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blunderbuss 04.03.2012 01:22 AM
CHARALAMBIDES WEEKEND AT CAFE OTO

Charalambides + The Michael Flower Band
Saturday 19 May 2012 8pm

Tickets : £8 advance / £10 on the door

Dedicated to a vision of spiritual music (in all its forms) as transformative force, Charalambides sound is uniquely personal and consistent, even through some outwardly extreme shifts in tactics - song-as-mantra, interstellar voids full of silence, or howling, ecstatically-received gnosis. For this first day of our Charalambides' weekend residency, Tom and Christina Carter will perform on the as Charalambides (The Sunday will feature their solo projects and various collaborations)

CHARALAMBIDES

Despite occasional attempts by yardstick-makers to place them in any of the various genres that rose & fell in their musical proximity, Charalambides have remained dedicated to a vision of spiritual music (in all its forms) as transformative force. Their sound is uniquely personal and consistent, even through some outwardly extreme shifts in tactics.

Charalambides formed in Houston in 1991 amid a flock of fearlessly exploratory (and often drug-induced) rock bands, when Tom, Christina, and Kyle Silfer put down their beers and picked up their instruments. Eventually Kyle went home to New York, and Christina & Tom assumed the name Charalambides for what eventually turned into a flood of releases- beginning with 1992's Our Bed Is Green on their own Wholly Other label, and continuing with dozens of LPs, CDs, and cassettes on labels such as Siltbreeze, Eclipse, Time-Lag, and kranky.

Despite occasional stints as a trio (first with guitarist Jason Bill and then with pedal steel guitarist & vocalist Heather Leigh Murray) and flourishing solo projects, Charalambides remains constant as the core duo of Tom & Christina Carter.

From their 2006 & 2007 kranky releases A Vintage Burden & Likeness onwards, Charalambides has renewed their concentration on song-as-mantra (with intermittent guitar solos). But earlier recordings (like 2001's Unknown Spin) whisper of interstellar voids full of silence, or howl with ecstatically-received gnosis (2004's Joy Shapes).

Charalambides' live shows sometimes (and unpredictably) continue this latter thread, which often startles fans familiar only with the band's deceptively low-key reputation. Charalambides began playing sporadic gigs in 1992, making annual or semi-annual forays into other parts of the world from 1993 to 2005 (with the occasional year or two off). In 2006, Charalambides hit the road in earnest, touring the US/UK and making appearances at that year's Terrastock, Arthurfest and the Thurston Moore curated All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas.

In 2008, after months of incessant solo and duo touring in the US and Europe, Tom settled in New York City, and Christina went to Austin, leaving touring aside (for a finite yet undetermined period of time) to concentrate on writing and recording. Their upcoming shows in Amsterdam and Hasselt (Belgium) are their first European performances since 2008.

Charalambides continue their recorded collaboration with Exile, a double LP of new recordings now available on kranky.


THE MICHAEL FLOWER BAND

"Biker psych for the third eye rider"

A key member of legendary Leeds freak-out collective Vibracathedral Orchestra, Michael Flower's fearless explorations of sound have established him as something of a benchmark in the world of experimental transcendental music - both solo and as one half of one the intense psych/improv drenched Flower-Corsano Duo. He has also played with Jandek, Spectre Folk, MV&EE and Sunburned Hand of the Man, among others.



Christina Carter + Tom Garter + guests
Sunday 20 May 2012 8pm

Tickets : £8 advance / £10 on the door

Second day of our Charalambides weekend with solo sets from Tom and Christina Carter and various collaborations. Dedicated to a vision of spiritual music (in all its forms) as transformative force, Charalambides sound is uniquely personal and consistent, even through some outwardly extreme shifts in tactics - song-as-mantra, interstellar voids full of silence, or howling, ecstatically-received gnosis.

CHRISTINA CARTER

Christina Carter was born in the bayou city of Houston, Texas in November of 1968, and co-founded the group Charalambides there in December of 1991. Ever since then, she has deeply mined her own vein of sound-as-music with voice, guitar (both electric and acoustic), piano, and keys. For the past several years, Christina has utilized extended improvisational guitar passages within and without song-medley structures; re-contextualized certain Charalambides songs within the spare single guitar/voice form that birthed much of the group's music; and recently, investigated 'the song' as a thing unto itself, specifically concentrating on 'the word'- both in her own lyric writing and her interpretions of the work of other lyricists.

In addition to performing extensively in the US, UK and Europe as a solo artist, Christina has played and recorded in various groups and duos with Black Forest/Black Sea, Maria Chavez (as Weird Cookie), Loren Connors, Chris Corsano, Dredd Foole, Sandy Ewen, Paul Flaherty, Gown (as The Bastard Wing), Shawn David McMillen, and Thurston Moore. She is also a permanent member of Scorces (with vocalist/pedal steel player Heather Leigh Murray).

Concurrent with her work as a musician, Christina has expanded her involvement in writing and visual art. Her poetry has been published by Digitalis Industries, The Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal, Glass Eye, and Slow Toe Press. In 2007, her art piece Forever 21 appeared at Salon Mijangos in San Antonio, Texas as part of a concert/exhibit featuring Tom Carter, Warmer Milks, and Tetuzi Akiyama. Forever 21 was a labor of love and destruction: six of her handwritten diaries cut up painstakingly with scissors into miniscule pieces, which then filled a large yellow plastic shopping bag.

