggested a dysfunctional All Saints. Other tracks drew on the grandeur of Andrea Parker, the shiftiness of Tricky, the sonic perversity of the Aphex Twin and the anal, painstaking attention to sound of hip-hop. ‘All the tracks are quite intense, really,’ admits Leila of her recordings, ‘I take what I do seriously. I try to make moving music.’ Luca Santucci, Donna Paul and Leila’s sister Roya supplied vocals on the album.
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kwa_nqingetje wrote:
<3
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Hvalskards wrote:
an extraordinary woman making such an exceptional music!
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StaticMedium wrote:
Why Should I is fucking brilliant
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projetoseteoito wrote:
perfeito!
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iurisantos wrote:
Bela!
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thetrousers wrote:
new interview with Leila in Wears The Trousers magazine: http://wearsthetrousers.com/2009/09/10/leila-arab-her-own-private-revolution/
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dodecahedron wrote:
or allison goldfrapp
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dodecahedron wrote:
can you imagine leila and beth gibbons working together. holy shiiit my head would explode.
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ColdFoehn wrote:
@luridedith : They used to be on Youtube but got all deleted except for this one.
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luridedith wrote:
Does anyone know where I can find all her Aaliyah/hip-hop mashups/remixes that were on her website a couple of years ago? They were amazing
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sergei_RH wrote:
Blood Looms And Blooms is boooring
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michelleelaina wrote:
she is brilliant ♥
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DiffusionOfTime wrote:
I'm being rather impaient, but I want a new album!
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ugoii wrote:
ih
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TripToHope wrote:
genius music
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gabrieldeluxe wrote:
i like shrimpies
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shbadr wrote:
BL&B is absolutely mesmerising, it's great to see it out on warp.
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Kining wrote:
How come Blood, Looms and Blooms hasn't been added yet ?<2
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Laureley wrote:
How come Blood, Looms and Blooms hasn't been added yet ?
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DiffusionOfTime wrote:
The album needs to be put up here!
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N-Drone tagged Leila with trip hop and idm. yesterday evening
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