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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Sidewinder
Salesrank: 165113
Released: June 3, 2002 |
| Our Price: $46.64 |
| Used Price: $27.98 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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New Electronic Folk Music: The Peopletree Sessions Track Listing:
1. Hi It's Milla
2. Queen Electric
3. Flu
4. Sweetheart
5. DJ Puppy Ink
6. I Tell
7. Going Down
8. Flu Acoustic
9. Purge
10. Secret Society
11. Flu @Sinc
12. Separate Worlds
13. Separate Worlds [Remix]
14. Wake Baby
15. Saturday
16. House of Spiders
17. Loose Weight
18. Queen of the Parade [Remix]
Editorial Review:
Full title - New Electronic Folk Music - The Peopletree Sessions UK Edition. 2002 reissue is a recording from the computer-based home recording folk collective The Peopletree & features the musical & vocal talents of model & actress Milla Jovovich. This edition features additional tracks not on the out-of-print U.S. issue. This recording was created in a series of late night meetings filled with conversation & song & plugged directly into the back of a computer in an apartment in the Hollywood Hills. That the raw recordings were then remixed & reinterpreted at other desktop studios in other parts of the world gives it a sense of time - you can feel, in listening the enthusiasm of a new era. Previously sold (for the last three years) through the internet, it's acquired somewhat legendary status - as much for its rarity (it has commanded $150 in online auctions) as for the intimacy, danger, beauty &
New Electronic Folk Music: The Peopletree Sessions Reviews:
If Milla says don't buy it... 
2009-08-24 - Who the hell are we to go against what she says? Just because we can buy something, if the person who created it isn't comfortable with us hearing it, why would we want to listen to it? This sort of thing makes me sick. I am a fan of Milla so I am going to respect her wishes, for whatever her reasons are, because it's her intellectual property to decide to share or not. Why do so many people act like vultures when it comes to celebrities? If people would just respect others, we wouldn't have the paparazzi or jerks like this who sell things they have no business selling just to make money off of someone famous. It's sad how nobody seems to care about anyone else these days. Pathetic really.
The Truth
2009-01-14 - George Turin is David Turin's father and while I respect his desire to be a protective parent sadly it is HE that is not only misinformed, but has changed the history of this sad tale entirely.
David misrepresented his project to work with Milla from the very beginning, stringing her along with this idea of working with Perry Ferrel who Milla had great respect for. I was at that dinner at Perry's house, George was not. After that initial meeting David kept saying that Perry was too busy with other projects to give an accurate start date so, Milla continued to work on demo ideas with David and I with the intention of presenting those ideas to Perry. The whole process was about a month long where we met once a week, no longer.
The whole exchange was strange and awkward at best and what Milla was offering to David in exchange for his so called "vision" was a possible opportunity to work on a future album with her where he could be one of a few producers. Milla never understood David's intentions because he never made it clear. It wasn't until after he re-mixed and pressed these cd's that he told her Perry wasn't interested in recording with her for the moment.
Of course Milla was disappointed, she was misled and lied to by David on several occasions. David even lied about where we were recording these demos saying it was a friends apartment which we later discovered to be his own. It was a pathetic and unnecessary lie to tell, and one that Milla and I never understood the motivation behind it.
Milla never personally received any royalty checks, that is pure fabrication.
What is true is that Milla had a relation with David's wife, a photographer whom Milla worked with and who is a very talented and kind hearted person. Out of respect for Kate, David's wife, Milla chose not to turn this into a legal matter and hoped that David would show her the same respect by discontinuing his desire to exploit her ideas for gain.
As is evident, David had no intention of not releasing this work and after a few tough conversations I had with George I told him to donate any royalties from the first and what I hoped would be the only release to OCRF since Milla herself wanted nothing to do with working with Davind anymore and clearly wanted to distance herself from this misrepresentation. Since there was nothing that could be done about it, and since Milla did not want to take legal action, at the time we thought the best course of action was to give any funds from the People Tree Sessions to OCRF.