Christina currently resides in Austin, Texas. Her latest albums are the Charalambides album Exile (Kranky), the double LP reissue Texas Blues Working (Blackest Rainbow), and two solo CDRs: Trickster Who Is Like God (Many Breaths) and a reissue of Future In Past (Many Breaths), originally released on the Wholly Other imprint in 2002.

TOM CARTER

Tom Carter's solo electric guitar work sculpts a richly varied landscape of immensely-stacked grit and beauty, weaving interlocking strands of visceral melody into towering (and often high-volume) long-form drones.

Born barely south of the Mason-Dixon line, and just in time for the Summer of Love, Tom Carter led a decidedly non-hippy existence being shuffled around various farm and mining towns in Maryland and Ohio by his newspaperman father, before finally making his way to Texas in 1985, just in time to watch all the good hardcore bands die. Already obsessed with American pre-punk and British post-punk, Carter dove into the lysergically spiked musical waters of Texas with both feet, augmenting his guitar skills with unreliable instruments, cranky analog electronics, and disintegrating practice amps. Over the ensuing decades, he managed to forge his evolving ideas of complete tonal immersion (and the quest for the perfect fuzz tone) into a layered sonic toolkit of rough beauty and unrefined proficiency.

Best known for his work with acclaimed iconoclasts Charalambides, which he co-founded with Christina Carter in 1991, he has branched out into other collaborations since 2001, playing and recording with long-term projects Zaika (with Marcia Bassett) and Badgerlore (with Rob Fisk, Ben Chasny, Liz Harris, and Peter Swanson), as well as in frequent collaborations with Bay Area sound artist Robert Horton. Other fellow travelers have included Christian Kiefer, Paul Flaherty, Tetuzi Akiyama, Shawn David McMillen, Thurston Moore, Dredd Foole, Loren Connors, Pip Proud, Inca Ore, Jandek, Bardo Pond, Starving Weirdos, Ensemble Economique, Steve Gunn, Robert Millis, and Matt Valentine, among many others.

Recently, Carter has focused on his work with free-rock improvisers Eleven Twenty-Nine (Carter, Marc Orleans, and Michael Evans) as well as his solo performances and recordings, which have increasingly featured visual components- including collaborations with filmmakers Martha Colburn and Margarida Garcia. He currently lives in New York City.


Buy a £14 Charalambides weekend pass

toxic johnny 04.03.2012 02:05 AM
I'm absolutely gutted that I won't be in London for The Charalambides residency...

stu666 04.03.2012 04:33 AM
I have to go!

Quote:
Originally Posted by blunderbuss
CHARALAMBIDES WEEKEND AT CAFE OTO

Charalambides + The Michael Flower Band
Saturday 19 May 2012 8pm

Tickets : £8 advance / £10 on the door

Dedicated to a vision of spiritual music (in all its forms) as transformative force, Charalambides sound is uniquely personal and consistent, even through some outwardly extreme shifts in tactics - song-as-mantra, interstellar voids full of silence, or howling, ecstatically-received gnosis. For this first day of our Charalambides' weekend residency, Tom and Christina Carter will perform on the as Charalambides (The Sunday will feature their solo projects and various collaborations)

CHARALAMBIDES

Despite occasional attempts by yardstick-makers to place them in any of the various genres that rose & fell in their musical proximity, Charalambides have remained dedicated to a vision of spiritual music (in all its forms) as transformative force. Their sound is uniquely personal and consistent, even through some outwardly extreme shifts in tactics.

Charalambides formed in Houston in 1991 amid a flock of fearlessly exploratory (and often drug-induced) rock bands, when Tom, Christina, and Kyle Silfer put down their beers and picked up their instruments. Eventually Kyle went home to New York, and Christina & Tom assumed the name Charalambides for what eventually turned into a flood of releases- beginning with 1992's Our Bed Is Green on their own Wholly Other label, and continuing with dozens of LPs, CDs, and cassettes on labels such as Siltbreeze, Eclipse, Time-Lag, and kranky.

Despite occasional stints as a trio (first with guitarist Jason Bill and then with pedal steel guitarist & vocalist Heather Leigh Murray) and flourishing solo projects, Charalambides remains constant as the core duo of Tom & Christina Carter.

From their 2006 & 2007 kranky releases A Vintage Burden & Likeness onwards, Charalambides has renewed their concentration on song-as-mantra (with intermittent guitar solos). But earlier recordings (like 2001's Unknown Spin) whisper of interstellar voids full of silence, or howl with ecstatically-received gnosis (2004's Joy Shapes).

Charalambides' live shows sometimes (and unpredictably) continue this latter thread, which often startles fans familiar only with the band's deceptively low-key reputation. Charalambides began playing sporadic gigs in 1992, making annual or semi-annual forays into other parts of the world from 1993 to 2005 (with the occasional year or two off). In 2006, Charalambides hit the road in earnest, touring the US/UK and making appearances at that year's Terrastock, Arthurfest and the Thurston Moore curated All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas.

