Sam Mildner
Phil Ennion
Jacob Maxwell
Jack Clulow
Callum Cox
Adam Jennings
Shane Ryan
Toby Bradshaw
Chris Bates
Fnord will expand and mutate and rotate between several performers.
Influences
Theoretical influences;
“Noise is about fascination, the antithesis of meaning. If music is a language, communicating moods and feelings, then noise is like an eruption within the material out of which language is shaped. We are arrested, fascinated, by a convulsion of sound to which are unable to assign a meaning. WE are mesmerized by the materiality of music. This is why noise and horror go hand in hand – because madness and violence are senseless and arbitrary (violence is the refusal to argue), and the only response is wordless – to scream.”
Simon Reynolds, 'Noise'
"It is failure that guides evolution; perfection offers no incentive for improvement."
Colson Whitehead
“The modern city has become a sonic battleground. Humanity is losing.”
R Murray Shaefer, 'The Book of Noise'
Musical influences;
Merzbow
Ryoji Ikeda
Wolf Eyes
Whitehouse
Bastard Noise
Lou Reed's 'Metal Machine Music'
John Cage
etc
This is the first set from the slightly tweaked Beach Fuzz line-up with Fliss Horrocks now playing guitar alongside Tom Settle and Nick Mitchell. Seven tracks of clattering drums, chugging and wailing guitars, screaming keyboards, mellow, lilting pastoral improv and moaned vocals.
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Recorded at The Bowling Green pub in Manchester on 17th November 2008, when Bridget was on tour with Marcia Bassett, this is a maximal 25-minute set of epic guitar brutalising and deep, moaned vocal incantations. Employing a bow and 'metal' effects pedals, the resulting cacophony is orchestral in scope, rendering almost unreliable the memory of one woman and her instrument. Somewhat akin to Bassett's duo with Matthew Bower, Hototogisu, the deeply layered tones created by Hayden offer, upon first exposure, a somewhat icy auditory experience, but as the recording settles in, the richness and sheer breadth of sound wraps around you like a feather quilt and shifts your perception almost 180 degrees. A truly magnificent set from this former Vibracathedral Orchestra member.
Limited to 80 copies with sleeves printed on recycled paper using soya based ink
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Vampire Blues is the duo of guitar player Jon Collin (Serfs, The Whole Voyald) and harmonium player Jon Marshall (The Hunter Gracchus, Peril Hill). They have a pretty special tape out on Blackest Rainbow. We can't recommend them highly enough.
The Fifth Band is the gobsmacking trio of Stephen Lawrie (The Telescopes), Bridget Hayden (Vibracathedral Orchestra) and Chris Hladowski (The Family Elan). Oof.
A Wake is the duo of Nick Mitchell and Fliss Horrocks who also play in Beach Fuzz. This will actually probably end-up being a Beach Fuzz performance - this incarnation's first inside the UK.
