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Edinburgh Leisure is the partnership of Keith Farquhar and T Fraser. Die Gefahr Im Jazz is their first recorded work together. Keith Farquhar is an established visual artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. He is also the former vocalist of The Male Nurse, best known for their two Peel sessions of 1997 and 1998. T Fraser is one half of the duo (Fraser, Ormston) that featured at Counterflows 2019 and includes artist Ailie Ormston. Since 2016, Edinburgh Leisure have recorded two albums, Contemporary Art In Digital Culture and Die Gefahr Im Jazz. They have performed in various venues, galleries and club spaces. Recorded mostly on iPhone 5s, Die Gefahr Im Jazz merges the avant-instrumentation of staple guns, masking tape, supplement bottles, and blister packs with Apple hack sounds to create "a harmonious cacophony of mammal and machine processes" -- a genre the partnership playfully categorize as "iPod Shuffle". This is music for Genius Bars and ghost tours, office parties, and Pilates classes -- songs about RBS, SNP, PPI, BBC Planet Earth, and Ikea. Written largely with the "Rhyme Zone" search engine tool, Edinburgh Leisure's work is often that of idle authorship and barefaced piracy. Publishers beware of brash homages, monosyllabic anthems, and crass interludes. The song "Startup" calls for an end to planned obsolescence, GDP growth, insurance premiums, debt, personalized advertising, and passwords and passwords and passwords... The album Die Gefahr Im Jazz is like a driverless truck, free and dangerous in the post-cultural landscape of dark-net markets and business parks, where the streets have no name!
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TR1F 002LP
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At the core of The Leg's long-term trio are mercurial vocalist and driving force Dan Mutch, cellist, producer, and one-man scratch orchestra Pete Harvey, and percussive polymath Alan Scurlock. The three have played together for the best part of twenty years, ever since Mutch unleashed his first band, Khaya, into the world before it morphed into Desc, eventually realigning as The Leg. Chromatic Perversion features guitarist James Metcalfe and bass player John Mackie swelling the ranks. Metcalfe comes to The Leg after stints in The Pineapple Chunks led to his current tenure in Zed Penguin. The Leg's frenetic folk-punk gallop has never sounded so focused or -- at moments -- as euphoric as on this latest opus. Harnessing the driven mayhem of its quartet of predecessors: 8 Songs by The Leg (2006), What Happened To The Shrunken Tina Turner? (2009), An Eagle To Saturn (2012), and Oozing A Crepuscular Light (2013), Chromatic Perversion is infused with a more upbeat and organic skip. From the opening "Radge Almond Mutches," the album is the sound of getting one's head together in the country, but not always liking what one finds. Beyond the drum-skitters and scrape of strings, a rustic old-worn charm nevertheless pervades beyond the foreboding urgency of the likes of "Impossible Colours," and on "Trouble at The Centre Of The Universe" seems to dance a jig to life itself. At the other end of the woods shades of Nirvana by way of Black Sabbath seem to possess "Those Dogs" whilst coming out the other side of the tunnel, a cover of Moondog's "High On A Rocky Ledge" melds the joie de vivre of The Move with the most manic string action this side of John Cale a la "Venus In Furs."
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