In 2008, after months of incessant solo and duo touring in the US and Europe, Tom settled in New York City, and Christina went to Austin, leaving touring aside (for a finite yet undetermined period of time) to concentrate on writing and recording. Their upcoming shows in Amsterdam and Hasselt (Belgium) are their first European performances since 2008.

Charalambides continue their recorded collaboration with Exile, a double LP of new recordings now available on kranky.


THE MICHAEL FLOWER BAND

"Biker psych for the third eye rider"

A key member of legendary Leeds freak-out collective Vibracathedral Orchestra, Michael Flower's fearless explorations of sound have established him as something of a benchmark in the world of experimental transcendental music - both solo and as one half of one the intense psych/improv drenched Flower-Corsano Duo. He has also played with Jandek, Spectre Folk, MV&EE and Sunburned Hand of the Man, among others.



Christina Carter + Tom Garter + guests
Sunday 20 May 2012 8pm

Tickets : £8 advance / £10 on the door

Second day of our Charalambides weekend with solo sets from Tom and Christina Carter and various collaborations. Dedicated to a vision of spiritual music (in all its forms) as transformative force, Charalambides sound is uniquely personal and consistent, even through some outwardly extreme shifts in tactics - song-as-mantra, interstellar voids full of silence, or howling, ecstatically-received gnosis.

CHRISTINA CARTER

Christina Carter was born in the bayou city of Houston, Texas in November of 1968, and co-founded the group Charalambides there in December of 1991. Ever since then, she has deeply mined her own vein of sound-as-music with voice, guitar (both electric and acoustic), piano, and keys. For the past several years, Christina has utilized extended improvisational guitar passages within and without song-medley structures; re-contextualized certain Charalambides songs within the spare single guitar/voice form that birthed much of the group's music; and recently, investigated 'the song' as a thing unto itself, specifically concentrating on 'the word'- both in her own lyric writing and her interpretions of the work of other lyricists.

In addition to performing extensively in the US, UK and Europe as a solo artist, Christina has played and recorded in various groups and duos with Black Forest/Black Sea, Maria Chavez (as Weird Cookie), Loren Connors, Chris Corsano, Dredd Foole, Sandy Ewen, Paul Flaherty, Gown (as The Bastard Wing), Shawn David McMillen, and Thurston Moore. She is also a permanent member of Scorces (with vocalist/pedal steel player Heather Leigh Murray).

Concurrent with her work as a musician, Christina has expanded her involvement in writing and visual art. Her poetry has been published by Digitalis Industries, The Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal, Glass Eye, and Slow Toe Press. In 2007, her art piece Forever 21 appeared at Salon Mijangos in San Antonio, Texas as part of a concert/exhibit featuring Tom Carter, Warmer Milks, and Tetuzi Akiyama. Forever 21 was a labor of love and destruction: six of her handwritten diaries cut up painstakingly with scissors into miniscule pieces, which then filled a large yellow plastic shopping bag.

Christina currently resides in Austin, Texas. Her latest albums are the Charalambides album Exile (Kranky), the double LP reissue Texas Blues Working (Blackest Rainbow), and two solo CDRs: Trickster Who Is Like God (Many Breaths) and a reissue of Future In Past (Many Breaths), originally released on the Wholly Other imprint in 2002.

TOM CARTER

Tom Carter's solo electric guitar work sculpts a richly varied landscape of immensely-stacked grit and beauty, weaving interlocking strands of visceral melody into towering (and often high-volume) long-form drones.

Born barely south of the Mason-Dixon line, and just in time for the Summer of Love, Tom Carter led a decidedly non-hippy existence being shuffled around various farm and mining towns in Maryland and Ohio by his newspaperman father, before finally making his way to Texas in 1985, just in time to watch all the good hardcore bands die. Already obsessed with American pre-punk and British post-punk, Carter dove into the lysergically spiked musical waters of Texas with both feet, augmenting his guitar skills with unreliable instruments, cranky analog electronics, and disintegrating practice amps. Over the ensuing decades, he managed to forge his evolving ideas of complete tonal immersion (and the quest for the perfect fuzz tone) into a layered sonic toolkit of rough beauty and unrefined proficiency.

Best known for his work with acclaimed iconoclasts Charalambides, which he co-founded with Christina Carter in 1991, he has branched out into other collaborations since 2001, playing and recording with long-term projects Zaika (with Marcia Bassett) and Badgerlore (with Rob Fisk, Ben Chasny, Liz Harris, and Peter Swanson), as well as in frequent collaborations with Bay Area sound artist Robert Horton. Other fellow travelers have included Christian Kiefer, Paul Flaherty, Tetuzi Akiyama, Shawn David McMillen, Thurston Moore, Dredd Foole, Loren Connors, Pip Proud, Inca Ore, Jandek, Bardo Pond, Starving Weirdos, Ensemble Economique, Steve Gunn, Robert Millis, and Matt Valentine, among many others.

