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Laish Quartet is the given name for Daniel Green and company’s musical outlet. There's an inventive fingerpicking style, distinctive and honest vocal deliveries from the four singers; violin, melodica, bass and drums. A prolific songwriter, Green's lyrics contain open letters to friends; wry meditations on love, uplifting odes to death, deadpan humour and a weary sense of hope. Laish Quartet are an integral part of the Willkommen Collective, Brighton and London's independent folk family and label home to The Leisure Society, Shoreline, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Kopek, Redwood Red, Kristin McClement and the rest. A full length album will be released by Willkommen Records in late 2009.
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LAISH QUARTET AT THE BRIGHTON FESTIVAL - PAVILION THEATRE
23rd May - With Hamilton Yarns and Rowan Coupland.
Click here for tickets BRIGHTON FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE
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A few nice words from people with pens:
Best Live Band Seen This Week....electro-folk innovators....Daniel Green's sublime vocals...honest soulful and gimmick free (NME)
Recalls the work of Vincent Gallo and The Microphones in startling fashion...proves Daniel Green is a fascinating prospect well worth keeping an eye on (LeedsMusicScene.net)
Pure people music for the soul...folk of the kind that raises heart rates and quickens pulses. (Source Magazine)
Photo above by Greg Neate, taken at the Willkommen Records show with Cath and Phil Tyler March '09.
SHOWS

The full Laish Quartet experience involves Cathy Cardin on vocals and percussion, Ben Gregory on bass and vocals and Jo Burke on fiddle and vocals.
We have so far shared stages with Mumford and Sons, Sixtoes, Castanets, Jonquil, David Thomas Broughton, The Leisure Society, The Mariner's Children, Sons of Noel and Adrian, Held by Hands, Revere, Mary Hampton, Revenge of Shinobi, Richard Dawson, Rowan Coupland and worked with these promoters and festivals: Brighton Festival, Union Chapel, Big Chill Festival, Firegathering Festival, Small World Festival, Willkommen, Toy Soldier, Lack of Communications, NFR, Littlest Birds, Broken Toy Music, Bleeding Hearts Club, O.I.B. Records, Little Nomadic, Thumbdog Promotions, Victory Inn and Brighton Stripped.

RECORDINGS
There are various recordings floating around by Laish Quartet. At present we are working hard on a proper debut album to be released on Willkommen Records this year. In the meantime there is an unofficial 4 song release limited to 50 copies. Look to your left.
THE PAST
During his teens Green embraced the DIY approach to music and recorded hours worth of noise experiments and lo-fi instrumental music. His previous bands are the Leeds-based, Cabinet and Newcastle-based Nachmi . He also continues to record with the improvisatory group, Over Kodiak .
Here endeth the blurb. We hope you enjoy the songs and suggest you go for a brisk walk outside, do a bit of stretching.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/5/2007
Band Members: Danny Green, Cathy Cardin, Benjamin Gregory, Jo Burke, Mike
Influences: Song, Sounds, Friends, Words, Lo-fidelity, Noise, Improvisation, Impoverishment, Love, Movement, Discovery, Books, Travel. And Will Oldham, Smog, Papa M, Jim O'Rourke, Robert Wyatt, Tortoise, Grizzly Bear, The Ockelford Brothers, Directing Hand, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Fugazi, Boredoms, Sonic Youth, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Scatter, Philip Glass, Jazzfinger, Pavement, Godspeed!, Richard Dawson, Silver Jews, Tom Waits, Fog, Why?, Animal Collective, Akron/Family, Jeffrey Lewis, Cat Power, Deerhoof, Dylan, Radiohead, Elliott Smith, Howe Gelb, James Yorkston, Johnny Cash, Joanna Newsom, Matmos, Neil Young, Of Montreal.
Sounds Like: BOOKING ENQUIRIES:
UK please email [email protected]
GERMANY, AUSTRIA and SWITZERLAND
Dennis at Burning Eagle [email protected]
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DISCOGRAPHY
To order, click on the Buy it Now buttons below. Allow up to 14 days delivery but expect less.

****NEW*****LAISH QUARTET. An unofficial four song release in the Willkommen cardboard sleeve, hand stamped and hand drawn cd. Limited to 50. £5 including postage and packaging. Features the songs:
Song on a Transition
To Do
Pity No More
The Love Written Down


"Laish Quartet" GFDM:015, (2008), 13 tracks, hand drawn cardboard cover, hand drawn cd, £9.90 including postage. THIS EDITION IS SOLD OUT. Official album release later in 2009.

