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porkmarras 10.27.2006 08:15 AM

Fields Of the Nephilim

Sunday
19

Nov 2006
LONDON - THE ASTORIAAstoria
157 Charing Cross Road
London
WC2 8EN
View Map
Tel: 020 7344 0044

porkmarras 10.27.2006 08:20 AM

Wednesday
1
Nov 2006CAT POWER
@
London - The Roadhouse</B>
CAT POWER
Doors: 19.30

porkmarras 10.27.2006 08:21 AM

Sunday
5
Nov 2006CALEXICO
@
London - The Roadhouse</B>
CALEXICO
Doors: 19.00

porkmarras 10.27.2006 08:23 AM

Friday
12
Jan 2007BERT JANSCH
@
London - The Roadhouse</B>
BERT JANSCH
Doors: 19.00

porkmarras 10.27.2006 08:24 AM

Saturday
16
Dec 2006JARVIS
@
London - The Roadhouse</B>
JARVIS
Doors: 19.00

sonicl 11.01.2006 06:24 AM

MONDAY 29TH JANUARY 2007 7.00pm
LONDON SPITZ
AN EVENING WITH THE COWBOY JUNKIES - £17.50

porkmarras 11.01.2006 07:02 AM

Sounds of Eden presents:

African Vibes (A celebration of African music and style)

Date: Thursday 16th Nov
Time: 9.00pm till late (doors open 5pm)
Venue: Viva-Viva, 18 High St. Hornsey London N8
Tube: Turnpike Lane, then bus 144
Entry: Free
Info: 07956 475 245 - http://www.soundsofeden.net/avprogrm.htm

Featuring: Kari Bannerman - The ‘Highlife’ Explosion!

Singer/ songwriter Kari Bannerman is all set to bring the hippest ‘Highlife’ to North London.

Even at school it was clear Kari was a child prodigy, he started his professional career soon after leaving school by forming and leading his own band ‘Boombaya’.

Within a year they had won Ghana’s ‘Band of the Year’ award, this was followed up by an extensive tour of UK. This all happened during the mid 70’s when punk and reggae where the underground sub cultures in Britain. Boombaya’s fresh style and originality enabled them to build up a following of converts to their dynamic African sound.

Kari’s talents continued to cause a stir and in 1976 he was invited to join Osibisa as lead guitarist. Osibisa, one of the most successful African groups of all time had repeatedly topped album charts in 4 continents, at the height of their success, they had a worldwide audience.

He toured and recorded several albums with them playing on some of the greatest stages alongside World-renowned artistes such as Ronnie Laws, Hugh Masekela, Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac), Odyssey and highlife supremo E T Mensah.

Kari brings the dynamic and uplifting sounds of 'Highlife' music to African Vibes, you know where and you know when!

www.soundsofeden.net

porkmarras 11.01.2006 07:03 AM

ongaku:enjoy_sound and INTERLACE present

* AMM (Eddie Prevost and John Tilbury)
* Tom Chant (saxophone), Ross Lambert (guitar,) Sebastian Lexer (piano, electronics), Matt Milton (violin) quartet
* Jamie Coleman (trumpet), Seymour Wright (saxophone), Mark Wastell trio

AMM, now the duo of Eddie Prevost (drums, percussion) and John Tilbury (piano), continue to explore music-making. Both the accompanying trio and the quartet have been inaugurated for the concert, which will mark their premiere performances.

Venue: Shunt Vaults, Joiner Street LONDON, SE1
Time: Thursday 9 November 2006, 8pm
Entrance cost: free/donation (suggested donation £
 

websites: http://interlace.incalcando.com
http://www.ongakusound.com
http://www.icarus.nu
tel: 07932 566 378 or 07747 617 534

We hope that you may be able to attend and/or spread the word about this event further via your networks. We gratefully acknowledge the support given to INTERLACE by the Electronic Music Studio at Goldsmiths College, London.
Thanks
ROSS LAMBERT, SEYMOUR WRIGHT, SEBASTIAN LEXER

porkmarras 11.01.2006 07:04 AM

OPENLAB 3

Group Show, 4/11-11/11/2006, 1-7pm
Opening Event and Private View 4/11/2006, 4 -12 pm
Closing Event 11/11/2006, 4-12 pm

Auto-Italia South London Gallery
82-86 Queens Road
SE152QX Peckham, London

OpenLab is delighted to present OpenLab3, an group exhibition with an opening and closing event featuring musical performances by more than 20 artists and musicians of the OpenLab collective. OpenLab engages in the aesthetics and politics of Free Open Source Software Culture. Free Software Culture seeks to emphasise transparency of the creative process by making all stages of development available to others, enabling them to learn how the creation works and alter it for their own purposes. When this idea is applied to artistic practices, the boundaries between the artistic usage of software tools and their collaborative development become blurred. The workings of the artist's tools are exposed, and the artists are actively engaged in developing media technologies. They can modify them to suit their goals, rather than creating works by using existing tools that impose "their way of doing things" on the artwork.

