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Welcome to Edition Records – the label to watch for all that is vital in jazz, contemporary composition and improvised music. To coincide with the launch of Edition Records, pre-order your copy of ‘Dismantling the Waterfall’ NOW and receive a 10% discount. Offer ends 24th May 2008 Click 'BUY NOW' below to pre-order securely via PaypalOnly £9.00 (including P and P) Click 'BUY NOW' below to pre-order CIRCULAR MOTION by the Kevin Figes Quartet securely via PaypalOnly £9.00 (including P and P) Formed by pianist and composer Dave Stapleton and photographer Tim Dickeson, Edition Records exists to promote new original voices in contemporary music and to provide a platform for established artists to document their work and release pioneering new recordings. In this age of downloads, each release will be a thing of beauty in itself incorporating stunning visuals and graphics. As Tim Dickeson says, ‘Remember the pleasure of buying an LP, taking it out of the sleeve and staring at the cover and reading every word of the sleeve notes as you listened. It was a precious moment and that’s what we want to give to the buyer.’ But EDITION RECORDS will be so much more. As Dave Stapleton explains, ‘Edition will also be seeking out the best European music, as yet unreleased in the UK, so that we can offer the best possible selection of new contemporary music.’ Their first EDITION will be ‘DISMANTLING THE WATERFALL’, an album of short, breath-taking improvisations by Dave and fellow pianist-composer Matthew Bourne. Seventeen episodic tracks all linked by a seventeen line poem by Julie Tippetts where each line provides a title. This is music of combining talents and visions. Simple and stately as much the result of European Art Music as of Jazz, as inspired by Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett as by Shostakovich, Ravel and Bach. ‘Dismantling the Waterfall’ is a meeting of musical minds and improvisational values and a matter of light and shade. Forthcoming releases for 2008 include: - Kevin Figes Quartet – Circular Motion – EDN1002 – Provisional release date: 7th July 2008 (Kevin Figes - alto saxophone, Jim Blomfield – piano, Riaan Vosloo - double bass, Tim Giles – drums) - Bourne Davis Kane - EDN1003- Release date: 18th August 2008 (Matthew Bourne - piano, Dave Kane - bass and Steven Davis - drums) - Paula Gardiner Trio – EDN1004 - Provisional release date: 8th September 2008 (Paula Gardiner – double bass, Lee Goodall – Saxophones and Mark O’Connor – drums) - Shank Trio – END1005 – Autumn Release (Dave Kane – double bass, James Allsopp - Saxophones and Tim Giles – drums) - Catching Sunlight – EDN1005 - Autumn Release (Neil Yates – trumpet, Dave Stapleton – piano, Paula Gardiner – bass and Elliot Bennett – drums, Lunar Sax Quartet – Joel Garthwaite, Hannah Riches, Lewis Evans and Lauren Hamer) With future artists to include Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts, Geoff Eales, Neil Yates and Ben Waghorn, EDITION looks set to become the label to watch for all that is innovative in modern music. EDITION STREET TEAM Over the coming months we will be forming the Edition street team, a community of music fans or anyone who is interested in becoming involved in the record industry. The street team will be involved with distributing flyers and posters, promoting gigs and generally help spread the word throughout various cities in the UK and Europe. In return the street team will be rewarded with free live recordings from gigs, and special promotions and receive new releases before anyone else etc. If you are interested in joining please email [email protected] and let us know who you are, what you’re into, where you live and we’ll get back to you. EDITION ONLINE Visit us on myspace.com at www.myspace.com/editionlabel Our website at www.editionrecords.com is coming soon… Artist Demo submission If you think your music would suit Edition please get in touch and send us your CD and biography to the address below. (Please don’t send mp3’s) Please contact: Edition Records, 6 Denison Way, St. Fagans, Cardiff, CF5 4SF. www.editionrecords.com - [email protected]Fill out your e-mail address
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