Tracks:
In the Morning
The Love Written Down (new version)
OCDC Birthday
Backwards Crawling Sprite
Down Pens
Dying Son
Lady Bird
Anymore
Pity No More
Disappointing
Pituitary Gland
To Do
Drain Hair

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Willkommen Records 14 Track Sampler featuring a lot of exclusive songs. £5 including postage. COMPLETELY SOLD OUT.

Laish Quartet - In the Morning Sons of Noel and Adrian - 30 Boys With Bats The Leisure Society Shoreline - Jubeltane Kristin McClement - Planks Hamilton Yarns - Search for the Underwater Town The Miserable Rich - Knife Thrower's Hand Redwood Red - In a Green World Christian Silva - 88 Key Alphabet Atlas Crease - Four Corners Kopek - The Way You Are Rowan Coupland - Memories of the Summer of 2003 Climbers - Bookshop Folk Plus extra
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"Toy Soldier Records 1:18" TSR:004 (2008) 18 track cd, bargain price of £6.99, featuring Laish Quartet's new version of The Love Written Down, plus new songs by Sons of Noel and Adrian, Everyone to the Anderson, Revenge of Shinobi, Jonquil, -a+m, Epideme, Lebanons, plus more!
To buy click here
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"Attack!!!! Magazine: Issue 9" (2008) 5 tracks, £2.50. Nice collaborative poetry zine with cd, featuring musical responses to previous work. Features Laish track Awake Sweet Mother, and tracks by Duke Raoul, Cottonmouth Rocks, Yusuf Azak, Cagey House.
To buy, click here


Record Label: GlossesFurDieMasses/Willkommen/ToySoldier
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Laish Living Room Tour Blog

So the living room tour.  After various long winded email exchanges and some confusing phone calls, we managed to piece together a "TOUR!"  The idea being to play to friends and strangers in a non-mus...
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 05:55:00 GMT

look what i found through vain googling

I saw a lovely gig at the Union Chapel on Saturday lunchtime. The Laish Quartet. http://www.myspace.com/laishmusic.Although one of them was on holiday and one had slept in which made ittwo of them. In...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:34:00 GMT

Laish Quartet unofficial 4 song release limited to 50

Laish Quartet have a new four song cd with these songsSong on a TransitionTo DoPity No MoreThe Love Written DownIf you would like to listen to these songs in your own time, then you can click the link...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:50:00 GMT

Laish Quartet want to come play in your house! Read on...

Maybe you can help...The Laish Quartet are looking to do a house party tour of the UK for a week or so at the start of May.The dates we have in mind are 6th-10th May.We are looking for people ANYWHERE...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:54:00 GMT

Introducing 'Cath and Phil Tyler' and 'Trembling Bells'

Let me introduce to you some important musical people who will be joining us in Brighton on their respective tours.Cath and Phil Tyler from Newcastle are an amazing and haunting folk duo and are pla...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:24:00 GMT

Willkommen Merry New Year Compilation Free Download

Just a head's up for those interested in hearing something rare and special.  For Christmas 2008, a bunch of the Willkommen Records folk decided to record covers of each other's songs for a free ...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:47:00 GMT

Introductions again: Curly Hair (Bass player and singer get ambitious)

Please listen to the charming sounds of the uberground:www.myspace.com/wearecurlyhairxxx
Posted by on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:09:00 GMT

Willkommen Compilation

Hello!Laish Quartet feature on the new Willkommen Records Compilation available to buy from this site.  It is a marvellous thing, with exclusive tracks by Sons of Noel and Adrian, Shoreline, Leis...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:41:00 GMT

Side Project! Over Kodiak

Danny "Fingers in Pies" Green is proud to announce the official download release of Over Kodiak's album Cubed.  Why not download it for a loved one for Christmas?  It was conceived and birth...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:19:00 GMT

Reintroducing OCDC

Dear peopleRory Dickenson, aka OCDC, has been at work.  Gone is the crackle and the ache, now there is urgency and fast chords and a cheeky grin.Please listenwww.myspace.com/ocdcyoxxx
Posted by on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:49:00 GMT