Recently, Carter has focused on his work with free-rock improvisers Eleven Twenty-Nine (Carter, Marc Orleans, and Michael Evans) as well as his solo performances and recordings, which have increasingly featured visual components- including collaborations with filmmakers Martha Colburn and Margarida Garcia. He currently lives in New York City.


Buy a £14 Charalambides weekend pass

Genteel Death 04.03.2012 09:45 AM
Gilded Gutter presents Zarjaz from Tronics and Freakapuss who will be making a rare live appearance to coincide with recent reissues of Tronics material on What's Your Rupture? Supported by fellow Londoners and DIY music makers The Pheromoans and Way Through.

Zarjaz will be playing Tronics and Freakapuss songs in his set.

Hope to see some of you fine folks there!

Tuesday May 29th
Dalston Victoria, E8
Doors - 8pm
Entry - £5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdzZo...&feature=share

stu666 04.04.2012 05:06 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by blunderbuss
CHARALAMBIDES WEEKEND AT CAFE OTO

Charalambides + The Michael Flower Band
Saturday 19 May 2012 8pm

Tickets : £8 advance / £10 on the door

Dedicated to a vision of spiritual music (in all its forms) as transformative force, Charalambides sound is uniquely personal and consistent, even through some outwardly extreme shifts in tactics - song-as-mantra, interstellar voids full of silence, or howling, ecstatically-received gnosis. For this first day of our Charalambides' weekend residency, Tom and Christina Carter will perform on the as Charalambides (The Sunday will feature their solo projects and various collaborations)

CHARALAMBIDES

Despite occasional attempts by yardstick-makers to place them in any of the various genres that rose & fell in their musical proximity, Charalambides have remained dedicated to a vision of spiritual music (in all its forms) as transformative force. Their sound is uniquely personal and consistent, even through some outwardly extreme shifts in tactics.

Charalambides formed in Houston in 1991 amid a flock of fearlessly exploratory (and often drug-induced) rock bands, when Tom, Christina, and Kyle Silfer put down their beers and picked up their instruments. Eventually Kyle went home to New York, and Christina & Tom assumed the name Charalambides for what eventually turned into a flood of releases- beginning with 1992's Our Bed Is Green on their own Wholly Other label, and continuing with dozens of LPs, CDs, and cassettes on labels such as Siltbreeze, Eclipse, Time-Lag, and kranky.

Despite occasional stints as a trio (first with guitarist Jason Bill and then with pedal steel guitarist & vocalist Heather Leigh Murray) and flourishing solo projects, Charalambides remains constant as the core duo of Tom & Christina Carter.

From their 2006 & 2007 kranky releases A Vintage Burden & Likeness onwards, Charalambides has renewed their concentration on song-as-mantra (with intermittent guitar solos). But earlier recordings (like 2001's Unknown Spin) whisper of interstellar voids full of silence, or howl with ecstatically-received gnosis (2004's Joy Shapes).

Charalambides' live shows sometimes (and unpredictably) continue this latter thread, which often startles fans familiar only with the band's deceptively low-key reputation. Charalambides began playing sporadic gigs in 1992, making annual or semi-annual forays into other parts of the world from 1993 to 2005 (with the occasional year or two off). In 2006, Charalambides hit the road in earnest, touring the US/UK and making appearances at that year's Terrastock, Arthurfest and the Thurston Moore curated All Tomorrow's Parties: A Nightmare Before Christmas.

In 2008, after months of incessant solo and duo touring in the US and Europe, Tom settled in New York City, and Christina went to Austin, leaving touring aside (for a finite yet undetermined period of time) to concentrate on writing and recording. Their upcoming shows in Amsterdam and Hasselt (Belgium) are their first European performances since 2008.

Charalambides continue their recorded collaboration with Exile, a double LP of new recordings now available on kranky.


THE MICHAEL FLOWER BAND

"Biker psych for the third eye rider"

A key member of legendary Leeds freak-out collective Vibracathedral Orchestra, Michael Flower's fearless explorations of sound have established him as something of a benchmark in the world of experimental transcendental music - both solo and as one half of one the intense psych/improv drenched Flower-Corsano Duo. He has also played with Jandek, Spectre Folk, MV&EE and Sunburned Hand of the Man, among others.



Christina Carter + Tom Garter + guests
Sunday 20 May 2012 8pm

Tickets : £8 advance / £10 on the door

Second day of our Charalambides weekend with solo sets from Tom and Christina Carter and various collaborations. Dedicated to a vision of spiritual music (in all its forms) as transformative force, Charalambides sound is uniquely personal and consistent, even through some outwardly extreme shifts in tactics - song-as-mantra, interstellar voids full of silence, or howling, ecstatically-received gnosis.

CHRISTINA CARTER

Christina Carter was born in the bayou city of Houston, Texas in November of 1968, and co-founded the group Charalambides there in December of 1991. Ever since then, she has deeply mined her own vein of sound-as-music with voice, guitar (both electric and acoustic), piano, and keys. For the past several years, Christina has utilized extended improvisational guitar passages within and without song-medley structures; re-contextualized certain Charalambides songs within the spare single guitar/voice form that birthed much of the group's music; and recently, investigated 'the song' as a thing unto itself, specifically concentrating on 'the word'- both in her own lyric writing and her interpretions of the work of other lyricists.