This group exhibition brings together interactive installations, sonic interventions, video works and animations which explore the audio-visual code of this network culture: computers start to paint pictures on their own, expose their internal circuits and "commit suicide"; birds will sing and fly around in multiple realities, the skylines of two cosmopolitan cities merge, language, meaning and time burst into fragments and recombine. The range of the combined works points to the strength of Open Source Culture – its increasing versatility as artistic playground essential to contemporary debates and its continued importance not just in the invention of new media realities but also in tackling themes of "real" time and space.

The two music events feature sound and multimedia performances of artists who use and develop open-source tools such as PD, Supercollider, Processing and Fluxus. They will perform prepared sets and code their music live in various programing languages. Musicians will also experiment with a set of live instrument swapping. By exchanging PD-Patches, they will challenge each other in an uncharted space of sonic manipulation. The performances will span from excursions into the symphonica, experimental noise and soundscapes to electronica and beat-oriented minimal techno-sets.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Rob Canning, Chun Lee, Claude Heiland-Allen, Carl Forsell, Sabine Gottfried, Karsten Gebbert, Paul Webb, Rob Munro, Chiharu Kaido, Evan Raskob, U-Sun, Ryan Jordan, Oli Laruelle, Robert Atwood, Luke Jordan, Rene, Monica Subrotova & Daniel Kordik, Michael Woelkner, Andy Farnell, Martin Aaserud, Ryan Jordan & Rachel Horne, Dave Griffith & Alex McLean

For more information please visit :

http://www.fexia.com/openlab
http://openlab.pawfal.org
http://www.midnightbluecollective.com

porkmarras 11.01.2006 07:06 AM

Hello GoodBye Presents...

Saturday 4th Novemeber
12 Bar Club
Denmark Street
London WC2


8PM - Late

Admission £6/£5 (if you print this out!)

Resonance FM's deXter Bentley host the Hello GoodBye show every Saturday from noon to 1.30 and tonight offer some extraordinary music from 4 truly amazing bands who have recently appeared live on the show.


DEXTER BENTLEY

Of numerous attempts to describe the deXter Bentley sound, 'end of the pier psychedelic folk' seems to get nearest to the mark. Ploughing their own particular furrow of un-hip pop, their idiosyncratic kitchen-sink dramas never draw the same comparison twice. Debut LP 'In Order Alphabetical' is out now on Blob recordings.

www.dexterbentley.com


SALT & BLUE


Icelandic/British duo Salt & Blue generate a sound that evokes both folk and chamber ensemble traditions. Employing hurdy gurdy, cello, mandolin and voice, they draw inspiration in equal measure from both the majestic melancholy of the ocean and the muted menace of the woods. Wearing their penchant for ancient folklore on their sleeves, Salt & Blue unashamedly conjure up fantastical worlds inhabited by goblins and mermaids, producing some startlingly original and utterly timeless music in the process.

http://www.myspace.com/saltandblue


HAMILTON YARNS

'Free-folk’ ensemble Hamilton Yarns hail from the south coast of England. Their music is a sweeping canvas of seemingly spontaneous atmospherics concocted from harmonium, cornet, clarinet and flute, beautifully combined with wonky pop lyricism. Ambling nonchalantly through the themes of their songs are a motley crew of grubs, bugs, badgers and foxes, all hell bent on their mission to explore the subconscious, superstition and the weather. The band have recently released their 6th LP in 4 years, the superb ‘The Show-Boat, Over’.

http://www.myspace.com/thehamiltonyarns


TEA & TOAST BAND


Dressing in slightly disturbing home made animal costumes is but one indication of Tea & Toast Band's wholehearted embrace of a childlike exuberance towards both performance and music. Their unorthodox song writing methods find them in one instant utilising a massed gargling choir and in the next creating a frantic rhythmic backing with the aid of an upturned bicycle. To sum up, ‘Rhapsodic rural absurdity’ would be as good a phrase as any, but to be honest you're better off experiencing them first hand and supplying your own adjectives.

