Upset The Rhythm
presents…
EARTHEATER
GABRIEL SALOMAN
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER
Saturday 25 June
Cafe OTO, 22
Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/353942
EARTHEATER is Alexandra Drewchin, a New York based musician
and artist who seeks on a daily basis to upgrade her mental software. Also
known for her shamanic performances fronting Guardian
Alien, Eartheater is Drewchin’s unshackled solo vessel, a deliberate
distillation of voice, synths, guitar, and electronic production techniques
into short-form compositions teeming with crystalline details. At any given
moment, an Eartheater composition reads somewhere between a folk song, a
musique concrète collage, and a filmic suite fit to soundtrack a cosmic montage
that only she can imagine in full detail. Her intricate ballad arrangements
rise from standing pools of hi-fidelity synthesis, while her dynamic vocal
performances span an untold number of tactics and tonalities. Drewchin builds
layered electronic productions possessed of enough detail to constitute
stand-alone worlds, each weighted thick with text and texture. October
2015 saw the release of her second album in the same year on Hausu
Mountain, ‘RIP Chrysalis’.
GABRIEL SALOMAN is a Vancouver based musician and artist who has been
performing experimental, conceptual and freely improvised music for over 15
years. He is best known for his work as half of Yellow Swans and currently
composes and performs solo as GMS and Sade Sade. His music investigates
temporal abstractions, conceptual sound and gestural noise. There is a parallel
concern with sound art as both liberating practice and praxis. In recent
performances and recordings Saloman’s music has been composed of percussion,
tapes, mixer-feedback, guitar, keyboards, piano and voice. In particular
Saloman has explored the use of found sound, field recordings, percussion and
processed blank cassettes.
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER has always been an enigmatic
project, marching to the beat of its own tribal drum and operating on the
fringes of an already fringe scene—one that finds comfort in sweeping drones,
stirring neofolk, field recordings, and pastoral near-silence. This endeavor
(the collective effort of Rob Risk, Blaine
Todd, and Andrew Weathers) bends noise and feedback
to his will, smoothing out harsh edges into something soothing, gentle, and
quite lovely; nature infuses every note and every pause, and that the
project's latest album, ‘Unhuulda’, has a heavy environmental focus and
its five movements sound like a dark forest evening is no
coincidence. ‘Unhuulda’ is the latest offering from Common Eider King
Eider's own imprint, Caribou People. It comes with a handmade book of poetry,
printed with metallic gold ink on blood red 100% recycled paper.
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