'There are as many sexual orientations as there are faces. To suggest that the simple categories male/female, heterosexual/homosexual are adequate to describe the whole range of human sexuality is to ignore science and the evidence of nature.' James Pfaus
"A Middle Sex are a trio from Manchester. Here they weave together marathon syncopated drumming, choral singing with static drones and voices that float in through the cracks and join the party of stalactites above. Bookended by sunburned guitar and swirls of ecstatic vocals, you might just dream about the lions again. 'Unclean Yawn' drifts between bleached visions of distant 'pop' music and nauseating, nerve-fried habitats.
Temperatures grapple their way through 16 minutes of enveloping decay in 'Bifurcation'. Weirdo vocals loop themselves into a rage of gin and pain killers before riding the wet concrete wave of total abyss. Overblown electronics and submerged bass dance to the death with drums that carousel and alternate in deep, sparse rhythm and finally implode in a heads down, rifle-fire free work out."
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300 Copies. £9 inc UK postage
Available through: Piccadilly Records, Alt Vinyl, Rough Trade, Norman Records, Eclipse and Tomentosa too. ----- A Muddled Hex - Blackest Rainbow
"Fluxing between minimal scrape
and pound rhythms to noisy tumbling weird jamzzz using there trashed
guitar, drums and electronics, with the odd weird vocal splatter
thrown in. This is fresh from the jungles of Manchester." - B.R Few copies left, try altvinyl for UK or timelag for US. ----- Look - Slightly Off Kilter (sold out)
"perplexing artefact yielding nine cuts by a mystery duo from Manchester; they use live electronics, amplified vocals and a drum kit, hopefully delivering a much-downgraded and distorted version of Silver Apples. The cover art combines crude collage with primary-school painting and promises much in the area of simplistic yet sophisticated joyful noise. "£4 -----
Contact us for booking, purchases, trades and spiel at amiddlesex@gmail.com
Tickets SELLING FAST! £7 adv avaliable from (more on the door): wegottickets.com seetickets.com Ticketline Picadilly Records
Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
This is one of only three UK dates on The Paper Hats' UK tour - The Paper Hats is the solo project of sometime Lambchop and Silver Jews guitarist William Tyler, performing here as a duo with Calexico's Volker Zander. Expect hypnotic picking folk guitar, symphonic poetry and Indian Raga paired with noise and drones - absolutely unmissable! Support comes by way of a special set from Denis Jones.
Tickets £5 adv from Piccadilly Records and wegottickets
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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Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
SUNDAY 20th SEPTEMBER Doors 4pm, first band 5pm PART CHIMP HEY COLOSSUS DETHSCALATOR APES FIGHT BACK HAMMERS Islington Mill, James St, Salford (close to Manchester City centre) www.islingtonmill.com £8, ticketline and http://www.wegottickets.com/event/57744
m o t h e r f u c k i n g (lyon, france) Gael and Julien are some bad mothers and they don't mind licking the mixing bowl. They trade minds and can multiply a single gram of thought into the grand canyon of sound, drifting on beamed out, triple-glazed drones. Bright, colourful and jumbled. Considered explorations of sound and comatose rampage, the blueprints already got shredded. Come flip out on their eternal nosebleed as the cogs of logic and reason turn to Slinkys.
s t u c k o m e t e r Manchester vets that have drifted all over are back to revisit their occasional beast. Free rock and rolling drums with guitar and bass that leap octaves and scatter around like roaches in a 10w bulb bathroom. An abrasive, deconstructed, 4-way Rubik's cube; A real winner.
t r o p h y w i v e s MJ and JR put the whippy into the scoop with bust knuckle drum-drums and the honkey tonky nothing bonanza, dead in the face and blue in the throat.
19th Aug Islington Mill Salford, James Street. M3 £4. 8pm
Just realised you guys are playing in Belfast in Sept... and then that I'm going to miss you, we're playing the Oscilations fest as well on the wednesday with Gnod then I fly to Tailand on the friday.. Just wanted to say have fun over here :))
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