In addition to performing extensively in the US, UK and Europe as a solo artist, Christina has played and recorded in various groups and duos with Black Forest/Black Sea, Maria Chavez (as Weird Cookie), Loren Connors, Chris Corsano, Dredd Foole, Sandy Ewen, Paul Flaherty, Gown (as The Bastard Wing), Shawn David McMillen, and Thurston Moore. She is also a permanent member of Scorces (with vocalist/pedal steel player Heather Leigh Murray).

Concurrent with her work as a musician, Christina has expanded her involvement in writing and visual art. Her poetry has been published by Digitalis Industries, The Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal, Glass Eye, and Slow Toe Press. In 2007, her art piece Forever 21 appeared at Salon Mijangos in San Antonio, Texas as part of a concert/exhibit featuring Tom Carter, Warmer Milks, and Tetuzi Akiyama. Forever 21 was a labor of love and destruction: six of her handwritten diaries cut up painstakingly with scissors into miniscule pieces, which then filled a large yellow plastic shopping bag.

Christina currently resides in Austin, Texas. Her latest albums are the Charalambides album Exile (Kranky), the double LP reissue Texas Blues Working (Blackest Rainbow), and two solo CDRs: Trickster Who Is Like God (Many Breaths) and a reissue of Future In Past (Many Breaths), originally released on the Wholly Other imprint in 2002.

TOM CARTER

Tom Carter's solo electric guitar work sculpts a richly varied landscape of immensely-stacked grit and beauty, weaving interlocking strands of visceral melody into towering (and often high-volume) long-form drones.

Born barely south of the Mason-Dixon line, and just in time for the Summer of Love, Tom Carter led a decidedly non-hippy existence being shuffled around various farm and mining towns in Maryland and Ohio by his newspaperman father, before finally making his way to Texas in 1985, just in time to watch all the good hardcore bands die. Already obsessed with American pre-punk and British post-punk, Carter dove into the lysergically spiked musical waters of Texas with both feet, augmenting his guitar skills with unreliable instruments, cranky analog electronics, and disintegrating practice amps. Over the ensuing decades, he managed to forge his evolving ideas of complete tonal immersion (and the quest for the perfect fuzz tone) into a layered sonic toolkit of rough beauty and unrefined proficiency.

Best known for his work with acclaimed iconoclasts Charalambides, which he co-founded with Christina Carter in 1991, he has branched out into other collaborations since 2001, playing and recording with long-term projects Zaika (with Marcia Bassett) and Badgerlore (with Rob Fisk, Ben Chasny, Liz Harris, and Peter Swanson), as well as in frequent collaborations with Bay Area sound artist Robert Horton. Other fellow travelers have included Christian Kiefer, Paul Flaherty, Tetuzi Akiyama, Shawn David McMillen, Thurston Moore, Dredd Foole, Loren Connors, Pip Proud, Inca Ore, Jandek, Bardo Pond, Starving Weirdos, Ensemble Economique, Steve Gunn, Robert Millis, and Matt Valentine, among many others.

Recently, Carter has focused on his work with free-rock improvisers Eleven Twenty-Nine (Carter, Marc Orleans, and Michael Evans) as well as his solo performances and recordings, which have increasingly featured visual components- including collaborations with filmmakers Martha Colburn and Margarida Garcia. He currently lives in New York City.


Buy a £14 Charalambides weekend pass

I just booked my weekend pass for this, only 12 tickets left now... who else is going?

blunderbuss 05.18.2012 12:53 AM
NENEH CHERRY AND THE THING
Village Underground, 15.07.12
Book tickets - £15.50

Eat Your Own Ears are very excited to announce a show with Neneh Cherry and The Thing, in celebration of their new collaboration.

Together they have recorded an album which includes covers of Suicide, (MF) Doom, The Stooges, Martina Topley Bird and Ornette Colemen, as well as a song by Neneh's father Don Cherry. Jazz trio The Thing first met while recording covers of the great Don Cherry's songs, and their name is derived from a Don Cherry song.

Neneh Cherry is a true artist, and today holds an indisputable position in the music world. Through her own desire to reinvent, progress and improve, she has flirted - and this better than anybody else - with a variety of musical genres from Soul to Rock, from Jazz to Rap and she can be named as one of the co-founders of Trip Hop. At the same time she remains untainted and as fresh as the day she stepped into the spotlight with her first solo release 16 years ago.

Pookie 05.26.2012 12:39 AM
Rough Trade East In-store - BOB MOULD

Thursday 31st May, 1pm 31/05/2012
NO WRISTBAND NEEDED, JUST COME DOWN ON THE DAY

Rough Trade are proud to announce an intimate acoustic lunchtime set with Bob Mould.