http://www.myspace.com/teatoastband


HUNTING LODGE

West Country quartet Hunting Lodge have already released a critically acclaimed debut LP, ‘Energy Czar’ (Blood Red Sounds), which is a challenging sonic masterpiece possessing all the subtlety of a wayward wrecking ball. Distant echoes of Pere Ubu's David Thomas can perhaps be deciphered in the distraught wailing of singer Dan Chandler, while the rest of the band simply bludgeon the listener into orgiastic submission with their pure, unbridled joie de vivre. Tonight finds Hunting Lodge completing the final leg of their European tour and we have been warned they could well be at each others' throats as a consequence… a sight most surely NOT to be missed.

http://www.myspace.com/huntinglodge

(For a LIVE preview of Hamilton Yarns, Tea & Toast Band + Salt and Blue, tune in to the Hello GoodBye show on Resonance 104.4 fm on the day of the gig, Saturday 4th Nov, from 12.00 midday to 1.30pm.)
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www.dexterbentley.com

porkmarras 11.01.2006 07:09 AM

we've got another kosmische night this thursday at the corsica studios in elephant and castle, this month being somewhat minimal / synth orientated, with:

ISAN (morr music, static caravan)
"How someone can make such breath-taking music from such simplicity is baffling". angryape.com
http://www.isan.co.uk
+
fab from the tomcats in tokyo
"a band broadcasting at a higher frequency than normal." forcedexposure.com
http://www.myspace.com/tomcatsintokyo
+
ZAUM
"soundtrack music for our inner journeys or movies projected on our eyelids... evoking ghosts, dreams and other sonic spirits" Downtown Music Gallery, New York
http://www.steve-harris.info/listen.html
+ kosmische djs playing all variety of krautrock, underground ndw, minimal synth, electro-disco, prog and all manner of monotonous motorik cosmic sounds

Advance tickets are available from

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/13227


www.kosmische.org

porkmarras 11.06.2006 08:26 AM

KOSMISCHE november 19th

acid mothers temple & the melting paraiso u.f.o.
"a reputation for phenomenal live shows" wikipedia.org
http://www.myspace.com/acidmotherstemple
The Early Years
"Signed only last year and releasing just one single...very special." Drowned in Sound
http://www.theearlyyears.org.uk/Download.asp
Duracell
"pure genius. Manic, distorted computer game covers played on a prepared drum kit hooked up to sequencers" check the links!!
http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2006/07/drummer-nord-modular-g2-awesome.html
http://www.myspace.com/andreduracell
Hunting Lodge
"HYPERKINETIC DRUMMING...BREATHLESS INTENSITY" "a richly rewarding, if shattering, experience" plan b
http://www.myspace.com/huntinglodge
+kosmische djs


sunday NOV 19th 2006

Corsica Studios
Unit 5 Farrell Court Elephant Road London SE17 1LB
get tickets now!!!! £8adv

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/13226
www.corsicastudios.com
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http://www.kosmische.org

porkmarras 11.07.2006 06:04 AM

unluck recs presents...

CHARLES HAYWARD
Superb experimental solo drum show from the leading member of This Heat and Camberwell Now. Rare live appearance.

ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB
The project of Neil Campbell, original member of Vibracathedral Orchestra. [Alongside Richard Youngs and Matthew Bower] "provided the map co-ordinates for much of what passed for a post-punk UK underground during most of the 80s and 90s" - The Wire, 2005.

NEPTUNE
Noise trio from Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts signed to Table of the Elements. "A tumultuous blend of detailed, mathematically precise rhythms punctuated with gusts of white noise and the capricious electronics of Pearson's handmade synth and oscillator boxes " - The Wire, 2006.

TEMPERATURES
A hot stew of lo-end riffage, electronic noise and free-wheeling drumming from unrelenting London duo.

Old Blue Last
Tuesday November 7th
8pm, £5
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/12099

SO FUCKING RAD!!

porkmarras 11.07.2006 06:05 AM

ZIG ZAG

NYE/ DEC 31TH (SUNDAY) @ FLUID

9PM - 6AM

WITH

KABALE UND LIEBE (archipel, meerestief, multi vitamins) - live
ARNAUD LE TEXIER (safari electronique)
DOUDOU MALICIOUS (multi vitamins, enliven, nomor, safari electronique)
CHRIS BOX (RUN)

FLUID - 40 CHARTERHOUSE ST, LONDON, EC1
TUBE FARRINGTON, BARBICAN

info@multivitamins-records.com
www.multivitamins-records.com
www.myspace.com/multivitamins
www.myspace.com/safarielectronique

sonicl 11.07.2006 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by porkmarras
unluck recs presents...

