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  Oct 08, 01:50 AM

  MOCKY News October 2009

  MOCKY
  NEWS
  OCTOBER 2009

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  _MOCKY MEETS GZA FROM THE WU-TANG CLAN ON NEW SINGLE !
  _WATCH THE TRAILER FOR "THE MOCKUMENTARY PART II"!
  _CATCH FREE MP3 OF MOCKY'S PRODUCTION OF R&B MEGA CLASSIC!
  _WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING ABOUT SASKAMODIE!
  _TOURDATES!
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  MOCKY MEETS GZA FROM THE WU-TANG CLAN ON NEW SINGLE !
  Mocky is at it again: this time with one of the world's greatest living rappers - GZA, no less, from the mighty Wu-Tang Clan - in tow.
  By way of making the heaven-sent jazz-pop melodies of 'Bird Of A Feather' even more infectious, Mocky calls upon Mr "Liquid Swords" to add a signature burst of gruff street philosophy which, while keeping to the song's ornithological theme - "They say the early bird gets the worm/ 'cos it never has to fight for the crumbs and then take flight and turn" - marks a slight return to Mocky's musical past, as well as placing GZA in a new musical context ...The digital single package comes with two further mixes of the same track: a slightly shorter radio edit, and the 'Rollerskating Jam', which finds Mocky in J. Dilla/Madlib mode, looping and chopping the original into a low-slung, tweaked-out groove for the head-nodding b-boy in us all. Buy at Itunes here and Amazon here .
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  WATCH THE TRAILER FOR "THE MOCKUMENTARY PART II"!
  Mocky is feverishly working on another installment of his hilarious"Mockumentary" series ! This time round Pheline Roggan performs a series of hypnosis tests on Mocky, and he joins "Riverdance"?!! Watch the trailer for Part II here.
  And if you missed it watch the classic Part I here. It just got awarded the "Best EPK" Grammy by Pitchfork: "The "Mockumentary" for Mocky's new album, Saskamodie, portrays the musician as a kind of musical Zelig, turning up in archival footage of 1950s Egyptian jazz, a 1979 mariachi concert, Japanese koto drumming, even participating in a three-way drum battle with Art Blakey and Elvin Jones. Narrated by a graybeard music professor and featuring cameos from collaborators like Feist, Jamie Lidell, and Gonzales, it's a clever conceit brilliantly executed, and probably deserving of some sort of prize, if there's anything like a Grammy for best online EPK." (Pitchfork)
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  CATCH FREE MP3 OF MOCKY'S PRODUCTION OF R&B MEGA CLASSIC!
  Mocky lends his trademark acoustic touch and (re)produces an R & B mega classic "Crazy in Love" for Canadian/Paris transplant Melissa Laveaux. What should have been a risky venture actually turns out to be a great idea! Amazon US review :... "no exaggeration.. the best new song I've heard in months". Download this bonus track here.
  
  WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING ABOUT SASKAMODIE!
  "An exceptionally musical album - there's no other word for it - that could fail to seduce only the hardest of hearing, or the hardest of hearts"
  (Pitchfork, 8.0 review)
  "An amazing record...a big hit for me"
  (Gilles Peterson)
  "Saskamodie is languorous and breathily swoonsome. It's full of the kind of jazzy music that doesn't indulge in pesky soloing. If Saskamodie was a film, it would undoubtedly be The Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry. Please take that as a wholehearted endorsement"
  (BBC)
  "A revelatory gem of post-war sensibility...an evocative unit"
  (Plan B

  TOURDATES! SASKAMODIE RELEASE TOUR
  WITH THE SASKAMODIE ORCHESTRA FEAT. MARY CLARE BRZYTWA, MARLA HANSEN, TAYLOR SAVVY AND FRANK WHITE
  presented by SPEX and MAGIC

  
  08.10. - Paris/FR - Factory Festival, La Cigale
  09.10. Brussels/BE - Beurrschouwburg
  17.10. Graz/A - Steirischer Herbst Festival-zentrum
  29. 10. Lausanne/CH - Jazzonze Festival
  30. 10. Lissabon/PO - Musicbox
  06.11. - Heidelberg/DE - Jazz Festival
  07.11. - Aalen/DE - Jazz Festival
  08.11. - Muri/CH - Hotel Ochsen

   
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  Mar 24, 03:30 AM

  Mocky News: New Album Saskamodie Out Now, The Mockumentary, Japanese Release, Gilles Peterson Session, Colette and Itunes, New Homepage, Tourdates

  MOCKY
  NEWS
  MARCH 2009
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  __ABOUT MOCKY'S NEW ALBUM "SASKAMODIE"!
  __WATCH "THE MOCKUMENTARY"!
  __EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL PRE-RELEASE ON ITUNES NOW!
  __EXCLUSIVE CD PRE-RELEASE AT COLETTE SHOP IN PARIS NOW!
  __SASKAMODIE JAPANESE RELEASE!
  __MOCKY INVITED FOR GILLES PETERSON BBC RADIO SESSION IN LONDON!
  __WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT SASKAMODIE!
  __NEW HOMEPAGE!
  __TOURDATES! SASKAMODIE RELEASE TOUR WITH STRING QUARTET IN APRIL
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  ABOUT MOCKY'S NEW ALBUM "SASKAMODIE"!
  Having won a lawsuit against a Austrian supermarket that used his song without permission (they set it to a talking pig selling bio products) Mocky took a risk and spent the winnings on block-booking Ferber Studios (a classic Parisian recording space previously used by Nina Simone and Serge Gainsbourg among others) for two weeks, and enlisting co-producer Renaud Letang in order to record a totally acoustic album. Unlike anything he has ever released before, the resulting album "Saskamodie" - his first since signing to Crammed Discs - sees Mocky moving away from the electronic music scene and returning to his jazz and acoustic roots. Out as download and CD March 23rd around the globe (and on CD April 7th in the UK and US).