Something to dü innit?

blunderbuss 05.26.2012 03:29 AM
^
I saw him at ATP a few years ago, and I couldn't believe how boring it was. Too much folk, not nearly enough rock.

blunderbuss 05.26.2012 03:37 AM
MAN FOREVER + ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE + PURPLE PILGRIMS
LONDON: Cafe Oto
SUN 29TH JUL, 2012 8PM
£7.00


MAN FOREVER

John Colpitts (aka Kid Millions) is a Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and writer who is perhaps best known as the drummer for Oneida. Man Forever, his vehicle for exploring the outer limits of drum performance, was created to overwhelm, to investigate the nuances that bloom in the midst of repetitive music, and to act as a pure sound experience.

Originally based on the idea of creating a sort of punk-infused Metal Machine Music for drums, Man Forever has evolved from a five or six full drum set ensemble to something a lot more stripped down. Based on two drummers playing single stroke rolls on a single drum and the patterns that emerge from that, Pansophical Cataract is propulsive without a pulse. Patterns evolve and burst through the static surface of the material, much of which was produced by electric instruments, though “Ur Eternity” remains mostly drums with only a few bass tracks making an appearance. The sounds created by these instruments were based on the drones that Colpitts hears when he is practicing (the not fully conscious singing or humming that arises when one practices alone), and then augmented and enhanced by the other musicians on the record. The repetitive rolls create a phasing effect, a music in and of itself, and the dynamic shifts that occur when the other instruments enter become not mere notes, but grand events.

In the live environment, these shifts and phasing effects, are amplified through sheer volume and duration. “Surface Patterns” and “Ur Eternity” are 30 and 40 minutes respectively (though have been shortened to around 18 minutes per side on record), creating an even more dramatic effect. Past performances have included Brian Chase (Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs), James McNew (Yo La Tengo), Chris Baio (Vampire Weekend), Richard Hoffman (Sightings), Shahin Motia (Oneida, Ex Models), Sarah Richardson (Creeping Nobodies), Ryan Sawyer (Stars Like Fleas), Greg Fox (Liturgy, Guardian Alien), Christopher Weingarten (Parts and Labor), and many others.


ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE

Ensemble Economique is the solo project of Brian Pyle of Starving Weirdos and RV Paintings - mixing synth loops and electronic rhythms into narrative and organic structures. EE LPs have appeared via Not Not Fun and Dekorder.


PURPLE PILGRIMS

Purple Pilgrims are the the ex-Christchurch now Hong Kong based sister duo of Clementine and Valentine Nixon - together they explore the outer reaches of dream pop and bury it under a layer of fuzz that would make flying saucer attack proud. They latest LP is out via Pseudo Arcana.

Pookie 05.26.2012 11:33 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by blunderbuss
^
I saw him at ATP a few years ago, and I couldn't believe how boring it was. Too much folk, not nearly enough rock.
I saw Sugar live and it was so dull. I thought some people might be interested though. Grant Hart wrote all the best Husker Du songs anyway!

blunderbuss 06.02.2012 01:44 AM
 

stu666 06.02.2012 09:00 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by blunderbuss
MAN FOREVER + ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE + PURPLE PILGRIMS
LONDON: Cafe Oto
SUN 29TH JUL, 2012 8PM
£7.00


MAN FOREVER

John Colpitts (aka Kid Millions) is a Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and writer who is perhaps best known as the drummer for Oneida. Man Forever, his vehicle for exploring the outer limits of drum performance, was created to overwhelm, to investigate the nuances that bloom in the midst of repetitive music, and to act as a pure sound experience.

Originally based on the idea of creating a sort of punk-infused Metal Machine Music for drums, Man Forever has evolved from a five or six full drum set ensemble to something a lot more stripped down. Based on two drummers playing single stroke rolls on a single drum and the patterns that emerge from that, Pansophical Cataract is propulsive without a pulse. Patterns evolve and burst through the static surface of the material, much of which was produced by electric instruments, though “Ur Eternity” remains mostly drums with only a few bass tracks making an appearance. The sounds created by these instruments were based on the drones that Colpitts hears when he is practicing (the not fully conscious singing or humming that arises when one practices alone), and then augmented and enhanced by the other musicians on the record. The repetitive rolls create a phasing effect, a music in and of itself, and the dynamic shifts that occur when the other instruments enter become not mere notes, but grand events.

In the live environment, these shifts and phasing effects, are amplified through sheer volume and duration. “Surface Patterns” and “Ur Eternity” are 30 and 40 minutes respectively (though have been shortened to around 18 minutes per side on record), creating an even more dramatic effect. Past performances have included Brian Chase (Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs), James McNew (Yo La Tengo), Chris Baio (Vampire Weekend), Richard Hoffman (Sightings), Shahin Motia (Oneida, Ex Models), Sarah Richardson (Creeping Nobodies), Ryan Sawyer (Stars Like Fleas), Greg Fox (Liturgy, Guardian Alien), Christopher Weingarten (Parts and Labor), and many others.


ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE

Ensemble Economique is the solo project of Brian Pyle of Starving Weirdos and RV Paintings - mixing synth loops and electronic rhythms into narrative and organic structures. EE LPs have appeared via Not Not Fun and Dekorder.


PURPLE PILGRIMS

Purple Pilgrims are the the ex-Christchurch now Hong Kong based sister duo of Clementine and Valentine Nixon - together they explore the outer reaches of dream pop and bury it under a layer of fuzz that would make flying saucer attack proud. They latest LP is out via Pseudo Arcana.

