Mocky

MOCKY
NEWS
OCTOBER 2009

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_MOCKY MEETS GZA FROM THE WU-TANG CLAN ON NEW SI...

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.

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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)

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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