CHARLES HAYWARD
Superb experimental solo drum show from the leading member of This Heat and Camberwell Now. Rare live appearance.

ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB
The project of Neil Campbell, original member of Vibracathedral Orchestra. [Alongside Richard Youngs and Matthew Bower] "provided the map co-ordinates for much of what passed for a post-punk UK underground during most of the 80s and 90s" - The Wire, 2005.

NEPTUNE
Noise trio from Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts signed to Table of the Elements. "A tumultuous blend of detailed, mathematically precise rhythms punctuated with gusts of white noise and the capricious electronics of Pearson's handmade synth and oscillator boxes " - The Wire, 2006.

TEMPERATURES
A hot stew of lo-end riffage, electronic noise and free-wheeling drumming from unrelenting London duo.

Old Blue Last
Tuesday November 7th
8pm, £5
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/12099

SO FUCKING RAD!!

I bought an Astral Social Club CD the other day - It's jolly good stuff. I'd be tempted by this if it weren't for the fact that I'm going out for a curry with my old flatmate this evening.

porkmarras 11.07.2006 08:46 AM

The Working Men's Art Quiz, featuring Mixed Up Insects and Richard Dedomenici

Rational Rec
Tuesday 7 November 2006
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
44 Pollard Row, London E2
(5 mins from Bethnal Green tube)
£5 on the door
DOORS OPEN AT 8PM.

Rational Rec is a monthly inter-art social occasion based at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, incorporating sound, music, text, performance and film into a damn good night out. Come along and be artistically, intellectually and alcoholically stimulated

Live artist Richard Dedomenici, a one-man subversive think-tank, will be our special quizmaster for The Working Men's Art Quiz. Richard is primarily dedicated to the development and implementation of innovative strategies designed to undermine accepted belief systems and topple existing power structures. More information is at www.dedomenici.co.uk

No pub quiz is complete without a picture round, and Rational Rec's Working Men's Art Quiz is no exception. So we can make sure your aesthetics are up to par, artists Dave Henningham and James Capper have created artworks with a function - but can you guess what these contraptions do?

Tip top prizes for the winning team and even some consolation prizes for the runners up, the Working Men's Art Quiz gives you a great chance to impress your friends and family with your encyclopaedic knowledge of music, visual art, film, experimental music and performance art. For the best chance of success, bring a team of experts who know about each area - we promise its going to be a tough one!

Helping out and playing some sets of their inimitable music are Mixed Up Insects - more information, downloads and the possibility of friendship available from http://www.myspace.com/themixedupinsects

The quiz starts at 8.30pm, so take your seats early ladies and gents to avoid disappointment of not being able to join the quiz!

************************************************** **************************
RATIONAL REC
is organised by Russell Martin, Cecilia Wee and Matthew Shlomowitz.
First Tuesday of every month at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club

Toilet & Bowels 11.07.2006 11:09 AM

my girlfriend (the aforementioned tomomi) is playing a show in an art gallery in spitalfield market on sunday (the 12th), i think it starts at 7ish, but i'll have to check, and also i'll find out the name of the gallery

Toilet & Bowels 11.10.2006 11:15 AM

tomomi's gig is in an art gallery called kenetica in old spitalfield market at 5pm on sunday. it will be good!

sonicl 11.23.2006 04:38 AM

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY
VENUE: KOKO, 1a Camden High Street
DATE: March 1st 2007
DOORS OPEN : 7.00 pm
TICKET PRICE : £12.50

porkmarras 11.23.2006 10:17 AM




 

porkmarras 11.23.2006 10:21 AM

TILTED DISCO'S CHRISTMAS PARTY
THE SUB CLUB, 2 GOULSTON ST, ALDGATE LONDON, E1

PLAYING ON A FUNKTION ONE SOUND SYSTEM WILL BE

FABRICE LIG - Belgium (KMS, F.COM)

TREVOR ROCKCLIFFE -UK (Mentor)

DAVE ANGEL - UK (Rotation)

COLIN DALE - UK (Tilted Disco)

DAVE MOTHERSOLE - UK (Swag Records)

UPPER FLOOR
SOLUTION SOUND SYSTEM (Finsbury Park Festival/ Stokefest)

Alongside special guest

KENNY KNOTTS
One of the most versatile singers/MCs in the business, Kenny will be performing live, original sound system style, to Solution’s crucial selection of Roots Reggae. Plenty of eras, styles and patterns of the music covered - 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 00’s – JA to UK and beyond!!


