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The 'How Come...' Tour featuring......
featuring......
Sun Araw + Zun Zun Egui + Runners + Hookworms + Ben Dewrance (DJ) @ Brudenell.
...Tuesday 23rd November 2010.
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/89747
Tickets... £6 Advance/MOTD... Available from Jumbo, Crash, Wegottickets...
SUN ARAW
“On Patrol is his most mind-bending statement yet – two LPs of reverb-drenched guitar, distant singing, and muffled beats” - Pitchfork
“Sun Araw's all-gates-open aesthetic is truly liberating … a transcendental voyage through modern culture” - The Wire
The recently named Hypnagogic Pop (Wire) is a good description of a recent bunch of American artists such as Sun Araw, Oneohtrix Point Never, The Skaters, Ducktails, Pocahaunted, Emeralds. Probably one of the most original new styles in music it draws from a love of retro 80's childhood nostalgia, psychedelia, experimental synths, drone, noise and ambient music.
The music of Cameron Stallones, aka Sun Araw, makes the familiar sound hauntingly surreal. His dubby bass lines, loping beats, and quivering Farfisa organ chords are easy to grasp. But the way Stallones arranges them, looping them into trances and submerging them in echo, makes the resulting songs feel less like clear images than foggy, humid dreams. They also paint a picture of his home city, Los Angeles, as a faded memory of its glamorous past, a ghost rising from the streets like heat waves.
http://pitchfork.com/features/columns/7818-the-out-door-4/3/ - Pitchfork Interview
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3038/ - Free downloads
ZUN ZUN EGUI
“Zun Zun Egui's 20-minute debut EP Bal La Poussiere makes the Dirty Projectors and Vampire Weekend look like sadsacks and slack motherfuckers; it's a volatile blend of African polyrhythms, tropical blues, Mars Volta energy, bowel-busting Boris riffs, and swirls of AmRep noise—think Konono N°1 covered by Jesus Lizard, and you're getting close.” - Village Voice
“Internationalist loonies Zun Zun Egui have crowds pouring down the hills to the call of their kraut-meets-math-meets-post-hardcore noise and multilingual vocals from a dude who grabs his crotch and say he's called Motherf***ker” – NME (Green Man Festival review)
Zun Zun Egui conjure up bona fide rebel music that is full of body, raw in spirit
and totally free of precedent. A heavy, heavy dance band, they fire up mighty,
eternal grooves worthy of some dust-caked Lagos street jam, but don’t just
settle for that: tropical melodies, thrilling stop-start time switches, scorching
psychedelics and robust underground rock flourishes are gathered up as the
momentum swells towards frenzied, ecstatic finales. East African guitar
practice is inflamed by multi-lingual incantations (in French, English, Creole,
Japanese...), sinuous prog gets a big bass undertow. It’s roll and roll, a
rainbow blaze of rhythm and sound that pulls both the rockers and the
writhers into its heart.
drownedinsound.com/releases/14533/reviews/4137452
www.last.fm/music/Zun+Zun+Egui
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19sPAPjep5I - At SXSW
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Room 237/MARIObong/Coby Sey present....
"Believe our hype about Hype. The missing link between Ariel Pink and Aphex Twin" - The Guardian
HYPE WILLIAMS + 1 More TBC.
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Doors 7.30 - 10.30 end
Thursday 25th November 2010 @ Nation Of Shopkeepers
£4 advance - Tickets at Jumbo & Wegottickets.
Followed by LIMN - Clubnight (Live illustration, dj's play electronica, techno, italo etc)
HYPE WILLIAMS
http://www.myspace.com/hypheewilliams
Hype Williams is an elusive project conceived by two "illegal immigrants" who for now we will know as D. Blunt and Inga Copeland. The duo are touring on the back of a super-limited LP on Carnival (hot off the press), with EPs out on Second Layer (September) and De Stijl EP (November) plus a Hippos In Tanks full length (March 2011) round the corner.
The Hype starts here... a totally unique, alien, addictive sound that ransacks the musical filing cabinet: disjointed psych-pop rattles around the channels, smooth-edge soul is refracted into disorientating dream tracks, murked instrumentals stumble through your psyche, disembodied samples of cult rapper Drake float around and into other, less familiar voices ... recorded exclusively in “magic hours” this is music that requires you to lift its shroud and climb inside. The spectrum of approving listeners to date is full – BBC Radio 1’s Benji B has premiered tracks, and The Wire has already devoted a page to trying to unpick the myth via a glowing review of their debut album.