I think I might go to this...

blunderbuss 06.02.2012 11:10 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by stu666
I think I might go to this...
See you there.

_tunic_ 06.07.2012 11:51 AM
Any reason why this is not mentioned here yet? http://www.atpfestival.com/newsview/1205240904.php
gy!be at London Forum on November 4.
I'll be there, and would appreciate if anyone could give me some hints on any other events taking place during that time. Will probably stay in London for a long weekend or so.

blunderbuss 06.07.2012 01:43 PM
^
It's pretty much a case of if no-one gets excited by the news that a gig is happening, it probably won't get posted about.

For instance, no-one has yet got exctited about the fact that Spiritualised is playing at The Roundhouse on Monday 5th November, so it hasn't been posted.

stu666 06.08.2012 01:18 PM
Sylvester Anfang II - Aug 8 - Café Oto, London (w/ Liberez, Helm)

stu666 06.08.2012 01:25 PM
MV & EE with the Home Comfort Sound System - 18/09/12 London, UK Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club

stu666 06.09.2012 08:49 AM
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/upset-the-rhythm-excepter.shtm

http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/john-cage-i...beresford.shtm

http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/acid-mothers-temple.shtm

Genteel Death 06.15.2012 11:42 AM
Robert Hampson at Cafe Oto on the 16th of September. Guitars will be played.

_tunic_ 06.23.2012 07:14 AM
Godspeed You! Black Emperor Announce 2nd Forum Show - Tickets Available Now
 
Here's good excuse not to go see Spiritualized on the same day:

http://www.atpfestival.com/newsview/1206211015.php

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR ANNOUNCE 2ND FORUM SHOW - TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW

Thursday June 21, 2012
Due to popular demand ATP are proud to announce that Godspeed You! Black Emperor will be performing a 2nd night at the Forum on the 5th November. Tickets are available now.

ARTIST: Godspeed You! Black Emperor
SUPPORT: tbc
VENUE: The Forum, London
DATE: Monday 5th November 2012
ADVANCED TICKET PRICE: £20 stbf
VENUE ADDRESS: 9-17 Highgate Road, Kentish Town, London, NW5 1JY
VENUE TELEPHONE: 0207 428 4099
AGE RESTRICTIONS: Strictly Over 14s, Under 16s with adult (Photographic ID required to gain entry)
DOORS OPEN: 7.00pm
CURFEW: 11.00pm

CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS

blunderbuss 07.02.2012 10:52 AM
 

Pookie 07.02.2012 03:23 PM
Pharoah Sanders Quartet are playing at Ronnie Scott's tonight and tomorrow.

I missed this and am kicking myself:(.

_tunic_ 07.03.2012 06:58 AM
Hello Rat-Fans!

We are very excited to announce the release of of first full-length album on Critical Heights Records and a tour in support of the release!

The Tour kicks off in at Cafe Oto in London with the Album Launch party on the 9th of July!
- We have invited some special guests! (C Joynes and Michael Tanner/Cloisters).
We will be performing a live sound track to the film The Guga Hunters Of Ness!
(You can also catch a screening at the Colchester & Cambrudge gigs!)

Please check-out our lovely website for insightsinto our recent adventures: (including the Wire Tapper!)
www.deadratorchestra.com

blunderbuss 07.11.2012 08:29 AM
PELT + GATE + PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES
Cafe Oto - THU 4TH OCT, 2012 8PM
£10.00
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/177248

stu666 07.11.2012 12:17 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by blunderbuss
PELT + GATE + PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES
Cafe Oto - THU 4TH OCT, 2012 8PM
£10.00
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/177248

Another one I can't miss! I've got about 6 shows lined up at OTO now...

Toilet & Bowels 07.16.2012 08:49 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pookie
Pharoah Sanders Quartet are playing at Ronnie Scott's tonight and tomorrow.

I missed this and am kicking myself:(.


If it's any consolation I saw him at the Barbican a few years ago and sadly it was pretty forgetable.

blunderbuss 08.02.2012 11:56 AM
CRIME AND THE CITY SOLUTION
26 October 2012 – Queen Elizabeth Hall, London

blunderbuss 10.06.2012 08:42 AM
 

Toilet & Bowels 10.08.2012 01:10 PM
Look up the dates yourselves:
Graham Lambkin and Jason Lescalleet at café oto (tonight)
Negative Approach @the underworld, next Monday
John Renbourn and Wizz Jones @the vortex 20 something th
Pig Destroyer, the garage, early nov
Swans, koko, 15th nov

blunderbuss 10.20.2012 03:37 PM
Rough Trade East In-store - CHRIS AND COSEY IN CONVERSATION WITH THE QUIETUS' LUKE TURNER - Tuesday 27th November, 7pm 27/11/2012

NO WRISTBAND NEEDED, JUST COME DOWN ON THE NIGHT.

