Jim Barr : bass
Portishead, Jukes, Nik Young, John Parrish, Marc Gauvin, the invisible pair of hands
Clive Deamer : drums
robert plant, portishead, roni size, jools holland, dr john, tom jones, hawkwind
Pete Judge : trumpet
super furry animals, organelles, artic, morning star, mopti, papa noel, kneehigh theatre
Jake McMurchie : saxophone
portishead, super furry animals, mackay, oblit-r8, what four, ultrasound, nyjo
Influences
Cake, Ornette Coleman, Kings of Leon, Albert Ayler, Esborn Svensson Trio, Acoustic Ladyland, Dick Dale, Tony Orrell, North African Cuisine, Lycanthropy, small motorcycles, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the sun, moon and stars, more cake, domestic cleaning products, beans, Ian Dury, always room for more cake
"... this outfit will surely recharge the jazz world."
***** -BBC Music Magazine
"the heavyweights of the contemporary jazz scene
****- The Independent
"A blast"
****- Mojo Magazine
"Occasionally you hear a jazz album that you know would shift truckloads of units if only it weren't labelled 'jazz'. Bugs in Amber is just such a disc."
- Metro
- Jazzwise
"A revelation" ****-Evening Standard
Q . how and when did The Blessing first get together ?
A. there used to be an Ornette Coleman fan club in Bristol … the meetings were held in a very old café in Westone under Nudlum .
They have the best bleach cakes in the world . also coffee .
Listening to Ornette and eating those cakes .. we knew we had to do something together .
Q . Can you explain why you wear suits and bags on your heads ?
A . We do a lot of weddings and funerals … so its easier just to wear suits all the time than turn up to a formal occasion wearing the usual jodhpurs and sandals . we wear bags so no one can see us laughing.
Q . Its been said in many of your interviews that you wont use chords
In your music . why is that ?
A .when we started playing together , we could only afford the cheaper brands of chord ..they made our music sound sickly and greasy .
After one particular session we had used far too many chords … clive our drummer was violently sick . even now that we can afford much better quality chords , we choose not to .
Q . what would you say is the single biggest influence on The Blessings compositions ?
A . some time ago whilst touring in andalucia , we were served a local delicacy …. “The creaking of prawns “ .. we all simoultaniously became synaesthetic . now all our melodies are infused wth the delicate purples and pinks of small crustacia frying .
For all Brighton-based fans of leftfield jazz/experimental electronica/alt folk... October 28th at the Komedia Studio Bar: EP launch from Cake Records' new signing, Bellows. Also featuring The Vainglories and Twenty-One Crows. Oh yes.
We are proud to present our current album "True Fidelity". Electro-acoustic chillout, lounge and easy-listening well mixed and always ready to surprise you.
We hope you enjoy our work. Further we wanna thank your for your support so far and wish you a nice weekend!
Fabulous show at Itchycoo on sunday chaps! Many many thanks...really meant a lot you guys coming and playing :) Hope you all enjoyed yourselves..i know we did!
Hi! Thanks a lot for your friendship! our cd available now, you can order it by sending us a message, or at www.stoneislandrecords.com have a nice and happy time, and dont believe the propaganda... .Love and Space!
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MOST RAD NEWS ----------------------------- The awesome GANG GANG DANCE have re- scheduled the Bristol show. This will be one of two only headlining shows in the UK this year. The Bristol show will be the official warm-up for their show at Brixton Academy (supporting ANIMAL COLLECTIVE !) Wednesday 19th of August 2009 Qu Junktions & Glaive Concerts presents: GANG GANG DANCE + The Color of The Sun ~ Fleece ~ 12 St. Thomas Street Bristol BS1 6JJ 0117 945 0996 - 8PM - 12.00
Tickets 10 pounds in advance On sale at Bristol Ticket Shop, Here Shop and See Tickets. ------i-n-f-o-------------------- This gang gang from Brooklyn, have emerged from a very fertile, indigenous music scene in their neighbourhood but have branched out way WAY further with their hook ups and hooks. It is a ghetto world music that declines fey introspection but invites in disparate saturated sounds and bang bang dance dynamics. Their multi-faceted music style was first brought to our attention following a series of releases on forward-thinking label, The Social Registry; and subsequently, they have found a suitable home on Warp Records.
The bands assemblage of wonky techno, outer rock, faux arabesque and other strange, spiralling, sinuous music forms that transcend categorisation. Utterly unique and iconoclastic.
“The eclectism is exhilarating” Uncut
“Excellent… a psychotropid mind meld” – Plan B
“Gang Gang Dance may now ascend to the bona fide league of geniuses.” 8/10 – NME
