PSYKICK DANCEHALL RECORDINGS...
4 discs featuring
Blood Stereo
Towering Breaker
PartWildHorsesManeOnBothSides
Nackt Insecten
Helhesten
Chora
Divine Coils
Usurper.
Psykick Dancehall present music from some of the most exciting and innovative groups currently working in the UK. The bands represented here have all honed an improvisatory method based less on performance artifice and ecstatic submission than attention to a multi-faceted, reciprocal and open dynamic in which a love for original audio articulation engenders an artistry wholly connected with the “liveness” of collective improvisation, one fully engaged with the spaces between listening and spontaneous composition. The variety of approach in this collective enterprise is a testament to the fertility of the ideas being exchanged, with avant-mong practitioners Blood Stereo blurring the line between human/animal utterance and Chora revelling in the shatter of exponential resonance alongside the explicitly spatial & tonal hocquets of Parting Wild Horse’s Mane and Divine Coils, Helhesten and Towering Breaker’s beautiful loci of bodily abstraction, Nackt Insecten’s beams of cosmic beard and Usurper’s joyously luddite expedition to the limits of wilful ambiguity and the corners of improvised deconstruction. Four 3-inch cds packaged in a 7-inch slipcase with artwork from each band holds all this joy together.
AVAILABLE RELEASES:
'SLATES' 12" AVAILABLE NOW from SERGENT MASSACRE:
First vinyl outing for Peckham based Chora, compiling out of print tracks from cdr albums released between 07 & 08. All the tracks were conceived in Sheffield as a trio of Ben Morris, Rob Lye and Chris Boyd at the furniture makers workshop/ Chora practise space, culled from long nights of jamming, eating house special fried rice and drinking wheat beer. The record displays the bands revolving approach to composing, improvising & recording, with sounds moving between shingled skeletal percussion & kitchen sink gamelan to electronic attack & ecstatic vocalisation.
'GOAT LINES' cdr SEVENHARES01... AVAILABLE THROUGH US:
Four tracks recorded April 08 on tour in Europe with our friends Helhesten & The Hunter Gracchus. 3 tracks recorded in collaboration with Pascal Nichols (Stuckometer, Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides, Neon Temple…) & 1 duo jam of mainstays Rob Lye and Ben Morris. Instrumentation including: violin/ Shaahi Baaja/drums/percussion/vocals/sax:::::::www.sevenhares-chora.blogspot.com/
'FROM THE SHAPE AND CONTENTS OF A SHEEPS STOMACH' cdr AVAILABLE FROM CHOCOLATE MONK:
Unveil the long pipes, shrouded in cloud comes this monster of a
disarranging dripper. I am truly all over the shop with this fucker,
hear a totally different disk everytime I spin it. So from my yellowed
note book I give you ...gamelan in the spit ward.. an unearthed
organist... tape loops chiseled from stone... an ale soaked amulet...
the warm howling of the deaf... radio broadcast of early torture
devices made from seashell... the hydrophonic tongue. But forget my
rambling, dear reader, just come smell the warm confusion of these
amazing young South Yorkshire cavemen for yrself - Dylan Nyoukis
Related Releases:::::
'Le Drapeau Noir' LP
'...Le Drapeau Noir's music is something else entirely, drawing on UK free music modes, Eurasian ritual music, folk and psych forms in order to articulate precisely where English underground music is at circa now. A great record from one of the most consistently interesting UK scenes'. - David Keenan
'Faux Amis' LP
Big band collaboration LP in the style of the Drapeau Noir album that pits a bunch of player associated with the free music scene around Lyons in France ? Motherfucking, I?m A Grizzly, Julien Dupont, Francois Virot, La 6eme Faute ? with members of the current crop of underground groups centered on Sheffield - Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides, Chora, Helhesten and Lanterns. In April 2008 the collective recorded a marathon five hour jam, of which this LP presents 35 minutes of highlights. The form ranges from obtuse NNCK-style navigations of the furthest fringes of form through lolloping almost International Harvester/Parson Sound-style psychedelic monoliths. (David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue)
23rd November @ 13th Note, Glasgow with D Abraham Turner 24th November @ Kraak Gallery, Manchester with A Middle Sex - £4 26th November @ Tap, The Water Works, Southend with Lost Harbours - FREE 27th November @ Cafe Oto, London with Chora - £5
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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