David Edmund Turin (born 8 September 1965), known as Emit Bloch, is an American songwriter and

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Background

Emit Bloch is a singer, songwriter and musician known for field recordings and

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production. His parents are

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Career

Bloch has issued several notable collections, with his 2010 release '' Dictaphones Vol. 1'' garnering 5/5 stars in

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, the magazine calling Bloch an "exceptional songwriter" and the release "utterly remarkable", as well as frequent radio play on BBC stations when it was issued on One Little Independent records. London's '' The Sun'' called the record "...fresh, vital, uncluttered and brilliant" and awarded it 4.5/5 stars. The subsequent digital EP, "Dorothy," included some studio versions of songs on '' Dictaphones Vol. 1'' and received UK-wide acclaim when it was selected by

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as "Hot Download of the Week" and its eponymous single was championed by Dermot O'Leary,

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and several other mainstream BBC DJs. In 2000, Bloch wrote and recorded the occult

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, '' The People Tree Sessions'', for his internet imprint Peopletree, an early example of internet marketing. The largely field recorded release was chosen as the "Pop CD of the Week" and given 4/5 stars by the newspaper '' The Guardian'', which stated that the record was "so barking, it's great". In the late 1990s, Bloch co-founded the experimental jamming band Banyan with

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drummer Stephen Perkins,

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bassist

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' keyboardist Money Mark and Wilco guitarist Nels Cline and co-produced Banyan, the band's first release for Higher Octave with Perkins and The Dust Brothers. Bloch met Perkins when working with

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to develop ''Teeth'', an early, internet-based music and film project funded by

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. On Nov. 15, 2022 Bloch issued Emit Bloch: Rock, a third album-length collection of songs recorded with a band and featuring performances by

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as well as longtime collaborator David Peters. The album was released on the imprint TFFTT, located in

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. In 2022, TFFTT also released a collection of B-Sides, Emit Bloch: Canteen and an Xmas song, Emit Bloch: "I Misspelled Santa 'Satan'.

Discography

* '' Banyan'' ( Higher Octave) 1997 * '' The People Tree Sessions'' 1998 (Cherry Red) * ''Bouncy Castle'' (Peopletree) 2000 - ''out of print'' * ''Sexy Religion'' Falafelelf (Peopletree/iDot/One Little Indian) 2001 * ''Swing'' Falafelelf (Peopletree/iDot/One Little Indian) 2003 * ''Monsta'' ( One Little Indian) 2006 * ''Dictaphones Vol.1'' (Lost Dogs/One Little Indian) 2010 * ''Collectives Vol.2'' (AWAL) 2018 * ''Rocks'' (TFFTT/AWAL) 2022 * ''Canteen'' {TFFTT/AWWAL) 2022

References

External links

BBC Radio Emit Bloch Page

Emit Bloch page
at One Little Indian Records
Lollapalooza Teeth Project
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