Date Palms / Alexander Tucker / Jasmina Maschina
Cafe Oto
10th November 2011
Tickets £7 on the door or £5 in advance from www.wegottickets.com
Music for the rainforests of the moon, DATE PALMS come straight out of Oakland CA - the duo of Marielle Jakobsons and Gregg Kowalsky. The two have birthed a suite of slowed-down music of the spheres, a canopy of glowing fog in which a heavy narcotic bass pulse keeps the roots straight into the earth. It’s a heady mix of alap paced violin phrases, jewel toned keys, harp swells, distorted tapes and ever present bass waves all crafted with precision detail in a humid space that leaves a dreamy imprint in the mind long after waking. Although separately Jakobsons and Kowalsky have made inroads into these types of landscapes before (Gregg with his Tape Chants series & Marielle with MYRMYR & Darwinsbitch), nothing really compares the world of Date Palms that the two created together with its perfect balance of micro & macro, inner & outer, cosmic & earth bound, casting some sort of old world magic on everyone within range. Date Palms released their acclaimed debut “Of Psalms” on Root Strata in 2010 and follow this with “Honey Devash”, released on Mexican Summer in August 2011.
Listen to tracks at the Date Palms Website
OVAL / Imbogodom / Rodgers & Jones
Cafe Oto
16th January 2011
Tickets £10 on the door or £8 in advance from www.wegottickets.com
A rare chance to see and hear one of the true innovators of contemporary audio. All Time Low presents Markus Popp in his first London live performance since the release of his groundbreaking new work 'o'.
IMBOGODOM is Alexander Tucker's live representation of the reel to reel tape loop album he and New Zealander Daniel Beban produced for Thrill Jockey in 2010. Making illicit use of the BBC's antiquated machines at their Bush House studios (where Beban worked briefly before returning to NZ), their The Metallic Year album betrays a love of Delia Derbyshire, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Alastair Galbraith.
Sally Rodgers and Steve Jones have a long career in electronic music. Recording as A Man Called Adam they’ve made music that for one reason or another has positioned them as genre-busting. hey are currently experimenting with a concept using installation technology, which they loosely describe as ‘talking with spaces’. Improvising with the sounds of the space they’re in, they generate new sound from recitation to the hidden sounds of obsolete technologies, and using real-time processing their interactions create unique audible ecosystems.
ZOMBIE ZOMBIE Plays John Carpenter - Hallowe'en Special!
Venue: Corsica Studios
Date: 31st October 2010
Tickets £8
Advance Tickets here: www.corsicastudios.com
We're proud to present, in collaboration with Baba Yaga's Hut, another film related Zombie Zombie concert - this time a homage to the music and film of John Carpenter, as featured on their recent new release for Versatile Records. Whilst this performance will not feature a film screening, but it may feature excerpts from such Carpenter classic as 'Precinct 13', the blockbuster 'Hallowe'en', 'New York 1997', the anthology 'The Thing' and 'Christine'.
Zombie Zombie, have already paid tribute to Carpenter and 'The Thing', in a short animation film for their track 'Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free'. If you haven't already seen it you should watch it here
In case you hadn't already noted the date, this concert will of course happen on Hallowe'en itself, and in no better location than London's very own Bermuda Triangle - The Elephant & Castle, at the most esteemed Corsica Studios.
Also performing on the night will be Dave.i.d and Solina HiFi. For more info and to buy advance tickets please go to www.corsicastudios.com
The Oscillation + Qa'a + Muscleheads DJs
Venue: The Drop, Stoke Newington, London N16.
Date: 9th November 2010
Tickets £5 on the door
All Time Low presents a special concert featuring the remarkable band Qa'a from Barcelona, Spain.
Also playing will be The Oscillation and a Dj set from Muscleheads
Oren Ambarchi / Philip Jeck / Elite Barbarian
Corsica Studios, London
1st July 2010
£8 in advance, £10 on the door.
Advance Tickets available from:
corsicastudios.com and
wegottickets.com
OREN AMBARCHI plays a very special one-off UK show at London's marvelous Corsica Studios. For the unitiated - Ambarchi's works are hesitant and tense extended songforms located in the cracks between several schools: modern electronics and processing; laminal improvisation and minimalism; hushed, pensive songwriting; the deceptive simplicity and temporal suspensions of composers such as Morton Feldman and Alvin Lucier; and the physicality of rock music, slowed down and stripped back to its bare bones, abstracted and replaced with pure signal.
