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14:30 28 Oct 2010

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Never Giving Up

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Released: 25 Oct 2010

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Never Giving Up
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ENTERPRIZE
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Happy For You
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Genre: Acoustic / Experimental / Jazz
Location london, Please select your region., Un
Profile Views: 590984
Last Login: 08/02/2012
Member Since 07/12/2005
Website www.polarbearmusic.com
Record Label The Leaf Label
Type of Label Indie
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HELLO OUR NEW ALBUM PEEPERS CAME OUT ON LEAF LABEL 1ST MARCH AND WE HAVE HAD THESE NICE THINGS SAID ABOUT IT "The most convincing "post-jazz" album yet: **** The Times ................................................................... **** Financial Times......................................................................... "One of the rowdier pleasures of the age" The Independent On Sunday................................................................... "Rochford's mix of circus-oompah patterns, punchy funk with neatly-spliced jazzy offbeats and encyclopaedic world-rhythm references mean you could listen to this compelling set just for him" **** The Guardian....................................................................... "No chance of this Polar Bear becoming an endangered species" **** The Sun.............................................................................. "Seb Rochford's [sic] great band fire onwards and upwards... Sizzling" **** The Mirror......................................................................... "Peepers leaves no doubt as to how successful this union of education and expression is" 9/10 Drowned in Sound ................................................................... "Peepers is the finest Polar Bear album yet, which makes it a very fine recording indeed" All About Jazz................................................................ "Talented musicians reworking the rulebook with hearts and minds at play" BBC Music....................................................................... "A rambunctious and thoroughly absorbing post-bop jazz offering" Record Collector................................................................... "Whether you're a bona fide jazz aficionado, or a poor ignoramus who doesn't know their Chet from their Cheryl Baker, you'll still find something to marvel at with Peepers. Explore." **** Hot Press............................................................................... "The group that flung wide the jazz club windows and let fresh air into a scene mired in cliche and rear-view mirror gazing... Rochford's drums are as characterful as ever, with that sexy groove supplied as standard" The Wire.......................................................................................... "First serious contender for album of 2010" **** Jazzwise...................................................................................... "Their albums have got better and better" **** Uncut............................................................................................. "A raw, live-in-the-room sound, with elliptical nods to James 'Blood' Ulmer, Tortoise and the free-jazz cosmos along the way... It's jazz shorn of the cliché that demands to be taken on its pigeonhole rebuffing merits" **** Mojo................................................................................. "Mournful and berserk fun" **** Observer Music Monthly.....................................................................
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for bookings please contact...... james@elasticartists.net.......................................................... for promo please contact......... benwl@theleaflabel.com......................................................... mark lockheart and pete wareham - tenor saxes leafcutter john - the tawny owl tom herbert - dooble bass seb rochford -drums Julia Biel - vocals on snow john greswell - viola on snow adam bishop - bass clarinet on snow ingrid laubrock - tenor sax on fluffy jonny phillips - guitar on beartown joe bentley - trombone on beartown emma smith - violins on beartown hannah marshall - cello on fluffy....
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