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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Sidewinder
Salesrank: 105300
Released: June 3, 2002 |
| Our Price: $12.88 |
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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
14. Wake Baby
15. Saturday
16. House of Spiders
17. Loose Weight
18. Queen of the Parade
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:
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."
Torn 
2006-11-28 - I haven't heard this cd, so this is not so much a review as it is a message to anyone considering buying this album new. Milla did not approve of this album. If you must buy it, please consider buying it used so the people who exploited Milla will not profit from you too. If I were Milla, I would feel really hurt and embarrassed. From my understanding, the guy who made this album used her vocals and put them over some not-so-great instrumentals, lied to her about his intentions when he tricked her into singing for him, and used photos his wife took for the art, photos they had no right to use for this purpose. I wonder if this even has anything to do with the fact that Milla has not been publishing music for us? Did she feel raped? Did this awful experience make her want to stop sharing her beautiful music with us? I feel robbed in a way too, because I really want to hear Milla. I loved the Divine Comedy and I want more. I know Milla is busy with other projects. She has many talents. I just wonder if she has lots of songs she keeps private because she is afraid to share them with us as a result of being exploited by selfish people. I may buy this album used just to hear her beautiful voice but I do so hesitantly. I try to put myself in Milla's shoes. Even if that guy doesn't profit from my purchase, I know Milla didn't want me to hear this cd, so out of respect for her, I probably won't listen to it. I'm very torn. What would you do?
In order to post this message, I had to rate this album. As I have not heard it, I rated it 3 because I don't want my rating to affect the score too much.
ptoooey! 
2006-09-11 - Mila? What Mila? Crappy music by a crappy band that uses I don't know what from Mila to market it's awful album. If you liked Divine Comedy you will HATE this. I wish Mila would release another album but this one just won't do.
