Oliver Betts - rhino sax, fender rhodes, e-bow guitar, basshum recorder, percussion, vocals. Stewart Brackley - contrebass, electric bass, banduria, high spanish guitar, vocals, percussion, white-eyed fear intonation. Tom Betts - drums, percussion, banal golf treatments. Euan Roger - international drums and percussion when Tom is busy with banal golf treatments. Nigel Parkin - stories, yarns and general bardery
Influences
Pilsner Urquell (the finest non-lethal lager on the planet, more healthy than water), Gambrinus, Budvar, Adnams Explorer, Budget Czech ale of all types (we are a broad church), The resurgent Heineken (vastly improved since their 70s thimble-sized-can nadir), Green King IPA, Morland Best, Charles Wells IPA, Zwiec, Tyskie, Zubr, Lech, Everards Tiger, Cobra, Weihenstaphaner, Duvel, Urdinger, Schneider Weiss, Cruz Campo, San Miguel, Estrella Dam, Dab, Bitburger and not forgetting Guiness for those times, at weddings, seances, book burnings etc. when inspiration fails.
Sounds Like
A weary ex-boxer, once proud and strong, now feeble and confused. Reduced to eating Hoisin Duck Pizza without the aid of teeth or eyes.
As febrile and hostile as Van Der Graaf Generator, as pounding and grainy as Faust, as instinctive and mercurial as Can, this is one far-out combo.
Formed in early 2000, ploughing the lonely field that is new wave/jazz/dark oddness, Black Carrot have achieved much. Released in 2005, their critically-aclaimed debut album “Cluk” managed to attract the attention of BBC Radio 3’s ‘Mixing It’, they have worked with storyteller Nigel Parkin, filling the theatre in their native Market Harborough with nerve-jangling improvisations around the stories of Edgar Allan Poe and performing their own unique interpretation of Franz Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’.
Recently supporting the Fall and appearing at Leicester’s Eggstock, these three ultra-talented musicians are demanding, intimidating, frenetic and mental. Frankly, you wouldn't dare make them up.
A crisp and sharp trio, comprising drums, both double and electric bass, electric piano and tenor sax and assorted woodwind instruments. Dedicated to the virtues of improvisation, it is hard to actually categorise them easily – which is to the good. This is music that has the rigour of improvisation done well but also is accessible via the jazzy rhythms, at times they reminiscent of a New York-style band like Defunct or James Chance and the Contortions from the punk jazz/loft side of the no-wave days.
Check out www.blackcarrot.net for more information, free music, gig news and a shop.
The Resurrection Men are playing their first gig tomorrow (Wednesday) at The Nursery Tavern in Coventry. Free to get in. The Resurrection Men is a new Coventry band and features members of Tenebrous Liar, Invitation To Love, The Treehorns and ex-members of TawT and The Sequins.
Also performing are country pop veterans Wes' Dirty Band and solo accordion hero Cederick Confugos (ex-TawT).
SONIC BOOM Saturday 7th June 2008 Doors 3pm - 2am £7 advance ticket **Early bird ticket £6 @ Tin Angel Record Shop until 20th May ONLY!**
SONIC BOOM - Coventry's festival of electronic & experimental music and arts
"A cavalcade of beeps and bleeps to kick start the festival season"
The event will see theremin generated soundscapes, dub - electronica, Psychedelic Krautrock, Krautjazz, alongside BOWCHIME and laptop concoctions with a sound reactive digital installation.
With DJ scenster Lee Ritchie to keep y'all dancing til 2am! Expect electronica, breaks, beats, hip hop to keep you on your toes.
LINE UP:
Legendary BJ COLE UK pedal steel guitarist with dark electronic musician Myoptik and Ben Bayliss. Black Carrot / Strap The Button / Alexander Thomas / Arran Poole / Ian Upton with more to follow.
Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others! Saturday 10th May 2007 CASTNETS - JESSE SYKES - BRENDAN CASEY £6 /£8 Door Doors 8pm til 2am
CASTANETS: Castanets is American music drowned then reborn clear-eyed and wet with sea spray. Castanets is murderous nights and the 10 west sunset and crying gulls. Castanets is Raymond Raposa. Castanets is Raymond Raposa alone, walking through the dark and crowded dancefloor, singing bare voiced (rangy, high, cracked and real) with acoustic guitar. Castanets is a four-piece or a five-piece, six-piece, seven-piece, all-of-us-everywhere-piece stomping out electric tombstone chants or something that sounds like Pink Floyd with more heart. Castanets is delta heart, Nashville hands, outer space brain. Castanets is Cathedral (Asthmatic Kitty, 2004)
JESSE SYKES The band that started as a duo of Jesse Sykes and former Whiskeytown band member Phil Wandscher began writing and playing together and later brought on the rest of the Sweet Hereafter, as they are now known. The new album sees Sykes displaying a more weathered vocal style and the band a more produced sound. There are some really upbeat tunes on the album like “You Might Walk Away” and “I Like The Sound”. With the latter bringing to mind a Grace Slick sound and the former with a tipping of the cap to Cat Power.
KOG: SIFIR, murmurists and Johanna Kirsch Colin Johnco Records, Paris, France.
"Though not doggishly in pursue of mainstream styles, KOG is a dog-event in a Kafkaesque universe where sonic experience confronts with the meta-audible opening up some subterranean pathways between the audible and the inaudible, between imaginary free-floating microscopic fluffy dogs and schizo-incest, or in short, foregrounding and backgrounding a becoming-quantum of animal where the horizontal and the vertical merge into each other as an expression of becoming imperceptible ... of sound? of animal? of man? of woman? ---- better to say: whatever."
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