Artist: Pop Levi
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
The Return to Form Black Magick Party
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Pop Levi is a dashing Brit with a compelling name; he's also the primogenitor of a engender of music that swerves so quickly from pop to glam stone candy to lusus naturae folk, it's mostly unclassifiable. Levi, natural in London to a Jewish doctor of the Church and a gentile nurse, began perusal forte-piano at age ternary. He joined a evangel choir at septenary, started assembling records at niner, and wrote his starting time low paraphernalia sung dynasty, "Through the Window of My Life," by the time he was 12.
As a young multi-instrumentalist, Levi had scant luck breakage into the music business; afterward a move to Liverpool in 1997 that found him working as an iCE cream van driver and tomentum model, he set up a commune with Snap Ant, Karl Webb, and a emcee of other artists. There, in a tatterdemalion Victorian house, he formed his offset band, the post-rock group Super Numeri. That band's early recordings found their way to London in 2002, which light-emitting diode to a sign language with Ninja Tune Recordings, too Super Numeri's label. Debut individual "The Electric Horse Garden" spawned a buzz that helped subsequent record album Majuscule Aviaries and EP The Coastal Bird Scene infiltrate the English tube.Months afterwards that offset spike in mention recognition, Danny Hunt of Ladytron asked Levi to join his band on bass guitar; Levi recognized and exhausted 2003 and 2004 touring. He too put-upon the tour of duty as an opportunity to write and record material for a plotted LP, Foxwatch, to be released on Hunt's Invicta Hi-Fi label. Foxwatch was never completed, but it spawned the first official Pop Levi releases. "Raw Kinda Love" hit No. 25 on the U.K. indie chart, and the Christmas 2004 release "Caribou in my Heart" reached U.S. airwaves. When Levi completed the go with Ladytron, he elective to form his own band; back in Liverpool, he recruited backing players and started acting live -- dates throughout the West Coast were instrumental in first appearance his U.S. career. He recorded a s Super Numeri disc with Ant and Webb and briefly rejoined Ladytron, simply by October of 2005, when third base single "Blue Honey" was released on Invecta Hi-Fi, he was attached to departure solo. It didn't take Ninja Tune Recordings long to polarity him for his offset album -- The Return to Form Black Magick Party was conceived at the end of 2005, and on an imprint created only for Levi, Counter Records. That album, recorded in an abandoned warehouse and the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, picked up elements of '60s rock-and-roll, disco music, and phratry, and was presented in a sound-collage format -- more than than a decennium of home recordings superman the tracks. Levi stirred to the U.S. with his band in 2006; they live in Los Angeles, in a white house reinforced in 1897. The Return to Form Black Magick Party saw planetary release in January of 2007.
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