NEWS
NEW ALBUM /// Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker /// IN STORES JAN 18, 2011
- DARK JOAN, The solo album recorded and mixed in Chicago with the legendary Steve Albini (PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsome, Nirvana) is OUT NOW in the UK on Frizz Records (NZ distro - bordermusic.com)
_ “Leila Adu’s music is cryptic, edgy, oscillating between serious commentary and flippant experimentation.” — Sheffield Telegraph
- “Leila Adu is a rebel-inspirer. And not in the way that calls for the raising of fists, or the hurling of sharp word-blades. Her defiance is decided. Explorative.” – Purple Magazine
"Her voice is extraordinaryboth tender and terrifying" -Sunday Star Times
— Dark Joan, the music video for LEILA ADU’s latest album by the same title was filmed in Rome by director by Stephen Bain (NZ) starring Leila Adu and a cast of a cardboard girl army is out February 2010.
ABOUT LEILA ADU
Dubbed “Spooky Adu” by Steve Albini (Nirvana, Joanna Newsom, PJ Harvey producer) who recorded her latest solo album, Dark Joan. “Leila Adu takes you on an aural journey that most progressive rock albums could only attempt” (URB ALT Online)
Raised in New Zealand of Ghanaian descent, Adu has produced three acclaimed albums, written for and sung with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, toured extensively and had radio play in the UK, mainland Europe, the US, Australasia, Russia and the Far East. In 2010 she was voted one of Bold As Love’s TEN SISTAS WHO ROCKED THE DECADE and Time Out CRITIC’S CHOICE for her latest gig with London trio LEILA ADU & THE DON’T’s with punk/improv legends John Edwards & Steve Noble (Neneh Cherry’s Rip Rig & Panic)
Little Richard’s naughty niece reinstates the piano as the original rock ‘n’ roll instrument with a contemporary twist. “Leila Adu’s music is, cryptic, edgy, oscillating between serious commentary and flippant experimentation” — Sheffield Telegraph. With a voice like hot treacle on broken glass, whether singing of love or social change, fans consistently return to LEILA ADU concerts to be “taken away to a parallel dimension of music and thought.”
PREVIOUS ALBUMS
CHERRY PIE (2005)
Produced by David Long (winner of Producer of the Year Award 2001 and sound designer on Lord of the Rings) with some of New Zealands top musicians
"Curiously compelling . . . Centred on her percussive piano playing and an astonishing voice theres little I can compare it to" -National Radio.
"If you havent already aquainted yourself with Adu, go do it." ****1/2-Dominion Post
DIG A HOLE (2003)
Leila's debut album received rave reviews both in New Zealand and Australia from the media and audiences alike. The 'I'm Calling' single and video clip played on both student and National Radio stations and on NZ Televsion.
"She has a hypnotic voice, moderately spiced, sprinkled in firewater. Some call it sultry, and it is, but its also heavy and soothing and gets under your skin in the most welcoming way."-Beat Magazine
