Morning everyone!
We have two
shows coming up in the next week that we’d like to shout about. Tomorrow we’re
hosting a concert at the Dalston Victoria with valiant melody-warper SLIM TWIG of DFA Records. Joining The
Twig on stage we have TARZANA (featuring
Jan of Tomutonttu and Spencer from Monopoly Child Star Searchers etc) stopping
off in London during their debut ‘Out Of Your Tentacles Tour’, emitting inky
clouds of heady wooze, alongside the not-comedy of MAGIC STEVEN from Melbourne too. Sounds terrific to me, tickets £6,
available on the door from 7.30pm! Then on Monday evening, next week, we’re
pitching up at the Old Blue Last with MOSS
LIME, AS ONDAS and WHALO for a night of minimal-palette
post punk and hazy meditation. Lots more info to follow on both of those
events, alongside our new listing for SAUNA
YOUTH’s headline show at The Forge next February. Thank you as always for
your time…
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TOMORROW /////
SLIM TWIG
TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)
MAGIC STEVEN
TROON LEINAD (DJ set)
Wednesday 2 December
The Victoria, 451
Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334563
SLIM TWIG is a twenty-six-year
old, self-proclaimed ‘wah wah master’! His record reissued last year was
completed in 2011. So one might reasonably ask, what has Twig done since? After
producing two albums for U.S. Girls (U.S. Girls on Kraak in 2011, Gem in 2012),
and scoring two films, Twig found himself in 2013 at a creative impasse re: his
own songwriting. He had been through full band incarnations live and on record.
They featured a cast of Toronto heavies. He briefly performed
Slim Twig sets as a duo, featuring multimedia artist and musician, Meg Remy
(U.S. Girls). They performed sets that combined versions of Twig’s released
songs with freely structured improvisations, samples, and brightly melodic,
synth textures. Something in this combination of the pop-minded and the
cerebrally-produced has rubbed off on the recordings found on Twig’s latest for
DFA.
‘Thank You For Stickin’ With Twig’ is to date the most sonically immersive album in Twig’s discography. Where some records have focused explicitly on sample-based songwriting, while others have been completely live-recorded, the new album arrives at a perfectly produced fusion of fidelities. It hovers, glamorously caught between a cloud of obscurant, half-speed tape hiss, and the most stoned Jeff Lynne production you’ve ever heard. Twig flirts here with a variety of vibes, most often opting for a three-dimensional approach whereby a warped tape aura is overlaid with colourful, laser-cut keyboard and guitar melodies. All the while, we find Twig irreverently raiding classic rock of its symbolism, sexuality, and social ambition for ulterior subversions. In this respect, TYFSWT's closest cousin may be Royal Trux's ‘Accelerator’. Many of the songs play referential sonic games like this, discursively incorporating familiar melodies, production styles or ideas (a fuzzy ballad on wage inequality is cheekily titled ‘Textiles On Mainstreet’), only to pair them with incongruous textures or themes. 'Live In, Live On Your Era', a song encouraging an embrace of one’s own cultural circumstance, is consciously styled as the most ‘retro’ sounding cut on the album (Jimmy Page leads and all), seemingly upending the lyrical content. On and on, the jokes and meta-sonic rock commentary continue like so many Zappa-esque indulgences. Sonically and politically, his aim is to be a rock n’ roll subversive in an era where that claim should rightfully be made by luddite cave-people. Context is everything, and Twig’s gift may be in zeroing in on that.
http://slimtwig.blogspot.co.uk/
TARZANA is the culmination of a long five year collaboration between musicians Jan Anderzén (Fonal, Kemialliset Ystävät, Tomutonttu) and Spencer Clark (The Skaters, Pacificity Soundvisions, Monopoly Child Star Searchers). A space ethnic alien hyperdimensional ooze is here, brought into a live setting with the addition of belgian synthesist composer Floris Vanhoof (Kraak, Ultra eczema), who, in Tarzana, will be playing free sampladelic drum pads. Below you can hear two tracks from their new album ‘Alien Wildlife Estate’, which percolate with the kind of heady, humid exotica that few do better. According to the press release, the music is “engaged as a Fruitopian vision of a rescattering of all elements within an International Airport to be presented as Audio exhibit!” We couldn’t tell you what that means, but it sounds amazing. Listen below and look for the release through Underwater Peoples and Pacific City Sound Vision.
https://soundcloud.com/pacificcitysound/julian-neyers-airport-tarzana/s-ZkxQI
https://soundcloud.com/pacificcitysound/private-scarab-club-reserve/s-kEPeo
MAGIC STEVEN is a Melbourne, Australia-based performer whose work has been alternately described as autobiographical storytelling, deadpan not-comedy, guided meditation and long-form beat poetry. He has performed as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Fringe Festival in Melbourne, and more recently at Liquid Architecture Festival and at MONA's Dark Mofo Festival in Tasmania.
http://www.magicsteven.net/
‘Thank You For Stickin’ With Twig’ is to date the most sonically immersive album in Twig’s discography. Where some records have focused explicitly on sample-based songwriting, while others have been completely live-recorded, the new album arrives at a perfectly produced fusion of fidelities. It hovers, glamorously caught between a cloud of obscurant, half-speed tape hiss, and the most stoned Jeff Lynne production you’ve ever heard. Twig flirts here with a variety of vibes, most often opting for a three-dimensional approach whereby a warped tape aura is overlaid with colourful, laser-cut keyboard and guitar melodies. All the while, we find Twig irreverently raiding classic rock of its symbolism, sexuality, and social ambition for ulterior subversions. In this respect, TYFSWT's closest cousin may be Royal Trux's ‘Accelerator’. Many of the songs play referential sonic games like this, discursively incorporating familiar melodies, production styles or ideas (a fuzzy ballad on wage inequality is cheekily titled ‘Textiles On Mainstreet’), only to pair them with incongruous textures or themes. 'Live In, Live On Your Era', a song encouraging an embrace of one’s own cultural circumstance, is consciously styled as the most ‘retro’ sounding cut on the album (Jimmy Page leads and all), seemingly upending the lyrical content. On and on, the jokes and meta-sonic rock commentary continue like so many Zappa-esque indulgences. Sonically and politically, his aim is to be a rock n’ roll subversive in an era where that claim should rightfully be made by luddite cave-people. Context is everything, and Twig’s gift may be in zeroing in on that.
