Chris Corsano, Canned Heat, Tirath Singh Nirmala, Arab on Radar, Tony Conrad, This Heat, Dead C, Harry Pussy, Howling Hex, Faust, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Terry Riley, Can, No Neck Blues Band, John Coltrane, Eddie Prevost, The Beatles, Rashied Ali, John Fahey, Led Zeppelin, Richard Youngs, This Kind of Punishment, Trumans Water, The Supreme Dicks, Sunroof, Eric Gaffney, Bailter Space, Magik Markers, Funkadelic, The Rolling Stones...
"several releases under their bearded belts all of which we‘ve so far missed much to our unbridled annoyance - we have pondered hard and long as to what Mighty Boosh’s Howard Moon would reckon of these dudes given his apparent obsession for the Weather Report et al to which this lot site as a keystone reference point. This lot craft out a strange freeform jazz brew that’s not quite jazz in its purest form, utilising the dynamics and time signatures of jazz they apply to the mix a curious no wave meets progressive via art rock dialect, the sounds rather than having structure seem to appear as if by accident. Sometimes eerie and decidedly unhinged Eye Hai decorate their workouts with a curious blend of eastern montages and distressed native found sound motifs spiked by fractured spider like riffs that despite their initial aloof out there appearance soon work their intoxicating magic once the lugholes re-adjust. In terms of reference markers This Heat are a pretty good call though its Henry Cow and all the attendant post splinter work via messrs Frith, Cutler and Hodgkinson that are brought to the fore when hearing these as yet unreleased cuts - even fans of the more accessible moments of Volcano the Bear may well find elements embedded deep in the mixes to which to swoon to - best of the set the wig flipping acid psych jazz stew that is ’untitled’ (3 - we call it) - a split album with Neptune looms on the distant horizon best get growing that groovy beard then." www.losingtoday.com
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
"the Brownies could be Xerox Girls' attitudinal, imperiously cool nieces and nephews. Brilliantly out of step with current modish indie trends, full of heart-in-mouth moments and a hatred so finely tuned it's almost sexy, Means To An End is a handstand, a cartwheel and a kick in the nuts and it demands your immediate surrender." - THE GUARDIAN SINGLE OF THE WEEK
This is a huge scoop for us and definitely a gig not to be missed!!
Support for the evening comes from Anola Gray and I Saved Latin. Two of the areas finest up and coming bands.
We've never been able to quite pin down exactly how the The Hunter Gracchus are going to play on any given occasion, which is a wonderful thing. A shifting unit with Syed Kamran Ali, Fiona Marshall and Jon Marshall at the core, they have recently settled into a fairly stable unit of six, but it's hard to know how long that'll last. Still, while it does, it's producing all manner of magical and highly unexpected performances. The one captured here was recorded at the band's practice room cum gig space, Fagin's Hideout/The Furniture Makers and is a less blistering freakout than some of their recent output, preferring to quietly explore every nook of tonal space. It simmers rather than erupts and, the longer you become immersed in it, the less aware you become of the passage of time. It's a recording that feels like it should go on forever and, when it does come to a close, the silence is shocking. In a time when it's all too easy for a group of improvisers to just go full-tilt in some euphoric pursuit, the Hunter Gracchus provides us with a glowing alternative that draws us slowly in and drowns our senses. This is truly awesome.
Ltd to 80 copies, sleeves printed on recycled card w/soya based ink, no less
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. A master of extended techniques like circular breathing and multiphonics, he's made over 200 albums with artists like Derek Bailey, Scott Walker, Robert Wyatt, Spring Heel Jack, Michael Nyman, Spiritualized, Cecil Taylor, John Stevens, Gavin Bryars, Brotherhood of Breath, Basil Kirchin, Peter Brotzmann, Han Bennink, Tony Oxley, Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, Globe Unity Orchestra, Stan Tracey, Chris Corsano, Jah Wobble, Sainkho Namtchylak, Vic Reeves, Thurston Moore etc etc.....
He is joined by Stephen Grew on piano and Phillip Marks on percussion who have been making their own contributions to the world of adventurous improvisation for over 20 years. Those of you who saw them at last years Manchester Jazz Festival will know just how good they are...
9th - 7.30pm-10.30pm £3 - Acoustic Jiggery Folkery Pt. 2
John Yates Eats His Own Head, Michael Caley, Liz Reynolds, Matthew Childs
16th - 7.30pm-10. 30pm £4 - Electro / Indie night w/ free entry into Gigantic until 3am
I Call Shotgun, Castrovalva, Japanese Fighting Fish, The Spires
23rd - 7.30pm-10. 30pm £5 - Moshcore Battering!
Ignominious Incarceration, When All Else Fails, Sequence of Malice, Propermassivecyclops
29th - 7.30pm-10. 30pm £3 - Heavy Metal Party Riot!
Hospital Of Death, Dreamcatcher, Hamerex +1
30th - 7.30pm-10.30pm £3 - Quality riffage and fastness abound.
The Afternoon Gentlemen, Black Fang (ex-SMP, D-Rail, Wx3), Manuscripts, More Than A Joke
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