  WATCH "THE MOCKUMENTARY"!
  "The Mockumentary" seeks to illuminate the conspiracy theories surrounding the musical identity of Mocky. Featuring interviews and appearances by some of the musicians who know him best, Gonzales, Jamie Lidell, Feist , Peaches, Taylor Savvy, Kevin Blechdom and hosted by the musicologist Dr. Thomas Strauss, " The Mockumentary " is a HILARIOUS "must-see" that is getting people very excited about Mocky´s upcoming new album "Saskamodie" on Crammed Discs. Watch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg3TW1jQoQE

  EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL PRE-RELEASE ON ITUNES NOW!
  Itunes Loves Saskamodie! Click here (http://itunes.com/mocky/Saskamodiefor the exclusive European and Japanese digital pre-release of the album and get it now!

  EXCLUSIVE CD PRE-RELEASE AT COLETTE SHOP IN PARIS NOW!
  Colette Loves Saskamodie! Mocky partners with famous Parisien Concept Store Colette for exclusive physical pre-release. Click HERE (http://www.colette.fr/newsletter/archive/2009/09_03/index.htmlfor the newsletter

  SASKAMODIE JAPANESE RELEASE!
  We are happy to anncounce that "Saskamodie" will see a japanese release by the independent label Windbell from Tokyo. We were working with the Windbell team on Mocky's debut album "In Mesopotamia" and we are glad to be back in Japan. Stay tuned here (http://windbelljournal.blogspot.com/

  MOCKY INVITED FOR GILLES PETERSON BBC RADIO SESSION IN LONDON!
  Gilles Peterson and the BBC invited Mocky for a live session Maida Vale Studio in London. The Session will take place end of march and we will keep you updated about the airing date

  WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT SASKAMODIE!
  "A record Mocky really needed to make. In these dark times, this album is like a night light. (He) has turned to haunting us with melodies that will quickly become your companions and will doubtless wander in step with you as you go about your days. Mocky lives in his own country of sound. It's a little place called Saskamodie."
  JAMIE LIDELL
  "The bears and foxes and crows in Aesop's Fables tell us stories about people. Mocky's doing something with wind and wood and hands that does the same thing.... acoustic instruments breaking music back down to the storytelling elements. His voice is a little bell, the narrator to a fable that makes the childlike, long forgotten gong in your chest wake right back up."
  FEIST
  "Jazz" is a naughty word nowadays, it evokes musicians who indulge themselves in a virtuosity contest. Fortunately, Saskamodie isn't a jazz album. It's more like an imaginary soundtrack. Mocky shows us what this naughty word should mean, in a parallel and mystical universe.
  GONZALES (from Magic Magazine, France)

  NEW HOMEPAGE!
  Mocky's Homepage got redesigned, Check out all Mocky Videos, Records and loads of exclusive pictures at www.mockyrecordings.com
  Also stay tuned at
  Myspace (www.myspace.com/mockyrecordings
  Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mocky/20428721208
  Ilike (http://www.ilike.com/artist/Mockyand
  Last.fm (http://www.lastfm.de/music/Mocky

  TOURDATES! SASKAMODIE RELEASE TOUR
  WITH THE SASKAMODIE ORCHESTRA AND STRING QUARTET
  11.4. Rotterdam - Motel Mozaique
  12.4. Hasselt - Motives For Jazz at MOD
  13.4. Gent - Vooruit/Balzaal
  14.4. Amsterdam - Paradiso
  15.4. Paris - Le Zèbre
  24.4. Berlin - Babylon
  27.4. Frankfurt - Mousonturm
  28.4. Leipzig - Werk 2

   
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  Mar 09, 07:45 AM

  Mocky's new album "Saskamodie" exclusive Itunes pre-release now!!!

   

   

  Mocky's new album "Saskamodie" is available on Itunes Europe and Japan as exclusive pre-release from today on!
  www.itunes.com/mocky/saskamodie
  The Saskamodie CD will be out on Crammed Discs March23rd in Europe and April 7th in the US and UK.
  You can also pre-order the album at
  http://crammed.greedbag.com/buy/saskamodie-1/

  About Saskamodie
  Having won a lawsuit against a Austrian supermarket that used his song without permission (they set it to a talking pig selling bio products) Mocky took a risk and spent the winnings on block-booking Ferber Studios (a classic Parisian recording space previously used by Nina Simone and Serge Gainsbourg among others) for two weeks, in order to record a totally acoustic album. Unlike anything he has ever released before, the resulting album "Saskamodie" - his first since signing to Crammed Discs - sees Mocky moving away from the electronic music scene and returning to his jazz and acoustic roots.

   

   

   
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  Dec 16 2008, 09:30 AM

  Mocky announces new album and previews new song

  Mocky will release his new album "Saskamodie" on Crammed Discs on March 23rd 2009. The album was co-produced by Renaud Letang in Paris´ famed Ferber Studios (Nina Simone Serge Gainsbourg and others have recorded there). This gives the album a unique quality that blends a classic feel with a modern sound.
  Mocky signed the album with the legendary Crammed Discs from Belgium (Bebel Gilberto, Kinono Number 1, Balkan Beatbox ).
  On "Saskamodie" Mocky is listed as playing drums, bass, rhodes, piano, guitar, percussion, bells, recorder, vocals, whistle, organ and toys as well as writing string arrangements. Taylor Savvy, Gonzales, Jamie Lidell & Feist contribute additional instrumental and backing vocal performances that make this record sound more like a live performance than a studio creation.
  As first song from the album, Mocky previews the album's opening song "Music To My Ears".