10pm to 7am - £10 Entry - £8 Student Members
Reserve lists - info@tilteddisco.com, 07961994000
Tickets available at:
www.ticketweb.co.uk
www.phonicarecords.com
www.knowhowrecords.com

Try and make it early to guarantee entry…

porkmarras 11.23.2006 10:32 AM

The Scala
Thursday 03 May 2007


EAT YOUR OWN EARS
ELECTRELANE
PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS

Their sound sails through and chops up many genres, atmospheres and textures. It finds itself in a kind of otherworldliness well above the confines of the pigeon- holed. It’s loud and quiet, aggressive and calming, menacing and sweet, slow paced yet frenzied. Above all it’s startlingly beautiful and unique.

www.electrelane.com
www.toopure.com



Time: 7.30PM
Admission: £12.50 IN ADVANCE
Tickets: www.ticketweb.co.uk 08700 600 100, www.seetickets.com 0870 060 3777

Buy tickets online


 

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porkmarras 11.23.2006 10:47 AM

Invisible Wand (Paul Hood, David Aylward, Tom Scott plus Howard- Burmuda Triangle)Improv with record players, saxes, electronics, drums, melodica etc.

+

Comfy Moss- 'infuriatingly slow ambient, wet landscapes'

+

Team Brick- Klezmer drones, throat singing, ferrel choirboy feedback)

+

Big Al and others- continuous, multiple sound happenings tbc.

9pm til late - FREE ENTRY
@
TATE MOSS
22 marshgate lane
E15 2NH

WWW.TATEMOSS.COM

lucyrulesok 11.23.2006 11:16 AM

have any of you lot been to an experimental music night on a monday in vauhall?? i think its 1 or 2 pounds to get in, and you bring your own drink. its in a little community centre. i totally forgot the name of the night but its run by (i think) the bowman brothers.
you should def check it out if you get a chance, lovely cheap night out, there's a cafe there as well so you can get some tasty dinner too!

pretty vague info there..... sorry!

Iain 11.23.2006 07:09 PM

Noah Howard/Evan Parker/John Edwards/Chris Corsano Quartet - 23rd Jan 07 The Spitz.

http://www.secondlayer.co.uk/live-info2.asp

 

porkmarras 11.24.2006 08:57 AM

WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY, LONDON E1
www.whitechapel.org

:: LAST MUSIC EVENT OF 2006 AT WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY ::
dont miss this one...



Fri 24 November, 7pm

Fulborn Teversham +
Congregation Band (Victoria Yeulet & Benjamin Prosser)


The group Fulborn Teversham which features drummer Seb Rochford and Pete Wareham (both of Polar Bear & Acoustic Ladyland) with Alice Grant on vocals, Nick Ramm and Hayley Hung. Also the excellent Victoria Yeulet & Benjamin Prosser ‘Congregation Band’ will perform their erudite blues.

Victoria Yeulet and Beatrice Dillon will be playing records.

Curated by Beatrice Dillon

£6/5 concessions

porkmarras 11.24.2006 09:10 AM

London 08/12/06 Sillicon Scally Vex'd Cosmic Force Killer Electro/Dubstep kneesup!



 



 


Friday 08 December 08/12/06

Lineup:

Sillicon Scally (Satamile/SCSIAV
Wee Djs (Touchin' Bass)
Cosmic Force (Clone/Marguerita)
Marco Bernardi (Clone/Frustrated Funk)
Vex'd (Planet Mu)
Chevron (Planet MU)
Scanone (Combat Recordings)
ADJ & Pathic (Pyramid Transmissions)
StormField (Combat Recordings)
Flint Kids
Grievous G
Brrrzmaster10
Jimmy Bollus

Corsica Studios,
4-5 Elephant Rd,
London SE17 1LB

tenner

info&map: www.myspace.com/interakt interakt@hotmail.com

Toilet & Bowels 11.24.2006 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Iain
Noah Howard/Evan Parker/John Edwards/Chris Corsano Quartet - 23rd Jan 07 The Spitz.

http://www.secondlayer.co.uk/live-info2.asp


 


yikes. i'm going to that for sure.