http://slimtwig.blogspot.co.uk/
TARZANA is the culmination of a long five year collaboration between musicians Jan Anderzén (Fonal, Kemialliset Ystävät, Tomutonttu) and Spencer Clark (The Skaters, Pacificity Soundvisions, Monopoly Child Star Searchers). A space ethnic alien hyperdimensional ooze is here, brought into a live setting with the addition of belgian synthesist composer Floris Vanhoof (Kraak, Ultra eczema), who, in Tarzana, will be playing free sampladelic drum pads. Below you can hear two tracks from their new album ‘Alien Wildlife Estate’, which percolate with the kind of heady, humid exotica that few do better. According to the press release, the music is “engaged as a Fruitopian vision of a rescattering of all elements within an International Airport to be presented as Audio exhibit!” We couldn’t tell you what that means, but it sounds amazing. Listen below and look for the release through Underwater Peoples and Pacific City Sound Vision.
https://soundcloud.com/pacificcitysound/julian-neyers-airport-tarzana/s-ZkxQI
https://soundcloud.com/pacificcitysound/private-scarab-club-reserve/s-kEPeo
MAGIC STEVEN is a Melbourne, Australia-based performer whose work has been alternately described as autobiographical storytelling, deadpan not-comedy, guided meditation and long-form beat poetry. He has performed as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Fringe Festival in Melbourne, and more recently at Liquid Architecture Festival and at MONA's Dark Mofo Festival in Tasmania.
http://www.magicsteven.net/
TROON LIENAD (DJ Set)
https://www.mixcloud.com/troonlienad/
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NEXT MONDAY /////
MOSS
LIME
AS
ONDAS
WHALO
Monday 7 December
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St,
Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
MOSS LIME are a Montreal based
band, made up of sisters Charlotte Bonamour and Hélène Barbier from Lille,
France, their former roommate Caitlin Pinder-Doede from Toronto. They spent the
summer 2014 in Parc Petite Italie in Montréal, enjoying food and beverages from
Lalime. One day they went to the swimming pool and another day they decided to
play music together in a basement with a great dehumidifier. Inspired by local
punk bands with similarly unpretentious starts, Moss Lime booked their first
show at a neighbourhood bar, performing a short set of their four original
songs and one cover song, an almost unrecognisable reinterpretation of European
club hit “Calabria 2007″. At the end of the summer, a few days before Charlotte
was supposed to move back to France, the group went to record with Peter
Woodford (Freelove Fenner) at his and Caitlin Loney’s all-analog home studio,
The Bottle Garden, with the intention of producing what they referred to as a
“souvenir”, to document their short summer as a band, Fixture Records released
the tape EP ‘July First’. After this, the band started getting offers to play
shows with local bands and even landed a last-minute spot at this year’s POP
Montreal festival. Moss Lime’s melodic minimalism, idiosyncratic vocals, and
strong sense of play, as witnessed in this promising first collection of
recordings, already shows signs of further experimentation to come. They will
release their first LP in the next few weeks on Telephon Explosion.
https://mosslimer.bandcamp.com/
AS ONDAS are a band with fresh ideas, featuring members of Dog Legs, Shopping and Wachi Wachi they start their race with a sprint. With a spartan drum, bass and guitar lineup, As Ondas deliver up a delirious, chorus-drenched prom punk alongside the occasional post punk meditation.
https://asondas.bandcamp.com/music
WHALO are a Swedish/English duo based in Nottingham with melancholic tendencies and a love for the DIY approach. After forming at the start of 2015, Whalo quietly released their debut EP “Sleepy” in September, a collection of hazy pop songs recorded in a cold Coventry garage. They are now gearing up to play a handful of live shows in the UK whilst slowly writing and recording material for a follow up.
http://whalo.bandcamp.com/releases
https://mosslimer.bandcamp.com/
AS ONDAS are a band with fresh ideas, featuring members of Dog Legs, Shopping and Wachi Wachi they start their race with a sprint. With a spartan drum, bass and guitar lineup, As Ondas deliver up a delirious, chorus-drenched prom punk alongside the occasional post punk meditation.
https://asondas.bandcamp.com/music
WHALO are a Swedish/English duo based in Nottingham with melancholic tendencies and a love for the DIY approach. After forming at the start of 2015, Whalo quietly released their debut EP “Sleepy” in September, a collection of hazy pop songs recorded in a cold Coventry garage. They are now gearing up to play a handful of live shows in the UK whilst slowly writing and recording material for a follow up.
http://whalo.bandcamp.com/releases
Thanks for reading,
see you so soon!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
SLIM TWIG
TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)
MAGIC STEVEN
TROON LEINAD (DJ set)
Wednesday 2 December
The Victoria, 451
Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334563
MOSS
LIME
AS
ONDAS
WHALO
Monday 7 December
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St,
Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT
IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Wednesday 16 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/338385
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Wednesday 16 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/338385
SAUNA YOUTH
Saturday 13 February
The Forge, 3-7
Delancey Street, Camden, NW1 7NL
GUN OUTFIT
Wednesday 17
February
The Lexington,
96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
PROTOMARTYR
Monday 4th April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/339599
Monday 4th April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/339599
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