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Monday14July - 2008

Pop Levi - Never Never Love (album)

Pop Levi Never Never Love
Pop Levi - Never Never Love
(CD/LP) Counter Records COUNT010/COUNTCD010, 2007-07-14

Tracklisting :
no info yet

Links :
myspace.com/poplevi
youtube.com/poplevi
counterrecords.com/poplevi

Monday23June - 2008

Pop Levi - Dita Dimone


Pop Levi - Dita Dimone
(7"/Promo CD/Download) Counter Records COUNT015, 2007-06-23

Tracklisting :
01. Dita Dimone
02. Dita Dimone (XRABIT and DMG$ remix)
03. Dita Dimone (Pink Enemy remix)
04. Semi-Babe (Astral Version)
05. Dita Dimone (Dirt Lab remix)
06. Dita Dimone (Mumdance & High Rankin remix)

Links :
myspace.com/poplevi
youtube.com/poplevi
counterrecords.com/poplevi
Monday28April - 2008

Pop Levi - Never Never Love

Pop Levi Never Never Love
Pop Levi - Never Never Love
(promo CD/7"/Download) Counter Records COUNT009/COUNTDNL009, 2007-04-28

Tracklisting promo CD :
01. Never Never Love (radio version)
02. Never Never Love (Pink Enemy remix)
03. Love You Straight (Astral version)

Tracklisting 7" :
A1. Never Never Love
B1. Love You Straight (Astral version)

Tracklisting Download :
01. Never Never Love
02. Never Never Love (Pink Enemy remix)
03. Love You Straight (Astral version)
04. Never Never Love (T-Baby remix)
05. Never Never Love (radio version)

Links :
myspace.com/poplevi
youtube.com/poplevi
counterrecords.com/poplevi

Monday16April - 2007

Pop Levi - Pick Me Up Uppercut

Pop Levi Pick Me Up Uppercut
Pop Levi - Pick Me Up Uppercut
(promo CD/7") Counter Records COUNT005, 2007-04-16

Tracklisting promo CD :
01. Pick-Me-Up Uppercut (Radio Mix)
02. Pick-Me-Up Uppercut (Hollywood Version)
03. Skip Ghetto (Hollywood Version)
04. Pick-Me-Up Uppercut (Album version)
05. Pick-Me-Up Uppercut (Radio Instrumental)

Tracklisting 7" :
A1. Pick-Me-Up Uppercut (Hollywood Version)
B1. Skip Ghetto (Hollywood Version)


Monday12February - 2007

Pop Levi - The Return To Form Black Magick Party

Pop Levi - Return Form
Pop Levi - The Return To Form Black Magick Party
(CD/LP) Counter COUNT003 / COUNTCD003, 2007-02-12

Tracklisting :
01. Sugar Assault Me Now
02. Blue Honey
03. (A Style Called) Crying Chic
04. Pick-Me-Up Uppercut
05. Skip Ghetto
06. Dollar Bill Rock
07. Flirting
08. Mournin' Light
09. See My Lord
10. Hades' Lady
11. From The Day That You Were Born

Links :
Join the Pop Levi Mailing List: counterrecords.com/poplevi

Monday29January - 2007

Pop Levi - Sugar Assault Me Now

Pop Levi Sugar Assault Me Now
Pop Levi - Sugar Assault Me Now
(7"/10"/CD) Counter COUNT002 / COUNTCD002, 2007-01-29

Tracklisting CDS :
01. Sugar Assault Me Now (Part 1)
02. Sugar Assault Me Now (Part 2)
03. Blue Honey (Hollywood Version)

Tracklisting 10" :
A1. Sugar Assault Me Now (Power Mix)
B1. Blue Honey (Hollywood Version)
B2. From The Day That You Were Born (Hollywood Version)

Tracklisting 7" :
A1. Sugar Assault Me Now (Part 2)
B1. Cyan Moan (Echo Park Version)

Saturday23December - 2006

Pop Levi - Live (DVD)

