Koen Holtkamp is no stranger to producing beautiful music. Expect layers of warm organic noise and found sound combine to make pieces that are both gorgeously minimalistic and endlessly deep. He's making the trip over from New York to celebrate the launch of his new album on Type records, and you'd be a fool to miss him!
Gorgeously organic music that washes over you and through you - the best of all ambient music understands the importance of holding back, of understatement, of beauty - Pausal achieve this, and more. Stunning stuff for a night of pure sonic bliss.
Forest of Sound's favourite one man laptop genius, randomNumber, comes back to regale us with his excellent and deeply inventive brand of electronica. There's a reason that he's so energetic in his performance - his music is brilliant. Simple. As.
A Forest of Sound presentation. It’ll be £5 on the door, and doors are at 8pm.
Easily one of the most important bands of our times (and we don't say that lightly), Stars of the Lid are the highpoint of the ambient genre. Their influence on the music that really matters over the last decade has been huge, and we're incredibly honoured to be hosting them again in Leeds. This gig will be very very different, and very very special. Stars of the Lid have excelled at designing subtle, minimalist epics which sound like they're being played on a single multifaceted organic instrument. A wise man once described SOTL as "divine classical drones without the tedious intrusion of drums, or vocals. "
The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
Golden Diskó Ship combines a mass of instruments and found objects (guitars, viola, glockenspiel, sticky tape, compact disc cases, toys…) together with perfectly crafted laptop electronica to form a world of beautiful, original and individual music - “…dreamy, experimental folk electronica that sounds like walking on the beach with the sun in your eyes."
The Declining Winter The Declining Winter is the musical project of Richard Vincent Adams of Leeds UK, the co-founder of the continuing group Hood and a full time stricken office worker. What does it sound like? Richard says "cassette tapes spilling out of the glovebox of a 1970's Datsun Sunny somewhere in the north of England, captured on Super 8 film". He's not far off. Live he is joined by a few more people to bring the beautiful pastoral feel to life. Wonderful stuff.
Hands and Fingers Hands and Fingers makes minimally gorgeous cerebral music. He mixes samples, acoustic guitars, glockenspiel and ambient atmospheres with drum breaks that have been described as "Tortoise having a fight with Four Tet in the dark, with John Bonham trying to split them up". It's ace. Very ace.
A Forest of Sound presentation. It’s £4 on the door, doors are 8pm.
Hi there.
We played with you at The Tavern on Saturday night.
Just wanted to say that I enjoyed your set.
Loved the way you used loops from your guitar, especially when you tapped beats onto it!
Hope you enjoyed our tunes too ;-)
Hello Lord Appletise,
I didn't recognise you from your pictures, but I did, so I'm lying.
Have you gone dead small of recent, or is the camera that took your picture just really close to all them knobs? I do hope you and your knobs are well. I am, unfortunately, not able to get to your splendid sound explosion this weekend, cos I'm going to GO APE in the lakes, and chucking my fecals at passing ramblers. Mind you, now I know that "hands and fingers" is really the cunning Inspector Candlelips himself, I'll make more of an effort to find your appearances.
BING.
Let me know how it goes though, you fast rip.
Ayo!
Awesome stuff - that's so nice, thank you. I'm glad it saw some van-time! I would have sorted out more discs man, I hope you got a chance to copy 'em up!
I'll speak to you soon definitely. Thanks for stopping by. How was the tour? Are you still travelling?
The London show was amazing. You guys effing killed it, seriously. Marvellous stuff.
hmm that was a long time ago a year ago i dont remember to have a big orgasm with all hahaha !!!!!any answer is an answer to that i just got angry very very very angry .........
At last I have this mix uploaded and ready for your listening pleasure
This is the mix i recorded for the listeners 6 mix on BBC 6 music. There is a mix of styles on here ranging from grime to techno and acid to electro. This is the original unedited version so no interuptions for interviews or news. Hope you enjoy the tunes.
