Colin Williams (Guitars/synth/keyboard), Ciaran Cullen (bass guitar, synth), David Paul (drums/sequenced electronics). All tracks and instrumentals written by the band.
Influences
"....I have changed constantly all my life, usually at top speed, and it has always been with the total, permenant finality of a thing fed in to the atom smasher. My soul and my body chemistry are like that of a chameleon, a lizard with no pulse.... People praise me for this, but they are all foreigners and they know nothing. When I go to Mexico or Germany they call me "Lizard Man," and i laugh smugly...."To get along, go along." Thats what i say.
H.S.T. Woody Creek 1990
LIVE REVIEW -
GIGWISE "The perfect sound track for an alien abduction" - " Gorgeous Eno-esque keyboard minimalism"
GLASSWERK "something intellectual and educational" - " it is refreshing to hear something that doesnt really sound like anything else " MANCHESTER MUSIC "Its a learning experience for the listener, but well worth subscribing to, as Laymar may actually be just one step ahead of the game"
UNPEELED MAGAZINE "this band are chin-strokingly interesting and occasionally violent on the guitar front".
THE FUGITIVE MOTEL The live reputation that surrounds Laymar is unrivalled in the local area. Their dark soundscapes and menacing samples have built up an extremely vocal fanbase, and the Motel makes the trip out tonight on the strength of previous atmospheric performances. It’s hard to describe Laymar without saying that they communicate a disturbing vision of the apocalypse, but rest assured that while the noises they make may well be a little unnerving, they are nothing short of excellent.
Dark, wheeling synths spin in and out of brooding electronica and post-post-post-rock guitars, and during several particularly resonant moments of bowel-moving bass, the sound of a washing machine on ‘spin’ appears. Never breaking to allow applause, the forward-thinking experimentalism showcased makes all sense of time seem irrelevant, but the impulse to gently sway to the rolling, guttural power-melodies proves impossible to resist.
This band don’t play their instruments. The instruments play them, with bassist Ciaran dipping into the drumkit and sliding his fretboard across a flight case with eyes closed and the look of a possessed man. Never mind any of those twee keyboard tinklings in Close Encounters, Laymar make the kind of music to welcome alien life to.
GIGWISE Imagine taunting and berating Sigur Ros till the frustration and hostility of Masssive Attack emerged from their delicate soundscapes and you’re someway to making sense of Laymar.
MANCHESTERMUSIC.CO.UK “Manchester's finest purveyors of intense post-rock....this is something truly magnificent and beautiful and towering almost beyond description...”
GIGWISE “Imagine taunting and berating Sigur Ros till the frustration and hostility of Masssive Attack emerged from their delicate soundscapes and you’re someway to making sense of Laymar...”
ANGRY APE “a meticulous construction of layered synths over streaming guitars, punctuated by glorious programmed beats and ear splitting cymbals erupts in a monolithic apex of spine-tingling sound to tear the breath from your lungs and the words from your mouth...”
Laymar are a long standing electronically infused, instrumental rock band that have been gigging in and around Manchester for the past 6 years. Laymar consist of three members: Colin- Guitar, Piano, Synth. David- Drums, Programmed Drums, Laptop and Ciaran- Bass, Synth and Laptop.
Laymar’s debut album In Strange Lines And Distances... is released on TV Records through Shellshock/Pinnacle on June 23rd and digitally by Pinnacle on June 22nd available @ itunes, eMusic, HMV, Napster, 7Digital & all good digital retailers.
ALBUM REVIEWS OF IN STRANGE LINE AND DISTANCES -
"...Laymar were born to soundtrack the desolation of the inner city, where robot vultures gather long after mankind has wiped itself off the face of the Earth and music is no more than a memory resonating in the steel skeletons of reinforced concrete. Don't let anyone ever tell you that music should make you want to dance."
- Jenni Cole MUSIC OMH
Do not be fooled by the gentle introduction which builds gradually with consummate ease, good dreams can often turn into nightmares. The really worrying aspect is that they achieve this vision so melodically and yet ultimately so convincingly.
Put this record on and listen to it in a darkened room. Or, even better, put it on in your room and feel it darken around you.
David Brown BEARDED MAGAZINE.CO.UK
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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.
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.
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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.
This Thursday 30/07 we welcome you to join us and celebrate the release of our new album, Panic. Free copies of the album will be available on the night plus music from BOBBIE PERU, STRAY LIGHT and MONSTER ISLAND with FNF DJs all night.
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