Pop Levi Live DVD
Pop Levi - Live (DVD)
(promo DVD) Ninja Tune, 2006

Tracklisting :
01. Pop Levi EPK (directed by Luke Milnes)
02. Sugar Assault Me Now (directed by Brian Harty, Bad Astra Productions)
03. Blue Honey (directed by Christian Swegal, Factory Features)
04. Blue Honey (live in Los Angeles, directed by Stim tv)
05. Skip Ghetto (live in London, directed by Luke Milnes)
06. Blue Honey (XFM acoustic session, directed by Luke Milnes)

Credits :
Pop Levi - vocals, guitars, piano, percussion
Domino - electric guitar
Luke Muscatelli - bass guitar
Marius Simonsen - drums
Produced by Pop Levi

Monday28August - 2006

Pop Levi - Blue Honey EP

pop levi blue honey
Pop Levi - Blue Honey EP
(7"/10"/CDS) Counter COUNTS001/COUNT001/COUNTCD001, 2006-08-28

7" Tracklisting :
A1. Blue Honey
B1. (A Style Called) Crying Chic

10" Tracklisting :
A1. Blue Honey
B1. (A Style Called) Crying Chic
B2. Baby Again (Midnight Version)

CDS Tracklisting :
01. Blue Honey
02. (A Style Called) Crying Chic
03. Mournin' Light
04. Baby Again (Midnight Version)
05. Skip Ghetto (Echo Park Version)

Monday28November - 2005

Super Numeri - The Welcome Table

Super Numeri The Welcome Table
best of 2005Super Numeri - The Welcome Table
(2xLP/CD) Ninja Tune ZEN97/ZENCD97, 2005-11-28

Info :
Super Numeri est un collectif de Liverpool dirigé par 3 membres fondateurs: Pop Levi, Snap Ant & Karl Webb (ce dernier formant chez Ninja Tune le duo Loka avec Mark Kyriacou). Pop Levi joue des claviers (piano électrique, farfisa), du vibraphone, de la sitar, de la clarinette et des percussions. Karl Webb (Loka) joue de la guitare, du sax soprano, de la viole et du clavier (Digitone). Snap Ant joue de la basse et de la kalimba. Ajoutez-y une farandole d'amis musiciens qui apportent guitare, batteries, percussions, harpe celtique, violons, viole et contrebasse et vous obtenez un groupe de 13 personnes complètement dingue. Dingue? Oui dingue, frappé, habité, taré, incroyable... en d'autres termes psychédélique! Leurs influences vont en effet de Can à Miles Davis, en passant par Pink Floyd, Tortoise, le Fleetwood Mac de Peter Green ou bien Soft Machine (première époque), et ça s'entend! Prenez le track d'ouverture, par exemple, presque 25 minutes de transe psyché-rock explosive: voilà de la jam instrumentale, du mélange de rock psyché, de free jazz, de post-rock, de folk de l'école de Canterbury (psyché-folk anglais 60's et 70's), comme on en fait plus en Europe depuis une trentaine d'années! Certains objecteront qu'aux États-Unis on peut trouver depuis quelques années un groupe exactement dans le même esprit musical: j'ai nommé Mushroom (à San Francisco), bien sûr, encore plus inconnus que Super Numeri en nos terres ignares. Le parallèle avec la formation américaine est pourtant tellement évident... Daevid Allen avec son University Of Errors ou John Medeski avec Medeski, Martin & Wood (sur scène!) poursuivent eux aussi le même genre de paysages ultra-trippés mais le lien est beaucoup moins immédiat. En tous cas, vous l'aurez compris: on peut considérer la musique de Super Numeri aujourd'hui comme unique. Essentielle, oui, aux amateurs de jazz et de rock très psyché en premier lieu. Les fans de prog-rock pourront passer leur chemin, il ne s'agit pas ici de faire preuve de dextérité extra-terrestre mais surtout d'ouvrir la porte à l'auditeur vers un ailleurs tout en fluides et en gaz, de lui faire vivre une expérience au-delà de son corps, de l'emmener loin... loin... très loin. Pour résumer l'histoire, disons simplement que la consommation de champis, de champipis, de champignons ne pourrait pas profiter d'une meilleure illustration sonore que celle proposée par cet album, ce CD rempli à ras-bord (78 minutes et quelques), cet Olympe de la musique psychédélique du vingt-et-unième siècle. - Djouls