It saddens me that George uses that decision as a way of trying to prove Milla's change of heart. Honestly, I have never met George nor has Milla, he was not present at any of the 4 demo sessions, he was not in attendance at the dinner with Perry Ferrel. He has been grossly misinformed of the actual details from his son David, and than is made upset by what some may consider my "volatile" reaction.
My volatility only came after months of frustration trying to stop David from releasing something he was never given permission to do. At the end of the day he never had a verbal agreement from Milla, nor does he have her signature on a single document saying he had the right or permission to release any of her demo material. If she wanted, Milla could take David and George to court and she would easily win this case. She never did so because she is a nice person and one who was sadly taken advantage of. I might add that there was never an attempt to donate any further royalty checks to the OCRF which says a lot about the decency of David Turin and of his father George.
Impressive Voice! 
2008-03-01 - Not only is she HOT! But she can sing too.
Id give it a 5 star but the music itself is boring.
Purchased as a Gift
2007-10-07 - I have a friend that lives in France, who really wanted this CD, so I bought it for her as a Christmas gift a couple of years ago. She was thrilled at my thoughtfulness, as well as this CD. She said that it was a good CD.
Setting the Record Straight 
2007-01-07 - Here's the flip side of the story that is related inaccurately, second and third hand, in some of the other reviews here. Although one may discount my version (I am obviously biased, as David Turin's father), one cannot ignore it, since I do have first-hand, real-time knowledge about the whole affair. Here are some of the facts I know:
The CD's genesis was almost ten years ago, when Perry Ferrell, with whom David was working closely at the time, mentioned that David and Milla Jovovich might do a track for an album he was putting together. David and Milla went to dinner at Perry's house to discuss this, but Perry ultimately had second thoughts about the track.
David and Milla then decided to continue working on tracks together, and did so on and off for about two months. She was as excited as he about what was to become the Peopletree Sessions, even offering to pay for them to be produced as an art album for the "underground" market (online and in independent record shops). David subsequently put much time and money into creating a CD that would show this other side of Milla. She personally approved the final master CD and its packaging. Shortly after its release (August 1998), Milla's associate Chris Brenner was quoted online as saying "We had a lot of fun creating ideas with its producer David Turin ... and we are both pleased with the result."
About a year later, the tone started changing, with Milla and Chris eventually completely disowning the CD. We conjecture that people in the movie and fashion industries that surround Milla felt it was bad for her image. Chris's latest rewriting of history - there were many - is given in a quotation attributed to him in another review here. (One can discern the volatility of Chris's nature by reading his obscene and out-of-control comment on the positive review given by Justin Me on 11/19/04, below; that volatility has been a hallmark of this dispute.) David has been absolutely astonished by the ever-increasing misrepresentations and calumnies. Given Milla's latter-day opposition, however, he limited production to the first 2000 CDs pressed, and attempted (unsuccessfully) to get Cherry Red to discontinue an ongoing plan for a separate release to the UK "underground" market.
Because of the constraints on production and distribution, David made no money from the CD. He nonetheless dutifully paid Milla royalties twice: a check on 2/1/00 that she cashed, and a check on 2/21/01 paid to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at her request. (One may bemusedly ask: if Milla, as now claimed, didn't authorize the CD, why would she accept royalties on it?)
What goads me into writing this so many years after the original controversy? It's because I see my son continuing to be defamed - as recently as 11/28/06 on this Amazon page - by those who unthinkingly and uncritically parrot Milla and Chris's revisionist mudslinging. Let me again set the record straight for the Amazon community: David entered into a project with Milla in good faith and fulfilled his original agreement with her. Milla is entitled to a change of heart, but not to a change of history.
I have given this CD an admittedly biased five-star rating, but at least I agree with the Guardian newspaper in London, which on 2/11/00 called it "so barking it's great."
