reggae reggae! i ate ikea meatballs the other day and thought of you. have you been to an ikea yet? the flagship one must be close! man city would have to offer tun-hundred million for tun-cay, he's on the new gilette advert instead of roger federer since you been gone
The Good Anna The Good Anna break their bread as the improvised duo of Patrick and Graham. For this performance they shall be joined by kindred brothers, Pascal Nicholls and 'Gravy'. Watch as the mirrors turn on themselves and the infinite motion begins via percussive manipulation, Derek Bailey inspired guitar and occasional carnival freakout.
Broken Arm From members of Sailors comes some total boner kryptonite - Broken Arm. Hairbrained rock barf in the vein of Electric Eels and Pissed Jeans. A fine line between frantic musicianshp and hyperactive looseness.
Axis Mundi 5150–6360 kilometers into the earth reside Barry Dean, Kelly Jones and Pascal Nichols. They shall be surfacing into the Klondyke with some seriously psych inner-core shit. Part schooled, part primitive drumming, wordless vocal and delayed flute syncopate into a soaring, meditative trance.
Wheel of Eyes Delinquents of Hockyfrilla, Stuckometer and A Middle Sex shall be getting busy with tape manipulation, tag-team drumups and considerable guitar and bass tough love.
15th August/ The Klondyke Club/Levenshulme/ £4/8pm
During the filming of The Dark Knight Heath Ledger kept a notebook to help him getin character, detailing all the things that he felt the Joker would find funny.
Adrian Northover - saxophone John Edwards - double bass Phillip Marks - percussion Dave Jackson - saxophone
Thursday 17th July at The King's Arms 11 Bloom St. - off Chapel St. Salford M3 6AN 0161 832 3605
8pm - 10:45pm £6
Adrian Northover is one of the finest saxophonists in the country. A master of instrumental technique, he's known internationally for his work with the Remote Viewers who've released 5 CD's on Leo Records and have a new 5 CD set on their own label (reviewed in May 08 issue of The Wire). He's also performed and recorded with the London Improvisers Orchestra, Ensemble Progresivo, Sonicphonics, Billy Bang, The All Weather Band, The Bollywood Brass Band, The Valentinos, indian classical ensemble Dha and african highlife band Yaaba Funk. Here he teams up with John Edwards, widely regarded as being one of the best bassists in the UK (famous for playing with Sunny Murray, John Tchicai, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Louis Moholo, Veryan Weston, Eddie Prevost, Elton Dean, John Butcher, Paul Dunmall, Tony Bevan, Derek Bailey, God, Spring Heel Jack etc) for a series of solo and duo improvisations to promote their new cd's.
For this concert they will be joined by legendary local percussionist Phillip Marks and Solar Fire Trio saxophonist Dave Jackson for an evening of spontaneous music This is a rare opportunity to see some of the finest improvisers in Britain, so please come along and support your local improv scene
SPECTRE FOLK (Pete Nolan of Magik Markers) + more TBC
It's extremely appropriate that Magik Markers' drummer Pete Nolan is currently in the country to play with Jandek in London (which is how this gig came about, coincidentally). Because his solo Folk Spectre record on the Woodist label demonstrates a penetrating knowledge of what makes that great Texan loner so amazing. Lo-Fi in the early 90s Shrimper label sense (yes!), the record contains a clutch of fragile, skeletal songs that inspire a depth of relaxation self-help tape manufacturers could only dream of. Of course, we're not talking 'swimming with dolphins' here. It's the constant hum - of tape hiss, mellow feedback, room boom, whatever - that sits beneath these beautiful songs that gives them their dreamlike quality. The name has been switched around to Spectre Folk but the vibrations are the same. The Folk Spectre record is something truly special and we anticipate this show to be one of the most enthralling of our 2008 calendar.
Here's what Pete's Magik Markers partner Elisa Ambrogio had to say about it all:
"Here drum-dilweed extraordinaire Pete Nolan takes on new dimensions of low-fidelity radness through the Woodsist imprint. The infamous label in charge of releasing other super-jammers such as Axolotl, Loosers and Blues Control, Woodsist put this mother out in the o 7. So many good songs, I don’t know where to start; it’s like Gene Clark in a manhole with Von LMO in Bushwick. This is another artist criminally unappreciated for his solo work, most probably due to his surly manner. Just ‘cause the man don’t hold doors for people doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how to build castle bridges of strangeness into the void. LISTEN. "
SAT 17th MAY, 2008, ISLINGTON MILL, SALFORD, 8PM, £5 ticket/£6 door
SCORCES + PLUM SLATE + JACKSON MITCHELL DUO
Over here and out there for their first ever UK tour. The duo of Christina Carter (Charalambides) on guitar/vocals and Heather Leigh Murray (Taurpis Tula) on pedal steel guitar/vocals make music that is heady, physical and timeless. Scorces stop the world spinning and portal the listener to places unknown, unkept and starless. Like Earth, Coil or Gyorgy Ligeti they make music of a certain elemental power... it can do these things.
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