Super Numeri is a collective from Liverpool directed by 3 founder members: Pop Levi, Snap Ant & Karl Webb (who forms at Tune Ninja the duet Loka with Mark Kyriacou). Pop Levi plays keyboards (electric piano, farfisa), vibraphone, sitar, clarinet and percussions. Karl Webb (Loka) plays guitar, soprano saxophone, viola and keys (Digitone). Snap Ant plays bass and kalimba. Add there a parade of musician friends who bring guitar, drums, percussions, celtic harp, violins, viola and cello and you get a band of 13 nutcases. Nutcases? Yes nutcases, people who'd been hit on the head, inhabited, crazy, incredible... in other words psychedelic! Their influences go indeed from Can to Miles Davis, while passing by Pink Floyd, Tortoise, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac or Soft Machine (first period), and you can hear it! Take the opening track, for example, almost 25 minutes of psyched-up explosive trance-rock: that's what I call an instrumental jam, a mixture of psychedelic rock, free jazz, post-rock, Canterbury folk, like it hasn't been done in Europe for about thirty years! Some will object that in the United States for a few years already you could find a band in the exact same musical spirit: Mushroom (in San Francisco), of course, who are even more unknowns than Super Numeri on our uncivilized grounds. The parallel with the American formation is yet so obvious... Daevid Allen with its University Of Errors or John Medeski with Medeski, Martin & Wood (on stage!) are on the same scale of over-tripped-out landscapes but the link is much less immediate. Anyway, you'll have understood by yourselves: you can consider music of Super Numeri today as unique. Essential, yes, to jazz and very-psychedelic-rock lovers in the first place. Fans of prog-rock can look somewhere else, it's not a question of extra-terrestrial dexterity here, but especially to open the listener's doors of perception towards an elsewhere all in fluids and gas, to make him live an out-of-body experience, to take him far... far... very far away. In short, let's simply say that the consumption of mush, mushrr, mushrooms could not benefit from a better sound illustration than the one proposed by this album, this CD filled up to the limit (78 minutes and some), this Olympus of psychedelic music of the 20th century. - Djouls

2xLP Tracklisting:
A1. The First League Of Angels (24:32)
B1. The Buzzard & The Lamb (10:40)
B2. The Chart (6:26)
C1. The Sea Wolves (10:58)
C2. The Welcome Table (7:08)
D1. The Spies Of St. Ives (11:09)
D2. The Babies (7:20)

CD Tracklisting:
1. The First League Of Angels (24:32)
2. The Buzzard & The Lamb (10:40)
3. The Chart (6:26)
4. The Sea Wolves (10:58)
5. The Welcome Table (7:08)
6. The Spies Of St. Ives (11:09)
7. The Babies (7:20)

Monday17October - 2005

Pop Levi - Blue Honey

Pop Levi Blue HoneyPop Levi Blue Honey
Pop Levi - Blue Honey
(7") Invicta Hi-Fi LIQ033, 2005-10-17

Pop Levi plays electric piano, farfisa, vibraphone, sitar, clarinet & percussion in Super Numeri.

