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Formed by ex - members of Psychiatric
Challenge to carry on the performance and promotion of
alternative, experimental forms of music and improvisation. They
have releases on Electronic Musik,
Casual Seizures, Earth Monkey, Classwar Karaoke & Knife in
the Toaster.
Ian and Harry also guest occasionally with
(the very wonderful) Gnod .
Dowload FREE Fonik tracks (includes 3 full
gigs) by clicking here
Fonik have performed with / alongside,
amongst others, the following....
The performance shown above from the Grapes is actually the members of FONIK. It was billed as Psychiatric Challenge before the decision not to carry on gigging under that name. Also features Pascal from Stuckometer !
Electric Free Time Machine celebrate the launch of their debut album: ’mystery with hermit foil’ with a gig at the Yorkshire house in Lancaster.
ELECTRIC FREE TIME MACHINE - Lancaster
recent sound carriers for Damo Suzuki:From fast and bulbous blues stomps and vast experimental krautrock ambient strangeness, to abrasive shambolic metal, strange time shifts and delicate acoustic folk. www.myspace.com/eftm
albums at a special launch price of £4...so thats £5 for an amazing night of music and a brand spanking new bespoke embossed digipack album...have mercy
Thanks for the add guys... haven't been able to listen on this very bad computer but I will.... can't make the dry bar on Saturday either....ahhh nightmare i've been trying to see EFTM live for the last 6 months and failed miserably every time.....one day......x
Svarte Greiner (Deaf Center/Miasmah/Type) explores deep into a dark, mysterious and disturbing universe. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Earth, Volcano the Bear, David Darling & Deathprod, the music is draped in Lynchian mysticism and horror film cinematics. "The music of Svarte Greiner is practically perfect. It's like that sound in our heads we've been imagining for ages but had never actually heard." - Type Records.
The Sight Below (Rafael Anton Irisarri/Miasmah/Immune) draws as much on modern genre progenitors like Brian Eno, Robin Guthrie and My Bloody Valentine as it does from the more historic traditions in neo-classicism from Erik Satie and Olivier Messiaen. His album Glider has appeared on Thom Yorke's radar in making the Radiohead's lynchpin's top ten playlist.
His debut album Navigare soon to feature on the Miasmah label, Simon Scott (former Slowdive) is set to be a household name in conceptual music. Simon is the former Slowdive drummer, co-producer of Televise, producer of Seavault, and owner of KESH Recordings label.
NLF3's music has been described as "a kitsch This Heat" by The Wire, and compared for its rhythms to a 2009 version of the Ege Bamayasi-era of Can. The Guardian even spoke of them as "a Radiohead seduced by the idea of live improvisation". The members of NLF3 - F.lor, Mitch and Don Nino - name influences as varied as Pierre Henry, Fela Kuti, Steve Reich, Ennio Moricone, as well as Syd Barrett, Zappa, Fantomas, Aphex Twin, and Sonic Youth. Strange gurus indeed, for a music that, after all these comparisons, still sounds unique. NLF3 is the story of three music lovers – two brothers in blood and a third in spirit – united by the same passion: to make music, record it and take it all around the world. In that regard, their kinship with Battles and Animal Collective, with whom they have toured, seems perfectly natural - they all belong to the same generation of musicians and have the same desire to discover new territory, to explore new possibilities and to bring together past and future. It comes as no surprise either that the brothers F.lor and Don have lived in Germany as well as the US, and have spent some time in Nigeria where their father introduced them to the great Fela Kuti and others like the sculptor Twin Seven Seven. www.myspace.com/nlf3
Machinefabriek is amongst the finest experimental/electronic artists of today. His ultra-prolific back catalogue showcases his ability to perfect classical ambience, organic drone soundscapes, electronic minimalism and cathartic noise. He is hailed as one of the most interesting new experimental musicians by the Wire magazine.
Xela is the shady, underworld atmospheres and improv horrors of John Twells, owner of Type Records. "Xela has always been able to pre-empt the shifting tides of electronic music and deliver a statement that's definitively of its time” (Boomkat).
His debut album Navigare soon to feature on the Miasmah label, Simon Scott is set to be a household name in conceptual music. Simon is the former Slowdive drummer, co-producer of Televise, producer of Seavault, and owner of KESH Recordings label.
Hey Fonik! Well thanks for coming down to the Noise Upstairs. Hopefully see you again there at some point. Go check out all our artists, and we've got quite a few new releases coming up. Thanks for checking out Concrete Moniker.
Want more? Our website has free album downloads and info on all of our artists
Evan Parker: saxophones Stephen Grew: piano Phillip Marks:percussion
An all too rare appearance in Manchester by one of the great masters of the saxophone. Evan Parker has been at the forefront of improvised and experimental music for over forty years, with a unique and innovative approach to his instrument that has been hugely influential.
He is joined by Stephen Grew on piano and Phillip Marks on percussion who together and in their own bands Bark! and Grutronic have been making their own contributions to the world of adventurous new music.
Saturday May 9th 8:00 pm £8/£6
Cross Street Chapel Cross Street Manchester M2 1NL (not far from Albert Square)
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