This is a two album release celebrating both the progress inherent in change and the fulfillment of two exceptional, yet separate projects.
The 'Desertshore' project is a 're-imagined' cover version of Nico's seminal 1970 album first conceived by the late Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson in Berlin 2006. In 2010 at his home in Bangkok, he refocussed his approach readying to record guest vocalists while Chris and Cosey prepared material in their UK studio for his return there in December. Sadly, Sleazy unexpectedly died in his sleep on the 25th November in Bangkok.

Chris and Cosey made a commitment to Sleazy to complete the 'Desertshore' project picking up from where they left off just prior to his untimely passing. With enthusiastic support and contributions from so many who were close to Sleazy, especially the guest artistes whose work he admired; Antony, Marc Almond, Blixa Bargeld, Sasha Grey and Gaspar No, the project is now complete.

"a quite remarkable set of songs, a repurposing of Nico's maudlin, scraping sorrow into the deep mindmassaging electronics that characterised later live work by Throbbing Gristle, X-TG and Carter Tutti,arguably even Coil's Ape Of Naples." Luke Turner for The Quietus as part of a review of a live remix preview performance of 'Desertshore' at AV Festival 2012.

The Final Report - Throughout their 36 year friendship Chris Carter, Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson and Cosey Fanni Tutti produced many pioneering and acclaimed collaborative works together. These trio sessions were without exception always very productive; ideas that produced many hours of recordings, sound experiments, research in new performance possibilities, visuals, the ongoing design and building of new and innovative instruments; a constant restless exploration of new paths together.

'The Final Report' album has been completed from their final 2009/2010 sessions together at Chris and Cosey's studio inNorfolk. This album stands as the final report; a celebration, a loving remembrance of their unique partnership.

hirsute_biped 10.20.2012 11:49 PM
supersilent
www.supersilence.net
an unofficial site of
norwegian group supersilent

next lives:
14.11.12 bermingham, uk / birmingham town hall w/ john paul jones
15.11.12 glasgow, uk / the arches w/ john paul jones
16.11.12 manchester, uk / rncm w/ john paul jones
17.11.12 bristol, uk / arnolfini w/ john paul jones
18.11.12 london, uk / village underground w/ john paul jones

I posted something about this a while ago, to no response. Perhaps it was too early. I'm pretty curious about this tour, but I live in California. Anybody planning on going (and taping)?

---

How could Pharoah Sanders be forgettable? He is the greatest...

Genteel Death 10.24.2012 08:15 AM
Sir Richard Bishop
15/11/12 Koko (with Swans)

Dirty Three
28/11/12 Sheperd's Bush Empire

Laetitia Sadier
13/11/12 XOYO

Ty Segall
07/11/12 The Garage

blunderbuss 10.27.2012 03:26 PM
Rough Trade East In-store - VIV ALBERTINE - Monday 12th November, 7pm

BUY VIV ALBERTINE'S DEBUT SOLO ALBUM 'THE VERMILION BORDER' ON THE DAY OF THE IN-STORE AT ROUGH TRADE EAST AND COLLECT YOUR WRISTBAND AT THE SAME TIME, ANY REMAINING WRISTBANDS WILL BE GIVEN OUT 1 HOUR PRIOR TO THE STAGE TIME...ONE PER PERSON

"Viv Albertine made a place for girls in music before girl became grrrl" - Courtney Love

"Viv doesn't so much turn back time as stop the clock all together!" - Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth

"Turns every comfort and assumption you hold on its head" - Carrie Brownstein, Sleater Keaney

After twenty five years away from music, influential guitarist and songwriter, Viv Albertine, releases her first solo album 'The Vermilion Border' - out 5th November 2012 through Cadiz Music. The album features a renowned bass player on each track, and even reunites Viv with Mick Jones of The Clash, who plays guitar on 'Confessions of a MILF'.

Viv's former group, The Slits, were one of the first bands from the 'Punk' era to draw on - and tour with - different musical genres, and filter them through their music, especially reggae, improvised jazz and free improvisation. The band are considered to be the forerunners of 'post punk' and the riot grrrl movements and they - and Viv's guitar playing - have also been cited as an influence on many bands from Gang of Four, Sonic Youth, The Beastie Boys, Tricky and Massive Attack, to new bands such as Chapter 24 and Warpaint.

blunderbuss 11.16.2012 12:35 AM
^
Bugger, I forgot.

blunderbuss 11.16.2012 12:36 AM
 

Genteel Death 11.16.2012 08:27 AM
WHITE FENCE

DIGNAN PORCH

Thursday 29 November

The Victoria

451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS

Genteel Death 11.16.2012 08:30 AM
Cafe Oto

Richard Youngs & Damon Krukowski + Damon & Naomi + Seaming
SAT 26 JAN '13 • 8PM • £8.50 adv / £10 on the door

Chris Corsano / Clayton Thomas / Alex Ward
DEC '12 • 8PM • £8 adv / £10 on the door

evollove 11.16.2012 08:34 AM
Has anyone seen/going-to-see DAMO SUZAUKI?


http://www.damosuzuki.com/live/

pad_023 11.16.2012 09:50 PM
Swans are curating a festival at KOKO on the 3rd and 4th of April. It should be great.

pad_023 11.16.2012 09:51 PM
Swans are curating a festival at KOKO on the 3rd and 4th of April. It should be great.


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