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LMJ11 CD Curator: David Toop

Leonardo Music Journal is pleased to announce that David Toop is the curator of Volume 11 of the LMJ CD series entitled Not Necessarily "English Music." David Toop is a musician, composer, writer and sound curator. He has published three books: Rap Attack (now in its third edition), Ocean of Sound and Exotica (selected as a winner of the 21st annual American Books Awards for 2000). His first album, New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments, was released on Brian Eno's Obscure label in 1975; since 1995 he has released five solo albums---Screen Ceremonies, Pink Noir, Spirit World, Museum of Fruit and Hot Pants Idol---and curated five CD compilations for Virgin Records---Ocean of Sound, Crooning On Venus, Sugar & Poison, Booming On Pluto and Guitars On Mars. He has recorded shamanistic ceremonies in Amazonas, worked with musicians including Brian Eno, John Zorn, Prince Far I, Jon Hassell, Derek Bailey, Talvin Singh, Evan Parker, Max Eastley, Scanner, Ivor Cutler, Bill Laswell and Haruomi Hosono, and collaborated with artists from many other disciplines, including theater director/actor Steven Berkoff, Japanese Butoh dancer Mitsutaka Ishii and writer Jeff Noon. As a critic he has written for many publications, including The Wire, The Face, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer, Arena, Vogue, Spin, GQ, Bookforum, Pulse, Urb and The Village Voice. He is currently a visiting Research Fellow at the London Media School.