Iain 11.24.2006 10:58 AM

I'd love to...but Corsano will be playing around here with Mick Flower around that time and I anticipate not having much money in January.

porkmarras 11.26.2006 03:15 PM

 

Sailesh 11.26.2006 06:32 PM

Sy Uk Tour In 07????????

Toilet & Bowels 11.27.2006 07:41 AM

ruff sqwad at the ICA on the 2nd

jon boy 11.27.2006 07:52 AM

berlin gig guide:

wedensday - field recordings night at some bar near warschauwer strasse s bahn
friday - bardo pond at the festsaal
saturday - magik markers and jackie o mutherfucker at the west germany

porkmarras 11.27.2006 10:30 AM

London Sinfonietta: German Connections UK premieres by Stockhausen,
Kagel and Henze

7.30pm, Wednesday 6 December 2006 Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

Have you ever wondered what the signs of the zodiac might sound like?
Find out at the UK premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausens Five Star Signs
in an evening of reworkings and revisions performed by the London
Sinfonietta and conductor Oliver Knussen.

These premieres by three of the worlds greatest living composers
offer a new angle on the past, interpreted in light of what has
happened since. Hans Werner Henzes new and reduced orchestration of
his Stravinksy-inspired First Symphony reveals an additional level of
clarity and detail, and Mauricio Kagel defines the instrumentation
that was previously left flexible in his sumptuously lyrical
Kammersymphonie.

Hans Werner Henze Kammerkonzert 05 Karlheinz Stockhausen Five star
signs Mauricio Kagel Kammersymphonie

Oliver Knussen conductor

www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk - http://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk

Iain 11.27.2006 11:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jon boy
saturday - magik markers and jackie o mutherfucker at the west germany


That'll be a good one. Wish I could go...will see JOMF next monday though.

jon boy 11.27.2006 11:58 AM

me too. i am spoiled.

porkmarras 11.29.2006 06:20 AM

This i will be going to for sure.

Friday 15 December: Otomo Yoshihide’s Anode + Roel Meelkop + Tom Chant & Sharif Sehnaoui

Saturday 16 December: Bernard Parmegiani + Tim Barnes & Ishikawa Ko + Andrea Neumann + Texturizer

Sunday 17 December: Ben Patterson & Keith Rowe + Olivia Block + Tomas Korber + Chris Corsano & John Edwards