PHILIP JECK works with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops turning them to his own purposes. His best known work "Vinyl Requiem" (with Lol Sargent): a performance for 180 '50's/'60's record players won Time Out Performance Award for 1993. He has also over the last few years returned to visual art making installations using from 6 to 80 record players including "Off The Record" for Sonic Boom at The Hayward Gallery, London [2000]. He truly does use record players as musical instruments, creating an intensely personal language that evolves with each added part of a record, creating geniunely moving and transfixing music. He has released many albums, most of which for the Touch Music imprint. See more here: philip jeck.com
ELITE BARBARIAN is Benjamin Page (Rocketnumbernine) and Michael D Donnelly (Rothko), a London duo who's recent debut album for The Front And Follow label was described by Wire magazine as "a resounding victory... for UK non-dancefloor electronic music". Here they present a rare London performance. You can hear excerpts of their music here
____ DJ support on the night comes from the distinguished pairing of Alex Jako and Graham Erickson..
DUNGEN + Wolf People
Venue: The Luminaire, London
Date: 31st May 2010
£9 in advance, £10 on the door.
Advance Tickets here: wegottickets.com
Dungen are Sweden's premier psychedelic rock band, although their sound has progressed far beyond such a description, encompassing elements of Swedish folk, progressive rock, and neo classical music.
Formed by singer/composer Gustav Ejstes circa 2000, the band have released six studio albums on labels such as Memphis Industries, Dolores Recordings, and the excellent independent Swedish imprint Subliminal Sound, (who have also released music from Trad Gras Och Stenar). This performance at London's Luminaire is their first show in London for a few years and promises to be very special!
Dungen: MySpace
UK quartet Wolf People seemingly combine classic blues structures and half-remembered English folk songs to create a heady blend of acid rock and mystical groove. They recently signed to Jagjaguwar Recordings and released 'Tidings', a collection of their early material in February 2010.
Wolf People: MySpace
Plus very special guest DJs on the night!
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN with a live soundtrack by ZOMBIE ZOMBIE
Venue: BFI Southbank,, London
Date: 28th May 2010
Tickets: £10 available from 6th April from bfi.org.uk
French duo Zombie Zombie have gained worldwide notoriety since the release of their debut album "A Land For Renegades" in 2008, both as a formidable live band and as music producers of the highest calibre. Through their use of vintage analogue synthesizers the band create intensely atmospheric music that has oft drawn comparison with the soundtracks of John Carpenter, the scores by Goblin for the Giallo films of Dario Argento and notably Gil Melle's soundtrack for The Andromeda Strain. Such references would not seem to obviously lead to working on Battleship Potemkin yet the band's passionate re-imagining of Eisenstein's silent classic has been heralded as a triumph following its debut in Paris at the end of 2009.
Zombie Zombie: MySpace
TRÄD, GRÄS OCH STENAR + Voice of the Seven Thunders + DJ Andy Votel
Venue: The Luminaire, London
Date: 30th April 2010
£9 in advance, £10 on the door.
Advance Tickets here: wegottickets.com
Träd Gräs Och Stenar (Trees, Grass & Stones) were forged out of the 'communitarian' underground scene in Sweden, that also included Harvester (later International Harvester) and Pärson Sound, which existed from 1967-1972. Their fusion of psychedelic folk and cosmic rock has been hugely influential on today's underground. Describing themselves as Sweden's "first minimalist rock group", the band sound as contemporary now as ever and will feature almost all original members for this rare London show.
Träd, Gräs och Stenar: tgs.nu
Voice Of The Seven Thunders is the new project from Rick Tomlinson (formerly Voice Of The Seven Woods), an apocalyptic vision of monolithic riffs and primal rhythms that harnesses elements of 70's krautrock, bucolic English psychedelia, electric acid rock and kosmische textures. Playing in the wake of his new eponymous album (released Feb 2010 on his own Tchantinler Recordings label) he performs here with a full live band.
Voice of the Seven Thunders: MySpace
THE OSCILLATION + RocketNumberNine
Venue: Barden's Boudoir, London
Date: 21st April 2010
The Oscillation return for a one off London gig to promote their new single "Future Echo" (ATL001) and showcase a brand new video by Julian Hand. Support comes from the amazing duo RocketNumberNine, who are fresh from their UK tour supporting Fourtet.
Tickets: £5 Advance from wegottickets.com or £6 On The Door