Tracklisting :
A1. Blue Honey
B1. Mournin' Light

Thursday15September - 2005

Super Numeri - The Enochian Way


Super Numeri - The Enochian Way
(Mixed CD) Counter Records (Japan), 2005-09-15

Tracklisting :
01. Sonny - Sharrock Black Woman
02. Silver Apples - Lovefingers
03. Yoko Ono - Greenfield Morning I Pushed An Empty Baby Carriage All Over The City
04. Brigitte Bardot - Contact
05. Little Richard - God Is Real
06. Pop Levi - Skip Ghetto
07. Fairport Convention - Autopsy
08. Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies - Moonsong
09. The Velvet Underground - Lady Godiva's Operation
10. The Beach Boys - Cool Cool Water
11. Snap Ant - Gunsticker
12. The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You
13. Biltone - Humming Bird
14. Bruce Haak - Word Game
15. Loka - Meet Dad
16. The Shocking Blue - Love Buzz
17. Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Riversong
18. Esa Shields - Frolicsome On Last Road
19. Super Numeri - The Red Lady/Lunar Mansions
20. John Lee Hooker - Moanin' The Blues

[Pop Levi, Snap Ant & Loka are all members of the Super Numeri collective]

Wednesday22December - 2004

Pop Levi - Rude Kind Of Love / Snap Ant - Give Up The Juice / on Rallye Cloak 01

Rallye Cloak 01
Pop Levi - Rude Kind Of Love
Snap Ant - Give Up The Juice
on Various - Rallye cloak 01
(CD) Rallye Records RYECD007, 2004-12-22

Pop Levi plays electric piano, farfisa, vibraphone, sitar, clarinet & percussion in Super Numeri.
Snap Ant plays electric bass guitar & kalimba in Super Numeri.

Tracklisting :
01. E*Rock - Living, Breathing, etc.
02. Normal Position - Ashtray
03. Wren - Drive Down Lines
04. Languis - Nothing I Will Do
05. Airiel - Stratosphere
06. Neeve - Stop Laughing
07. Signer - I Was Dressed As The Ant
08. Akt Apart - Lazy
09. Arne Zank - El Rey Gravitas
10. Pop Levi - Rude Kind Of Love
11. Snap Ant - Give Up The Juice
12. Au Revoir Simone - Through the Backyards
13. Textile Ranch - Vince Clarke Holidaye Parke
14. Pandatone - Wondering (feat. Midori Hamada)
15. Black Moth Super Rainbow - I Think It Is Beautiful That You Are 256 Colors Too
16. I Monster - Heaven
Monday13December - 2004

Pop Levi - Reindeer In My Heart

Pop Levi Reindeer In My Heart
Pop Levi - Reindeer In My Heart
(7") Invicta Hi-Fi LIQ027, 2004-12-13

Pop Levi plays electric piano, farfisa, vibraphone, sitar, clarinet & percussion in Super Numeri.

Tracklisting :
A1. Reindeer In My Heart
B1. Hayley Square (Instrumental)

Tuesday20July - 2004

Ladytron - Evil (Pop Levi Mix) / on Ladytron - Light & Magic

Ladytron Light & Magic
Ladytron - Evil (Pop Levi Mix)
on Ladytron - Light & Magic
(CD) Emperor Norton EMR7058-2, 2004-07-20

Pop Levi plays electric piano, farfisa, vibraphone, sitar, clarinet & percussion in Super Numeri.

Tracklisting :
01. True Mathematics (2:22)
02. Seventeen (4:37)
03. Flicking Your Switch (3:26)
04. Fire (2:49)
05. Turn It On (4:46)
06. Blue Jeans (4:13)
07. Cracked LCD (2:32)
08. Black Plastics (4:17)
09. Evil (5:34)
10. Startup Chime (3:30)
11. Nuhorizons (4:03)
12. Cease2xist (4:37)
13. Re:Agents (4:53)
14. Light & Magic (3:35)
15. The Reason Why (4:15)
16. Seventeen (Soulwax Mix) (4:26)
17. Cracked LCD (Live In Sofia) (2:55)
18. Light & Magic (Live In Sofia) (3:23)
19. Evil (Pop Levi Mix) (3:13)
Monday17May - 2004

Pop Levi - Rude Kinda Love

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Pop Levi - Rude Kinda Love
(7"/promo CDS) Invicta Hi-Fi LIQ023, 2004-05-17

Pop Levi plays electric piano, farfisa, vibraphone, sitar, clarinet & percussion in Super Numeri.

Tracklisting :
A1. Rude Kinda Love
B1. Clearly Dearly