Chris Taylor has been appointed senior regional director for ASEAN, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea wef May 2010
Work experience: Asia Pacific director, Polycom Global Services; held various management roles with a range of leading IT vendors in Asia Pacific and Middle East regions
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Polycom Inc – Corporate moves
May 18th, 2010 |
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Neon Indian: Summer Tour BRAHMS Remix
April 6th, 2010 |
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NEON INDIAN ANNOUNCES SUMMER TOUR / GETS REMIXED BY BRAHMS
 Neon Indian |
Neon Indian is Alan
Palomo, the 21-year-old synth-wizard who first created waves as VEGA. After writing a batch of off-the-cuff recordings that weren’t quite right as VEGA songs, Palomo released them as Neon Indian and what started
as a careless outlet for ideas too offbeat to fit the VEGA mold has since gone on to define a genre. His critically
acclaimed debut album Psychic Chasms, which was released in October 2009, has been featured in
SPIN, Rolling Stone, Wall Street Journal and FADER among others. In February 2010 he
made his late night TV debut with a performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. “Sleep Paralysist,” the
recent single for Green Label Sound was written by Neon Indian lead-man Alan Palomo; the track was
recorded and produced in collaboration with Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear in Brooklyn at Taylor’s
elusive musical dungeon, Terrible Studios. Here, Neon Indian is remixed by new outfit BRAHMS, which features Eric
Lodwick, Drew Robinson, and Cale Parks.
Click here to listen to the BRAHMS remix of “Psychic Chasms.”
Click here for a recent review of Neon Indian in San Francisco.
NEON INDIAN SUMMER TOUR:
05/12 New York, NY Terminal 5 *
05/13 Boston, MA House of Blues *
05/29 Calgary, AB Hi Fi Club
05/31 George, WA Sasquatch
06/02 San Diego, CA Casbah
06/03 Costa Mesa, CA Detroit Bar
06/04 Los Angeles, CA Natural History Museum / First Fridays #
06/05 Corvalis, OR Flat Tall Music Festival
06/07 Austin, TX Emo’s
06/09 Atlanta, GA The Earl
06/10 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo
06/11 Cincinnati, OH Fountain Square
06/12 Pittsburgh, PA Brillobox
06/13 Baltimore, MD Sonar
06/17 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
06/19 Denver, CO Westword Music Showcase
07/17 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom
* = w/ Massive Attack
# = w/ Peanut Butter Wolf
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Jamie Lidell: New Album w/ Beck, Feist, Griz Bear
February 8th, 2010 |
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JAMIE LIDELL ALBUM COMPASS SET FOR MAY 18, 2010 RELEASE
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Warp Records has announced the release of Jamie Lidell‘s third full-length album Compass on May 18, 2010. The album was recorded in Los Angeles, New York and Canada, Jamie’s fellow travelers on Compass include Beck, Feist, Gonzales, Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear and Pat Sansone of Wilco. Musically and lyrically this is very much a Jamie Lidell production — reflecting not only his exhilarating, diverse tastes, but also a year of change, love, longing and arrival at a new place.
Undoubtedly, Compass is his most eclectic album yet. Songs shift, chop, change and mutate genres and forms before our very ears. It’s got funk in spades; the jaw-dropping power of the vocals is stronger than ever; it rocks, it pops, it’s sweet, angry, hard, soulful and soft, often within the span of a single track. It’s the restless album that finally matches the soul of its creator.
Sessions began at Beck’s Hudson Studios in Los Angeles, where he gathered Jamie together with Wilco, Leslie Feist and veteran drummer James Gadson (who’s hit sticks for Bill Withers, Quincy Jones among many others) for Beck’s Record Club project (where a group of musicians cover an album in a day). Inspired by the chemistry of those jams, they shifted to the legendary Ocean Way Studios. There, they were joined by producer/keyboardist Brian Lebarton, singer Nikka Costa and Justin Stanley. All would have an important impact on the album. Pat Sansone from Wilco and Chilly Gonzales (who s played on both Multiply and Jim) were present as musical meta-spirits, recording their parts remotely and delivering them via the internet. As Jamie says of this formidable lineup of brilliant collaborators — You don’t fuck with them!
Back in New York he began to make sense of this great big mess on the hard drive. Then it was up to Feist’s ranch in the Niagara Escarpment with Chris Taylor, producer and member of Brooklyn avant-pop sensations Grizzly Bear.
“I wrote every song in a month,” Jamie says, “It’s been an emotional couple of years, so I tapped into what I wanted to say and started writing. There was a lot to draw on.” When he takes to the road in 2010, he’ll be bringing a band again, but stripping it back; keeping it lean. For both newcomers and initiates, this will be an experience. And no, he won’t stop.