Forest Leon Thailand

Leon III (pronounced Leon The Third), is the new project from former Wrinkle Neck Mules members Andy Stepanian and Mason Brent. To kick off this fresh endeavor, the pair decamped to Nashville for the legendary Beech House Studios and put their songs and their trust in the hands of a small army of session musicians. And their collective efforts helped shepherd into reality a measured masterpiece of sweetly psychedelic ramblers, spacious folk-pop, and lived in roots-rock.
Leading the charge was Mark Nevers. A veteran of the country-leaning indie scene thanks to his peerless work with Bonnie Prince Billy, Lambchop, and Silver Jews, he was the bands first choice for collaborator on this new endeavor.

SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce Leon McCawley’s Second Volume of Piano Sonatas by Franz Joseph Haydn. McCawley’s admired first volume, pairing Haydn’s Sonatas and Variations (SOMMCD 0162), received a coveted Diapason d’Or for playing of “great intelligibility and sensitivity”. Sonata No.60 from Volume I has been selected by Diapason to appear on its next CD, Les indispensables de Diapason, featuring six Haydn sonatas played on different keyboards.

Mitten im vermeintlichen Sommerloch veröffentlicht da eine Band ihr neues Album, der man den Spaß am Musikmachen durchweg anhört: Leon Francis Farrow aus Berlin. Ganz bewusst lehnt es sich an Vorbilder aus den 60ern an – was „King Future“ allerdings von anderen Bands der Retro-Welle absetzt, ist, dass es sich nicht hinter der selbstverständlich schon im Titel mitschwingenden Ironie versteckt, sondern ganz offen Verletzlichkeit und Unsicherheit zugibt. Eine Rezension.

Nomadic Southern evangelist Leon Followill may take soap suds to the mouths of the kinfolk wunderkinds–his three sons and a nephew–in Tennessee quartet Kings of Leon, whose second album spins enough cuss phrases and sexual allusions to leave Dolly Parton flushed.