Acoustic Ladyland
Last Chance Disco
BDV2555

Iggy mp3
Om Konz
Deckchair
Remember mp3
Perfect Bitch mp3
Ludwig Van Ramone
High Heel Blues
Trial and Error
Thing
Of You
Nico mp3

Pete Wareham - saxes; Tom Cawley - keys; Tom Herbert - bass; Seb Rochford - drums.

Jazzwise CD of 2005
Mojo no. 6 jazz CD of 2005
Album named as one of "1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die" in The Guardian in November 2007BBC Jazz Awards nominated Album of 2006

Read fantastic jazz and rock press reviews from
The Times/ Music Week/ Straight No Chaser/ Jazzwise/Independent/Time Out/Guardian/Mojo/

PRESS QUOTES:

("My favourite of a strong British jazz movement"
(DJ Gilles Peterson, The Times)

“ One of the best young bands on the live circuit, Acoustic Ladyland have made it their life's work to mess with your expectations… Think cut-throat improvisation with the attitude of rock.”
(Observer Music Monthly)

"They look more like Interpol than a jazz quartet, play a high energy punk jazzhybrid that's as funky as hell and are tipped to explode this year."
(Time Out)

“Acoustic Ladyland will be one of the big stories of 2005.”
(The Guardian)

"...makes the Bad Plus look like fakers."
( Mojo)

"Starting with the pell-mell explosion of Iggy, the four-man assault unit blasts through a selection of original instrumentals that evoke a primal thrill… Melodically adept, rhythmically inspired and philosophically unhinged, it's a performance of mind blowing magnificence" The Times

"The big-hitters of the current British new wave… playing punchy, exciting, infinitely varied music…" Independent On Sunday

"Bringing their distinctive rock 'n' roll edge to 11 new songs and, with names such as Iggy and Perfect Bitch, this is genre-bending jazz for the Noughties and beyond" Music Week

"Acoustic Ladyland have burst out of the jazz bracket to become one of London's most raucously exciting live acts - in any genre." Evening Standard

"Acoustic Ladyland… storm through 11 beautifully outrageous, X-rated jazz-rock creations. How refreshing their lack of respect for convention and tradition is and how unusual it is to hear a jazz group, especially a British one, that sounds so utterly original." Jazzwise

"The band hammered through raunchy tenor licks over rumbling drum'n'bass sounds, trancelike dance-floor hooks blurring into free-sax howls, power-chord rock, briefly dreamy episodes for soft horn-playing, jingly keys and Rochford's lazy slow-funk pulse, and a Coltranesque lament. On this evidence Acoustic Ladyland will be one of the big stories of 2005." The Guardian

Acoustic Ladyland is an electric jazz group that plays dirty rock'n'roll. The Observer Music Monthly tipped them as one of ‘five incredible acts to watch in 2005' and after the release of their new album Last Chance Disco you won't be able to miss them.

The album showcases the dark, explosive sound the London-based four piece has developed since 2001, when they started playing jazz reimaginings of Jimi Hendrix. Their first album, Camouflage (2004), received rave reviews from across the board and they have steadily evolved into one of the most powerful and fluent live bands on the circuit. Acoustic Ladyland's music is an electric mix of distorted melodies and wordless songs about paranoia, anger, heroism and dogs, made up of screaming, voice-like saxophones; raucous, distorted keyboards; sneering punk bass and some of the most astonishing drumming you'll ever hear.

Last Chance Disco comprises 11 songs ranging from the short and furious to the broad and uplifting. Iggy and Thing are sonic ink-blots: primal and violent, while Nico is as strange and beguiling as the Velvet Underground singer herself. Om Konz – a tribute to Olivier Messiaien and The YeahYeahYeahs - begins as a post-punk pogo and ends in a psychedelic mess, while Deckchair has all the space of E.S.G. before descending into grindcore. This music is raw optimism - post-jazz, post-everything.