DAY PASS: £12 /£10 FESTIVAL PASS:£25
DOORS OPEN 7PM
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Box office: +44 (0)20 7930 3647
www.ica.org.uk
London Musicians' Collective celebrates 30 years at the vanguard with its 15th Annual Festival of Experimental Music. Two dozen of the leading figures from the world of new music world are brought together over three nights of sustained avant-garde intensity. Among them are Japanese turntablist Otomo Yoshihide, who presents the UK premiere of his ground-breaking large ensemble piece Anode; the grand master of French musique concrète, Bernard Parmegiani, showcasing a new multi-channel composition; and, making his UK debut, the legendary Fluxus composer Ben Patterson.
Previous LMC festivals have typically showcased not only Britain’s foremost experimentalists such as Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, AMM, Lol Coxhill, David Toop and the late John Stevens, but have also boasted rare (often unique) performances and special projects by the likes of Pierre Henry, Alvin Lucier, The Smith Quartet, The Scratch Orchestra, Charlemagne Palestine, Philip Corner, Pauline Oliveros, Blechtum From Blechdom, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Marshall Allen (Sun Ra Arkestra), John French (The Magic Band) and Jaki Liebeziet (Can); while LMC’s illustrious history as a promoter has also been significant in its early support of artists such as John Zorn, Jim O’Rourke, Zeena Parkins, Scanner and dozens more - it even hosted the first tentative promotions of Poptones supremo Alan McGee. LMC also produced the legendary Rock Aktion Party concerts by the German group Faust, recently released as the film Faust: Nobody Knows If It Ever Happened (also at the ICA on 1 December). With its apparently casual mix of living legends and complete unknowns, of underground noise and contemporary classical sounds, of the truly weird and the downright beautiful, the Festival has proved widely influential, spawning many imitators across the world (Le Weekend in Stirling, Install in Glasgow, Ether at London’s South Bank Centre). Meantime, rather than rest on its laurels, the Collective has expanded its base of activity in recent years, producing highly successful tours for the Contemporary Music Network (Conduction; Japanorama; Turntable Hell; Feedback: order from noise) and launching its internationally acclaimed arts radio station Resonance 104.4 FM. Now in its third decade of continuous activity, LMC provides the touchstone for indicating where music can - and just might - go.
This year, under the direction of youthful producer Benedict Drew, the Festival boasts some extraordinary coups: Otomo Yoshihide’s ensemble project, Anode, is the biggest he has presented in London since the epochal Japanorama tour of 2001. He’s joined by an all-star line-up including Sachiko M., Ichiraku Yoshimitsu, Masahiro Uemura, Tim Barnes, Mark Sanders, Andrea Neumann, Angharad Davies, Stefano Tedescu and Rhodri Davies. Presented in two versions, quiet and (very) loud, Anode shares the first night with opaque Dutch laptop composer Roel Meelkop and the duo of English saxophonist Tom Chant and Lebanese guitarist Sharif Sehnaoui.
The second night sees France’s foremost living composer Bernard Parmegiani present two multi-channel, multi-speaker works, including the UK premiere of Au gré du souffle le son s'envole; the debut of a duo comprising brilliant US percussionist Tim Barnes (Perfect Partner) and the distinguished Japanese sho-player Ishikawa Ko, along with German instrument inventor Andrea Neumann and the young Greek improvising duo Texturizer.
The final night pulls out the stops still further, kicking off with a intuitive and intense improvised dialogue Chris Corsano (drums) and John Edwards (double bass); a mind-boggling solo by Swiss electronics player Tomas Korber; the UK debut of the extraordinary Chicago-based sound artist Olivia Block; and the meeting of two titans of new music - Ben Patterson, the only African-American member of 1960s’ radical art movement Fluxus (Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik and Lamonte Young are the better known of his collaborators), joined here by the globally influential English guitarist Keith Rowe, acknowledged as an influence on everyone from Pete Townshend and Sonic Youth to the present generation of young improvisers and noise artists.

MAZEN KERBAJ

sonicl 11.29.2006 06:30 AM

Seeing as we're at the ICA:

14 December 2006
Film Premier: Einstürzende Neubauten, Palast Der Republik, November 2004
£9/£8 concs/£7 ICA members

To mark the launch of Palast der Republik, the first live concert DVD from Einstürzende Neubauten, the ICA is screening the film of their performance at the Palast der Republik, Berlin.

The Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic) was the site of the East German parliament between 1976 and 1989 as well as housing auditoriums, art galleries, restaurants and a bowling alley. Abandoned during the 1990s when asbestos comtamination was discovered, demolition of the building began in Febrary 2006

In November 2004 Einstürzende Neubauten used the skeleton of the ruined Palast as a location for their architectural-musical fantasies. Accompanied by a 100 strong choir, recruited from www.neubauten.org, they played in and with the building in their, almost literally, building collapsing style.

There will be a Q&A after the screening with Einstürzende Neubauten founder member Blixa Bargeld.


http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=12604

porkmarras 11.29.2006 08:15 AM

The weekly improvisation workshop, established by Eddie Prévost, opens its doors to an audience on Fri 1 Dec, as part of Elefest arts festival.


The Welsh Chapel, 90 Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1. London Bridge or Borough tube. 7pm. £5.

http://www.elefest.org.uk/index.php?opt=article&siid=1664

jon boy 11.29.2006 08:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sonicl
Seeing as we're at the ICA:

14 December 2006
Film Premier: Einstürzende Neubauten, Palast Der Republik, November 2004
£9/£8 concs/£7 ICA members

To mark the launch of Palast der Republik, the first live concert DVD from Einstürzende Neubauten, the ICA is screening the film of their performance at the Palast der Republik, Berlin.

The Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic) was the site of the East German parliament between 1976 and 1989 as well as housing auditoriums, art galleries, restaurants and a bowling alley. Abandoned during the 1990s when asbestos comtamination was discovered, demolition of the building began in Febrary 2006

In November 2004 Einstürzende Neubauten used the skeleton of the ruined Palast as a location for their architectural-musical fantasies. Accompanied by a 100 strong choir, recruited from www.neubauten.org, they played in and with the building in their, almost literally, building collapsing style.

There will be a Q&A after the screening with Einstürzende Neubauten founder member Blixa Bargeld.


http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=12604


sadly the palast no longer exists.


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