With a catalogue of weird tall tales already tethered to their (borrowed) name – including an “18 year relay project”, plus alternative names including sounds of Hate, Paradise Sisters and Bo Khat Eternal Troof Family Band – the band exists as part of a bigger picture completed by a 360° range of art activities (“all about abuse, be it drugs, culture or equipment’, according to D. Blunt).
To date, infrequent but Hype-worthy concerts have been complemented by art happenings including “Gyptian Lover”, a series of exhibitions at London’s SPACE that have drifted fluidly around media including video, sculpture, installation and performance, Upset The Rhythm's Yes Way festival, plus shows with kindred spirit Sun Araw in the pipeline.
"What do we actually know about Hype Williams? ... an obscure, lo-fi form of dub-inflected half-pop as much akin to the post-industrial funk of 23 Skidoo and early Cabaret Voltaire as the scratchy psych of The Skaters et al ... music which fascinates largely because of its refusal to commit" - The Wire
"Believe our hype about Hype. The missing link between Ariel Pink and Aphex Twin" - The Guardian
Watch/listen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NupR1k7QZdE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMbfJpEigOs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZsad3s3hk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aN0JQcAsrc&feature=relatedSee More
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Room 237 & The Brudenell is very proud to present a triple headline show with three of the most anticipated artists selected by curators Godspeed You! Black Emporer and Belle & Sebastian while they are over for the Xmas ATP festivals.
GET YOUR TICKETS IN ASAP AS THIS WILL SELL OUT QUICK.
£7 Advance @ Brudenell - 8/12/10
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Tickets available soon from Jumbo, Crash, Wegottickets.
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/92865
RANGDA
Like an avant-garde supergroup of sorts, Rangda's line up includes Chris Corsano (Flower-Corsano Duo), Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance). The group's debut release, False Flag, was released earlier this year on Drag City. As you can imagine from these musicians you can expect what could only be described as one of the most intense jams you could possibly imagine.
http://www.dragcity.com/artists/rangda
www.myspace.com/calonarang
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14249-false-flag/
www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/zqrj
www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5714
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JakvyyNmo4A
EMERALDS
Emeralds are an ambient/kosmische/progressive electronic music trio from Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. John Elliott, Mark McGuire and Steve Hauschildt began playing music together under the name Fancelions in 2005[1] in Cleveland's western suburbs of Bay Village and Westlake. However, due to a desire to simplify and focus more on live improvisation, they re-formed as Emeralds, playing their first show under that name in June 2006[2]. Since then the group has released over thirty recordings, on labels such as Hanson Records, American Tapes, No Fun Productions, Ecstatic Peace! and also on their own imprints Wagon and Gneiss Things. The album What Happened, released on No Fun Productions in 2009, is their most widely known release to date. In fall of 2009 the band self-released the follow-up full length to Solar Bridge which is self-titled Emeralds. In the coming years Emeralds releases will appear on Editions Mego and Industrial Records. They have collaborated with Aaron Dilloway on the cassette Under Pressure, released a split tour CD with Japanese noise musician Pain Jerk and opened for Throbbing Gristle in New York and Chicago[3]. The band has also filled headlining slots at Carlos Giffoni's No Fun Fest in New York and Stockholm, Sweden. Mark McGuire and Steve Hauschildt also perform and record under their own names. John Elliott performs as Outer Space, Imaginary Softwoods, and under various other aliases.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14275-does-it-look-like-im-here/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38lsQKiIF7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEE8LzzLPDo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8acqD51NwQ0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qM2Tp4dqgg
HOWLIN RAIN
Howlin Rain is a San Francisco band which formed in 2004 and released their first album in 2006. Described as "classically soulful, Howlin' Rain are currently signed with Rick Rubin to the Columbia Records subset American Recordings. The band's second album Magnificent Fiend was released on March 3, 2008 and has "combination of psychedelia, blues, funk and classic 1970s arena rock." Ethan Miller, while still with Comets on Fire, felt the urge to pursue a more melodic sound in his music and express the influence of growing up on the Lost Coast, so he formed Howlin Rain with his former high school band-mate Ian Gradek, and drummer John Moloney.[6] After the 2006 release of Comets on Fire's last album, he released Howlin Rain's self-titled first album, Howlin Rain with Birdman Records and began touring with Queens of the Stone Age.
Shortly after the release of their first album Moloney left the band but they picked up and later Garett Goddard, Eli Eckert, and Joel Robinow. They released their second album in 2008 and are currently touring on their own.
The band have been chosen personally by Belle & Sebastian to perform at their second Bowlie Weekender festival presented by All Tomorrow's Parties in the UK in December 2010.
www.howlinrain.com
www.myspace.com/howlinrain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QSI85G3MDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0EdtFEt6Pc